1An Oakley Hospital patient who escaped a week ago and allegedly sodomized a four year old boy is back at the Hospital, despite both a Judge and Police calling for him to be taken to Mount Eden Prison.

2New Zealand's second Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) victim has died in Auckland Hospital.

3The right-wing Nationalist Workers' Party. which is advocating a Whites-only New Zealand, has called off plans to distribute a racist leaflet this weekend because of threats of possible violence.

4Unions at the Marsden Point construction site claim some workers have lost civil rights through the special law that governs work on the project.

5Opposition Finance Spokesman Michael Cox claims Treasury's report means the Government will soon be forced to introduce tough tax measures such as capital gains and value-added tax.

6United States Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is facing more questions about her family's finances.

7Civil Rights leader and United States politician Reverend Jesse Jackson has been refused a visa to visit South Africa.

8Police have detained all 260 Black students in a pre-dawn raid at the University of Transkei.

9The space shuttle Discovery successfully launched this morning and successfully launched a communications satellite.

10Queensland politician Lindsay Hartwig says race trainer Hayden Haitana, at the centre of a ring-in racing scandal, has returned to New Zealand.