1Auckland police have launched a manhunt after the brutal murder of a 25-year old single mother in her home. She had been receiving threatening telephone calls, but authorities had turned down her plea to have her calls monitored.

2Queensland and New South Wales are currently experiencing their worst floods in forty years.

3New Zealand Tonight New Zealand headlines in brief: including; 1. A group of ANZAC veterans are currently en route to Gallipoli for 75th anniversary commemorations. 2. The Labour Department has defended its decision not to allow seven Tongan rugby league players into New Zealand, because they have relatives in New Zealand who are overstayers. 3. An environmental problem caused by deadly asbestos dust has forced the sudden closure of the Henderson Public Library.

4A row has broken out in Wellington over the Area Health Board's decision to use some of its funds to sponsor a sports team.

5The prospect of a metropolitan rates revolt is growing, with increasing numbers of homeowners outraged at skyrocketing Council rates.

6Lithuania has suggested Russian military bases and factories inside Lithuania will suffer if the Soviet Union continues to block oil and gas supplies to the rebellious republic.

7World News Tonight World headlines in brief: including; 1. Hopes for the release of an American hostage being held in Beirut by Islamic Jihad are on hold tonight. 2. A New York court is hearing the details of former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos' exorbitant shopping sprees. 3. Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) is to hold a huge fundraising concert near the Berlin Wall.

8Ken Hom, author of the cookbook East Meets West, gives Belinda Todd some tips in the kitchen.

9Being a working mother is trendy these days, but it can be a weighty proposition. In New York, Babe, a 36-year old elephant, is mirroring the human trend of delaying starting a family.

10Not the Headline News A segment presenting the bizarre, the strange and the obscure: including; 1. Results of a survey of the general knowledge (or lack of) of British school students. 2. Pop star brothers Bros' and their huge American Express bill. 3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie has become the highest grossing independent movie in United States history. 4. A United States Senate sub-committee on crime is considering the Second Amendment (right to bear arms) and asking whether machine guns and grenade launchers are included. 5. A Pennsylvania man bludgeoned his daughter to death, dismembered her body, boiled parts on the kitchen stove, and stuffed her head in the fridge. The local District Attorney mastered the understatement went he simply said the crime was "shocking". 6. A high society wedding scandal in Australia went awry when the groom ran off with the best man. 7. Dr Kildare actor Richard Chamberlain is being reported as having come out as gay.

11The anti-drug campaign DARE is to be made available nationwide in primary schools.