1The search for the light plane missing in the central North Island since Wednesday has now been called off.

2West Auckland Police are investigating an attack on the Kelston home of convicted rapist Henare Dewes. Dewes was recently released from prison because he is dying of cancer.

3There has been more Meatworkers' Union action against its own members at Southland's Ocean Beach Freezing Works following the alleged misuse of up to $250,000 of the union's strike fund there.

4Major problems in the coal industry have been revealed in a briefing prepared for the Minister of Energy Bob Tizard. State owned coal companies are making a significant loss,

5One of the design engineers for the Marsden B power station today dismissed a plan to fire it with coal.

6A United States Air Force plane carrying Vice President George Bush had to dive sixty metres to avoid a small plane crossing its flight path as it came into land at Seattle.

7The American State Department has just released details of an incident that could have led to full-scale war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It occurred on August 15th, shortly after President Ronald Reagan joked that he planned to outlaw and bomb Russia.

8The South African Government has made no comment regarding the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to outspoken opponent of apartheid, Bishop Desmond Tutu.

9The Irish Republican Army (IRA) warned today that there is to be a new terror campaign on the British mainland following last week's bombing of the Conservative Party conference hotel in Brighton.

10Police in Sicily have warned doctors and hospitals to watch out for patients with gunshot woulds after a Mafia massacre in which eight people were killed.

11Fire has raced through a New Jersey hotel, killing at least fifteen people and injuring about fifty-five others.

12Nigeria has become the first member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce its oil prices in the face of falling demand and a growing stockpile of surplus oil.

13One of the design engineers for the Marsden B power station today dismissed a plan to fire it with coal.

14The locally elected Tahitian Government has called for a referendum on the French nuclear testing programme at Mururoa Atoll.

15Three of the New Zealand women who joined a special peace protest at Greenham Common in England last month have now returned home.

16A Christchurch veterinarian may face disciplinary action from The Veterinary Association for advertising his surgery and fees.

17The children of the tiny Maori settlement of Ranana, Jerusalem and Matahiwi are being granted the opportunity to embark on an overseas trip to Fiji.

18More than half of Canterbury's sheep farms are infected with the wasting disease Paratuberculosis or Johne's (Yonis) Disease that has threatened the export of live sheep and could damage the expanding deer industry.

19At least a million New Zealand muttonbirds (Sooty Shearwater);are on the last leg of their annual migration.

20Scientists in Africa have found the most complete skeleton ever of homo erectus, man''s earliest ancestor.

21Police have used tear gas to subdue an offender armed with a bow and arrow who had barricaded himself in a house in Wellington this evening.