1An Auckland police patrol was shot at twelve times during a chase through suburban streets last night.

2A police search has resumed this morning for a 19 year old woman who has been missing on Auckland's North Shore since Monday.

3The baby abducted by his birth mother yesterday while in the care of the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) has been found by police.

4A newborn baby abducted from an Auckland hospital yesterday afternoon has been found alive and well.

5The Czechs have changed their Government for the third time in two weeks. The new Cabinet line-up eliminates the Communist majority in the Government announced just three days ago.

6Egon Krenz has resigned as the East German Head of State.

7A state of emergency is in force in Manila as Philippines Government forces struggle to quash the six day old revolt.

8A massive truck bomb has exploded in Bogotá, killing at least 31 people. Another judge in Colombia has been assassinated while driving. The drug cartels are believed to have been responsible for both acts.

9Peace talks between the Sudanese Government and rebel forces have collapsed, making more bloodshed inevitable.

10An independent British report into the Lockerbie bombing last December has been released which blames security lapses for the tragedy and warns something similar could happen again if security is not tightened.

11An update on yesterday's item about Freddy the bottlenose dolphin.

12It is a year since a massive earthquake devastated Armenia, killing 25,000 people and leaving half a million homeless as winter closed in. However, survivors face another winter in makeshift shelters due to a continuing row over disputed territory with neighbouring Azerbaijan.

13The Watersiders' Union is threatening to widen the Tauranga Port dispute to other ports in the country.

14Westpac has lifted its lending rate on personal loans, overdrafts and term loans to 15.7% from today. Home lending and farm lending remain untouched.

15The world's fastest train reached speeds of around 500 kilometres per hour yesterday as it sped through France.

16Dunedin police were baffled to find a female motorist en route to Picton from Christchurch, who had somehow ended up near Taieri.

17Thousands of hectares of peat bog land are being stripped in the United Kingdom to supply garden fertilizer, but the destruction is threatening some of Britain's rarest flora and fauna.