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Profits head in the right direction at Compass00:02
Could the inquisition restore democracy?00:02
Court deals Paramount blow with auction order: 'Friendly' dollars 10.2bn Viacom merger overruled00:02
Prince to step up role in boosting exports00:02
Secrets of the season, as revealed in a pub conversation00:02
China to 'oust HK legislature'00:02
Letter: Tartans that defy English fashions00:02
Lloyd's chief defends offer00:02
Ford starts credit card discount scheme00:02
Russian Elections: Bankers pay out for goodwill as parties profit: After topping Lenin's hit-list in 1917, banks are back at the centre of political life as Russia prepares for Sunday's elections00:02
Bottom Line: Peering through a glass darkly00:02
Algerian militants kill 1800:02
Birthdays00:02
Government to free supply of newspapers00:02
Computers: Feedback: Sinned against00:02
Cricket: TCCB executes U-turn: Authorities revert to separate England selection body00:02
Leading Article: No BBC licence for complacency00:02
Bottom Line: Follow Compass00:02
MPs demand reforms after pounds 20m bungle: Cross-party group denounces Wessex health authority. Chris Blackhurst reports00:02
Out of Russia: The name is Bond, the game is spying00:02
Snappy cuffs00:02
Released Britons expected to be flown to border today00:02
Prospect of declaration on Ulster this weekend ruled out00:02
Law: When all else fails, complain here: Michael Barnes, legal services ombudsman, tells Barbara Lantin about his task of investigating grievances against the profession00:02
Rushdie plea to EU00:02
Inside Parliament: Spies face cautious challenge by peers00:02
Fiasco that exposed ethical gulf: Tim Kelsey looks at the background to a hugely expensive NHS embarrassment00:02
Freighter Grape One sinking off the Devon coast00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: Women's poverty, absent fathers and children's needs00:02
Football: Blanchflower a disciple of the glory game: Ken Jones looks back on the glittering career and the singular character of a genuine player's player00:02
Letter: Women's poverty, absent fathers and children's needs00:02
Ice Skating: Scotland's Main attraction springs a surprise00:02
Gunman jailed00:02
Allied Irish Banks raises pounds 55m in move to double market share: Correction00:02
That's the limit: 7 1/2 dangerous Scots on the run00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Items of Garden Furniture00:02
Obituary: Professor Wolfgang Paul00:02
Letter: Surprise findings in African Aids study00:02
Hubble repairs complete00:02
You can pick up more than a pint: Rosie Millard visits a bar where the spirit of the Eighties lives on00:02
Computers: Tuning up the horsepower: Richard North instals MS-Dos 6 and adds go-faster stripes to his Amstrad00:02
FILM / The Small, Piercing Screen00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Swimming: ASA Winter Championships, Gloucester00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Were 84 kids too much?: For years Dennis and Diane, who adopted 78 children, were lauded as the most wonderful people in America. Then suddenly they weren't. Keith Botsford reports00:02
Today's Number: 5,985,43000:02
OPERA / Lost emperor: Tess Knighton on John Eliot Gardiner's version of L'incoronazione di Poppea00:02
FILM / Chart00:02
Home shopping puts Kleeneze into profit00:02
Ivory Coast resignation00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
One for the road: a drug to sober you up00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Football / Non-League Notebook: Big Shots are aiming high to reach their target00:02
Firms given pollution 'amnesty': Law Lords dismiss claim for damage to environment00:02
Nuclear halt00:02
IRA appeal lost00:02
Unpopularity comes with the job: The chairman of the company accounts watchdog tells Roger Trapp he does not expect to be liked00:02
Patients of fund-holders 'get priority': Consultants' leaders say 42 per cent of hospitals are running a two-tier service00:02
Computers: Feedback: Support for PCW00:02
150,000 jobs gone00:02
Diary00:02
Bulger baby00:02
Cricket: Transvaal first test for England A00:02
Drug profits fund weapons for Balkans: After yesterday's disclosures in the 'Independent' on Europe's heroin trade, Robert Block and Leonard Doyle examine links with arms smuggling00:02
Video00:02
City welcomes pollution ruling: Insurance companies delighted by lords' judgment against retrospective liability00:02
Racing: Alflora unlucky in the draw00:02
Slow start for new service00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Motor Racing: Suspended sentence for Senna: Compromise reached over Brazilian ace00:02
New world record for antiquities00:02
Racing: Priory set to defend the faith00:02
Court Circular00:02
That's my son in the stable: Jim White joins proud mums and harried dads at a school carol service00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Scottish Amicable to raise pounds 100m: Innovative bond issue will fund war chest00:02
TELEVISION / Review: Returning to the scene of the crime00:02
Bongo wins in Gabon poll00:02
Britain softens line on Delors' New Deal plan: Major now expected to support elements of jobs package earlier described as 'rubbish'00:02
Payout increased at British Land00:02
Letter: Boycott of Israel00:02
Computers: Feedback: Support for PCW00:02
Sunday shopping: How MPs voted: Total deregulation, For 174 Against 404. Limited deregulation, For 286 Against 304. Six hours trading by big stores, For 333 Against 258.00:02
Culture cash puts paid to Lang00:02
Rugby Union: Bath in 'gouging' inquest00:02
Russian Elections: Errant republics threaten unity00:02
Gay students get the right to date00:02
UN lifts S Africa oil embargo00:02
And What's More ..00:02
Letter: Good neighbours can help to catch criminals00:02
Mail order side boosts GUS to interim pounds 213m00:02
Flying away00:02
Doctor killed in Sarajevo00:02
Rebel fighters gain in Muslim power-struggle: Celia Hall reports on the most baffling war of all in former Yugoslavia00:02
Sailing: Smith's surgery restores reputation: Crew of Intrum Justitia rewarded after being taken to the limit00:02
Moscow's wind of recovery: Russia's progress is real and Sunday's elections should provide the missing mandate, says Anders Aslund00:02
Russian Elections: Yeltsin warns of civil war00:02
A ghat in the market: Uncollected in India, the instant 'bazaar' art of the Kalighat painters served as broadsheet, icon and peep-show. Naseem Khan reports00:02
FILM / A master steps out of the shadows: Tokyo Story (U) Director: Yasujiro Ozu (Japan); American Heart (15) Director: Martin Bell (US); The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (12) Director: Dave Borthwick (UK)00:02
Leading Article: Putting Europe back to work00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Letter: Women's poverty, absent fathers and children's needs00:02
Obituary: Danny Blanchflower00:02
Labour declares war over 'rushed' tax Bills00:02
View from City Road: Success of trusting in others00:02
Employers urged to help combat staff depression: Campaign aims to improve health care at work00:02
Officer ends fight00:02
Pembroke: Supplier shows her fibre00:02
CPS takes no action on death in jail00:02
Grand Ayatollah dies00:02
ARTS / The most hated man in British art: Michael Craig-Martin would be bad enough on his own; but what they'll never forgive him for is inflicting his evil progeny upon the art world. Iain Gale met the guru of Goldsmiths'00:02
Hartstone hopes lift shares: Refinancing by banks 'agreed in principle but not cast in stone'00:02
FILM / NEW RELEASES: Unnatural relations: Adam Mars-Jones on the second big-screen outing for the Addams Family; plus round-up00:02
Arrests over letter-bombs00:02
Receivers at Ferranti axe 630 workers00:02
'I felt that I could not be trusted and was a failure'00:02
First Night: Musical glories in the seedy smell of success: Cabaret - Donmar Warehouse00:02
Storm toll reaches 14 as gales gust up to 98mph: Nurse dies after metal shop sign hits her, but botanical gardens at Kew escape worst of widespread damage. Stephen Ward reports00:02
Leading Article: Artistic, unsubsidised, and successful00:02
View from City Road: Manufacturers face new pollution challenge00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead: World Cyclo-Cross00:02
Dear Theresa Stewart: A small round of applause for the leader of Birmingham City Council, whose municipal Christmas decorations include images from the Sikh, Hindu and other religions00:02
FILM / Rushes00:02
Britain and US on brink of battle in the air00:02
Sporting Digest: Rowing00:02
Charity wins fraud hearing00:02
Fight ahead on Sunday pay for shop staff: Patricia Wynn Davies reports on reaction to the vote for partial deregulation of trading hours00:02
Sporting Digest: Skiing00:02
Letter: Moving pictures00:02
VW blames DM2.3bn loss on Spanish subsidiary: Further cost-cutting looms with prospects for next year looking bleak00:02
British Steel in talks over possible Scottish sell-offs00:02
Bleak warning for detention centre00:02
Letter: Needle's secret00:02
Salvesen director makes pounds 326,000 on share options: Profits drop 22 per cent as distribution group restates last figures00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
View from City Road: Past mistakes catch up with LIG00:02
Obituary: Frank Zappa00:02
FILM / Critical Round-Up00:02
N Koreans admit economy is in ruins: Threat to end nuclear inspection talks00:02
Russian Elections: Yeltsin meets Secretary-General of Nato00:02
FILM / Best of the Reps00:02
MPs urge 10-year extension for BBC's charter: Report says that flat-rate licence fee should remain00:02
A French lesson for Muslims00:02
In praise of Sunday's material pleasures00:02
Hydro-Electric waits for rain00:02
Law Report: Public interest immunity based on state security upheld: Balfour v Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Russell, Lord Justice McCowan and Lord Justice Hirst), 9 December 199300:02
Sporting Digest: Skating00:02
Law: Squeeze on the white collars: Despite the Levitt case, some lawyers believe the Serious Fraud Office's powers are draconian. Jenny Grove reports00:02
View from City Road: Small impact of Sunday shopping00:02
Keith Elliott at Large: Gear sold on the idea of hockey heaven00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Letter: Britain's first ginkgos00:02
The Daily Poem: Art of Travel, 185500:02
Obituary: Peter Greening00:02
Prince to step up role in boosting exports00:02
Birmingham hospitals may lose 1,500 beds00:02
Football / Coaching at the Crossroads: Players at odds with coaching's new path: The FA Council approved Charles Hughes' plan for youth football this week - a decision that angered the PFA's Gordon Taylor. He told Phil Shaw why00:02
Punjabi, poor and mad as hell: A group of Asian women took on their bosses. They lost their strike, but won a human rights award. Melanie McFadyean reports00:02
Letter: Tartans that defy English fashions00:02
Cricket: Harper briefly back in tandem00:02
Clinton agrees to meet Assad00:02
Bomb tests 'gave no extra cancer risk': Former servicemen angry over delivery of results of 10-year study that dashes hopes for compensation. Tom Wilkie reports00:02
Most schools break law on religious education00:02
Bottom Line: Questions for GUS00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Greeks, Trojans and abridgement too far: 'The Iliad' - Homer, Tr. Robert Fagles; Read by Derek Jacobi: Penguin Classics Audio, 19.99 pounds00:02
Market Report: Tiphook's US fans fail to win converts00:02
Extradition battle00:02
Tennis: Steven's fast buck from hard work: Grand Slam Cup00:02
Seeboard raises dividend by 16%00:02
Bitter mountain exile ends as peace beckons: A shameful saga of Palestinian deportees closes this weekend, Robert Fisk writes from Marj al-Zohour00:02
Pilkington vow to slash debt cheers market: Profits double on strong US growth00:02
Daytime licence checks 'hit women and poor'00:02
Ashdown urges EU help for Sarajevo: Colin Brown on the opening of the European election campaign by the Liberal Democrats00:02
Angry rice farmers give Tokyo food for thought00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
DANCE / A complete cracker: Judith Mackrell on AMP's adventurous way with The Nutcracker00:02
Sky is still the limit00:02
Lord Rees forced off Lasmo board: Introduction of retirement age for directors00:02
Angola adversaries met00:02
Law: POW packs a big punch: Sharon Wallach on an unusual way to get practical help00:02
MI5 officer denies creating bomb plan00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Football / Coaching at the Crossroads: The Dutch do it very differently00:02
North West chief 'slow to delegate': Sudden departure explained as water company lifts profits00:02
Resort Hotels will fail to post accounts: No reason given for decision00:02
Sapper believes blasts destroyed his life: Tom Wilkie meets a man who wants justice for veterans of the nuclear testing programme00:02
Channel link survives financial nightmare: Tunnel operator sets about task of turning project into a success after years of conflict over the soaring costs of construction00:02
Football: Fry moves closer to Birmingham job00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
World trade deal in jeopardy: US stand on financial services angers EU and Japan00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
2,000 jobs to go in LIG revamp: Strategy change results in film processing division being put up for sale00:02
Murder plot extradition order is challenged00:02
Football: Blanchflower dies, aged 67: 'He was one of the last great soccer romantics'00:02
Progress of the Storm00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Motor racing: Thunderdrome Challenge, Earls Court00:02
People: Zsa Zsa gets serious00:02
After Hours00:02
Architect to lead the Royal Academy: Dalya Alberge finds the arts world united in its praise for the RA's choice as new president00:02
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