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Mandela to seek British backing00:02
Football: World Cup: Quinn caps mighty Irish effort00:02
Bottom Line: Cowie on to a good thing00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Obituary: Richard David00:02
Warning on youth service cash reductions00:02
Zambians feared dead in air crash00:02
Age limits urged on video games00:02
US wants Iraq war crimes tribunal00:02
Rugby Union: Quins pick home talent00:02
Why be coy? Let's just see the tampon, please: The latest sanitary protection ads are just good old British prudery glossed up, argues Imogen Edwards-Jones00:02
Riffs: Mark Eitzel of American Music Club barks at Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon'00:02
Public Services Management: Spraying safe00:02
Public Services Management: Merger message00:02
Education: Testing times after the boycott: Disillusioned teachers want the proposed review of pupils' tests to be the first step in an overhaul of the entire curriculum, says Donald MacLeod00:02
MPs find they have sold the family silver00:02
Football: World Cup: Tame surrender of Irish initiative00:02
Tory Wandsworth plans to circumvent boycott: Wandsworth offers schools teams of outside helpers00:02
Cost of bombs could be passed on to customers00:02
'Ex-police in kidnap gang'00:02
Snooker: Wattana remedies omission00:02
Shipwreck verdict00:02
Kodak plunges after finance director resigns00:02
Price war looms over sun-care products00:02
England see two-goal lead slip away00:02
Football: World Cup: 'We really wanted to deliver the goods . . . but it was not to be'00:02
Ethics man adopts a moral approach to the market: Around pounds 100bn is invested in Britain with some form of social objective in mind. Paul Gosling investigates00:02
View from City Road: Frankfurt changes its rhetoric00:02
Care staff get right to restrain children: Limited force allowed to prevent absconding00:02
Letter: Case for more refuges00:02
Lone-parent families double since 197100:02
Drug safety Bill offers patients right to know: Government opposes measure that would shed light on Halcion and other mysteries00:02
BCCI man charged after extradition from France00:02
Letter: Pugilism and the publicity game00:02
Arrests after massacre00:02
Motor Racing: Surgery delays test drive for Mansell00:02
'Outsider' chosen to head equality commission: Barrie Clement reports on the lawyer appointed to lead the EOC00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Football: World Cup Football: Hughes' goal inspires Wales: Yorath's makeshift side overcome adverse build-up to prove a match for RCS00:02
Today's number: 600:02
Timex offers no compromise00:02
Luncheons00:02
Clarke undermines Bill despite signs of progress: Reformers argue that 'panic' measures should be shelved. Heather Mills reports00:02
Leading Article: A dispute crucial to Germany's future00:02
SCARPIA: Style counsel: Vocal icons and pianists, including Keith Lewis and Victoria de los Angeles00:02
BTP set to buy rival's assets: Deal will let MTM's bankers recover pounds 90m of their loans and take 30% in chemicals group00:02
Market Report: Gold shares buck downward trend00:02
Law Report: No claim for sex abuse award: Regina v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, Ex parte P - Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Leggatt and Mr Justice McCullough), 28 April 199300:02
Police uproot Iranians' bazaar00:02
Court Circular00:02
Leading Article: And, finally, it's time for some good news00:02
Leading Article: Tell the soldiers what to do00:02
Salvation Army job00:02
Chess00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
INTERVIEW / A natural talent: The Australian poet Les Murray can't talk to the animals, but he tries to let them talk to us. Kevin Jackson met him00:02
Letter: Mr Patten should have known better00:02
Crime in Britain: Creation of police contributes little to 800-year decline in murder rate00:02
The Independent / Scholastic story of the year: How Charles Dickens raised my expectations00:02
Metal workers vote to strike in eastern Germany00:02
Public Services Management: No place like home00:02
Football: World Cup Football: England undone by Walker's blunder: Netherlands claw out a Wembley draw - Portugal turn out the lights on Roxburgh Republic protect unbeaten record00:02
Golf: Ladies' man seeking steady relationship: The new executive director of the women's European Tour has plans to broaden its horizons. Tim Glover reports00:02
Trinity confident as it achieves targets00:02
Customs costs rise above inflation00:02
Britain set to break with US over Bosnia: Major ready for air strikes but will veto any move to lift arms embargo00:02
Tribute to a band of minor modern poets00:02
The mystery of the dead policeman and the Baroness00:02
Rugby League: Hampson in race for fitness00:02
How to make opportunity knock: New sticks and carrots are needed if women are to get a better deal, says Barrie Clement00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
EC 'will extend role to race relations': Delors seeks to assure anti-racist groups and adds immigration to social affairs portfolio00:02
Inside Parliament: Commons plays host to a numbers racket: Pre-elections statistical war - Cleethorpes makes the agenda - Lottery could raise pounds 3bn a year - Admiral endures broadside00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Smear test errors leave women with heightened fear of cancer: Celia Hall reports on the psychological pressures created as a result of the blunder in Scotland00:02
Play it in another key, Bill: After 100 days, a battered president must show the character for the job, says Rupert Cornwell00:02
DANCE: Negative crash flow: Judith Mackrell on O Vertigo at the Place, plus Don Quixote00:02
Business spy war erupts between US and France: Paris forced to come clean on hi-tech dirty tricks, writes Leonard Doyle, West Europe Editor00:02
People problems dog Clinton team spirit00:02
A healthy diagnosis00:02
Crime in Britain: Rural areas bear brunt of criminal offensive: Overall rate of increase slows - 'Panic' reforms attacked - Fewer murders confirm trend00:02
UN concern over torture00:02
In loving memory of a man called Hoss: Fans of old episodes of Bonanza are made to feel like one of the family when they join the Fifth Cartwrights. Rose Rouse reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Boxing: Hodkinson dethroned by Vargas00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
A British tail wagging the American dog00:02
Silly Question: Where are the tail-less oxen?00:02
Racing: Piggott's Niche for Classic collection: Punters should resist the French favourite for the 1,000 Guineas and put their faith in four decades of experience00:02
Mystery of managers' masochism00:02
Letter: Sevens' expertise00:02
Blow for BT as finance chief quits: EC asked to speed up liberalisation of phone services00:02
View from City Road: Making the best of a bad job00:02
Family terrorised for helping the police: Fear for justice as witnesses are left unprotected00:02
Obituary: Kris Kirk00:02
ALBUMS: Lunging, sweeping, bustling, disgusting and warty: Andy Gill on Terence Trent D'Arby's urbane sprawl, Aerosmith's polished lapse of taste and Mark E Smith's ever-elegant Fall00:02
A Londoner and a South African, too: Being black in Johannesburg is not like being black in Muswell Hill. Tselane Tambo, daughter of Oliver, is trying to adjust. She talked to Emma Daly00:02
Cricket: Top players 'should help schools game'00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Bosnia: Yeltsin's foes return to fray00:02
Letter: A timely recovery00:02
Royal engagements00:02
Tory candidate says recovery is still fragile: Newbury by-election: Conservative sounds a more cautious note as his opponents mock economic policies00:02
Letter: Lesbians and gays on the march00:02
Troops break police siege: Thousands of Indian soldiers mount a raid in Srinagar to rescue a chief officer besieged by his own men00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Cancer tests on 20,000 women to be checked: Inquiry after one in 10 may have been given 'all clear' in error00:02
Public Services Management: Policing police performance: Ray Mgadzah talks to Sir Leonard Peach, who has to answer for 130,000 officers and is responsible for some 9,000 complaints00:02
Two shot dead00:02
Porn station fails to win block on decoder ban: Red Hot TV defiant despite court defeat00:02
Eurocrats exact toll on EC's finances: Jobs remain unfilled as pension costs soar00:02
Equestrianism: Everest climb is in vain00:02
Letter: UK knew of problems with CFC substitutes00:02
Assets slip at Brixton Estate: Share price falls as declining rental values undermine performance00:02
Letter: Seven's expertise00:02
Birthdays00:02
Ex-Communists join Italy's reform government: The non-political Prime Minister puts together a mould-breaking cabinet00:02
Clarke considers appeal for more security cameras: City parking curbs to counter bombings to be examined but checkpoints ruled out00:02
View from City Road: Why monopolies may hear an engaged tone00:02
Aspin flies to women's aid00:02
Rugby Union: Scarlets charge to first half of Welsh double: Llanelli win Heineken League00:02
Profits comeback at Ford is far stronger than expected: Cost-cutting measures and weakened Japanese competition help to combat effect of ailing economies00:02
Education: Exponential growth of the first degree: Elaine Williams reports on a reshaping of post-16 maths courses00:02
I have seen Russia's future, and it's working00:02
No compensation for abuse victims00:02
Vicar fights to continue offering sanctuary to injured birds: A plan for five houses in a wildlife garden has made a clergyman accuse his church of hypocrisy and irrelevance. Peter Dunn reports00:02
PR advocates fear tactical error by Clarke on seats: Boundary commission inquiry 'will hurt Government's Euro election campaign'00:02
France tackles suburban violence00:02
Graduate took own life after 200 job refusals00:02
Top price gun00:02
Keating takes first step on republican road: Australian PM moves to drop monarchy00:02
Signed, sealed, delivered: He had it all. He lost it all. All that stops his being the classic pop music story is that Luke Goss has lived to tell the tale. Jim White talks to the drummer who was Bros00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
MUSIC: Nursery fantasies: Stephen Johnson on H K Gruber and Mahler at the South Bank00:02
Letter: Teachers stripped of their professional role and swamped by bureaucracy00:02
Prince urges community service options for all: Courses and serving others 'should replace unemployment'00:02
Dogs Act criticised by judge00:02
Keep your head to the sky: It's gospel and then some. Giles Smith catches a bus with the 26-strong Sounds of Blackness00:02
Sixteen die in dump blast00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Letter: Lesbians and gays on the march00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Precision suffering and the long march with Kurds: Nowhere to hide - Susan Francis, Andrew Crofts: Weidenfeld, pounds 15.9900:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Inmate tortured00:02
Letter: Music classes00:02
Bosnia: Serbs frown on Bosnia brethren00:02
Police retirements questioned00:02
Education: Want to read, children? Just listen to this computer: A program that talks back to pupils has dramatically improved literacy in a pilot scheme, writes Simon Denison00:02
Pembroke: Top chaps go at Caz00:02
Top pay at Barclays hidden from public view00:02
Obituary: Ron Sidwell00:02
Bridge00:02
Letter: Mr Patten should have known better00:02
Diary00:02
Cricket: Old cobblers, young cobbers and a new age: With the County Championship taking a fresh guard today, Martin Johnson pads up for a season of change00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Branson takes to the airwaves: Hopes are high as Virgin radio begins broadcasting. Patrick Hosking reports00:02
Majorcan holidays to cost more00:02
Equal pensions ruling 'is not retrospective'00:02
Fears of bears in US send shares tumbling: FT-SE 100 index crashes to 13-week low after market rumours trigger a wave of futures selling00:02
Israeli soldiers kill four00:02
Education: If we have to pay for the best, so be it: Ministers should learn a lesson from middle-class parents' willingness to fork out for education, argues Colin Hughes00:02
Germany heads for all-out strike00:02
Letter: Lesbians and gays on the march00:02
Football: World Cup: Scotland fold up to Futre00:02
Gonzalez signs up 'superjudge': Controversial move by Spanish PM brings top magistrate into politics00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Inside File: China launches a diplomatic spring offensive00:02
Fashion: Through a lens backwards: Blow-Up, Antonioni's 1966 film about a fashion photographer, is back. Marion Hume and Tamsin Blanchard talk to the inspired and the inspirers00:02
'Cavalier' Walker is declared bankrupt with debts of pounds 180m00:02
Bottom Line: Street promises to purr again00:02
Judo: Kingston's optimistic approach00:02
Bosnia: Bihac shelling destroys UN peace-keeping role: Serbs from 'protected' Krajina step up attacks on Bosnia, writes Marcus Tanner in Zagreb00:02
Liquidators find dollars 12.4bn 'black hole' in assets of BCCI: Correction00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Obituary: Jake Porter