1The All Black squad to tour South Africa has been announced.

2The Air Force (RNZAF) is to hold a Court of Inquiry into the crash of a Strikemaster jet near Kaikoura.

3The Government has announced proposed legislation to protect consumers. The Fair Trading Bill aims to make consumer information compulsory and the New Products Safety Bill would provide minimum safety standards for new products.

4Talks are continuing in Australia to try to resolve a strike at Sydney Airport that has left travellers stranded in both Australia and New Zealand.

5Workers at Chelsea, New Zealand's only sugar refinery are to continue their strike until at least next week. The scarcity of sugar is now affecting the production of other products, such as beer, ice cream and lollies.

6More than 2,300 people attended an address by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon at Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre.

7New Zealand Police will present their case to the Wellington District Court next Monday for the extradition of former Labour MP John Kirk.

8United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev are to meet in Geneva for a summit conference in November.

9Israel has released about 300 Lebanese prisoners, most of them Shi'ite Muslims.

10Syria has agreed to try to negotiate the release of 12 international hostages still being held prisoner in Lebanon. Meanwhile, United States President Ronald Reagan welcomed home thirty of the TWA hostages who were held in Beirut for 17 days.

11Two people have been killed in bush fires currently raging through a suburban area of Los Angeles. At least 1000 homes have been evacuated and at east forty homes destroyed.

12A rocket has blasted off from French Guyana, carrying Europe's space probe Giotto to a meeting with Halley's Comet.

13The All Black squad to tour South Africa has been announced. Can these thirty men achieve the seemingly impossible - a series win against the Springboks on South African soil?

14The signing of the Lancaster House Agreement ending Zimbabwe's civil war in 1979 introduced majority rule to the country's electoral system. Now, five years later, Zimbabwe is in the throes of its first general election. Despite being an exercise in democracy, the election could be a step towards a one-party State in Zimbabwe, an outcome desired by President Robert Mugabe.