1Labour Leader David Lange and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon are at loggerheads over the state of the New Zealand economy.

2The Labour Party has promised a Commission of Inquiry in to Marsden Point if it wins the general election.

3Two young women have died when their car went off a wharf at Lyttelton this evening.

4Seven men were rescued off the West Coast today after spending more than 36 hours drifting in a life raft in heavy seas. They were off the 33 metre fishing trawler Hawea, which sank in stormy weather on Friday night.

5A bus crash in Jamestown, South Africa has killed 28 people and injured 50.

6The latest Gallup poll in the United States shows President Ronald Reagan enjoys a commanding nineteen point lead over his probable Democratic rival Walter Mondale. Meanwhile Mondale says he is considering several women as potential Vice Presidential candidates.

7President Hernan Siles Zuazo of Bolivia was abducted and held for nine hours today by a small group of police and Army officers in what authorities described as a coup attempt against Bolivia's 21-month-old democratic government.

8Canada's new Prime Minister John Turner has been sworn in and has named his Cabinet, but he still does not have a seat in Parliament.

9A device has been developed in the United States that can give early warning of elderly people's bones becoming especially brittle (osteoporosis) and allow for preventative treatment.