1Police are considering charges following confrontations outside an Auckland court, where two Black Power gang members were being sentenced to prison terms after a fatal car crash last year.

2The widow of Rex Bell, the North Shore motelier gunned down during a robbery in December 1988, has applauded the guilty verdicts delivered to his killers today, and their life sentences.

3East Germans have voted for reunification with West Germany into a single German State.

4Ten elderly residents were lucky to escape a fire at a Sandringham rest home.

5A Mount Eden Prison officer is in a serious condition in Middlemore Hospital after being badly beaten by an inmate.

6Auckland Star management and union leaders are tonight still meeting in an attempt to thrash out an improved redundancy deal for more than 140 employees who are being laid off.

7An investigation into the high number of Wellington babies born with cataracts last winter has now extended to other birth abnormalities in the region.

8Why is there a sudden surge of support in Australia for the Democrats, just days before the election?

9The Government will unveil its long-awaited Economic Package tomorrow. The fate of Telecom will be top of the agenda.

10Today is the day the Soviet Union has threatened to take action against the breakaway Republic of Lithuania. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has flexed the Soviet Union's military muscle with a series of air force maneuvers in Lithuania.

11It was a night for surprises at the 21st BAFTA Awards.