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S&P pinpoints 'weak' insurers00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Buying a computer: Christopher Gilbert offers readers a guide through the jungle of jargon and sales come-ons to find the right PC00:02
Three jailed for murder of prostitute are cleared00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Major and media benefit from hype00:02
Yeltsin risks all to defeat his foes00:02
Market Report: Dashed hopes of lower rates trigger a slide00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Home in fire hazard case likely to be relicensed00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Enough books to fill a library in the palm of your hand: With a portable CD, you can carry your reference books in your pocket. Tony Feldman reports00:02
Football: Premier dispute00:02
Cricket: TCCB 'confident' on Indian tour00:02
Leading Article: Yeltsin's dilemma00:02
Boxing: Piper plays a rare tune: The challenger for Nigel Benn's WBC super-middleweight title at Alexandra Palace tomorrow poses as much of a problem to boxing's detractors as he does to his opponents in the ring. Ken Jones reports00:02
POETRY / The local Muse service: 'You have to write, and you have to meet.' Rosie Millard reports on the compulsion of the Waverley Writers00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead00:02
Skiing: Rey riding high as lone trainer00:02
Obituary: Dan Maskell00:02
Government to stop pounds 6m of funding for unions00:02
Obituary: Bernadette Villars00:02
The man who came from nowhere: The emergence of Dieter Bock at Lonrho is baffling the City, John Moore reports00:02
MUSIC / The generation game: Robert Maycock on the London Sinfonietta and Capricorn playing old new music and new new music00:02
Letter: Children made Thunderbirds fly00:02
Obituary: Vincent Gardenia00:02
Congress and Wall St meet in Clinton team00:02
Sindy dolls up for her court outing00:02
Treasury sees mixed signals in economy00:02
FILM / The bad and the beautiful: Laurence Earle canvasses opinion on 1992, the year of The Player, Unforgiven and Beauty and the Beast00:02
Whessoe rises 13%00:02
HIV indictment00:02
Hockey: Whitaker's way00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Germans back new fighter aircraft00:02
Kleinwort attacked on Amstrad00:02
Members of drugs gang jailed for total of 90 years00:02
Budget deadlock hangs over summit00:02
Letter: Builders of Babri00:02
Obituary: Dan Maskell00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
Art Market: Rare medieval ewer is sold for pounds 660,00000:02
Offer and generators squabble over costs00:02
Rifkind to investigate refit 'leak'00:02
TVS bid may still run into trouble00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rape victim calls for tougher curbs on press00:02
'Congress is a bulwark of reaction': Extracts from President Boris Yeltsin's speech to Congress00:02
Maskell, voice of tennis, dies at 8400:02
Law: The last word in legal: Sharon Wallach talks to the chairman of Clarity, a group campaigning for the profession to replace unintelligible language with plain English00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
TELEVISION BRIEFING / Battles of the sexes00:02
The Royal Separation: Senior Tory opinion moves against Princess as Queen00:02
Power firms increase dividends00:02
Accuracy of electoral roll challenged by councillor00:02
3i writes off Isosceles 28m pounds00:02
Letter: Remember the 364 economists00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Battle of the giants to give you digital sounds at home00:02
Law Update: Scottish challenge to 'bureaucratic' French00:02
Lack of leadership from a feeble government: A grudging display has left Britain on the margins, argues Stanley Clinton-Davis00:02
The Royal Separation: MPs want curbs on intrusions by the press00:02
The Royal Separation: Church would not stand in way of Prince remarrying00:02
Police and shoppers injured in bomb blasts00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
The Royal Separation: Business as usual with smiles all round00:02
US seeks military action on Bosnia aid00:02
Criket: No action on Wessels00:02
FILM / A nosebagful of saccharin: Adam Mars-Jones on Into the West, Elenya00:02
Comment: Sell equities in April and go away00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Teenage pirates and the junior underworld: Parents should know that children can buy or sell illegal copies of video games - and 'Sex', writes Justin Keery00:02
Letter: Cruel ironies of the European dream00:02
Serbian pressure worsens plight of Sarajevo citizens00:02
Law: Please, m'lud, I'll have that sentence: Plea bargaining looks attractive: it can cut costs and shorten cases. But it has dangers. Christopher Sallon and Anthony Burton argue for a tighter form of courtroom deal00:02
Leading Article: A dubious recovery00:02
Europeans warn on rail investment: Christian Wolmar on some lessons Britain could learn from other countries00:02
AF Budge blames Barclays for 'surprise' receivership00:02
Tonight's tactic: ignore them into bed: Alan and his gang roam Leicester's bars and night-clubs with a hedonistic quest - to hone their seduction techniques and perfect the science of pulling birds00:02
Professor condemns class bias in education00:02
County NatWest withdraws from Tokyo exchange00:02
FILM / There's no place here like home00:02
Jordan to try Iraqis over killing00:02
View from City Road: Pilkington sells its crown jewels00:02
THEATRE / The Witches - Duke of York's, London WC200:02
Patient died after being 'hooked on' to lavatory pipe00:02
Racing: Receivers to break up Budge's string00:02
Letter: Irish franchise00:02
Heads seek delay on technology lessons00:02
Ashdown acuses government of 'worst appeasement'00:02
A taste of Christmas porridge00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Meteoric rise in satellite viewing despite 'sparklies': David Guest looks at the increasing array of television shows beamed from our skies at night00:02
Diary00:02
THEATRE / Sustenance for the Bible hungry: Paul Taylor reviews Doug Lucie's satire about televangelism, Grace, at the Hampstead theatre00:02
Maskell: the dream team man: John Roberts echoes the tennis world's tributes to Dan Maskell, who died yesterday00:02
BBC 1 controller defects to new franchise holder00:02
View from City Road: Lonrho offers few attractions00:02
US threatens Somali 'khat' habit00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Mobile phones aimed at the popular market: The latest offers may look tempting but, warns Steve Homer, the cost of staying in touch may be higher than you first think00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
Asset change to boost profits00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A water and tonic please: that's the spirit: 'A History of Vodka' - William Pokhlebkin, Tr. Renfrey Clarke: Verso, 17.95 pounds00:02
Torturer jailed for 10 years00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Toying with the Maastricht puzzle: Britain has said the EC faces a task as tough as solving Rubik's Cube00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
It's not over until Chancellor Kohl gets hungry00:02
Suspect 'told by police what to say': Three men jailed for the murder of a prostitute were cleared yesterday by the Court of Appeal. Rachel Borrill examines events leading up to their conviction00:02
Britain's failure, or all Europe's?: Amid final preparations for the Edinburgh summit, Dominique Mosi argues that it is not John Major's presidency but Europe itself that is found wanting00:02
Flower power revival meets mixed response00:02
Schlesinger dashes rate hopes00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: Agenda for the summit00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Museum tours in your own home00:02
Rugby League: Hull KR fight to frustrate the prophets of doom: With little money to reinforce his team George Fairbairn, their coach, faces an uphill task to keep Rovers in the First Division. Dave Hadfield reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
New national orchestra created in Scotland00:02
Law Update: Say it in Portuguese00:02
Motor Racing: France is struck off GP roster00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Law Update: European group meets00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
UN may have to use force in Bosnia, Owen warns: Military action to enforce 'no-fly' zone might become unavoidable if breaches continue, MPs are told00:02
Tennis: McEnroe bids farewell to an unequal battle00:02
Pretoria 'could raid Zimbabwe'00:02
China threatens boycott of Hong Kong meetings00:02
Education Bill to be guillotined00:02
Law Update: Discrimination at work00:02
Business and City in Brief (CORRECTED)00:02
Suicide and violence 'are taking toll of homeless'00:02
Rugby Union: French hooker suffers eye injury00:02
A Christmas display in the bomb-scarred window of WH Smith in Wood Green00:02
The Edinburgh Summit: PM's costly gesture00:02
Rugby Union: NZ tourists continue to cut a swathe00:02
Snooker: Davis' clearance coup00:02
Better yields mean fewer deals for Land00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Dearest Santa: video games, not records: Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends have ousted pop music, writes Martin Whitfield00:02
Column Eight: Sugar cleans up queries00:02
Taunton shares up as profits double00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
View from City Road: Compass finds direction00:02
Timor trial00:02
Letter: Euthanasia by default in NHS00:02
GUS starts hunt for outside directors00:02
FILM / Mouth to mouth resuscitation: 'They brought out some floppy cardboard and wrote out two or three lines of dialogue in great big letters.' Daniel J Travanti talks to Sheila Johnston about working in Welsh00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Bonn bans second neo-Nazi movement00:02
Generators could defer closures of some mines00:02
Young jobless total doubles to 1 million00:02
Blood match identifies Tsar00:02
Bombay convulsed by riots00:02
Yeltsin seeks showdown: President's call for referendum to decide who rules Russia causes uproar in parliament and panic in Moscow00:02
MUSIC / Oxford Elastic Band - Blackheath Recital Room00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Climbing00:02
Paper silenced00:02
Letter: Lunar eclipses00:02
Letter: Remember the 364 economists00:02
Health watchdog rounds on 'inept' hospitals service00:02
Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Wizard technology puts you in the picture: Cameras, videos and camcorders are easier to use than ever, writes David Guest00:02
City properties to lose bomb cover00:02
Football / Non-League Notebook: Separate lives for Barri and Barry Town00:02
FILM / The Last Detail00:02
You've come a long way, princess: There is nothing new about unhappy royal couples living apart. The change is in Diana's rejection of a supporting role as cipher wife, argues Sandra Barwick00:02
Cricket: Asif's master stroke forces tie00:02
Racing: Clear at the water00:02
Congress and Wall St meet in Clinton team00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Skating00:02
College funding system set for radical change: Donald Macleod looks at proposals for a 'breathtaking' expansion of further education with the emphasis geared to vocational training00:02
Heathrow rail link may be delayed00:02
Courses concentrate on serving local businesses: Donald Macleod looks at proposals for a 'breathtaking' expansion of further education with the emphasis geared to vocational training00:02
'Disquiet' over Heritage plans00:02
Unita names four ministers00:02
US forces consolidate their position in Mogadishu00:02
Security stepped up at mosques and temples00:02
Letter: The Royal Family: a lost generation or a symbol of greater freedom?00:02
Gunfire erupts in Dushanbe00:02
Dismissal of teacher upheld00:02
THEATRE / Sustenance for the Bible hungry: Paul Taylor reviews Doug Lucie's satire about televangelism, Grace, at the Hampstead theatre00:02
Rugby League: Welsh trio to make debuts00:02
Lamont insists he will deliver next Budget00:02
Racing: Boraceva to bloom00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Swimming00:02
Letter: Architecture for tomorrow00:02
Law Update: Strategy on property00:02
Out of Russia: Booker seeks to whet appetite of literary lions00:02
Chess00:02
TELEVISION / All work, and low pay