1The death of Baby Fae, after her body rejected the baboon's heart transplanted into her, will not prevent the doctors at Loma Linda Medical Centre from trying the procedure again.

2The New Zealand Government has taken additional precautions to try to prevent the AIDS disease from spreading to this country. This follows a major scare in Australia in which three babies died after receiving infected blood.

3United States Customs officials have phoned New Zealand reporters to confirm that they are investigating bankrupt former MP John Kirk.

4The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Marsden Point expansion, Ian MacKay believes it can still proceed despite Prime Minister David Lange's fears that it will "open a festering wound".

5There are indications that the Labour Government is setting its sights beyond the next election. Minister of Overseas Trade Mike Moore has called a team of experts together to discuss issues affecting New Zealand beyond the year 2000.

6A Professor of General Practice at Otago Medical School says some doctors are not showing sufficient interest in their patients. He is frustrated that diseases such as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Tapanui Flu, are still being labelled 'mystery illnesses'.

7The space shuttle Discovery has made a perfect landing at Cape Canaveral after its successful mission to retrieve two rogue satellites.

8Nicaragua has withdrawn some of the armour it deployed to guard against a United States invasion as tension eases in the region.

9Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of export strawberries are not reaching markets in the United States because of a chronic shortage of air cargo space.

10More than $50 million has been spent on tree and horticultural developments in Canterbury in recent years, and early indications suggest that fruit may be more lucrative than sheep farming.