1Strong winds and rough seas are hampering the private search for Wellington yachtsman Colin Akhurst, who is missing in the Coral Sea.

2A search is underway north of Auckland for Andrew Dawson, a young man who disappeared nearly two weeks ago.

3Seven search teams are still looking for a man missing in the Urewera National Park.

4 Justice MInister Geoffrey Palmer has rejected a Prisoners' Aid Society claim that conditions at Mount Eden Prison in Auckland are some of the worst in the world.

5Fire fighters in the central region are threatening further industrial action by refusing to undertake dangerous work. This dispute is separate from their rolling strikes in support of a pay claim. Now they are fighting to retain their injury compensation scheme.

6African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo is spending the weekend at the Victorian farm of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

7Pope John Paul II today preached to a peaceful rally for the first time in his six-day tour of Chile. His three ays in Santiago were overshadowed by violent clashes between youths and police.

8Inside the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut people are fighting to survive. A look at the conditions inside the Bourjel-Barajnah Camp.

9Many people in the community are considered to be unemployable because they have few skills and little opportunity to gain any. However,a private enterprise scheme in Auckland, backed by the Department of Labour, is giving some jobless new hope.