1Dr Elizabeth Morgan and her daughter Hillary, at the centre of a bitter custody dispute, were reunited in Christchurch today.

2Australia has imposed a ban on the import of fruit from within an eighty kilometre radius of the property where three Pacific Fruit Flies were discovered last week.

3Striking workers from the Independent Newspaper Group (INL) returned to work today after progress in redundancy talks between Auckland Star workers and their employers.

4A signwriting and screen-printing company, owed more than $300,000 from the failed Sesqui Festival in Wellington, has now gone into receivership.

5A convoy of trucks roared through Hutt valley today to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

6Ten thousand baby salmon were released into the Avon River this morning.

7The Wellington City Council has imposed a night curfew on Air New Zealand's 737-200 planes, with a ban on the jets to be put in place by 1994.

8Pro-Iranian radicals today threatened to kill three American hostages in Beirut and to target airlines carrying Soviet Jews to Israel. The family and friends of American journalist Terry Anderson today marked his fifth year in captivity.

9West Germany has denied sabotaging a Libyan chemicals plant which intelligence experts say was used to make deadly mustard gas.

10Former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos appeared in a New York court today for a preview of her racketeering trial which begins next week.

11Australian aviator Gabrielle ‘Gaby’ Kennard has become the first person to land a seaplane on Lake Eyre.

12Humans are gradually decimating shark populations due to intense fishing.

13Thousands of New Zealanders with Irish roots have been celebrating Saint Patrick's Day today.