The Panel

The city of Seattle has banned plastic straws and cutlery in its restaurants as the anti-plastic bans stretch around the world. We talked about the bag rage in Australian supermarkets.

Jubilation abounded in Thailand early this morning our time. First the nightmare, then the miracle, and now skills of the highest order required to rescue the young men in Thailand's Tham Luang ong cave. Figures from the IRD show the top 10 student loan borrowers owe more than $370,000 each - and they've all fled the country. Soon we'll need to be building 2.7 homes a day to meet Phil Twyford's target, and soon enough it'll be 33 homes a day required, (Stuff estimates from yesterday). Woman sparks outcry after posting a photo posing with a dead 18-year-old giraffe she had shot.

The etiquette of exclamation marks, and an untimely end for an unfortunate animal oracle ...

What's the point of hair conditioner? What sort of wood are ice-block sticks made of? And for the love of all that is holy and true, why do we have chins?

The world's wealth is making its way into few hands, and they - in the U.S. anyway are the 9.9% not 1%. And rising inequality means rising social immobility for those outside those 11 people in every hundred. What the Panelists Ella Henry and Peter Elliott want to talk about. A man has had his drink driving charge overturned after the police repeatedly refused to let him use the toilet. National's appealing the $600-000 ruling against it after it lost the copyright infringement case after using music that borrowed from Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" in its election advertising in 2014. The city of Seattle has banned plastic straws and cutlery in its restaurants as the anti-plastic bans stretch around the world. We talked about the bag rage in Australian supermarkets.

Police investigating three armed robberies in Dunedin found a trail thanks to CCTV that led them to North Otago and the Oamaru home of a woman named Shelley Lee Williams, aka Shelley Fontana. In her house was the all the evidence they needed. She's been sentenced to five years.

The FIFA World Cup is now in its knockout stages, and the first fixtures featured a feast of fascinating football

What the Panelists Jordan Carter and Penny Ashton want to talk about.

We haven't reached peak human after all. We reported not so long ago that scientists had concluded we would never live much longer than we are living now; longevity would not increase much.

Australia's experiencing bag rage. This story may be a bit of a beat-up, forgive the pun, but Aussie media are reporting apoplexy and physical assaults on staff by shoppers irate at having the plastic bags taken away from them.