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Rugby Union: Rayer soothes Cardiff's early jitters00:02
Boy 'critical'00:02
We're going to make an awful lot of money: Business and IT success meet in the form of Philip Swinstead. Now the original yuppie has a spare pounds 2m and a master plan. Lynne Curry reports00:02
Chirac stages a comeback: Yesterday's man looks good today, writes Julian Nundy in Paris00:02
Letter: Cost of legislation for the disabled00:02
FILM / On Cinema00:02
Racing: Moulin victory silence Take's detractors: Ski Paradise's eclipse of East Of The Moon accords the Japanese champion a familiarity which dispels contempt00:02
Letter: A form of music that shows life as it is lived00:02
Obituary: Julia Osvath00:02
Sacred and secular clash in Cairo: Sexual freedom and religion are at odds in the population debate - and myths are confusing the issues, writes Nicholas Schoon00:02
Burnt body found00:02
Rugby League: Rovers revival reaps reward00:02
Day Out00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
MUSIC / Make love, not war: Robert Maycock on Le Roi malgre lui at Edinburgh Festival00:02
Legal aid for Maxwell brothers questioned00:02
Rugby Union: Bath maintain the chemistry of success: Champions charged up - Saints manager settling in - England stand-off anxious - Hall proves his fitness00:02
Sporting Digest: Angling00:02
Rugby League: Offiah runs up 100th try for Wigan00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Rugby Union: Mordt faces inquiry00:02
Birthdays00:02
The Week Ahead: Venturing into dark vales, bearing crosses00:02
Cricket / Natwest Trophy: Hick and Moody destroy grand slam dream: Worcestershire pair's 198-run partnership off 212 deliveries puts paid to Warwickshire's title clean sweep00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Labour offers solution to rail dispute: Shadow ministers suggest arbitration as solution to signal workers' dispute00:02
Sporting Digest: Fencing00:02
Letter: Cost of legislation for the disabled00:02
Sino-Russian deal00:02
Sporting Digest: Motocross00:02
And all went swimmingly ..00:02
In Thing / Chinese dresses00:02
Now you see them, tomorrow you won't: As part of this week's British Association festival, ecologists are focusing attention on the rapid extinction of many species. Malcolm Smith reports00:02
Cricket: Byas leads Yorkshire out of the gloom: Glamorgan fall foul of Evans while Nottinghamshire cruise home00:02
Letter: Star done away with by Mogulville tyrant00:02
Separating the facts from fiction00:02
Rugby Union: McGeechan means business00:02
Letter: Questions remain on 'friendly fire' deaths00:02
Athletics: Christie and Gunnell benefit from positive thinking: British team captains lead by example at McDonalds Games as domestic sport licks its wounds in wake of doping controversy00:02
Football: Ardiles eyes Popescu00:02
'Albatross' Clinton shunned: The President's unpopularity spells disaster for the Democrats in November's mid-term elections00:02
Gaddafi makes the Libyans' lot a relatively happy one00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
MUSIC / Texas ranger: Jasper Rees on Lyle Lovett at the Royal Festival Hall00:02
Battle looms over changes at CSA00:02
Racing: For the Notebook: St Leger set to lose Pearl00:02
Oftel ponders radical reform of regulation: Watchdog's review could lead to big shake-up among telecoms companies00:02
BOOKS / More than just a passing interest: One isn't very keen on new fiction; another's in love with a nominee - his wife. On the day the Booker judges announce the shortlist, David Lister takes them to task00:02
Adams waves goodbye to simple answers: David McKittrick sees the Sinn Fein president rally supporters to the new concept of peace00:02
Navy 'to buy land-attack cruise missiles from US'00:02
Out of Japan: Gourmet workers let off steam before the sun rises00:02
Time for the user-friendly union: As the TUC congress opens, Alan Cave argues that unions must radically reinvent themselves00:02
Football: McGhee's path well mapped out00:02
THEATRE / On Theatre00:02
Football: Modest man with the right values: Ken Jones pays tribute to Billy Wright, the former Wolves and England captain, who died on Saturday00:02
View from Tokyo: Japan set to pour into Vietnam: As the South-east Asian nation opens for business, the powerful corporate machines to the north are preparing to step in00:02
Football: Inter imports hit the target00:02
Athletics: Morceli manages after all00:02
Crime fighters to go on line00:02
Olympic Games: Triathlon and tae-kwondo go to Sydney00:02
'Tiny' will use pounds 220m fortune in Lonrho war00:02
Letter: A trunkful of taka won't buy Mr Blair00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Little Frog hops about in a fake world: Jasmine Nights; S P Somtow; Hamish Hamilton, pounds 9.9900:02
Think-tank warns of strong inflation threat: Debate over rates deepens as Clarke-George meeting nears00:02
A holy but frail alliance: The Vatican and Islam have different aims in opposing this week's UN conference on population, says Michael Sheridan00:02
'I hit him and it felt wonderful': What kind of a man gets involved in a fight? Nicholas Roe thinks that there are yobs lurking in even the nicest people00:02
Memory of a murdered president disarms Egypt's virgin policemen: Conference Notebook: Robert Fisk finds the authorities adopting a creative attitude to the security question00:02
Football: Huddersfield set sights on future00:02
Civil servant claims large groups mean better standards: Education official in row over size of school classes00:02
Obituary: Billy Wright00:02
Savoy board to decide on control00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Less pretentious alternatives urged: Guide attacks 'over the top' hotel menus00:02
Obituary: The Right Rev Jim Bishop00:02
That's interesting, science is exciting: Anne McLaren, president of the British Association, invites young and old to come to Loughborough and join in the fun00:02
Leading Article: Cautious Russians learn to thrive00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Here they come, walking down the beach00:02
Poverty gap growing in affluent cities: One in four children in Oxford now suffers deprivation. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Equestrianism00:02
A blighted land to be reborn: Matthew Brace looks at plans to create an economic miracle in the East00:02
Policka used to supply arms. Then it met Max: Tom Pullar-Strecker explains how a computer came to the rescue of a Czech arms manufacturer struggling to make a new life for itself (CORRECTED)00:02
Letter: A form of music that shows life as it is lived00:02
Rise in volume of noise complaints00:02
Rowland vows to fight back: 'I have pounds 140m cash in the bank. I haven't got a single penny of debt. I have the means to take these people on'00:02
The animals came in, ten by ten: Once a year, a Suffolk church welcomes snakes, stick insects .. plus a few hundred cats and dogs. Genevieve Fox went to watch00:02
Lighthouse keeper's demise lifts market in eccentric homes: Trinity House is selling some remote but highly distinctive properties by the coast. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Geneticist denies that science is enemy of culture: The British Association for the Advancement of Science opens its annual meeting today. Susan Watts spoke to the association's president00:02
Hockey: Surbiton cornered00:02
Where shall we meet: The Cat and Canary, E1400:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Sailing solo00:02
Ancient local government unit viewed with 'affection'00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Centrefold: A blind bit of notice: Hidden meanings in Hyde Park00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Overpopulation is not Africa's problem00:02
JAL struggles to pull itself out of nosedive00:02
Freed prisoners nurse their wrath in Jericho00:02
Letter: Close to home00:02
Marooning of Alaskan muggers 'a publicity stunt'00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Singer close to buying Carnegie00:02
What's up, Doc?: Wit, wisdom and the medical profession00:02
Campaign forces electricity firms to raise women's pay00:02
Pressure on Blair to back rail strikers: The 126th TUC Congress opens today with leaders declaring support for the RMT's action, writes Barrie Clement00:02
Motor Racing: Mansell crashes: IndyCar mishap00:02
Powerboating:L Not rough enough for Curtis: Powerboats dash between the Channel Islands as they dispute the British Grand Prix00:02
Cost of crime 'more than pounds 20bn a year': Losses could be underestimated because of inadequate statistics, survey says. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Sporting Digest: Australian Rules00:02
Today's Number: 1200:02
Dear Children: First day at school? Remember what the teacher tells you ..00:02
Letter: Denial of prisoners' rights overshadows hope for peace00:02
Couple hit by car00:02
Leading Article: Let there be light in the afternoon00:02
Peter Pringle's America: Virtue lives on in the backwoods00:02
German states keep tight industrial hold: Aerospace arm bought against OECD advice00:02
Joust for laughs: Modern-day knights aim to provide a spectacle rather than injure opponents, but bruises are inevitable. Richard Simpson stands clear00:02
POETRY / Seconds out, line one: There was no sign of James Fenton or Adrian Mitchell. But fists were flying, so to speak, at the USA vs UK poetry slam. Kevin Jackson reports00:02
Abortion compromise may save UN debate00:02
Loyalists attack Sinn Fein HQ: Car bomb in Belfast but republicans are adamant that peace process will not be halted00:02
Bikers pay homage to age of honour, speed and Brylcreem: Thousands return to the Ace Cafe, the mecca for motorcyclists in the Fifties and Sixties, which closed 25 years ago. Charles Oulton reports00:02
Football: Cowans rallies behind leader00:02
Halifax and C&G poised for rises: Falling provisions against arrears and repossessions to boost results00:02
Golf: Romero scales new heights in the Alps: Argentine upsets Gallacher's plans as young Swede hits peak form00:02
Rugby Union: Andrew looking for way out of workload00:02
Bosnian Serbs expel 900 more Muslims00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Menagerie stolen00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Law Report: Case Summaries00:02
Scientists baffled by 'space junk' level: There is more debris orbiting the Earth than previously estimated.00:02
More patients are aware of complaints procedures, BMA says: Complaints against doctors at a new high00:02
The Daily Poem: Extract from Fleadh Flute00:02
Tennis: Sampras made to dig in before continuing advance: The defending champion drops his first set of the tournament as clay-court experts adapt their baseline skills to US Open concrete00:02
Leading Article: A clean break for the CSA00:02
Golf: Briton's Solheim ticket00:02
Historic councils to lose fight for life: The final batch of proposals to change England's shire counties is unveiled this week. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
American to take over at Celsis00:02
Minister resigns in Brazil scandal00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Pilot escapes00:02
Literary treasure hunters set to search for lute: Book offers pounds 250,000 for whoever solves clues. Marianne Macdonald reports00:02
'Fail-safe' plan for prison transfers00:02
Who's pulling the purse strings?00:02
Football: Robson comes to terms with another kind of life: Rude awakening for Middlesbrough00:02
'A third of women abused as child00:02
Nigeria oil workers call off strike00:02
Al Gore says Haiti invasion not inevitable00:02
Sporting Digest: Windsurfing00:02
Motor Racing: Benetton under fire from No 100:02
Obituary: Pierre Culioli00:02
And we'll say nothing about Scottish goalkeepers . . .00:02
Red Sea clash00:02
Portraits of an artist00:02
Policeman abducted00:02
The view from here: Near misses of the pedestrain kind00:02
True Gripes: Towering infernal: The trials of techno-heritage00:02
The irritated person's guide to peacemaking