1A French journalist and a television cameraman were reunited with their families in Paris today after being held hostage in Beirut for more than three months.
2A lawyer for one of the two young Australians sentenced to death in Malaysia on drug charges believes they will be hanged within two weeks. Brian Chambers and Kevin Barlow were arrested in 1983 in possession of heroin. The two men have lost their final appeal against the death penalty and have now been visited by relatives.
3Up to thirty thousand people have demonstrated outside a nuclear power station in Switzerland.
4There has been a substantial drop in the amount of money New Zealanders are borrowing in hire purchase agreements.
5The Automobile Association (AA) says motorists are being treated unfairly under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST).
6The shortest day of the year was marked today by thousands taking to the sea for a midwinter swim.