1Massive power cuts are being threatened around New Zealand as electricity workers plan for industrial action against the new Electricity Corporation.

2New Zealand's ports were closed today and Interislander ferry passengers were left stranded during today's strike by harbour workers.

3All trading bank staff have now accepted their union's recommendation to take a 7.9% pay offer. Therefore the threat of strikes has been removed.

4Rock concert promoter Hugh Lynn is unrepentant about Saturday night's ZZ Top rock concert at Western Springs which resulted in a record number of arrests.

5Prime Minister David Lange today described repeated arson attacks in Ruatoria as "a guerrilla campaign, striking at the heart of the traditions of local people".

6Two more men have been killed in Northern ireland as a result of the feud between different factions of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA). One of the men was Gerard Steenson, the head of the INLA.

7Tamil separatists have been blamed for sabotaging rail lines, and causing a train crash which killed at least eighteen people and injured more than 100 more in southern India.

8The state of civil emergency has been lifted in Southland, a week after widespread flooding. Invercargill Airport remains flooded, and is expected to remain closed for another week.

9An Italian teenager has had his eyesight saved by a Dunedin surgeon.

10The Government has made a complete about-face in its bid to get millions of dollars of reserve money from New Zealand's airports.

11A newspaper in Israel claims that Israeli officials knew about the activities of convicted American spy Jonathan Pollard.

12An influential South African journalist from a pro-Government newspaper group has resigned, and joined independent candidates seeking a faster reform of apartheid.

13Spearheaded by pop star Boy George, British rock stars have joined together to produce a benefit record and video for the victims of the English Channel ferry disaster.

14A West German newspaper is reporting that Hitler's one-time deputy Rudolf Hess is nearing death.

15An exhibition of Maori treasures has opened in the Canterbury Museum, displaying artefacts that were too rare or too valuable to leave New Zealand as part of the Te Maori Exhibition.