1Television Violence (Part one of three) Does violence on television promote violence in society? This is the first of three reports investigating whether there is a link between on-screen violence and real-life violent behaviour.

2One of the designers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant says the crippled reactor will need to be sealed in concrete for hundreds of years. Radiation is still leaking from the plant and the cleanup is expected to take months.

3The sharemarket has dropped for the second day running, and the New Zealand has also fallen, after rising earlier in the day.

4Four French intelligence agents, accused of leaking information about the Rainbow Warrior bombing to the French media, have been reinstated by the French Defence Ministry.

5The mission to safely remove all of the fuel oil from the sunken Soviet liner MIkhail Lermontov, currently beneath the Marlborough Sounds, has finally begun today.

6The loading if 15,000 live sheep, destined for Saudi Arabia, will proceed in Napier tomorrow.

7The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) will meet in Wellington over the next three days with the rebel rugby tour of South Africa high on the agenda. Another important matter will be the selection of a new Council Chairman to succeed Ces Blazey, as he ends his nine-year tenure at the top of New Zealand Rugby.

8Commonwealth mediators are tonight arriving in South Africa, for talks aimed at reaching a truce between the White Minority Government and its Black Nationalist opponents, the African National Congress (ANC).

9James Fletcher re- assumed command of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today.