1A South Korean Boeing 707 carrying 117 people has crashed in a remote region of Thailand. This is the second major air disaster within the past 24 hours.

2Searchers have found five bodies in the ocean near the area where a South African Boeing 747 crashed on Saturday night, killing over 160 people.

3An avalanche has killed up to sixty people at a construction workers' camp in El Alfalfal, Chile.

4Twenty three people were burned to death when fire swept through a moving train in India. Ten of the dead were children. The fire has been blamed on the negligence of a passenger who was travelling with a can pf petrol.

5An air search has begun for the missing fishing trawler Deep Sea II, carrying a crew of three men, off the east coast of the North Island.

6The Government and the Maori Council have agreed on how to handle the question of Maori fishing rights. However many issues remain to be finalised.

7More Maori land grievances were aired in Greymouth today as the Waitangi tribunal began a hearing into Ngai Tahu's claim that rent earnings on their land should be based on market values.

8The trial of four detectives accused of kidnapping and assaulting Rastafarian Dickie Maxwell during the Ruatoria arson investigation, has entered its second week.

9Seventeen Air New Zealand air hostesses have appeared before the Equal Opportunities Tribunal, alleging sexual discrimination by the airline.

10Colourful Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen made no move to resign at a State Cabinet meeting today, despite having been ousted as leader of the National Party. His fate will now be decided in a State Parliament on Wednesday where he is expected to face a vote of no confidence.

11An Iranian suspected of involvement in bomb attacks in Paris has flown out of the capital in an executive jet, apparently in return for the release of two French hostages freed in Beirut last weekend.

12The first free elections in thirty years in Haiti were cancelled today after a night of bloodshed.

13Voters swarmed to the polls in Vanuatu today for their second election since gaining independence in 1980.

14Uncertainty about Washington's resolve to quickly reduce the United States budget deficit has forced the value of the American dollar to its lowest point since the Second World War.

15Tribute to Irene Handl, one of Britain's best loved comedic actresses, who has died aged 85.