1Prime Minister David Lange has today predicted a gloomy future for the New Zealand economy.

2Fletcher Challenge's bid for NZ Forest Products has prompted strong criticism from Forest Products Managing Director.

3Prime MInister David Lange says there is "no chance" that Soviet agents have penetrated the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS), despite allegations that Sir Roger Hollis, who helped establish the SIS, was a Soviet spy.

4The anti-apartheid group Halt All Racist Tours (HART) today named 57 New Zealand companies which it says are trading with South Africa. However, the list appears to be out of date.

5Police in New Delhi are in full alert after Sikh extremists shot dead at least 24 Hindu bus passengers and injured eight more. Now there are fears of a Hindu backlash.

6Both Republican and Democratic politicians in the United States Senate are calling for a Watergate-style investigation into the Reagan Administration's arms trade with Iran. Meanwhile President Ronald Reagan has given an interview to Time magazine, in which he blames all of his current troubles on the media.

7Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite today revealed that he is again trying to win the freedom of Western hostages being held in Lebanon.

8Tribute to actor Cary Grant, who died yesterday following a stroke, aged 82.

9Reaction to the National Party's alternative plan to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has been mixed.

10New Zealand's longest surviving heart-lung transplant recipient, Ann Crawford today advised another woman who is preparing for the same operation.

11A flaming torch - the symbol of UNICEF's first Earth Run - arrived in New Zealand this evening, on its round the world run, which aims to raise awareness of the plight of children in war-torn countries.

12The Spanish Socialist Party of President Felipe González Márquez has won an historic election victory in the country's troubled Basque district. However, experts fear in will not calm the violence in the northern region of Spain.

13A volcanic eruption from Mount Kilauea has become a rare tourist attraction in Hawaii. Lave has been pouring into the sea, creating new land, but it is also threatening homes that lie in its path.