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Today's number: 800:02
Haiti democracy plan agreed00:02
Housing prices rose last month: Experts warn market remains 'fragile'00:02
Football: Wright gives Cardiff to junior supporters00:02
Faith and Reason: The gum wears out on a suspect label: Cristina Odone, editor of the Catholic Herald, argues that Catholicism should no longer be dismissed as a 'Roman' mission and can once again be seen as a Universal Church.00:02
A way into French sales00:02
Ceramic sprats to catch a silver mackerel: The desire for sets of matching pieces has made a big business out of 'limited edition' china figurines and plates. John Windsor examines their value00:02
Workers begin learning to live with checkpoints: Guns and cones come out to guard the City against IRA terror as police throw tight security cordon around the Square Mile00:02
Appeals00:02
Lloyds promises five-point plan00:02
Sport: The Week in Review00:02
Quote unquote00:02
Legal setback00:02
Property: When home is where the art is - Commissioning artworks need not be only for the rich, says David Lawson00:02
A reluctant rebel amid Cairo's slums: Robert Fisk meets Mustapha, an Islamic fundamentalist taught that evil acts are necessary against an 'evil' government00:02
Trust in Lazards00:02
Obituary: Roy Campanella00:02
Tennis: Wimbledon '93 / Sampras and Courier declare independence: Experience is not enough for former champions Becker and Edberg as American pair make it through to a final on the 4th of July00:02
US to close 129 military bases: Clinton vows dollars 5bn aid to local communities00:02
Three killed by Cuban guards00:02
London Electricity lifts payout by 16% despite pounds 20m provision00:02
Letter: Aggression in queues that is simple rudeness00:02
Style: From old rags to couture riches - Just cut up those odd socks and sew them together for the latest high-fashion tube look, says Tamsin Blanchard00:02
Market Report: Oil sector depressed by Iraqi sales fear00:02
Auctions00:02
Prisoner gets life00:02
ARTS / The horror, the horror]: Nic Roeg has just finished filming Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Belize. David Nicholson reports on an epic of controlled chaos00:02
327,000 lap up strawberries and sun at Wimbledon: Boris Becker fails to halt Pete Sampras, leaving way clear for an all-American final on Independence Day00:02
Drop in new registrations for BT3 share sale: Prospectus sparks late surge of interest00:02
Mucking out, saddling up, moving on: Heaven for teenage girls is a holiday with horses and no compulsory cultural visits, says Anna McKane00:02
Losing out on holiday insurance cover: Tour operators have the right to make insurance a condition of selling their packages, but some deny they are motivated by the prospect of commission00:02
Satin briefs for my boy Charlie00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / True songs for a melody-starved age: Stephen Johnson catches the fascination of Brian Ferneyhough. Plus the less complex side of life00:02
Cricket: County Championship: Richards and Dale flay Middlesex: Leaders suffer record-breaking partnership - Essex have swift reply for Kent - Rampant Warwickshire force follow-on00:02
Neo-Nazi gang jailed for attack on Asians: Racist assault condemned as 'unprovoked, vicious and cowardly'00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Death blow to apartheid: South Africa to hold all-race elections on 27 April next year despite objections from Inkatha and right-wing parties00:02
Tennis: Wimbledon '93 / Young tearaway storms Becker's allotment: Paul Hayward reports on a Centre Court regular's resignation in the face of a cyclone called Sampras00:02
Khmer Rouge seeks deal00:02
Wills00:02
Protesters banned from Twyford: Injunctions may stop 59 campaigners joining tomorrow's demonstration at the Down, reports Nicholas Schoon00:02
Letter: Weakness of Said's either/or world00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
IBM doubles planned job cuts for year to 50,000: Further dollars 2bn charge expected this year00:02
Most students 'in debt'00:02
Judge faced bribery claim: Counsel tried to have Tucker removed from Nadir trial00:02
Food & Drink: Full Marx for the duck soup00:02
Fraud case offices supply SFO staff: Labour says use of secondees in fraud office raises doubts about ability to carry out investigations00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hushed moan and sudden clap: Anthony Lane applauds the high, refined and alarming seriousness of the celebrated American critic Cynthia Ozick - What Henry James knew: Cynthia Ozick Jonathan Cape pounds 12.9900:02
Motoring: Will the joystick take the joy out of driving?: Roger Bell surveys an initiative designed to take motoring into the 21st century00:02
Gardening: Social climbers with a taste for heights - Clematis, for all its singular beauty, performs best when forced to twine through competing greenery, says Anna Pavord00:02
Leaseholders find themselves victims of an antiquated law: A mortgage provider can decide to pay out thousands on your behalf and leave you to sort out the mess. Sue Fieldman reports00:02
Ethics poser for investors00:02
Army man 'helped to plan Irish bombings'00:02
Islamic cleric surrenders in NY00:02
Food & Drink: Good wine buys00:02
Obituary: Sir John Davis00:02
Country Matters: A king's bird, now all too common00:02
Cars burned after funeral00:02
Classical composers fear cut in income00:02
'Money politics' brings minister to account: Row over approach to Japan's big banks00:02
Turkish zealots kill 40 in 'Verses' attack: Militants burn down hotel in riot over Rushdie's book00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The noise of Chinese whispers: Jung Chang on the maternal memories behind Wild Swans (Flamingo, pounds 6.99)00:02
Verdict eagerly awaited on Polly Peck adminstrators: Case seen as test of regulator's ability to fill disciplinary role00:02
Motoring: BMW versus the Big Mac: Richard Dowden discovers that buying a new car is child's play - of a sort00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Sampras tunes up at Elton's00:02
Service appointments00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Ukraine claims nuclear arms00:02
Letter: Hail and farewell00:02
Travel: Karaoke and sax with President Bill00:02
Motor Racing: Hill puts pressure on Prost00:02
Jury still out00:02
'Cheated' businessman in gun spree: Eight workers die during rampage at a San Francisco office tower00:02
Pakistani military demands elections00:02
Heseltine bulletin00:02
Food & Drink: Recipe - Fooling with fruit00:02
Travel: How to explore a foreign country - and make yourself at home00:02
Property: A good reason to be bankrupt00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test - Some top notes, but none exactly floral: Are diesel engines desirable? Phil Llewellin is impressed after 10,000 miles in the Citroen ZX Aura. But, below, the view on the species is less than rosy00:02
Letter: Oxford: to bypass or not to bypass00:02
Out of Kurdistan: Eunuch keeps the mysteries intact00:02
INTERVIEW / A landlubber beneath the stuns'l boom iron: Peter Guttridge meets the remarkable and well-mannered novelist Patrick O'Brian00:02
Appointments00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Travel: How to get the best out of Athens - A wonderful place to escape from: Hot, fume-filled and noisy, Athens is a city to see quickly. But there are compensations, says Simon Calder00:02
Letter: Hail and farewell00:02
Firstdirect00:02
Food & Drink: A taste of hop fields in an English summer - The old brewery of Brakspear's, in Henley, makes a beer that Michael Jackson, along with John Mortimer, rates as the best bitter in the country00:02
Lloyds promises five-point plan00:02
Cricket: Third Test: England rediscover will and way to compete: Gooch's new-look team make Australia work hard for first time in series but Boon and Border could yet undermine bowlers' efforts00:02
Anger, not shame at Merseyside's rating with Sicily00:02
DANCE/ Critical Round-Up00:02
Yorkshire offers 7.2%00:02
Man in armed siege wanted to be shot by police: Suicide attempt man jailed for three years00:02
High Court says opt-out school can select all pupils: Patten acted lawfully in granting application to choose intake at 11 on academic ability. Julia Hagedorn reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mayhem in Malibu: Voodoo, Ltd - Ross Thomas: Little, Brown pounds 14.9900:02
Absent fathers 'must be urged to join family': Minister criticises couples who have children, but no intention of getting married00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / When it's best left to shepherds: Michael Nyman Band - Royal Festival Hall00:02
Cricket: McCague arrives with bang00:02
China delays beckon Hurd to Peking00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hooker, line and sinker: Shusha Guppy on Roger Cooper's fine, composed account of his Iranian jail sentence: Death plus ten years - Roger Cooper HarperCollins pounds 17.5000:02
Travel: Time for tea and talk in the city of peace - As the world's leaders head for a G7 summit in Japan, Simon Calder visits a family in Hiroshima00:02
Money Grouse: Headache over number change00:02
Letter: Oxford: to bypass or not to bypass00:02
Refugee killed00:02
Food & Drink: Seeking out the good-vibe cafes - There are times and places where atmosphere is more important than what appears on the plate, says Emily Green00:02
Motoring: Green machine that deserves a black reputation00:02
Leading Article: What remains when the smoke clears00:02
Property: When home is where the art is - Commissioning artworks need not be only for the rich, says David Lawson00:02
Gardening: Cuttings00:02
Gay-killer photo leads to 40 calls00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Novotna facing the ultimate testing ground - Czech challenger needs new reserves of mental strength in today's women's final if she is to beat the champion. John Roberts reports00:02
View from Tokyo: Building a breeding ground for corruption00:02
Tool Box: A full set and the rest is child's play00:02
Jobless rise hurts US recovery hopes00:02
Sport: Quotes of the week00:02
Equestrianism: Swiss have the edge in close contest00:02
Scottish Equitable deal waved through00:02
Letter: Aggression in queues that is simple rudeness00:02
Pretoria's long march to the end of an era: The following is a chronology of the main events highlighting the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa00:02
Ruling 'fails to clarify pit bull law'00:02
Twelfth Man: McCague almost an Irishman00:02
Georgia accuses Russia00:02
Funds for those near retirement00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Are you being served? You will be at Daniel: Bra extenders, lone trouser pockets, toys, prams . . . Emma Brooker visits a determinedly traditional department store00:02
Obituaries00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Food & Drink: Tarts and jellies, cassis and fresh cream00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Travel Update00:02
Obituary: George McFarland00:02
'Angel' case goes to Appeal Court: Two years' probation 'too lenient'00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Verdi fan tutti00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: On the other hand: Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson beg to differ on new releases00:02
Cricket: Prichard steals Fleming's thunder00:02
Securiguard prepares to give in to Rentokil00:02
Letter: Mamet's crazed woman00:02
Saturday Night: Where there's smoke, there's burning sausages00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / A sheep that bites: The revival of Rudyard Kipling's fortunes has now spawned an opera. Robert Hanks explores tonight's Cheltenham premiere00:02
Gardening: Social climbers with a taste for heights - Clematis, for all its singular beauty, performs best when forced to twine through competing greenery, says Anna Pavord00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Muslims set fire to hotel, killing 4000:02
Older travellers must pay higher premiums00:02
Paris post War: Art and existentialism 1945-5500:02
Landau invests in Clayform: Property developer made personal pounds 25m from sale of Imry00:02
Style: The way I was - They had Jags and Rollers, I had dirty socks: Eddy Shah tells Nicholas Roe how he grew a chip on his shoulder in Park Lane00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Beware the Ides of March: Caesar - Allan Massie: Hodder & Stoughton pounds 14.9900:02
Gardening: Stirred at home, shaken in Texas00:02
Letter: A Lyttle venom00:02
Tonga tries to shut the closet door on '50/50 men'00:02
Profile: Playwright of oaths and testosterone: David Mamet, on trial at the court of feminism00:02
Birthdays00:02
Cricket Round-Up: Durham are blasted out by Bicknell00:02
Golf: Faldo goes fishing for his form: The world No 1 picks up six birdies and eight trout00:02
Forfeit: Your money and your life: Donald Scott was an innocent man with a very desirable ranch. Now he's dead - shot by LA law. Phil Reeves reports00:02
ITV chief misled us, MPs say00:02
BES rates of return not expected to be bettered: Innovative investments as business expansion schemes near their end00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat: Parsons knows00:02
Nurse paid pounds 7,500 over prostitute claim: Woman claimed misconduct by police00:02
Three Italian soldiers die in shoot-out: Somali gunmen fire on UN troops after house-to-house arms search00:02
Fuller hits out at big brewers: Family-run firm scores gains in free trade00:02
Letter: I spy with my . . .00:02
How events unfolded in the saga of Asil Nadir: Helen Nowicka traces three years of the increasingly complex Polly00:02
Henley Royal Regatta: Redgrave sees red in pairs: World-class field eliminate British scullers as the women make their debut over the full distance00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Twelve locked in battle over EC hardship hand-outs: Rich and poor of Europe have to decide how to spend pounds 132bn for regional development - Two British areas qualify for highest grants00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Coda00:02
Real life rips apart political fiction: Steve Boggan reports on a case of writer's block that turned into a drama00:02
Bringing together muck and magic: Heart Searching: There are now agencies especially for the country liver or lover. Joanna Gibbon reports00:02
Barclays drops fee00:02
Information for single parents00:02
Property write-downs leave Bredero with pounds 106m loss: Banks agree in principle to refinance development00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Nu-Swift set to extinguish its Stock Exchange listing00:02
Westland triumphs in pounds 400m battle: Arab customers told to pay over lost deal00:02
Dictionary raises Thai hackles00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Horror stories with heart: Simon Blow on Guy de Maupassant, who died 100 years ago next Tuesday00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Letter: How spending influences voting00:02
Kidnapper refuses to give name of 'friend'00:02
US lifting of trade embargo heralds boom for Vietnam: Washington ends opposition to IMF refinancing of Hanoi's debts00:02
Cuts 'will leave the elderly abandoned in their own homes': Nursing leaders warn of threat to home help services00:02
Obituary: Louis van Praag00:02
Listing of sound mirrors urged: Oliver Gillie reports on the pre-radar detection devices that enthusiasts want to see preserved00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Forgotten Old Master boosts ailing church: Italian work may help put new roof on an 800-year-old church, writes Dalya Alberge00:02
MUSIC/ Getting in the medieval mood: With her blend of hurdy-gurdy and techo-pop, Stevie Wishart straddles the worlds of folk, rock and the avant-garde. Nick Kimberley reports00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mum's a devout fruitcake: The museum of love - Steve Weiner: Bloomsbury pounds l5.9900:02
Wind of change blowing through stock market: Private shareholders face pressure to join brokers' nominee accounts00:02
Athletics: Regis and Jackson records gone with the wind: Christie equals UK All Comers' mark in beating out Smith's challenge as Gunnell shows world-class turn of speed00:02
Cuts 'will leave the elderly abandoned in their own homes': Nursing leaders warn of threat to home help services00:02
Woman attacked00:02
Church appointments00:02
Anita takes the stand: no jokes, no chewing00:02
Asda chief warns of over-expansion: Supermarket group's profits well ahead of forecast00:02
Tour de France '93: Confronting the challenge of the mountains: The high ground can prove to be a great leveller on the climb to overall victory. Robin Nicholl reports00:02
THEATRE / History lessons: Jeffrey Wainwright on Mikhail Shatrov's Maybe00:02
The Pope goes for check-up00:02
Travel: Departures00:02
Cricket: Donald adds to Yorkshire suffering00:02
Cricket: Third Test: Disciplined Caddick studies too hard00:02
138 drowned in Philippines00:02
Advice for part-timers00:02
Help with reclaiming tax00:02
Teenager fined pounds 12,500 for playing music loudly00:02
The Mates Affair: Tory Party has received pounds 71m in secret donations: Correction00:02
Family's financial nightmare after Alzheimer's struck00:02
Cricket: Oxford's rhythm incites the blues00:02
Muslims hit hard as Croats and Serbs unite: Bosnia's 'Maglaj finger' is cut off as Zepce falls to new allies00:02
Travel: Wild echoes through the sound of silence - Jane Taylor listens to the distinctive melodies and voices of the Andes around the dramatic shores of Lake Titicaca00:02
Tour de France '93: Onus is on Indurain to bolster his reputation: Robin Nicholl reports from Le Puy du Fou on a technological threat to the supremacy of last year's winner00:02
Racing: Carter profits on cast-off00:02
Nigerian democrat arrested00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Letter: Hail and farewell00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hooker, line and sinker: Shusha Guppy on Roger Cooper's fine, composed account of his Iranian jail sentence: Death plus ten years - Roger Cooper HarperCollins pounds 17.5000:02
Racing: Barathea to enter Eclipse archives: Luca Cumani's colt seeks to inject fresh vigour into a revered race. Richard Edmondson reports00:02
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