1Police are searching the outskirts of Featherston for Maori justice campaigner Francis Shaw, who escaped from custody while on temporary release from prison to attend a tangi.

2Social Welfare Minister Dr Michael Cullen is demanding answers from his department about the fatal stabbing of a five year old West Auckland girl by her mother, who was known to the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and mental health authorities.

3Finance Minister David Caygill says there was no Government guarantee - either explicit or implied - to back the merchant bank Development Finance Corporation (DFC) despite claims to the contrary by international ratings agency Standard and Poors.

4The threatened Government crackdown on political dissent has not stopped the swelling pro-democracy protests in East Germany.

5Fourteen new television channels, one in each of the main centres, will be up for sale later this year as part of broadcasting deregulation which will bring ultra-high frequency (UHF) television into New Zealand homes for the first time.

6The long-promised Bill of Rights has been introduced into Parliament by its architect, Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer. However it is a much watered-down version from the original and the Opposition says it is a Clayton's Bill.

7Tomorrow's Schools has been in action for just one week, but already an Auckland principal has been forced to resign because his Board of Trustees does not want him. The long-running dispute has racial overtones and there are concerns it may set a dangerous precedent.

8The Crown has acknowledged that Ngai Tahu were given a raw deal in vast amounts of their South Island land sales.

9The All Blacks are causing controversy in the United Kingdom ahead of their rugby tour, because of the money some of them are being paid to make personal appearances.

10Views over the Grand Canyon are rapidly disappearing as a result of air pollution caused by increasing industrial development.

11British royalty has been rocked by the revelation that Marina Ogilvy, 24th in line to the throne, is pregnant and refusing to marry her baby's father.