Stuff's top 10 stories - week ending 29 July

Last updated 11:10 30/07/2012
Alyssa Barker
PETER MEECHAM/Stuff
ALL SMILES: Alyssa Barker has been reunited with her family after being allegedly abducted.
lara bingle
KIWI SCEPTIC: Australian model Lara Bingle has raised eyebrows across the Tasman for promoting travel to New Zealand.
James Holmes
Reuters
ACCUSED SHOOTER: James Holmes shuffled into court with his hands cuffed and his brown hair dyed orange-red.

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1. Baby Alyssa found

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7368921/Baby-Alyssa-found

Toddler Alyssa has been reunited with her family after she was allegedly abducted by a 27-year-old homeless woman.

2. Car crash victim predicted her death

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7338684/Car-crash-victim-predicted-her-death

As she was sitting in the footwell of a car crammed full of people, a young Foxton Beach woman said: "I think I'm going to die."

3. Sexual assault after car broke down


http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7337224/Sexual-assault-after-car-broke-down

Police are searching for four men after a woman was sexually assaulted after her car broke down in Nelson.

4. Margaret Mahy's death a huge loss

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/7334039/Childrens-author-Margaret-Mahy-dies

International tributes for Margaret Mahy rolled in as news of her death spread.

5. Lara Bingle loves New Zealand

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/7345472/Lara-Bingle-loves-New-Zealand

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Australian model Lara Bingle is the latest star to feature in Air New Zealand's Kiwi Sceptics advertising campaign.

6. Sick toddler phones her own ambulance

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7349847

If most 3-year-olds found themselves struggling to breathe in the early hours of the morning, they'd be crying desperately for their parents. But Lina Aiono-Te Tau's mother is deaf, so Lina did the next best thing - she rang 111.

7. Flooding, slips close Waikato roads

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7329513/Flooding-slips-close-Waikato-roads

Motorists were urged to keep off roads in Bay of Plenty and Waikato last week with the MetService warning of heavy rain.

8. Second quake shakes North Island

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7357352/Second-quake-shakes-North-Island

An earthquake measuring 4.1 hit just off the coast of South Taranaki about two-and-a-half hours after a 5.2 quake near Dannevirke shook the lower North Island.

9. Batman movie shooting suspect in court

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/7335839/Batman-movie-shooting-suspect-in-court

A former doctoral student accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at a showing of the new Batman movie appeared in court for the first time last week, but he didn't seem to be there at all.

10. Incest name suppression battle

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/7329352/Incest-name-suppression-battle

A woman raped by the adult son she adopted out as a child has asked the courts to reveal his name, even though it could identify her. 

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