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Career diplomat picked as US envoy to Moscow00:02
Sport in Short: Cycling00:02
Market Report: Caught on the hop, but shares soar by pounds 13bn00:02
Elf cuts budget as profits fall00:02
Football: Quinn's late plunge puts the skids under Oldham00:02
Travel costs 'limit hospital visits'00:02
Saddam tightens his grip on Iraq's Shias: Allied planes have done little to prevent Baghdad reining in its rebellious south and, in the north, UN aid lifelines are proving inadequate00:02
Talk of the Trade: The Oldie00:02
Architecture: The village that's just too good to be true: Castle Combe, voted Britain's best hamlet, is so pretty and so well preserved it looks like a Hollywood film set. But, asks Peter Dunn, what lies behind the facade?00:02
Parliament and Politics: Reformers urge Labour to adopt PR00:02
OPERA / Covent Garden curate's egg: Nick Kimberley on the long-awaited British stage premiere of Verdi's Stiffelio00:02
Touchdown on Planet Big-Girl: Imogen Edwards-Jones visits a club for the larger-than-life00:02
TELEVISION / Feedback00:02
City expects Budget cut in base rates: Shares soar, mortgages fall after reduction to 6%00:02
Croatia ignores UN order to withdraw from Krajina00:02
Sport in Short: Skiing00:02
Commentary: Slump more of a danger than inflation00:02
Letter: Established fiction00:02
Football: Wimbledon punished by Cottee00:02
Tribal killings00:02
Diary00:02
Police warn of copycat horse attacks00:02
A long black evening dress being modelled in Paris yesterday as part of Chanel's spring/autumn haute couture fashion collection by the German designer, Karl Lagerfeld00:02
Exiles sail away to homelands of convenience00:02
View from City Road: Why develop a gilt complex?00:02
Letter: Confusion over two lyrical noses00:02
Sport in Short: Table Tennis00:02
Letter: Morals and merits of sex selection clinics00:02
Oil all-clear00:02
Railways safer00:02
Rabbi urges action on Bosnia00:02
Sport in Short: Rugby Union00:02
Talk of the Trade: Headhunting at the 'Economist'00:02
Unemotional killer recalls the excitement and power00:02
Golf: Ryder priority for Ballesteros00:02
Marquess cleared of court contempt marital split00:02
Chickens 'suffer needlessly in slaughterhouses'00:02
Sport in Short: Gymnastics00:02
Obituary: Brett Weston00:02
Chirac 'should get second turn as PM'00:02
Sport in Short: Football00:02
Birthdays00:02
System failed to help tormented schizophrenic00:02
Indian army border guards march past the review stand at the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi. John Major, on a visit to boost business ties with Britain, was the chief guest00:02
Sudan 'using Iraqi planes'00:02
Football: Anfield board ponders options00:02
Sport in Short: Hockey00:02
Offer of Camillagate inquiry rejected00:02
Football: Pair sent off at Boro00:02
THEATRE / Previews & First Nights00:02
Rugby League: Worried Widnes in appeal00:02
Italians take a do-it-yourself approach to electoral reform: The people look set to bring in a first-past-the-post system after politicians failed to make changes, writes Patricia Clough in Rome00:02
Profits climb at Domino Printing00:02
The watchdog's bark is worse than its bite: The body responsible for complaints about television advertising lacks teeth, writes Martin Rosenbaum00:02
MPs compromise on plan for pit closures00:02
Parliament and Politics: Pensions equality 'would cost pounds 50bn and 100,000 jobs'00:02
OPERA / Through hell and high water: Das Rheingold - Chicago00:02
Tennis / Australian Open: Majestic Graf turns on power00:02
Heads say Patten interfered in blacklist (CORRECTED)00:02
Extra reasons to read the Independent00:02
Aircraft giants face big cuts in production00:02
Mother gets 352,777 pounds after attack by her son00:02
Racist German mayor resigns00:02
Father seeks computer ban on son00:02
Who really wrecked Lambeth?: Savaged budgets and bans on councillors were a recipe for scandal, says the borough's former leader, Linda Bellos00:02
Virtual reality opens up hope of remote surgery00:02
US to get maternity leave law00:02
Parliament and Politics: Lord Wakeham, Leader of the House of Lords, applies gold leaf to an ornamental railing to 'top off' the first stage of the pounds 4.9m redevelopment of the Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster00:02
Cricket: Australia fall short by single run00:02
Racing: Fall fails to halt Scudamore00:02
Letter: Coal crisis: market fallacies, short-term subsidies, energy policy00:02
Lorraine Cornish, of the Natural History Museum, London, lying yesterday alongside a 180,000,000-year-old fossil of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, which is being restored in public view00:02
THEATRE / A seat worth fighting for: Georgina Brown tries haggling over ticket prices in the West End and discovers that what stands between you and a cheaper seat is a stony face behind the box- office glass00:02
Croats press on and retake villages00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Playing the endgame for all it's worth: 'When Time Shall be no More' - Paul Boyer: Harvard University Press, 23.95 pounds00:02
Architecture: A high-rise faces a hard fall: An East End tower block is a victim of prejudice, argues Rowan Moore00:02
US plan for UN upsets Europe00:02
Parliament and Politics: Fundholding GPs to offer extended services: Bottomley acknowledges 'pockets of difficulty' within NHS as Labour condemns its commercialisation00:02
THEATRE / THE FRINGE: Breaking the sound barrier: Sarah Hemming on the International Mime Festival00:02
Obituary: Robert Jacobsen00:02
Lamont expected to put off raising taxes until December: The Green Budget examines the dilemma facing the Chancellor. Robert Chote reports on the economists' conclusions00:02
Sport in Short: Golf00:02
Gay 'magic circle' claim dismissed by inquiry00:02
Nationality question haunts HK Indians: The territory's ethnic minorities want British status as a safeguard after 1997, writes Teresa Poole00:02
Rugby Union: Cardiff surface in clear00:02
Law Report: Strict liability for water pollution: Cambridge Water Co v Eastern Counties Leather plc - Court of Appeal (Sir Stephen Brown, President, Lord Justice Mann and Lord Justice Nolan), 19 November 199200:02
Letter: Cutting a record?00:02
Japanese take fast track to madness00:02
Sport in Short: Basketball00:02
Sport in Short: Squash00:02
Sport in Short: Ice Hockey00:02
Letter: University priorities00:02
A company overtaken by the pace of change00:02
Unemployment link to suicide00:02
Talk of the Trade: Clinton's Strobe00:02
Loonies need not apply00:02
Letter: Off the rails00:02
Sport in Short: Snooker00:02
Twitcher devotes his life to an obsessive flight of fancy00:02
View from City Road: Boeing batters aerospace sector00:02
Carlton chief's salary rises 87%00:02
Commentary: Streamlining fraud trials00:02
Letter: MI5 expansion raises doubts00:02
THEATRE / Critical round-up00:02
Rugby Union: McGeechan stepping down00:02
British Coal warns of 'fudges'00:02
TELEVISION / Free speech or just cheap?: Mark Lawson finds his liberalism tested by Murder in Mind00:02
Shandwick back in black but passes final dividend00:02
Letter: Confusion over two lyrical noses00:02
Kurds teetering on brink of abyss: The author, Labour spokesman on development and co-operation, recently returned from a fact- finding trip through northern Iraq00:02
Sport in Short: Billiards00:02
View from City Road: Bide your time on waste offer00:02
Shots at the drug pub: A controversial clinic's scheme reopens the debate on how addicts should be treated, says Mark Handscomb00:02
Letter: University priorities00:02
Obituary: Professor Holden Furber00:02
Rouble collapse may wreck market reform00:02
Sport in Short: American Football00:02
Obituary: John Adlard00:02
Parliament and Politics: Benefits 'supplement pay at supermarkets'00:02
Nilsen interview broadcast after appeal is rejected00:02
Leading Article: It's a man's life00:02
Russia sets date for coup trial00:02
Oil spill centre to close00:02
Havel triumphs after bumpy ride00:02
Correction: Advertisers split on promotion of tobacco products00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: Step down to fame: No. 26 - Cardiff City00:02
Drugs binge led to accidental death of porn heiress00:02
Kangaroo court 'ordered girl aged 15 to be raped'00:02
Parliament and Politics: Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Porsche expects loss of pounds 50m as sales dive00:02
1.5m pounds bronzes for museum00:02
All-out Balkan war looms after new offensive00:02
Football: Gascoigne 'fined' by shocked Lazio00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: It's a fair pair of cops00:02
Sport in Short: Cricket00:02
Football: Rovers overrun by Coventry's raiding party00:02
Whitbread Award winner00:02
Iraqi fighters being used00:02
Mother stole money to pay bailiffs00:02
The pits and the energy pendulum: The Government's swing away from secure supplies puts more than the miners at risk, says Tom Wilkie00:02
Racing: Focus switches to Roberts: Paul Hayward reports on Sheikh Mohammed's pursuit of the Flat's champion jockey00:02
Letter: The pros and cons of Red Hot Dutch00:02
Leading Article: Not before time00:02
Fraud fines urged to avert complex trials00:02
Letter: Wasteful scheme to save hospital funds00:02
Armenia freezes00:02
Court Circular00:02
Gentlemen always travel by bobsleigh: Rosie Millard meets a group of holidaymakers dedicated to winter sports, Twenties style00:02
Euro Disney loses pounds 60m but US parent sets record00:02
Out of the West: Pool stories dry up as Clinton goes on the run00:02
Cinema boost00:02
Letter: Coal crisis: market fallacies, short-term subsidies, energy policy00:02
Maze IRA escaper held in US00:02
Twins' gruesome scenes win award00:02
Gambler's 4,000bn pounds 'win' ends in court00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Iran to execute German as spy00:02
Lyndsey Morgan, a conservator at the Tate Gallery in London, cleaning Rodin's The Kiss. The sculpture is now back on display after a long absence from the galleries00:02
Obituary: Audrey Hepburn00:02
Timman well placed to keep chess hopes alive00:02
Obituary: Ken Gray00:02
Dewi Sukarno in jail for assault00:02
Glaxo moves to boost sales over counter00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Ceausescu hailed00:02
ML Holdings warns of 'a lost cause' and announces cash call00:02
Sport in Short: Olympics00:02
Hanson and Santa Fe to swap gold and coal assets00:02
Law Report: Assessing agricultural occupation: Hambleton District Council v Buxted Poultry Ltd - House of Lords (Lord Templeman, Lord Oliver of Aylmerton, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Mustill and Lord Slynn of Hadley), 10 December 199200:02
Vandalism toll00:02
Parliament and Politics: Most headteachers to boycott tests for 11-year-olds00:02
Sport in Short: Boxing00:02
Deadly game00:02
IBM fires Akers and slashes dividend00:02
The ultra super mega bumper list00:02
Boxing: Lewis at mercy of King's bidding00:02
Mass tourism blamed for paradise lost in Goa: Tour operators who promote an Indian state as a dream holiday destination are accused of turning a blind eye to reality. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Creditors give go-ahead for O&Y restructuring00:02
Inquiry rejected00:02
Rugby Union: Wales pick power prop Evans00:02
Obituary: John Horry00:02
Rival openings put brake on Budgens recovery plan00:02
Cricket: Home fires burning in Gower debate: The latest MCC saga over England selection continues tonight. Derek Hodgson reports00:02
Column Eight: Sailing on a shoestring00:02
Rabin hopeful00:02
Banks cleared of not passing on rate cuts00:02
Letter: The pros and cons of Red Hot Dutch00:02
MPs upset at SFO bar on Maxwell inquiry00:02
Austria's terms00:02
Child likely to be first gene therapy patient00:02
Cricket: Captain laid low as temperatures rise00:02
Obituary: John Adlard00:02
Letter: Coal crisis: market fallacies, short-term subsidies, energy policy00:02
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