1Eleventh hour negotiations have failed to prevent the massive health worker strike planned for tomorrow. Around 40,000 health workers are expected to walk off the job tomorrow.

2Former Finance Minister Roger Douglas says more than 20,000 people are out of work since the end of last year thanks to Prime Minister David Lange sending inconsistent signals about the state of the economy.

3Tax increases appear inevitable, but Prime Minister David Lange says they will not be punitive.

4An offer by one of the two companies tendering for the Australia - New Zealand frigate project to build three ships in Whangarei has not impressed Prime Minister David Lange.

5Five people have died and more than sixty were injured in Pakistan as crowds of Muslims protested the American publication of Salmon Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses.

6The last Soviet troops in Afghanistan today relinquished control of Kabul Airport to the Afghan Army.

7Crufts Champion of Champions has been won by a bearded collie called Cassie.

8The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Pornography has been released and it has made 200 recommendations. The making, possession or distribution of child pornography should be made an offence under the Crimes Act and there should be tighter controls on violent material. But its most praised recommendation centres on a rationalisation of the laws covering pornography. Studio interview with the Inquiry Chair, Joanne Morris.

9Brian Ronald MacDonald, the man convicted of the murder of Margaret Bell in 1979, has been released from prison after serving less than nine years of his life sentence. He is vowing to resume his fight to clear his name. However, Auckland police are concerned that he may seek retribution against his associates whose testimony put him behind bars.