1New Zealand's America's Cup yacht KZ7 has made a good start in the long-awaited grudge race with Dennis Connor's Stars and Stripes in Fremantle.

2Hopes are fading for six year old Louisa Damodran, who has been missing since she left school two days ago. Today the search area has been expanded to include the Waimakariri River.

3Extremely tight security surrounds the visit of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who met with Prime Minister David Lange today.

4Employers expect to tempt more members of the Engineers' Union into making pay deals with them and abandoning their stalled award talks.

5Former Labour Party candidate Dr Barry Gustafson expects to get the vote of two former National Party leaders when he stands for Parliament at the next election.

6The Soviet seaman who jumped ship in Dunedin last month has been granted permanent residency in New Zealand.

7In the first major test of the new Commerce Act, Feltex Furnishings and Smith and Brown have been ordered not to discriminate against a small furniture retailer who is selling their products at discounted prices.

8Attempts are still being made in Hawkes Bay to reverse the decision to shut down New Zealand's biggest freezing works at Whakatu.

9Palestinian guerrillas have shot down an Israeli plane taking part in a retaliatory bombing raid over Lebanon.

10Both the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II have made a visit to the archaeological site of the Chinese Terracotta Army.

11Opposition housing spokesman Maurice McTigue says the Housing Corporation rental increases announced by the Government yesterday are "savage".

12Twenty-two huskies, ultimately bound to become sled dogs for a journey to the South Pole next month, arrived at Auckland Airport today.

13American treasure hunter Mel Fisher and his supporters were awarded a share of the booty discovered on board the sunken Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha.