1For most people, Waitangi Day 1990 was a day of celebration, a magnificent 150th anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi). However, for some it was a day of anger and protest, culminating in confrontations with police, and a flag being thrown at Queen Elizabeth II.

2A Muslim Indian mother and her two children have been killed in a bizarre triple murder in Auckland. Her partner and another child were seriously injured. The attack happened early this morning while the family were sleeping.

3Hutt Valley police have intensified their search for a Wi Tako Prison escapee after a brutal attack on an elderly woman last night.

4New Zealand has been asked to assist in the clean up in Niue and Western Samoa following Cyclone Ofa. Tonga has also taken a battering and there are unconfirmed reports of several deaths.

5Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked the Soviet Communist Party to give up its stranglehold on power and compete on a level platform with the new political parties now emerging in the Soviet Union.

6East Germany's Communist leaders have been forced to make new concessions after being left in the minority for the first time in forty years. Calls for German reunification have been gaining strength on the streets, although some political activists are resurrecting the spectre of Nazism.

7Egyptian police have arrested a Palestinian believed to be one of the gunmen who ambushed a busload of Israeli tourists near Cairo, killing nine people and wounding seventeen more.

8The descendants of a Chief who were at Waitangi when Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) was signed participated fully in today's commemorations and revealed new information about the signing