1Qantas has begun a top level investigation to determine why one of its Boeing 767s was forced to make an emergency landing at Auckland Airport after it developed engine problems.
2Wellington Zoo is beginning to export live Weta to zoos around the world.
3Searchers have found the bodies of two Aucklanders who drowned while tramping in the Kauaeranga Valley near Thames.
4Another member of the Roya; Ulster Constabulary has been murdered in Northern ireland. The President of the Sinn Fein has told Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen to be more careful about who they target.
5The Thatcher Government plans to withdraw more than 1000 British troops from Gibraltar and close down a number of military facilities there.
6Today marks three years since seven astronauts were killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
7Some of the American, Soviet and Cuban men involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis have met to discuss the events of October 1962, when the world came very close to nuclear war.
8Soviet doctors will test 3000 children for AIDS after 27 toddlers were infected by contaminated hospital needles.
9Crash TV. a new game show format, is drawing the viewers in the United States. It is a mix of sports, sex, music and wrestling.