1Beauty Contests Beauty pageants remain popular, despite there having been many protests about them prompting sexism. What do beauty pageants prove? Are personality, charm and intelligence as important as attributes in an aspiring beauty queen as a well-filled swimsuit? Are beauty pageants potentially harmful to women? How do they affect women who do not have the same physique as the contestants? Discussion and viewer talkback with former Miss New Zealand and newly crowned Mrs World, Barbara Riley.

2United States President Ronald Reagan is facing a credibility problem as he prepares to meet Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev in Finland this weekend, following the shooting down of a cargo plane over Nicaragua and the capture of an alleged American military advisor. This comes on top of revelations that the Reagan Administration deliberately lied to the media about a covert American attempt to destabilize Libya. Top White House spokesman Bernard Kalb has resigned over the issue.

3More details have emerged about the American pilot being held captive by the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua, following the shooting down of a cargo plane yesterday.

4An American cancer specialist has defected to the Soviet Union, saying that United States defence authorities are "poisoning people's minds about the realities of socialism".

5A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

6Britain's security forces are putting the finishing touches to a new base on the Falkland Islands.

7The Princess of Wales has attended the Royal Gala Performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Phantom of The Opera in London. However, for some onlookers, Princess Diana was upstaged by the new Jaguar saloon she arrived in.

8Beauty Contests Beauty pageants remain popular, despite there having been many protests about them prompting sexism. What do beauty pageants prove? Are personality, charm and intelligence as important as attributes in an aspiring beauty queen as a well-filled swimsuit? Are beauty pageants potentially harmful to women? How do they affect women who do not have the same physique as the contestants? Discussion and viewer talkback with former Miss New Zealand and newly crowned Mrs World, Barbara Riley.

9A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

10Beauty Contests Beauty pageants remain popular, despite there having been many protests about them prompting sexism. What do beauty pageants prove? Are personality, charm and intelligence as important as attributes in an aspiring beauty queen as a well-filled swimsuit? Are beauty pageants potentially harmful to women? How do they affect women who do not have the same physique as the contestants? Discussion and viewer talkback with former Miss New Zealand and newly crowned Mrs World, Barbara Riley.