We take a look back at the biggest news stories here on Yahoo!Xtra for the week beginning July 5.

Wellington police launched an investigation on Monday into the sudden death of a young man at a central city cinema complex on Sunday night.

The body of the 23 year-old was found by a staff member at the Reading Courtenay cinema shortly before 8.30pm.

He was identified later in the week as 23-year-old Anthony Damien Smythe.

Police in Wellington had their hands full at the start of the week; residents in a central Wellington apartment building said they heard piercing screams before a young man's body was found behind the building on Sunday.

He was later named as Dushan Saddlier Pouao, 18, from Porirua – detectives says it is likely he fell to his death.

Some good news came through on Monday too, after a dog that spent nine days at the bottom of a 60-metre Otago cliff without food or water was reunited with his owner.

In our daily poll, we asked if the SAS should leave Afghanistan to help out at the Rugby World Cup? 12,745 votes were cast, with the majority (61%) saying no, it’s a waste of their skills. However 26% said yes, they'll be needed here in NZ more, 13% weren’t sure, wondering: don't we have enough police?

Tuesday brought the news that a 21-year-old Havelock North car driver admitted running into a 93-year-old woman on a pedestrian crossing in Hastings, causing fatal injuries, while he was distracted by a text message on his cellphone.

Also making headlines was the tragic story of a six-year-old girlwho suffered a fractured skull and was partially scalped after getting her hair caught in a city park roundabout.

Invercargill City Council has removed the at least 25-year-old roundabout plus similar amusements around the city's playgrounds and were meeting to review the situation.

And a man who carried out a bizarre night-time home invasion has been found to be not guilty by reason of insanity and will go into psychiatric care as a special patient.

In the wake of the row over supermarket pricing, we asked: Do you buy your fruit and veg at the supermarket? Of the 16,651 who responded, 49% said yes, they do because it's easier to just make one trip. 33% said no, it's too expensive while, for 17%, it depends how much time they have. 2% don't usually buy fruit and veg!

A boy allegedly left home alone after his mother went out drinking was found walking around the streets of Auckland's North Shore early on Wednesday.

The four-year-old was found outside a house in suburban Bayview crying and calling "Mummy" about 2.30am. This story generated a whopping 172 comments with many expressing outrage at the unnamed mum.

A television documentary which aired on Tuesday night called into question some of the testimony given by defence witnesses which portrayed David Bain's father as a depressed man with alcohol and sexual problems.

On TV One's The Investigator Special: The Case Against Robin Bain, documentary maker Bryan Bruce singled out the evidence of the retrial defence's surprise witness Daryl Young for special attention.

Also in the news on Wednesday was the American woman celebrating her fourth win who earned the title of the world's luckiest lottery winner.

As he made headlines again, we asked: Should David Bain be left in peace? 27.015 voted with the majority (57%) saying yes. 38% voted no, and 6% didn’t know.

Poor Moko! A dolphin found dead in the Bay of Plenty will undergo DNA tests to determine whether it is well-known local Moko, who has entertained beachgoers on the North Island east coast for the past few years.

Australian police were investigating after a young mother crashed her car and died, shortly after her baby was shot dead and her partner was critically injured.

The infant was found in a pool of blood by a neighbour after the father, 36, staggered out of their Sydney home with a gunshot wound to his stomach, witnesses said.

A Christchurch District Court judge threatened to clear some of the public seating in his courtroom as animosity over a sexual assault on a young girl spilled over.

A woman sitting in the front row complained about supporters of the accused, Falelinu John Stowers, sitting in the row behind her.

Are you surprised by Pete Bethune's sentence? That was the question in Thursday’s poll - 11,796 votes were cast with 52% saying yes, I thought they would throw the book at him. 24% said no, it seems about right while the remaining 24% said they weren’t sure; what else could they do with the world watching?