1Invercargill Airport is flooded and closed to all flights, after stopbanks burst today.

2New Zealand cult leader Andy Narain is expected to be flown back to New Zealand from Australia next week, after his appeal against deportation was refused.

3Harbour Board workers will strike in support of a 7% wage claim, for 24 hours from midnight on Sunday, bringing all of New Zealand's ports to a standstill.

4Transport Minister Richard Prebble today unveiled a plan to change the way New Zealand's ports are administered. Under the proposal, ports will be run as private companies.

5Salvage experts are progressing well with their preparations to refloat the sunken Channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise. However, divers have now abandoned any further attempts to recover bodies from the wreck until it is righted, as it is becoming too dangerous.

6The British Government has failed to stop former Secret Service MI5 agent Peter Wright from publishing his memoirs.

7Headline News 1. The Government is establishing a $20 million fund to assist exporters to invest in research, exhibitions at trade fairs and travel to explore new markets. 2. An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale struck the West Coast of the South Island today. 3. A north Waikato farm, which has become a symbol of the economic plight of farmers, failed to attract even one bid at a mortgagee sale in Hamilton today.

8Finance Minister Roger Douglas is confident that he will be able to bring the deficit down to his predicted $2.9 billion by the end of the financial year. The Government's financial policies have received support from Sir John Hoskyns, an outspoken advocate of the free market economic policy. Interview with Hoskyns, who is full of praise for Rogernomics.

9American rock band ZZ Top, currently in New Zealand, have reacted angrily to media claims of a link between the band and the Klu Klux Klan (KKK).

10Two weeks ago, West Coast coal miners broke with decades of tradition and disaffiliated from the Labour Party thanks to their disenchantment with Government policy. Why do the miners feel so strongly about the Labour Government's policies, that they are prepared to break their strong historic political links?

11A look at the troubled relationship between West Indian cricket captain Viv Richards, and new Zealand cricket test umpire Fred Goodall.

12Worldwatch The United States has taken a new initiative in the Geneva Arms Limitation Talks (GALT) and tabled a list of 'anti-cheating' measures. If accepted, the verification procedure could result in American and Soviet weapons inspectors being stationed in each others' country. The initial Soviet response has been positive.

13Worldwatch Lone American physicist, Dr Charles Heyder, has become a symbol of the peace movement in the Soviet Union, but remains virtually unknown in the United States. Heider is on a hunger strike to protest against the Arms Race.

14Worldwatch The British Government has approved a new generation of nuclear power plants, after a two-year inquiry which was completed before the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. There has been, however, powerful opposition from environmental groups.

15Worldwatch Black protest continues in South Africa in the lead up to the country's Whites-only elections. Today, police broke up a peaceful demonstration of fifty Black youths in Johannesburg, who were marking National Detainees Day. The detention of thousands of Blacks is even drawing opposition from within South Africa's White community.

16Worldwatch At the home of cricket, Lords in London, a huge collection of cricket memorabilia has been uncovered. It will be auctioned next month.

17Worldwatch Claymation - animating clay figures - is becoming and increasing popular method of advertising in the United States.