1The Higher Salaries Commission (HSC) has given all politicians and most top State employees a 10% pay rise. They had planned on issuing pay rises of up to 27%, but were blocked from doing so by a law change that limits pay increases to 10% or less.

2The newly installed Prime Minister of Fiji, Timoci Bavadra has been called into the row over Sri Lankan refugees being held in transit at Nadi Airport.

3Headline News 1. Employers' Federation executive director Jim Rowe is to stand down from the organisation and retire after almost 10 years. 2. Police and airline officials are hoping the public will help them find the wheel, which fell off a light aircraft and caused it to make a crash landing at Palmerston North Airport yesterday. 3. African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Tambo says his organisation may develop its own news service to combat censorship in South Africa.

4Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has offered the United States some new ideas on arms control, which could lead to a superpower summit.

5Stocks on the New York Stock Exchange have plummeted amid heavy trading, with the Dow Jones falling 34 points today.

6Auckland lawyer Eb Leary is to be struck of the Roll of Barristers and Solicitors for involvement in drug dealing, perjury and financial misdealings. The charges arose after he defended drug dealer Alexander Sinclair (aka Terry Clarke or Mr Asia). A background on Leary, followed by an interview about his battle with the Law Society.

7Opposition leader Jim Bolger says he is not as confident as many economists, who predict inflation will drop to single figures within a year. He believes a high public service wage rise, combined with a drop in the value of the New Zealand dollar later this year, will push up the cost of living. A live debate on the economy and Rogernomics from the studio.

8Worldwatch Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has offered the United States some new ideas on arms control, which could lead to a superpower summit. A look at what Gorbachev has offered and the United States' response. What does each party have to gain from an arms control agreement?

9Worldwatch Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi and his followers have marked the first anniversary of the United States bombing of LIbya.

10Worldwatch The consequences of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl are still affecting those living in the United Kingdom nearly a year after the event. Welsh farmland has been contaminated, and scientists are unsure how long the contamination will continue. This is severely affecting the lamb season in Wales

11Worldwatch A British doctor and nurse have escaped from a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut after they had been trapped there by Muslim militiamen for six months.

12Worldwatch A new breast cancer treatment has been developed at Guy's Hospital in London which prevents the need for a mastectomy.

13Worldwatch Children born with the condition Autism live in a morbid fantasy world of their own. They have a low IQ and little or no communication with those around them. The disease has been considered untreatable, but now scientists have made some extraordinary breakthroughs.