1The Government has announced a $300 million training and employment package for the unemployed which will replaced subsidised employment schemes, which it believes have failed.

2Two leading groups of economic experts predict that New Zealand will be financial trouble next year, but they do not believe the downturn will last for long.

3The New Zealand Dairy Board has signed a $45 million milk powder trade deal with the Soviet Union.

4The Court of Appeal has refused to grant the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) leave to appeal to the Privy Council over the High Court decision banning the All Black tour to South Africa.

5A group of young anti-logging protesters are fortifying a mountain top in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

6The Government says the bombed Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior can not be scuttled until the issue of compensation from France has been settled.

7The peace movement has begun a major pamphlet campaign in an attempt to get the Labour Government to withdraw from the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS).

8A Royal Navy Taskforce, led by the carrier Illustrious, is to visit Australasia next year.

9Low alcohol beer will reappear in some supermarkets from next week following a Court of Appeal decision.

10The Ministry of Transport's (MOT) new operation to catch speedsters from the skies kicked off today, but ended in failure.

11Nearly 200 people are missing, feared dead, off the Philippines Island of Mindoro after a ferry capsized in rough seas.

12The Iran-Iraq War is well into its sixth year, and shows no sign of abating. However, a rare look inside Iran's borders shows a growing disenchantment among the Iranian people at the high cost of the conflict.

13Two WTN journalists are in prison in South Africa charged with inciting Black rioters.

14A nine year old boy from Madison, Ohio has a good chance of recovery, a day after his apparently lifeless body was pulled from an icy pond.

15Figures just released show that nearly 600 people are waiting for heart surgery in New Zealand.

16The first sod was turned today in the building of a long-awaited Children's Hospital in Auckland.

17Despite the act that it is approaching Christmas, the Cadbury Factory in Dunedin has its sights set firmly in Easter egg production.

18A young, blind South Canterbury boy has received a miniature four-stroke, 10 horsepower tractor, so he can practice to be like his farming Dad.