1Two brothers involved in the torture of an Ashburton AIDS carrier have been jailed for two and a half years.

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

3Hamilton police are still trying to identify the badly beaten and semi-naked body of a man found near a hotel early this morning.

4A plane crash in the Philippines has killed 25 people, including a family of four who were asleep in a house.

5National Party President John Collinge has laid down the law to candidates and MPs about accepting campaign donations. He has also warned against complacency ahead of the election, resulting from the party's huge lad in the polls.

6Auckland bone marrow transplant patient Anna Keegan is responding well and will leave hospital in Paris tonight.

7Romanians will vote this weekend in their first free elections for over fifty years. But while the nation has been preoccupied with politics, little progress has been made in the battle against the major AIDS epidemic.

8Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has finally met face to face with Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimira Prunskiene to discuss Lithuania's Declaration of Independence.

9The Los Angeles home of actor Marlon Brando is the scene of a murder investigation. Brando's son Christian has been arrested and charged with the murder of his sister's boyfriend.

10Rare, one month old White Tiger cubs have made their first public appearance at a Swedish Zoo.

11New Zealand scientists have achieved a world first - test tube lambs.

12The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has picked up sponsorship of cricket from former sponsor Rothmans. However, a bitter argument has erupted over the Health Minister's plans to ban all forms of tobacco sponsorship of sport.

13The leader of the Thai team at this year's Inter Chef Competition has just been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.