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The world today - September 1
A quick hit of the biggest international stories that you mught have missed today.
Quake city's Ellerslie Flower Show on for 2012
The Ellerslie Flower Show is returning to Christchurch, despite the February 22 quake.
Christchurch pokie rise 'dramatic', 'unprecedented'
A spike in pokie machine spending has raised fears quake-hit residents are becoming addicted to...
Our hungry kids: 40,000 NZ kids fed by charities
School principals say the number of pupils turning up for breakfast is increasing daily, despite the collapse of one of the two main breakfast programmes...
<i>Shelley Bridgeman:</i> PR disaster as Countdown pulls out of 'Robin Hood partnership'
The high profile coverage of Countdown's withdrawal from the Red Cross breakfast programme is a public relations nightmare.
Quake victims still suffering
Three months after the February quake, nothing much has changed for some residents in eastern Christchurch.
MasterChef's backer drops support for school breakfasts
Countdown has stopped funding breakfasts for children at 61 low-income schools.
Earthquake cash goes on pokies
Stressed-out Cantabrians have been squandering Red Cross cash handouts on poker machines.
NZ to give $1m to Red Cross in Japan
Cabinet agreed today to give $1m to support the Red Cross effort in Japan, Prime Minister John Key announced this afternoon, and also confirmed four NZers were still in Libya.
Japan: Woman, 80, boy rescued after nine days
An 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy have been rescued from a badly damaged house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, nine days after the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami ravaged the area, the Japan Times reports.
Rugby: Crusaders to play in London, Timaru
The Crusaders have confirmed they will play the Sharks at Twickenham and the Bulls in Timaru in their next two home games.