1Speculation is mounting that the Government is going to curb the role f State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Minister Richard Prebble in the selling of State assets.

2Air New Zealand has made its first public statement on the Government's latest terms for the sale of the State airline.

3An Audit Office report claims inefficient local authority health inspections may be costing New Zealand more than $35 million a year in lost productivity due to food-borne illnesses.

4The Waterside Workers Federation has called for a 24-hour strike on Tuesday, which will paralyse all of New Zealand's ports.

5A helicopter has forced an avalanche of snow on the road to Milford Sound because it was threatening the safety of motorists.

6The Government will vacate Parliament buildings in two years, and is expected to remain elsewhere for around four years, while they are being refurbished and earthquake-strengthened.

7New Zealand's America's Cup yacht has finally reached New York where it's detention in Cuba has created a great deal of publicity.

8Warships from the Royal Netherlands Navy made a spectacular departure from Wellington today.

9Valmae Faye Beck, a mother of six, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the abduction, rape and murder of New Zealand born schoolgirl Sian Kingi in Queensland last year.

10Hurricane Joan has strengthened as it bears down on Central America tonight.

11Investigators have not yet determined the cause of two aviation disasters in India which claimed 164 lives.

12Seven Israeli soldiers and two Lebanese women were killed when a suicide bomber in a vehicle packed with explosives rammed their convoy today.

13Three whales trapped in ice in Alaska have been given hope of survival thanks to high winds breaking up the ice and allowing them more breathing space.

14The giant pandas on loan from China made their debut tp the public at Auckland Zoo today.

15New rules designed to protect minority shareholders in company takeovers are likely to be introduced into Parliament next February, following recommendations by the Securities Commission.

16Analysis of the latest Eyewitness News / Heylen poll which shows a rise in business confidence.

17Prime Minister David Lange has suggested a possible time limit for people to be on the dole. However this would have a major impact in a region such as Northland where 19% of the population are unemployed. A look at the phenomenon of unemployment depression in Northland and its consequent social costs.

18There has been outrage and accusations of censorship over the British Government's ban on television and radio interviews with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Protestant paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland, because it includes legal political organisations such as Sinn Fein and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and excludes newspapers from the ban.