1The price of petrol is likely to rise overnight, with industry sources suggesting a jump of 8-10 cents a litre.

2The Opposition has failed in its bid to have Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere brought before the Privileges Committee, with Speaker of the House Dr Gerard Wall ruling that Wetere has no case to answer regarding the Maori loan affair. Live report from Parliament about the Opposition's claims that the Maori loans affair is a Constitutional matter.

3Islamic Jihad has extended the deadline for Israel to free 400 Palestinian prisoners, in return for them sparing the lives of four Western hostages.

4The discovery of a shipwrecked boat off the islands of Vanuatu has taken the death toll from Cyclone Uma to 45.

5Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband Prince Henrik have begun their first full day in a five-day official State visit to New Zealand, with a visit to the local Danish community.

6Six year old heart/lung transplant recipient Charlotte Grant arrived back in New Zealand today.

7Farmers put a stop to a Palmerston North mortgagee farm auction today, by shouting down the auctioneer until he was forced to abandon the sale.

8Rebels in Afghanistan have shot down what they claim was an airforce transplant plane, killing 43 people. However, the Afghanistan Government says the plane was full of civilians.

9CBS News is reporting that former United States National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane - a key figure in the Iran Arms scandal in the United States - tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of Valium.

10Seven armed bank robbers escaped through the cellars of Marseilles today, right under the noses of 200 police officers, who had surrounded the bank where the thieves were holding 23 hostages.

11The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) branch in Customs Street, Auckland was robbed of around $3000 by a well-dressed, middle aged man today.

12Two men narrowly escaped death today when a crane knocked a safety rail fourteen floors to the ground. Today's accident was the third involving cranes in the last few months, prompting senior Auckland City Councillor Trevor Rogers to label safety regulations at construction sites "a dangerous joke".