1Labour backbench MP Jim Anderton has been allowed to remain in Caucus, but has been warned that if he criticises the Government's State asset sales programme again. he will be expelled.

2Labour Party President Rex Jones is maintaining his criticism of the Government's State asset sales programme.

3The Government is trying to clarify reports from Paris that Rainbow Warrior saboteur Alain Mafart could be sent back to Hau Atoll.

4Mathias Rust, the young West German man who landed his light plane in Red Square last year, today flew home to freedom.

5Labour backbench MP Jim Anderton has been allowed to remain in Caucus, but has been warned that if he criticises the Government's State asset sales programme again. he will be expelled. Anderton's supporters view the ruling as a victory.

6Mudslinging has begun in the United States Presidential campaign, with President Ronald Reagan suggesting that Democratic Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis has poor mental health.

7The South African Government is facing a direst and open challenge to its apartheid policy from White South Africans, who are refusing to turn up for their compulsory military service.

8Three people were crushed to death in a building site accident in Brisbane today.

9Australian security arrangements have been questioned by British authorities after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was heckled and jostled by more than500 protesters at a Melbourne shopping mall.

10The National Party begins its annual conference in Rotorua this weekend, where it hopes to consolidate its image as a credible alternative Government.

11A report on Maori health standards released today places rising unemployment at the centre of a rise in poor Maori health.

12Police Minister Peter Tapsell says Maori activists calling for a Black boycott of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland are speaking only for themselves and have no authority to speak for either Maoridom or New Zealand.

13A large private collection of Maori artefacts was auctioned in Wellington today.

14A commemorative 'switch-on' will be undertaken in Reefton this evening to mark 100 years since power was first switched on to the community, the first New Zealand town to get electricty.

15England's famous D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is back in business after being given a financial lifeline from an American investor.

16A record called Royal Lullaby has been released to celebrate the imminent birth of the Duchess of York's first baby.