1The campaign to stop fluoride going into household water supplies is gathering momentum. The Hastings District Council decided on the issue last night and tomorrow the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) will consider the issue.

2The offer of a free ship to transport relief supplies to the hurricane-battered Pacific Islands is being stymied by the Government.

3Health officials have taken samples of building materials from a Christchurch home where high levels of the toxic gas formaldehyde have been detected.

4New Zealand's first Labour Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage was remembered today on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

5The man accused of setting fire to a New York nightclub has been charged with 87 counts of murder.

6Twenty people have died in a new wave of protests sweeping Black communities across South Africa.

7The Irish Republican Army [IRA] in Northern Ireland have adopted new tactics - using up to a tonne of high explosions at one time to target security forces.

8Tension between the Soviet Union and the rebel state of Lithuania reached a dangerous stage today, with visiting United States Senator Edward Kennedy (aka Ted Kennedy) reporting that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has not entirely ruled out using force against Lithuania.

9United States President George Bush was nowhere to be seen when a shipment of broccoli arrived at the White House today.

10Former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon says he has recovered sufficiently from heart surgery to be looking forward to the next election campaign.

11The 62nd Academy Awards (Oscars) were held today. A live report.

12An elderly couple have tied the knot in Rotorua.