1More than 130 people were killed in an aircrash in Texas today. The plane, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, was Flight 191 from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas and it crashed onto a highway on approach to to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
2Matamata dairy farmer John Galvin has been elected the new leader of the New Zealand Party, defeating current Acting Party President Earle Thompson for the leadership position.
3The Sweat Equity Scheme, a new scheme to help low income families move into their own homes,was launched by the Government in Hamilton today.
4The Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) latest quarterly survey suggests that business activity has peaked is about to go into a decline.
5Two Soviet cosmonauts went on a five-hour space walk today to perform maintenance on the Salyut space station. Meanwhile, conditions on board the United States space shuttle has improved with nine of the ten planned experiments now running smoothly.