In previous reports, short reviews of the recent developments in a few selected major topics have revealed themselves very valuable and we go on with this useful practise. The subjects are: Stars of very low luminosity: red, brown and white dwarfs (F. D’Antona), Solar models (P. Demarque) and a short note on The observation of the solar neutrinos by the Kamiokande collaboration (Y. Totsuka), The HR diagrams for massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds (Ed. L. Fitzpatrick), Late evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars: clues from IR and radio observations (S. Kwok), SN 1987A (J.C. Wheeler), Binary and millisecond radio pulsars and evolution of close binaries (E. van den Heuvel), Progresses in computational methods for stellar models (G. Meynet). I am very grateful to the authors for providing promptly these very useful reviews.