1Tainui elders have stepped in an overruled Ngati Te Ata protesters at the Mairua iron sands mine, forcing the cancellation of a planned picket and an inevitable confrontation with New Zealand Steel employees.

2Two former Goldcorp executives were arrested in an early morning raid in their Auckland homes today.

3The Government believes unemployment has peaked.

4Hamilton police are still trying to identify the badly beaten and semi-naked body of a man found near a hotel early this morning.

5The Ethnic Affairs Counsel is pleading with the Government to release the names of the eight alleged Nazi war criminals suspected to be living in New Zealand, in order to prevent a witch-hunt against former refugees.

6The Labour Court has caused a storm by ordering a company to rehire a cleaner it had made redundant, saying it can not make a worker redundant just to cut costs.

7Television New Zealand (TVNZ) has temporarily removed from their current duties, the team involved in the production of the recent Frontline programme For The Public Good which examined the links between the Labour Government and big business.

8Sky Television has begun charging for its satellite service today.

9Romanians will vote this weekend in their first free elections for over fifty years but violence and voter fraud threaten the elections. The former Romanian Security Police are learning a new form of policing, more in line with Romania's push for democracy.

10Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has finally met face to face with Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimira Prunskiene to discuss Lithuania's Declaration of Independence. Analysis of the meeting.

11New York City is launching a campaign to make New Yorkers behave more kindly towards each other and tourists.