1The leader of the Opposition, Sir Robert Muldoon, believes the National Party can become the Government again at the next general election provided it is led by the right person. He has refused to rule out the possibility of standing for the leadership of the party again.

2Food aid is being rushed to Ethiopia by sea and air in a desperate attempt to prevent mass starvation there. However relief agencies say it is a classic case of the West waking up too late to a Third World tragedy. However, one shipment from the United Kingdom to Ethiopia has caused outrage - it contains half a million bottles of whiskey to help the Ethiopian Government celebrate ten years of Marxist rule.

3The Irish Government has ordered the extradition to Australia of Robert Trimbole, the man thought to be one of the leaders of the Mr Asia drug ring.

4An Italian judge says the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981 involved two gunmen, and he has indited four Bulgarians and three Turks on charges of complicity in the plot.

5A man and a pregnant women were killed when a helicopter crashed in Sydney today. The helicopter was ferrying the woman to hospital after she had been critically injured in a car accident.

6Doctors in California have transplanted the heart of a young baboon into the chest of a fourteen-day old baby.

7Air New Zealand's former chief executive Morrie Davis has repeated earlier denials of any cover-up by the airline during the Erebus Royal Commission. His comments come in the wake of allegations made by Peter Mahon in his new book 'Verdict on Erebus'.

8Minister of Health Dr Michael Bassett sees no prospect of the Government making an early change in the marijuana laws.

9A new Ministry of Women's Affairs took to the road today with the first of a series of open forums aimed at gauging women's opinions and bringing more women into the decision making process.

10There is an unprecedented demand for New Zealand art in New York, possibly as a result of the recent Te Maori exhibition.