1Prime Minister David Lange has reacted angrily to a statement by French President Francois Mitterrand that countries opposing French nuclear testing would be considered adversaries by France.

2South Auckland dairy farmer William Worrell was shot dead on his Takanini property early this morning, and police are treating it as murder.

3The family of a twenty year old Australian man, missing on the yacht Sequoia II, have flown to New Zealand to help with the search.

4A Maori delegation has petitioned the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Wellington for the appointment of a Bishop for the Church's Maori worshippers.

5South African President Pieter Botha (PW Botha) says his Government will not change its policy iof refusing to hold discussions with the outlawed African National Congress (ANC), despite a meeting between some of the nation's top businessmen and the ANC.

6Five people have been killed and forty-two injured in a train accident in Switzerland.

7At least ten people died when a packed bus plunged into a deep gorge in the Indian state of Kerala.

8The Soviet Union has ordered the expulsion of twenty-five British officials and journalists, in retaliation for the expulsion from Britain of twenty-five Soviets.