1A leading historian claims there may be more than ten Nazi war criminals in hiding in New Zealand.

2Warrants are being sought for the expulsion of almost ninety overstayers - mostly Indian nationals - found in kiwifruit orchards in the Bay of Plenty.

3New Zealand will sign an international agreement to return children caught up in international custody disputes to their home countries when they have been abducted.

4Central Hawkes is gradually returning to normal following Sunday's 6.7 magnitude earthquake. Aftershocks are finally subsiding and services are being restored. Geologists and seismologists are converging in the region to study the cracks caused by the earthquake to see what can be learned from it.

5New Zealand Steel has resumed work at the Maioro iron sands mine, despite a tapu placed on the site by Ngati Te Ata.

6A Christchurch baby is lucky to be alive after a can of fly spray exploded in her bedroom.

7An import binge last year has sent New Zealand's trade account reeling to its largest deficit over s three month period.

8Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has firmly rejected Latvia and Estonia's aspirations for independence.

9The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has claimed responsibility for a bomb that injured seven people in south London today.

10A huge rally through the streets of Paris has united political and religious rivals against anti-Semitism, following repeated incidences of desecration of Jewish cemeteries and anti-Semitic attacks.

11Condemned Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has begun an appeal to the Jerusalem Supreme Court against his conviction and death sentence.

12Freak unseasonal weather is causing havoc across Australia, and taking its toll on Australia's wildlife. Is the perversity of the climatic conditions an early sign of the Greenhouse Effect?