1The Quigley Report shows that crime has been increasing over the past couple of years, and police need to find new ways of fighting it.

2Eight hundred petitions have failed to prevent controversial amendments to New Zealand's contraception and abortion legislation. MPs have voted to accept a Select Committee's report recommending the repeal of provisions banning the giving of contraceptive advice to children under 16. The changes will also increase the number of doctors able to authorise abortions.

3Ahead of the upcoming Superpower Leaders' Summit in Malta, Mikhail Gorbachev has become the first Soviet Communist Party leader to travel to the Vatican and the first to meet the Pope.

4The Communist Government of Czechoslovakia is promising it will resign next week.

5Australian soldiers have begun escorting elderly women in a Sydney suburb currently being terrorised by a serial killer known as the Granny Killer.

6New Zealand Railways Corporation (NZRC) and a group of partners plan to challenge Telecom's telecommunications monopoly with a fiberoptic cable buried alongside the North Island main trunk line.

7Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Cabinet have resigned following the Congress Party's loss of its parliamentary majority in the country's general election.

8Police in Dorset, England have set up a confidential hotline for people to report drunk drivers. However, civil rights groups are outraged.

9Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci has defected from Romania and asked for asylum in Hungary.

10The tangled affairs of the failed investment bank Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will come a step closer to being unraveled today, when statutory managers will be given an independent report from JP Morgan.

11Old British investment bonds from now defunct companies could be worth plenty of money.

12Agents representing former Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr say there is now a possibility that the three remaining Beatles may once again play together. Paul McCartney is also said to be in favour of the idea.