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The rules are changing for earthquake-prone buildings - and many in the media are praising the savings. But the devil is in the details. Also: how the media responded to our position on Palestinian statehood - and a year and a half after huge cuts to TV current affairs, what's left - and what next?

Athlete Michele Allison has competed six times in the Kona Ironman, the triathlon held annually in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, which is the most challenging and prestigious long-distance triathlon event in the world. Now in her 70s, Michele is still going strong and will be taking place in this weekend's event. She joins Jim to talk about what keeps her going, and her window coaching method (look out the window and if it looks good for training, go train).

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC's quiz show Only Connect, known for being both hard - and at the same time totally obvious. Wake up your brain and have a go!

UK correspondent Christian Smith talks to Jim about the big stories making news in Britain. This week, changing visa rules and immigration.

This morning's top stories and other headlines

A wrap of the day's big stories

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

In Tagata o te Moana this week: A former military chief in Papua New Guinea says the country's a geopolitical pawn. Are Pacific leader's are undermining the principal of self-determination? And Samoa's goverment appears to be out of money. All that and more stories of the week from RNZ Pacific.

Jamie Tahana is at Oxford University to talk with members of a Te Arawa roopu who travelled there recently for the awarding of a posthumous degree to their tupuna, Makereti Papakura. She's believed to be the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford, but she died in 1930 just weeks before she was due to present her thesis. You'll hear from Oxford University's vice chancellor Professor Irene Tracey, one of Makereti's descendants, June Northcroft Grant, and Tony Wihapi a Te Arawa kaumatua travelling with the roopu.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

Olivia McCord's The Floral Dream features advice, seasonal tips and simple techniques for foraging, cultivating healthy soil and sowing seeds that flourish in Aotearoa's climate.

How do you turn food scraps into pantry staples? Chef Del Holland has the answers.

Counting the Beat is a new four-part series that tells New Zealander's stories - by the numbers. Hosted by Tamati Rimene-Sproat, it explores what the latest data tells us about ourselves.

Food and style icon and MasterChef Australia's Melissa Leong is laying it all on the plate in Guts: A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances.

Earth Sciences New Zealand principal scientist, Graham Leonard is back this week looking at the role of social science in the delivery of disaster warnings. 

With a growing number of divorces occurring between people aged in their 50s and older, adult children are being impacted in a way that is less well understood. 

Trent Dalton is a journalist and Australia's #1 bestselling author. His new book is about the stories we want to tell the world - and those we shouldn't. 

It's World Space Week (4-10 October) and this year's theme is Living in Space. 

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

U Thant was the UNs' longest-serving Secretary-General and ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America in 1971. So why he is largely forgotten today?