1Republican candidate George Bush has won the United States Presidency, taking at least 38 States. It was a clear-cut victory, but not the landslide many were predicting. Voter turnout was exceptionally low. Analysis of the election results and the likely impact on New Zealand's relationship with the United States. Live coverage of part of George Bush's acceptance speech from Houston, Texas.

2Finance Minister Roger Douglas has broken his silence on the sacking of Richard Prebble today, with a blunt warning to the Labour Party over Government policy, telling them they will never have the power of veto over Government decisions.

3An Auckland jury is tonight considering whether a man who threw his two young children from the Auckland Harbour Bridge to their deaths was sane at the time. Philip Colin Money threw his daughter Vanessa aged 5, and son Haydon aged 3, off the harbour bridge in 1984. He jumped too but survived.

4The man whom the Crown claim played a major role in the arson of two Auckland Duty Free stores has been granted immunity from prosecution, in exchange for his testimony against Charles Rex Hills, the alleged mastermind behind the scheme.

5Tainui want Crown land and resources in compensation for territory confiscated from them last century. If compensation is not forthcoming, they will demand return of the land on which Auckland and Waikato Universities sit.

6Two North American First Nation Chiefs today spoke at Fletcher Challenge's AGM pleading with the company to stop clear-fell logging on ancestral tribal land in the Stein Valley and Clayoquat Sound in British Columbia.

7The so-called Yuppies, who rose on the crest of the sharemarket boom, have hit hard times following the sharemarket crash.

8Wellington commuter trains have been thrown into chaos by a wildcat strike this evening.

9The 16 year old New Zealand-born boy who received a new heart in Melbourne yesterday has died.

10Rescue workers are still trying to reach people in isolated areas of south-western China following Monday's earthquake in Yunnan Province. Nearly 1000 people have died, but officials believe the actual toll could rise higher.

11At least fifty people have been killed and 100,000 left homeless in the Philippines following Typhoon Skip.

12An 86 year old man with an artificial leg is being hailed a hero after he almost managed to foil a bank robbery in Auckland yesterday by attacking the knife-wielding robber with a milk bottle.

13New Zealand climber Lydia Brady returned home to Christchurch today but refused to discuss her disputed claim that she was the first woman to conquer Mount Everest without oxygen.