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Football: Italy throws open the floodgates: Goals are suddenly all the rage in the land where caution and negativity once ruled. Jasper Rees finds out why00:02
The Broader Picture: The planet, warts and all00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Bob Beckman00:02
City File: Top Marks00:02
Racing: Tap's Classic turn00:02
Rugby League: Britain strive for line in vain00:02
Britain: Where Now? Tories' boardroom backers make no show of regret00:02
Letter: FM reception00:02
Tory gunfight for a free market that never was00:02
Rugby Union: Ulster's barrage tests tourists00:02
The best and worst: Cash trusts beat banks00:02
Did you remember?00:02
The Great Cover-Up: As vinyl gives way to CD, it gets harder for performers to wear their art on their sleeves: there's just no room for that floating iceberg anymore. But designers are rising to the new challenge00:02
Sport in Short: Baseball00:02
Football: Owls saved by Woods00:02
A diplomacy lesson from Basil Fawlty00:02
Letter: Shame over aid00:02
Show People: Add a dash of something mild: 49. Ray Liotta00:02
Sport in Short: Equestrianism00:02
My Record Collection: ANDY PARTRIDGE - XTC00:02
Sport in Short: Speedway00:02
Letter: Ration fashion00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
City File: Water companies relatively cheerful00:02
Letter: Unemployment figures00:02
British firms slow into Europe: Few companies are geared up for the single market, writes Roger Trapp00:02
Britain: Where Now? Is there any future for Britain's coal industry?00:02
TELEVISION / Unwilling, unpaid and pushed to the brink by Granny00:02
Your Money: Attraction of fixed rates00:02
Officials cleared00:02
CBI survey shows collapse in business confidence00:02
Tennis: Novotna's victory salute00:02
Sport in Short: Athletics00:02
City: Untouchables at the Bank of England00:02
Drive to turn markets on to the glossy Finnish00:02
The Acapulco alternative: Cacti, birds of prey and the rusting hulks of automobiles punctuate the desert landscape of Baja California. Phil Davison discovers the Pacific-coast village that is Mexico's best kept secret00:02
'I am a scapegoat, I am innocent': Steve Connor talks to the Cambridge professor facing two years in a French jail for his part in the Aids-in-blood case00:02
Letter: Capital projects must not be paid for by cutting benefits00:02
Shares: Profit in store after overhaul at the top: As interest rates fall, three large retail chains are set to cash in on the impending revival of consumer demand00:02
Murder charge00:02
Profile: Emerging from the shadows: Lennox Lewis00:02
Football: The XI00:02
Then & Now: Heat of the Night00:02
As Summer Time ends, Christmas time begins in a blaze of light00:02
Letter: Nowhere Man00:02
DANCE / The qualities of Merce that have not waned00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell pulls the strings00:02
My Record Collection: PADDY McALOON - PREFAB SPROUT00:02
Airline talks00:02
Industry scrambles to test goggle television00:02
How long must heaven wait?: At the Science Museum, astronomy is out and fast-food in. Allan Chapman is irritated00:02
Racism finds fertile ground in Hungary00:02
FASHION / Tea with Pauline and Barry00:02
Letter: Portable personal stereo00:02
Letter: Shame at voting for Major is not enough00:02
Football: Atkinson's leveller00:02
ROCK / All you have to do is dre-ea-m00:02
Deaths00:02
Letter: Shame at voting for Major is not enough00:02
City: Taking stock00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: United States00:02
Football: Leeds thwarted by Ferdinand00:02
Mackay signals new curbs on legal aid system00:02
Football Round-Up: Dobbin blots Keegan book00:02
Lights dim for power broker: Professor Stephen Littlechild, the electricity regulator, has been overtaken by events00:02
Mountbatten van sold00:02
Business Information Service: This Week00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Germany00:02
Turkish raid00:02
Beware protective instincts00:02
Automatic Pilots: For REM, success came gradually. But they still don't know what hit them. Peter Buck and Mike Mills tell of the fans, the frustrations and the baseball00:02
My Record Collection: COURTNEY PINE00:02
Letter: Nobody cheered Liverpool's dead at Highbury00:02
Snooker: Invasion of the teeny-potters: Guy Hodgson charts the irresistible rise of snooker's young generation and the pressure imposed on the game's not so old senior servants00:02
CHILDREN / Why John Boy is a mixed-up kid: Everybody has a view about how their place in the family pecking order affected their personality. Deborah Holder considers how far cod psychology is backed up by fact00:02
Bunhill: Poisoned chalice awaits the intrepid forecaster00:02
Rare bird sighted00:02
Football: On the move00:02
Heard the one about the Titian that turned into Mussolini?: A new code of practice has been introduced to crack down on 'shady' antique dealers. Dalya Alberge reports00:02
Airlines demand action to check BA dominance00:02
4,500 jobs at risk at Rosyth00:02
'Deep Throat' started rout of BCCI: The unravelling of the fraud at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International owed much to a mystery informant among its staff, writes Chris Blackhurst00:02
Industry: Darkroom factory wins award for enlightenment: Kodak captures 'Management Today'/Cranfield prize00:02
Football: Think before you sack: Mike Rowbottom offers some hope to football managers in fear of their jobs00:02
The secret life of a virtuous artist: John Wardroper turned sleuth to find the startling truth about George Cruikshank, illustrator and friend of Dickens, and a man revered as a stern moralist00:02
BOOK REVIEW / In Brief00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: South Africa00:02
CHIDLREN / Relative Values00:02
Fishing Lines: The rehabilitation of the Tyne00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Czechoslovakia00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Letter: Home ownership blamed for our failing economy00:02
Saturday night's all right for writing00:02
CINEMA / Mid-life Woody goes crabby00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: Leviathan00:02
Notebook: Only those with thick skins need apply: If John Major is suffering from prime ministerial stress he can console himself that he is not the first00:02
Independent Schools: Private school fees go on soaring: Sarah Strickland asks if the independent sector can afford to cut costs00:02
Letter: Alan Budd is no Michael Fish00:02
'Daily News' dispute00:02
Pay-off shark alarm: Redundancy victims should delay finance decisions, writes Neasa MacErlean00:02
Thousands to march for jobs00:02
Profile: Evolution of a big lender: A background in venture capital taught Halifax chairman Jon Foulds the value of a management able to cope with crisis, writes William Kay00:02
Bad loans00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
SCIENCE / Gods, Graves and Scholars: From the scattered human remains in a Stone Age pit, scientists are trying to piece together a puzzle that may reveal the dawn of religious belief. David Keys reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Plum: more potato than Plato?: 'P G Wodehouse: Man and Myth' - Barry Phelps: Constable, 16.95 pounds00:02
City File: Prospects dim for power companies00:02
Letter: Shame at voting for Major is not enough00:02
Motor-show salesmen sign their own death warranty00:02
What will Clinton do for his country?: As a Democrat closes on the White House, Patrick Cockburn in Washington looks at the changes he would make after 12 Republican years00:02
CHILDREN / First past the post00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the Week00:02
Tomlinson 'agonised' over NHS closures00:02
Sport in Short: Olympic Games00:02
Casino war comes to court: Correction00:02
Rugby Union: Lacroix inspires French renaissance00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: France00:02
ETCETERA / Index00:02
Cold comfort for hard-up Britain: The biblical sentiment that it is better to give than to receive finds no support among EC member states. Andrew Marshall explains why00:02
Nein, Nein: Heart of the bank that likes to say no: After a week when the Bundesbank stood firm against a sharp fall in interest rates, John Eisenhammer has a rare tour of its corridors of power00:02
Opinions: Who cares about Madonna?00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Heroism under a blood-red sky: 'Tornado Down' - Flight Lts John Peters & John Nichol: Michael Joseph, 15.99 pounds00:02
British Rail sell-off heads for the back-burner00:02
A leaf out of their book00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Handel's kingdom in a kindergarten00:02
Football: Exquisite Limpar00:02
PROPERTY / Owning a stately pile of rubble: What possesses buyers who take on derelict properties and rebuild them? Jonathan Sale finds hidden advantages in absolute ruins00:02
Rugby Union: Ryan keeps Wasps well in control00:02
BOOKS / Low Hum & Little Lo: Humbert Humbert, narrator of 'Lolita', is a sadist, narcissist and sexual deviant: so why should we think Nabokov's novel morally acceptable?00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Door shuts on a home payments holiday: The fine print of a flexible mortgage nearly cost a couple their house00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A pure classic - with a lingering whiff of sulphur: 'Delacroix: A Life' - Timothy Wilson-Smith: Constable, 16.96 pounds00:02
MOTORING / Auto Biography: Getting to know the Nissan Maxima in less than one minute00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
The National Trust fights back00:02
Major: I'll call election if I lose: Tory rebels given ultimatum on Maastricht vote00:02
Rugby League: A rich seam of pride and defiance: The pit closures provided a barely hidden agenda for many at Wembley yesterday. Guy Hodgson joined a party from Wakefield00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: Madonna: fresh Fields00:02
Letter: What did they say at the election?00:02
Letter: Not only the poor get TB00:02
Football: Harford has the answers00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Tips for the guilt-ridden rich: Help is at hand for people who feel uneasy about their wealth. Andrew Bibby reports00:02
Man in court over Ulster killings00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / A - Z of healthy dishes from around the world00:02
The unrestrained arm of the law: Demanding money with menaces is illegal - unless it is done by poll tax bailiffs, says Duncan Forbes00:02
RADIO / Move over Jimmy, this man's even worse00:02
Football: Sheron's mop-up job00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
NatWest pledge on bank charges00:02
PAINTING / Grand designs of an unmodern man: Soldier, seaman, promoter, polemicist, R B Kitaj is also a singularly good painter. A 60th-birthday interview00:02
Rugby Union: Hall does what only he can do00:02
THEATRE / Surreal spider traps but fails to entrance00:02
Children that Britain forgot: Martin Hennessey on the 'orphans' who are to sue for neglect00:02
The Year-By-Year Quiz00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Americans accused of stalling on 'open skies'00:02
The strange Abu Dhabi connection: BCCI affair00:02
Sterilising chemical 'is harming NHS staff'00:02
Management: People put before profit: Omron, the electronics company, aims to enrich human life. Roger Trapp investigates00:02
Letter: Ineptitude of the Cabinet00:02
Leaving children a tax burden in trust: Making a legacy secure for the next generation can have hidden costs, warns Maria Scott00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Australia00:02
The hard men who call the shots at the Deutsche Bundesbank00:02
TRAVEL / On the road from Tijuana: Cacti, birds of prey and the rusting hulks of automobiles punctuate the desert landscape of Baja California. Joe Cummings clocks up 3,600 kilometres and survives.00:02
5 TOP TENS00:02
A paler shade of golden haddock00:02
Public Services Management: Recycling strategy needed: The Government's targets have been set without adequate national planning, says Rebecca Renner00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Baseball: Toronto turning a trend: Mike Ross on how Canada has shaken up the World Series00:02
Letter: Mother does not always know best00:02
Letter: Nobody cheered Liverpool's dead at Highbury00:02
WPP man quits00:02
21 Years Ago. . .: Exactly how bad were the Seventies? KEVIN JACKSON dons a greatcoat and a 'ravy dongler' and boldly travels back to the years that taste forgot00:02
Football: Rovers dig deep to keep United in check00:02
Gonzalez at bay in corridas of power: Spain's Prime Minister, under fire at home, is making a last stand on the shaky ground of European unity. Phil Davison reports from Madrid00:02
Economics: Unlock the manacle of debt deflation00:02
Face-to-face encounter with the mummy of all treaties00:02
Sport in Short: Judo00:02
Leading Article: Toss another dogma on the bonfire00:02
Letter: Home ownership blamed for our failing economy00:02
My Record Collection: GARRY CHRISTIAN & HENRY PRIESTMAN - THE CHRISTIANS00:02
Green competition00:02
Beirut's Mr Big aims to rebuild Lebanon: Robert Fisk outlines the ambitions of a new leader backed by Saudi riches00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Denmark00:02
Monrovia battle00:02
Letter: 'Rolling' news already exists00:02
Fierce fighting in Tajik capital00:02
Rugby Union: Swansea's guile proves too much for Newport's grit00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A real life turned into a fury tale: 'The Furies' - Janet Hobhouse: Bloomsbury, 15.99 pounds00:02
Earn your flat a new lease of life: Ian Hunter explains how a tenant can negotiate an extended term00:02
City File: Frost Group00:02
City: Black hole00:02
'Sisters I never knew': Child migrants00:02
Q & A: The greatest comeback . . . the shortest substitution00:02
HEALTH / Common Complaints: Haemophilia00:02
Football: Blades lack sharp finish00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
Football: All the fans want is value for money00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Spain00:02
World stumbles towards trade war00:02
City File: ICI on hold00:02
Racing: Make way for Armiger00:02
Rugby Union: Tigers stalk leaders00:02
Rugby Union: Winterbottom blooms among perennials00:02
Real Life: A bomb victim's story: When IRA terrorists attacked a London pub 13 days ago, Sef Townsend was there. He is still struggling to come to terms with the experience, as he told Linda Grant00:02
Orkney report to reopen nightmare00:02
Scrutator: Ten per cent misery tax00:02
ARTS / Cries & Whispers00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Kids, I tasted the honey: 'Sex' - Madonna: Secker, 25 pounds00:02
Sport in Short: Motorcycling00:02
Danube diversion00:02
My Record Collection: HARRIET WHEELER & DAVID GAVURIN - THE SUNDAYS00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A mixed benison from Tennyson: 'Angels and Insects' - A S Byatt: Chatto, 14.99 pounds00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Canada00:02
MOTORING / Timely discovery of the Nissan link: Aimed at executives, the affordable Maxima plugs a gap between city car and supercar. John Fordham reports00:02
Patten firm in test of nerves with Peking00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Skating00:02
Bush pulls close within Clinton00:02
CHILDREN / Dethronement00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
ART MARKET / A Pioneering Image-Maker: Alexander Rodchenko was a hero of the Russian revolution but soon fell from grace. Now his star has risen so high that 30 prints could fetch a total of pounds 200,000 at auction00:02
FOOD AND DRINK / Honey and the sex life of Queen Bee: Michael Bateman on insemination technology and an ancient sweet00:02
Actors threaten satellite launch00:02
Britain: Where Now? Goodbyeee: . . . but don't cryeee. For those who despair of a future in Britain, we offer the Good Emigrants Guide. Where to go, what to expect, where the chips are worth a detour: Argentina00:02
Football: McStay delivers00:02
INTERVIEW / The white wounded of Africa: Fiammetta Rocco meets a trailblazer of modern literature whose latest work marks the end of a lonely exile; Doris Lessing00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Defrocked behind the enemy's lines: 'No More Sex War' - Neil Lyndon: Sinclair-Stevenson, 15.95 pounds; 'Sex and Sensibility' - Julie Burchill: Grafton, 5.99 pounds00:02
Letter: Arsenal supporter00:02
Britain: Where Now? Walking Over the Viper Pit: Donald Macintyre and Stephen Castle on a week when Tory venom stood politics on its head00:02
Football: Dozzell to the rescue00:02
Me and my Kit: Pat Borders, World Series baseball player00:02
New Releases: A Christmas Preview: From Bob Dylan to Whitney Houston; from AC/DC to Ice T, via M People; from Cher's finest moments to Pink Floyd in a very large box - here is the word on the forthcoming season00:02
Policy switch could boost public projects00:02
Letter: Shame at voting for Major is not enough00:02
ETCETERA / How We Met: 56. Gerald Durrell and Lee McGeorge Durrell