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Fifty years on, and Belgium's war wounds are still hurting00:02
The Agreeable World of Wallace Arnold: A privilege to trade in that sun-soaked land00:02
Letter00:02
Letter: Double standards over Israel00:02
Hurd to blast Brussels 'fraud' in poll campaign00:02
Q & A: Art of the anti-clockwise . . . and Tranmere's blue winger00:02
Travel: Taking off with your eyes open: What do you do if you're in Bahrain, but your bags are in Bonn? Stephen Barlay suggests how to avoid the pitfalls of flying00:02
Strike averted00:02
Real Life: Spoilt for choice in all the clutter: There are at least 240 sorts of shampoo and 110 different types of personal stereo on sale in the UK. Helen Fielding reports on shopping selection gone crazy00:02
Cries & Whispers00:02
The list00:02
Real Life: My 'sister' was my Mum: Jack Nicholson grew up believing his mother was his sister. Derek Jameson recalls his own experience in the Thirties, when he was a child in the East End00:02
Shotgun accused00:02
Football: Peacock pride of Chelsea00:02
Regulators join forces to rein in the hedge hunters: Rupert Bruce surveys moves to contain high-risk investments00:02
Rugby Union: Basic lesson for A team00:02
Life for killing abortion doctor00:02
Deaf hear Russia like it really is: Sign language moves with times00:02
Rugby Union: Cooke's final ambition is on the line: Richard Williams reflects on a disciplined performance that was short of inspiration00:02
Freight may turn Eurotunnel into an early winner: The railways are concentrating on high-value freight traffic like motor parts to maximise their revenue00:02
Profile: Sun sets on classic rider: Sean Kelly00:02
Rugby Union: Elwood squares Irish account: Five Nations' Championship: Scots gain first point as hosts pay penalty for near misses00:02
Profile: Damn and be damned: Conor Cruise O'Brien: Is he heir to the European Enlightenment or just an Irish dogmatist, asks Laurence Marks00:02
Leading Article: I spy a man without a face00:02
Letter00:02
Real Life: In the end, a certain grace: Richard Coles, a pop musician, decided that he could be a Christian, despite its 'untrendiness'. Then a friend's death tested his faith00:02
Letter: Full horror of the Holocaust00:02
Scrooge specialist lowers overheads00:02
Profile: Fate, pharmaceuticals, fresh air and fun: David Barnes: The head of Zeneca tells William Kay that his career in chemicals was due to chance more than animal magnetism00:02
Health: Second Opinion00:02
Golf: Quiros's quest00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No-go arias in Vienna: Other Lulus by Philip Hensher - Hamish Hamilton pounds 11.9900:02
Higher risks at small banks00:02
Letter00:02
Fashion: All the World in a wig: When directors and divas from Hollywood, opera and theatre want to be sure of getting a wig that fits the part, they visit a small, inventive workshop in Bristol00:02
Ice Skating: Olympic pairs champions miss worlds00:02
No to the claret, yes to the fax: The Oxford dons depicted in the film 'Shadowlands' no longer exist, reports Blake Morrison00:02
RTZ seeks slice of Zambia mine00:02
Protest over inquiry hospital 'wall of silence'00:02
Letter00:02
Tried & Tested: Boots made for working: Workwear is back in style, but can work boots be practical and comfortable? our panellists decide00:02
Thalidomide fight goes on00:02
The Independent MAnagement Game: Win pounds 10,000 in our European market strategy game: Teams of 'directors' in simulated export firms will duel with their share prices. Roger Trapp tells how it works00:02
My Biggest Mistake: Michael Burrell00:02
Rear Window: Expedition in the jungle: When the British fought and won in Malaysia00:02
Art Market: The contemporary capital: London is buzzing with new artists whose work is now attracting the attention - and cash - of connoisseurs around the world. Geraldine Norman finds out why00:02
Daily bread: What the first female concorde pilot ate in a one-day New York stopover00:02
Gardening: Seeds of the future: Catch them young, said the Royal Horticultural Society, and one school took the lesson to heart. Michael Leapman met the green-fingered pupils00:02
Nuclear protest blocks atom plant00:02
Innovation: Graffiti artists on the skids with non-wettable coating00:02
So what do law officers do anyway?00:02
Speed Skating: Gooch looks sharp00:02
A Critical Guide: Two months that might shake the world00:02
Fear uproots the settlers: Israeli dreams crumble on West Bank00:02
A-Z of treats00:02
Public spending plans jolted00:02
Football: Venables faces a leading question: Eamon Dunphy believes the England coach must choose his captain carefully00:02
Flat Earth00:02
Theatre: How deep can deep be?: 'Endgame' is back. But what does it mean? Robert Butler conducts his own exit poll00:02
The bitter road to Hebron: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the father of militant Zionism who urged Jews to arms00:02
Football: Spirited City find a dynamo00:02
Drugs: a new kind of rural pursuit: A mobile unit is touring the countryside to help combat the growing problem of the village addict00:02
Minister backs 'hard sell' royal00:02
Travel: High-chairs and holidays: Spoon-banging in the restaurant? Little accidents in the hotel foyer?00:02
How Much Does He Earn?00:02
Letter: Green ideas are alive and well but living under assumed names00:02
Leading Article: Thin excuses for fat cats00:02
Fishing Lines: Why big pike feed on greed00:02
Hockey: Ipswich caught cold on day of upsets00:02
Travel: Iceland: the land that's never still: Geysers gush from its crust, waterfalls roar down every valley. Moira Paterson visits the volcano of the north00:02
Rugby league preview: Northern's prop of ages00:02
'Garden of death' toll now five: Sensing devices reveal remains under concrete floor - More finds 'distinct possibility' - Search widens to other areas00:02
DANCE / Simply, ecstasy00:02
Magazines put gloss on Aids00:02
Rugby Union: How Crooks went straight: Stephen Brenkley meets the giant threat to Wigan's hold on rugby league's big prize00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Mateship, the media and tele-mayhem: Jacko - The great intruder by Thomas Keneally: Hodder pounds 15.9900:02
Professor drives another lesson home in quest for accountability: Birmingham University's quango critic has a way of touching off debate. Liza Donaldson explains00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Too big and too loud, but no one gives a damn00:02
Letter: Too soon to drink to the health of the nation00:02
What the papers said about ..Geoff Cooke00:02
Bunhill: Burger's a dog in the manger00:02
Football: Stuart stirs revivalist spirit00:02
Innovation: Meter on hull cuts risk of oil spills00:02
Faith in Irish talks00:02
The woman who said I was a murderer00:02
Dyke in attack on investor00:02
Angst: Expert advice on your problems00:02
Tax net snares record numbers00:02
Personal Finance: New interest from Lloyds00:02
Shares: Shells that can hide pearls: Firms revitalised under their old names may well be worth watching00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The shape of things past: A history of civilizations - by Fernand Braudel, trs Richard Mayne, Allen Lane/Penguin Press pounds 2500:02
Granada's hot new date: It started 30 years ago as one man's tentative idea. Today, as Blind Date, it is one of the most valuable properties in British television - and, like it or not, a part of our national heritage00:02
A small claim that fell out the window00:02
ROCK / It's official: Elvis lives00:02
Marketing: Brands expand their horizons: Companies are cashing in by extending their famous trademarks to different products00:02
How We Met: Paula Yates and Jools Holland00:02
City & Business: Tide may be turning for investment high rollers00:02
Meningitis on ship00:02
Theatre on the retail stage: Tom Peters On Excellence00:02
Fear grows among auditors as the liability claims soar: Accountants are seeking government help but sympathy may be short00:02
CINEMA / To cut a short story long00:02
Boxing: McCallum the king without a throne00:02
Football: Cole conjures up a tricky finish00:02
Innovation: Climbers get hi-tech edge with improved equipment00:02
Real Life: A junkie at Millfield: The doors of the most exclusive schools are always open to ex-addict Phil Cooper. Angela Neustatter reports00:02
Dirty Dogs Campaign: 101 ways to clean up after 101 Dalmatians: Grab it, spear it, shovel it . . . There are numerous weird and inventive devices for clearing up dog mess. Rosanna de Lisle tests them out00:02
Athletics: Rosswess strips away advantage: Mike Rowbottom talks to the late developer starting to worry Linford Christie00:02
Books: In the lists00:02
Football: Anderton leads the way back00:02
Captain Moonlight00:02
The Broader Picture00:02
Chess00:02
The Independent on Sunday bestseller list00:02
Football: Wright's quick retort00:02
Lipton queries Ritblat purchase: Correction00:02
Bunhill: Banham on board00:02
Fayeds set up pounds 40m indemnity for House of Fraser investors00:02
Europe caves in to road lobby: Rail network under threat as motorway building spree cuts a swathe through beauty spots00:02
Football: FA Cup Sixth Round: Wanderers find path to a new golden age: Ian Ridley tells how once great Wolves are reacquainting themselves with success00:02
Would you believe it?: Ministers talk in half-truths and are amazed no one believes them. But the public are not fools, says Clive Ponting00:02
Letter00:02
Tory campaign 'racist'00:02
Long runners: No 21: The Archers00:02
Blueprints for democracy: the Greeks had a machine for it00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Analysis for beginners: Come to me by Amy Bloom, Macmillan pounds 8.9900:02
Books: In the frame: Julian Opie00:02
Bridge00:02
Home thoughts00:02
Certification: Tough tailor-made training proves its value on paper: A Northampton in-house management course can lead to a degree and open doors00:02
Rugby Union: Dynamo at the hub of affairs00:02
Sailing: Smith clings to narrow lead00:02
Grapevine: Kathryn McWhirter does things by halves00:02
Comment: Man in middle of confusion00:02
Food & Drink: Lots to remember her by: At the sale of Elizabeth David's everyday culinary effects Michael Bateman joined the eager bidders. He did battle with the faithful to secure some treasured holy relics00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Tough political act to follow00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew's day revives England: Five Nations' Championship: Outstanding stand-off at his sure-footed best to put French to the sword00:02
Football: Dons the undoing of Deehan00:02
Inept buying that costs millions: Purchase and supply: a survey shows top executives are unaware of the big savings to be made00:02
The prophet of irony summons the McJob generation: Yawn-again twentysomethings00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Paddy down your way: Beyond Westminster by Paddy Ashdown: Simon & Schuster pounds 9.9900:02
City & Business: Eastern promise00:02
'Secret deals' questioned in struggle for the 'Independent'00:02
Sport on TV: Jack on the box, carnage on the carpet00:02
Design Dinosaurs: 6 The eight-track cartridge00:02
Advertisers usher in classless society00:02
Letter: Greeks are right to remember00:02
Murder charge00:02
Auto Biography: The Mercedes C220 in 0-60 seconds00:02
Tennis: Simple for Sampras00:02
Mutual funds expose investors00:02
Letter: In confidence00:02
Rugby Union: Untimely end to Cooke's tour: Chris Rea examines the legacy of an England manager wounded by snipers' fire00:02
Books in Brief00:02
Letter: The heart of the matter00:02
TELEVISION / Laugh, or else you'll cry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Very spacial relationships: Dark White by Jim Schnabel Hamish Hamilton pounds 16.9900:02
Football Round-up: Fjortoft rises to the occasion00:02
THEATRE / When Peer Gynt is a game boy00:02
Words00:02
Political Commentary: Nice move, John, but you reckoned without the judge00:02
Books: Myth in the making: Ted Hughes has always had his doubts about criticism, but this first collection of prose gives the remarkable range of his work over 30 years, as well as insight into his motives and methods00:02
Scargill: saviour to figure of fun: Paul Routledge biographer of Arthur Scargill, reflects on the man and the end of mining00:02
Mr Clean clears a path to Number 1000:02
Eurotrains rumble Chelsea's rich calm00:02
China rounds up dissidents in advance of official US visit00:02
Cricket: Game of limited value: Derek Pringle says one-day cricket has had a lasting effect on true quality00:02
Overheard00:02
Cricket: Australia running on empty00:02
'Spivs' abuse gas sale00:02
Rocking Balladur00:02
Database00:02
Cricket: England fall to the might of Haynes: Fourth one-day international: Captain's gamble misfires as a veteran opener sets up series victory00:02
Letter: Double standards over Israel00:02
Hollywood misses the 'sweaty pork butcher' in C S Lewis00:02
RADIO / Anthem for lost youths00:02
Murdoch's Star has trouble rising in the East: Asians rebuff West's electronic advances00:02
Cinema: My hero, Robert De Niro: As Channel 4 unveils its De Niro season, the director Quentin Tarantino (below) introduces his idol's finest hour-and-a-halfs00:02
Arts: Exhibitions:: Salvador Dali believed himself to be a genius. But the early paintings now at the Hayward Gallery reveal him as merely a pasticheur with panache00:02
Cricket: Curtis is the model of control: Stephen Brenkley reports from Preston on an Aussie bowler with spinning powers00:02
Almanack00:02
Inside Story: A most sinister war: Norman Lewis on the bombings and massacres that have made East Timor as cruel a place as Pol Pot's Cambodia00:02
Quangowatch: A guide to those unelected quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations that run our lives: No 4: Teesside Development Corporation00:02
Rugby Union: Davies gives Cardiff title hopes00:02
Football: FA Cup Sixth Round: Wanderers find path to a new golden age: Simon O'Hagan sets the scene as Bolton prepare for a neighbourly skirmish00:02
Football: Le Saux is so forward thinking00:02
Hospital pension fund pounds 2.5m adrift00:02
York on ads: No 18: Exclusive photography00:02
Ways the lottery can improve national health00:02
Anniversaries00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Making a meal of it: The Faber book of food - ed Colin Spencer and Claire Clifton - Faber pounds 17.5000:02
Business Information Service: This week00:02
Letter: Green ideas are alive and well but living under assumed names00:02
Best and worst: Funds falter on recession and Japan - Unit Trusts00:02
Racing: Dove flies home00:02
Fishermen missing00:02
Clinton plunged into crisis as top aide quits00:02
Economics: Gurus fall short of the gold standard00:02
Grown from short roots: What is a hedge fund?00:02
Show People: Florida's prophet, Britain's loss00:02
Lifting the lid of the Soros money machine: In an exclusive journey through the labyrinthine empire of the master speculator, Stephanie Cooke and Charles Raw find gains are 'reallocated' to a charmed circle of associates00:02
Football: New regime shows Celtic the light: James Traynor reports on a second chance for a club saved from the brink00:02
Out of the running00:02
City File: Everything in Fison's garden is not so rosy00:02
Letter: Gay activists can never win00:02
Arts: Every which way but forwards: Whither painting? All over the place, it appears. Tim Hilton00:02
Disabled need stronger laws at work, survey shows00:02
Opinions: Should mutton dress as lamb?00:02
Letter00:02
Letter: Tough political act to follow00:02
Inside Story: After the media earthquake: David Bowen peers through the smoke of battle for mastery in cable and home entertainment to consider the future shape of the industry00:02
George Soros: the man behind the hedge00:02
Records: Soundtracks special00:02
Bunhill: Express interest00:02
Quotes of the week00:02
Saatchi chief for Europe00:02
Bunhill: No wise owl00:02
The Art of Theatre: 18 Brothers: Nicholas Wright's Masterclass00:02
Deaths00:02
As others see us00:02
Football: Le Tissier proves a lore breaker00:02
Football: FA Cup Sixth Round: Charlton's grounds for hope as nostalgia rules: Norman Fox hears plaudits paid to supporters for the Valley of new life00:02
Snooker: Hendry beaten by former monk00:02
A slap in the face from a pat on the back00:02
Warheads to Russia00:02
A mother's love for a victim of hate00:02
On this embattled shore, 50 years ago: Normandy is preparing for a new invasion on 6 June, reports00:02
Letter: Sweeteners are not wrong00:02
Fed set to push rates higher: US Reserve Board could plunge markets into chaos00:02
Incredible shrinking garden: A court battle over misrepresentation by an estate agent has left a family wilting