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Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Football Commentary: Belief brings vintage red to maturity: United's guts and glory game00:02
Going by the book: She knows we know she can sing; in Pam Gems' Piaf, she wants to prove she can act. Elaine Page interviewed by Edward Seckerson00:02
International Art Market: Chinese scroll takes Sotheby's by surprise00:02
Fears of violence after peace deal delay: Hopes remain high for release of political prisoners but militants expected to use hold-up to undermine PLO credibility00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Diary: 13-19 December00:02
Peter Pringle's America: Ol' Man River and Lady Luck00:02
Football: Falkirk find their fire00:02
Thatcher won allowance for ex-prime ministers: Liberal Democrats call for a review of controversial severance legislation. Donald Macintyre reports00:02
Russian Elections: Far right advances with a militant message00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Court Circular00:02
Yeltsin wins power to reshape Russia: Reformers lead parliamentary poll but far right gains strong support00:02
Family found rural idyll was in danger of collapsing: Owners claim surveyor failed to warn of serious structural defects and seek pounds 75,000 compensation from his employer00:02
The nice guys of Asia: Hugh Pope reports from Bishkek on Kyrgyzstan's encounters with some of capitalism's more dubious operators00:02
Leading Article: Billions well-spent to stop us multiplying00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew's leading role keeps Wasps on the roll00:02
Computerlink: Eyeing a telephonic peephole - Soon you will be able to tell who is ringing before you pick up the phone. Steve Homer looks at the pros and cons00:02
Blizzards hit travel and sport00:02
Football: The way to play United's visonaries00:02
Letter: Loss of Lloyd's faith00:02
Kicking out: Thai boxing is the most dangerous of all martial arts. And now women can play too. Dolly Dhingra follows in the warrior tradition00:02
Sporting Digest: Sports Awards00:02
Turks shut paper00:02
Football: Hoddle's grand design betrayed by basic errors00:02
Lutine has three days to the bell: Lloyd's fund need dollars 200m of backing00:02
World population concentrating in 'mega-cities': Millions more will flock to Third World urban slums00:02
Obituary: Lynette Davies00:02
Arafat's sacred day fails to dawn: Fear of violence hangs over occupied territories as PLO and Israel miss deadline for start of troop withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho00:02
White Paper suggests widening of data protection rights: Teachers question move to let pupils see school records00:02
Prime portfolio of London property fetches just pounds 51m: Li family buys Langham Estate from Grovewood receivers00:02
Good Questions: All the time in the world00:02
Why Mrs Harris wants kids to belt up: Pat Harris has heard enough horror stories: all school minibuses should have seat belts, she tells Lee Rodwell00:02
Russian Elections: Clinton gambles all on a win by Yeltsin00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Hair holds personal diary of drug-taking00:02
COMEDY / Over and out: Mark Wareham on Newman & Baddiel's 'last' act - the first Wembley comedy show00:02
I hereby refute this almost unique grammatical error00:02
Science: An experiment where nothing's the matter - This week 19 European nations will be asked to pay for a machine that could show how the universe began. Tom Wilkie reports00:02
Football: Inspired Walsh waltzes on water00:02
Blaming strangers for a family failure00:02
Dear Robin, Barry and Maurice00:02
Please give to ease plight of Bosnia: Donations to 'Independent' appeal to support charities reach pounds 11,000 in first few days but more are urgently needed00:02
EU agrees on stability pact00:02
Russian Elections: Polling at Lenin's last stand: Russians try to fathom the dialectics of contradictory voting rules in election of new parliaments and constitution referendum00:02
Sailing: Jury threat to leader Dickson00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Scottish Football: Ferguson faces SFA00:02
Northern League plans to claim centre ground00:02
Cricket: Pakistan backs to the wall00:02
Prudential eyes two pounds 300m buyouts00:02
Smaller Companies: London Industrial cashes in early on demand for property shares00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Tennis: Korda conducts crescendo to close season: Skinny Czech receives his largest cheque as Stich's run of success unravels in front of a sporting crowd at the Grand Slam Cup00:02
Today's Number: 3500:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Talk on the wild side: The meaninglessness is the message when speaking in tongues, Liz Jensen discovers00:02
Letter: Religious symbolism under attack on both sides of the Channel00:02
Out of Japan: A train named Desire00:02
Football: Lazio inspired by Gascoigne: English maverick rejuvenated00:02
Riot police stand by as squat is cleared00:02
Commodities: Gifts for wise guys to go wild about00:02
Rail death00:02
Leading Article: Taking risks for peace in Ireland00:02
Siege charge00:02
Science: How not to dress for dinner - Grasshoppers wearing snakeskin coats live to chirrup another day, says Simon Hadlington00:02
Jivers bop till they drop to raise money for cancer research in London yesterday00:02
Patten ignores Chinese warnings of 'chaos' in HK00:02
Chess: Sadler is just grand00:02
Ministers defend Prince of Wales's fitness for throne00:02
Obituary: Professor James Brown00:02
Racing: For the notebook: A weekly list of horses to follow:00:02
Coales' Notes: A quick word to the wise00:02
Heath urges new Iraq links00:02
Woman recovers after seven hours under boat00:02
Football: A triumph of unloved efficiency00:02
Windermere under threat from spread of clogging weed: Oliver Gillie reports on an explosion of plant life triggered by phosphates that could spread to similar Lakeland waters00:02
Letter: Thatcher's confusion00:02
Russian Elections: Reluctant voters face uncertain democracy00:02
NUM to sue over Labour 'sexism'00:02
Zeneca invests pounds 50,000 on asthma genetic link study00:02
Hockey: Crostyx broken by lack of Styles00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Football: Wright's boldness masks tale of tedium00:02
Canoeist drowns00:02
Books for Christmas: Yamashita the gentle giant: Insight into the fighting spirit of Japanese judo provide an intriguing selection of sports literature00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Arafat's sacred day fails to dawn: Fear of violence hangs over occupied territories as PLO and Israel miss deadline for start of troop withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho00:02
Obituary: Margaret Boyd00:02
Sunbed skin warning00:02
Racing Commentary: Audacity augments Murphy's advance: Barney Curley's early recognition of a great riding talent is borne out by victories at Cheltenham on Saturday00:02
'Payment in kind' is replacing the pound: Peck, link and pond gain popularity as alternative currencies00:02
EU water standard directives scrapped00:02
LWT faces Takeover Panel grilling: Regulator seeks statement of intention following rumours of merger plans with Yorkshire-Tyne Tees00:02
MUSIC / Skating over the depths: Nick Kimberley on the King's Singers at the Barbican, London00:02
Cricket: Ilott takes six as sick England take to beds: Tourists triumph with only four fully fit players00:02
Pembroke: Hooks and uppercuts of outrageous fortune00:02
Skiing: Mader makes a virtue of being different: Austrian stakes claim for high profile at Olympics as Norwegians mourn death of coach00:02
Bad air in Naples00:02
Letter: Religious symbolism under attack on both sides of the Channel00:02
Rugby League / Regal Trophy: Wigan do well to ride out storm00:02
Obituary: Ken Baily00:02
Frei sweeps Chilean poll00:02
Racing: Friend 12-100:02
Best-Sellers00:02
Law Report: Case Summaries00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Rugby Union: Edinburgh park and ride00:02
Arafat to demand Palestine's gold00:02
Open jail criticised for lack of rigour00:02
Killers of Turkish diplomat apologise00:02
Obituary: Professor Norman Hotopf00:02
Romania's men with a mission: Thanks to the zeal of evangelists, fundamentalist Christianity is becoming a force in Eastern Europe, says Andrew Brown00:02
Saatchi to defuse 'buyout'00:02
Racing: Marina rewards Johnston's belief00:02
Wholesale review of mental health 'urgently needed'00:02
Brewery in China ponders a John Bull takeaway00:02
Antall leaves hope for 'rising nation'00:02
Cyanide in the beefcake: Somen Banerjee, inventor of the Chippendales, stands accused of much more than driving women crazy. Did he not hatch a plot to leave Blackpool strewn with dead Adonises? Phil Reeves reports00:02
Rugby Union: Bath able to ignore the furore00:02
Review: Wicked above and beyond the call of duty00:02
Day Out00:02
Letter: Buried treasure in Cleopatra's foundations00:02
Birthdays00:02
Fewer firms focus on 'green' issue00:02
Golf: Davies finds pot of gold on the coast00:02
Football: Heath suffers rough justice: Phil Shaw sees some peculiar refereeing in the Turf Moor tussle that resulted in a Reading win00:02
Letter: Grey incompetence at the Arts Council00:02
Blood and destruction beyond imagining: In Sarajevo, Celia Hall was confronted by a despairing reality far worse than anything in reports of the siege00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
European Football: Ajax move forward00:02
Best & Worst of Times / I'd be crying, then have to be bright and breezy: Gloria Hunniford talks to Danny Danziger00:02
Football: Tottenham take a stroll through City's crumbling ruins00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Microbe of the Month: The microbiologist as Pied Piper: Bernard Dixon on the strange and sometimes lethal hantaviruses, which spread to humans from rodents00:02
'New evidence' in Luther King assassination00:02
Hockey: Determined defenders push off from the blocks as they steel themselves to meet the threat of a short corner00:02
Sunday Round-Up: The main stories from yesterday's papers00:02
Football: Sugar airs defiance00:02
The Week Ahead: Rice deal threatens Tokyo crisis00:02
Fight stress with a smile00:02
New mercantilists throw shadow over Gatt00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fierce bolts of lightning in an ephemeral world: 'The Search' - Geoff Dyer: Hamish Hamilton, 14.99 pounds00:02
Software group plans to come to market with pounds 50m price tag00:02
Social services criticised over murder of girl: Killing of child 'could have been prevented'00:02
Basketball: Chester take out Towers00:02
Diplomats struggle towards formula for peace in Ulster00:02
'100 dead' in Burundi attack00:02
Letter: Classics in store00:02
Books for Christmas: Drugs, lies and generosity: Cycling tales to make the head spin00:02
Bombs exploded00:02
Leading Article: Fascinated by the deaths of the famous00:02
Who are they to judge the Prince?00:02
Letter: Religious symbolism under attack on both sides of the Channel00:02
Science: Last chance for young scientists to book an excellent place in Europe00:02
International Art Market: Designer's royal furnishings set 18m pounds landmark00:02
World population concentrating in 'mega-cities': Millions more will flock to Third World urban slums00:02
Letter: Russell's final advice00:02
Rugby Union: Scarlet blues blown away00:02
Steam tragedy00:02
Cost of children 'makes parenthood a sacrifice'00:02
Cricket: Warne destroys the Kiwis: Australia's bowlers humiliate New Zealand in World Series Cup00:02
Rugby Union Commentary: The battling Back going big on bulk00:02
Ashrawi to launch PLO watchdog00:02
Rugby Union: Gouging denied by Bath00:02
54 entombed00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: What hope is there for the children of Iraq?00:02
Rugby League Round-Up: Nolans in tune as Hull prevail00:02
Happy Anniversary: Tight tie in cricket, looser ties in marriage00:02
Gatt fuse burns dangerously low as deadline nears: Severe problems hang over world trade accord as Washington and Europe remain locked in last-minute negotiations00:02
Letter: Religious symbolism under attack on both sides of the Channel00:02
Antall leaves hope for 'rising nation'00:02
Letter: Dogged distinctions00:02
We need this plan of yours, Delors: The outgoing President is reshaping the European Commission, says Andrew Marshall00:02
High prices for history of space00:02
The Daily Poem: Sweet Dream00:02
Sporting Digest: Judo00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
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