1A shoot-out outside a Sydney hotel has left six men and a fourteen year old girl dead and fifteen others injured.

2New South Wales train drivers have agreed to resume work at midnight after a ten-day strike.

3Typhoon Ike is expected to strike southern parts of The Philippines this evening and is described as the strongest typhoon to hit the country in fourteen years. Ike comes hard on the heels of Tropical Storm June, which plowed into the north of the Philippines earlier this week, causing millions of dollars worth of damage.

4Floods and landslides in South Korea have killed at least fifty-nine people and made thirty thousand homeless. In Northwest Pakistan, a flash flood has swept through a frontier village, killing thirty people.

5The part owner of the race horse Harry's Boy, that was scratched by race day officials at Wanganui yesterday, wants the Racing Conference to meet his expenses.

6The President of the Fruit Growers' Association has warned of disaster in the stone fruit industry unless there is some control placed on growers and marketers.

7South African Police have shot dead a six year old boy, and wounded five other children during continued unrest over segregated education.

8American space officials are delighted and encouraged by the success of their latest mission. Earlier today, the new space shuttle Discovery successfully launched the last of three communication satellites it carried into orbit.

9Last minute opinion polls are indicating a landslide victory for the opposition Conservative Party in the Canadian general election to be held later this week.