1Police became involved in the Marsden Point industrial dispute today when they raided union offices in Auckland and Whangarei looking for a forged Marsden Refinery Constructors (MRC) newsletter.

2Additional excavations at the base of the Clyde Dam, which have delayed construction by almost a year, are now virtually complete.

3The hijack drama at tehran Airport has ended thanks to swift action by Iranian Security Forces.

4Large numbers of people continue to seek hospital treatment in Bhopal and thousands are leaving the city following the Union Carbide gas lead disaster.

5The United States Navy has launched the USS Pittsburgh, one of a new class of fast attack submarines capable of firing tomahawk cruise missiles.

6Superyacht Lion New Zealand left Auckland this evening on her first major challenge, the Sydney-Hobart Yacht race.

7Police investigating the fatal Wellington car crash involving a Chilean diplomat say there is no doubt the diplomat was driving on the wrong side of the road.

8The Queen Street riots in Auckland are expected to result in insurance claims totalling over $500,000.

9The Government is appointing a committee to enquire into Friday night's Queen Street riots. It is also planning to make changes to the law regarding drinking in public places, to allow local authorities to impose liquor bans with only 24 hours notice. Prime Minister David Lange has suggested that the band DD Smash and frontman Dave Dobbyn may have contributed to the breakdown of law and order in Auckland on Friday night. However organisers of the concert, and Dobbyn himself, have quickly rejected the Prime Minister's comments.

10A French police officer who has been working in new Caledonia talks about the tensions and violence in the French Territory, which has seen both French people and Kanaks hurt and even killed.

11The continuing plight of refugees in Asia seems to proceed virtually unnoticed by the rest of the world. Many are termed "handicapped" and remain in refugee camps for years because they lack the skills demanded by immigration officials. Should New Zealand offer to take more of these "handicapped" refugees?