1The National Party's ruling executive has again expressed anger with rebel party member Dr Ian Shearer when he failed to attend a meeting in Wellington.

2The long-awaited Government Green paper on Industrial Relations was released today and has generally been received favourably.

3Kelvin McCarthy has returned home to New Zealand with a new heart.

4More details about next year's visit by Pope John Paul II have been released.

5The Merino Express, the ship that is to carry live sheep to Mexico, remains berthed at Timaru tonight. How is the food being prepared for the ewes who will be undertaking the voyage?

6The number of people leaving New Zealand permanently continues to outstrip the numbers of those arriving.

7A group of Coromandel Peninsula divers is making a last-ditch effort to prevent the bombed Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior being scuttled off Matauri Bay in Northland and have it sunk near Skipper Island instead.

8Minister of Tourism, Mike Moore wants more of New Zealand reflected on radio and television.

9Two Australians, convicted in Malaysia for drug trafficking, have had their appeal against the death sentence turned down by a Malaysian judge.

10New York Police are worried that the gangland murder of mafia boss Paul Castellano may signal the beginning of a bloody power struggle in the city.

11Belgian police have arrested four key members of an urban guerrilla group which has carried out 27 bombings in the last fourteen months.

12Famine relief organisation report that conditions in Ethiopia are much improved in the wake of the vast outpouring of aid from around the world. However food and money donations have had no impact whatsoever in the province of Eritrea.

13South African censors have surprised people by not banning a Bruce Springsteen song that runs down Sun City, the country's most celebrated holiday resort.

14The Government of Western Samoa is seeking an early election after a Budget defeat in Parliament.

15The Department of Social Welfare is trialling a different approach to help children adjust to life in a welfare home. They have put out a special booklet in comic book form.

16Firemen will have new helmets introduced gradually throughout the next year, which have been designed to offer them better protection.

17The DC-3 celebrates its fiftieth anniversary today.