1Two Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Skyhawks collided in midair over Manawatu today. One pilot was killed but the other successfully landed his aircraft.

2Deputy Opposition leader Don McKinnon has attacked National Party MPs who he claims are hurting the party with "whispering campaigns" and challenged those who would be leader to "put up or shut up".

3Air New Zealand shares traded on the stock exchange for the first time today and immediately became a sharemarket high flyer.

4The owner of Australia's Channel Seven, media mogul Christopher Skase, is desperately trying to save his crumbling empire, just days after Channel Nine owner Alan Bond announced a billion dollar loss for the Bond Corporation.

5Auckland Catholics want the Church to relax its attitudes towards divorcees and there is strong support for women and married men entering the priesthood. Report from the three-day Synod.

6Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer has assured New Zealanders that there will be no boycott of the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games.

7Hungarian President Mátyás Szűrös has declared his country is no longer a Communist State, but a Republic "dedicated to the values of bourgeois democracy and democratic socialism". Today marks the anniversary of the 1956 uprising, which was brutally crushed by Soviet forces.

8Thousands of East Germans have taken to the streets demanding free elections and major political concessions. The resignation of hardline Communist leader Erich Honecker last week has only fueled the drive for reform.

9Five days after three powerful earthquakes destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Northern China, most still remain homeless. The Chinese Government does not appear to be interested in their plight.

10A dog named Sue has been employed in the fight to save the endangered Kakapo on Little Barrier Island.