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Diary: 25-30 May00:02
Football: Taylor banishes any tiresome complaints: England expect nothing but energy and enthusiasm from battle-weary troops in summer push. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Heart surgery could be limited to non-smokers: Financial pressures creating ethical dilemma00:02
Football: Victorious Vale thrive on the tonic of a visit to Wembley00:02
Police seek to protect informants00:02
SIB expected to ask for limit on its powers: Delayed report from chairman unlikely to propose any dramatic changes to the present system of investor protection00:02
Cricket / Sunday League Sussex assume total command00:02
Sporting Digest: Rowing00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Canoeing00:02
Golf: Coles triumphs as water traps Horton: The chairman of the European Seniors Tour wins the Gary Player Classic00:02
European Football: Sosa squanders chance for Internazionale to close on Milan00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Football / World Cup: Greece in first World Cup finals00:02
Out of Hong Kong: Luxurious cars take a fast boat to China00:02
Monetary union slips further away00:02
Letter: Bundesbank's role in ERM 'cure'00:02
Guns N'Rabbis00:02
MP 'improving'00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Boxing: Another early bow for Bowe00:02
TV debate is height of Spanish poll battle: The first American-style face-off between Gonzalez and Aznar holds the key to around 6 million voters00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Table Tennis: Gatien's popular victory00:02
Science: The need to build new partnerships00:02
Letter: Helping the poor when the rich have short memories00:02
Racing Commentary: Sky focuses on down to earth action: A newcomer to transmission of the turf's twilight meetings benefits from more substantial content than its rivals00:02
ANC in battle to curb violence: Black activists are trying to control crime in the townships. Karl Maier reports from Sharpeville00:02
Families haunted by accusations of childhood abuse: A growing number of parents accused by adult children of ill treatment say they are victims of 'false memory syndrome'00:02
Letter: Helping the poor when the rich have short memories00:02
Leading Article: British science in a sorry state00:02
Today's Number: 1800:02
Palestinian quits00:02
Obituary: Professor Gyula Juhasz00:02
Golf: Turner triumphs in pitch battle to trump Coceres00:02
Letter: Health threat from river crossing00:02
To hell with that underclass feel-good factor00:02
Hindus win00:02
The Daily Poem: Night Shift00:02
Canada rocked by Somalia scandal: 'Cover-up' claim after peace-keepers are accused of beating unarmed civilian to death00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Cricket / Round-Up: Johnson whacks the shine off Kent00:02
Killer not guilty00:02
Letter: Big players, slow payers00:02
Cricket / Texaco Trophy: Lord's win gives clean sweep to Australia00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Equestrianism: Madness proves a master00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Playing the justice game00:02
Whistler freed00:02
Commodities and Futures: The options for gold00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Common herd stampedes into the gentry's bargain basement: Malcolm Pithers reports on the unstately scene when county families put their historic lumber on sale00:02
Motor Racing: Strange days in snake pit00:02
Stranded sailors find a warm welcome on Shetland quayside: A legal wrangle has left the crew of a Lithuanian ship dependent on local largesse. Will Bennett reports00:02
The Fed experiments00:02
Drugs in Sport: Germans push to reduce bans00:02
Muslims fear allies' plan will destroy Bosnia: Western initiative on 'safe havens' condemned as a move away from multinational state towards partition serving Serbs and Croats00:02
Major denies Clark's phone was tapped00:02
Science: Wanted: a boost for British research: The Government is expected to publish a White Paper on Science and Technology this week. Will it herald a much-needed change of priorities? Tom Wilkie, Nicholas Schoon and Susan Watts report00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Sailing: Chittendales relish their big parade: Nuclear Electric wins the British Steel Challenge after 28,000-mile marathon against the winds00:02
Hundreds of jobs lost . . . and an ordinary man dies: One miner among many laid off at a colliery in Tyne and Wear burnt himself to death. Esther Oxford tells the story00:02
Obituary: Mary Philbin00:02
Former officer backs Falklands atrocity claim: Parachute Regiment captain 'saw wounded prisoner being shot over an open grave'00:02
Obituary: Maj-Gen John Frost00:02
Athletics: Resolute Murray rises above the recriminations: McColgan leads in the park before she succumbs to her Scottish rival00:02
Notes on a Grade Five musical mind00:02
Rowing: Women to the fore as men founder: Triumph in coxless pairs and fours at international regatta00:02
A spokesman for which homosexuals?00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Nine saved from fire00:02
Sporting Digest: Australian Rules00:02
Royal College of Pathologists00:02
Optimism in HK on talks with Peking00:02
Racing: For the Notebook: A weekly list of horses to follow00:02
Rugby Union: Wallace to strengthen Ireland's Lions collection: Injured Hunter prepares for a six-week lay-off from the game00:02
Cricket / Texaco Trophy: Sinking standards in the field00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Toyota motors into town: Car maker counters criticism by forging ahead with an increase in local content. David Bowen reports00:02
Roller-coaster crash00:02
Rugby Union: Donaldson's boot aids the Scots00:02
Smaller Companies: City Centre success on the menu00:02
Cuban dissident free00:02
Minister signals railcard retreat: MacGregor seeks to pacify backbench rebels00:02
TELEVISION / And the beat goes on and on: John Lyttle on slavish mimics, painful facts and elaborate sub-plots00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Front line may fix the border00:02
Lebanon's Hizbollah perfects its hit-and-run tactics: The Party of God is increasing its influence in southern villages and treating the UN with contempt as it battles against Israel and its allies. Robert Fisk reports from Eit es-Zut00:02
Trafalgar Day is ruled out: May Day replacement will have no name00:02
Banks face choice over Jubilee: Project in danger of collapse if 'drop dead' clause is not deleted00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Fifty charged after motorway demonstration: Environmentalists are warning of a summer of discontent with protests in the South and the Midlands, writes Steve Boggan00:02
Milosevic scents victory while Serbia crumbles00:02
Queen Mother goes home00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Afghan plan00:02
Interim president takes power in Venezuela00:02
The burning question of an animal's last rites: The death of a loved pet can be traumatic. Nicholas Roe meets those who help bereaved owners come to terms with their grief00:02
TELEVISION / Tabloid TV00:02
C&W eyes stake in Irish phone monopoly00:02
Energy tax revolt threatens to ground the Clinton presidency: Airport fiasco puts the lid on an embarrassing week for the White House00:02
Service appointments00:02
Birthdays00:02
Newspaper revelations threaten sextuplets deal: Lucrative sponsorship arrangements for the Vince Six are at risk. Mary Braid reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Voters brave the weather and Khmer Rouge: Third of electorate turns out on first of six days of polling despite guerrilla threats00:02
UN press club to meet dissident00:02
Racing: Amateur hurt00:02
Letter: Feminine touch00:02
Lessons of History: Politics of pressure that took root in May 1968: David Caute reassesses the impact of the youthful insurrections 25 years ago00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Rugby Union: Reflective Wales succeed over heat, altitude and referee00:02
Court Circular00:02
Woman waiting for bus abducted and raped00:02
Tennis: Bodyguards keep eye out for trouble: Courier chases Parisian idyll: John Roberts in Paris reports on the leading prospects for the French Open which starts today amid increased security00:02
Racing: Intrepidity's success may keep her away from Bight00:02
Campaigners fear science review has been misdirected: Scientists say good ideas not exploited because of failure to invest in research and development00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Science: Down-to-earth lab in marketplace limbo00:02
The Week Ahead: Hopes for progress rise in Cyprus talks00:02
Letter: School tests threaten poorer communities00:02
CANNES DIARY / Snow, smoke and some great movies: Sheila Johnston on clashes between sexploitation and political correctness, fairy tales and crisis00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Peter Pringle's America: Heroes don't need lofty sentiments00:02
The Worst of Times: They couldn't accept that I'd been successful: Chris Wright talks to Danny DANZIGER00:02
Coales' Notes: Root problems00:02
Cycling / Tour of Italy: Argentin out in front on00:02
New peace guidelines spelt out00:02
Contemporary Art Market: Recession brings a windfall for figurative artists00:02
Sporting Digest: Motocross00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Questions and answers from a self-styled hero: 'The Struggle for Russia' - Ruslan Khasbulatov ed Richard Sakwa: Routledge, 19.99 pounds00:02
Letter: Zionist aims00:02
Letter: Sad state of Athens is a lesson to the world00:02
Nursing the US back to health: Bill Clinton's plans have much in common with Britain's NHS reforms. Jack O'Sullivan explains00:02
Pembroke: Unfit to carry on00:02
Spending 7,000 pounds can be a hard job: It is difficult to kick-start the economy if nobody wants your money, writes Richard Shepperd00:02
Bells toll for free banking: NatWest-funded study says British system is flawed00:02
Cricket / Texaco Trophy: England work on their losing formula00:02
Rugby Union: England made to work hard00:02
Attempt to rescue Mount under way00:02
THEATRE / More sinn'd against: Paul Taylor reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear at Stratford00:02
Church appointments00:02
Energy tax revolt threatens to ground the Clinton presidency: Airport fiasco puts the lid on an embarrassing week for the White House00:02
DANCE / Hanging out at the youth club: Louise Levene on Nederlands Dans Theater's Under-21s at Sadler's Wells00:02
Life without Cheers is a life without cheer. Or is it?00:02
Motor Racing: Senna's faith in destiny leads him to record: Hill makes mark on tricky track00:02
Canoeing: Splashes of white water fly into the air as a canoeist powers his kayak through the rigours of a slalom course00:02
Letter: Sad state of Athens is a lesson to the world00:02
Rugby Union: Lions display too many newcomers' nerves: British Isles get vital first victory under their belts but the New Zealand tour road promises to get much harder after North Auckland00:02
Letter: Birds at risk00:02
Law Report: Case Summaries00:02
Fourth IRA bomb blast in Ulster00:02
Managers in smaller firms come off best00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
100m pounds bid rumoured for North British: Highland Distilleries and GrandMet's drinks arm in the picture00:02
Letter: Helping the poor when the rich have short memories00:02
Leading Article: Only saints need apply for NHS treatment00:02
Happy Anniversary: Fall from high office00:02
Microsoft launches new Windows00:02
Election soon00:02
Man shot dead00:02
Anniversaries00:02
NHS dentists pay price of successful treatments: Maintaining oral health will prove costly00:02
Muslims denounce 'betrayal' of Bosnia: Serbs delighted after Western 'safe areas' plan abandons Vance-Owen and holds out prospect of a carve-up00:02
Leading Article: The test of the Bosnia deal00:02
Portillo deepens confusion over child benefit: Ministers deny pensioners' prescriptions will be means-tested00:02
The wrong kind of privatisation: The Government's troubles over the railways are just beginning, warns Christian Wolmar00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Chess: Chip off the old block