1Millions of television viewers around the world are currently seeing sensational photographs of Halley's Comet, sent back to earth by the European space probe Giotto. A Soviet spacecraft is en route to a rendezvous with what is expected to be the world's first, permanently manned space laboratory.

2Swedish police have announced their first arrest in the hunt for the assassin of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

3Britain's top terrorist suspect Evelyn Glenholmes has been caught in Ireland and is locked in a Dublin prison, charged with nine Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombings.

4Rape has become the United Kingdom's most rapidly rising crime, up by around 30% in a the past year in England and Wales. London is the worst affected area, where all violent crime is rapidly increasing.

5Civil Defence staff are trying to assess the extent of flood devastation in South Canterbury and North Otago

6A brief listing of the New Zealand headlines.

7Animal Welfare A discussion about the way animals are treated tin New Zealand - in homes, on farms, film sets and in laboratories. The public call in with questions and comments for guest Neil Wells, the National Director of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

8A brief listing of the New Zealand and international headlines.

9Animal Welfare A discussion about the way animals are treated tin New Zealand - in homes, on farms, film sets and in laboratories. The public call in with questions and comments for guest Neil Wells, the National Director of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).

10A brief listing of the New Zealand headlines.

11The European space probe Giotto has lost contact with earth as it plunged for man's closest look at the heart of Halley's Comet.

12Recent reports from Ethiopia indicate the worst of the famine is now over, but there are still almost seven million people going hungry. Relief organisations are trying to speed up the distribution of food so it will reach distribution centres before the rainy season begins. However, in the meantime people continue to die, and fresh allegations have been levelled at the Ethiopian Government

13The United States has told the South Korean Government to "clean up its act" and it has responded by releasing some political prisoners. However, that may not be sufficient to satisfy the growing calls for democratic reform. To what extent is the tension within South Korea a product of its volatile relationship with North Korea?