1Kawerau pulp and paper workers have today voted overwhelmingly to return to work at the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill, after 79 days, despite suffering a defeat on every major issue.

2American journalist Nicholas Daniloff has been permitted to leave Moscow, almost a month after being arrested on espionage charges. There is now intense speculation over what deal was struck between the United States and the Soviet Union to secure Daniloff's release.

3Kawerau pulp and paper workers have today voted overwhelmingly to return to work at the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill, after 79 days, despite suffering a defeat on every major issue.

4New Zealand diplomats are close to clinching one of the most controversial international treaties of the century - an agreement on mining and oil exploration of the Antarctic - which is expected to end the campaign by conservationists to have the continent awarded protected status.

5New scientific evidence has been produced to show how serious the threat to the survival of Rotorua's geothermal springs really is.

6Backbench MP Fred Gervic says the Government needs to rethink its just-released industrial relations White Paper.

7The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will come into force at midnight tonight. Finance Minister Roger Douglas has toured Auckland supermarkets on the eve of the GST changeover.

8Interest rates continued their downward tumble today, as New Zealand's biggest stock agent Wrightson Dalgety cut its lending rate to farmers by as much as 2%.

9National MP Sir Robert Muldoon says trade unionist Rob Campbell has been an undercover member of the Socialist Unity Party (SUP), according to the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS).

10The Department of Health is asking local bodies and public swimming pool operators to guard against the possible spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) following research showing that it can be spread through untreated water.

11The 1986 Watties Book of the Year Awards have contained some surprises. Three of the four winners are Maori.

12A fireman whose health problems forced him off duty for the past three months, says he is sure he will now be able to return to the job, despite having been fitted with a pacemaker.

13In Israel, John Demjanjuk has been formally charged with crimes against humanity. The man known as Ivan the Terrible stands accused of murdering thousands of Jews during World War Two at the notorious Treblinka extermination camp.

14London Customs officers have seized 1500 kilograms of cannabis resin, with an estimated street value of $12 million.

15The 41 year old Bristol freighter plane completed its final scheduled flight when it landed at Blenheim today. It is now destined for a museum after hauling freight across Cook Strait for decades.