Football is having a bit of a moment in New Zealand with the emergence this year of Auckland FC into the Australia League and - in the last few days our national team, the All Whites qualifying for the men's world cup. Duncan Oughtan, The former All White played College soccer in the U.S and then went on to play for Columbus Crew before moving into coaching and now - he works as a scout and player agent for Sports Invest USA.

Professor Sue Black started the UK's first online network for women in tech, BSC Women in 1998. She also led the social media campaign that saved World War Two codebreaking centre Bletchley Park and started TechUP Women, a course that retrains women from underserved groups into tech careers.

A new bill extending post-natal care at hospital, from two days to three, is being labelled as "very odd" by the professional body of midwives. Meanwhile, an organisation supporting families with anxiety and depression due to pregnancy, says it's "a drop in the ocean".

More than 144 people have died after a 7.7 magnitude quake in Myanmar. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand says seven New Zealanders are registered in Myanmar and 161 in Thailand. All of its staff from embassies in Yangon and Bangkok have been accounted for. The BBC's Lindle Markwell who reports from Bangkok speaks to Susie.

Today the Ngati Haua Deed of Settlement will be signed with the Crown at Ngapuwai-waha Marae in Taumarunui. Over 60 sites will be returned to Ngati Haua along with financial redress and a cultural fund of $26.5 million dollars. Chair of the Ngati Haua Iwi Trust, Graham Bell, speaks to Mihi.

This week Doctors without Borders condemned Israel's strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. It says two people were killed in the hospital's inpatient surgical department and several injured. Australian emergency nurse Jaafar Yusof works at the hospital.

Just released research from the University of Otago shows bottom trawling on the sea floor can exacerbate climate change. Dr Sebastiaan van de Velde is based at the University of Otago's Department of Marine Science and speaks to Susie.

Is allowing employees to work from home a few days a week good for their productivity, careers, and job satisfaction?

Kulaiwi & Kaumakaiwa is a collective of award-winning Hawaiian performers in Aotearoa right now for Auckland's Art Festival.

Dr Laura Jean McKay is the first New Zealand-based author to win one of the world's top science fiction prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, for her novel The Animals in That Country.