1The Air New Zealand dispute over crewing the new 747 jumbo jets is heading for a showdown. Cabin crew have agreed to work on the planes, but pilots have held out beyond the negotiation deadline.

2Relatives of Larry Mills, who mysteriously disappeared in Queenstown, have joined in the police search for him.

3The holiday road toll concerns officials. Seven people have died on the roads on the first day of the Easter weekend.

4A group of Wellington women are on a crusade to have their suburb declared a pornography-free zone, and are trying to eradicate it from all shops and video outlets.

5Starkist, the world's largest tuna canning company, say it will no longer buy Yellowfin Tuna caught in Wall of Death driftnets, which also trap and kill dolphins.

6The Soviet Union has admitted for the first time that its country's secret police massacred fifteen thousand Polish officers at Katyn during the Second World War.

7Britain and Iraq are at loggerheads again over a series of steel castings seized at an English port. Are they simply pipes, or components of artillery?

8Easter pilgrims have been caught up in a violent demonstration in Jerusalem.

9The Conservative Party in Britain is hoping to gain the support of 2.5 million expatriate Brits ahead of the next general election, by changing the voting laws to allow them and their children to vote.