1New Zealand's trade mission to South America and Mexico returned home this weekend with trade deals worth over $100 million.
2The Government is going to write a new law to jail repeat violent sex offenders longer, and to make it tougher for them to be released.
3At least fourteen people have been killed in two strong earthquakes in Taiwan. It is feared that dozens more may be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed three-storey market building in Taipei.
4Loyalists youths have run riot through the centre of Belfast, stoning police, smashing windows and looting shops. Their behaviour stemmed from a huge rally opposing the year-old Anglo Irish Accord.
5At a meeting with United States President Ronald Reagan at Camp David, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was given an assurance that there will be no reduction in United States nuclear missiles in Europe unless the Soviets agree to reduce conventional forces there.
6A Nicaraguan court has sentenced American pilot Eugene Hasenfus to a maximum of 30 years prison for alleged terrorism and other crimes.