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. The National Party caucus appears to be in complete turmoil, and it is unclear which side is winning and which is losing.

2Controversial new United States Ambassador Della Newman finally presented her credentials to Governor General Sir Paul Reeves today.

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.

4A 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.

5Australian police have withdrawn charges against Aucklander Danny Kingi, the man accused of killing his wife at a Pacific Arts Festival in Townsville last year.

6Christchurch police have charged a 31 year old man with the arson at the Lyndhurst Clinic today, but say he is not aligned with any anti-abortion group. Staff and patients were also evacuated from Epsom Clinic in Auckland today following a bomb threat.

7Disarmament Minister Fran Wilde has condemned France for detonating another nuclear device at Mururoa Atoll.

8Disgraced American television evangelist Jimmy Bakker has been jailed for 45 years and fined half a million dollars for defrauding his followers.

9The Soviet Union has come up with a bold new plan to demilitarise all of Europe by the year 2000.

10The Chairman of the Chatham islands County Council has threated to call in the United Nations (UN) to solve the island's problems of a cash shortfall and the stripping of resources.