1Cabinet has rejected an offer of resignation by Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere over the Maori Affairs loans scandal, and has affirmed full confidence in him.

2The New Zealand Government will give $100,000 to cyclone battered Vanuatu, where around 3000 people have been left homeless by Cyclone Uma. The death toll in the cyclone has now reached four.

3Islamic Jihad says Israel must release 400 Palestinian Muslim prisoners by tomorrow, or they will execute the four Western hostages they are holding captive.

4A radical Protestant group called the Ulster Freedom Fighters has claimed responsibility for planting eighteen bombs that exploded in the Irish Republic today as a protest over the Anglo Irish Agreement. Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, the head of the Catholic Church has called for an end to the feud within the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)

5Two Soviet astronauts have docked with a space station and are preparing for what my become a record breaking stay in space.

6Headline News 1, Comalco tells Government to honour its contracts 2. Andy Narain loses appeal against extradition 3. Auckland Acclimatisation Society says it cannot destroy all released undesirable fish

7Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband Prince Henrik arrived in Auckland tonight to begin a five-day State visit.

8Cabinet has rejected an offer of resignation by Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere over the Maori Affairs loans scandal, and has affirmed full confidence in him.Interview with Opposition MP Winston Peters, who has been dogmatic in his determination to get to the bottom of the Maori loans affair.

9Cabinet has rejected an offer of resignation by Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere over the Maori Affairs loans scandal, and has affirmed full confidence in him. A look at the political implications of the loans affair and how Maoridom now faces up to economic self-sufficiency. Analysis of the effect the Maori loans affair and other recent news items regarding Maoridom have had on race relations in New Zealand.

10Worldwatch Islamic Jihad says Israel must release 400 Palestinian Muslim prisoners by tomorrow, or they will execute the four Western hostages they are holding captive.

11Worldwatch Soviet Foreign MInister Andrei Gromyko went to a Moscow supermarket today, where he faced a barrage of complaints from shoppers fed up with high prices and commodity shortages. At one time, expressing dissatisfaction in the public arena would have been extremely risky, but it is now encouraged by the Kremlin under the policy of Glasnost, as the Soviet Union tries to convince the United States that a new era of openness is underway in the Soviet Union.

12Worldwatch It has now been a year since a populist revolution in Haiti ousted the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc). However, the mood of the Haitian people is one of depression, dissolution and fear that another coup may be imminent.

13Worldwatch In the United States a legal precedent has been created by the case of Mary Beth Whitehead, a surrogate mother who refused to give the child (Baby M) up. Now a fight for custody is underway in New Jersey.

14Worldwatch The AIDS scare has prompted debate in the United States about whether to offer information about condoms in schools and on television..The Reverend Carl Titchener, a Unitarian minister, has gone a step further, by dispensing condoms during his church services in New York. However he has encountered opposition, particularly from the Catholics.

15A report on a weekend conference of child inventors.

16American journalist Bill Blakemore has taken pot-shots at the way Australians speak.