1A head-on car crash near Pahiatua today killed six Masterton teenagers and injured two other people.
2Hostile crowds turned on police in Strabane, Northern Ireland today following the killing of three suspected Irish Republican Army (IRA) members.
3Lebanon's Prime Minister has accused Israel of waging war against Muslim villagers in the south of his country. Israeli troops raided four Shi'ite Muslim villages in southern Lebanon today, killing nine guerrillas, blowing up houses and detaining suspected militants.
4A bomb has exploded in the Paris branch of British store Marks and Spencer, killing one person and injuring several others. The motive for the bombing remains unclear.
5The Chairman of the United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid met with members of Society For The Protection Of Individual Rights (SPIR) in what became a heated exchange.
6Secondary principals in Wellington have spoken out against a proposed All Black rugby tour to South Africa.
7More than fifty passengers were burned to death in India when two cars on a train collided and caught fire.
8At least thirteen people have been killed in a landslide on the Indonesian island of Lombok following a heavy monsoon storm.
9Militant Melanesians in New Caledonia have prevented the Territorial President from visiting his home island.
10Western Samoa's ruling Human Rights Protection Party has been returned to power in the general election.
11Campaigners opposed to the deployment of cruise missiles in Belgium have reached the end of a 100 kilometre march.