1Police have mounted a full-scale operation to find the men who shot a father and his baby daughter during a Post Office robbery in Mangere Bridge last night. Meanwhile this morning, the Churchill Post Office in Manurewa was also the victim of an armed robbery.

2France has reportedly decided to continue nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll for at least the next fifteen years, leaving New Zealand politicians stunned and dismayed.

3The triad '84 exercises involve dozens of air battles, however these need to be conducted without interfering with regular domestic and international flights. For this reason, the United States has brought a $300 million E3A airborne warning and control system to Christchurch.

4A Christchurch man has just climbed Mount Everest using a new route up the north face of the mountain.

5Prime Minister David Lange is currently in Singapore where he was scheduled to have talks with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew regarding the continued stationing of New Zealand troops in Singapore. He earlier flew out of New Delhi, where his visit was warmly hailed as a success.

6The statements of Tommaso Buscetta, an important figure within the Mafia, have led to scores of arrests throughout Italy and the United States.

7Unemployment in Britain has now jumped to 13.6% of the workforce, representing over three million people out of work. This is placing pressure of the Conservative Government to shift their focus from bringing down inflation, to creating employment opportunities.

8An update on a story from earlier in the week about a Canadian environment disaster in which thousands of caribou were killed. The unpleasant clean-up exercise has begun along the Caniapiscau River while the investigation into the cause of the disaster remains underway.

9The last of thirty containers of radioactive material has been recovered from the French freighter Mont Louis, which sank off the coast of Belgium in August.

10The Railways' efforts to sell its surplus rail ferries Aramoana and Aranui appear to have finally paid out.

11The Ministry of Transport (MOT) is upset that several people facing traffic charges escaped prosecution in Christchurch when District Court Judge Bradford dismissed the charges without hearing any evidence.

12A Mongrel Mob chapter on the Kapiti Coast is receiving praise from welfare groups and Government agencies as they work to further their careers as farmers.

13The report into the one-man Board of Inquiry into the Picton railway roster dispute has come down heavily against the Railways Corporation.

14The Customs Department has admitted that one of its procedures at Auckland Airport is outdated and unnecessary. Trophies won overseas must be valued by a collector to determine the duty payable on them, however this often means disturbing the collector after hours.

15There have been further revelations in a Melbourne Court this week about the viciousness of the death of New Zealand drugs boss Terry Clarke. Meanwhile, controversy surrounds the future of his as yet unfinished million dollar home in the Bay of Islands.

16An Auckland Regional Authority (ARA) bus has been modified to run on a brand new product to replace diesel. The product is made in New Zealand by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) and is called Dieselnol.

17The body of an iron age man who met a violent death in about 500BC is under close investigation at the British Museum in London after being found well-preserved in Cheshire.