1Analysis of the latest Eyewitness News Heylen poll, which indicates continuing uncertainty over the leadership of the National Party

2Unemployment in New Zealand has increased for the first time in four months. The Government has announced a $300 million training and employment package for the unemployed which will replaced subsidised employment schemes, which it believes have failed.

3The Government says the bombed Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior can not be scuttled until the issue of compensation from France has been settled.

4The New Zealand Dairy Board has signed a $45 million milk powder trade deal with the Soviet Union.

5A hundred rioting prisoners have ended a sixteen-hour siege at a prison in Oklahoma.

6More deaths have been reported in Black townships across South Africa, as a campaign continues against Christmas celebrations this year.

7Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev has welcomed the American and Soviet doctors who jointly won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

8The United States space shuttle Columbia is poised to begin its seventh mission, having recently undergone a major overhaul. Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson is one of the crew of seven, and he will become the first American politician in space.

9britain looks well-placed to overtake New Zealand as leader of the Southern Cross Yachting Series being raced off Sydney.

10An Auckland economist today became the first woman Director of New Zealand's biggest company, Fletcher Challenge.

11Legionnaires Disease has been making headlines in new Zealand this year. Much of the media's attention has stemmed from the fact that the disease caused the death of former Speaker of the House, Sir Basil Arthur, and also by the number of Parliamentary staff who have developed antibodies for the disease. But is Legionnaires really a major health problem?