1The pilot of a helicopter which crashed in rugged country in the eastern Bay of Plenty has been taken to Whakatane Hospital.

2A seventeen year old woman was gashed in the back when an axe was thrown at her in Auckland early this morning.

3Auckland Police are investigating two petrol bomb attacks overnight.

4A strong typhoon is threatening the Philippines.

5Landslides and floods have killed at least 39 people in South Korea and left ten thousand homeless.

6The new American space shuttle Discovery has successfully put all three of its communication satellites into orbit.

7A thirty year old Frenchman has become the first person to parachute from the summit of the Matterhorn in Switzerland.