1The Council of the Rugby Union (NZRFU) has officially cancelled the All Blacks' tour to South Africa, saying it will look instead a ta tour elsewhere.

2At the United Nations (UN) Women's Conference in Nairobi, Women's Affairs MInister Ann Hercus has joined two other prominent speakers in condemning apartheid.

3Searchers have given up hope of finding a Westport fisherman alive, after his fishing boat capsized near the mouth of the harbour last night.

4Operation Rainbow, the investigation into the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, has become one of the biggest investigations in New Zealand history.

5Opposition MP Ian McLean was ejected from Parliament today for his response to a charge that Opposition MPs had spread false rumours about Prime MInister David Lange's health.

6The Fire Service says most office buildings in new Zealand are occupied before they comply with fire safety standards. Sprinklers, fire alarms and emergency lighting are not given priority by building developers and inspectors have no power to prevent occupation before compliance is met.

7The Rural Bank will make another $30 million available to help drought-stricken farmers in the South Island.

8The New Zealand Nurses' Association has lodged a claim for a pay increase of between 20% and 25%.

9Minister of Health Dr Michael Bassett says doctors are partly to blame for delays in getting an agreement on new maternity benefits.

10Cigarette packets will soon display a more prominent health warning as part of a new voluntary advertising agreement between the tobacco companies and the Department of Health.

11Drivers of heavy vehicles will be fined $500 if they are caught driving in the outside, clip-on lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

12A group of Auckland used car dealers have rebelled against the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST), saying it is unfair that private sales will be exempt from the tax.

13Four days after having a cancerous tumour removed from his intestine, United States President Ronald Reagan is said to have already begun planning November's summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Messages of goodwill are pouring in to the hospital.

14indian scientists say the flight recorders from the Air India jumbo jet that crashed last month indicates that there was a mid-air explosion.

15The Belgian coalition government is to continue as caretaker government until early elections in October, after its resignation was rejected by King Baudouin/Boudewijn.

16Soviet television viewers are just seeing their first pictures of the fighting in Afghanistan, six years after the war began.

17International gay rights activists are threatening New Zealand with sports boycotts and trade sanctions if the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is not passed by Parliament.