1Minister of Overseas Trade Mike Moore has had a meeting in London with the President of the African Council for Sport regarding the All Black tour to South Africa and its potential impact on New Zealand's inclusion in the Edinburgh Commonwealth games next year.

2Farmers and other users of agricultural chemicals are upset about the latest call to ban the use of 2,4,5-T in New Zealand. A Cambridge doctor has called it a "national scandal" that the Government has not looked more closely at the use of the chemical 2,4,5-T (Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid) in New Zealand. He believes it is responsible for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Tapanui Flu, in many New Zealanders and links it to the symptoms shown by Vietnam Veterans who were in contact with Agent Orange.

3The doors closed on the Monet Exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery for the final time this evening. The six-week exhibit has been New Zealand's most successful art exhibit ever, with queues of visitors right up until the last day.

4A 28-year old self-employed Gisborne man will appear in court tomorrow on two charges of rape. Police say more serious charges are pending.

5Brazilian Police are becoming increasingly confident that they have found the body of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

6Twenty Finnish United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops have begun their third day as hostages of an Israeli-backed militia in south Lebanon.