1The Federation of Labour (FOL) and other key unions have failed in a last minute bid to stop a 6% settlement in the Drivers' Award talks. The drivers accepted the 6% offer, despite fears that this may undermine other award claims.

2Bogus cancer therapist Milan Brych has returned to New Zealand, but is remaining tight-lipped about his future plans.

3A Wellington cardiologist wants large companies to help finance a $2 million fund for heart transplant operations in New Zealand. Opposition Health spokesman Paul East says that while Health Minister Michael Bassett "dithers" about transplants, patients will die.

4Aucklander Belinder Trainor, who is currently preparing for a heart transplant operation in Sydney, has suffered a heart attack and is currently in intensive care at St Vincent's Hospital.

5Australian police are trying to extradite a New Zealander in connection with the 1967 murder of a Sydney prostitute.

6The Soviet nuclear submarine that caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean has sunk, but military experts say there is little risk of radiation from its nuclear reactor or missiles. All the crew were rescued except for the three who were initially killed in the fire.

7United States President Ronald Reagan has again stressed that his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in five days is just preparation for a full-scale summit.

8Anne-Marie Murphy. a young Irish woman has told a London court that her boyfriend Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi used her unwittingly to try to blow up an El Al airliner in London on 17 April 1986.

9The Government plans to change the law so that people who buy used cars are not settled with unpaid debts they are unaware of.

10The Government is considering licensing gambling machines, saying New Zealand is flooded with them and present laws can not adequately control their use.

11The first batch of jet fuel to be made in New Zealand has been produced at the Marsden Point Oil Refinery.

12Secondary school students are being challenged to design a New Zealand contribution to Expo 88 to be held in Brisbane as part of Australia's bicentennial celebrations.