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NatWest tackles high rescue fees00:02
Italy leads the way with offers of hospital beds00:02
Seat for Scots parliament to be sold: Anger follows decision to sell symbol of nationhood hopes. James Cusick reports00:02
US thwarts 'suspicious' cargo ship: Washington is acting to allay fears about chemical weapons in Iran, writes Charles Richards00:02
Killing in Kenya00:02
Football: Everton target Stuart00:02
Kashmiris unmask India's devilish plot00:02
Pupils abscond in school bus00:02
Today's Number: 11600:02
Smoker who was denied surgery dies00:02
Windfall for BT as AT&T buys McCaw00:02
The Bosnia poem00:02
Argos dips after warning: Worries about sales tailing off overshadow 38% rise in profits00:02
Letter: Time Greenwich went Continental?00:02
Manchester tops car-crime table: Insurance firm rates northern urban areas the worst for vehicle crime. Terry Kirby reports00:02
Racing: Ezzoud ready to outrank Cecil's young pretender: Greg Wood on an intriguing opening to the Ebor meeting00:02
Knives are out in Israeli row over corpses00:02
Athletics: Relaxed Christie enjoys morning after: The fastest man in the world is thinking of his future. Mike Rowbottom reports00:02
Leading Article: Repayment of an overdue debt to Sir Walter Scott00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 2: Sha-la-la-la, wo-o-o-o: Karen Carpenter haunts the Fringe. Mark Wareham discovers it is yesterday once more-ore-ore . . .00:02
Football: Wright puts Arsenal back on track: Late winner seals North London derby as Gunners deservedly put their opening day disappointments behind them00:02
Letter: Time Greenwich went Continental?00:02
Football: Argentina's unbeaten run ends in Colombia00:02
View from City Road: Insurers must shoulder the burden00:02
Cellar yield00:02
Obituary: Rodney Dennys00:02
Health: A little brother, a lot of guilt: Being the sibling of a handicapped child often causes resentment, and the emotional turmoil can continue into adulthood, says Sara Wheeler00:02
Heterosexual Aids00:02
People: Bolshoi saves its artistry with help of old enemy00:02
Takare weathers nursing reforms00:02
Life insurers take 5.1bn pounds in record sales quarter00:02
Letter: The Baudelaire of the Bush affair00:02
Cricket: Udal persuades Lancashire to shut up shop00:02
Letter: Time Greenwich went Continental?00:02
Bottom Line: Bright prospects00:02
Fringe adopts cutting edge: David Lister reports on the row over marketing of the Edinburgh festival Marketing for the Edinburgh Festival has led to acrimony. David Lister reports00:02
Liberians hope for peace with new government: Aid shipments begin under UN accord that should bring democratic elections next year00:02
'Three soldiers among patients flown to UK'00:02
Creativity: How to give an elephant the sack00:02
Health: Take a tip: have a midday kip: Southern Europeans know a siesta is good for them, and the British should follow their example, writes Tessa Thomas00:02
Five wars waiting to happen: They might come to nothing, but any of these cases could degenerate into ugly conflicts with global consequences. John Torode prophesies00:02
Athletics / World Athletics Championships: Edwards' best brings Britain second medal: Disappointment for British javelin men while Devers edges Ottey for women's sprint crown00:02
Child muggers00:02
S&P changes its mind over National Provident00:02
Golf: Azinger makes his major breakthrough: Norman relives the misery of sudden death to hand American the US PGA Championship while two veterans earn call to The Belfry00:02
Letter: A bit of black is what Jack needs00:02
Market Report: Vodafone rings up gains in AT&T bid for McCaw00:02
US court rules sheikh must go: Judge rules Egyptian cleric may endanger security as hijack by one of his followers ends00:02
Plot to kill King Hussein00:02
London 'key law centre': Survey finds fees among the highest in Europe00:02
Mothers set up roadblocks where car killed boy, three: Police appeal for calm amid growing anger over joyriding as teenagers appear in court00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Poker: Card player's canny claim00:02
Pet hate00:02
Law Report: Circumstances of workers' dismissal were relevant: TNT Express (UK) Ltd v Rigby and others - Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Wood, Miss J W Collerson and Mr D G Davies) 24 July 199300:02
ADT second quarter up to dollars 32.2m00:02
Paris Post War: Art and existentialism 1945-5500:02
Wessex health authority chairman quits: Resignation comes amid controversy over computer contract losses of up to pounds 63m. Judy Jones reports00:02
High street spending rises: CBI sees steady trading growth rather than consumer boom00:02
View from City Road: Gold may glitter but it's still a risk00:02
Brain disease risk to children 'should have been realised'00:02
Mafia 'struggling' as police fight back: New Italian laws bring rise in arrests as crackdown disables drugs- and arms-running empires00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: Second helping of Garlic dread00:02
Britain urged to help pay off 'cheated' islanders: Nauru is pursuing compensation for mining blight, writes Robert Milliken in Sydney00:02
ART / Dull, mediocre, bad - and well worth the price of a ticket: Mengs is the prototype for the B-list celebrity, famous for being (briefly) famous. Andrew Graham-Dixon reports00:02
View from City Road: Room to improve City figures00:02
Dinghy deaths00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Athletics: Outlook gets bleaker for Backley: Ken Jones on a Briton's vain attempt to return to his best despite injury problems00:02
Golf: Watson opts for cup experience00:02
Abuse case children to get more say: Bottomley announces sweeping reforms in wake of Orkney controversy00:02
Bank of Japan expected to lower discount rate: Yen hits record despite dollars 1bn-a-day attempt to halt rise00:02
Wills00:02
We will have to look east00:02
Motor Racing: Team talk puts Hill's triumph in Senna's shadow: British driver still has much to prove after his first Formula One victory. Derick Allsop reports00:02
Birthdays00:02
Leading Article: A relationship that is changing fast00:02
THEATRE / Make no mistake: Paul Taylor on Oxford Stage Company's productions of Comedy of Errors and Pericles00:02
Letter: Battlefields of yore00:02
Cricket: Board seeks remedy for sinking feeling: TCCB considers Dexter's successor as chairman of England committee against background of Test defeats00:02
Pope is home again00:02
Smear test to show Down's pregnancies: Screening could be given to women at first hospital visit00:02
Dunes decline as grazing dispute drags on: Nicholas Schoon looks at the threat to rare and beautiful plants on a north Devon coastal reserve00:02
Racing: Two tests of Smith's humility00:02
RADIO / A real labour of love: Robert Hanks reviews Radio 4's hard left gone soft, and the cutting edge of medical satire00:02
Condition of transplant girl, aged 5, is critical00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: Bye-bye Deano, Hello Flo: No 39: Sheffield Wednesday00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 2: Conferences00:02
Bottom Line: Plenty of logic in MB-RTZ deal00:02
View from City Road: This time the small businesses got it right00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Attack on UK tourists00:02
US officials maintain Bosnia pressure00:02
Holiday price war00:02
Chess: Kumaran gets a second opinion00:02
Letter: Nipper laid to rest00:02
South Africa election is 'on schedule'00:02
TELEVISION / Life in the fast lane00:02
Sotheby's sees upturn: Art auctioneer's profits doubled00:02
Word game00:02
Club did not warn police of potential disturbance: 'Ragga and rap act as a voice for black people . . . our youth identifies with it'00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Lebanese in Syrian talks00:02
Obituary: Albert A. Dahlberg00:02
Hong Kong talks resume00:02
Two deny pounds 15m cocaine plot00:02
Nations rush to aid Sarajevans00:02
A real adventure (and so cheap]): Correction00:02
UN rule for Sarajevo proposed: All troops would withdraw from near city - Serbian shooting and shelling dies down00:02
Court Circular00:02
Come home from hols and your 'Neighbours' will be there00:02
Five found in Thai wreckage00:02
Designer denies blackmail attempt: Threat to expose 'details of pornography collection'00:02
Bedding linked to cot deaths00:02
Letter: Time Greenwich went Continental?00:02
Continental problems prompt Vauxhall to pull into the slow lane00:02
Singapore blocks candidates00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Letter: Let us open our doors to Irma's kinsmen00:02
Reservoirs soak up the summer excess: Above average rainfall has boosted the country's water supplies. Lynn Eaton reports00:02
Pembroke: No job for the boys00:02
Cambodia rail attack00:02
Thatcher aide traps Tube fare-dodger00:02
Rape charges00:02
Turkish search for tourists00:02
Friendly words and harsh deeds in occupied town00:02
The International Congress of Genetics in Birmingham: 'Suicide gene' gives hope of cure for brain cancers00:02
Clinton on offensive to reform health care: The President demands that Washington end its 'rhetoric and air-filling bull'00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fog in the Atlantic - America isolated: 'A Bundle from Britain' - Alistair Horne: Macmillan, 17.99 pounds00:02
Red Cross voices fears for Muslim refugees00:02
Hoars ready to pull out of Hoskins00:02
Grand Met in Indian venture00:02
Over and out00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 2: Apparently . . .00:02
Obituary: Ivan Bilibin00:02
Walter Scott's prose is restored to full sexual vigour00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Where are they now? Ann Packer00:02
Girl hit by stray bullet in street gunfight: Police investigate drugs link after gangs clash outside Brixton wine bar00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Out of France: Dangerous liaison leads to suicide in Paris street tale00:02
Abbey National sells estate agents for 8m pounds: Two entrepreneurs buy Cornerstone chain after bank's losses since 1987 mount to at least pounds 243m00:02
Cricket: Hick granted another chance to prove himself: Smith pays for limitations against spin by losing place after 46 Tests as Tufnell and Fraser are welcomed back to England fold00:02
Letter: Rational views in RE00:02
Sheehy 'threatens to destroy police': Home Secretary warned over 'shambolic' report00:02
Lloyd's has large share of deficit00:02
Golf: US PGA Championship Final Scores00:02
Walking the plank00:02
How to cut down the cost of keeping a company alive: John Melbourn of NatWest joins in the debate on sky-high restructuring charges by outlining the bank's proposals for controlling expenses00:02
Cricket: Uncapped pair set Glamorgan adrift00:02
Unita assault on Cuito00:02
Killer epidemic hits warlord's army: Khun Sa's role in opium trade puts him beyond help as meningitis spreads in remote stronghold00:02
Iran MPs reject Rafsanjani's man00:02
Barcelona bombs00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 2: Reviews00:02
Diary: So is there a gene for it?00:02
Golf: United States Ryder Cup Team00:02
Accountancy & Management: Charity offers the tools for changing an economy: Roger Trapp on efforts to boost the role of the accountant in Eastern Europe00:02
Obituary: Douglas Blake00:02
Athletics / World Athletics Championships: Morceli makes peace00:02
Record A-level pass rate will hurt arts students00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Letter: Negligence over growth hormone must be redressed00:02
Curator's Choice: Duncan Thomson on swaggerless Gainsborough00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Hospital inquiry00:02
Letter: Rational views in RE00:02
VW shares fall again00:02
Threat of jail to curb press in Nigeria00:02
Cricket: Middlesex miss out00:02
'Independent' vacancies listings00:02
Just good friends? But you share your beans . . .: Fraudulent benefit claims may be up, but as flatmates Tim and Lisa found out, inspectors sometimes jump to the wrong conclusions. Robert Ashton reports00:02
Graham execution halted00:02
Brutality of factions brings devastation00:02
Solicitor 'tried to rape woman after ball'00:02
TELEVISION / The Critics00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 2: Word of Mouth00:02
Leading Article: State of crisis over child care00:02
Letter: Negligence over growth hormone must be redressed00:02
Father broke both baby son's legs00:02
Rail enthusiast smashed up train: Student 'flipped' and threw table onto line in front of 90mph express00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Obituary: Miss Irene James00:02
Leadership based on what the papers say00:02
Siena horses finish unscathed00:02
Cricket: Tourists are taken the distance by Essex00:02
Football / Fan's Eye View: Bye-bye Deano, Hello Flo: No 39: Sheffield Wednesday00:02
Health: I was feeling fine until I saw you, doctor: A visit to the GP can raise your blood pressure and lead to unnecessary treatment with hypertension drugs. Rob Stepney looks at the 'white coat effect'00:02
Start to stereotype in 9.87sec: Black role models only compound the problem of racism, says Kenan Malik