1A special unit is hunting the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists responsible for killing to Australian tourists sightseeing in The Netherlands.

2Education Minister Phil Goff has announced an additional 18,000 places will be made available at Polytechnics for teenagers who will no longer be eligible for the unemployment benefit (dole) under the Government's new employment policy.

3Trade Minister Mike Moore has called the European Community's trade policies "selfish" and a major contributor to famine in the Third World.

4Northland police are trying to compose a picture of a dead man's face for identification purposes. His decomposed body was found last week and he is thought to have died a year ago. The case has highlighted the surprisingly large number of people who disappear in New Zealand each year.

5The New Zealand Fire Service is to recall and modify $6 million worth of suits which fire fighters have condemned as unsafe.

6Pencarrow MP Sonia Davies has been admitted to hospital for a shoulder operation after breaking it in a fall last week.

7Christchurch Women's Hospital has been reprimanded over one of its policies on sterilization which required a married woman to obtain her husband's consent for the procedure.

8The Avondale Jockey Club has cancelled all further race meetings, and has an uncertain future.

9Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's main political opponent, Boris Yeltsin has been elected President of the Russian Federation. This is yet another blow for the Soviet leader, who is facing unprecedented social and economic problems at home, overshadowing his impending talks with United States President George Bush.

10The military rulers of Burma have conceded defeat in the country's first multi-party elections in thirty years, but the people of Burma are still unsure whether the military will hand over power.