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Sinn Fein plays down ceasefire: Downing Street condemns IRA's 'temporary lull in the killing'00:02
Elliott accused of defrauding Elders: Tycoon faces pounds 30m charge after running out of injunctions in prosecution00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Familiar follies amid the holly00:02
Nothing like the family to make you feel loved00:02
People: A starry night in Honduras00:02
ID cards will be issued for job-seeker's benefit: Ministers agree plans to reduce Giro fraud. Colin Brown reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sports Listings: Monday / Cyclo-cross: Supacross, Macclesfield00:02
Anniversaries: Christmas Day00:02
Scottish Life ends society ties00:02
Serbs give Bosnians ultimatum as fighting dims hopes for truce00:02
Prison officers call for public inquiry after killer is found00:02
Food & Drink: The year of eating exotically: Sophie Grigson travelled the world in search of good taste and found the piece of cod that passeth all understanding00:02
Castro's daughter donned disguise to escape to US00:02
Students in debt00:02
Out of Russia: Return to old icons as the Blessed Margaret fails to deliver00:02
Early start to holiday as thousands fly to winter sun: Norwich is favourite for white Christmas followed by London as bookmakers shorten odds00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Out of their heads: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Rape charge00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Hard men, hard battles: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Court Circular00:02
Baby's body found00:02
Sales]: Looking for a bargain? Start the search here00:02
Obituary: Maj-Gen H. R. B. Foote VC00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Error forces Lloyd's to revise pounds 900m rescue offer: Pounds 22m to be reallocated among names after miscalculation - Chairman of Gooda Walker Action Group urges rejection00:02
Australian authorities get heavy with would-be immigrant nurse00:02
Rugby League: Hughes has early look at Wigan00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend00:02
Clinton hands over bank files to investigators00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Profits melt at Ortiz-Miko00:02
Letter: Weighed down by earthly values00:02
And now the Christmas news00:02
Leading Article: A threat to Clinton's recovering authority00:02
Racing: Nation's pet still a firm favourite: Greg Wood finds Desert Orchid is champing at the bit for Boxing Day00:02
Mother mugged00:02
Obituary: Jozsef Antall00:02
Gowrie to chair Arts Council00:02
Today's Number: 20000:02
'Kristallnacht' synagogue builds a glittering future00:02
Obituary: W. Edwards Deming00:02
Letter: Christian responsibility for the concept of Hell00:02
Pyongyang hints at nuclear concessions: Boutros-Ghali to spend Christmas in talks with Kim Il Sung as hopes grow of ending North Korean isolation00:02
Company news in Brief00:02
Schools lose pounds 50m worth of grants: Teacher-training schemes biggest losers00:02
Letter: Unto Sarajevo a child is born00:02
Letter: The size of Texas00:02
Birthdays: Boxing Day00:02
Man who admitted 959 crimes is jailed: Violent offences helped to pay for gang leader's pounds 300-a-day crack habit00:02
Meanings of Christmas: Literal truth or a symbol of faith?: Our series for Christmas week opens with a consideration of belief in the miracle of the Virgin Birth by Professor R. J. Berry, Professor of Genetics at London University.00:02
Yugoslav inflation continues00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Wit and women: Verbal volleys, wars of words: 'He gets my daughter and I get tickets to the internationals'00:02
Food & Drink: Meals on legs: When Lapps see reindeer they think of eating, not of Santa Claus. Lyn Owen feasts on the beast00:02
The Daily Poem: The Magi00:02
Lovell shake-up to cut debts00:02
House price rise predicted00:02
Apology00:02
Coroner pleads for information on boy's killer00:02
Travel: Living in a world of their own: On the shortest day of the year, Simon Calder took the high road to Shetland and Frank Barrett took the low road to the Scillies, as Britain's extremities made ready for Christmas00:02
Birthdays: Christmas Eve00:02
Racing: Kempton a natural home for Humour: The Uplands runner can take advantage of a level playing field in the King George VI Chase00:02
Howe urges UN to remain in Somalia: Latest US troop withdrawal raises fears of a return to famine and an attempt by Aideed to seize control00:02
That strange fellow in your chimney: He's an old-fashioned fantasy, but we keep inviting him back. Margaret Visser reflects on a benevolent symbol . . . of what?00:02
Man who wrongly served 16 years in jail dies00:02
Gang watches as six youths rape teenagers00:02
Business and City in Brief (CORRECTED)00:02
Man tortured cat00:02
Christmas gloom in Bethlehem00:02
Cricket: Wells practises what he preached: England A maintain run00:02
BOOKS / Politics? Bah] Humbug]: Christmas Presence: In the last of the series, Sean French reads A Christmas Carol again00:02
Landlady unmasks armed robber in Brixton pub raid00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Hong Kong's airport prepares to turn away flights00:02
Marines verdict attacked by MPs and rights groups: Scientific evidence leads to acquittal of soldiers on charges of murder and attempted murder in Ulster. David McKittrick reports00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Farewells and final partings: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Christmas orders rush in for professional shoplifter: Anne goes stealing three times a week for her 'customers'. John Arlidge reports00:02
Sports Listings: Next Week00:02
Obituary: Alan Hill00:02
Gift for Balladur proves a turkey00:02
Continental slump dents British car production00:02
Church appointments00:02
Farmers forced to defy law and bring home their bacon: Tough EU rules have closed three North Yorkshire slaughterhouses and led to fewer animals being killed at a fourth. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Food & Drink: A quiz of fiendish vintage: Anthony Rose poses the questions and a case of champagne goes to the winner00:02
'Tis the season to be jolly for 160-year-old candlemaking firm00:02
Expenses fraud00:02
This is the 25th year that the charity Crisis has offered Christmas cheer to the homeless00:02
Gang leader jailed00:02
Kid gloves off in child's play: As Toys 'R' Us expands in the UK, smaller outlets are under pressure00:02
Fans freed on bail00:02
Moscow extends military role00:02
Vicar gambles on talents of flock00:02
Birthdays: Christmas Day00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Scams and scandals: Verbal volleys, wars of words:'I've even stuck my Amstrad satellite dish in the dustbin'00:02
Football: Selection of England manager imminent: Venables the favoured candidate as Armfield reveals FA's intention to make full-time appointment early in the new year00:02
Pembroke: Death of BES may snap twig script00:02
Cricket: Border's warning: Disappointing day for Donald00:02
Letter: Christian responsibility for the concept of Hell00:02
Letter: Incoherence in arts subsidies00:02
BOOKS / Absolutely fabulist: 1994 is the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death. Ian Thomson assesses his place in English literature00:02
Keith Elliott At Large: Volleyball captures an indoor beachhead: Wintry Wolverhampton's answer to Bondi Beach is playing host to two women seeking gold for Britain at the 1996 Olympics00:02
Units body attacks reform plan00:02
Shopkeepers and markets celebrate: 'Tidings of comfort and joy' in West End as unstoppable Footsie rockets00:02
Market Report: Shopping bonanza stuns even hardened traders00:02
British soldiers freed in Bosnia00:02
Sports Listings: Boxing Day / Motorcycling: Mallory Park road races, Kirkby Mallory00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: 'Was I responsible for Graham's appointment? People say I was, but I'm not so sure. I can remember Bert was sold on him from the word go': Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Benn speeches a surprise video hit00:02
Leading Article: Weakness of the Nativity myths00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Anniversaries: Christmas Eve00:02
Survival course offers festive escape00:02
Non-League Football: 'Gang of three' fight on: Welsh bitter00:02
US bull run has further to go in 199400:02
Racing: Abbot in doubt00:02
Tennis: Becker in drugs claim00:02
Football: United sitting pretty: Boxing Day preview00:02
Tree lights suspected in fire that killed four00:02
Tourism chiefs write off millions: Biggest errors found in social security budget00:02
Anniversaries: Boxing Eve00:02
Letter: Weighed down by earthly values00:02
Mayor finds he has a bear behind00:02
Toll rises from German floods00:02
Legal hurdles reduce chances of conviction: Case prompts renewed concern over justice system, reports David McKittrick00:02
Christ finds a home near Japan's Eden: Terry McCarthy visits Shingo, where locals claim they are descended from Jesus, who, they say, is buried there00:02
Saving for a rainy day: Jim White follows the Japanese tourists to a warehouse full of Burberry bargains00:02
Guard shot in raid00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
Letter: Christmas wrap00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Price of illegal drugs falling00:02
Obituary: Major Francis Jones00:02
Travel: In the bleak midwinter: On the shortest day of the year, Simon Calder took the high road to Shetland and Frank Barrett took the low road to the Scillies, as Britain's extremities made ready for Christmas00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Weird and wonderful: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Cricket: Sturt resigns as Middlesex chairman: Disappointing day for Donald00:02
Officials were alerted to Jamaica flight00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Bobsleigh: Just the ticket for Tout