1A force of more than seventy Police officers moved in on the Mongrel Mob gang's National Convention in Mangere this morning following a serious complaint of rape.

2A service station was damaged and a van destroyed in a freak gas explosion at Glenbrook today.

3East German authorities say that 69 people died when a Soviet airliner crashed near East Berlin yesterday.

4British police have arrested more than fifty women protesters at a demonstration outside the United States nuclear base at Greenham Common.

5Lawyer Lawrence Walsh has been selected to carry out an independent investigation into the Iran Arms affair in the United States.

6A fish processing plant, built in Nelson, is predicted to be a massive overseas money earner for New Zealand, through its manufacture of a processed fish product called surimi, as well as crab sticks and other fish products.

7It was revealed this week that New Zealand has an overseas debt of more than $30 billion. This works out to be around $10,000 for every person in New Zealand.