1Former Finance Minister Roger Douglas and Prime Minister David Lange have continued firing barbs at each other today. Speculation continues over the upcoming leadership showdown early next year. Bevan Burgess, whose sacking appears to have been the catalyst for the Lange-Douglas rivalry coming to a head, finally broke his silence on the issue today.

2A degree of confidence returned to the New Zealand economy, in reaction to assurances by new Finance Minister David Caygill that economic policies will not change.

3Residents in the Birkenhead electorate, Labour's most marginal electorate, are pondering the future of Rogernomics without Roger Douglas.

4The United States plans to open direct talks with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), much to Israel's dismay.

5Soviet officials have admitted that their rescue services can not cope with the scale of the earthquake destruction in Armenia.

6Pakistan has pulled out of the triangular one-day series in New Zealand this summer because they do not want to play against England, some of whose players have links to South Africa. Will this jeopardise the English cricket tour of New Zealand?

7There will be no further power outages next week. Electricity workers have dropped their threatened strike action and will re-enter talks with the Electricity Commission (Electricorp).

8The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) has voiced its opposition to New Zealand buying frigates from Australia.

9Police officers are helping to train traffic officers in the correct use of their new long batons.

10The annual raft race on the Shotover Canyon River near Queenstown took place today.