1Prime Minister David Lange has tonight rules our any chance of a general wage order before the Budget, despite the Federation of Labour's (FOL) demands for an immediate $15 a week increase for wage earners.

2Prime Minister David Lange is arriving in Auckland tonight following talks in New Caledonia with five separate pro-independence groups. Meanwhile, a BBC report from Paris says more members of New Caledonia's National Liberation Front (NLF) have arrived in Libya for training.

3Auckland Police are appealing for information regarding an iron bar used in last week's armed hold-up of the Mangere Bridge Post Office.

4The American space shuttle Challenger flew over New Zealand earlier this evening but could not be seen without special equipment. Today the astronauts were preoccupied with repairing their imaging dishes today after a fault.

5Norway scrambled two F16 fighter jets today to head off an American airliner carrying 200 passengers which had drifted 800 kilometres off course, almost reaching Soviet air space.

6National Heart Week began today with the theme of "Give Your Heart a Good Start". However a leading dietitian has warned that parents might get the wrong idea about changing children's diets and should not remove traditional foods from children's plates.

7A Sunday Times survey of traditional wealth in the United Kingdom rates Queen Elizabeth II as the richest person in Britain, with a fortune of around $6.5 billion.