1Searchers have been kept busy in three separate water-related accidents today.

2Police have overpowered an armed woman who had taken hostages aboard a Pan American airliner parked at Cleveland Airport.

3The Australian Royal Commissioner investigating the British atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s has been told that former Australian prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies responded angrily to a cloud of smoke drifting over the mainland following a test at Monte Bello Island.

4The Ethiopian Government has described the secret airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel as "a gross interference in Ethiopia's internal affairs".

5A small Panamanian freighter has sunk off the Californian coast after ramming a United States Coastguard vessel.

6Breaking News Sydney Police have arrested heroin dealer Peter Fulcher.

7The Soviet Union has apologised to Norway and Finland about a missile incident last week in which a military target veered off course before landing in a remote area of Finland.

8United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will meet in Geneva on Monday to discuss arms control. Meanwhile, the United States military are taking a new approach to preparing for armed conflicts.

9Britain's first 'baby for cash' was born to a surrogate mother in London today.

10The annual sale at Harrods Department Store in London began in record-breaking style today.

11The annual Teddy Bears' Picnic was held in Hagley Park today.