1Preliminary figures released in New Caledonia tonight show that at least 58% of eligible voters have taken part in today's independence referendum.
2Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has warned the United States that its trade policies are undermining Australia.
3A three year old girl, missing for half a day near Whangara on the East Coast, has been returned home safe and well.
4United Nations (UN) Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar has been told directly by Iran that his peace mission to end the long-running Iran- Iraq War will fail unless Iraq is named as the aggressor.
5Hugh Forester-Brown, an expatriate New Zealand pilot, was killed near London today, when his light aircraft crashed into a petrol station shortly after take-off. The raging inferno that resulted caused more than 60 nearby homes to be evacuated.