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Chess: Xie Jun retains her world title00:02
World Cup Football: Taylor keeps his plans under wraps00:02
Letter: Nursery education: vital for children's development or simply hothousing?00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Saddam executes dozens of 'plotters'00:02
Pittards puts final dividend in doubt00:02
South Africa: Mandela's dream gives birth to democracy: 'We are at the end of an era. We are at the beginning of a new era', ANC president declares as South Africa's leaders sign constitution for equality after 45 years of apartheid00:02
South Africa: Key events in history00:02
Prudential Awards for the Arts00:02
Cool assassins stir Palestinian hatred: Robert Fisk, at the funeral in Sidon of Moueen Shabaita, a trusted ally of Yasser Arafat murdered this week, says support for the PLO leader among refugees is becoming a dangerous business00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Sports Letters: Substance left in the bottle00:02
Rugby Union: Guscott doubts increase00:02
Jealous killing00:02
Law Report: Children should be made parties: Re L (Minors: parties). Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Balcombe, Lord Justice Butler-Sloss and Sir Christopher Slade), 3 November 199300:02
Obituary: Hilda Grieve00:02
Manufacturing, who needs it anyway?00:02
Competition 'could increase fuel bills': Consumer council wants inquiry into possible effects00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
New name of the game: Lloyd's aims to turn the corner with corporate capital, writes Paul Durman00:02
Rugby League: Crisis at Leeds deepens00:02
Golf: Norman leads fellow majors00:02
Obituary: Speedy Acquaye00:02
Closures trigger Courtaulds dive00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
Man sells his sperm to lesbian couples00:02
Talk is expensive00:02
Flare kills football fan at World Cup qualifying match00:02
Banker accused of pounds 100m fraud00:02
Ulster's troubles cloak long history of secret meetings: Sinn Fein is said to have had talks with the Government. David McKittrick traces clandestine contacts with republicans00:02
Exporters in protest over shipping cartel00:02
Today's Number: 100:02
Professions 'reeling under onslaught on their status'00:02
Right of Reply:: The writer-director Tim Luscombe berates the critics for their lack of Euro-vision00:02
South Africa: Women prepare for power in new state: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society00:02
Boxing promoter faces sex bias case00:02
Lyric sheets00:02
Aideed move spurs hopes00:02
Market Report: Price wars in DIY market knock a hole in Ladbroke00:02
Judge in spy trial revokes two guilty verdicts: Jury given leave to reconsider findings00:02
Letter: Nursery education: vital for children's development or simply hothousing?00:02
US bans assault weapons00:02
THEATRE / Hardly heaven: Paul Taylor on I'm No Angel, in Southampton00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Boy in Bulger trial changed his story: Second child blames co-accused for abducting toddler. Jonathan Foster reports00:02
View from City Road: Lucas acquires a heavyweight00:02
World Cup Football: Qualifiers00:02
Merrett fails to find US support00:02
Transatlantic air war breaks out: Britain warns of retaliation after Washington slaps limit on BA's alliance with American carrier00:02
Clarke urged to give Bank control of rates: Panel calls for 'clean divorce' from the Treasury with target of zero inflation00:02
British Council faces fraud inquiry: MPs to question officials after pounds 520,000 is traced by police00:02
Drummond case may re-open00:02
Rugby Union: Innovative Rees puts the knife into Stanley's: Major's men booted out at Oxford00:02
Bottom Line: Speaking volumes00:02
Decade of decline for wildlife: Unique countryside survey charts loss of plant species in woods, meadows and farmland00:02
Leading Article: A Bank safe from the politicians00:02
Bundesbank wants EU bill reduced00:02
World Cup Football: France expire after last-gasp reverse00:02
Torture girl's plea for help rejected00:02
Bottom Line: European label chase00:02
Peace? Not if he has anything to say about it00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
Londoners 'dismayed' by life in the capital: Survey highlights fears over crime, homelessness and unemployment00:02
New charges at Windsor will help to pay restoration costs: St George's Hall put on display to reveal the extent of devastation at the fire-damaged castle00:02
Court Circular00:02
China sticks to hard line on rights00:02
Charts00:02
Foot in mouth disease00:02
World Cup Football: Raducioiu's raid leaves Wales bereft: Bodin and Southall blunders set to haunt Welsh00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Letter: Nursery education: vital for children's development or simply hothousing?00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Memorial to Hess built in a field: Mysterious 'shrine' attracts neo-Nazis and outrage from Holocaust survivors00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Nigerian leader quits00:02
PC attacked00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Changes to NHS 'have cut 20,000 nurses'00:02
Social law to by-pass UK00:02
First weigh your ingredients: For schools to improve, they need more information than exam results, says Pam Sammons00:02
Bosnian refugee hailed a model size 1600:02
Runners and riders in fund stakes00:02
Palace tragedy00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 reasons for visiting a hypnotist00:02
The Daily Poem: Judith00:02
Get retroactive: Want a fitness alternative to prancing about in leotards? Emma Cook walks back to happiness on Hampstead Heath00:02
Football: Player sacked after Allon's jaw broken00:02
BR could lose lines to foreign bidders00:02
World Cup Football: Bergkamp double for the Dutch00:02
Birthdays00:02
Inquiry into Nadir bribe claims ruled out00:02
Sports Letters: One-team remedy00:02
Education: Reading can be easy with a little teamwork: Group exercises are helping pupils' literacy skills, with poor performers gaining the most benefit. Diana Hinds reports00:02
Korean noses to be reburied00:02
Yugoslavia war tribunal opens00:02
Higher Education: Blue stockings greet blue socks: Somerville college, Oxford, is preparing to admit its first men next year. Stephen Pritchard reports00:02
MUSIC / Three magical flutes: Ensemble InterContemporain - Carnegie Hall00:02
Here Today00:02
Tunisian exile denies bombings00:02
World Cup Football: McKinlay gives Brown lift-off00:02
POP MUSIC / The worst is yet to come: There he was singing out of tune and behaving like a prat and then he goes and ruins it all. John Otway, claims Robert Hanks, is not so bad00:02
Sell homes to pay for pensions, Tory says00:02
Glowing portrait00:02
Too old00:02
MUSIC / Louder Lieder: Edward Seckerson reviews a grand Jessye Norman and Zauberflote in London00:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan upset in victory00:02
Turning in grave00:02
Banda no longer life-president00:02
Lucas lures Simpson as chief executive00:02
Dalgety eyes BP pet foods00:02
Mistakes in school tables criticised00:02
1.4% inflation raises prospects of rates cut00:02
Pembroke: Playing back inside00:02
Commercial Union pegs motor rates: Pre-tax profits increase accelerates00:02
Fenchurch comes to the market00:02
Olympic Games: British find a home in Florida00:02
Anniversaries00:02
President wears Nafta next to his heart00:02
Letter: Explaining the league tables00:02
South Africa: Language deals create new Babel: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society00:02
Bottom Line: Demerger cure-all lets Courtaulds down00:02
Demjanjuk evidence withheld by US00:02
Man given life term for killing wife's child00:02
Bridge: Playing the guessing game00:02
Life of heroism 'done in moderation': Britain's oldest general, Sir Philip Christison, celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. Steve Boggan reports00:02
Pounds 1m cash stolen00:02
GLOSSARY / Size has nothing whatever to do with it00:02
UK Customs ban Serbian newspapers: Latest addition to list of sanctions outrages expatriate community00:02
Sporting Digest: Volleyball00:02
Obituary: Kevin FitzGerald00:02
Officer dismissed00:02
Walking: On the trail of the priest and the girl: Michael Leapman follows the footsteps of the diarist Francis Kilvert in east Wales00:02
World Cup Football: McLoughlin provides the final touch for Republic: Charlton's men qualify on goals scored as Spain tame Danes00:02
Tennis: Pierce defeats Sabatini to gain her first top-10 scalp00:02
Belgian cuts00:02
ALBUMS / Elton John 2, Frank Sinatra 0: Giles Smith on Elton John, Lisa Stansfield, a festive Gloria Estefan and Boyz II Men, and a reunited Velvet Underground00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Football: Fowler in striking debut00:02
Museum to create a space for water, trees and bluebells in heart of London00:02
Fashion: Yours: big shots at a snip00:02
Letter: Nursery education: vital for children's development or simply hothousing?00:02
Tobacco firm accused of Iraqi arms deal: French TV programme alleges mysterious international company was key player in shipment of 9 million anti-personnel mines, which were used in the Gulf War. Chris Blackhurst reports00:02
The truth behind the headlines left open to question00:02
Go west, young president: Robert Elegant has advice for Bill Clinton as he prepares to meet his Asian counterparts00:02
Sailing: Gandara in the fast lane00:02
Letter: Nursery education: vital for children's development or simply hothousing?00:02
Vosper dips despite profit: Employees at shipyard see value of share option decline00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
No action against assault parents00:02
Leading Article: Ill-judged tribute to Nazi criminal00:02
Dear John Patten: To the Education Secretary from a confused 16-year-old student00:02
When fear flows like blood: When it became known that HIV-infected plasma had got into the German transfusion system, a new modern terror took hold. Steve Crawshaw reports00:02
Out of the Czech Republic: Cafe Slavia struggles for Europe's fun-loving soul00:02
World Cup Football: England find themselves in seventh hell: Wright gets it right but Poland result goes wrong00:02
English teachers 'go back to basics': Report casts doubt on need for a curriculum shake-up00:02
Absentee votes give Bolger slim majority00:02
Dilemmas: Rip off the bully's whatsits, or quit the job00:02
Education: Just ask about Ecstasy: Pupils get straight answers on drugs in weekly advice sessions at a school in Norfolk. Fran Abrams reports00:02
Silly Questions: My other anorak's not in the wash00:02
Letter: Explaining the league tables00:02
Petrol price cut00:02
Diners are 'rude, mean and have strange habits': Restaurateurs reveal what we eat and how00:02
South Africa: Five years to build for the future: Blacks and women prepare for the dawn of democracy and a fairer society00:02
View from City Road: Inflation could still bounce back next year00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Two convicted of fake cash card plot00:02
Diary00:02
Rapist gets 15 years00:02
Charges dropped00:02
Obituary: Paolo Dria Paolo00:02
Tapie 'should face charges'00:02
THEATRE / Hardly heaven: Paul Taylor on I'm No Angel, in Southampton00:02
World Cup Football: Charlton's green fingers bring the dream to fruition: Ken Jones in Belfast witnesses scenes of celebration by the men from the Republic after a famous result00:02
Taxpayer finances Italian's drug stay00:02
Football: Tapie's political 'immunity' may be revoked00:02
Racing: Fatality darkens a day of bravery: Jodami shortens as Gold Cup favourite but a novice's death shrouds courage in sadness. Chris Corrigan reports00:02
Cleaning up00:02
Britain excluded from European talks on works council00:02
Driver who hit soldiers is banned00:02
Letter: A whiff of irony00:02
Racing: Top award for Boutin00:02
Major finalises Bills package for crucial year: Ministers given preview of programme00:02
Greece protests over armed US envoys00:02
TELEVISION / Tragic infatuations with ideologies of violence00:02
Football: Lazio owner is arrested00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Memo tells of coal dust threat to miners00:02
Louvre celebrates 200th anniversary with new wing00:02
Sick Gulf troops suspect cover-up: Mystery surrounds cause of US veterans' illnesses00:02
Prison officers face court ban on action: Union given noon deadline to call off protest00:02
Letter: Explaining the league tables00:02
A health check on the chosen few00:02
South Africa: Historic bargain for 'stalemate': New constitution ratified, but whites seek assurances that privileges will remain00:02
Leading Article: Good riddance to apartheid00:02
Letter: Whitehall confusion00:02
Bowthorpe pays pounds 14.1m for American acquisition00:02
Letter: Arts Council statistics tell only half the story00:02
Riffs: Donald Fagen on Oliver Nelson's 'Blues and the Abstract Truth'00:02
View from City Road: The changing insurance market00:02
Boxing: Holligan in Mexico00:02
Mystery of Old Master solved00:02
Sports Letters: Tardy recognition00:02
Businesses put up pounds 1m reward00:02
Tennis: Sampras' aces trump Ivanisevic: The Wimbledon men's champion serves notice of intent as a teenager makes a significant breakthrough in the women's game00:02
Princess's vision of care is 'too rosy'00:02
Sporting Digest: Weightlifting00:02
Letter: Bosnia's division echoes that of Yugoslavia00:02
Cricketers 'filmed gouging the ball': Jury shown videotapes of 'irregular' acts by Pakistani players00:02
British lobby groups lead attack on EU privacy proposals: Junk mail companies are misleading the public about a plan to protect sensitive data, writes Leonard Doyle00:02
JAZZ / Taste, not flavour: Phil Johnson reviews Andy Sheppard's Big Co-Motion at the Colston00:02
Sheep cruelty00:02
Eastern Med woos tourists00:02
Labour proposes Budget for jobs00:02
'Good news' call wins support00:02
Inside File: Not-so-happy families chafe in the East00:02
Investment property revives00:02
Obituary: Lucia Popp00:02
Leading Her Majesty on: Being the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant is a great gig. Sure the pay's lousy, but every now and then you get to wear a tabard00:02
Former prisoner swaps the cells for life on the stage: David Lister meets an ex-inmate who discovered a talent for performing Shakespeare when he took up acting 'to pass the time' in jail (CORRECTED)