1The price of oil will drop by five cents a litre from midnight tonight.

2The stock market continued to fall today, losing thirteen points on the Barclays Index. However, the New Zealand dollar is continuing to strengthen against some currencies.

3Air New Zealand cabin crews tonight gave notice of industrial action over a rostering dispute.

4Negotiations will continue tomorrow over a dispute which has disrupted television and radio news programmes.over the past few days.

5Talks are continuing in the dispute that has stopped most of Auckland's bus services for the past five days.

6New Zealand's new High Commissioner to London will be announced tomorrow.

7A collection of ten dollar notes worth $43,000 was produced in the North Shore District Court today as evidence against four men, charged with New Zealand's biggest armed robbery - the Birkenhead supermarket robbery.

8Federation of Labour (FOL) President JIm Knox has warned the Government against backing down on its anti nuclear policy.

9New Zealand authorities have denied a French lawyer's claims that the pair charged with the Rainbow Warrior bombing are being harshly treated in prison. Greenpeace has thrown a veil of secrecy over the position of its protest fleet, sailing towards Mururoa Atoll due to fears of an attack by French forces. A public opinion poll in France, shows that half of those surveyed believed the French Secret Service were behind the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

10South African Mine Workers Union leaders claim some of their members were forced to work today at gunpoint, on the first day of a planned pay strike.

11The Australian Government has called for the release of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela.

12Australian High Court judge, Lionel Murphy has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

13Australia's Opposition Liberal Party is in turmoil tonight, after its Deputy Leader John Howard refused to rule out a challenge to leader Andrew Peacock.

14Hurricane Eleanor has subsided to a tropical storm after causing an estimated $250 million worth of damage across four states of the southern United States.

15High winds have brought down power lines in Auckland's west tonight, cutting off power to large parts of West Auckland.