1Two people are dead and at least seventy are injured after two high speed intercity express trains collided at a junction near Birmingham, England.

2The continuing dispute between the Soviet Union and the United States over the arrest of American journalist Nicholas Daniloff on espionage charges took another turn today, when United States President Ronald Reagan met with Soviet Foreign MInister Eduard Shevardnadze in Washington.

3Opposition leader Jim Bolger returned to New Zealand from South-East Asia and North America saying that he was unable to find any support anywhere for the Labour Government's ANZUS stand.

4An inquest jury in England has returned accidental death verdicts on 55 people, who died in a British Airways airline fire on the ground at Manchester Airport in August 1985.

5Thousands of American patients are expected to receive a new antiviral drug that has made the first significant progress in the fight against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) within the next few weeks.

6An Auckland residential property was put up for sale at auction today, and was expected to fetch a record $4 million. However, the Victoria Avenue property failed to reach the reserve price.

7Two London stockbrokers have broken a world record after they leapt from a hot air balloon to freefall 9000 metres before opening their parachutes.

8The inventor of the Rubik Cube has invented a new task for those who like a challenge.