1Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur, the two French agents accused of the Rainbow Warrior bombing have pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and wilful damage to the Greenpeace ship. Why were the murder charges against the pair reduced?

2A compulsory conference is to be called on the dispute that has seen New Zealand's trading banks closed for the past week. In the meantime, bank officers agreed to return to work this afternoon.

3The Government has announced it will spend $7.7 million on additional assistance for people living with disabilities.

4National Party President Sue Wood says she will reveal previously secret information about the party's membership and finances.

5The New Zealand Party says New Zealand's Westminster style of democracy is failing because of turmoil within the National Party and Democratic Party ranks.

6Prime Minister David Lange has been quoted in the American magazine Newsweek as saying that New Zealand "would never dream of asking the United States to change its policy of not disclosing whether or not ships were nuclear armed". However, he is also adamant that New Zealand will not change its mind about banning nuclear ships from its ports. Meanwhile, many New York residents are unhappy at the decision to make their city a home port for nuclear ships,

7A young Soviet soldier, who has been holed up in the United States embassy in Afghanistan for three days, is to have a second meeting with Soviet officials tonight. The incident is an unwanted source of friction between the United States and the Soviet Union on the even of United States Secretary of State George Shultz' visit to Moscow for two days of talks.

8The three large American television networks have condemned the South African Government's news blackout, likening the media ban to measures imposed in Communist countries and dictatorships. Meanwhile, one group of South Africans are causing the Government concern - mixed race persons of both Black and White heritage, known as Coloureds.

9United States President Ronald Reagan has ordered an investigation into who leaked details of an American Secret Service plan to engineer the downfall of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

10The demolition of a 21-storey tower block in London did not go quite to plan. Now the Leaning Tower of Pisa has a rival!