1A Dallas judge is expected to sign an extradition order for former Labour Party MP John Kirk in the next couple of days.

2New Zealand police investigating the Rainbow Warrior bombing may widen the scope of their inquiries in France.

3Public radio and television journalists have voted to end their limited industrial action. The dispute will now be referred to the Public Sector Tribunal.

4The stock exchange closed on a firmer note today.

5Last night's heavy storm has caused extensive damage across the Auckland region.

6The New Zealand Nurses Association says today's Government report seriously underestimates the extent of nursing shortages.

7The junior doctors' strike on Monday will cause a severe staffing shortage at Auckland hospitals.

8The Government has appointed career diplomat Bryce Harland as New Zealand High Commissioner to London.

9More than 100 kilograms of uranium is reported to be missing from two nuclear plants owned by the United States Government.

10South Africa's Black miners have called off their strike after two days.

11More than $1 billion worth of damage was caused by Hurricane Eleanor on the south-eastern states of the United States.

12The American space shuttle Discovery has landed after what officials describe as "the most successful and productive of all the twenty shuttle flights tpo date".

13Searchers looking for the wreck of the Titanic say the ship has been discovered standing upright, and almost in one piece.

14A fire that destroyed the industrial centre of Passaic, New Jersey has left three thousand people without jobs and five hundred without homes.

15The Government is to sell the confiscated fishing trawler Tae Chang 83 back to its Korean owners for the second time this year.

16Tamaki MP Sir Robert Muldoon is to appear as a witness in a defamation trial in Honolulu next week regarding comments made by a newspaper about Nauru's President Hammer DeRoburt.

17The Maori Affairs Department has defended its decision to lease a piece of land on Waiheke Island at a hearing of the Waitangi Tribunal today. Ngāti Pāoa say the land is ancestral land and should not have been leased without their permission.

18New Zealand and Australia are considering adopting a bilateral healthcare programme, guaranteeing free medical treatment for each other's citizens.

19The liquor industry has rejected research findings which claim alcohol abuse costs New Zealand $900 million a year.

20The New Zealand frigate Canterbury attended the Canadian Navy's 75th anniversary celebrations last weekend, and were the only naval force to supply their sailors with the traditional tot of rum.

21A newly-formed group calling itself The Campaign Against the Religious Right wants an investigation into the activities of fundamentalist religious sects in New Zealand.

22Nearly 850 more people have applied for teacher training in 1985 than in 1984.

23Regional News Regional News headlines, which replace today's scheduled episode of Top Half, due to the broadcasts journalists' strike.