1A pilot was killed when a light plane crashed in a suburban Auckland street this afternoon. However, no one on the ground was injured.

2The twin-hulled Polynesian canoe Hōkūleʻa arrived in the Bay of Islands from Rarotonga this evening, on a voyage to help prove that Maori migration was no accident.

3Former Cabinet Minister Dr Ian Shearer today resigned from all of his positions within the National Party, including the Chairmanship of Sir Robert Muldoon's Tamaki electorate.

4Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer has returned home from Australia, satisfied that his talks on Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) were productive.

5Two police officers have been killed and three wounded in an attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the village of Ballygawley in Northern ireland.

6Two bombs have exploded in adjacent department stores in Paris. Thirty-four people were wounded, eight of them seriously.

7A gas leak is being blamed for an explosion and fire at a restaurant in Connecticut. Six bodies have been recovered from the gutted building.

8The Soviet Union revealed today that the biggest fire in oil rig history has been raging at Tengiz, since June 24th.

9There has been another huge demonstration at a funeral in South Africa. Leandra Township has also been the site of violence between Black demonstrators and South African Police. Some of the first pictures are emerging of the continued violence in South Africa since a media ban was imposed last month.

10Yelena Bonner, the wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, arrived in the United States today where she will undergo complicated heart surgery.

11Roman Catholic Bishops frome around the world have ended a two-week Synod in the Vatican where they discussed the reforms of Vatican II and assessed how well they have been working for the Church.

12British poet, novelist and scholar Robert Graves has died at his home in Majorca, aged 90.

13An elderly Christchurch man has lost his dog, his canary and most of his possessions in a fire at his home.

14A Nelson farmer plans to build up a large herd of water buffalo which he will farm for their meat.

15Today marks five years since musician John Lennon was shot dead outside his New York apartment. His widow, Yoko Ono says she wants to keep the spirit of her late husband's music alive.