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.

3Police are searching for a young girl after she was seen being dangled over the railings of the Whitiora Bridge in Hamilton yesterday.

4Port companies, Federated Farmers and business leaders have called on the Government to step into the ports dispute.

5Twenty-two race horses have died in two suspicious stable fires in Australia.

6A Methodist Church near Lautoka has been fire bombed in retribution against a group of Fijian Methodists, who today appeared in court charged with firebombing Sikh, Hindu, Hare Krishna and Muslim temples across Fiji.

7Venomous Black Widow Spiders have been found in a consignment of California grapes by a supermarket worker in Hawkes Bay.

8On the eve of the annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Commonwealth Secretary General Sonny Ramphal are split over the likelihood of a boycott of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.

9At the United Nations (UN), Disarmament Minister Fran Wilde has called for endorsement of the Treaty of Rarotonga, establishing a South Pacific nuclear-free zone.

10Up to 120,000 people have demonstrated peacefully in East Germany, calling for democratic reforms.

11Freed South African nationalist Walter Sisulu is proving that 26 years imprisonment have not sapped his fighting spirit.

12Delegates from over 100 countries have provisionally agreed to ban the ivory trade as a way of saving the African elephant from extinction. However. five countries have vowed to continue trading in ivory.

13The Soviet Union has handed over the personal effects of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, more than forty years after he disappeared.