1Four children have died in a house fire in Onerahi, near Whangarei. Two other children escaped the fire that is believed to have been started when the children were playing with candles inside a tent. There do not appear to have been any adults at home, and an eleven year old babysitter was in charge.

2Fijian Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau has had an hour-long meeting with ousted Prime Minister Dr Timoci Bavadra. He has also delivered a strong attack against trade unions in New Zealand and Australia for persisting with their trade ban against Fiji. He warns continued bans could destabilize Fiji and the South Pacific for many years to come.

3The long-awaited Royal Commission Report on the convictions of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain for the killing of their daughter Azaria will be released tomorrow.

4Police in the northern Indian state of Bihar have been ordered to crack down on left-wing groups, following a massacre in which 54 people were killed.

5Fierce fighting broke out in southern Lebanon today, when 400 members of the pro-Iranian group Islamic Resistance attacked three Israeli positions. The Israelis responded by shelling local villages. 22 people were killed in the skirmish and 61 were wounded.

6Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev is facing a political dilemma over how to deal with the teenage West German pilot, who embarrassed the Kremlin by landing his light aircraft in front of the Kremlin in Red Square.

7United States President Ronald Reagan was booed at an AIDS conference in Washington today when he announced plans to greatly extend testing against the disease in the United States.

8A Christchurch study indicates that one in six New Zealand men will have a serious alcohol problem at some time during their life.

9British sextuplets have celebrated their Christening.