1Two people have died and another is still missing after separate rafting accidents on swollen South Island rivers.

2The sole surviving member of the terrorist group that launched this week's attack on passengers at Rome and Vienna airports says more attacks are planned. He says he is Fatah, a member of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO), however, the PLO denies any involvement in the attacks.

3A 20-year old man is being charged with murder following a fatal stabbing at Paraparaumu last night.

4The holiday road toll stands at eleven.

5Car insurance claims are costing the insurance industry over $1 million a week, and the Insurance Council says tougher terms and higher premiums are imminent.

6The Maori voyaging canoe Hawaiki Nui is currently off the coast of the Bay of Plenty and is expected to reach Auckland sometime next week.

7More than twenty tonnes of overseas mail is banked up in Auckland Chief Post Office (CPO).

8A decade of civil war in Lebanon that has claimed over 100,000 lives, may finally be over. After weeks of intense negotiating, the leaders of the main Christian and Muslim militias have signed a peace agreement in Syria.

9The death toll from Christmas tribal clashes in South Africa has jumped to 63.

10Iran has begun exporting caviar as a means of balancing payments.

11Queenstown has installed parking meters to try to solve its parking problems, and they will become the first place in New Zealand to have them operating seven days a week.

12A look back at the big events in the entertainment industry throughout 1985.