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Child seen hitting car with racket, murder trial told00:02
Schoolgirl raped00:02
Today's Number: 30000:02
BT men jailed for running up pounds 600,000 phone bill in quiz fraud00:02
Computers: Feedback: Quick way to print a book00:02
Blockbuster merger hopes dashed: Viacom's tumbling shares scupper plans for dollars 8bn entertainment giant00:02
Hutus urged to take up arms as fighting rages: Aid workers estimate more than 200,000 dead, many hacked to death as tribal massacres continue in Rwanda00:02
A day like this00:02
Wassall pleases City with pounds 179m General Cable deal: Acquisition of leading US producer will almost triple group's size00:02
FILM: TAKE ONE ACTOR / Plastered in Paris: OK, so it's a TV commercial for sticking plaster. But it won't be shown here. You're the star. And it pays . . .00:02
BP delivers unexpected rewards with 20% dividend rise: Oil giant bounces back from the dark days of 1992 by hitting its targets, lifting quarterly payout and boosting profits00:02
Clear answers to shopper's fuzzy questions: Rhys Williams goes in search of hi-tech on the high street and gets a lesson on simple logic00:02
Obituary: Ruggero Orlando00:02
Stamp of approval00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
FILM / On Video00:02
Law Update: Advocacy seminars00:02
Football: Everton rivals in harmony00:02
Coach crash firm could lose licence00:02
Clinton sex accuser seeks support00:02
View from City Road: Remedying the Bank's lack of accountability00:02
Leading Article: . . . but the sick are unimpressed00:02
Letter: Pyrrhic victory for the Palestinians00:02
In plain English, your jargon makes me sick: Why are educational theorists torturing the language? Stephen Pimenoff is astounded00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Children attacked00:02
Patten softens approach on sex education00:02
Letter: Lore of the pulpit00:02
Fury over Nanking00:02
View from City Road: All gloom at the end of the tunnel00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Obituary: Bill Quinn00:02
Murder remand00:02
Computers: Feedback: Rental options00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
The Middle East: Elusive Palestinian policemen leave Gaza off their beat00:02
Russians set sights on Alaska tunnel00:02
Freedom that destroys liberty00:02
Obituary: William S. White00:02
Companies queue for share floats00:02
Law Update: In the chair00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Irritating Driving Habits00:02
Market Report: Boots and Airtours fly to lead share revival00:02
Media accused over coverage of IRA arrest00:02
Obituary: Joan Mott00:02
Law: Teaching solicitors to sell: A law firm's product and its sales force are the same thing: its lawyers. Now fee earners are learning to market their firms, says Sharon Wallach00:02
Obituary: The Rev Glen Garfield Williams00:02
Sick woman must pay for long-term care: Nicholas Timmins reports on a dispute over who should pay for a patient's continuing care00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Death-fire hostel failed to meet safety deadline: Infant and woman killed in blaze at former hotel that faced prosecution00:02
Letter: Why Russia must look to Scotland00:02
Equestrianism: Todd exploits chance: New Zealander takes pole position00:02
Sale of bus firm created overnight millionaires: Anger at 'scandalous' use of taxpayers' money00:02
Inside Parliament: Heath makes a stand for orchestra cash: Former prime minister claims MPs seldom seen at concerts - Major manages last-minute attack on 'inefficient' Labour local authorities00:02
Leader hurt in crash00:02
Computers: World of knowledge at the click of a button: Christopher Gilbert finds the beef in two of the leading encyclopaedias available on CD00:02
Heseltine orders Lancer Boss report00:02
Obituary: Basil Goulandris00:02
History lessons to keep British focus: Education adviser denies shift to multiculturalism00:02
THEATRE / Incredible journey: Paul Taylor on John Barton's exhilarating production of Peer Gynt at the Swan, Stratford00:02
Letter: Channel travel may be a risky business00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
Rugby Union: Tigers' trio are letter perfect: Bath face front-row test in Pilkington Cup final. Barrie Fairall reports00:02
Prison mugging00:02
School-leavers at 16 'to be rare as dodo'00:02
Electrician working at jail robbed at knifepoint by prioners00:02
Do I have a go, or turn up the TV?: When Douglas Bethlehem heard noises from next door, he set off to investigate - perhaps unwisely00:02
Non-League Football: Punton's wait ends00:02
Law Update: Shanghai express00:02
Law Report: Police collusion on jet stopover was improper: Regina v Horseferry Road magistrates' court, ex parte Bennett (No 2): Queen's Bench Divisional Court (Lord Justice Mann and Mr Justice French), 10 March 199400:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Record levels of food poisoning reported00:02
Local Government Elections: Lib Dems storm the town halls: Hundreds of seats fall to Liberal Democrats as the Tory rout adds to doubts over Major's leadership00:02
Obituary: Geoffrey Roberts00:02
Gonzalez stands firm as ministers resign00:02
The Middle East: Fierce battles bring civil war closer to Yemen00:02
Records erased00:02
Barclays chiefs face wrath of shareholders: Hostile questioners take floor at annual meeting00:02
Army reshuffle00:02
Unions told not to give Labour lists of demands00:02
Why people are smarter than washing machines00:02
Wall fall kills boy00:02
SA terror 'mastermind' arrested: Colonel exposed by the 'Independent' faces murder trial00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Equestrianism: Badminton Horse Trials - Avon00:02
Racing: Murphy may return to saddle: Badly injured jockey regains consciousness and a doctor says he 'will be able to ride again'00:02
Doctors puzzled as bacterium turns killer00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Grant ruling00:02
Sex claims shocked teacher00:02
Orchestra cuts pay00:02
Local Elections: City of London upholds role as island of electoral calm: Martin Whitfield finds polling day to mean little more than business as usual in London's Square Mile00:02
Lcoal Elections: Full results of the voting in local authority polls00:02
Leading Article: A sin the British cannot resist00:02
Law Update: Disability group00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
View from City Road: Co-operative ideals are not enough00:02
Car-kit fraud cost Russians pounds 3.4m: Swindlers scoured breakers' yards00:02
Football: Samways' perfect way to rescue Spurs: Oldham subside on their own beach of a pitch as Ardiles' spritely side eradicate any fear of relegation from the Premiership00:02
People: Barry bouncing back to his best00:02
Kremlin team discovers referendum was rigged00:02
US gun lobby setback00:02
Contemporary Art: Masterpiece fails the auction test: Jasper Johns work and eccentricity show gap in market00:02
Last day of my lifelong boycott00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Deal with Serbs sparks call for Akashi to go00:02
SA parties tackle election fraud00:02
FILM / Best of the Reps00:02
Birthdays00:02
Cricket Round-Up: Moxon lightens gloom00:02
'Monitors' protect voters at Millwall polls: Independent observers move in after allegations of intimidation in London ward where BNP won its first seat. Mary Braid reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Fears for safety of missing artist and son00:02
Heinz close to Farley deal00:02
Law Update: Higher things00:02
After Hours00:02
Sheraton rethinks Ciga strategy00:02
Boxing: Lewis needs to leave a lasting impression on Jackson: WBC heavyweight champion under pressure to deliver destructive performance tonight. Ken Jones reports from Atlantic City00:02
Letter: Lore of the pulpit00:02
Tunnel opens today - and then closes00:02
Gloucester body toll now 1100:02
Letter: Satanic abuse: let us not forget the real victims00:02
Motor Racing: Prost's touching tribute to Senna: Friends and colleagues bear a champion's body to his grave00:02
Rugby Union: Guscott's SA tour hopes fade00:02
Italy dismisses warning over Fascists00:02
Out of Russia: In Karelia, the good news is music to the ears00:02
MUSIC / Orchestrating a Russian revival: Pianist-turned- conductor Mikhail Pletnev runs the only private orchestra in post- Soviet Russia. Robert Cowan went to Moscow to see how he makes music make money00:02
Football's last stand: It's the end of the season, and for many clubs the end of the terraces too. As football bows to the Taylor report Giles Smith reflects on myths and meat pies00:02
Austria opts in00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Co-op deal rewards Hobson directors: Bonuses of pounds 250,000 in remuneration package00:02
Prostitution charge is not for men, judges say00:02
Lombard Insurance price disappoints00:02
Disabled voter makes her mark in London's local government campaign00:02
Night-club bouncer gets life for killing man on beach00:02
BSkyB sues over 'sale of decoders': Employee accused by broadcaster00:02
Co-op Retail Services calls for merger with big sister: Link would create organisation with sales worth pounds 4.5bn00:02
Murdoch may sell out of British newspapers: News Corp earnings fall00:02
Productivity increase slashes loss at Ford UK00:02
The Daily Poem: A private life00:02
Letter: Satanic abuse: let us not forget the real victims00:02
Letter: Flight of the Angel of Budapest00:02
REVIEW / A fledgling democracy wakes up to bad eggs (CORRECTED)00:02
Tagging of offenders poised to return: Despite earlier failures, a Bill before Parliament allows use of electronic monitoring00:02
Politics hardly matter to the markets00:02
Obituary: Joan Mott00:02
Dustbin for a world of dirty politics: The UN has been led to disaster in Bosnia by the two-faced attitudes of Western governments, argues Jonathan Eyal00:02
Smuggling arrests00:02
Letter: Satanic abuse: let us not forget the real victims00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Law Update: Euro file00:02
Bottom Line: Body Shop fitter00:02
CRIME: What the country really thinks00:02
Law Update: Contracting out00:02
Hurd foresees 'multi-track Europe': Donald Macintyre and Patricia Wynn Davies on a vision of growth and flexibility00:02
Care worker abused boys00:02
Letter: A public relations tonic for the UN00:02
Lowe Bell set for deal with Chartwell: Public relations group expected to reverse into toilet cubicle maker00:02
Law: Cleaning up the money launderers: Nigel Morris-Cotterill examines thelatest set of regulations for solicitors00:02
Fay receives four strokes00:02
Lloyds near to Standard sale00:02
Bottom Line: Surprise timing from BP00:02
Gift horse trots out00:02
Holiday blues00:02
Barrie Tracey00:02
Computers: Poetry beyond the fragments: A binful of old books led Andrew Brown to an obsure Restoration poet. A CD-rom now makes the complete works accessible00:02
Law Update: Employment group00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Golf: Benson and Hedges International - St Mellion00:02
Cricket: Lancashire caught out by Cuffy debut00:02
Lib Dems concede defeat in Tower Hamlets: Party officials attack Ashdown's criticism of 'racist' campaigning Mary Braid reports00:02
Bottom Line: Health and wealth00:02
Sniffing out cash: Lionel Copley bought his first snuff bottle for pounds 5 in 1952. It is now worth thousands. Robin Dutt investigates a flourishing trade00:02
Law Update: Hodge elected00:02
The Middle East: Hardline Arabs say accord is treason00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Two wheels good, four wheels bad: motorcycle taxis beat the gridlock00:02
Racing: Holy Bull a warm order00:02
Patten accepts radical changes to curriculum00:02
Golf: Seve may raise money supply: Price up with the pace as Spaniard gives himself a chance of a merit rise00:02
Local Government Elections: Results in the local elections00:02
Rugby League: Caretaker seeks permanent post: Opening for West00:02
Cricket: Rhodes scholar of long innings: New Zealand battle to avoid follow-on00:02
Dear Julia Roberts: A leading light of the London fringe (paid pounds 25 a week) congratulates a Hollywood star on her latest pay rise (to dollars 8m a film)00:02
The stories and pictures I'm too soft-hearted to print00:02
Kurdish feuds00:02
Prisoners on the outside: In our final essay on improving democracy, Paul Hill makes common cause with all those who have been silenced by injustice and inequity00:02
Terrorists jailed for gun attack on soldier00:02
Three Tenors at Royal Opera00:02
Science head shocked by sex lesson claims: Teacher at Jewish school 'changed responses between two meetings'00:02
Tobacco adverts deal set to miss deadline00:02
Pembroke: Tories make waves at Capital Radio00:02
ANC and Inkatha left to clear up IEC mess: Demoralised Commission unable to announce election results00:02
MUSIC / A sound judgement: keith Potter on Basingstoke's new concert hall at the opening of the Anvil, Basingstoke00:02
My Week: Eyes down, paper hankies at the ready: Carolyn Whitehead offers advice and sympathy to the almost homeless and the already destitute00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Football: Sutton the key to Graham's thinking: Ambitious Arsenal to build on European success by buying English. Joe Lovejoy reports00:02
Tennis: Becker and Edberg fall by wayside00:02
Racing: Dee splash for Cecil's Cicerao: A colt impresses at Chester but the day's delight is the rapid recovery of Declan Murphy00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Adams can fight exclusion order00:02
FILM / Box Office Charts00:02
Sports Listings: World Cup00:02
Judge adjourns to consider cricket score00:02
Local Government Elections: Results in the local elections00:02
Leading Article: Clarke tries on Disraeli's shoes00:02
Letter: Flight of the Angel of Budapest00:02
Cricket: Breezy Johnson00:02
Bank of Scotland looks into building societies: High efficiency helps profits to more than double00:02
Palmer prepared to step down