1The hunt for bodies continues tonight in the rubble of the United States Embassy in Beirut which was demolished by a car bomber. So far, the number of dead stands at twenty-three, with sixty wounded and twenty people still missing. Little is known about the terrorist group claiming responsibility, but the anonymous caller from Islamic Jihad promised such attacks would continue until America had left Lebanon.

2The Israeli says Israel-backed militia in south Lebanon have attacked a small village, killing twelve and insuring at least twenty, in an revenge attack following the death of four comrades.

3The Ministry of Works is using "unusual accounting" methods to keep the Clyde Dam project within budget.

4Three people died and one was injured when a car plunged eighty metres from the road into the Conway River in North Canterbury this afternoon.

5The Government has asked private mining companies to make proposals for supplying 200,000 tonnes of coal a year.

6Government claims that New Zealand could adequately defend itself against invasion have been challenged by defence experts.

7The Department of Labour has lodged prosecutions against the Meat Workers' Union in five courts.

8A public debate on the decriminalisation of marijuana is being organised by Auckland's new Criminal Bar Association.

9The exchange of political abuse in Australia has not abated, despite Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's emotional breakdown yesterday.

10Disgraced race horse trainer Hayden Haitana has been released on $14,000 bail today.

11Sydney Police have arrested twenty people in connection with a gang shooting outside a tavern which killed six bikies and a bystander three weeks ago.

12Argentina's President Raúl Alfonsín has been given a report which shows that 8,961 people are known to have disappeared forever in repression by the former military regime.

13The New Zealand Party opened its second conference for the year today, ruling out any possibility of an amalgamation with the National Party.

14A look at some of the banned items prisoners at Paremoremo Maximum Security Prison have made and had confiscated from them by prison officers.

15A Yugoslavian doctors says he has found a potential cure for rheumatoid arthritis.

16A new idea for fighting frosts in orchards is proving a success in the Waitaki Valley.

17A dentist in the United States has developed a form if identification on the tooth using a micro-information disc.