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Leading Article: Democracy clings on in Pakistan00:02
World Student Games: Buffalo's empty seats00:02
Major intervenes in drugs case00:02
Heads protest over class sizes: Pupil-teacher ratios worst for a decade00:02
Tennis: Krishnan seals Cup triumph00:02
Two men, four knives, an empty office and me: How should employers safeguard female workers? Janie Lawrence talks to a woman who didn't consider her own safety until a terrifying attack00:02
Letter: Concern over Care in the Community00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Scotland Yard to test new baton on the beat00:02
DANCE / Corps, what a scorcher: Judith Mackrell sees the gloom lift from the Kirov00:02
Baseball: Blue Jays grounded by poor pitching: World Series champions must trade to escape AL divisional dogfight00:02
The time for evenhandedness has passed: Sanctions against Croatia would curb moderate influences and hinder humanitarian efforts, warns Robert Block00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Letter: Irritation over apples00:02
Sailing: Shockwave takes up the lead00:02
Cricket / County Championship: Renascent Pierson spins into control: Essex left with only pride to play for as Nottinghamshire are denied by weather: Rob Steen reports from Southend00:02
Letter: Targeting aid where it is needed most00:02
Letter: Targeting aid where it is needed most00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Letter: Time to link water quality and crop surpluses00:02
Chess: A quiet move is better than a flashy sacrifice00:02
Threat to fertility help for single people dropped00:02
Athletics: Selectors criticised00:02
Golf / The Open Championship: Bullish indicators for Ryder Cup00:02
Watchdog warns ITV firms against earlier news00:02
Dormice sleep safely00:02
Surprise profit warning wipes pounds 250m from Medeva's value: Results likely to be pounds 10m below City estimates - Announcement prompted by severe problems in US00:02
Business & City in Brief00:02
Bosnia babies found dead in abandoned mental hospital: Fleeing staff leave handicapped to fend for themselves00:02
Health Update: Pill guidelines00:02
Women begin to make their mark00:02
Britain 'needs a recovery by Germany': Clarke warns as high street spending improves sharply00:02
Bottom Line: Beyond the Boots drug fiasco00:02
Letter: Concern over Care in the Community00:02
Innocents banished to the ends of the earth: Robert Fisk in Novska spoke to Muslims and Croats forced from their land00:02
Cricket / County Championship: Hard lines for Harden as Somerset claim draw: Essex left with only pride to play for as Nottinghamshire are denied by weather: Michael Austin reports from Trent Bridge00:02
Customers can expect more00:02
Fresh ballot00:02
Birthdays00:02
Wittgenstein's day at the sales: Are there values in the world? At Sotheby's there are. Yesterday, abstruse documents were lotted up and sold for pounds 145,000. In Ray Monk this gave rise to philosophical doubt00:02
Poker: Kid pays the price00:02
Chinese claim00:02
Bottom Line: Greenalls doubts00:02
Obituary: Lord Winstanley00:02
Today's Number: 7.16bn00:02
MPs and charities join call for Clunis public inquiry: Campaigners demand moratorium on closure of psychiatric hospitals00:02
Trials of drug for hepatitis scrapped after patients die: British tests cancelled after two deaths in US00:02
Cricket: Theatre of the absurd may prompt new laws: Derek Hodgson reports from Old Trafford00:02
Laughing policeman00:02
Go to the country? Help, let's go to the Queen]00:02
SA murders00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Health Update: Breast is best00:02
City firms seek to raise rump stakes: Jason Nisse on a challenge to the way surplus rights issue shares are disposed of00:02
Cycling / Tour de France: Rincon at home in the mountains: Colombian gives his country their first success for five years00:02
Market Report: Drugs and oil combine to calm BT3 festivities00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
EC stops short of sanctions on Croatia00:02
Letter: Tories seek entente but no alliance00:02
Pembroke: Dogged by misfortune00:02
Sporting Digest: Student Sport00:02
Cold War figure held00:02
Killer jailed00:02
Hong Kong forces withdrawal outlined00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
View from City Road: Optimism with reservations00:02
Philosopher's corrections find a ready market: A pile of proofs annotated by Wittgenstein sold for pounds 145,865 at Sotheby's. Dalya Alberge reports00:02
Nigerian hopes00:02
Anger at BAA meeting00:02
Rebels threaten to vote Major out: Tories say they will support a censure motion to prevent ratification of Maastricht in defiance of the House00:02
Each side plays its part in the farce of cricket's fastest century00:02
View from City Road: Pru's proposals fail to excite00:02
INTERVIEW / the shadows comes illumination: It must have been hard having a fascist demagogue for a father. But Nicholas Mosley doesn't remember it that way. He has other devils to wrestle now00:02
'Cynicism' on exports to Iraq denied00:02
Women's Cricket World Cup: Australia are the side to beat: Rob Steen assesses the leading candidates in the Women's Cricket World Cup, which starts today00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Court Circular00:02
MPs join campaign to win appeal for jailed police officers: Supporters claim verdict was 'perverse' and believe constables' convictions may be unsafe00:02
Each side plays its part in the farce of cricket's fastest century00:02
Youth crime arrests00:02
CBE for film maker00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Football: Ruddock transfer to Liverpool called off: Tottenham defender pulls out of Anfield deal over cash dispute00:02
Sporting Digest: Shooting00:02
Iraq gives way to UN demands00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Leading Article: Having no secrets from your bank00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Football: Barnet given stay of execution by their fellow clubs: Debt-ridden side win 25 per cent support to stay in League but must find pounds 500,000 to survive. Phil Shaw reports00:02
Health Update: Married life and death00:02
Primerica results exceed expectations: Financial services group and Chase Manhattan surprise Wall Street analysts00:02
The Bosnia Poem: Black Dog00:02
Gay activists picket Aids charity after pair jailed00:02
IRA explosives 'minder' jailed for 22 years: An Old Bailey court is told how a Londoner was 'sounded out' and used by terrorists in plot against John Major. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Optimism gives way to anger after new comments00:02
Racing: Carson and Bight enter Ascot equation00:02
Out of Spain: World's noisiest city turns deaf ear to acoustic alarmists00:02
Health Update: Relief from the sweats00:02
People: No contest for 'beautiful bloke'00:02
Labour executive backs reforms00:02
Obituary: Cardinal Gordon Gray00:02
Summer school killer cut lecturer's throat: Man dressed in victim's clothes after attack in her room at university campus, court is told00:02
Golf / The Open Championship: Carnoustie unlikely to host Open00:02
Golf plans for common and park to be fought00:02
Spring Ram investors may move to unseat Rooney00:02
Boots withdraws heart drug less than a year after launch: Trial on 3,000 patients shows link with higher death rate00:02
MP resists sacking by Hoskins board00:02
Bottom Line: Beyond the Boots drug fiasco00:02
Tudjman defends his Serbia Ostpolitik: Croatian President remains defiant despite domestic criticism of dialogue with Slobodan Milosevic and the threat of Western embargo00:02
Racing: Roberts appeals against ban00:02
Letter: Time to link water quality and crop surpluses00:02
Harry Ramsden's takes off: The fish and chip formula is set to invade the world00:02
Councils to have choice of 'opting-in' for review: Government U-turn on reorganisation plan00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
KPMG is investigated four years after audit00:02
Athletics: Backley in high-profile return00:02
Health: A special kind of help for new mums: Ann Robinson looks at a Dublin programme in which experienced mothers encourage those who have just had their first child00:02
Diary00:02
Traffic blues00:02
Christchurch: Tories upset by wheelchair protesters: Disruption blunts Howard's attempt to rally forces00:02
GP 'failed to examine asthmatic patient'00:02
Banks face inquiry over 'political files' claim00:02
Sculpture garden puts a new face on art00:02
Oil prices rebound after plunge: Brent crude touches three-year low on news of Iraq agreement00:02
Body of boy aged 8 is found in lift00:02
Killing in Turkey00:02
RADIO / Might is on their side: Robert Hanks considers possibilities and probabilities00:02
Maxwell brothers on new fraud charges00:02
Judge defends probation sentence00:02
Cricket: Leading first-class averages00:02
Cricket / Botham's Retirement: Botham's legend passes quietly into history: Jon Culley reflects on the motivations and impulses of the record-breaking ultimate competitor at a rainy Durham University00:02
Disgraced politicans come back 'cleansed': Japan's election serves as a ritual purification for figures tainted by corruption as they or their nominees return00:02
Health Update: Chickenpox: parents are 'overprotective'00:02
Creativity: An essential use in emergency surgery00:02
Bhutto plea00:02
Inside Parliament: Guillotine raises Aids fear: Former minister defends compulsory education about HIV in schools - Waldegrave challenged on claims that he misled Parliament over Iraq00:02
US and N Korea reach interim deal on nuclear arms dispute00:02
Health: Living on borrowed time, but thriving: Doreen Wilson has cancer. For 10 days each month she wears a 'bum-bag' with a pump that sends drugs to her liver, but it hasn't stopped her tap dancing. Clare Dover reports00:02
Aid halted00:02
Letter: Concern over Care in the Community00:02
Clinton falls short of his pledge to gays in US forces: Compromise will end witch-hunts but enforce silence and celibacy on homosexuals00:02
Labour suspects false market in BT: Complaint to SIB about pressure from allocation policy to buy existing shares00:02
Law Report: Solicitors' conduct less culpable: Re Solicitors - Queen's Bench Divisional Court. (Lord Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Alliott and Mr Justice Buckley), 19 July 199300:02
NatWest links with European banks00:02
Adam gets new lease of life after RBS buy: Purchase is good solution after last year's crisis00:02
MP arrested00:02
Cricket: England stay loyal to Trent Bridge twelve: Injury denies Igglesden place for fourth Test as selectors rely on team spirit and resist temptation to call up specialist seamers for Headingley00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Decision date for Demjanjuk00:02
Exclusive: the spy who came in with the shopping tells all00:02
Leading Article: Power, prestige and paradox00:02
Sporting Digest: Croquet00:02
Cricket / County Championship: Yorkshire win by four wickets00:02
TELEVISION / Frank's for the memory00:02
Health Update: Eat something fishy00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Obituary: Edmund Ward00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mr Smith goes to town in search of votes: John Smith - Andy McSmith: Verso, pounds 17.9500:02
WMI defies poor trading conditions to rise 26%00:02
Golf / The Open Championship: Norman salvages a career on the rocks: Queenslander regains crown00:02
Tenpin bowling brought to life with human ball in a steel cage00:02
Health Update: Oestrogen and angina00:02
Letter: US should lift Cuba embargo00:02
Shopping from the sofa: A television retail channel is sweeping the United States. Michael Marray reports00:02
The wind changed and then I was PM00:02
RTZ unloads Nerco oil and gas interests: Sale will recoup half acquisition price - Coal mining business to be retained00:02
TELEVISION / Tabloid TV00:02
Accountancy & Management: If you've got talent, look after it: Roger Trapp looks at an attempt to encourage managers to nurture their staff00:02
Letter: Children sent abroad00:02
Churchill renews appeal for tighter immigration control00:02
OPERA / All on her own, the Widow without tears: Edward Seckerson on a speechless, setless, motionless Merry Widow from Glyndebourne00:02
Cricket / County Championship: Middlesex move clear00:02
Vatican acts overBosnian rapes: Birth control ban eased for women at risk00:02
No reason to treat us differently: Ian McKellen urges Parliament to lower the age of consent for homosexuals to 1600:02
View from City Road: Medeva's whole strategy is thrown into doubt00:02
Letter: Action to halt spread of nuclear weapons00:02
ART / Mirror, mirror on the wall: Tom Lubbock on the jokes, references and commentaries hidden in Pictures in Pictures at the National Gallery, London00:02
Dinosaurs take pounds 5m00:02
Chinese draw their power from Tibet's sacred lake: A hydro-electric project on the Yamdrok Tso threatens ecological disaster next century, a correspondent writes in Lhasa00:02
Cadet dies00:02
Next TUC chief hints at Hunt alliance00:02
L&G shares get boost00:02
Where are they now?: Graham Dilley00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-5500:02
Obituary: Cardinal Gordon Gray00:02
Law 'still failing to protect children from abuse'00:02
Sliver of hope amid the father of all floods: There are small signs that the worst may be over for the Midwest, Rupert Cornwell writes from South St Louis00:02
Robbers threaten to burn man, 9900:02
Clinton finally fires FBI chief who refused to leave his post00:02
Howard acts to soothe police fears of reform: Service told change is needed, but will not be rushed. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Welsh agency's links with Tesco attacked: Chris Blackhurst reports on threatened legal action by a rival retailer over a supermarket development deal