1Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer is on hi way to Washington to discuss the nuclear ships issue with United States officials.

2Twenty-five Soviet officials have been expelled from the United Kingdom, accused of spying.

3An official Advisory Council to the South African Government has called for the scrapping of the country's Pass Laws, one of the main controls of apartheid.

4The European Parliament has called on the French Government to cooperate with New Zealand in bringing to light all the facts concerning the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. Meanwhile, French President Francois MItterrand is on his way to Mururoa Atoll, on a trip many are calling "provocative".

5Police working on the Rainbow Warrior investigation have called in a British scientific expert to help in their examination of the ship's hull.

6Two days of intensive searching in perfect weather have failed to find any sign of the Sequoia II or four yachtsmen missing off the Wellington coast since Wednesday. The official search has been called off after wreckage was found.

7Hopes have faded of finding a fisherman, missing near Te Kaha, alive.

8Airport authorities have turned down a Government call for more private control of New Zealand's airports. Minister of Transport Richard Prebble wants airports to be run as private companies, but this was rejected at a meeting in Wellington today.

9Portuguese railway officials say human error caused a train crash yesterday in which at least 43 people were killed.

10A high ranking American television official has called on Thailand to bring those responsible for the deaths of a cameraman and his sound operator, to trial.

11A Greek sea captain has been jailed for more than ten years for throwing eleven African stowaways into shark-infested waters off the African coast.

12The Government has turned down an application from Race Relations Conciliator Hiwi Tauroa to spend another year in the role. He will conclude his tenure in February 1986.

13The head of a Japanese Parliamentary delegation to New Zealand says trade and tourism links can be harmed by language barriers, and they would like more New Zealanders to gain an understanding of the Japanese language.

14Half a million dollars will be spent on an advertising campaign aimed at attracting former teachers back to the profession.

15The St John Ambulance Association has been swamped with requests from people to sign up for first aid training courses. The big increase in demand is due to a new requirement that all workplaces with more than fifty employees must have someone trained in first aid on the premises.

16A fierce battle for shares in the $117 million car rental market has reached the Court of Appeal. Allegations are swirling of poor business management at airports and collusion among the major car firms.