1United States President Ronald Reagan and Congress have finally agreed on a plan to cut the United States huge budget deficit by $75 billion in two years. Neither party is especially happy with the compromise, and Wall Street has also been only lukewarm.
2For the first time ever, the United States and the Soviet Union are to carry out joint nuclear tests in the middle of next year.
3Wet weather disrupted Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's tour of New Zealand today, delaying both his and Prime Minister David Lange's arrival in the Bay of Islands for over an hour.
4The mangled wreckage of Wellington's Westpac Rescue Helicopter has been recovered from the gully where it crashed yesterday after hitting power lines, killing the pilot, Peter Button and his two passengers.
5Hamilton police believe a man who died in Waikato Hospital last night could have been abducted and held captive by his killers.
6Two men will appear in the Henderson District Court on Monday, charged with murdering West Auckland farmer David Collin Gray following a minor car accident yesterday.
7Christchurch police, hunting a man who raped a woman taxi driver early this morning, also have another inquiry to investigate. A police car, investigating the attack, was today forced off the road by another car.
8London firefighters are speculating that Thursday's big underground rail fire at King's Cross Station was turned into an inferno by a lethal cocktail of gases.Seven of the thirty people who died in the fire have yet to be identified. A badly burned police officer describes the ordeal of trying to help those trapped by the fire to safety.
9The chance discovery of a wallet has ended the twelve-day kidnapping ordeal of five year old Spanish girl Melodie Nakachian.
10Two year old Regan Chibnall, the Hamilton toddler who urgently needs a liver transplant, will leave for Brisbane this week.Today the Department of Health donated $30,000 towards his public fundraising appeal.
11Christchurch resident Maggie McKinlay has celebrated her 105th birthday today.
12Permission has finally been granted for a $200 million hotel complex to be built at Walter Peak Station near Queenstown.