1An update on the latest information from the third race of the America's Cup Challenge final between New Zealand's KZ7 and American syndicate Stars and Stripes.

2Consumer prices jumped by a record 8.9% in the final three months of 1986, which takes the 1986 inflation rate up to just over 19%. However, the Statistics Department warns that the full impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is still to be felt.

3A massive airlift is underway to help bring thousands of Pacific Island visitors to New Zealand allowed under the new visa-free arrangement introduced last year. However, the volume of would-be visitors is causing chaos.

4Auckland-based firm Trans Oceanic Marketing says their associate, West German financier Max Raepple, has placed around $12 billion of Arab money with developing nations.

5Three soldiers received minor injuries today when their helicopter crashed into sand dunes during an army exercise north of Auckland.

6West German police have arrested a Lebanese man, believed to be one of the terrorists who hijacked a TWA airliner in Beirut eighteen months ago.He was caught carrying liquid explosives disguised as grape juice.

7One of the Fathers of New Zealand Broadcasting, Reverend Colin Graham Scrimgeour, known as Uncle Scrim, has died aged 84. A profile of his long career in broadcasting.