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When Christmas is a foreign country: All the icons are white, and for some children this brings confusions, writes Yasmin00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Lizards hibernating in wall smothered by clay00:02
Not a season to be merry: Winter grips Bosnia with claws that draw blood, bringing with it ice, hunger, and diseases old and new. Visit hospitals there and you see that things are at least as bad as you imagine. Celia Hall reports00:02
Pounds 1.5m cocaine haul00:02
Hockey: Boost before Bonn: England come in from the cold00:02
Out of Japan: Driven to die in a foreign land by shame of Aids00:02
Prison bomb00:02
Rugby Union: Treorchy tamed by Bezani's pack00:02
Aspin to Peking?00:02
Football: Villa succumb to mastery of maestro Cantona: Manchester United reaffirm their position as the Premiership's leading force as French flair and English grit win the day00:02
Fisons chief will not act on share option revelations00:02
Letter: 'Slow death' of St Bartholomew's: tragic or beneficial?00:02
Rugby League: Newlove ends Crusaders' brave adventure: Pride of London give Bradford Northern a run in the Regal Trophy QBY: SIMON KELNER00:02
Letter: 'Slow death' of St Bartholomew's: tragic or beneficial?00:02
Peter Pringle's America: Scrooge looks at single parents00:02
Bishop sends the three wise men packing00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Letter: A fearful journey to the sheep market00:02
Boxing: Super Chavez shows Holligan the ropes: An ambitious Briton gets a rough ride from the world light-welterweight champion. Jonathan Rendall reports from Puebla, Mexico00:02
Brothers, whether we like it or not00:02
Science: Eating a bagel can be bad for your criminal record: Patrick Matthews discovered how poppy seeds confuse drug-testing equipment00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rugby Union: Dismal defeat for Scots00:02
Letter: Need for co-operation on mental health00:02
Football: Everton caught in a blue mood00:02
The Daily poem00:02
SA talks00:02
Rugby League: Castleford stall in victory00:02
Racing Commentary: Flat pack shuffled by Hustler: An unlikely pretender has come of age and looks ready to stake a claim to jumping's crown in the King George00:02
Today's Number: 1600:02
Italy set for March polls00:02
Science: Advanced smelling tests: Ruth McKernan follows her nose to discover a fragrant world of complex sensory experiences00:02
Death toll rises00:02
My year of discoveries, sad, bad and trivial00:02
Baby scalded00:02
Rugby Union: England's women short on cash but high on tries: David Llewellyn sees a record win but finds nothing in the bank00:02
Election in Nice could pave way for MP from far right00:02
Guinea deaths00:02
Rugby League: Gregory the great drives Salford forward: Hull are played out of it by a one-man band00:02
Leading Article: MPs who face taxing questions00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
What's More ..00:02
Letter: Misconceptions about RE00:02
Iran 'ordered PanAm bomb'00:02
Chess: Warning: fixation can unbalance a player's thoughts00:02
Football: Marshall the star of Millwall panto00:02
Uncomfortably numb: Personal watercrafts, otherwise known as jet-skis, enjoy a close working relationship with dock walls. Emma Cook steers into trouble00:02
Dublin links media ban to IRA ceasefire: Irish government's campaign to encourage Provisionals to end violence includes offer to end bar on Sinn Fein broadcasts00:02
Israel and PLO struggle to keep peace deal alive: Deadlock over troop withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho threatens to destroy public support for pact00:02
Obituary: Fr John Shearburn00:02
LWT attacks Granada share record: TV company urges shareholders to reject pounds 638m bid on basis of poor market performance00:02
Letter: Vocational courses are on target00:02
Football: Waddle performs old-time trickery00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Pure tap water gets priority over foul rivers00:02
Leading Article: Clean water, dirty rivers00:02
Indian boy murderer is abandoned by parents: Family leaves five-year-old killer for fear of reprisals from villagers00:02
Obituary: Sir James Miskin00:02
Abiola's claim00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Letter: 'Slow death' of St Bartholomew's: tragic or beneficial?00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
DANCE / Glam slam: Judith Mackrell on near-perfection in the Royal Ballet's Ballet Imperial00:02
Ice Skating: Witt wings her way towards Olympic dream00:02
Court bans film on 'yuppie Nazi': Steve Crawshaw in Bonn views a documentary seen as boosting fascism00:02
Man who killed intruder freed00:02
Homes flooded00:02
Brands valuation may be banned from balance sheet00:02
'Race row' Lib Dems round on party leaders00:02
French farmers fear decline and scorched earth: Julian Nundy in Niort finds a militant spirit of resistance down on the farm against Gatt and reform of Europe's agriculture policy00:02
Football: Fowler stands out among the young bucks00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Brandenburg win for SPD00:02
Happy Anniversary: Manhole covers held to ransom00:02
The best of times: My first sip of a smoky malt from Islay: Gordon Brown talks to Danny Danziger00:02
Memory genius leaves winner's trophy behind: Student champion recalls 480-digit binary number after 15 minutes' study00:02
Mudslide deaths00:02
Television company apologises for comic's lewd jibe at Lamont00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
The 'Independent' Bosnia appeal00:02
Deal offered to speed Nuclear Electric sell-off: Company accepts ring-fenced fund to cover future decommissioning costs00:02
Letter: Vocational courses are on target00:02
'Cruel trade' in puppies for presents00:02
Football Commentary: McAllister's magnificence in an age of change00:02
Milosevic in crucial test of popularity: President seeks backing as Serbian voters have chance to influence conflict in Bosnia and protest at crippling sanctions00:02
Tiphook must reduce container sale price00:02
Body found00:02
End the killing or we hunt you down, Reynolds tells IRA: Threat of tighter security north and south of the border coupled with hint of early release for republican prisoners00:02
Coales' Notes: Time gentleman, please: Voices unite: Gordon Coales organises an unlikely Christmas collaboration00:02
'Tis the season to be green: David Nicholson-Lord detects environmental values making their way into Christmas00:02
Dear John Redwood: The Secretary of State for Wales wants to be as cuddly as Mr Blobby? We have an image problem here00:02
European Football: Massaro's double vision rescues Milan00:02
Good Questions: Boxing clever over Christmas daze00:02
Pembroke: Receivership could hold up the reindeer00:02
Racing: For the Notebook: A weekly list of horses to follow00:02
Obituary: Sam Wanamaker00:02
Day Out00:02
Angler missing00:02
Football / World Cup 1994: First Round Fixtures00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
The Week Ahead: Gulf neighbours polish their shield00:02
Letter: Healthy options00:02
Rugby Union: Finale produces high anxiety00:02
Birthdays00:02
Milosevic's grip on endangered Serbian voters00:02
Equestrianism: Skelton by a nose: Major Wager profits00:02
Football / World Cup 1994: Irish are drawn against Italy in New York: Republic face the tallest of orders as the Boston party is forgotten while Germany and Argentina enjoy kind selections00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Skating00:02
Rugby Union Commentary: Bath bubble and continue to clean up: Wasps' Pilkington Cup journey runs into a dead end at the Recreation Ground while the talk at Imber Court is about money00:02
Sailing: Another protest hearing00:02
Boom in Christmas holidays00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Letter: Ideal politician00:02
Football: Collymore denied but Forest find target00:02
Bosnian evacuees out of war zone: Sixteen sick and wounded expected to arrive today00:02
High street revels in a nation of antler buyers: Lisa Vaughan discovers some curious best-sellers in the shops this Christmas00:02
Pop star took refuge in Hampshire00:02
Reformists split on how to appease hardliners: Russia's radicals are aiming to hold fast to their free-market policies00:02
REVIEW / Close your eyes and think of the BBC00:02
Skiing: Locher turns up to spoil Tomba's birthday celebration: High expectations prove too much for Italian as he makes unexpected present of World Cup giant slalom00:02
Football: Palace lifted by wiles of Williams00:02
Nissan takes over as top British exporter00:02
Lone parents giving up Income Support: High number of lone parents quit benefit00:02
Leading Article: Trapped in the trappings of power00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
Eerie silence hangs over US bomber base: When Upper Heyford closes, only memories and a severely depleted local economy will remain. Christopher Bellamy reports00:02
Sunday Round-Up: The main stories from yesterdays City pages00:02
Business and City Summary00:02
Jackson's retreat00:02
Rugby Union: Back draws curtain on show-stealers00:02
Letter: Persecution in Turkey00:02
Law Report: Case summaries (CORRECTED)00:02
Driver killed00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Mr Blobby bounces back as Christmas No 100:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
American Football: Murdoch signs up League's biggest prize00:02
Smaller Companies: Protean pulls off a bargain double00:02
US Indian tribe enjoys the fruits of its 'best windfall since buffalo': The Pequots are bigger than Donald Trump in the world of gambling, writes Patrick Cockburn from Washington00:02
Law Report: Tanning firm not liable for water pollution at borehole: Correction00:02
Rivers of filth to flow unchecked00:02
Can the Chancellor really wield the axe?00:02
A television Weatherboy would warm up my isobars00:02
Search for Britain's oldest employee00:02
I'm sorry, minister, but that's a swindle00:02
The worst of all worlds: As Zhirinovsky emerges, Jonathan Eyal argues that the West can have no more Russian love affairs00:02
Golf: Mize the winner by many a mile as Montgomerie goes to pieces: Johnnie Walker World Championship a one-horse race after front nine00:02
Sporting Digest: Badminton00:02
Science: Molecule of the Month: Temptation clad in a flimsy wrapper: Casanova loved it and its chemistry still has the power to seduce. John Emsley on the ingredient that makes chocolate irresistible00:02
Quayle gains his revenge as liberals target single parents: The welfare debate has created some strange allies, writes Rupert Cornwell in Washington00:02
Shooting charge00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Sporting Digest: Netball00:02
Egypt attack00:02
Tajik PM quits00:02
Beach danger00:02
Scottish Football: Hearts embroiled in storm00:02
Loan plan to help Lloyd's members00:02
Science: Someday I'll talk upon a star: By the year 2000 hand-held satellite telephones will enable us to make calls from anywhere in the world, says Peter Bond00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Contemporary Art Market: Refugee captures emotional scars of traumatic war00:02
Cricket: Crawley drops back to reality00:02
Zardari cleared00:02
Football: Brady starts work on Brighton apathy: Mike Rowbottom on the 1-0 defeat by Bradford sustained by the new man at the Goldstone Ground00:02
Basketball: Irish settles up with former team-mates00:02
Hillside streams dangerously polluted by raw effluents: Implementing 'misguided' European directives is expected to result in a failure to meet targets. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Best-sellers00:02
Cruise ship dancers win union support: Marianne Macdonald reports on the artistes made to work 16 hours a day00:02
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