1Five fishermen were rescued by helicopter this morning after their thirty metre fishing trawler Resolution 2 ran aground near Farewell Spit.
2Auckland lawyer William Boyd is facing legal disciplinary action as a result of the Royal Commission into the Mr Asia drug syndicate.
3A High Court judge has found that a Sikh man who entered New Zealand on a false passport seeking refugee status was wrongly detained in Auckland's Mount Eden Prison for four months last year.
4Firefighters are trying to save up to $50 million worth of crude oil aboard the tanker Tiburon in the Persian Gulf, which has been burning since being hit by an Iraqi missile three days ago.
5At least two crewmen are dead and six remain missing in a tanker explosion in Buenos Aires.
6South Africa's ruling National Party has defeated the Conservatives in one of two key provincial by-elections. However, in another by-election the Conservatives were victorious, having gained the support of neo-fascist organisations.
7New Zealand's record $660 million loan from Japan has added another $48 million a year to the country's annual interest bill.
8Boy George, lead singer of British pop group Culture Club, has arrived in Australia to a rapturous welcome.