1The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (BCNZ) has sought Police advice to protect its microwave links from sabotage amid fears they may be targeted by anti-tour protesters to prevent the screening of rugby matches.

2An official search has failed to find the couple missing off the Hauraki Gulf. Late yesterday the remains of their small outrigger canoe washed up on Little Barrier Island.

3The Executive Committee of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) will meet today to discuss the soccer riot in Brussels that cost 38 lives. It is predicted all british teams will be banned from European competition for three years, with Liverpool banned for five years. The last of the bodies of the thirty-one Italian victims have arrived home where an outpouring of grief greeted them. The British Foreign Office has warned Britons travelling to Europe to keep a low profile in the wake of the football riots in Brussels. Several British citizens have been violently assaulted in Italian cities. In Brussels, a memorial service for the football stadium victims has been held prior to the bodies being returned to Turin.

4Rescue workers have found at least 88 bodies in the wake of tornadoes which swept through southern Canada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

5Tamil guerrillas have killed at least fifty people in raids on villages in eastern Sri Lanka.

6British actor Richard Greene, best known for playing Robin Hood in a 1960s television series, has died aged 66.

7Some of New Zealand's top Scrabble players participated in the sixth National Scrabble Championships in Hamilton this weekend.