1Prime Minister David Lange is preparing to announce a Cabinet reshuffle later this week.

2The Labour Party left is claiming victory at the Labour Party Conference, despite Jim Anderton losing out on the Labour Party Presidency and the party's endorsement of the sale of State assets.

3Professor Dennis Bonham is to retire early, at the end of 1988 due to ill health. Bonham was one of the key figures at the Inquiry into the treatment of cervical cancer patients at National Women's Hospital.

4A scientist is predicting more wild weather will hit New Zealand due to climatic variations caused by the Greenhouse effect and a gradual warming of the planet.

5Massive stock losses are expected in Hawkes Bay at the East Coast region following the latest rainstorms, floods and slips.

6The unofficial death toll in the Bangladesh floods has topped 1000 but the true extent of the catastrophe is only just beginning to become apparent. Most of the country is under water and it is estimated that 25 million people are homeless.

7Anti apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu has defied South African Government regulations by calling for a Black boycott of next month's segregated local elections.

8New Zealand has increased diplomatic contact with Central America by establishing formal ties with Nicaragua.

9The crushing defeat of Australian Government referendum proposed has been described as "an enormous slap in the face" for Prime Minister Bob Hawke and his Labor Party.

10An investigation is underway into a collision between the British Destroyer Southampton and a container ship in the Gulf of Oman, in which eleven sailors were injured.

11The Farnborough Air Show opened today, but was not incident-free. The engine of a Soviet cargo plane caught fire seconds after it began taking off.

12An Australian Air Force crewman is in hospital after an Australian Orion made an emergency landing at Whenuapai after fire broke out in an equipment bay.

13Aviation safety standards are under scrutiny by a Court of Inquiry which is investigating last November's crash of a Skyferry Cessna off the Kaikoura coast in which two people were killed..

14Mystery surrounds the identity of the new owner of 10% of Wilson and Horton, publishers of the New Zealand Herald.

15Boutique cheesemakers are trying to resolve the issue of using unpasteurized milk in cheese production.