1Air New Zealand's international services are delayed tonight due to industrial action by cabin crew staff. A threat also hangs over domestic flights for tomorrow morning.

2Industrial peace reigns at Marsden Point this evening. Labour Minister Stan Rodger has ordered striking unionists to return to work and they have agreed to do so in return for all sacked consortium employees being re-hired.

3The rescue jet boats at Auckland and Wellington Airports, along with Auckland's rescue hovercraft, are to be withdrawn from service.

4The residents of Wairoa have been told to support their local police if they want an end to gang confrontations in their town.

5Auckland Police have told the Inquiry into the Queen Street Riots of the changes they would like to see in the law to prevent a recurrence.

6The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has voted to spend $150 million to build a conference centre for its African headquarters in Ethiopia, but critics have condemned the spending of so much money on a new building, when hundreds of thousands of people in Ethiopia are starving to death and thousands continue to pour into refugee camps in Sudan.

7British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has arrived in Beijing to sign the historic agreement on Hong Kong's future. The pact returns Hong Kong to Chinese authority in thirteen years, and guarantees its free market economy.

8Thirty-five defendants accused of terrorist crimes in Belfast on the word of a single police informer, have been acquitted.

9United States President Ronald Reagan has cut American defence spending by $28 billion in the next three years, but it is a sum far below that recommended by his advisors.

10An American engineer in the defence industry has been charged with offering the Soviet Union secret information on a new United States Northrop stealth bomber.

11A New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion has spotted the mysterious orange mass floating in the sea near Tonga.

12Bruno, the Great Dane abducted by animal rights groups in Christchurch, while a court was deciding his fate, has made a brief public appearance.

13An environmental report released today concludes that the Ministry of Works defied advice when it diverted the Kaituna River, leaving the Maketu Estuary to become a silted wasteland.

14A public inquiry into how medical research is funded is being sought by the director of a major research unit.

15Amnesty International's Auckland co-ordinator says New Zealanders should be aware that El Salvador's human rights record is still a grave concern, and this should be considered before extending New Zealand's trade relations with El Salvador.