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The young, at least, speak the same language: Teenagers from all over Europe were talking democracy and tolerance - until the politicians arrived. Jojo Moyes reports00:02
Letter: Truth about Trotsky, Rivera and the FBI00:02
Wales counts the cost of a welcome for its Prince00:02
Health: Put it up your nose and blow: A little balloon could help children who suffer from glue ear to avoid surgery. Deborah Jackson reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
THEATRE / Civil strife: Paul Taylor reviews Helen Edmundson's The Clearing at the Bush00:02
Triumph for comedian as awards event goes dark00:02
Letter: Pursuit of happiness00:02
Iranian hijacker surrenders00:02
Health Update: Loo too far00:02
Inside Parliament: Mayhew stands his ground: MPs rally behind Northern Ireland Secretary - Paisley ordered from chamber - Howard promises free vote on Sunday shop hours00:02
Poker: Caribbean rush00:02
Liberal claims Honduran win00:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan draws family benefit: Ronnie O'Sullivan will show off his UK Championship trophy to his father today - in prison. Mark Burton reports00:02
LIT restructuring offers shares: BES sponsor faces uncertain future00:02
Bristol Post upturn 'fragile': Possible VAT on newspapers makes forecasting difficult00:02
Health Update: Back pain tape00:02
Tube back on line00:02
Market Report: Investors fill their boots on optimism over taxes00:02
Terror Arrests00:02
PC murder case00:02
Leading Article: A matter of quality, not ownership00:02
Sarajevo at centre of Bosnia peace talks: EU ministers persuade factions to guarantee delivery of aid00:02
Letter: Brought to book00:02
Bottom Line: File Kalamazoo00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Nadir bribe 'evidence' made public: Court transcripts raise questions over way the Serious Fraud Office handled allegations that an attempt was made to bribe trial judge. Tim Kelsey reports00:02
Letter: Private prejudice, public interest and Bow's 'House'00:02
Hindus fail to regain three Indian states: Lower castes and Muslims unite to elect socialist-untouchable coalition00:02
Success at GCSE 'can hide weaknesses in basic skills'00:02
Football: Holmes leads the Hammers uprising00:02
Terrorists to lose 'political status' tactic00:02
Novelist ill00:02
CPS lawyers 'have no confidence in senior managers': Staff morale at an all-time low, survey finds00:02
Squash: Jahangir's world-title finale00:02
Sporting Digest: Karate00:02
Photofit of rapist issued00:02
Hiccup for Merrydown: Distribution delays hit volume and profits at cider maker00:02
Obituary: Alan Clare (CORRECTED)00:02
Obituary: Kenneth Connor00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Snow impedes help for Bosnia00:02
Bottom Line: Turcan digs into plantations00:02
Rugby Union: Canadian seasoning for traditional fare00:02
Dancing protest00:02
Ferranti offer wins 28% of institutions: Small shareholders need 10% of vote to scotch GEC's 1p-a-share proposal00:02
Speech Marks: The things they said about . . . the actor Yves Montand00:02
Leading Article: Peace within their grasp00:02
Health Update: Winter sleep00:02
Revealed: the secret talks between Major and Clarke00:02
Racing: Kelso may have been caught cold by the frost but racing goes on at Lingfield Park's all-weather track00:02
Escobars sent home00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
The contractor and the producer come together00:02
Letter: Time off for Sunday00:02
QMH report survives battering: Shareholders launch bitter attacks on hotel group's directors00:02
Bombing plot 'foiled by MI5 agent': Jury told terrorists tried to steal explosives for mainland campaign. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Bottom Line: Oil slip00:02
'Duty' of jail staff to defy orders: Ruling sparks strategy on admissions00:02
Midland's top two leaving: Changes will strengthen HSBC's grip on bank management00:02
Sailing: Broken mast robs Dalton of lead: Skipper's worst fears realised as NZ Endeavour feels force of the Southern Ocean00:02
Athletes win race to defect00:02
Football: Fournet-Fayard pays price of failure: President resigns after one of French football's 'most sinister periods'. Julian Nundy reports from Paris00:02
Creativity: Send Christmas to the person who has everything00:02
Labour leads on questions to EU: British MEPs put down more queries. Andrew Marshall reports00:02
View from City Road: Carlton to hit target with pre-emptive strike00:02
View from City Road: The Tokyo market runs with the bears00:02
Art Market: Dealers' doubts fail to dent prices for Impressionism00:02
Architects' award00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Hill's persistence pays off at last00:02
Oil price at five-year low00:02
Where Are They Now?: David Duckham00:02
EC 'spy' arrested00:02
Obituary: Professor Sir John Stallworthy00:02
View from City Road: Local heroes are needed at Midland00:02
TELEVISION / Under pressure from the protection racket00:02
Football: PFA to outlaw elbow challenge00:02
Racing: Blight hits Crop bets: Festival fancy doubtful00:02
French hint at accord on Gatt00:02
Not rubbish, and perhaps tomorrow's masterpiece00:02
Ice Hockey: Sharp Steelers are blunted by Bracknell00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Football: Swales resigns as chairman of City: Death threats, criminal damage and family harassment cited as reasons for stepping down at Maine Road00:02
Waxen Chancellor00:02
People: Hillary looks a star as a star looks to be president00:02
Pembroke: The game of the name at HSBC00:02
Take them down another notch: Bill Robinson argues for a further cut in interest rates to shore up a faltering recovery00:02
Letter: Criminal nonsense00:02
Chess: Sicilian variation00:02
Doctor accused00:02
Torday skips payout again00:02
Spanish create a masterpiece by numbers00:02
Europe to close door on terror00:02
Carlton in pounds 758m swoop on Central: Surprise offer is expected to be the first of a wave of television company takeovers00:02
Diary00:02
Fever pitch: Nigel Mansell makes his Formula One comeback and a Dalek commentates on American football. Rupert Goodwins plays the games00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Gulf between Adams and Mayhew on documents: Sinn Fein may produce further papers to prove message claiming conflict was over was not sent00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rugby Union: England's temple of flaws00:02
Merrett quits underwriting: Agency to shut main operations and sell off the rest00:02
'Rambo' snatches man in love triangle as wife and mistress wrangle00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: McNamara unites Tories: Labour spokesman accused of maladroit handling of political opportunity00:02
AAF sells US firm to repair losses00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
BBC 'bullied' girl on air00:02
Rugby League: Lindsay calls for wage cap00:02
Aids scare for Polish women00:02
Horses slashed00:02
Today's Number: 2600:02
Health Update: Asthma warning00:02
Health: Small lives, major dilemmas: How do doctors decide when a life is over? Aidan Macfarlane considers the ethics involved in treating brain-damaged babies00:02
Wild bunch keep red flag flying in Ufa: In Russia's biggest republic, Andrew Higgins finds Communists fighting Yeltsin with local autonomy demands00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
On Tour: Burt Casear00:02
Lodger strangled00:02
Letter: Married priests or faith by restrictions?00:02
Poll backs hard line on crime00:02
Letter: Private prejudice, public interest and Bow's 'House'00:02
Man battered baby son00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Management: Questions for interviewers: Martin Whitfield says coaching in the technique of applying for jobs gives many candidates the edge on bosses00:02
Company News In Brief00:02
Health Update: B12 in pregnancy00:02
Letter: Married priests or faith by restrictions?00:02
Vicar granted bail00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Best-sellers00:02
Romanian werewolves warning00:02
Associated Nursing earns 73% profit rise00:02
Independent wins lifting of Nadir court report ban00:02
Health Update: Food poisoning by mail order00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Mayhew gets peace mandate: Government invites IRA to carry on talking as hopes rise for ceasefire00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Dial direct for a quiet revolution00:02
Teacher mourned00:02
'Sucide doctor' a fugitive00:02
Adams accuses British of double-dealing00:02
Arts: Try this for sheer size: You need six months and a pair of roller-skates to do justice to the new Louvre in Paris. Andrew Graham-Dixon flat-foots it in a day . . .00:02
Tokyo shares slump as fears deepen00:02
Indian industrialist dies00:02
Gorbachev denounces 'forced' constitution: Former Soviet president condemns Russian attempts to 'railroad' reforms, and warns of danger of Bolshevik revival in guise of democracy00:02
Artefacts00:02
Racing: Dunlop leads import drive: Matt Chapman on a season of success for Britain overseas00:02
Georgia evacuates villagers00:02
In bed with a badger that bites in the night: Eunice Overend shares her life with badgers while she wages war on the men from the ministry. Peter Dunn visited her caravan home00:02
Amazing] Clinton's proved me right00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Health Update: Bead for bones00:02
Gummer rejects council structure review plans00:02
Health Update: Ear protection00:02
Obituary: Bruce Turner00:02
Radio / Devils and the deep sea: Robert Hanks listens to Salman Rushdie make a stand for Machiavelli00:02
Key players missing as Somali talks open: Go-it-alone warnings as clan chiefs shun peace conference00:02
Gaza setback for peace deal00:02
Health Update: Saving the bacon00:02
Deceitful, cowardly, unfair? That's politics00:02
Birthdays00:02
Ambitious Green jumps the gun00:02
Irish block move to ratify shipowners 'cartel'00:02
TSB unveils plans for phone banking service00:02
Inquest date set00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
The Way We Live: Howard's hard line on crime wins public backing: Independent/NOP survey reveals support for increased police powers and hostility to lenient sentences00:02
Health Update: Vegetarian pain00:02
The Daily Poem: Country Dance00:02
Law Report: Comment on failure to testify00:02
Chrysalis made to modify accounts00:02
Rugby Union: Joseph to be disciplined by All Blacks: Tourists sound ready to pack their bags with two games to go as captains name their pick for next Tuesday's University match00:02
Borthwicks tastes flavour of US advance00:02
American Football: Montana makes magic: Injury-prone quarterback goes the full distance to lift Chiefs to victory over fancied Bills. Matt Tench reports00:02
Boys beat tramp 'on their own'00:02
Letter: A risk worth taking00:02
Letter: European parliaments denied a say on Gatt00:02
Leading Article: Crime is a threat, but adultery is not00:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: Paisley has no regrets after exit00:02
A lie that clings and burns: The essence of the problem in Ulster is that no one really wants it, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft00:02
Football / The England Succession: Twelve old men ripe for some new blood: What is the FA's international committee and what exactly do its members do? Ian Ridley investigates00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Music from the Venetian lumber-room: Vivaldi, voice of the Baroque - H C Robbins Landon: Thames & Hudson, pounds 16.9900:02
The Secret IRA Meetings: IRA denies lull in killing is ceasefire00:02
Brothers charged00:02
History: House saved villagers from volcano: David Keys reports on the refurbishment of the only Maori building in Britain00:02
Former Test bowler denies indecently assaulting girl, 1500:02
Cost-cutting boosts Control Techniques: Round-the-world network of sales and service centres is key to growth00:02
Petrol firms pin faith on slick shops: As trade suffers at the pumps, groceries have become a focal point. Neil Thapar reports00:02
Cricket: Australia scatter Kiwis: Beaten captain fears for his side's Test-playing future00:02
Arts: And what's more . . .