1Police have used tear gas and whips to subdue thousands of Black South Africans in Durban, after an emotionally charged anti apartheid rally calling for the release of Black leader Nelson Mandela, after 23 years in prison.

2Eleven people have died near the Western Australian town of Laverton, in the State's worst road accident in history.

3A British Airways Boeing 747 lost a wing flap today, as it was landing at Logan International Airport in Boston.

4Twenty five thousand people have turned out in Manila, for the opening of the election rally for Corazon Aquino, the widow of murdered Opposition leader Benigno Aquino.

5Police in Japan are concerned about a problem that is driving a growing number of children to commit suicide. Nearly 1,000 students have been arrested in the past six months for bullying.

6United States Secretary of State George Shultz has warned Romania that it must improve its human rights record or risk losing special trading privileges in the United States.

7The American Football (Gridiron) season is in full awing across the United States. In Washington DC, around 100 football fans found the cost of game tickets even higher than they expected. Police offered free Redskins game tickets to fugitives from the law, and then swooped in to arrest them in a massive sting operation.

8For children living on a small group of islands in British Columbia, Santa Claus arrives each Christmas, not by sleigh, but by boat.