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Today's Number: 28000:02
Science: Witchweed casts a new curse over the savannah: Martyn Kelly on a parasite that sleeps in the soil as it waits for a host00:02
Leading Article: Such carnage for so little00:02
End of the Pier: Cromer ditches its fruit machines to thrive on laughter: In the first of a series on Britain's piers, Martin Wroe visits a resort where 'family fun' pulls the crowds00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Letter: Conservatives lack the will to win00:02
Law Report: Same judge for adoption and contact: Correction00:02
Athletics: Allahgreen wins her rerun in style: Britain top medal table at European Junior Championships00:02
Bowls: Spa title is a breeze for Reeve00:02
Drifters accused00:02
Letter: Greeks in Albania want only what is fair00:02
A long wait for Godot00:02
Football: Gascoigne's circus exits00:02
Obituary: Lord Craigton00:02
'Reunited with a vengeance': Correction00:02
Sarajevo: Action now] (CORRECTED)00:02
All about Desani: G V Desani was feted by literary England. Then he disappeared. Naseem Khan traces the life of this forgotten author00:02
Nigerian military unveils new plan to retain power00:02
Tennis: Pernfors' surprise success00:02
Two die in kart race crashes00:02
You can't beat curling up with a good fax00:02
Three charged00:02
Commodities: Merchant challenges wool board00:02
Sporting Digest: Australian Rules00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Court Circular00:02
Science: A little reminder in your pocket: Apple's electronic assistant could revolutionise the way we live, putting the power of computers in everybody's hands, writes Steve Homer00:02
ERM Crisis: Clarke under attack for 'I told you so' attitude: Heath criticises the Chancellor for gloating that UK's withdrawal has been justified. Anthony Bevins reports00:02
Gold in coal raises shining prospect00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sad king symbolised unity for a divided Belgium: Andrew Marshall in Brussels and Phil Davison in Madrid report on the death of a monarch who tried to bridge the divide00:02
Saving Sarajevo: What are we going to say to our children tomorrow? We cannot say we did not know: Correction00:02
Driving out the Queen00:02
Letter: Introducing sense into the currency markets00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
ERM Crisis: Men in dark suits hold reins of power: Secretive monetary committee rejected reform00:02
THEATRE / Playing happy families: Rhoda Koenig reviews Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing00:02
Letter: Conservatives lack the will to win00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Test gives early alert on Alzheimer's disease: An American advance raises hope that people at risk can be detected sooner. James Cusick reports00:02
Obituary: King Baudouin I of the Belgians00:02
Surveys show signs of UK upturn00:02
L&G looks into floating Mithras joint venture00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Racing: For the notebook: A weekly list of horses to follow:00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Letter: Legal provocation00:02
Obituary: Vernon Donnison00:02
Baseball: Henderson joins Jays00:02
Scouts in turmoil over sackings: Allegations of victimisation and arrogance have alienated Berkshire group. Heather Mills reports00:02
Dustmen compete to give job a lift: Wheelie loaders and drivers take to the streets for the fifth World Refuse Collection Championship00:02
Chess: Manchester Ruth defeats the girls00:02
Letter: Conservatives lack the will to win00:02
The fast yacht 'Crusader' returns to Cowes with hopes of a repeat victory00:02
Mercury set to undercut BT on residential charges00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Sailing: Exile on mainsheet wastes hours in mass exodus of the rule-breakers: Hugh Bateson sees the joy of messing about on the water disappear during a painful defeat at Cowes00:02
Racing: Evergreens upstage the evangelical meeting: As Lingfield continues the sport's seventh-day experiment, some of the most enduring attractions perform elsewhere00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55 at the Tate Gallery00:02
Obituary: Col Sir Guy Campbell Bt00:02
Racing: Avertis advertise their claims00:02
Union leader hints at split with Labour: AEEU points to an American revival00:02
Nato spy suspects held in Germany00:02
Murder man00:02
TELEVISION / Taking it a stage too far: John Lyttle reviews Billy Roche's The Wexford Trilogy00:02
Anniversaries00:02
'Superglueman' comes unstuck: Alex Renton finds that a circus performer's adhesive trick has come under attack00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Trekker steps out00:02
US bid talks may bolster Spring Ram00:02
Mothers and midwives gain power under maternity care proposals00:02
Jenkin admits he acted in NHS deal (CORRECTED)00:02
LUI protests at fraud inquiry delay00:02
Cricket: Smithies puts England on top of the world: Brittin and Hodges lay the foundations of a home triumph as New Zealand's women are comprehensively outplayed in World Cup final00:02
Equestrianism: Melliger has the answers in title quest: Bronze for Briton00:02
Letter: Praise be for the BBC00:02
ERM Crisis: Ministers agree ERM rescue: Late-night decision in Brussels widens most currency bands to 15 per cent Franc drops sharply as markets open00:02
Cricket: Fleming and Cowdrey lead assault: Leicestershire given fearful battering00:02
Obituary: Luis Sttau Monteiro00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell's antidote to '500-mile headache': Briton regains the championship lead with stunning oval-track victory00:02
Leading Article: Dogberry and son to the rescue00:02
Out of Manila: Not waving, but drowning politely00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Rugby League: Young Lions overcome00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Letter: Conservatives lack the will to win00:02
Nightmares and grim reality: Susan de Muth in bed with Trevor McDonald - Our series on nocturnal habits continues with the dreams and diversions of the News at Ten anchorman00:02
Created equal, but living worlds apart: Racism is unjust, but ethnic snobbery, its close relation, is discriminatory and offensive, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown00:02
Island fire00:02
Blitzed Lebanese look for reason in the rubble: As refugees return to their shattered homes, Israel argues that the death and destruction could speed the Middle East peace process00:02
South African violence claims baby among its latest victims00:02
Golf: Price shares lead with 66: Joint leader overcomes domestic distractions00:02
A golden ptreasury of dino-rhymes for ptiny ptots00:02
The Week Ahead: Clinton at the cutting edge00:02
Tories back down on school league tables: While the Secretary of State for Education is off sick, his stand-in is making changes. Anthony Bevins reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Netball00:02
Motorcycling: Cadalora captures win by capitalising on calamity00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Organised fraud costs DSS pounds 86m in one year: Whitehall investigators recover only half of gangs' annual haul00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Letter: Ripples make waves00:02
Parish constables win approval: Public invited to write job specification for revived police rank00:02
'Super-rich' claiming benefit lose help on large mortgages00:02
Science: A skier with gold medals in his blood: In endurance sports, a plentiful supply of oxygen to the muscles is vital to success. Ruth McKernan on a family blessed by a mutant gene00:02
American Football: Olympians capture the championship: British final - The British domestic season had a low-key finale yesterday00:02
Obituary: General Roscoe Robinson Jnr00:02
Supermarket chains take court action against cut-price rival00:02
ERM Crisis: Relations with Bonn put Balladur on the spot: Premier will be expected to show France is not second fiddle00:02
Sporting Digest: Motocross00:02
TELEVISION / Briefing: Nature red in tooth and claw00:02
Rebels killed00:02
Football: Cascarino is eclipsed by Hoddle's heroics: Chelsea embarrass their London rivals to dominate pre-season tournament while Tottenham's former idol keeps his thoughts to himself00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Coales' Notes: War efforts: Ars Longa arts organisation resolves to provide cultural services for those in conflict00:02
Parachutists killed in tandem fall00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
THE PROMS / A couple to catch the eye: Meredith Oakes on a Wagner-Messiaen double-bill00:02
Porn videos seized00:02
Sporting Digest: Canoeing00:02
Last-minute plea delays Demjanjuk expulsion: Supreme Court blocks deportation to Ukraine as right-wingers demand new trial00:02
Health officials defend accuracy of Aids tests00:02
Golf: Nervous Baker gets himself out of a hole: Wolverhampton youngster wins Gothenburg play-off to push claim for Ryder Cup place00:02
Building societies buoyant: Top 20 weather worst housing recession since Second World War00:02
Cricket: India break their duck: Kumble breakthrough prompts Sri Lankan decline00:02
Pembroke: Chained to a good cause00:02
BT call raises workers' blood pressure00:02
France's facade begins to crumble: Germany now calls the shots in Europe, a fact that the French are loath to accept, says Jonathan Eyal00:02
Athletics: Cram brightens gloomy picture: Selectors ponder a lengthening injury list ahead of the World Championships00:02
'Times' price cut00:02
Speculating on the Germans' motives00:02
Rugby Union: South Africans make Australia look second rate: Pienaar's team savour a mighty triumph in Sydney as world champions succumb to committed tourists00:02
Serial rapists likely to have been beaten as children00:02
Leading Article: Making happy customers of Britain's tourists00:02
Peace holds00:02
Council leader supports care staff on drowning: Seaside chaperones acted as 'reasonable parents'00:02
Sporting Digest: Volleyball00:02
Sailing: Cudmore fails in attempt to gain substitute: French lead the objections to the Irish Admiral's Cup team's proposal to alter the regulations in order to call upon a replacement yacht00:02
Cricket: Maynard's manifold mastery worthy of Test place00:02
Happy Anniversary: 'Mad Dog' Sithney rejects the girls00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Motorcycling: Riders on the storm at Donington Park as Italian's late lunge secures thrilling victory in the British Grand Prix00:02
Serb attack on bridge raises fears of new Croatian war: Bosnian Croats fleeing from Muslim attacks are creating a potential flashpoint00:02
Broadcaster dies00:02
Germans delve into the evil past: Adrian Bridge describes a visit by young men and women seeking to make amends to Polish Jews in Lodz00:02
The Daily Poem: A Cortege of daughters00:02
Rape victim, 15, forced to move house00:02
Diary: 2-8 August00:02
Sporting Digest: Motorcycling00:02
Woman in tussle with police dies00:02
Law Report: The following notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports.00:02
Letter: Conservatives lack the will to win00:02
Pay rise average slumps to record low of 2 per cent00:02
Israel attempts a defence of its aggression00:02
Peter Pringle's America: The virtual biography of Teddy Kennedy00:02
Obituary: Gert Hofmann00:02
Paraglider snagged00:02
Saudis freed00:02
Somewhere, over the rainbow . . .: Camilla Berens meets the Rainbow Tribe, a collective of squatters without a base for its 'creative projects'00:02
Minister calls for party to 'listen': Poll defeats blamed on presentation not policy00:02
West blocks Gaddafi over Greek bank: Pressure from Lockerbie relatives helps to stop takeover AHB would give Libyans foothold in EC banking00:02
Fishermen use their feet to flounder for a prize: Sensitive toes are all you need to become the world's champion 'tramper'. Keith Elliot reports00:02
Apple's future in the hands of Newton: Larry Black looks at the progress of the computer company's technological breakthrough - a 'digital assistant'00:02
Golf: Nervous Baker gets out of a hole: Wolverhampton youngster wins Gothenburg play-off and improves chances of securing Ryder Cup place00:02
Smaller Companies: Oceonics on course for brighter prospects00:02
Clamour for Serb 'rebuff'00:02
Cricket / Round-Up: Ward shows way home00:02
Workman injured00:02
Letter: That Thursday feeling00:02
Midwest braced for tide of doom00:02
Created equal, but living worlds apart: Racism is unjust, but ethnic snobbery, its close relation, is discriminatory and offensive, says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown00:02
Hockey: Winning end for England00:02
Sniper attack leads to security search: Police fear armed IRA team at work on border00:02
Football: One-goal lead for Canada00:02
Cricket: ICC looks to old values: Seminar aims at improving umpiring standards and consistency00:02
TELEVISION / First Person00:02
Swimming: British duet in tune for synchronised harmony: Shacklock and Vakil hold off the Italians to take bronze in European Championships in Sheffield00:02
Gambling tattoo identifies stab victim: Body of businessman linked to clubs and bars found on landfill site