1The Government may be forced to return ancestral Maori burial grounds to Ngati Te Ata to prevent the shutdown of the New Zealand Steel mill at Glenbrook. The iwi say if the burial grounds are not returned, they will seek a High Court injunction to close the mill indefinitely.

2Two climbers in the New Zealand expedition on Mount Everest are suffering from snow blindness.

3The Children's Commissioner says the new Young Persons law has created concerns that youth offenders are untouchable by police or the courts.

4New Zealand men are set to pay higher life insurance premiums because of the number of men dying from AIDS.

5The Japanese-funded International Pacific College has opened a tertiary college near Palmerston North.

6The New Labour Party (NLP) has unveiled a job creation scheme worth $800 million which would be paid for by additional taxes on the wealthy.

7Dunedin police are concerned they may have a gang war on their hands following yet another gang confrontation in the city today.

8Alarm is spreading among Black South Africans after a series of unprovoked attacks by extremist White vigilante groups.

9A KGB commander has confirmed a fifth man operated in Britain's notorious spy ring which passed secrets on to the Soviet Union for up to thirty years.

10New Zealand liver transplant patient Tui Slater has returned home to a jubilant reception.

11A long-standing two-child policy in Singapore has resulted in an acute shortage of labour that is now threatening the country's economic growth.