The Panel for Wednesday 12 September 2018

3:45 PM.Giraffes and lightning strike, milk consumption and the ethnic mix in North America when the civil war broke out. Read more Audio

3:52 PM.The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has come out with figures on spending on tertiary education. New Zealand is middle of the pack with about $15,000usd per student… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.The UN Committee Against Torture ruled inmate John Vogel had his human rights breached when he was confined to a cell for 21 days - six days longer than legally allowed. He's the first New Zealander… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Google Chrome is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a browsing partner this month. It's telling internet users via its "Don't Be a Browser" campaign to not just gawk at it and don't let the world… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.The UN Committee Against Torture ruled inmate John Vogel had his human rights breached when he was confined to a cell for 21 days - six days longer than legally allowed. He's the first New Zealander… Read more Audio

4:18 PM.Yesterday Dr Russell Wills of the Hawke's Bay DHB told us no level of drinking in front of children is good. The HBDHB has put the kibosh on the Port Ahuriri School fundraiser which would have seen… Read more Audio

4:23 PM.Pop singer Pink has bad-mouthed an Auckland bar via Twitter after it wouldn't accept a large group of her entourage. The manager of Deadshot says they told the singer's people earlier in the day that… Read more Audio

4:29 PM.Lonely Planet has been na,ed as New Zealand's top destination.What they liked was art-house cinemas and live music. The seven contributing writers said Wellington is big on the unexpected and… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Google Chrome is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a browsing partner this month. It's telling internet users via its "Don't Be a Browser" campaign to not just gawk at it and don't let the world… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.It's been slow progress. Getting the Dunedin City Council to act on advice that items had gone missing from the Dunedin Chinese Garden. But now Police are to review the findings of the Council's… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.A top floor apartment at 2 Churton Street in the Auckland suburb of Parnell has sold for a record breaking $9.25m off-the-plan. Alistair Helm is a former chief executive at Realestate.co.nz now with… Read more Audio

4:55 PM.A deli worker in the US is being charged after chomping through nearly $13,000 of ham over eight years. And. A study in Nature Sustainability has demonstrated that vegetarian or pescatarian diets can… Read more Audio

4:57 PM.Janine Reu-Taueki who works at a McDonalds in Hamilton says she was told by management not to speak te reo because of complaints from customers and staff.The rationale is that it was rude of her to… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Former broadcaster and director of Campbell Squared Communications Scott Campbell is in the RNZ Auckland studio and author Catherine Robertson is in Wellington.