1Police Unions and the Government appear to have settled their differences over pay increases for New Zealand's 5,200 police officers.

2Interest rates in the Government's latest stock tender have increased by between 2% and 3%.

3Five people are in hospital in Invercargill after a tour bus carrying Japanese tourists went off the highway near Te Anau this morning.

4At least thirty South Africans have been killed in fighting between Pondo Tribesmen and Zulus in Umbogentwen, near Durban.

5An electrical ault is being blamed for a fire that swept through a hotel in New Delhi, killing at least forty people.

6Relations between Libya and the United States remain tense.

7British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been under fire in the House of Commons over the split between herself and Defence Secretary Michael heseltine.

8The Royal yacht britannia has completed her last rescue mission in South Yemen, having saved more than 1000 people from fifty different nations. The fighting in South Yemen has spread to the provinces, and the United States has warned the Soviet Union not to get involved in the conflict.

9A Christchurch woman believes a piece of rock she was given as a child could be from the famous Pink Terraces, which were destroyed by the eruption on Mount tarawera in 1886.

10Waikato man Rowan Stokes is to receive a new heart, thanks largely to fundraising activities in his home town of Te Aroha.

11A Christchurch book auction has reflected a growing interest in early New Zealand memorabilia.

12Local authorities around new Zealand are looking at ways of streamlining the parking infringement system to make revenue gathering easier.