1Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi arrived in Auckland this afternoon amid tight security.

2Des Tucker, the patient at the centre of the row over whether or not to perform heart transplant operations in New Zealand, is turning down the Government's offer of an Air Force (RNZAF) flight to Australia to have the surgery, because he does not think he could cope with the stress of a 5am flight from Whenuapai.

3Searchers have spent the day scouring the Christchurch suburb of Bromley today for six year old Louisa Damodran, who has been missing since she left school yesterday. Police say they can not rule out the possibility that she has been abducted.

4The Anti Nuclear Bill has been reported back to Parliament with only minor changes by the Select Committee that considered it.

5Top level managers of two of the companies behind the Whakatu Freezing Works closure tried to meet Hawkes Bay MPs in secret today.

6Housing Corporation tenants with a combined income of more than $287 net each week will have to spend more than one-third of their wages on rent in the future. Minister of Housing Phil Goff has released a new rent-fixing formula, which uses the net weekly wage as a benchmark.

7The National Leader of the Black Power Gang says he welcomes a police inquiry into the gang's Labour Department contracts.

8The owner of St George's tavern in Sydney has been accused of racism after he banned Maori from drinking in his bar, claiming they are trying to run the place.

9Although opinions still differ on how much the Superpower Summit in Reykjavik achieved, it has apparently given a new lease of life to the long-stalled Nuclear Arms Limitations Talks in Geneva.

10Queen Elizabeth II's visit to China has been marred buy a clash between her Press Secretary Michael Shea and Chinese security officers working for the Chinese Public Security Bureau (PSB), who were harassing members of the British media.

11A Soviet tank regiment with more than 1000 troops has begun pulling out of Afghanistan.

12Opposition leader Jim Bolger says an interview which quoted him as endorsing the Labour Government's economic policy was an error by the magazine EuroMoney.

13Three Rastafarians, who were the object of a manhunt in the Ruatoria area earlier this year, have been jailed over the gunpoint abduction of a Police officer in February.

14The cement ship Tarsi, which nearly capsized in heavy seas in August, is now involved in a controversy over the non-payment of bills.