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5:25 AM.Trademe time, and this week Leonard Powell spoke to Millie Silvester about a couple of good causes and a dream house in Christchurch. Leonard began by asking Millie about the Baduzzi Long Lunch on the… Read more Audio

5:08 AM.To Indonesia now, where aftershocks of Monday's earthquake are still being felt. The epicenter was in Cianjur in West Java. The death toll has risen to 268 The ABC's Anne Barker is in Indonesia and… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.Time now to go across the Tasman with Pam Corkery. Audio

5:51 AM.Every week we speak to the deputy leader of each major party. And today's its the turn of National's Nicola Willis. She started by telling Nathan Rarere her thoughts on the Supreme Court ruling that… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.Something we've become increasingly reliant on during the course of the pandemic is waste water testing. It's pretty remarkable technology that's able to detect whether there is even a single Covid… Read more Audio

5:34 AM.The New Zealanders at the World Trampoline Champs in Sofia, Bulgaria had a blinder of a competition. Olympic bronze medalist Dylan Schmidt claimed his first world trampoline world title, joining… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.To Northland now where the seaside town of Mangawhai is starting to groan under the weight of all the Aucklanders who have been flocking there. Nathan Rarere spoke with Local Democracy Reporting… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.We head to Japan now where our correspondent in Tokyo Chris Gilbert can tell us about a law change aimed at supporting people who have fallen foul of scammers masquerading as religious groups ... as… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.We head straight to the UK where our correspondent Ellie Jay is standing by from London. Audio

5:54 AM.An Australian business owner has come up with a clever way to deal with a dire staff shortage ... one he says other businesses crying out for workers would be wise to follow. Barry Iddles has… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.This weekend, Samoa's national rugby league team have the chance to make history when they take on Australia in England. If you've been anywhere near south Auckland this week, you'll know how much… Read more Audio

5:37 AM.The judges have been honing down the finalists for the Vista Foundation 48Hours film festival which kicks off tonight at the beautiful Civic Theatre in Auckland. In the festival filmmakers are given a… Read more Audio

5:24 AM.Stand by, alert the neighbours, wake the children - we have the Minister of Fruit and Veges now who is going to help us - with only 5 weeks to go until Christmas - on some cost of living tips. Fruit… Read more Audio

5:15 AM.It's Friday and time to cross to our Africa correspondent Nabil Ahmed. Audio

5:12 AM.A Dutch court has found three men with links to Russia guilty of mass murder over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in July 2014. All 298 passengers and crew were killed… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We go to the US this morning with Bevan Hurley Audio

5:54 AM.To Poland now where the investigation continues into who fired a missile that killed two farmers near the country's border with Ukraine. Just before coming to air, freelance journalist based in… Read more Audio

5:46 AM.Diplomatic tensions ran high yesterday after a missile killed two people in Poland near its border with Ukraine, raising fears of how NATO may respond to the incidident in a member state. Nathan… Read more Audio