1Back Injuries Back problems can be painful. However, most are self-inflicted and can be avoided. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Accident Compensation (ACC) payouts, and a significant proportion of them are made to people with back injuries. The Accident Compensation Corporation has therefore established an advertising campaign to try to educate the public on how to care for their backs and prevent back injuries. Discussion and viewer feedback with the man fronting the campaign, ergonomist Len Ring.

2Labour Party President Margaret Wilson has given Labour MPs a clear warning that party members are starting to feel alienated from the Government. She selected four areas of concern: unemployment, the effects of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the reorganisation of the public sector and changes that might threaten the industrial labour movement.

3American Jerry Whitworth has been sentenced to 365 years in prison for his role in an international spy ring which sold secrets to the Soviet Union.

4Northern Ireland is in the grip of a new terrorist campaign. Five bomb explosions and a number of hoaxes have brought chaos to the province, but so far, no one has been hurt.

5A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

6Back Injuries Back problems can be painful. However, most are self-inflicted and can be avoided. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Accident Compensation (ACC) payouts, and a significant proportion of them are made to people with back injuries. The Accident Compensation Corporation has therefore established an advertising campaign to try to educate the public on how to care for their backs and prevent back injuries. Discussion and viewer feedback with the man fronting the campaign, ergonomist Len Ring.

7A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

8Back Injuries Back problems can be painful. However, most are self-inflicted and can be avoided. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Accident Compensation (ACC) payouts, and a significant proportion of them are made to people with back injuries. The Accident Compensation Corporation has therefore established an advertising campaign to try to educate the public on how to care for their backs and prevent back injuries. Discussion and viewer feedback with the man fronting the campaign, ergonomist Len Ring.

9A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

10A massive international relief effort is underway to help survivors of the toxic gas leak in Cameroon, The United Nations (UN) is coordinating relief efforts.

11The South African Government is to hold an inquest into the violence in Soweto this week that claimed at least 21 lives. Anti apartheid groups are accusing security forces of a "cold blooded massacre", but the official line is that the shooting began after a grenade ambush on twelve police officers.

12One expert contends that the Archaeopteryx fossil, linking reptiles to birds in the theory of evolution, may be a man-made fake.

13Fans and collectors have parted with huge sums of money to take home pieces of rock and roll memorabilia.