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Hizbollah makes explosive return: Israel's proxy militia under fire in south Lebanon00:02
France makes further rate cut00:02
Japan and the War: Tokyo belatedly bites the bullet: Japan's new Prime Minister has faced up to his nation's past. Terry McCarthy begins a three-part series with an analysis of the diplomatic reasons for the apology00:02
Glaxo drug wins wider US approval: Warner-Lambert sales threat - Clinton eases healthcare stance00:02
Compensation over growth hormone refused00:02
M6 expansion to eight lanes denounced as 'roads bias': Environmentalists say pounds 570m scheme will increase congestion00:02
Nationalist Greece muzzles dissidents: Correction00:02
Football: Graham pulls out of chase for Sinton: Wednesday close in on QPR winger as Harkes is sold to Derby00:02
No safe landing00:02
Long-range rifle in Ulster haul00:02
Athletics / World Athletics Championships: Johnson's bad habits are far too good for the also-rans: Ken Jones reports on the American with the guardsman's gait taking gold in the 400 metres00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 3: A keen nose for a good story: Gerry Mulgrew specialises in 'casualty theatre'. It's his prescription against becoming a victim of his own success. Sarah Hemming reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Letter: Risks of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease00:02
Kalon soars with help from French purchase00:02
Comedy to queer the heterosexual pitch00:02
A slice of the action00:02
THEATRE / Edinburgh Festival: War of the worlds: Paul Taylor on Peter Sellars' adaptation of Aeschylus' The Persians00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Media: Providing uplift for the licentious soldiery: The British Forces Broadcasting Service is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Michael Leapman tunes in00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Obituary: Grand Ayatollah Abdul Aala Sabzawari00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Pembroke: Healthy return00:02
TELEVISION / Inside Eye00:02
Letter: Policy by phone-in00:02
City cheers MMC verdict on British Gas: Rivals say timetable for competition is too slow00:02
Baseball: Giants profit from Bonds' double dividend: An MVP-in-waiting lights up Candlestick Park. Richard Weekes reports00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Man arrested over US envoy's killing00:02
Chess: Thoughtus interruptus00:02
City cheers MMC verdict on British Gas: Findings to provoke shake-up00:02
THEATRE / Previews & First Nights00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 3: Word of Mouth00:02
Letter: Search for pub grub00:02
Kantor injured00:02
Obituary: Stewart Granger00:02
Racing: Cecil's hot shots lose their flair: A trainer with fashion sense has a day to forget. Richard Edmondson reports from York00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 3: Hot Ticket: Soiree00:02
'A delayed victory by Hitler': Britain's response to Bosnia has uneasy resonances for Germans, says Steve Crawshaw00:02
US strike dents Hanson: Fall in gains from asset sales leaves profits down 15.7%00:02
Letter: Reconsidering executions for cowardice in the First World War00:02
NY tycoon freed after 12 days buried alive: Elderly tuxedo millionaire, kidnapped for dollars 3m, greets rescuers with request for a cigarette00:02
US protest at British general's opposition to Bosnia air strikes00:02
Leading Article: The fag-end of medical care?00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Australia to pay up as Keating breaks pledges: Labor embarks on tough budget reform after the March election victory it never expected00:02
Obituary: Roger Toulmin00:02
Leading Article: Importing the siesta: we should sleep on it00:02
Shoppers back home scourged by mighty yen: Businesses, consumers and politicians are worried about the strength of the currency00:02
View from City Road: Budget hits rich harder00:02
MUSIC / The Proms: Time and emotion: Anthony Payne on the BBC Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras00:02
Letter: Risks of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease00:02
City cheers MMC verdict on British Gas: Reports mark watershed in acrimonious relationship00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 3: Apparently . . .00:02
Osman is freed from prison00:02
City cheers MMC verdict on British Gas: Company's shares surge - Report urges compensation for loss of market share - 20,000 jobs to be cut00:02
Execution delay00:02
Not much of a plan for Margot: Priscilla Waugh explains the plight of a neighbour trapped in her home and why Virginia Bottomley's 10-point package to improve community care will not free her00:02
Pretoria to quit Walvis Bay: Multi-party body's policy breakthrough00:02
English rose picked to provide a role model and value for money00:02
Arts places pulled from clearing process: Universities warn that courses are full00:02
Doctors stand by refusal to treat smokers: Soapbox medicine or scientific medicine? Judy Jones reports on a divided profession00:02
Man is charged with killing Rachel Nickell00:02
Bosnia: 17 nations offer to help: 1,278 hospital places now available00:02
Court Circular00:02
BBC apology over Allitt00:02
Hospital settles00:02
Bosnia: Deal recalls UN role in Cyprus00:02
Letter: Reconsidering executions for cowardice in the First World War00:02
Inquiry into Noble Lowndes advice: Sedgwick to buy pensions consultancy from TSB Group for pounds 110m00:02
12,000 pounds damages for arrests under anti-terror law: Innocent couple were held at gunpoint and strip-searched after raid on wrong house00:02
Smokers condemn denial of medical treatment: Is it fair to be selective about who should get medical treatment? Nick Walker tests public opinion on a controversial issue00:02
Golf: Pyman anchors youth against experience: Britain and Ireland confident of improving their dismal record in the Walker Cup00:02
Jail 'multiplies suicide risk'00:02
Market Report: Zofran go-ahead sends pharmaceuticals soaring00:02
Libya suffers in isolation00:02
Football: Rideout strikes to subdue City00:02
Cricketer's Diary: At the court of King Curt00:02
Football: Marshall picks up the baton00:02
Killer will be a free man after 28 days on the run: Victim's mother calls for inquiry into loophole in Mental Heath Act order00:02
HK talks end00:02
Haiti picks PM00:02
Canon says high yen caused 61% profits fall00:02
Sudan accused00:02
Letter: Shots out of bounds00:02
Racing: Shopping trip has lost cause00:02
Birthdays00:02
Epwin lifts dividend and prepares for acquisition00:02
Governor goes00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Police attacked over chase death: Suspensions urged after man crushed by police car. Alex Renton reports00:02
Smoking by young girls on increase: Health campaigners demand total ban on cigarette advertising, plus a price rise. Celia Hall reports00:02
Charity of the Month: Counting the cost of war00:02
Racehorses savour a whiff of revenge00:02
Film turns the spotlight on a poet's darker side: Marianne Macdonald examines the factors that could explain why T S Eliot's first wife was incarcerated in a mental asylum00:02
Mercy plea fails00:02
I'd love some feedback, but we've run out of time00:02
Fate of Sarajevo complicated by Croat and Muslim fighting00:02
Will they or won't they escape from Didcot?: Getting the right A-level grades is more vital than ever this year. Sarah Strickland joined a group anxiously waiting for results00:02
Bosnia: UK cautious on more airlifts00:02
TELEVISION / Blood suckers: Gerard Gilbert on one Dracula film you won't lose sleep over00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Edinburgh Festival Day 3: Reviews00:02
Lawyer 'said spending pounds 200 entitled him to sex'00:02
View from City Road: Labour champion of consumers00:02
Custody battle00:02
Diary: Sylvia's battling biographers00:02
40,000 flee fighting on the border in Tajikistan00:02
Ivory Towers: The dirty dozen speak out00:02
RTZ gets 'bizarre' bid fax: Private company says it already owns pounds 280m of mining group's shares00:02
Leading Article: Gas break-up all to the good00:02
Virtually taken hostage by the Horror Experience00:02
Limit on helicopter flights00:02
Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-5500:02
Woman rejected as officer material00:02
City cheers MMC verdict on British Gas: Relying on the UK market00:02
Equestrianism: Horses for a big course: Burghley line-up00:02
Suicide charge00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Meat is still the name of the game in Africa: 'At the Hand of Man' - Raymond Bonner: Simon & Schuster, 16.99 pounds00:02
Laura 'improving'00:02
Detective shot during chase after van robbery: Automatic weapon fired at surveillance team. Terry Kirby reports00:02
THEATRE / London Fringe: Between heaven and hell: Purgatory becomes clearer to Robert Hanks when he experiences it on three different levels00:02
Ships freed00:02
Letter: Not mad Tom at all00:02
Cricket: Clamps on the wheels of succession: Test and County Cricket Board defers naming chairman of selectors00:02
BT3 sale trims July revenue shortfall00:02
Ironing death00:02
Football: Cwmbran the little club with a big heart: 84 days after the European Cup final this season's competition starts in Wales tonight. Trevor Haylett reports00:02
Tiphook finance chief quits: Transport group tries to restore investors' confidence00:02
Genetic vaccine 'best way to combat HIV': A British scientist believes an 'off-the-wall' approach could hold key to halting spread of Aids00:02
Letter: A modified welcome00:02
Thomson cuts pounds 60m off cost of 1994 programme: Package holiday price war looming00:02
Letter: Teaching RE as a social science00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Out of America: Down and zonked out in Washington DC00:02
Football: Fashanu ruins the Wise act00:02
Letter: Risks of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Baseball: Strike averted as owners agree to demands: Major League players decide against action over salary arbitration rules00:02
Hunt for hotel survivors ends00:02
Rexrodt tries to ease VW dispute00:02
Greenpeace has more clout than Austria00:02
The Daily Poem: The Bosnian Poem00:02
Train escape00:02
De Larosiere takes his seat: Bank of France governor becomes EBRD chief tomorrow00:02
Motor Racing: Cue for ultimate truck-driving man: Derick Allsop's analysis of a year in the life of the Benetton team moves to the highways and byways00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Bold, broad insights: 'Post-Capitalist Society' - Peter F Drucker: Butterworth-Heinemann, 16.95 pounds00:02
Five wars waiting to happen: Correction00:02
China squeezes state firms in drive to curb inflation: Peking's policy of freezing wages could cause unrest, writes Teresa Poole from Hong Kong00:02
Sporting Digest: Shooting00:02
Acid exchanges in whaling row00:02
Media: Middle classes, try my dish: David Elstein of BSkyB is trying to widen the appeal of 'council-house television'. He talks to Robin Hunt00:02
Bottom Line: Hoskins must end feud00:02
Not Quite Architecture: Happiness is a corrugated roof and a scratching post00:02
Labour's pre-election tax policy rejected: Brown consigns party's high taxation image to the past. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
TELEVISION / BRIEFING: When the buck finally stopped00:02
Pirate radio stations 'linked to drugs': Illegal broadcasters used as front for crime, regulator says00:02
Growth returns at Evans Halshaw: End of four-year profit slide sends motor dealer's shares soaring00:02
Today's Number: 43.86800:02
Bosnia: Mayor rules out 'Berlin Wall' for Sarajevo: Hopes grow for rebuilding of Bosnian capital00:02
Migrant workers attacked in EC00:02
Football: Speed quick to press home the advantage00:02
Athletics / World Athletics Championships: Frustration for Robb as Ruto runs rivals ragged: Briton fourth in 800 metres while Johnson is the class act in a quality 400 metres field00:02
Sag Harbor Holiday: Across the highway, it's a different ball game00:02
Hijack of the Great Poet: Beneath T S Eliot's buttoned-up image raged true artistic torment00:02
De Beers dips despite rise in sales00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Leakey returns00:02
Architecture: The supermarkets that are eating up Stroud: Small shops shut down as the dinosaur superstores moved in. Now citizens of this Cotswold town are fighting back, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
Rocket found00:02
View from City Road: The MMC has been even-handed on gas00:02
Azerbaijan may be split in two: Armenians in Nagorny Karabakh prepare for decisive assault - Abkhazians step back from the front line in Georgia00:02
Pizza girl's pounds 6,000 for sex assault00:02
Nurses strike00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: Reconsidering executions for cowardice in the First World War00:02
British Gas to lose its monopoly: Bills for small businesses and big domestic consumers will fall as pipelines open up00:02
Bottom Line: A good purchase for Sedgwick00:02
BBC signs 1m pounds satellite deal: Programmes to be reshown days later00:02
Babangida stops short of stepping down: Nigeria's legislators are left confused by the President's promise of a 'personal sacrifice'