1Auckland Police have made a second arrest the evening in connection with the armed robbery of the Mangere Bridge Post Office.

2Nineteen year old Jane Sabine pleaded not guilty int he Auckland District Court today to charges of assaulting her mother at her West Auckland home earlier this month. Jane is one of five children abandoned by their parents fifteen years ago.

3New Zealand shearers involved in a weekend shoot-out with their Australian counterparts in Victoria have been branded "industrial rats" by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Workers' Union. The union blames New Zealand shearers for disrupting industrial awards that Australian shearers have fought long and hard for, and it has accused New Zealand shearers of behaving like mercenaries.

4A call for public flogging and a return to capital punishment is gathering momentum in Papua New Guinea following the brutal gang rape of a nine year old New Zealand girl, her mother and another woman.

5Iraq has claimed two successful strikes against large naval targets in the Persian Gulf. However only on has been interdependently confirmed.

6United States Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale has injected new life into a flagging campaign following a clear victory over President Ronald Reagan during their first televised debate.

7In the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government has received a heavy-handed and untimely blow from the Anglican Church on the eve of the Conservative Party's annual conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie has severely criticised the Government for its handling of the seven-month long miners' strike and record unemployment, accusing it of dividing the nation.

8The Government has launched a defence of its foreign policy, pledging its support of the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) and the Western Alliance.

9Unions and the Government remain divided over demands for an immediate $15 per week wage rise. How much strain is the discord placing on the Union-Government relationship?

10Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has called an election for December 1st, confident that his Labor Party will be returned to power. A close-up look at some of the issues facing Australian voters ahead of the election.

11The question of who should assume the responsibility for teaching children about sex, is again being debated with the announcement that the Minister of Education is considering introducing sex education into the intermediate school curriculum. The Conservative lobby has voiced its protests already, but now the Royal College of Psychiatrists have joined with the Family Planning Association in support of the idea, sponsoring a tour by two Australian researchers who have spent a year studying what children think about the sexual world around them.