1More than 130 people were killed in an aircrash in Texas today. The plane, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was Flight 191 from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas and it crashed onto a highway on approach to to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

2Matamata dairy farmer John Galvin has been elected the new leader of the New Zealand Party, defeating current Acting Party President Earle Thompson for the leadership position.

3The Sweat Equity Scheme, a new scheme to help low income families move into their own homes,was launched by the Government in Hamilton today.

4The Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) latest quarterly survey suggests that business activity has peaked is about to go into a decline.

5The Alliance, the first vessel in New Zealand's anti nuclear protest fleet, sailed from Auckland today bound for Mururoa Atoll. The President of French POlynesia says France is likely to continue nuclear tests at Mururoa for at least another fifteen years.

6Two Soviet cosmonauts went on a five-hour space walk today to perform maintenance on the Salyut space station. Meanwhile, conditions on board the United States space shuttle has improved with nine of the ten planned experiments now running smoothly.

7The Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) says it will take years for farmers to recover from last week's flooding and slips in Poverty Bay. Some land may never again be able to be used for farming.

8The tiny Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo celebrated its fiftieth birthday today.

9Minister for Overseas Trade Mike Moore will assume the role of Acting Prime Minister next week, with both Prime Minister David Lange and Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer out of the country. However, a new computer system installed in parliament gives every MP the opportunity to play at being Prime Minister.