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Hong Kong attack00:02
Hillsdown sets pace on governance code00:02
OPERA / Light hand through the darkness: Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert opens next week. Bayan Northcott profiles a composer of endless surprises00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Nailed to the stones of infidel faith: A Balkan Tolstoy: Hugo Barnacle on the heroic insights of a genuine modern classic: The Bridge over the Drina - Ivo Andric Tr. Lovett F Edwards: Harvill, pounds 8.9900:02
Rugby League: Offiah relishes hat-trick as Wigan hit top gear: Holder's determined onslaught puts Bradford Northern's championship ambitions on hold00:02
Travel: Sitting it out00:02
Rugby Union: England women march on00:02
Snooker: Hendry now back on cue: The World Championship starts today in Sheffield where young talent will want to upset the game's elite. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Basketball: Rudge enjoys Bucks' fizz00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Hosts of hostas00:02
Cricket: England need overdrive again: West Indies battered and bewildered before the fifth and final Test, which starts today00:02
Faith and Reason: The logic of the gospel argument: There is nothing in the biblical accounts that raises any obvious objection to the ordination of women, writes Margaret Hebblethwaite, an assistant editor of the Tablet.00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Travel Departures: Well mapped out00:02
Death plunge00:02
Football Team News00:02
The great pretender: You can smell the waxwork horses at the new Warwick Castle. Edmund Bealby-Wright travels through Fantasy England00:02
Equestrianism: Lansink has the edge: World Cup final00:02
Travel: Picking islands in a sea of plenty: On a recent trip to the Caribbean, Hunter Davies planted his flag on a handful of new discoveries00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Travel / Tour de france: Host of holiday entertainments: Adrian Strain takes a crash course in stained glass, and we explore other possibilities for activity breaks00:02
Smaller Companies: Cannon results expected to be right on the ball00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Cricket: England select Titmus and Bolus: Waterlogged Fenner's falls foul of weather's vagaries00:02
Lincoln's Inn Awards 199400:02
Ministers rule out ban on live animal exports00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
Presidents test the water with new pact on Black Sea Fleet00:02
Belgium calls for Rwanda pull-out00:02
Killing appeal00:02
TELEVISION / The wheels of society go round and round00:02
Pounds 100,000 for detectives accused of axe murder: Commissioner apologises to officers00:02
Ice Skating: Curry dies aged 4400:02
Letter: What young people choose to watch00:02
Obituary: Archie Newman00:02
Woolmen's Company00:02
Radios for Prague00:02
New editor00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Union warned00:02
Serbs storm into Gorazde: Bosnian Muslim pocket crumbles before ferocious assault - SAS soldier killed - Washington at a loss00:02
Obituary: The Very Rev Leonard Small00:02
Barman shot dead00:02
Institute of Trade Mark Agents00:02
OPERA / Pleasure in a dying fall: Julian Rushton on Opera North's new staging of La rondine by Puccini00:02
Pembroke: There is power in a chicken00:02
Cathy loves Heath-Cliff. Crikey]00:02
Lottery winners forced to go into hiding after extortion attempts00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Rugby League: Bradford object to staggering of last matches00:02
Beginners' book00:02
Travel: Speechless phrases00:02
Jews fear prospect of rule by Mussolini's heirs: Members of Italy's Jewish community tell Fiona Leney of a long history of anti-Semitism00:02
Motoring / Road Test: Nice and easy on the i: The new Renault Laguna scores good marks for looks, value, and executive gadgets. But it has the wrong letters after its name, believes John Simister00:02
Travel: French with a few tears in Old Quebec: In North America's walled city, they speak very quirky French. San Fairy Ann. Simon Calder still enjoyed it00:02
Golfer suing former partners 'not the sort of man to cheat'00:02
Travel Departures: Late packages00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Inflation fall fuels rate cut hopes00:02
New drug could stop premature births: 'Cautious optimism' over clinical trials00:02
BOOKS / Recommended00:02
Working the donkey till it drops: Equalising pensions at 60 instead of 65 could save billions, say supporters. Nic Cicutti reports00:02
Country Matters: Cheap trills, but will Fido lie low?00:02
Futuristic car of the Fifties finds a place in history00:02
DBS scheme00:02
South African Elections: Buthelezi 'must retire' after ruining peace talks: Inkatha leader provokes unprecedented attack by press00:02
Golden chant00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
South African Elections: SA muzzles the racist dog who lauds De Klerk: Fury as National Party uses prejudice and fear to win Coloured vote00:02
Rugby Union: Busy England backed by Scots00:02
Scottish trust00:02
Quotes of the Week00:02
C&G helps with costs00:02
THEATRE / Mother of all murders: Correction00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Petticoat governor: Christina Hardyment on a sympathetic biography of Uncle Tom's sprightly creator: Harriet Beecher Stowe - Joan Hedrick: Oxford, pounds 2500:02
BOOK REVIEW / Tricks of a gamblin' man: Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster: Faber, pounds 14.9900:02
Union jacked00:02
Room for plenty more inside: John Shepherd predicts cuts in hotel capacity as operators face up to the spectre of falling trade00:02
Catch of the day00:02
HIV payments00:02
Crack sex scandal00:02
Extradition of GP 'could take a month'00:02
Travel Departures: Photo safari00:02
Boy hurt in prank00:02
Lesotho inquiry00:02
BOOK REVIEW / No Crocker gold in them hills: Godfrey Hodgson on an engaging memoir of life with humbugs and rascals: Going for broke - Russell Taylor: Simon & Schuster, pounds 9.9900:02
'Independent' writer wins award00:02
Berlusconi threatens to call new elections: Leader of Italy's right-wing Freedom Alliance goes to brink in tussle over parliament ballot to elect speakers00:02
Appeals: The International Ecumenical Fellowship00:02
Market Report: Lonrho shares bask in reflected glow of Ashanti00:02
Food & Drink: It's quite an amusing little ale, sir: Will it be a Bishop's Tipple or Pete's Wicked Ale? Michael Jackson pores over restaurant beer lists and finds many offerings that are a match for wine00:02
Travel Departures: Inter-Rail news00:02
Travel / The Things I've Seen: Withernsea Pier Towers00:02
Hockey: Islanders in mainstream00:02
Serbians tighten their grip on UN 'hostages'00:02
Scottish Football: McStay is a concern for Celtic00:02
Killing appeal00:02
Landmarks: Turn End00:02
Private action possible in race murder case00:02
Angry Russia pulls out of peace pact with Nato00:02
Pacific fund00:02
Railtrack row00:02
Receiver at Lancer hopeful over jobs00:02
Legal aid limits deny access to millions00:02
Profile: Bernardo's fade to Buddha: Bertolucci, a film-maker losing his focus00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: My parents - Herve Guibert, Tr Liz Heron: Serpent's Tail, pounds 8.99.00:02
BICC sells Vero Electronics to management for pounds 33m00:02
Elections 1994: Ashdown advocates powers for citizens00:02
View from City Road: Third time lucky is Cupid hope00:02
Heart Searching: For those in search of paradise: Despite Sara Eden's 'beautiful people' image, you don't have to look like Kim Basinger or Tom Cruise to join, says Angela Wilkes00:02
Chicago to set up rival to Globex00:02
Barman's gun killer gets life00:02
EU heals banana split in time to rescue Gatt deal00:02
Birthdays00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Miners win reprieve for Welsh pit00:02
View from City Road: Grudging reaction to good news on inflation00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Wanted: old flames for new devils: Ray Monk on an amazing and ambitious view of recent philosophy's fight against the modern world: Modern Philosophy: a survey - Roger Scruton: Sinclair-Stevenson, pounds 2500:02
Britannia comeback00:02
Tennis: Agassi stakes out his claim to clay with a new partner: American high-roller heads for Monte Carlo with a different coach, a change of mind and a healthy body. John Roberts reports00:02
Money Grouse: An unhappy landing00:02
Sporting Digest: Gymnastics00:02
Service appointments00:02
Award for 'Independent' journalist00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Court told of booby trap on IRA van bomb: Canary Wharf device 'would have detonated if explosives had been moved'. Stephen Ward reports00:02
Travel Departures: Happy ending to a French affair00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bookshop Window: The Miracle-Worker - Carmen Boullosa, Tr Amanda Hopkinson: Jonathan Cape, pounds 9.99.00:02
Letter: Western action that the Serbs fear00:02
OPERA / Two cheers for Harry: Never mind the stunts - how did Gawain go on the night? Robert Maycock was at Covent Garden00:02
Pollution alert on city water supply00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Dowager gets suspended sentence for racist leaflet: Booklet claims Holocaust did not happen00:02
Local Elections: Tories cling to last bastions as urban extinction threatens: Correction00:02
Highlife income00:02
School ordered to improve standards00:02
Pizza team leads pounds 1.8m rescue of Cupid00:02
Golf: Ballesteros taken with greensomes: Tournoi Perrier de Paris00:02
Motor Racing: Turning up the boost on the microphone: 'For something really spectacular, watch this]' Giles Smith meets Murray Walker, the high-octane voice from the pit-lane00:02
The Deputy Governor's secret is out00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Obituary: Pamela Jackson00:02
South African Elections: Natal surf and sand keeps conflict at bay00:02
Food & Drink: How the west was wonderful: What are the ingredients of a fine restaurant? Emily Green went to Cornwall to find the perfect mix00:02
BOOK REVIEW / When white boys want to rap: Towards the abolition of whiteness - David Roediger: Verso, pounds 11.9500:02
Obituary: John Curry00:02
Football Diary: Outlook poor for Best film00:02
Football: Welsh game in Germany called off00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Double Play: Monkey business00:02
'Franglais' outlawed00:02
The Week in Review00:02
BOOKS / Independent Foreign Fiction Award: Love, death and a Vietnam vet00:02
Jail romance00:02
Hopes of house price rises dampened: Fixed-rate mortgages are creeping up, writes Caroline Merrell00:02
London Marathon: Ondieki takes the high road to prosperity: An Englishman is wary of the opposition but an Australian woman aims to dominate. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Brazilian art on South Bank00:02
Boys run wild00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Meeting God down the pub: The Acid House - Irvine Welsh: Cape, pounds 9.9900:02
Snooker: O'Sullivan to turn up Crucible heat: The World Championship starts today in Sheffield where young talent will want to upset the game's elite. Guy Hodgson reports00:02
Mystery of pro-Major advert solved: Donald Macintyre and David Connett on a pounds 4,500 gesture of support00:02
Jail for journalist00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Best of friends, worst of neighbours: The composer Gavin Bryars salutes the saxophonist Evan Parker on his 50th birthday00:02
Travel: Tuning fork-out00:02
View from City Road: Guidelines on top people's pay00:02
New government00:02
Letter: Britain's invasion by the woodpigeon00:02
Property: Must selling a house always be like this?: The professionals may resist change, but the English system needs improvement. Or don't you think so?00:02
Japan's clean team fishes for a heavyweight: Musical chairs in cabinet mark an end to Cold War politics, writes Terry McCarthy in Tokyo00:02
Today's Number: 400:02
Bain unloads Coats shares worth pounds 1.5m00:02
Court Circular00:02
Gardening: Rollicking with Jones the Python00:02
Vatican softens line on former Anglican priests00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Harrogate spring00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Travel: Ringing true00:02
Football boss's save00:02
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Upbeat00:02
Meatless burgers00:02
'Playful' portrait expected to fetch pounds 1.2m00:02
Sixty-pluses nonplussed by C&G homes scheme: Caroline Merrell on the plight of pensioners whose costs continue to mount on loans that turned sour00:02
Travel: On the cards00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell mindful of his mission00:02
US rates fears as production surges00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Food & Drink: Buy now while 1992 lasts: Anthony Rose urges investing in a case of one of the finest white burgundy vintages, whether for drinking now or laying down00:02
Appeals: Scarborough Theatre Development Trust00:02
Motor Racing: Alesi will miss San Marino00:02
THEATRE / A generous bite . . .: Paul Taylor on the Maly Theatre's Cherry Orchard00:02
Letter: Western action that the Serbs fear00:02
Rugby Union: Former Wallaby reinstated00:02
Virgin fights back with Frisco cut00:02
Motor Racing: Senna finds an extra gear to transform the ordinary: Schumacher slips to second in practice for Pacific Grand Prix00:02
Letter: What young people choose to watch00:02
Iraq victims named00:02
River mystery00:02
Elections 1994: Labour condemns Lib Dems' record00:02
Owner wins battle over raw sewage on beach: Out-of-court settlement on pollution claim could have far-reaching consequences for water authorities00:02
German bank defies recession00:02
Motoring: The auto didact of Paris: The head of Renault's design team explains to Phil Llewellin how he draws on instinct00:02
London Marathon: Martin trusts in caution to keep title: An Englishman is wary of the opposition but an Australian woman aims to dominate. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Football: Rovers poised to pounce should United falter: First leadership change of year possible while Swindon's fight for Premiership survival could end00:02
Susan Maxwell 'seen alone before disappearance': Triple murder trial told of surprise at sighting00:02
Letter: Pregnant servicewomen00:02
Food & Drink: A fistful of unforgettable flavour: Rosemary is the object of our cookery writer's passion, even though the herb can sometimes be hard to handle00:02
Nazi birthdays leave German footballers nothing to play for00:02
Dollars 183m loss at Digital shocks Wall Street00:02
Take flight00:02
Tower blown up00:02
Police halt train in hunt for gun raider00:02
Letter: Western action that the Serbs fear00:02
Football: Stoke's Macari link00:02
School race row divides Deep South community: An Alabama headmaster has provoked outrage by describing the birth of his mixed-race pupil as 'a mistake'00:02
Letter: Dine out on dirt00:02
Letter: Going for a Richard00:02
Rugby Union: Pontypridd covet final accolade: Semi-finals of the Swalec Cup00:02
Tory illegally given two health authority jobs quits00:02
Pentagon grounds aircraft in 'friendly fire' inquiry: Rifkind demands answers to 'painful questions' about how US downed two of its own helicopters00:02
BNP canvasser blinded in attack00:02
Food & Drink / Reader Recipe: A landlady has a good bash00:02
Howard acts to protect confidential information00:02
Man set fire to pregnant wife00:02
Confusion whipped up in US over caning sentence: A media furore has arisen over Singapore's determination to give a young American a beating, writes Rupert Cornwell in Washington00:02
Emap buys motor trade publisher00:02
Channel Tunnel delays cause problems for holidaymakers: Eurotunnel refuses compensation for broken promises, Sue Fieldman reports00:02
Gardening: A moment of magnolia magnificence: Anna Pavord really has tried to capture one of spring's unforgettable images in her garden. Unfortunately, she doesn't live in Surbiton . . .00:02
Labour pipped00:02
Gonzalez refuses to resign over Spanish bank scandal00:02
Gardening Cuttings: Weekend work00:02
Travel Departures: Travel bookshelf00:02
Rugby Union: Counties take the strain00:02
Loyalists kill wife of Sinn Fein member00:02
Wave of red figures swamps Wembley: Refinancing is one of several options being considered to strengthen balance sheet00:02
Clarke to be 'flexible' on PIA00:02
Football: French flair should outweigh excesses: Who will win the the football writers' Footballer of the Year award? Joe Lovejoy assesses the candidates00:02
Rugby League: Ellis to display his value: Wing nears record00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Regina directors launch attack on Malik-Noor00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Racing: Manntari puts reputation to the test: A potential champion reappears as the last public clues to the first colts' Classic fall into place00:02
Travel Departures: Globe trotter00:02
Crash killed fiancee00:02
West's policy of force appears to be going horribly wrong: Tony Barber examines the UN's options: war or humiliating retreat00:02
Engineering Council00:02
Wills00:02
Food & Drink: Prost] from the best of Bavaria00:02
Letter: When pupils accuse teachers of abuse00:02
Leading Article: Liberalism can cope with the skinheads00:02
Brokers fined for illegal KIO deals: SFA expels two who were paid pounds 1m to liquidate frozen Kuwaiti assets00:02
Badminton: Nielsen reaches last four00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
New Blandford charge00:02
Travel Departures: Last-minute flights00:02
University appointments00:02
William Donaldson's Week: Saved by the log-chopper00:02
THEATRE / Mother of all murders: Correction00:02
Key Schneider firm files for bankruptcy as storm erupts: Banks under renewed attack for 'criminally neglecting duties'