1The people of southern Hawkes Bay are struggling to deal with aftershocks as well as the clean-up from the 6.7 magnitude earthquake yesterday, New Zealand's worst quake in 22 years.

2Murray's Bay Intermediate School has been set on fire for the second time this year.

3The Government decide today that it will cut off the subsidies for sea and air services to the Chatham Islands. It will also grant the islanders more control over their own economic future.

4Small amounts of dioxins have been found in a range of personal hygiene products tested by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), but the Department of Health says the levels are safe.

5United Building Society (UBS) is to merge with the State Bank of South Australia. It will also apply for a license to become a trading bank.

6South African President FW De Klerk is continuing with his European tour, trying to persuade European leaders that his Government has unequivocally ended apartheid and are deserving of economic support from Europe.

7The killing of Chinese university students during pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square last year, has been commemorated by university students in Moscow, who have drawn parallels between the lack of democracy in China and the Soviet Union.

8Romanians will next week vote for their first feely-elected Government in fifty years. However, the main opposition party claims it has been harassed during the campaign by the interim Governmnet, the National Salvation Front.

9Seismologists are examining the links between the earthquake that struck Dannevirke three months ago and yesterday's quake. Do the public have the right to know all the information, or could releasing information cause panic?