1There are signs of a possible settlement tonight in the hospital workers' dispute. Employers and unions are still talking in an effort to avert next week's planned 48-hour strike.

2Finance Minister David Caygill says the Government's long-term objective remains the selling of the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ).

3The Government has suspended the sale of the Shipping Corporation's container vessel Weka.

4It is feared that plans to deregulate the postal service will lead to more Post Office closures and more job losses.

5Anti mining protests on the Coromandel Peninsula further delayed drilling today.

6Lockerbie Pan Am air disaster investigators say the explosives that brought down the plane were planted in a radio cassette at Frankfurt Airport in West Germany.

7South African anti-apartheid leaders want no more association with Winnie Mandela as the scandal over her bodyguards grows.

8Thousands of refugees are said to be fleeing Afghanistan amid fears of violent attacks from Mujahideen (Mujahidin) rebels following the Soviet withdrawal.

9Auckland publishers of Salmon Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses are the latest to receive threats over the book. There are also reports that Islamic death squads are en route to the United Kingdom to find and execute Rushdie.

10Analysis of the first Eyewitness News - Heylen poll of 1989, which shows renewed optimism for the economy but no improvement in Prime Minister David Lange's personal popularity.

11Both the Labour and National parties have been in retreats for the past three days. A look at what was discussed at each Caucus followed by a live interview with Prime Minister David Lange.