1Christmas Cooking For some people, choosing and preparing food for the festive season can be stressful. Traditional Christmas fare does not always suits New Zealand's hot summer weather. Discussion and viewer feedback with chef and culinary author Alison Holst, who offers some ideas for alternative Christmas fare, such as light meals, cheap meals and snacks.

2White House spokesman Larry Speakes has announced his resignation, effective from February 1st, 1987. He insists that the Iran arms deal and the channelling of funds to Contra rebels in Nicaragua has nothing to do with his decision to leave, and the timing is merely coincidental.

3The French Government has attacked the "incredible aggressiveness" of Australia and New Zealand in leading the campaign to get New Caledonia put on the United Nations (UN) Decolonisation list.

4Student protesters have brought Paris to a standstill as they demonstrated against French Government plans to reform their universities.

5A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

6Authorities in several American states are becoming increasingly concerned about Airplane, a new pyramid scheme that is illegal and fails to provide any get rich quick profits to participants.

7Experts at the British Library are celebrating the finding of papers in a London attic which prove that map makers had their facts right about some of the world's land masses a century earlier than historians thought.

8A bottle of 1784 Château d'Yquem has sold at auction in London for NZ$120,000.

9Christmas Cooking For some people, choosing and preparing food for the festive season can be stressful. Traditional Christmas fare does not always suits New Zealand's hot summer weather. Discussion and viewer feedback with chef and culinary author Alison Holst, who offers some ideas for alternative Christmas fare, such as light meals, cheap meals and snacks.

10A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

11Christmas Cooking For some people, choosing and preparing food for the festive season can be stressful. Traditional Christmas fare does not always suits New Zealand's hot summer weather. Discussion and viewer feedback with chef and culinary author Alison Holst, who offers some ideas for alternative Christmas fare, such as light meals, cheap meals and snacks.