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

2Former 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.

3Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer has returned home from Australia, satisfied that his talks on Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) were productive.

4Two bombs have exploded in adjacent department stores in Paris. Thirty-four people were wounded, eight of them seriously.

5British poet, novelist and scholar Robert Graves has died at his home in Majorca, aged 90.

6The 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.