1Labour Party leader David Lange has accused Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon of deliberately leaving the economy in a shambles because he knows he is facing defeat in the upcoming election.

2Air New Zealand is expanding its fleet by four new aircraft and Wellington is to finally receive its long-awaited new domestic terminal.

3The southern half of the South island was shaken by a strong but shallow earthquake early this morning.Only minor damage has been reported.

4The Human Rights Commission says the chances of promotion are better for male bank employees than for female bank employees.

5The Social Credit Party believes both New Zealand Railways and Air New Zealand should be sold off to their staff and the public.

6The final figures for the electoral rolls have been released, showing a total of 2,107,862 registered voters, an increase of 136,000 since the announcement of the snap election.

7Two girls aged four and six will be the youngest people ever to receive merit awards from the Water Safety Council at a ceremony tonight in Auckland. The two sisters saved a four year old boy from drowning in a swimming pool earlier this year.

8The Government's final plan for the motor vehicle industry was revealed today. The Development Commission Report has been long awaited, amid fears it could cost jobs, but the Government says it believes the final report will benefit both the public and the automobile industry.

9The National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) has taken its Picton rostering dispute to the High Court in Wellington.

10The British pound has reached an all-time low against the American dollar.

11Railway authorities in the United Kingdom are trying to determine what caused one of its most spectacular but least disastrous train crashes. The London-bound Night Express left the lines in the north of England, leaving its coaches draped in suburban gardens and around houses. However no one was killed and injuries were mostly minor.

12A two-week lull in airstrikes against shipping in the Persian Gulf has ended with an Iraqi attack on a Greek-registered tanker.

13Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Paris to protest plans by President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Government to bring in reforms affecting the country's private schools.