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Deaths00:02
ART MARKET / O'Keeffe goes missing00:02
Letter: And finally . . . the end of the world is imminent00:02
Bunhill: Russian nuclear vessels00:02
Opinions: Would you ever do a runner?00:02
Letter: We do not need new laws to tackle terrorism00:02
Having a lovely time?: Asil Nadir mistakenly believed he had scaled the heights of British society. Fiammetta Rocco and Hugh Pope chart his downfall00:02
Cricket: Rabbit boosts Yorkshire00:02
Ditch Lamont, say ministers00:02
Motor Racing: Pole position for Prost despite pressure00:02
Warning bells ring at BT: The telecoms giant has problems, say Mary Fagan and Richard Thomson00:02
ETCETERA / Chess00:02
Letter: How many radical bookshops are there00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Rugby Union: Lewis drops in to sink Neath00:02
Monopoly inquiry into UK music industry: OFT chief says competition has not worked in bringing down the price of CDs00:02
Industry improves links to investors00:02
Football: Exit Old Big 'Ead00:02
Buy the phone and cut the bill00:02
Life insurers unmoved by Aids rethink: Premiums that soared for young single men during the late 1980s are unlikely to be cut, despite the official line that hetrosexuals run a relatively small risk of getting the disease00:02
City File: Michael Page00:02
Dons protest at Oxford 'sexism'00:02
Letter: The deficit is a bowl of cherries00:02
Golf: Broadhurst rings the changes to swing clear00:02
Hints for avoiding unhappy returns00:02
Bunhill: P&O board00:02
City File: Clyde Petroleum00:02
Man will sue council that failed to have him adopted00:02
ART MARKET / A Swiss dealer and his role: Ernst Beyeler has offered a museum and his superb collection of modern art to his home town. Geraldine Norman meets him as the people of Riehen prepare to vote yea or nay00:02
Parents to vote on school tests00:02
Football: Vale party gatecrashed00:02
ARTS / Overheard00:02
British muscle in on Danes' treaty battle00:02
Strangely similar tales from a literary agent00:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Horse before the car: 'Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal' - David Kline: Sumach, 8.9900:02
Bank of Scotland chief up for Barclays job00:02
Profile: Emperor's new shoes: Alan Bowkett didn't make Clarks fit, but that won't sink a grand design, says David Bowen00:02
Profile: A good guy once again: Lord Owen: The high-flyer who became the most hated man in the Commons is now tipped for a Nobel Peace prize.00:02
Weatherman weds00:02
Letter: And finally . . . the end of the world is imminent00:02
Tremors as giants stumble: The spectre of a worldwide recession is taking shape as Germany's fortunes fall and the US slides towards an economic relapse00:02
City: Nadir case puts fraud trials in the dock00:02
Football: Lions fans dig up Den00:02
Letter: Stop the Sudanese reign of terror00:02
RADIO / The moral is only too clear00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Shrinking the crowned heads of Windsor: 'Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family' - Dennis Friedman & Susan Hill: Sidgwick, 14.9900:02
BOOK REVIEW / Statesman who bottled out: 'Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown' - Peter Paterson: Chatto, 20 pounds00:02
Football: Sweet solo by Radford00:02
Widow murder case: pilot freed00:02
Saddam 'sent hit team to kill Bush in Kuwait'00:02
Lawyers make killings from bestselling plots: Patrick Cockburn in Washington reports on the literary scramble to make a mint from the 'mind candy' of legal thrillers00:02
How a new master fits into the frame: Many managers are not prepared for the return of their MBA students. Paul Gosling reports00:02
Delors hopeful on Gatt talks00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Alec Reed00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Say what you like about . . .00:02
Granada to back bid for 1bn national lottery00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hot under the collar: 'Air and Fire' - Rupert Thomson: Bloomsbury, 15.9900:02
ETCETERA / INDEX00:02
Football: Norwich on a high00:02
FASHION / A place in the sun00:02
Regulation: Called to account by law: SEC-style rules could soon dictate corporate governance in the UK00:02
Bias shows up in mortgage advice00:02
Football: Lots of money and the right result: The first Premier League season is almost over. Jasper Rees hears from the experts what they thought about it00:02
Own car hits PC00:02
Vietnam oil find to boost BP run of success00:02
City File: Looking up00:02
The New World order takes on Europe's winemakers: Australian wines aren't sniffed at. They're copied. Jason Bennetto on the rise of the Down Under vine00:02
Massacre in the goalmouth00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Colony born in shame dies in deceit: 'The End of Hong Kong: The Secret Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat' - Robert Cottrell: John Murray, 19.9900:02
Lawyers make killings from bestselling plots: Patrick Cockburn in Washington reports on the literary scramble to make a mint from the 'mind candy' of legal thrillers00:02
Unions look set to defeat Smith on party reform00:02
Pressure on Zeneca cash call00:02
City: Time to talk00:02
Beginners get money taped: Vivien Goldsmith listens to recorded tips on budgeting for the younger set00:02
Nadir: my pledge to return cash00:02
Business students taste life at the sharp end: The LBS is trying to forge closer ties between classroom and factory floor00:02
Fishing Lines: The way to slim: fish for fitness00:02
Growth in US00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Eggshells in the fireplace, castles in the air: 'Piero Di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and Fantasia' - Sharon Fermor: Reaktion Books, 29 pounds00:02
Equestrianism: Leng stays a shade ahead00:02
Clinton enters twilight zone of inner-city aid00:02
Mediation: Cooler heads cut costs: Dispute centre keeps many squabbles out of court, writes Roger Trapp00:02
Frenchman freed00:02
BOOK REVIEW / From roast beef to old bull: 'The Faber Book of Conservatism' - ed Kenneth Baker, 17.5000:02
SCIENCE / Diabetes: a global epidemic: The number of diabetics is rising dramatically. Polynesians and North American Indians are particularly affected. Is it genetic, asks Steve Connor, or the result of poor diet?00:02
Faces famous for fifteen months: A new dawn in centre party politics? We've been there before. Stephen Castle talks to some shooting stars of the past00:02
Girl in coach fall00:02
Favouritism: In the shadow of a brother: Wendy Hornton on the pain of feeling you are second-best00:02
Bunhill: Slater's extradition fight00:02
CHILDREN / Why some siblings are more equal than others: Favouritism is more common than parents admit - or are aware of. Cherrill Hicks on its causes and effects00:02
Service gives firm help with minding the kids: One-time voucher scheme is aiding companies with childcare problems00:02
General flees00:02
New building rules 'will lead to waste of energy'00:02
Football: Palace's bitter downfall00:02
Cricket: Bicknell's brilliance00:02
Letter: AZT never claimed to be a miracle cure for Aids00:02
Drink kills Group 4 prisoner00:02
A-Z of treats: D for doughnuts00:02
'Changes come with a struggle' - the ordeal of PC Prem: Cal McCrystal meets the Sikh who won pounds 25,000 and an apology for discrimination00:02
Freudian drama puts media-speak on trial00:02
Football: The XI00:02
SAS man keeps the red kite flying00:02
Perot attacks Clinton 'war'00:02
Cricket: Give him a part he'll play to the full: Simon Hughes on Mark Ramprakash, ready to bat for England again00:02
Letter: And finally . . . the end of the world is imminent00:02
Fraser talks00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: St Martyn the Good00:02
Letter: AZT never claimed to be a miracle cure for Aids00:02
Public Services Management: Giving due credit: How should we be compensated for poor services? Paul Gosling reports00:02
THEATRE / Ace player finally makes it to King: As Robert Stephens takes on Lear, Irving Wardle surveys the mixed career of an actor without a mask00:02
Equestrianism: The joy of jodhpurs is undiminished: Richard Williams on the part Jilly Cooper, part Mrs Thatcher world of Badminton00:02
BOOK REVIEW / 'The Art of Arousal' - Dr Ruth Westheimer: Abbeville / John Murray, 22.9500:02
Letter: Student card is not worth it00:02
Political prophet00:02
SBC offers cash for scrips00:02
FOOD & DRINK / Asparagus springs eternal: It's always cropping somewhere in the world. Now it's England's turn, writes Michael Bateman00:02
Nadir flight stalls 19m pounds of sell-offs00:02
Letter: Boots vs Body Shop00:02
Forgotten war mirrors life in the Kabul zoo: Afghanistan's Islamic republic is collapsing into guerrilla anarchy. Tim McGirk reports00:02
Letter: Bosses binge in a classless society00:02
Then & Now: Sodas and secrets00:02
Football: Pompey go to play-offs00:02
Macho management is back with a vengeance00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Who did what when - 'It: Sex Since the Sixties' - Jonathon Green: Secker, 17.99 / 9.9900:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: How the Dalai Lama wins famous fans00:02
17 hurt in clashes at anti-racism march00:02
HEALTH / Common Remedies: Manipulation and massage00:02
Downgrading00:02
Motorists warned about bogus insurance cover: Government alert on unauthorised firms that offer low premiums00:02
Leading Article: This is the game the grown-ups play00:02
Girl hangs on to life in funfair terror00:02
Football: Another 26 years, or birth of an era?00:02
Ex-MP is charged with Hani murder00:02
45 hurt in riot00:02
Football: Oldham triumph against the odds: Royle's men produce the performance to ensure survival as Coppell's worst fears come true00:02
Favouristism: 'He knew he wasn't wanted': A mother repeats her own mother's behaviour by rejecting her son00:02
The best Lear I've seen00:02
What makes the Serbs the way they are: They see themselves as a nation in peril, misunderstood by the world. Tony Barber traces the roots of an aggressor00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The black white-feller: 'Remembering Babylon' - David Malouf: Chatto, 14.9900:02
City: Greg's triumph00:02
ARTS / Cries & whispers00:02
ART / 'Ullo Ian, got an old motor?: Public galleries are in a sorry state. But thanks to private enterprise, six highly promising artists are showing in London00:02
BOOK REVIEW / New ways to play I-Spy: 'The Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s' - Stephen Dorril: Heinemann, 16.9900:02
White-knuckle trip for Ryan's crew: A debt deadline is looming as the GPA boss and his star-studded board battle to keep the huge aircraft leasing company aloft. Michael Harrison tests the wind00:02
Builders brush up the image00:02
MUSIC / St Paul's hot gospel: The best little orchestra in Minnesota is here this week. Michael White talks to its charismatic music director00:02
Your Money: Victories for consumers00:02
City File: Body battered00:02
Letter: We do not need new laws to tackle terrorism00:02
Technology: High stakes required to rake in the chips: Intel is facing expensive choices as it battles to stay ahead in the microchip industry00:02
FILM / The time of his life, and mine00:02
ETCETERA / Bridge00:02
New ceasefire starts at noon00:02
MUSIC / One that should be heard and not seen00:02
Bunhill: Hammer horror of losers at Lloyd's00:02
The Broader Picture: First love, last rites00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Missing: a packet of throat pastilles, a hairbrush, and 250,000 smackers00:02
Football: Halifax relegated00:02
City File: Failed disposals likely to lower Rank00:02
Howard cuts green jobs00:02
Cricket: Slater serves up the cream00:02
Hardliners warned as Yeltsin flexes muscles00:02
ARTS / Testosterone rapper on a roll: Show People 76. LL Cool J00:02
Diehards mount stand on a bridge too far00:02
Easy to wish, harder to do: The West has no vision with which to guide the new world order, says Vernon Bogdanor00:02
What They thought: 'I wouldn't drink this even if I were drunk'00:02
Tune in, turn on for Jesus00:02
Best and Worst: Japan and gold funds shine: Unit Trusts00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Essex Man of the East: 'The Japanese: Strange But Not Strangers' - Joe Joseph, Viking, 15.99; 'Caught in a Mirror: Reflections of Japan' - Lisa Martineau: Macmillan, 16.9900:02
Letter: And finally . . . the end of the world is imminent00:02
Cricket: Atherton in Test form00:02
BOOKS / First fictions00:02
Q & A: Football's black pioneers . . . and an osteopath writes00:02
Future catches up with Paraguay's past: Colin Harding on how the election could threaten the bad old ways00:02
Football: Hammers on the up00:02
Under a roof of wildflowers00:02
Letter: What's testing got to do with it?00:02
BOOKS / Paperbacks00:02
Buy-out bus company sale leads to route monopoly00:02
'Riders' in reality: no Ruperts bare at Badminton00:02
Olivetti faces legal showdown with rival00:02
Cricket: Kent take Llong way00:02
Firefighters head for pay strike vote00:02
Monopolies Commission to investigate price of CDs00:02
Nothing finer than a plant in Carolina: BMW is the latest European company to set up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Nicholas Faith explains what makes a sleepy southern town the prime focus for foreign investors in the US00:02
Bunhill: Equality causes a fit00:02
How We Met: Maggi Hambling and Paul Bailey00:02
Rugby Union: The success that took Rowell from Gosforth to glory00:02
No prying eyes as the gumshoes gather00:02
Bunhill: Overboard00:02
Faith saves Crimean memorial: Hugh Pope reports from Istanbul on the reconsecration of an Anglican outpost00:02
Football: No roving in Europe00:02
Family firms lacking that strategic edge: Stoy forum to show how long-term planning is as important for the small business as it is for the multinational company00:02
Football: The loneliest guest at the party: You're the captain, and the club has reached the Cup Final. But you won't be playing. Jasper Rees reports00:02
Football: The agony and the ecstasy00:02
Rugby Union: Wasps outlast Saints00:02
Letter: Radically different00:02
Letter: And finally . . . the end of the world is imminent00:02
Shares: The right time to go into print00:02
Football: Gunned down: Arsenal's Paul Dickov fires past Nigel Martyn at Highbury yesterday to help consign Crystal Palace to the First Division.00:02
Bunhill: Flying low00:02
City File: Avesco00:02
Airline chief quits00:02
Should men work with children?: We asked for your views, following the nursery abuse case00:02
Economics: Labour still has to climb a mountain00:02
Borrowers in a fix on long-term deals: Offers on fixed-rate mortgages seem set to creep higher by year's end, writes Neasa MacErlean00:02
Stranded by a silent rescue service00:02
Executives pick up overseas tax breaks00:02
Business Information Service: Saying of the week00:02
Racing: Bob's Return promises little as an Epsom arriviste: Paul Hayward watches a Derby Trial at Lingfield yesterday which left Tenby unchallenged as the big race favourite00:02
Gold price falls00:02
Better Great Tew than Tiny Town00:02
Letter: Sexual satisfaction00:02
MOTORING / From retro glam to V-reg grunge: It began with Sixties Cadillacs and Buicks, but the new face of budget car rental is a gold Capri with 100,000 miles on the clock. Matthew Gwyther reports00:02
Captain Moonlight's Notebook: Soprano robbed00:02
BOOKS / Hothouse blues: James Hamilton-Paterson lives in Tuscany, but not in Chiantishire. Reclusive, publicity-shy and unpredictable, he has yet to find a wide audience. But at least one admirer thinks him 'our best writer by far'00:02
Irish rate cuts00:02
Cricket Round-up: Cork lifts Derbyshire00:02
Letter: Raith Rover fans00:02
THEATRE / Marriage a la farce00:02
TELEVISION / Sex, beasts and Jilly Cooper00:02
Tories could be trounced without Lib-Lab pacts: Ivor Crewe on the lessons that opposition parties could learn from last week's local election successes00:02
'We've had enough, we have to fight. The system is loaded against us': Oxford women dons are protesting over sexist promotions. Nick Cohen reports00:02
ROCK / Sado, but no suggestion of masochism00:02
Football: Bolton gain, Preston loss00:02
Cher: The mercy tour: Cher wasn't sure what sent her to stricken Armenia, land of her fathers, to hand out love and toys. But she was looking for a way to change her life, and this seemed a good place to start00:02
TRAVEL / The lost empire explored: The Cholas once had great power, but the world has forgotten them, writes David Keys00:02
The safety inspector cometh: Is your kettle a potential workplace hazard? Linda Grant on a new national obsession00:02
A tweak too far tests a lord beyond his limit00:02
Bunhill: Overboard