9 Oct 2015

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 9 2015

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 9 October 2015

A review of the week's news including... Searchers find the body of a missing 10-year-old Levin boy launching a homicide investigation, a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is reached in Atlanta, the Prime Minster makes a secret trip to Iraq this week to visit Kiwi troops at the controversial Camp Taji, the prosecution opens it's case in Chris Cairns' perjury trial in London, Solid Energy is to close its underground coal mine at Huntly East, the suicide rate is the highest in eight years, the pay gap between men and women grows to its biggest point in six years, an exclusive interview with Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange, the campaign for the right to physician-assisted dying continues in New Zealand as a bill is signed into law in California this week, a Christchurch hunter is furious that a helicopter pilot who helped save his life could be jailed and Tourism New Zealand hastily removes an online promotional video of a campervan driving on the wrong side of the road somewhere in the South Island.