1Opposition MP Winston Peters briefed his Parliamentary colleagues today on what he says is new evidence implicating the Government in the affair. A Dunedin lawyer is to file defamation proceedings on behalf of five Hawaiian businessmen in connection with a Network News item on the Maori loans affair.

2The United States is moving warships nearer to Middle East hotspots because of a new wave of hostage taking in Beirut, and a change in fortunes in the Gulf War. The United States has also warned all American citizens to leave Beirut immediately for their own safety.

3The latest Iranian offensive has seen troops push well inside Iraq's borders, almost to the strategic southern port city of basra.

4The occupation of a Philippines television station ended peacefully in Manila tonight, when Army colonels surrendered on behalf of their supporters.

5New Zealand police have virtually given up hope of bringing any more French agents to justice over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.

6Opposition leader Jim Bolger today described the use of taxpayer's money to fund gangs through the contract work schemes "a scandalous waste of money".

7The Commissioner for the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) today confirmed that profits from the sale of shares are taxable, but only if they were purchased with the clear intention of selling them.

8A dramatic upsurge in the number of armed pharmacy drug robberies is alarming the Guild of Chemists, who say that pharmacists may have to reduce the amount of drugs kept in store.

9A helicopter pilot escaped unscathed today after his helicopter crashed into a vegetable patch south of Auckland.

10French scientists are using a commercial satellite to take noew, highly detailed photographs of New Zealand, which are then sold back to New Zealand by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), thus reducing business for New Zealand map-makers.