1Tauranga MP Winston Peters has hit out at the National Party's national executive, which today passed a resolution supporting Opposition leader Jim Bolger and endorsing Peters' demotion. Opposition leader Jim Bolger is trying to turn MPs' attention away from internal leadership squabbles within the National Party, and towards a successful election campaign in 1990.

2A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Court of Inquiry has convened to investigate yesterday's fatal collision between two Skyhawks in the Kiwi Red aerobatics team.

3In the biggest asset sale to date, the Government has today begun asking for bids for the long-term lease and logging rights of half a million hectares of State forests.

4Australian police have withdrawn charges against Aucklander Danny Kingi, the man accused of killing his wife at a Pacific Arts Festival in Townsville last year.

5Radical anti-abortionists have been blamed for trouble at two abortion clinics today. Staff and patients were evacuated from Epsom Clinic in Auckland following a bomb threat, while the Lyndhurst Clinic in Christchurch was badly damaged in an arson attack.

6Disgraced American television evangelist Jimmy Bakker has been jailed for 45 years and fined half a million dollars for defrauding his followers.

7France has detonated another nuclear device at Mururoa Atoll.

8The Soviet Union has come up with a bold new plan to demilitarise all of Europe by the year 2000.

9The East German Government has decided it will let its citizens travel abroad.

10The international credit agency Standard and Poors has downgraded Australia's rating for long-term debt from AA+ to AA.

11Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor appeared in court today to be sentenced for slapping a police officer, where she was ordered to reveal her real age.