1Analysis of an Eyewitness News Heylen poll results on what New Zealanders feel should be done with the two French agents convicted of bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.

2Thirteen days after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the clearest details so far have emerged. Western experts have flown over the site and say a small amount of smoke is still coming from the reactor and that there is a lot of activity at the scene. Reports differ about the human cost of the disaster. Soviet authorities say 84,000 people have been evacuated from the surrounding area, and for the first time, authorities are mentioning the possibility of paying compensation.

3A move to shift the 1990 Commonwealth Games from Auckland to Perth has been foreshadowed because of the rebel rugby tour to South Africa.

4Industrial action has led to cancellations and service reductions on the railways today.

5The Labour Party Wellington Regional Conference has voted decisively to reject the Government's policy of remaining in the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS) while banning visits by American nuclear ships. However, Prime Minister David Lange says the Government will not deviate from its plans.

6The Air Force (RNZAF) flew to the rescue of a Soviet seaman whose hand was severed in a trawling accident south-west of Stewart Island today.

7Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who stood atop the world on Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, died today of a lung infection aged 72.

8Milan Brych, the man who plunged New Zealand's cancer treatment services into turmoil in the 1970s, will be released from his Californian prison cell in four months.

9Israel may be planning a military strike against Syria in retaliation for its involvement in an attempt to bomb ann israeli airliner in London last month.

10Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government suffered two political setbacks in the United Kingdom today. It lost the Rydale by-election, despite being the odds-ob favourite to win. Furthermore, today's Council elections sa the Labour Party making considerable gains.

11The Federation of Labour (FOL) wound up its annual conference today after a week which has seen the conference dominated by two issues - should there be a Council of Trade Unions (CTU) and can the FOL secure an agreement with the Government ahead of this year's wage round?

12Convicted murderer Dean Wickliffe has rejected strenuous attempts to make him give up his hunger strike at Paremoremo Prison. He has now gone 26 days without food and is likely to need hospital treatment next week.