1The missing yacht Castaway Fiji, skippered by New Zealander Digby Taylor, has been spotted sinking in the Coral Sea. A French Navy jet has dropped a liferaft to the crew

2Maori groups are preparing for a legal fight following the Court of Appeal's order to freeze the Government's plan to transfer disputed land to the new State owned corporations.

3Sports Minister MIke Moore and property magnate Bob Jones have joined forces to try to secure the 1998 Winter Olympics for Queenstown.

4A large crocodile tried to snatch the body of an American woman from searchers who found it in a mangrove swamp in Western Australia.

5The United States State Department says several other Marine guards could be involved in the sex for secrets spy scandal at the United States embassy in Moscow

6Analysis of the latest Eyewitness News Heylen political poll, which reveals a turn-around in the fortunes of the two main parties. Labour is back on top and gaining points.The poll has increased speculation that National's Finance Spokesperson, George Gair may be replaced

7Drug addicts will soon be able to buy syringes from chemist shops in the fight against AIDS. Intravenous drug users will be encouraged to return their new needles and buy clean ones. However, there are fears that such a move could lead to an increase in drug abuse. Interview with the Health Minister Michael Bassett.

8Conservation and recreation groups in New Zealand are campaigning to have a massive tract of land in south Westland declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). However many people who living in the affected areas are skeptical and derisive of the idea.

9Worldwatch United States President Reagan has pledged to spend US$1 billion on research into a cure for AIDS.

10Worldwatch Three British scientists working on sensitive defence projects have mysteriously died, and another has disappeared. An official investigation into the deaths has now been launched.

11Worldwatch British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has left Moscow after a five-day visit, stopping in Soviet Georgia on her way back to the United Kingdom.

12Worldwatch Two Soviet dissidents speak out about the new Soviet policy of Glasnost (openness), saying that little has changed in reality in the Soviet Union.

13Worldwatch Pope John Paul has arrived in Chile for a six day visit and has immediately found himself at odds with the Pinochet military dictatorship. A background of Chile's political climate.

14Worldwatch The Reagan Administration in the United States has agreed to a Japanese request for urgent talks on the issue of a threatened trade war between the two countries. However, American officials say it remains likely that sanctions on Japanese electronic goods will be imposed for a three-month trial period. Meanwhile, the British Cabinet is considering what it can do to try to force Japan into more open trading practices. How are the Japanese viewing the trade skirmish?

15Worldwatch In a huge agricultural project south of Broken Hill, Australian outback farmers are managing to ride out the rural crisis with the help of marketing managers.