1The Labour Government has reopened the Bastion Point land issue. Minister of Maori Affairs Koro Wetere met with protest leader Joe Hawke at Parliament today, then announced that the settlement reached by the National Government has been scrapped and the question of returning the land has been reopened.
2It has been suggested that Lake Alice Hospital may be more secure for dangerous psychiatric patients that Oakley Hospital in Auckland.
3Both the Government and private money experts deny reports from the United Kingdom that New Zealand is having difficulty raising loans overseas.
4Papers are being circulated to delegates at next week's economic summit meeting saying the economy is still weak and the current improvement is likely to be only temporary.
5An Auckland lawyer says Police were legally wrong to seize racist pamphlets from the home of Nationalist Workers' Party Owen Bree.
6At least 29 people have been killed in the latest rioting in Black South African townships.
7Canada's Liberal Government is being swept out of office with a shattering defeat at the polls.
8Relief workers in The Philippines have recovered five hundred bodies in the wake of Typhoon Ike. The final death toll is expected to be much higher.
9The floods that killed at least 120 people in Korea and left over 100,000 homeless have put the South Korean Government under pressure for not having taking sufficient preventative measures.
10More than seventy people have received minor injuries following a car bomb in Northern Ireland.
11A Catholic Priest has been found shot dead in Chile during a day of protest against the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.