1Police have revealed more details about the fatal shooting of an armed suspect in Dargaville on Friday night.
2Many flood stricken Pleasant Point residents were able to return to their homes this afternoon to begin the mammoth clean up.
3United States Secretary of State George Shultz met with Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov in Stockholm today, with both men agreeing that relations between Washington and Moscow have deteriorated since the summit meeting four months ago. Representatives from 130 nations attended the funeral of assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm today.
4Six people are dead and more that 50 missing after the seven storey New World Hotel collapsed in the old Indian quarter of Singapore.
5The people of France are about to begin voting in a general election that is widely predicted to be won by the right-wing opposition. Should the predictions be correct, political observers predict constitutional chaos for France due to a right-wing administration having to work under Socialist President Francois Mitterrand for the next two years.