1Tricot Report The exchange of rhetoric between France and New Zealand over the Rainbow Warrior bombing has continued today. French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius has agreed to investigate further links between the French intelligence agencies and the bombing, but has stopped short of apologising to New Zealand for spying in New Zealand. Prime Minister David Lange says he is somewhat placated by Fabius' assurances.

2Denmark's visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs believes the row between New Zealand and the United States over nuclear ship visits will soon be resolved.

3Australian immigration authorities have agreed to allow two officials from the South-West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) to enter the country.

4Black South African leaders fear bloodshed tonight during a protest march to Pollsmoor Prison where Nelson Mandela has been held for twenty-one years. Anti-apartheid leader Dr Allan Boesak is the latest Black leader to be arrested in South Africa.

5Lagos is reportedly calm tonight, after Nigeria's sixth armed coup in its twenty-five years of independence.

6Australia's first satellite has been launched from the space shuttle Discovery and is said to be working well.

7The British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it has grounded all planes with engines similar to the one that caught fire and resulted in a deadly crash at Manchester Airport last week.

8A funeral service was held in Auckland today for former Labour Party President and MP, Norman Douglas.

9Police divers in Christchurch have found the body of a third young woman, killed when a car plunged into a city river.

10A three-car collision at Pokeno this morning left one man dead, and four people injured.

11National Party MPs flew en masse to Christchurch today to spend the next three days in a Caucus planning and strategy session.

12Receivers have been called in by the Perry Dines Corporation, a New Plymouth-based company heavily involved in the Taranaki Think Big projects.

13Opposition leader Jim McLay has disputed Government claims that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) could be introduced by the middle of next year if the Opposition does not fight the Bill.

14The Korean trawler Tae Chang 83 has been confiscated by the Government, after being arrested for the second time in a year.

15An Indonesian man who chartered a DC-10 airliner to Auckland for emergency heart treatment at Greenlane Hospital is tonight critically ill.

16Christchurch civil engineers were today shown a type of polypropylene cloth being used to build a road.

17A giant sea elephant is Whangamata's latest attraction.