1At least 20 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a terrorist attack on an Air Lanka tristar jet.

2Fallout from the Soviet nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has now been found in Britain and Japan.

3Officials at Cape Canaveral had to destroy an unmanned Delta rocket today when it veered out of control seconds after lift-off.

4Wellington ratepayers have voted against a proposal for a sewerage plant, ending months of bitter wrangling over the city's sewage problem, but leaving no solution in sight.

5Opposition leader Jim Bolger has pledged to find alternative ways of funding the deficit.

6Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke says his country is not going to have its dignity impaired by grovelling to Indonesia. His comments follow Indonesian reaction to an Australian journalist's article on Indonesian President Suharto.

7South African President PW Botha has taken issue with the anti-apartheid slogan 'No Normal Sport in an Abnormal Community', asking what is meant by a 'normal society'?

8The Cavaliers were beaten 24:19 by Transvaal in Johannesburg today, their first loss so far in their controversial rebel rugby tour.