1An eighteen year old Timaru man has become the first New Zealander to be convicted of killing an unborn baby.

2Laws are to be changed within a fortnight to allow traffic officers to pursue offenders onto private property and breath test them. However, some MPs are concerned officers may abuse their new powers.

3Former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon has undergone a second operation in Greenlane Hospital.

4A secret witness has testified that murdered cricket umpire Peter Plumley-Walker was alive when he was thrown over the Huka Falls.

5The wife and son of convicted fraudster Milton Harris have admitted they were part of the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company of millions of dollars.

6Czechoslovakia's Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec has resigned during efforts to form a new Government acceptable to the pro-democracy movement.

7The East German Government and Opposition groups sat down together for unprecedented talks today and a re recommending free elections be held in May 1990.

8Lithuania has voted to abolish one-party Communist rule in open defiance of both the Kremlin and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet Republic of Estonia says it will do the same.

9The fifth deadline for the proposed brewing deal between Lion Nathan and the Bond empire has passed. Interview with an Australian business analyst.

10Anti apartheid groups in South Africa are planning the largest protest gathering seen since the 1950s to increase pressure on the Government for political reform. The key prop for the Government has been the Black Homeland system, where Black groups are confined to designated areas with nominal independence. Of these, Transkei is one of the most important. However the leaders of Transkei have challenged the very tenets of apartheid and have been endorsed by the African National Congress (ANC).