1The Commonwealth Games Organisation has condemned last night's One Network News and Eyewitness News reports linking Games Chairman David Johnson to a police investigation into fraud at two companies he is linked to.

2Air New Zealand has announced it will return to talks with its pilots over their award, but will not elaborate further. This may prevent a planned service disruption later this week.

3A new survey has shown that the number of young women taking up smoking is climbing.

4Batsman Mark Greatbatch rescued New Zealand from disaster in the cricket test against Australia.

5A new prayer book released last night by the Anglican Church has raised the ire of the New Zealand Jewish Council because all references to Israel and Zion have been removed from prayers and psalms.

6One of the world's most feared terrorists, Fatah founder Abu Nidal, is in a Libyan hospital with terminal cancer.

7Lebanese Christian commander General Joseph Aoun has been informally fired after refusing to accept the appointment of the country's new President, Ilyas al-Harawi ( aka Elias Hrawi).

8The Czechoslovakian Government has bowed to pro-democracy pressure and agreed to share power with non-Communists.

9The small, portable machines which give an instant reading of cholesterol levels have been revealed to have an alarming potential for inaccurate results and carry a risk of infection.

10Japan is refusing to outlaw its drift net fishing (Wall of Death) practices in the South Pacific, but the United States looks likely to support a Convention banning drift netting in the region.

11In the United States, surgeons have managed to save the life of a baby girl by transplanting the left lobe of her mother's liver into the baby.

12Singer Gene Pitney's career is undergoing a renaissance, twenty years after he became a household name.