1New Zealand boxing referee Keith Walker arrived home from the Seoul Olympics today, saddened by his rough treatment at the hands of the Koreans. Now the Chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee has resigned.

2Illegal drugs have reared their ugly head at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, with two Bulgarian athletes stripped of their medals.

3Unemployment leapt again last month, and in some regions it is the highest it has ever been.

4France is expanding its nuclear testing in the Pacific, announcing plans to alternate underground nuclear weapons explosions between Mururoa Atoll and nearby Fangataufa Atoll.

5Israeli troops shot and wounded at least 13 Palestinians - mostly teenagers - as they dispersed stone throwing crowds on the West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli war planes struck a Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) base in southern Lebanon, wounding five people.

6The latest North Sea oil rig disaster has prompted allegations that the Odyssey rig platform was not operated correctly and the British Government is being pressured to play a more active role in North Sea safety.

7Dunedin's Mayor is mediating a squabble between rival Scottish clans in the city that has some of its origins centuries ago between the Clans Campbell and MacDonald.