1Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) officials have failed to find any more signs of Pacific Fruit Flies near the original site in Otahuhu.

2Anti-apartheid group Halt All Racist Tours (HART) are protesting against TV3's screening of the mini-series Shaka Zulu, claiming the channel is breaching cultural boycotts imposed on South Africa and that the series itself is inaccurate.

3A 12-year old boy is critically ill after a hit and run accident in Lower Hutt yesterday.

4Dr Elizabeth Morgan and her daughter Hillary, at the centre of a bitter custody dispute, spent time together in Christchurch today.

5The Southern Cross replica plane flew from Blenheim to Christchurch today.

6Around 80,000 people participated in the annual Round the Bays run in Auckland today.

7For the first time, there has been a serious bomb attack on the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on American soil.

8Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has sent Lithuania an ultimatum, telling them to withdraw demands for independence or face the consequences.

9East Germans are about to cast their first free vote in forty years. Most East Germans support reunification with the West. Meanwhile, the Queen Mother has visited Berlin. By the end of this year, Berlin is expected to again be the capital of a united Germany. But pressure is growing on the Western Allies to yield some of the rights they assumed after the Second World War.

10A sneak peek at the autumn/winter fashion collections from the Paris catwalks.