1Heavy overnight rain in Canterbury and Otago has isolated several rural communities and blocked roads in and out of Oamaru and Timaru. One man is missing, presumed drowned.

2Despite the inclement weather, up to 15,000 people are expected to gather at the Christchurch Town hall this afternoon for the biggest protests thus far about the plight of the farming community.

3Voters in Spain have voted to remain a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

4An all-party committee of British MPs has savagely criticised the giant Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant following two leaks from the plant so far this year.

5The British press is becoming increasingly excited at rumours of an imminent engagement between Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

6Twelve hundred Black workers are staging an underground sit-in at a gold mine in South Africa.

7An international survey of teenagers' mathematics skills has shown that Americans lag behind teenagers in other countries. There is so much concern about American educational standards, that Texas teachers are being forced to sit their own exam.

8A brief listing of the New Zealand headlines.

9Race Relations A discussion of the state of race relations in New Zealand with the new Race Relations Conciliator Wally Hirsch.

10A brief listing of the New Zealand and international headlines.

11Race Relations A discussion of the state of race relations in New Zealand with the new Race Relations Conciliator Wally Hirsch.

12Heavy overnight rain in Canterbury and Otago has isolated several rural communities and blocked roads in and out of Oamaru and Timaru. One man is missing, presumed drowned.

13Two Iraqi students, expelled from France, and now in prison in Iraq, are to pardoned and returned to France. This is hoped to satisfy an Islamic guerrilla group holding a number of French hostages in Beirut. This hostage crisis has become the biggest issue of the upcoming French election.

14Voters in Spain have voted to remain a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO

15The operation to recover the crew compartment of the space shuttle Challenger from the sea floor of f the Florida coast is said to be progressing well.

16The British Government has been warned that the nation could face the same drugs nightmare as the United States within five years, unless immediate action is taken to change the law to allow banks to report drug dealers before they can launder their profits.

17'Junk mail', such as pamphlets advertising sales and coupons, have become a multi-million dollar business in the United States - an illegal business - with giant corporations being clipped by their own coupons.