1Scores of people have been injured and hundreds arrested in London after rioting broke out during a protest against the Government's controversial poll tax.

2A young man has died after a stabbing in a Wellington house this afternoon.

3Prison staff will strike tomorrow to protest a cut in their superannuation packages.

4British police have identified the man whose dismembered body was found near Newport in Wales last week. He was a New Zealander called William Tully.

5Two teenagers have been killed in a house fire in West Auckland.

6The Pukekohe Racecourse was the scene of a near-fatal crash today when an out-of-control Mazda RX7 plowed into a race steward.

7Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela has called off talks due to begin later this month with the South African Government. He says he will not meet until violence has ceased.

8A whole raft of new laws come into force today. One of them means people currently under the age of 45 will receive less State superannuation when they retire. However, few of the people who will be affected know much about it.

9A young parachutist has survived an hour-long ordeal tangled in the tree tops.

10A Christchurch woman faces consequences for turning her city home into a hobby farm.

11American researchers have found a substance that appears to be a very effective male contraceptive. However, pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to pursue the research any further.

12Did space junk really plummet into Okahu Bay in Auckland overnight? Or was it just an elaborate April Fool's Day hoax?