1The price of petrol is expected to rise significantly from midnight tonight, once deregulation takes effect.

2Labour Party President Rex Jones has urged the Government to heed the report of the Royal Commission on Social Policy and make employment an economic priority.

3A member of Fiji's appointed Government arrived in New Zealand today, hoping to make the first formal contact with this country since the military coups.

4It has been reported that the island of Rotuma will declare itself independent from Fiji next Friday.

5New Caledonia's independence movement has confirmed that the leader of the hardline independence Party of Kanak Liberation (PALIKA) was among those arrested in connection with the Ouvea kidnap affair. As New Caledonians go to the polls to vote in the French Presidential election, many are concerned that the region is nearing a civil war.

6French polls opened in the last hour for what is expected to be a close race for the French Presidency between Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac.

7A new wave of fierce fighting between rival Shi'ite Muslim groups in Beirut today has left as many as fifty people dead.

8A member of the National Museum Trust Board says a preserved Maori head (Mokomokai, or Toi moko), which is up for auction in London, may have been traded for weapons during the Musket Wars of the nineteenth century.

9An old soldiers' regimental reunion in Sussex attracted much interest today, given that one of the old soldiers was Spike Milligan, and one of the guests was Prince Charles, a huge Goons fan.