1American skipper Dennis Conner has alleged that New Zealand's America's Cup yacht, KZ7 may be illegal and is calling for the yacht to be checked over. New Zealand yachting officials vehemently deny that there is anything wrong with the boat.

2Colin Meads. coach of the rebel Cavaliers rugby team that toured South Africa earlier in the year, has denied claims that the players received substantial cash donations while on tour.

3Attempts to salvage the stricken trawler Howard L Shadbolt off the north Canterbury coastline failed again today. Yesterday two lives were claimed and two people left seriously injured when a helicopter attempt ended in tragedy.

4Retired New Zealand diplomat Malcolm Templeton said today that it is unreasonable for New Zealand to be blamed for breaking up the Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS).

5The Government has extended the reporting time for the Committee of Inquiry into Violence following a request by committee Chairman Sir Quentin Roper.

6Renal doctors have said today that they would be able to perform many more kidney transplants each year if there were more donor kidneys available. They are planning a publicity programme to try to encourage more New Zealanders to become organ donors in the event of a premature death.

7Environmentalist Alistair Graham may not be able to attend a key meeting on the Antarctic as an independent observer because the Government will not pay any of his costs to travel to Tokyo.

8The French Navy patrol boat Albatross sank a Panamanian trawler caught illegally fishing near the remote island of St Paul in the Indian Ocean today.

9The American pilot shot down and captured in Nicaragua is now claiming that he was involved in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sponsored mission to aid the Contra rebels. If proved, this would mean the CIA was breaking United States laws forbidding direct involvement in the civil war in Nicaragua. However United States officials claim Hasenfus is lying.

10Harry Claiborne, the first American Federal Court judge to be fired in around fifty years, lost his job in an impeachment hearing in Washington DC today.

11United States President Ronald Reagan has arrived in Iceland ahead of his summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

12Scientists are anxiously watching Iceland's volcanoes, all of which are said to have been "trembling" in recent weeks.