1An eighteen-hour emergency, sparked by a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tanker overturned in the middle of the village of Turakina, has now ended with no casualties.

2New Zealand Party leader Bob JOnes has ruled out any possibility of contesting the Timaru by-election. Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham says he will not stand either.

3The seven leaders attending the Western Summit in Bonn failed to agree on a date for new global trade talks.

4South African police and troops have sealed off a Black township in the Eastern Cape because of riots. Police have shot dead a Black South African man after renewed rioting near Port Elizabeth. Two children, aged three and five, were killed when rioting Blacks threw a petrol bomb into their home.

5It is now ten years since the Vietnam War ended, but the struggle for the Vietnamese continues - this time against economic problems.

6The outbreak of Legionnaires Disease in the English midlands has claimed its twenty-eighth victim. Authorities are still racing to determine the source of the outbreak.

7The Prince and Princess of Wales are currently visiting Venice.

8Funds raised for the Operation Hope project, sending aid to Ethiopian famine victims, now totals over $1.6 million.