1NZI Enterprise has suffered a snapped mast during the third leg of the Round the World Yacht Race, effectively ending their participation in the competition.

2Tea room and restaurant workers are staging a sit-in in the foyer of the Beehive tonight demonstrating against their low wages, disrupting a reception for the visiting Australian cricket team. While Prime Minister David Lange called for them to be evicted by security, Labour MP Jim Anderton has expressed solidarity with the protesters.

3Teachers around New Zealand have continued to walk off the job today, in protest at the Government's rejection of their wage package. Tensions between striking teachers and the Government erupted today in a heated exchange between teachers and Prime Minister David Lange at a Wellington function.

4Three Soviet shipping experts will travel to New Zealand to join the investigation into the sinking of the cruise liner MV Mikhail Lermontov in the Marlborough Sounds.

5Many New Zealand freezing works were back in production today after a ten-day strike by shift engineers.

6A business survey shows that New Zealand's leading businessmen are painting a gloomy picture of the New Zealand economy.

7Astronomers near Dunedin are claiming the world's first naked-eye sighting of Halley's Comet on its latest visit.

8New Zealand's biggest telescope has just been installed at the Mount John Observatory above Lake Tekapo.

9South African troops have taken control of the Black township of Alexandra, which has been torn apart by rioting and fire bombing over the past four days.

10Israel continues to carry out a huge search for two Israeli soldiers, kidnapped in Southern Lebanon by Shi'ite guerrillas.

11Northern Territory Police are investigating the deaths of six people who perished in desolate country about 650 kilometres north of Alice Springs. Early indications suggest they died from lack of water after their vehicle became stranded

12Today was a day of rest for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip on the second day of their State visit to Nepal. Last night, the couple attended a lavish State banquet.

13A leading French politician has promised a vast campaign to free Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, the two French agents jailed in New Zealand for their part in the Rainbow Warrior bombing.

14Greenpeace has lined up several top international musicians for the Rainbow Warrior Festival, a charity concert in Auckland.

15The crew and officers of the sunken cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov think they have been given a raw deal by New Zealanders over their conduct.

16Shots have been reported during a police hunt for three armed men who disappeared in rugged bush country near Ruatoria.