1The Labour Government will unveil its first Budget in just over an hour's time. Minister of Finance Roger Douglas is expected to announce measures to provide relief for poorer families, and cut the size of the Government deficit.

2Government-inspired competition for money means that some homeowners are facing a rise in mortgage interest rates of up to 5%.

3An elderly Waikato woman is critically ill in hospital after a freak accident involving a runaway racehorse which killed her husband.

4A massive downpour paralysed Sydney this afternoon, causing rail services to halt and floodwaters and mudslides caused havoc.

5Newly re-elected United States President Ronald Reagan has become involved in a new crisis in Central America. Today he warned the Soviet Union not to send warplanes to marxist Nicaragua. However, Nicaragua remains convinced that the United States is preparing for an invasion.

6Newly re-elected United States President Ronald Reagan has received dozens of congratulatory messages from world leaders regarding his election victory. However, how did the Soviet Union react to Reagan's re-election?

7Legislation to change New Zealand's wage-fixing system was introduced into Parliament today and changes will be put to the test at the negotiating table in a few weeks.

8A new submarine telephone cable called ANZCAN linking New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Australia, Fiji and Canada has been officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in a live television hook-up.

9French Defence Minister has applauded a planned anti-nuclear tour of Europe by Prime Minister David Lange.

10The biggest anti-apartheid protest in South Africa for a decade has ended with twenty-one people dead.

11A row has erupted in the British Parliament over a logbook, missing from the submarine HMS Conqueror, which was involved in the bloodiest encounter of the Falklands War.

12Nearly 130 children are feared dead in India after a rope bridge collapsed over a swollen river.

13Troops remain on full alert in New Delhi and in the northern Punjab region of India ahead of a Sikh religious festival tonight which it os feared could lead to more violence. A memorial service for murdered British Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was held at Wellington Cathedral today.

14A carved memorial to the late Sir Woolf Fisher was presented to the board of New Zealand Steel by Tainui today. It is believed to be the first time a pakeha industrialist has been commemorated in a Maori carving.