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OPERA / The odd couple: Philip Glass has set Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete to music. Kevin Jackson investigates the enduring appeal of the tale as old as time00:02
A new age of Blair emerges at the touch of a button00:02
Walking: River Dove leads the way to peace: Paul Gosling takes a detour in Derbyshire and discovers a temple where Handel is said to have composed00:02
'Tennis elbow' man died after treatment00:02
GE sacks boss of Kidder Peabody00:02
Today's Number: 62,80000:02
Bulldozers rouse fury of elegant old Ealing00:02
Letter: And now, the world leaders' orchestra00:02
Latvian parliament restricts citizenship: As Moscow edges nearer to Nato and the West, Latvia looks like turning its back on eventual entry into the European Union00:02
Malaysian ban puts planned Rolls venture on hold: Partner fears link-up will preclude it from power contracts - Aim is to bring in work for Reyrolle00:02
Letter: Replacing the Lord Chancellor00:02
How can he lose? Ritblat keeps the City guessing: Tom Stevenson reviews the still-rising career of the British Land chief who outsmarted the recession00:02
THEATRE / Far from the good life: Paul Taylor praises David Storey's Home at Wyndham's00:02
Wacky baccy, but no supper: Why did scientists create stronger tobacco, not crops to feed the poor? Susan Watts explains00:02
Ding dong] We do vasectomies in your home for a snip00:02
The Rail Dispute: Union changing its spots in new climate: Track operator concedes RMT workers obeyed one-day strike call, but still manages to run 1,000 trains00:02
Neglected but nice: Kentish Town: cheap and cheerful00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Going one better00:02
The Russians are coming00:02
Cycling: Boardman in retreat for Tour de France00:02
Obituary: Bernard Moitessier00:02
Hockey: Garcia's rich vein in vain: Australia complete double00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Fifa threat to referees00:02
View from City Road: Music industry likes MMC's tune00:02
Graduates: Friendly tool for a mean operator: Nowadays, computer skills are integral to most organisations, says Philip Schofield - skills all graduates should make their business00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Bulgarians are no match for Nigeria00:02
Cyclists 'safer with helmets'00:02
Cubans who sought asylum face bleak future00:02
Leading Article: The wrong way to attack racist crime00:02
Husband in slander case 'went to brothels': Jury told about 'salacious' club00:02
Best-Sellers: Top 10 Tennis Rackets00:02
Swiss seek greater world role00:02
Belgium's Mr Compromise00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Charlton wins water change00:02
Russians sign up for closer Nato links: As Moscow edges nearer to Nato and the West, Latvia looks like turning its back on eventual entry into the European Union00:02
True Gripes: Bags of trouble: Bring back the rustle of brown paper00:02
Racing: High jump for Muse00:02
Cricket / NatWest trophy: Sussex fail their test of nerve: Gift for Essex00:02
UN gives France Rwandan mandate: Security Council sanctions 2,500 troops for protective and humanitarian mission as RPF renews efforts to capture Kigali00:02
Letter: Wham goes a star00:02
Market Report: Bad medicine for Glaxo on day of mini-revival00:02
Murder charges00:02
The price war and your newspaper00:02
How I joined the 'just walk on by' club: They were just kids, hanging around a car park on a Saturday night, stealing. Mike Fielding was alarmed to find himself accepting their behaviour00:02
The Rail Dispute: Pay-bill freeze before Cabinet is stumbling block in railways clash: Track operator concedes RMT workers obeyed one-day strike call, but still manages to run 1,000 trains00:02
Parachute death00:02
Kinnock backed for EU role00:02
Beckett hint on her future causes anger: Defeat may end Shadow Cabinet role00:02
POP MUSIC / What did George know?: The judge's findings in the George Michael case imply the singer had an information problem. Giles Smith reports00:02
C'est magnifique]00:02
Chairman of Spear relents: Board united in search for higher bid for Scrabble maker00:02
ICI underlines changes with outsider for top job00:02
Where history comes vividly to life00:02
Rugby Union: Jenkins is key to Wales' victory00:02
DANCE / Messenger from the gods: Judith Mackrell is spellbound by Michael Clark's O at the Brixton Academy00:02
MoD 'kept ordering weapons to fight Russia'00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Vogts' veterans00:02
DILEMMAS / A rabbit in a cage stirs up a rage00:02
Silly Questions: I before E except after K. See?00:02
Sad cancellation00:02
Hymn to stay00:02
Cricket / NatWest trophy: White hits right note: Devon are denied00:02
Bentsen pledges to prop up dollar: Dealers sceptical over absence of concrete rescue proposals - European stock and bond markets recover00:02
Letter: Crimes against people and culture in former Yugoslavia00:02
Birthdays00:02
Haiti grip tightened00:02
EU heads for deadlock on presidency: Major backs Brittan against Lubbers and Dehaene to succeed Delors but a decision is likely to be postponed00:02
Last of the Dongbas in danger of fading away: Teresa Poole visits Lijiang in China's far south-west to explore the ancient religious beliefs of the Naxi people00:02
In Thing: Antoni and Alison T-shirts00:02
Births00:02
Power cut to North Yemen00:02
SA whites given bill for ending apartheid00:02
Japanese hold emergency meeting over yen's surge00:02
City welcomes 3i's pounds 178m public offer: Venture capital group valued at dollars 1.58bn - Banks selling stakes will make profits up to pounds 360m00:02
Sperm donor 'not a father'00:02
Police called in over alleged pounds 2m fraud at City stockbroker: Panmure Gordon employee and share certificates are missing00:02
The Daily Poem: Iris00:02
A revolution in health care00:02
Chess: Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all00:02
Patten offers new guide on how schools can expand00:02
Bridge: Yet another hard-luck story00:02
Letter: Rail dispute figures add up to confusion00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bawling babies and those biscuit binges: The year after childbirth - Sheila Kitzinger: OUP, pounds 9.9900:02
I spy the wonder of small companies00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Time for Baggio to make an impression: Group E: Juventus' serious-minded playmaker under pressure to lift Italian spirits00:02
Letter: Other people's conversations00:02
Football: Johnson ready for Everton00:02
Newsbrief: Health pointers00:02
Something Else00:02
Sir Phil cleans up with 79% profit leap: Carpetright to open more stores in anticipation of further growth00:02
Government rejects MPs' proposals on mentally ill: Reforms backed by Tory-dominated committee ruled out00:02
French move into Rwanda today00:02
British soldiers injured in Bosnia00:02
US gives Israel a powerful strike force: The F-15I fighter-bomber will enable attacks on targets deep in Iraq and Iran without refuelling, write Said Aburish and Tim Llewellyn00:02
DANCE / On Dance00:02
N Korea agrees to talks00:02
Decline in bed numbers is international: Major increase in day surgery with minimal overnight stays is at forefront of Utopian vision for health service of the future00:02
M3 opening delay00:02
View from City Road: Insurers must be made to open their doors00:02
Peers revive blocked Bill on disabled rights00:02
Row brews over Euro transport00:02
Saved by a bed00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: It's a funny old World Cup00:02
Ministers to look into Monklands 'scandal': Allegations dominate by-election00:02
Rover's 1,000 candles for birthday Mini00:02
Letter: Other people's conversations00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Jumbo near-miss00:02
Latvian parliament restricts citizenship: As Moscow edges nearer to Nato and the West, Latvia looks like turning its back on eventual entry into the European Union00:02
Blakelock murder charges ruled out: The long inquiry into PC's murder during the Broadwater Farm riots has drawn a blank. James Cusick reports00:02
Who is to blame for these useless pensions?00:02
Obituary: Louis Benjamin00:02
Newsbrief: Built for prayer00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Shanks slashes dividend after plunging into red: The waste disposal group cuts its dividend after a pounds 6m loss00:02
LV lets shortages out of the bag: Heather Connon in Paris is on the case of the disappearing luxury goods00:02
New insurer established ready for bus sell-off00:02
Trams are back, 41 years late00:02
Where shall we meet?: The Hand in Hand00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '94: Serving yoghurt, not aces: Martin Johnson hunts for clues to the identity of the likely women's finalists in the absence of tennis's leading lights00:02
Hurd seeks to stiffen US arms ban on Bosnia00:02
Racing: Brand new world for jockeys: Company logos on silks and saddlecloths from tomorrow could soon add up to a 'multi-million pound opportunity'00:02
North Korea nuclear crisis defused00:02
Getting a foot in the fetishist camp: Esther Oxford steps into a magic world of sole and sex00:02
Cricket / NatWest trophy: Scotland cause a scare: Round-up00:02
Accidental death00:02
Cricket / NatWest trophy: Plumb delays the inevitable00:02
Fashion: A truly uplifting experience: Lauren Hutton at 50 found she could cross her heart and help to fight breast cancer. What's more, she says . . . men love bras]00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society:00:02
So tired of being part of history's great divide: Robert Fisk meets the only remaining surgeon in Mostar, who wonders if the fighting is a continuation of the Second World War that was merely postponed during the Tito years00:02
CENTREFOLD / Recycled material: What is it about opera and bicycles?00:02
Detectives meet00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Leading Article: Mrs Bottomley's credibility gap00:02
Teenage pupils 'lack motivation'00:02
TELEVISION / A teenager on the outside, looking in00:02
Pembroke: Oil bids and soft centres00:02
Letter: On the right path00:02
Inside File: Of horse trading in Corfu00:02
Dear Kenneth Branagh: One actor advises another not to play Obi-Wan Kenobi in the latest Star Wars sequel. The Force may not be with him00:02
THEATRE / On Theatre00:02
Letter: Uncertain future of exported sheep00:02
POP MUSIC / Down at the old Foghorn and Ferret: Joseph Gallivan braves the ecru knitwear and skinny ribs of two thousand twentynothings for the Brand New Heavies . . .00:02
Camera 'mistake'00:02
Italians ousted for ties with neo-Fascists00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Greeks play out 'tragedy' Spain expose00:02
Blair focuses on changing industry: Regeneration and education key themes00:02
Golf: Lyle looks for repeat00:02
Why Belgium cannot afford grand gesture00:02
Queues for action: Everyone has the right to go to Parliament and see their MP in person. Penny Lewis joins the lobbyists to watch democracy in action00:02
Workers' councils get the green light00:02
FILM / On Cinema00:02
Newsbrief: Explosive theft00:02
Boy on rape charge makes legal history00:02
GLOSSARY / I am famous, your honour00:02
Education: Class politics and Mr Blunkett's dog00:02
'Independent' cuts price as newspaper war escalates: Swift action follows 'Telegraph' move in battle for broadsheet market00:02
Law Report: Pawnbroker liable for interest: Mathew v T M Sutton Ltd, Chancery Division (Mr Justice Chadwick), 17 June 199400:02
Eurotunnel pounds 858m rights issue looks set to succeed00:02
Bomb evacuation00:02
Rugby Union: Blond sent off00:02
Inside Parliament: Government's charity begins at home: Labour attacks 'skewed aid priorities' - Minister reveals aid to tax havens - Identity card Bill defeated00:02
Letter: Crimes against people and culture in former Yugoslavia00:02
Sporting Digest: Volleyball00:02
Man left tied to tree for 3 days00:02
Education:: Safety First: The EU would not stop the UK making seat belts in school buses compulsory, says Jo Goldby00:02
Truck maker to lift production 40% to meet take-off in demand: ERF chairman confident as turnover soars and losses decline00:02
View from City Road: ICI tries a break with the past00:02
Football: City sign Summerbee: Pitcher switches to Palace00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Colombia sunk by eager hosts00:02
Who is to blame for these useless pensions?00:02
Balladur takes a moral stance on intervention00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
Fall guy00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Postgraducates: Full satisfaction from part-time research: Liz Heron reports on a scheme launched by the Economic and Social Research Council that opens up a whole new world for mature students00:02
Britons hurt in Turkish bomb blasts00:02
Diary00:02
Split boosts Indian PM00:02
Teacher's suicide00:02
Exhaust pollution 'killed 160 in four days': London smog caused a 10% rise in the death rate. Steve Connor reports00:02
Inspectors give public school a glowing report00:02
UK cigarettes 'not spiked': Industry denies use of genetically-altered tobacco leaves00:02
MPs release letters on Civil Service survey row00:02
Letter: O. J's America00:02
Progress measured in sending patients home: Major increase in day surgery with minimal overnight stays is at forefront of Utopian vision for health service of the future00:02
Wanted man is dead00:02
Athletics: A tough woman soldiering on with two careers: The dynamic Corporal Holmes has to make a career choice that is anything but elementary. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Man dies after world hunt for marrow donor00:02
Graduates: Graduate fairs: when and where00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society: Complaints by women soar: Sexual harassment00:02
Four-wheel warning00:02
No open doors on sealed houses: Sarah Helm reports from Ramallah on Israel's policy of punishing Palestinians by denying them their family homes00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society: Censors say jail will deter illegal traders: Video classification00:02
Obituary: Professor David Whitteridge00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '94: Stylish Wilkinson pulls rank on Costa: No 3 reaches last 32 for the second year running but Bailey fails to repeat last year's heroics00:02
Newsbrief: Norris tries to clean up Old Kent Road00:02
Accident boy's parents fight for school cash00:02
Robber 'tortured into confession'00:02
Buses go for direct insurance00:02
Newsbrief: Hotline for elderly00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Bottom Line: Kitchen sink drama00:02
Cricket / NatWest trophy: Durham advance: Brown takes five00:02
Devos and Mukhamedov rehearse00:02
First Afternoon / Invisible star still sets hearts aflutter: Barry Manilow's 'Copacabana' Prince of Wales Theatre00:02
How to steer out of used car trouble00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: First win beckons00:02
Bottomley seeks radical change at hospitals: Major increase in day surgery with minimal overnight stays is at forefront of Utopian vision for health service of the future00:02
Newsbrief: Lorry death00:02
Bottom Line: First Leisure bowls along nicely00:02
The Rail Dispute: Safety claims over train services: Track operator concedes RMT workers obeyed one-day strike call, but still manages to run 1,000 trains00:02
Obituary: Joan Haslip00:02
Big ideas are back again: The right stares into the abyss. Tony Blair, though vague, at least looks as if he is on the case00:02
Bat visitors learn the gentle touch: Oliver Gillie reports on an unusual evening class held at a Roman villa deep in the Gloucestershire countryside00:02
Obituary: Jose B. Fernandez00:02
POP MUSIC / Albums: Upside down and turn around00:02
Education: Tripping to the right sites - fantastic]: School trips can unlock new worlds to children. But careful planning is the key, says Ngaio Crequer00:02
Crematorium trip00:02
BAe revives hopes of Taiwan deal: Speculation of talks including China00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Rail strike is key test of pay policy00:02
Defiant Emap offers pounds 71m final bid for Trans World: Controversial deal faces court challenge by Guardian Media00:02
Dubbed review marks Ulster anniversary00:02
Sporting Digest: Sports Politics00:02
Loss-maker Lovell on the mend00:02
And What's More . . .00:02
Letter: Crimes against people and culture in former Yugoslavia00:02
Leading Article: A rash expression of Latvian loathing00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '94: Stich stunned by the subtlety of Shelton: The men's title-winner in 1991 adds to German discomfort as he makes a lacklustre exit on 'the graveyard of champions'00:02
View from City Road: A minute is a long time in economics00:02
Wife leaves embassy00:02
Sporting Digest: Lacrosse00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Disciplinary charge00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Slick Swiss roll over Hagi and Co00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '94: Quotes of the Day00:02
Graduates: Systems well engineered: Expertise in IT leads to many opportunities, says one high-flyer who met Philip Schofield00:02
Scharping restores opposition will to win00:02
For Martin, and all the mothers: When her autistic son was killed at 32, Jeanne Percy declared war on the system that failed him. Catherine Evans reports00:02
When the wall came down: In New York 25 years ago, it was illegal even to serve drinks to gays. Then, on 28 June 1969, a bottle was thrown at police in a Greenwich Village bar and the gay rights movement began. Peter Pringle reports00:02
POP MUSIC / Big daddy: Jasper Rees forsakes the World Cup for John Hiatt at the Clapham Grand00:02
Defiant Abiola arrested00:02
Volvo tops safe list00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Higher Education: Lessons for our lecturers: Employers who bemoan the quality of graduates need look no further than Britain's academics for the source of the problem, says Helen Winnifrith00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society: Chief ruffles feathers with reforming zeal: After a year as EOC chair, Kamlesh Bahl faces the challenge of tackling the Government over pensions. Barrie Clement reports00:02
POP MUSIC / West Side story: the final rap: Fawesome wasn't there: he got shot. But Gangsta R?dd was, and Cobra. Andy Gill ate out with the gangsta-rapping Boo-Yaas00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society: MPs call for new laws to tackle wave of violence: Racial Hatred00:02
Tapie may lose immunity00:02
Route to jobs00:02
Cracks in the fabric of society: Merseyside and London head 13% rise in addicts: The growing drugs epidemic00:02
Tennis / Wimbledon '94: Courier attacks rankings00:02
Legal dispute forces sale of Leonardo00:02
Court Circular00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Fashion: Chinwag and pearls from the Kaiser: Karl Lagerfeld pointed his jet towards London last week. Marion Hume cornered him for a chat