1Prison officers will meet in the morning to vote on a recommendation that they call off their ban on accepting new prisoners following crisis talks at Parliament today. Police cells are currently at breaking point and today there were two violent incidents.

2Evidence has emerged that a prison officer phoned Strangeways Prison in Manchester warning of plans for an uprising the night before the riot broke out. The stand-off at Strangeways continues this evening, with a defiant few holding authorities at bay, despite the majority of prisoners giving in.

3The future of Air New Zealand could hinge on a meeting tomorrow between cabin crew and management. Staff have been warned that the airline may be sold if agreement can not be reached over working the new Boeing 747-400 super jets.

4The Government has decided to protect the land formerly earmarked for the Aramoana aluminum smelter. The smelter was to have been the main consumer of power from the Clyde Dam, but the Department of Conservation (DOC) is now being put in charge of the reserve land.

5The Forestry Industry is blaming the Government for the crisis it currently faces which has seen the number of trees planted drastically reduced because of changes to the tax system.

6Rust has been found in a support pier on the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

7Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has assured United States Secretary of State James Baker of a "wise and fair" solution to the Lithuania independence crisis.

8Black Nationalist leader Nelson Mandela is set to meet with South Africa's President FW De Klerk in a few hours time, the first official encounter between the White Government and the African National Congress (ANC).

9British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is facing a revolt within her own Party over a Bill to grant British citizenship to $250,000 Hong Kong residents. China has denounced the nationality plans put forward by Mrs Thatcher and says it will not recognise the passports.

10Eastern Europe's first freely-elected Parliament has sat for the first time in East Germany. Meanwhile, former East German leader Erich Honecker's luxury train is now being used to take West Germans on sightseeing trips.

11Four valuable New Zealand landscape paintings, stolen last weekend from Auckland City Art Gallery, have been returned. However, one is badly damaged.

12Tribute to American jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan, who died of lung cancer today, aged 66.