1The New Zealand is giving another $250,000 in aid to the people of drought-stricken Ethiopia. Relief workers in Africa say the humanitarian crisis is overwhelming and are pleading for help from Western Governments.

2A record reward of $30,000 is being offered to help in the hunt for the armed robbers who held up a security van in Auckland last Friday. Meanwhile, Police have confirmed that reward money will be paid to the people who assisted in the hunt for the men responsible for the Mangere Bridge Post Office hold up.

3A series of attacks on electrical installations in Hastings has Police concerned that someone may soon be killed.

4Fares on most long-distance trains will rise by up to 6% at the end of the month.

5Former High Court judge and Commissioner of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus disaster, Peter Mahon today delivered a stinging attack against the last National Government and the Privy Council.

6A General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) council meeting in Geneva has broken up today with little progress on the question of butter dumping by the European Community (EEC).

7Five years of oil exploration by the State-owned Petrocorp Group is finally beginning to pay dividends. thanks to oil discovered in Taranaki.

8A Priest who helps to decide the curriculum for New Zealand's 250 Catholic integrated schools has spoken out strongly in favour of the Family Planning Association's controversial sex education kit which is intended as an aid to teachers.

9Corazon Aquino, the widow of murdered Filipino Opposition leader Benigno Aquino, has accused Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos of backing the assassination plot.

10There are reports from Afghanistan that the Soviet army has suffered a crushing defeat while trying to capture a guerrilla stronghold.

11There has been renewed violence in Black townships near Johannesburg, just one day after a Government crackdown involving 7000 soldiers and police.

12A grand jury in New York has indicted eleven leading members of a mafia family on charges ranging from extortion to drug trafficking.