1Motorbike accidents killed four people on New Zealand roads over the weekend.

2State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Stan Rodger has announced he will not be seeking re-election next year.

3The Nurses' Association has begun a campaign for more health spending today and have warned they will turn health cuts into a major election issue if the Government refuses to change its course.

4Czechoslovakia has a Government without a Communist majority for the first time in 41 years.

5More than 50,000 Bulgarians have demonstrated in Sofia to demand that the Government talk with the Opposition.

6A young man has been beaten to death in a Vietnamese refugee camp in Hong Kong as tension rises over Britain's intention to return the 57,000 boat people forcibly to Vietnam.

7A major conference of South African anti apartheid groups has rejected President FW De Klerk's reform programme and vowed to continue the struggle against racial segregation.

8American researchers say they have made an important breakthrough in the hunt for a vaccine against the AIDS virus.

9China's leader Deng Xiaoping has appealed for better relations with the United States.

10Several hundred passengers arrived back in New Zealand this morning after being stranded in Fiji. However, many other travelers remain in Western Samoa after their Air New Zealand plane developed an oil leak.

11A farming family in the Coromandel is counting on the support of locals to stop Barack Mining's moves to prospect for gold on their land.

12Lion Nathan Corporation and Bond Breweries say they are working on another deal following the collapse of their earlier $2.5 billion agreement.

13Unearthing New Zealand is a special exhibition that opens in Canterbury Museum today. It traces 1000 years of human life in New Zealand.

14American advertising agencies have locked onto the visual symbolism of the Berlin Wall coming down to push their products.

15Art forgery is proving big business in the United States.