1Live cross to Fremantle, where the race between Kookaburra 3 and Stars and Stripes, which may decide the America's Cup, is now underway.

2New Zealand's office workers are being told to stand up for their rights and demand safer working environments. Fire experts say many are too complacent about fire safety in multi-storey office blocks.

3New Zealand's annual lamb export contract with Iran is currently under negotiation.

4Parliament has heard new claims and counterclaims today regarding the Maori loans affair, and the possible involvement of Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere.

5New Zealand's overseas debt has jumped by 22% in the past four months. Much of the increase is due to the weak new Zealand dollar, especially against the United States dollar.

6Fletcher Challenge has secured a $700 million deal to secure a 47% holding in Canadian company British Columbia Forest Products. This makes it the second biggest pulp and paper producer in the world.

7Today has been another active day on the stock market with leading stocks posting good gains. Earlier in the new year, the sharemarket bubble burst, exposing many new investors to the fluctuating fortunes of the stock market.

8The mother of Christopher Martin, a New Zealand man sentenced to two years jail with hard labour in Zambia, is relieved his sentence was not longer.

9India and Pakistan are continuing urgent talks in an attempt to defuse a potential confrontation along their joint border.

10Unofficial returns from this week's referendum indicate that Philippines President Corazon Aquino's new Constitution has received overwhelming voter support. Meanwhile, deposed Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos has been taken to an American military institution for a medical examination.

11The British Government denies ordering the seizure of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentaries giving details of an alleged top secret spy satellite project.

12The United States has conducted its first underground nuclear test of 1987.

13Police and mourners have scuffle at the funeral of Mary McGlinchey, wife of jailed Irish national Liberation Army (INLA) leader, Dominic McGlinchey.

14Police have been asked to investigate the activities of some staff in the Land Registry Office in Auckland.

15Catholics paid their last respects today to Canterbury Bishop Dennis Hanrahan, who died suddenly last Sunday.