1Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke visited Parliament today.

2The Wellington Westpac Rescue Helicopter crashed north of Wellington this afternoon, killing top pilot Peter Button and his two passengers.

3West Auckland police are questioning two men after a farmer was beaten and left for dead in a suburban street following a minor collision. He later died in hospital.

4A fundraising appeal to send two year old Hamilton boy Regan Chibnall to Brisbane for a liver transplant has raised enough money to send him and his father Ian to Brisbane next week.

5The British Government has ordered a high level inquiry into yesterday's deadly fire at London's King's Cross underground station, which killed thirty people. Today British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher toured the scene of the fire.

6United States Government agents have seized four tonnes of illegal cocaine from two shipping containers in Miami.

7A group of top American astronomers is using the world's only flying telescope to scan the New Zealand skies for debris from a supernova.

8The British Government has ordered a high level inquiry into yesterday's deadly fire at London's King's Cross underground station, which killed thirty people. Opposition MP's claim safety standards have recently been reduced by British Rail due to Government funding cuts.

9Nga Tapuwae College in Mangere is begging the Government to step in and solve a long and bitter wrangle between the School Board and its staff. The Government is currently considering new laws which would give communities a greater say in local education.

10Worldwatch United States President Ronald Reagan is tonight poised to order cuts in Government spending, whether or not White House and Congressional leaders reach an agreement to cut the American budget deficit.

11Worldwatch It has been announced that United States Secretary of State George Shultz and his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze will meet next week in Geneva to try to sort out last minute problems with the mid-range nuclear missile agreement. However, as part of negotiations to reduce chemical weapons, Soviet delegates have been taken to an American chemical weapons facility for the first time.

12Worldwatch There are reports that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has conditionally agreed to Arab-Israeli peace talks in Washington in conjunction with the Superpower summit. Tomorrow is the deadline for non-violent Palestinian-American Mubarak Awad to leave Israel. However, he says he is going nowhere.

13Worldwatch Scientists believe super-conductivity will one day revolutionise people's daily lives. But what are super-conduits?