1Associate Foreign Affairs Minister Fran Wilde was left shaken but unharmed when the plane she was travelling in crashed on take-off in Costa Rica.

2A national Maori Fishing Corporation is to be established to manage the fishing quota the Government will soon begin handing over to Maori.

3Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald have won gold in the Olympic K9 event in Seoul. Ferguson is now New Zealand's highest Olympic medal winner.

4Live cross to the Seoul Olympics for the end of the Women's 10,000 metre race in which new Zealander Anne Audain is competing.

5With the successful launch of the space shuttle Discovery, the United States manned space programme has got back on track.

6A million dollar campaign promoting New Zealand's image and its products was launched in Dallas, Texas today.

7The Audit Office has criticised the Government over its controversial tax cut advertisements, saying they "appear designed to enhance the Government's reputation, rather than inform the public". It also said it is doubtful whether the public money spent on the campaign could be justified.

8As the Olympic Games draw to a close, a wave of anti-Americanism is sweeping South Korea. What has happened to turn the people against the nation that was once its strongest ally?

9Two British Olympians have been caught up in the latest doping scandal at the Olympic Games.

10The Best New Zealand Graphic Design Awards will be held this weekend.