1The widest school curriculum review in forty years has become Government policy, and will determine what will be taught in New Zealand schools into the next century. Among other things, it plans to eliminate racism and sexism and promote Maori language and values.

2The official swearing in of Fiji's new Prime Minister Dr Timoci Bavadra took place today.

3The Government has described National's plan to scrap the unemployment benefit (dole) as " a simplistic solution", and argues that the best way to bring unemployment sown is to create jobs.

4The Government has launched an offensive to try to convince voters that Labour's economic policies are working.

5The Immigration Department's figures show that just over 13,000 Pacific Islanders entered New Zealand during the two and a half months they were not required to have a visa.

6The American embassy spy scandal in Moscow may put pressure on the upcoming talks between United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet leaders in Moscow.

7The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) is testing a new in-flight refuelling system that could boost the range of its operations around the South Pacific by thousands of kilometres.

8Opposition leader Jim Bolger has pledged to appeal the surtax on National Superannuation if National wins the next election. However they have also said they support increasing the age of entitlement from 60 to 65 over the next twenty years.

9The MInistry of Agriculture's latest farming report has shown that rural New Zealand is sinking deeper into financial gloom.

10African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Tambo received an unexpected welcome from the Christchurch Maori community when he visited the Te Maori Exhibition this morning.

11Foreign reporters have been allowed their first look at the almost forgotten war between Chad and Libya.

12Hundreds of friends and family attended a memorial service for yachtsman Colin Akhurst today. He is missing presumed drowned after his boat Castaway Fiji sank in the Coral Sea a week ago.