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Azerbaijan signs up with Nato00:02
A day like this00:02
Equestrianism: Last-minute acceptance puts Todd on first: Double Olympic champion leads international entry for Badminton Three-Day Event00:02
Palace says speech was 'from experience'00:02
Letter: Feuding, fading Afrikaners; touching moment on screen; and all South Africa's children00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Hitch in drive to curb cost of job cuts00:02
No English, no jamesbonderie: Legal protection will stifle French creativity, warns Miles Kington00:02
Warplane performs well in public debut00:02
Football: Ailing Chelsea00:02
Top Tories in last-minute plea to voters: Labour and Lib Dems aim to gain 300 seats - Clarke puts unemployment at top of agenda00:02
Middle East Accord: Peace deal speeds up Israeli withdrawal00:02
REVIEW / Lost in a snowstorm in Starkfield, Mass.00:02
Gas mixture cuts need for strong drugs during labour00:02
Market Report: A slump in gilts piles on agony amid US rate fears00:02
View from City Road: A nuclear fund is not the real issue00:02
Dilemmas: Sorry, Jim, the world thinks you're an insufferable wimp00:02
Tough regime facing non-prison offenders: Home Office plans could lead to thousands more being jailed00:02
Sports Letters: Over the edge00:02
Letter: Children at risk on school buses00:02
Bottom Line: Tate can balance sweet and sour00:02
POP / The last detail: It was a special night for Pulp, playing at home with their first single in the Top 10. Andy Gill was there00:02
Letter: Trooping the coffee00:02
Sarajevo aid flights halted over shooting00:02
Racing: Williams chalks up Cup win for big cheese: The best-laid plans of Doyce and men enable a trainer to satisfy a craving for a slice of success00:02
Cyclone survivors try to pick up pieces: Luck and wise precautions saved Bangladesh from worse disaster, writes Tim McGirk in Teknaf00:02
Leading Article: This is only the beginning00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Leading Article: Death in the afternoon00:02
POP / Like a Rollins stone: Henry Rollins - The Forum00:02
Hackers try to distort SA poll result00:02
Immaculate image that emerged from the gloom: Dalya Alberge reports on how two brothers' belief that they had found a work by Velazquez paid off00:02
Chess: Short faces Gulko00:02
Clinton faces new sex allegations00:02
Letter: Feuding, fading Afrikaners; touching moment on screen; and all South Africa's children00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Former Spanish bank chief held00:02
MEPs display passion as never before00:02
Gynaecologist's wife held over killing00:02
Letter: Detained immigrants are not criminals00:02
'More speed limiters disabled': The CPS is to be sent reports of tampering on other coaches belonging to the firm in the M2 tragedy. Steve Boggan reports00:02
Fashion: Strapped for a proper dress: Let's face it: most women won't be wearing these itsy bitsy teeny things this season. If you're a size 6 and not prone to the cold, enjoy, enjoy. Otherwise, envy, envy00:02
Britain is 'saturated with superstores': Shoppers want to safeguard town centres, survey shows00:02
DANCE / Calm before the storm: Judith Mackrell on Our and Che Gelida Manina at The Place, London00:02
Athletics: Christie speaks out00:02
League of their own00:02
Zimbabwe land reform back on track00:02
View from City Road: No good news for the gilts market00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Coach crash verdict of unlawful killing00:02
Bridge: Left feeling low00:02
Obituary: John Hilton00:02
BAT still on acquisition trail: Cigarette group announces 20% rise in first-quarter profits to pounds 488m00:02
ICG float will raise pounds 10m for founders00:02
Middle East Accord: Old foes seek an amiable separation00:02
Letter: I can do it too, mummy, funding permitted00:02
Home in plain view00:02
Football: Hughes and Kanchelskis light up the United celebration: Champions force Southampton to fight for Premiership survival00:02
Birthdays00:02
Teacher 'sacked for explaining sex acts': Tribunal told of movement within school to 'get rid of a number of teachers who do not toe the orthodox Jewish line'00:02
View from City Road: BT's day-dreams are dashed00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Motor Racing: Senna's last wish sees pit-lane speed reduced: Changes in force for Monaco Grand Prix00:02
Cast your vote for me, and I'll cross out my private life00:02
Tragedies to touch each of us00:02
Bottom Line: No cause for alarm00:02
Dear Poetry Society: Poetry is the new rock and roll, we're told. It's on Radio One and it's in the bookshops, backed up by a flashy marketing campaign. A long serving poet thinks this is all a bit belated00:02
Athletics: Morceli inhabits different world00:02
Woman admits hospital shooting00:02
Leading Article: Vote on potholes, not Portillo00:02
Fashion Update: Recycling feat00:02
Football: United face fight to miss Coca-Cola Cup: League to protect their knock-out trophy00:02
Cash in on those overseas earners00:02
Clinton faces new sex allegations00:02
London: a mistake not to be repeated00:02
Policeman abducted00:02
Atlantic Ocean getting warmer: Temperature rise linked to global warming00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Mitterrand's gift horse takes press for a ride00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Half of works in New York auction unsold: Geraldine Norman reports on a surprise setback for the contemporary art market00:02
Letter: Reports in every colour but Green00:02
Golf: Ballesteros knows nothing but tells all: Spaniard fires parting shots on resignation00:02
Here's to the War of the Spanish Succession00:02
Financial controls at top-spending quango 'lax': Housing Corporation under-performing00:02
Wills00:02
Palmer tells MPs that he misled them: Large on the defensive as Sedgemore questions competence of PIA boss00:02
Can good come from this hell?: Rwanda may yet teach the UN how better to handle regional conflicts, says Peter Pringle00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
Letter: The best sermons last the distance00:02
Burns steps down at key NFC division00:02
Bannister in four minutes, Allais in fractions of a second00:02
Arms laid down00:02
Cash machines 'vulnerable'00:02
Morocco's May Day arrests00:02
On Demand suffers heavier losses00:02
Pounds 500m bill for ID cards00:02
Down among the doubtfuls: David Caute, out canvassing for the local elections, takes on the waverers and the underwhelmed00:02
Letter: I can do it too, mummy, funding permitted00:02
Prince's defence of smacking children provokes outrage: Speech welcomed by traditionalists, but condemned by child abuse experts00:02
Post Office says Treasury threatens profit00:02
Fashion Update: Clogged up00:02
Prince gives trendy dogma a smack00:02
Sports Letters: Myth and the misunderstood00:02
Tidal mill shows how water works00:02
Bottom Line: Worries justified00:02
Obituaries00:02
Old faithful claim Honecker's art: Political heirs of the former East German leader refuse to hand over his tasteless art collection, writes Adrian Bridge in Berlin00:02
Minister denies Rape of Nanking00:02
Judge visits pitch in cricket dispute00:02
Wife questioned00:02
MPs struggle to kill off Franglais00:02
Germans unrepentant on UK beef00:02
Stones roll again00:02
Decision time for UK drug companies: Gail Counsell says the big three must act soon to counter the threat from US healthcare changes00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Letter: Feuding, fading Afrikaners; touching moment on screen; and all South Africa's children00:02
Palestinians offered power inside 10 days00:02
Cricket: Tufnell's problems threaten Test future: Illingworth fears spinner may be distracted00:02
POP / Riffs: Judy Cheeks on Aretha Franklin00:02
Law Report: No award for care by tortfeasor: Hunt v Severs - House of Lords (Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Bridge of Harwich, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Nolan) - 28 April 1994.00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Our happiness was wrecked at Zeebrugge: It is seven years since the Herald of Free Enterprise sank, and for some survivors the ordeal is not over yet. Martin Whittaker met a family fighting for compensation from P&O00:02
Ballet magnifies dancers' performance00:02
Pop Charts00:02
Education: Private gains, state benefits: Two sets of parents changed their minds over the merits of free and fee-paying schools for their children. They explain why to Celia Dodd00:02
Kenya ferry death toll reaches 27200:02
Pounds 1m appeal launched to save oldest sea boat00:02
Middle East Accord: Army of street fighters set to quit: Charles Richards, recently in Gaza, saw why Israeli troops want to get out00:02
Pembroke: Fiat revs up for a change of culture00:02
Mexico quashes conspiracy theory00:02
Rugby League: Dorahy sacked by Wigan for 'gross misconduct': Club's brief statement fails to clarify reasons for dismissing double-winning coach after less than one season in charge00:02
Hedgehogs in pain banned from travelling by train00:02
Middle East Accord: Jericho extends a wary welcome00:02
Racing: Murphy shows positive signs00:02
Bondholders sink Heron rescue plan: Anger over pounds 50m wasted on fees00:02
Motor Racing: 200,000 to pay respects00:02
Today's Number: 50,00000:02
Court Circular00:02
View from City Road: The fun at News Corp is postponed00:02
Burglary charges00:02
Poor face higher gas bills after break-up00:02
The counting-house: Numerologists say that character and birth dates all add up. Sarah Lewis meets a woman who believes that two and two equals reliability00:02
Whips ready to campaign for Prime Minister00:02
POP / Gig Guide00:02
Middle East Accord: Rattling of pens mars the signing ceremony: Suspicions and walk-outs almost scuppered the peace ceremony in Cairo, reports Sarah Helm00:02
Dilemmas: Dear Virginia00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Something Else00:02
Racing: Interference costs Moffatt 10-day ban00:02
Inquest verdict 'does not help prove crime was committed'00:02
Fashion Update: Schiffer to retire?00:02
Tate & Lyle in pounds 63m French deal00:02
Strike shuts down Nepal00:02
Women slip back on the corporate ladder: Despite years of campaigns for equality, men still dominate the boardrooms. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Lopez cleared for pounds 30,000 donation00:02
Consumer resurgence helps to double Philips result00:02
TURNING POINT / Never failed me yet . . .: In the first of a series in which Independent writers look back on a significant moment in their critical careers, Robert Maycock describes his first, and lasting, encounter with Gavin Bryars00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
Northern merger in top 1000:02
New Nationwide chief keeps bank option open00:02
Athletics: Day that turned out fine for Bannister: Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the four-minute mile. Mike Rowbottom tells the story of a historic race00:02
400 children in school TB alert00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Obituary: T. A. M. Bishop00:02
Middle East Accord: Timetable for self-rule00:02
Football / European Cup-Winners Cup: Smith's strike brings Arsenal European glory: Battling Londoners make light of the loss of Wright and Jensen00:02
Customs chief defends Iraq export prosecutions00:02
Assad boy attacked00:02
Pension deal clears way for sale of Lufthansa00:02
Repossessions fall00:02
Agency criticised for financial weakness00:02
Plea by besieged UN force as war rages in Rwanda00:02
Letter: Feuding, fading Afrikaners; touching moment on screen; and all South Africa's children00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Murder case man in jail for kidnapping: Defence counsel claims police created 'killer for all seasons'00:02
Caning sentence strokes cut00:02
Premature baby care study urged00:02
Sports Letters: False praise00:02
Obituary: Louis Calaferte00:02
Letter: Personal reflections00:02
Europe votes 'yes' to four new nations00:02
The human blip00:02
Dutch vote ends era of stability00:02
THEATRE / Too sweet a pill: Paul Taylor reviews The Weekend, Michael Palin's new play at the Strand00:02
Cricket: Hick samples Maori challenge: England batsman shows best and worst sides00:02
POP / Really quite big: Central African pygmy yodelling is catching on. Philip Sweeney reports from 'somewhere, deep in the jungle'00:02
Ban on BT television services to stay until 200100:02
BOOK REVIEW / Hero without a biscuit or a mausoleum: 'Mazzini' - Denis Mack Smith: Yale, 19.95 pounds00:02
Reunited, but at great cost: Germany's economy is showing some signs of life, but unemployment still threatens recovery, particularly among the newly privatised companies. Peter Torday reports00:02
THEATRE / Red courage: Alistair Fraser on a Russian House at the start of Glasgow Mayfest00:02
Letter: The best sermons last the distance00:02
Crime: What the country really thinks00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 snowboards00:02
Industrial failures rising in the east00:02
ARTS / Right of Reply: Maggie Morris of Phoenix rebuffs the critics00:02
Complaints on health service rise 14 per cent00:02
POP / ALBUMS: A philosopher's life is not worth living00:02
The daily poem00:02
Clarke insists on need for strong welfare state00:02
Framing by numbers00:02
Tunnel consortium00:02
View from City Road: The ugly tale at Lancer Boss00:02
Banks step in to stem dollar's slide: Intervention put at dollars 5bn as international operation gets under way and fears grow over US interest rates00:02
Letter: Feuding, fading Afrikaners; touching moment on screen; and all South Africa's children00:02
Education: Not just a language, more a way to a confident life: Ethnic minority children are losing vital government funding for English lessons. Enver Solomon reports00:02
Germans clinch Lancer purchase: Tripled offer welcomed by UK operation00:02
Skydiver wins bravery award00:02
Clinton draws line in the sand on Haiti00:02
Letter: Reports in every colour but Green00:02
Inside Parliament: Minister plays down Mussolini connection: Labour MP angered by ascent of neo-fascist - - Confusion over treatment for boots and belts00:02
Bill to protect disabled people under threat00:02
Baby found safe00:02
Ban on D-Day hero fuels acrimony: Correction00:02
Local Council Elections 1994: Lib Dems forecast Tory collapse