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Rebel leader offers Kabul truce00:02
REVIEW / Uppers and downers: Mary-Chapin Carpenter - Victoria Palace00:02
Police aid Salvation Army search for missing pounds 6.3m00:02
Leading Article: Manchester's millennial hopes00:02
MUSIC / And the song remains the same: Worrying trends in current approaches to historical performance practice; plus Chinese musicians and dancers in concert00:02
Oscar panel gives the Game away00:02
Hasidic rabbi 'kidnapped boy'00:02
Public Services Management Update: Pension fears00:02
Cargo rise lifts Mersey Docks and Harbour00:02
Guinness Peat buys Brown Shipley stake00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations Focus: Murphy's lore for the flawed: Ireland have become locked into a no-win situation in the championship. Steve Bale reports00:02
Sports Letter: Fast forward for video00:02
Russia cuts oil supplies to Ukraine00:02
Healey ridicules Tory 'civil war'00:02
Investment post faces scrutiny00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Technological changes present opportunities to communicate: Computers can help, but with all the gadgets in the world the most important thing is to see and hear properly, says Steve Homer00:02
Iran MP's back Rushdie edict00:02
Obituary: Arthur Exell00:02
Football: Four-goal Platt lifts labouring England: San Marino's resistance keeps Taylor's men waiting while Roxburgh is rewarded for attacking intentions00:02
City attempts to cope with frustration and fury: Flowers and simple messages reflect the emotions felt by the people on Merseyside. Ian MacKinnon reports.00:02
Poison-proof dairy products 'on sale in five years'00:02
Commentary: Inflation-linked worries for gilts00:02
Tories urged to privatise benefits00:02
Public Services Management: Emergency] The need to plan ahead: Paul Gosling on the role of local authorities in a disastrous situation00:02
Fall in sales and advertising kills off 'City Limits'00:02
Parental mission impossible: Patricia Finney outlines the perilous task of overseeing toddlers while out shopping00:02
New housing starts in US show steep decline00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Tokyo students jeer UN chief00:02
IMF tells Lamont to increase taxes or curb public spending00:02
Maastricht wins backing of City00:02
Obituary: Tommy Walker: Correction00:02
BT agrees to limits on private circuit prices00:02
Letter: Fruitful thoughts for apple lovers00:02
REVIEW / Sisters under the skin: The saw doctors - Town & Country00:02
Germans push for banana repeal00:02
EC demands more output cuts for steel rescue plan00:02
A good man in a crisis00:02
Kibutz tackles McSpud problem00:02
Rise in gambling00:02
Boy, 12, in hiding as police clear him00:02
Rugby League: Widnes waltz in again00:02
THEATRE / Worth seeing: Paul Taylor on Ken Hill's entertaining version of The Invisible Man00:02
'Lost honour'00:02
Judges seek curbs on juvenile offenders00:02
Noisy shoot00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Meeting the needs of a marketing strategy: These days, companies require tangible results to justify the outlay on conferences. Martin Whitfield examines their reasoning00:02
Gazumping our way back to greatness: The housing market was built on a peculiarly British, and temporary, fantasy. Yet faith in its powers is undeterred00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Black Pages00:02
Court Circular00:02
Market Report: Kingfisher left out of the stores party00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
'Home alone' girl to stay in care00:02
Victim dies00:02
Emap buys Thomson titles in pounds 21m deal00:02
Church rebels seek to fund split over women priests00:02
Public Services Management Update: Poll toll00:02
Joyrider convicted over death00:02
Law Report: Police need not warn of road hazards: Ansell and another v McDermott and others - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Nourse, Lord Justice Beldam and Sir John Megaw): 29 January 199300:02
View from City Road: ASB brings back balance00:02
Danger of US retaliation grows as trade talks stall00:02
BOOK REVIEW / A brief collision with the beginning of time: Dreams of a final theory - Steven Weinberg: Hutchinson Radius, pounds 2000:02
Obituary: George Wallington00:02
Postal strike00:02
Coal delay00:02
Sports Letter: Wasted talent00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: From Clock End to castle00:02
Public Services Management Update: Social classes00:02
Sports Letter: Clouded coverage00:02
Hockey: Army are outfought by Stott00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Football: Sheedy and Coyne scupper Wales00:02
Mafia arrest00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sports Letter: Penalty point00:02
Racing: Cool set to carry Haydock top weight00:02
Commentary: Dithering over coal must end00:02
Motor Racing: Ligier's appetite for work00:02
Homeless young 'escaping net of welfare system'00:02
Pounds 23m scandal may finally oust Takeshita00:02
Riot trial prisoners escape00:02
Bellway makes pounds 33m cash call00:02
Sport in Short: Pools News00:02
Help on the way for Dutch DAF00:02
Squash: Jahangir scythes down seed00:02
It's Pinks v Blues and I'm on the ropes00:02
Racing: Kondrat secure in saddle00:02
A man of letters (with nasty dogs)00:02
MUSIC / Somewhat lost in the translation: Stephen Johnson on Chinese musicians in concert on the South Bank - Stars of China: QEH, South Bank00:02
MPs critical of Treasury over Lamont payment00:02
PC in cell death case 'capable of violence'00:02
People 'ignorant of Citizen's Charter': The Cabinet has admitted it needs to do more to push John Major's 'big idea'. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
Births down00:02
Sports Letter: City of light00:02
Clinton details deficit cut plan00:02
China frees Tiananmen students00:02
Pisa prop00:02
ROCK: Warning: sexual swear words: Philip Sweeney meets Shaggy, Desert Storm vet turned reggae star00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: From genetics to science of the convention: Lynne Curry meets an academic who has had to learn how to run an international pounds 1.2m congress00:02
Education: You have to waddle before you can be a swan: David Buckley looks at contrasting approaches on offer in Sheffield for parents keen to turn their offspring into budding Fonteyns and Nureyevs00:02
Art aristocracy returns to opulent age of the Tsars: Geraldine Norman joined the first banquet at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg since 191700:02
Sport in Short: Bowls00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Low prices force RTZ to close mine00:02
Law Report: Practice Direction00:02
More porn00:02
Democrats' fate hinges on end to gridlock00:02
Sudan accused of 'ethnic cleansing' of Nuba people00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Sport in Short: Sailing00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
UN ultimatum on aid for Bosnia00:02
Letter: Safety measure00:02
Belgium makes vow of secrecy00:02
HIV data used in court to link rapist and victim00:02
Sport in Short: Tennis00:02
Higher Education Viewpoint: We're a private company, not welfare provision00:02
RECORDS / Standard works of reference: Andy Gill on the coldly fabricated perfection of St Etienne, plus Duran Duran, Dr Dre, Digable Planets and East 1700:02
Obituary: Col Clive Harston00:02
View from City Road: Bellway builds a solid base00:02
Smoking ban00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Graduates 'should pay a higher rate of income tax'00:02
Sports Letter: Clarion call00:02
Fashion: Darling, you were an inspiration]: Strange but true: the V and A loves its perfect Balenciagas and immortal Coco Chanels, but now what it desperately seeks is the immaculate hippie jerkin and the pluperfect biker's boot00:02
Sports Letter: Fast forward for video00:02
Pensioner jailed00:02
Losses force Germany to privatise railways00:02
Fashion: Marcus plays a strong suit00:02
Sailing: Morton on the Orient Express00:02
Column Eight: Less than gentle comments00:02
John Major eat our monsters: Correction00:02
Staff at hospital 'were stunned by baby's death'00:02
House prices show signs of a return to stability00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Hotels parcel up tempting package deals: Tailor-made meeting facilities are replacing drab banqueting rooms, says Lynne Curry00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Cricket: Third Test: Atherton deserves opening: Gooch may turn to Emburey as England seek to recover some lost pride on another spinner's pitch00:02
Pounds 1.5bn will back Olympic bid: Britain 'going for gold' says Major, pledging public money to underwrite cost of Manchester hosting Games in 200000:02
Letter: Change as an integral part of architecture00:02
Sex attackers left woman in burning car00:02
Bequest threat over Turner sale00:02
Fashion: Karan rumour00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Cold comfort for halls in Britain: Peter Cotterell examines the advantages and drawbacks of exhibiting in the UK00:02
Vardon seals pounds 1.8m price tag for Cornish visitor attraction00:02
Football: McCoist sets Scotland in motion00:02
Letter: No sex, please00:02
'Mirror' chief loses support in power struggle00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Lloyd's losses led to suicide00:02
Tennis: Forget fights colour blind00:02
Egg industry is refused access to salmonella files00:02
Christopher resumes US Mid-East role00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Sport in Short: Equestrianism00:02
View from City Road: False spring in the retail sector00:02
Letter: Discipline in the police force00:02
Drug baron's cars destroyed00:02
Power chief rejects plan to share cost of pits rescue00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Making a stand is all a matter of organisation: You've booked the space, but will the visitors come? Ideas by Peter Cotterell00:02
Athletics: Rebels bank on future vision00:02
Letter: Ongoing detention of a Nobel laureate in Burma00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
No 10 welcomes Sir Ranulph back from 'nasty Antarctic experience'00:02
Obituary: Dame Janet Vaughan00:02
Bowls: Quick exit for nervous Thomson00:02
Brown pledges Labour to full employment00:02
Brown warns of strife over new economic policy00:02
Pudding parade for Goldberg00:02
Education: Talk to me as professionals and I'll respond: John Patten, Secretary of State for Education, tells Colin Hughes how teachers can improve their standing00:02
Paper makers attack DTI00:02
Cricket: Such too much00:02
Letter: Distinguishing cultural features00:02
Diary00:02
Investment: Hi-tech stock poised to regain glamorous past00:02
For families left behind, the pain goes on: After a child's life is taken, the parents' grief is compounded by extra horrors, such as terrible imaginings and struggles with officialdom. Angela Neustatter reports00:02
Wimpey to offer management service00:02
Sport in Short: Swimming00:02
Letter: Why men aren't simply human00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations Focus: Hall fit for Wales00:02
No need for gloom, says Bundesbank00:02
Letter: Why men aren't simply human00:02
Murder information floods in to police: Key witnesses come forward in hunt for killer. Will Bennett and Ian MacKinnon report00:02
Scars run deep among the warring sides in Tajikistan: Despite the killings and atrocities in the civil war, there may be signs of hope. Hugh Pope reports from Dushanbe00:02
West raises pressure on Mobutu for reform00:02
Sport in Short: Drugs in Sport00:02
JP who raped girl, 10, jailed for seven years00:02
Boxing: Laing has eyes for Honeyghan00:02
Education: Take your partners for a GCSE in dance00:02
Letter: The need to end nuclear testing00:02
Leading Article: Clinton begins a long march00:02
CIA search for shooting suspect leads to Pakistan00:02
The British Olympic bid: Manchester 2000: Scott optimistic as Major promises backing: From being a rank outsider Manchester's bid for the 2000 Olympics now figures firmly among the front-runners. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
TELEVISION / Statistics00:02
Special Report on Conferences and Exhibitions: Putting on a good show with the right attitude: Post-event follow-up is vital to get the best out of exhibiting, writes Peter Cotterell00:02
Flag furore00:02
Obituary: Sir Joseph Cleary00:02
Sports Letter: Double standards00:02
Football: Barnes' national prospects fading: Henry Winter sees time run out for the enigmatic Liverpool midfielder00:02
Sports Letter: Rewriting referees00:02
ROCK: Spanner in the Works: Air-conditioning, a sentry box, all mod cons . . . Gussie Clark's shiny new studio is not in the finest Kingston traditions00:02
ANC radicals angry at power-sharing deal00:02
Jobless total 'to stick at 3 million'00:02
Argyll launches pounds 150m bond00:02
Militants 'killed four Algerians'00:02
Letter: Why men aren't simply human00:02
Lavatory ruling00:02
Football: Bingham's battlers stay in contention00:02
Fundraiser to return charity boxes00:02
Protests greet Heathrow scheme for fifth terminal00:02
Unita dissidents take their seats00:02
Humble pickings as victors plunder Muslim enclave: Marcus Tanner visits Kamenica, which has fallen to Serbian forces after a 10-month siege00:02
Negotiator killed00:02
Golf: Ballesteros looks for matchplay00:02
Anniversaries00:02
REVIEW / Here comes a jellyfish: Live reviews: B52's, Saw Doctors, Mary-Chapin Carpenter - Gigs - Charts Jim White is bombed into submission by the B52's at Hammersmith Apollo00:02
Church rebels seek to fund split over women priests00:02
Early steps on the path to a real alternative