1The coastal petrol tanker Amokura tore itself open on Napier Wharf late last night, spilling high octane fuel.

2The annual wage round opened today, with the Engineers' Union launching their case for the Metal Trades Award.

3The latest report on the state of the New Zealand economy predicts good times ahead, despite the possibility of increased job losses.

4Self-styled cancer therapist Milan Brych says he has proof that his arrest and prison sentence in the United States was set up from New Zealand.

5The Ministry of Transport (MOT) has launched a million dollar advertising campaign to try to stop New Zealanders getting killed and injured on the road.

6Heavy snow and white-out conditions are hampering the search for a sixty-year old skier missing in Central Canterbury.

7Police who mounted a full-scale search of the Mamaku Ranges near Tirau today believe they were victims of a malicious hoax. A woman transmitted a CB radio message to say she was trapped in a crashed car with a dead child.

8Prime Minister David Lange has hinted that the Government's anti-nuclear legislation may not make it into law by the end of 1986, but says this is due to pressure on the Parliamentary timetable, rather than any backing away from the legislation by the Government.

9The inquiry into the tower crane collapse in central Auckland in July, which closed the Regent Hotel for a time, began today.

10More tremors have shaken southern Greece, prompting fears that another strong earthquake could follow the one that has already killed at least seventeen people. Although a rescue operation is well underway, officials do not know how many people remain trapped in debris in the port city of Kalamata.

11A bomb has exploded at Seoul Airport in South Korea, killing five people and injuring up to 35. The Asian Games are expected to open in less than a week, and North Korea is being blamed for the explosion.

12Another bomb has exploded in Paris, injuring three people. This is the third blast in Paris in a week. French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac has announced a package of security measures as part of a "war against terrorism" following a wave of explosions hitting Paris in recent weeks.

13The South African Government has announced the closure of another thirteen Black schools because of student boycotts and classroom disruption.

14In Northern ireland, Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen have shot dead John Bingham, the leader of an outlawed Protestant paramilitary group, who they accuse of murdering Catholics.

15American reporter Nicholas Daniloff has described his experience of being imprisoned in the Soviet Union on suspicion of spying, accusing the KGB of mentally torturing him.

16A bumper season for hoki has ended off the South Island's West Coast, with tonnes of fish being dumped and left to rot on the beaches. There are now demands for the rules around the hoki catch limits to be tightened up.

17American reporter Nicholas Daniloff has described his experience of being imprisoned in the Soviet Union on suspicion of spying, accusing the KGB of mentally torturing him.

18Speedlink, an air freight service with a difference, began operating between Christchurch and Wellington today. The company is using DC3s, which are forty years old but still fully serviceable.