1Share markets around the world have recovered much of the ground lost in Friday's crisis on Wall Street.

2A former financial controller of collapsed bank Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has accused directors of signing the company's annual report, knowing that figures were wrong.

3Port companies, Federated Farmers and business leaders have called on the Government to step into the ports dispute.

4Venomous Black Widow Spiders have been found in a consignment of California grapes by a supermarket worker in Hawkes Bay.

5Delegates from over 100 countries have provisionally agreed to ban the ivory trade as a way of saving the African elephant from extinction.

6Israeli police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse around 100 Palestinian students who were harassing a group of Jewish zealots.

7The Soviet Union has handed over the personal effects of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, more than forty years after he disappeared.

8Since becoming Prime Minister two months ago, Geoffrey Palmer has been delicately stepping through the ANZUS minefield. At the same time, the United States has been cautiously moving towards a thawing in the relationship between themselves and New Zealand. How significant are recent signs of improvements in the relationship?

9Former United States First Lady Nancy Reagan has revealed she used the services of Californian astrologist Joan Quigley during the Reagan Presidency. Interview with Quigley about how her predictions influenced the decision-making of the Reagan Administration.