1Three former Goldcorp directors have appeared in the Auckland District Court charged with misleading investors.
2South African police have been unable to quell a racial war in the mining town of Trabong.
3Work has resumed at New Zealand Steel's Maioro iron sand mine near Waiuku following a decision by the Government and Ngati Te Ata elders to discuss ancient burial sites.
4Twenty Palestinians are dead and almost 800 wounded following two days of rioting in Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Territories. The latest violence was sparked by a deranged Israeli gunman.
5Religious tensions in Kashmir are pushing India and Pakistan closer to war.
6Romanian President Ion Iliescu has vowed to put his impoverished nation into the ranks of the world's most advanced countries by the end of the decade.
7The Soviet Parliament has just awarded Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev a 160% pay increase. It also passed new laws making it illegal to insult or slander the President.
8An Auckland pizza retailer has opted for bright luminescent green paint for its delivery fleet.