1Further details have been revealed about yesterday's Mahia Peninsula drama which left one man dead, six under arrest and three police officers injured.

2Police are hunting a man who fired dozens of bullets into a Porirua house, shooting one man in the stomach.

3Social Welfare Minister Michael Cullen has released details of his personal blueprint for superannuation. he is aiming for most people to be providing for their own retirement, which could include a move back to compulsory superannuation.

4Prime Minister David Lange has acknowledged the plight of thousands of farmers by establishing a $1.5 million Rural Trust which will be independent of the Government and funded with public money.

5Former Federated Farmers President Sir Peter Elworthy says there is a dangerous lack of understanding by many New Zealanders about the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications.

6One man has died, but 66 have survived a second explosion on the Ocean Odyssey North Sea oil rig.

7The Government has decided to establish a Kiwifruit Marketing Board, which will have sole legal power to export kiwifruit.

8A lone Australian yachtsman is renewing his bid to cross the Tasman Sea in a tiny boat. He had to be rescued on his trip between Australia and New Zealand in the midst of Cyclone Bola earlier this year.

9Lebanon is in turmoil after retiring President Amine Gemayel appointed an interim military Government after the Lebanese Parliament was unable to agree on his successor.

10Britain has expelled three Czechoslovakian diplomats who have been accused of spying.

11Vengeful Haitian mobs are hunting down members of the feared Tonton Macoute (death squad). Five days after the country's military coup, the army remains in disarray.

12Soviet troops are patrolling Yerevan tonight after demonstrations in support of ethnic clashes in neighbouring Azerbaijan.

13A Massey University researcher has been given $3000 by the manufacturer of baby nappies to investigate their contents. He hopes to establish a link between what breastfeeding mothers eat, and the behaviour of their babies.

14An extroverted Christchurch Anglican vicar, known for his charity stunts, is planning to live in a hole for two days in a fundraising effort.