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Sex attack victim, 83, locked up00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Lima bombs00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Letter: No age limits on motherhood00:02
Leading Article: Privatising the nuclear industry00:02
Doctors told to curb NHS surgery: Bottomley seeks cut in ineffective operations to save cash00:02
Share prices soar in Far Eastern markets00:02
Couple burnt badly as fire starts during row00:02
Obituary: Evelyn Venable00:02
Government wrangle delays nuclear review00:02
Israeli jets blast Hizbollah in Lebanon00:02
British barman shot dead in Washington00:02
THEATRE / The Theatre Shows of 199400:02
Tax rises in Budget 'will slow pace of recovery': Warning from Treasury minister set to dampen renewed consumer confidence00:02
Football: Reading looking more than a passing fancy00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 worst road schemes00:02
Football / Second and Third Division Round-Up: Evans has Crewe climbing00:02
Rugby Union: Morrison makes all the right back-row moves00:02
Sanctions call00:02
Honours of little merit: Correction00:02
OPERA / Top of the pops: Meredith Oakes on Music Theatre London's playful Cos fan tutte at the Queen Elizabeth Hall00:02
Management: Success lies in the people00:02
Hundreds leave Sarajevo: A letter sent to the outside world from the Bosnian capital as hundreds seize the chance to flee00:02
Poet killed00:02
Football: Phelan fulfils City's forward thinking00:02
Out of America: 500-ton Columbus causes a colossal headache00:02
Peter Pan frozen in a frame of innocence00:02
Well-off want estate fenced in: Burglars' targets consider US-style security with guards and cameras00:02
Letter: From pillory to post - with pride00:02
Boy sent to Africa for 'therapy' arrested again00:02
Letter: Restore rights for detainees00:02
Media: Talk of the Year00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Grenade made safe00:02
Ministers criticised for prison strategy: Public 'misled' by claims that jail ia a deterrent00:02
Bank of Spain rescues Banesto: Banking crisis looms as central bank ousts chairman and directors00:02
Punters roll up] Hot tips for 1994: Robert Cole asks the fund managers what the stock market holds in store this year00:02
Cricket: Gough elixir earns England a leisure day: Seamer stitches up victory00:02
THEATRE / Theatre Choice00:02
Peres stresses security concern00:02
Flotations in 1993 set fresh record00:02
Letter: Fox-hunt campaign has a fishy smell00:02
Hijackers duped00:02
Full-blooded entertainment satirises great British horror film00:02
Letter: The pyramid's relics go from one tomb to another00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Cricket: Taylor kept waiting00:02
Today's Number: 1500:02
Saudi council00:02
Animal rights linked to firebombs at Boots00:02
Letter: On the first day after Christmas. . .00:02
I used to have a recurring nightmare; these days I get melodies in my mind: Susan de Muth in bed with Tasmin Archer00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Court Circular00:02
Modern Shylocks prey on Italy's small businesses: Millions are falling victim to the ancient scourge of usury, Patricia Clough reports from Rome00:02
Smaller Companies: Good year for tiddlers00:02
Football: Bliss before misery for Peschisolido00:02
Jamaica not on EU visa list: Deportations seen as prelude to extension of 'Fortress Europe' restrictions00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Football: Wales court Venables for manager00:02
Letter: Boycotting Imelda00:02
Labour tactics could cost MPs a victory on the piste00:02
Football: Collymore collects in one-man show00:02
Racing: Riverside victory turns the tide for Dunwoody: The sun shines again on the champion jockey at Chepstow, but suspensions still cast a cloud over the King George's brilliance00:02
Darts: Priestley taken to wire00:02
Two burnt as fire starts during row00:02
Sporting Digest: Skating00:02
Refugees flee Saddam's man-made drought: The waters sustaining the Marsh Arabs' 5,000-year-old lifestyle are being deliberately drained away00:02
Accounts anticipate change00:02
Days of wine and Roman scandals: Michael Sheridan finds the eternal city in sober mood at the year end00:02
Letter: From pillory to post - with pride00:02
Dedicated twitchers take up position on the Kent marshes for a wild goose chase00:02
Birthdays00:02
Rugby Union: Tiger Harris has earned his stripes: Subtle stand-off makes life hard for Baa-Baas as Irish suffer in A-team international00:02
Universities face crisis over ageing science staff: Older lecturers are retirement 'time bomb'00:02
Children must grow beyond the nursery: Matthew Hoffman warns against political offers of an instant fix for a complex educational problem00:02
Top policy post for Clinton ally: Leading expert on Russia named deputy at the State Department00:02
Nessie legend finds life as a fishy tale00:02
Kurdish leader 'murdered in Syria'00:02
Russia to push on with sale of state assets00:02
Meanings of Christmas: A journey of the heart to hope: Today's articles in our series are sermons given at Christmas by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Habgood.00:02
Football: Hazard achieves total dominion00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
UNDERRATED / It's the real thing00:02
Rave new world: Britain's first cyberfestival imploded on the London club scene, less a night of virtual reality than virtual disaster. Sarah Lewis takes a trip00:02
Obituary: Sir Jack Longland00:02
Sporting Digest: American Football00:02
Out of America: 500-ton Columbus causes a colossal headache00:02
It's New Year's Eve and you're not a tragic social failure00:02
Football: Derby profit as Johnson finds target00:02
Leading Article: More science teaching is worth the cost00:02
Navy ships' design attacked: Expert blames cost cuts for 'built-in overcrowding' on helicopter carrier00:02
Hunt for gun boy00:02
Letter: The pyramid's relics go from one tomb to another00:02
Brothers killed00:02
Halifax expects house prices to overtake inflation by 199500:02
Trial told Britain beat arms embargoes: Royal Ordnance said to have aided transfer of machine-guns00:02
Swastika cover gets book seized00:02
Racing: Whip controversy continues to sour Kempton classic00:02
Pembroke: Big breakfast for sale slaves00:02
Warburg faces pounds 115m action: Irish leasing firm sues merchant bank and Linklaters & Paines00:02
BOOK REVIEW / So he discovered the mystery of the universe: 'Wrinkles in Time' - George Smoot and Keay Davidson: Little, Brown, 18.99 pounds00:02
To be moved by mountains: Scotland's high places are the ultimate realm of the wild, yet we strangle and devastate them, says Jim Crumley00:02
Car park GPs to offer 'an op while you shop'00:02
THEATRE / Previews & First Nights00:02
The Daily Poem: Lighthouse Years00:02
American Football: Quarterback gloss has tarnished look: Playmakers are losing their grip on the position of pre-eminence. Matt Tench reports00:02
Obituary: Dave Beck00:02
THEATRE / The final frontier: Kevin Jackson talks to Patrick Stewart, better known as commander of the Starship Enterprise, about his Christmas Carol at the Old Vic00:02
Sweden nears decision on Danish link: Government divided on century-old dream of a bridge and tunnel to continental Europe00:02
Letter: Isle of Wight proves a flaky analogy00:02
Pole death00:02
Obituary: Claude Labbe00:02
REVIEW / Ole man river, he just keeps waffling00:02
Media: A good year for Birt (and his taxman): In his first 12 months, the new BBC director-general raised lots of questions. Michael Leapman provides the answers00:02
Girl, 15, accused of caravan killing00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Crew found safe00:02
RSI claims defy judge's ruling: Unions say the limb disorder 'that does not exist' could become most costly industrial injury of all time. Barrie Clement reports00:02
Leading Article: Those who preach must also behave00:02
Cracks in confidence will be slow but sure00:02
Football: No kidding Kop as Fashanu strikes00:02
Media: How prisoners on cell block D acted with real conviction: Documentary makers filming a prison musical for BBC 2 found they were witnessing more than just a bunch of inmates having a laugh. Linda Joffee reports00:02
Football: Lee 'has made no City bid'00:02
Sports programme, roads and airports disrupted but snow gives Britain a Christmas card look00:02
Football: Stein ends the blues as Chelsea find rhythm00:02
1,100 civilians leave Sarajevo00:02
Adams chess win00:02
Racing: Greenwich again00:02
Buyout hastens Hafnia's demise: Candover Investments in pounds 13m deal for Economic Insurance Company00:02
Hockey: Molloy masters Cheam00:02
Cadillac saved from Red Square00:02
France warns the British to tone down their apres ski00:02
Charity for homeless offers help off the back of a lorry00:02
Bulgaria orders Zhirinovsky to leave00:02
Refugee deaths00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Football: Kenwright may bow out00:02
Britains freed from turkish jail: Lorry drivers held over alleged export fraud to fly home. David Connett reports Britons freed from Turkish jail00:02
Meanings of Christmas: A journey of the heart to hope: Today's articles in our series are sermons given at Christmas by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Habgood.00:02
Owl takes flight00:02
Obituary: Professor John Wisdom00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Confidence picks up in Britain: Prospects 'extremely encouraging', directors' report says00:02
Taxing time for Clinton's pants00:02
Christmas competition00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Sporting Digest: Darts00:02
Cricket: Rabbit's foot proves lucky00:02
Sporting Digest: Horse Racing00:02
Bugging scandal fuels attack on Spanish Socialists: The Barcelona affair has raised fears of telephone terrorism, writes Phil Davison in Madrid00:02
A black mark against Britain: Detained Jamaicans are the victims of a racist immigration policy, says Claude Moraes00:02
Chinese couple hijack an airliner to Taiwan: Spate of incidents blamed on lax security at airports00:02
British Coal managers may mount buyouts: Most interest is likely in areas where the deep mines have gone00:02
Letter: A storm that no one could weather00:02
Light fingers00:02
Sailing: Skipper tells of great escape: Stuart Alexander reports from Sydney on a sailing drama that ended happily after a six-hour ordeal00:02
'Space gun' inspired by Jules Verne: Scientists have built a prototype supergun that could be used to send unmanned satellites into orbit00:02
Athletics: Striding from Kilburn to the high roads: Gary Cadogan flew to LA yesterday to mix with the elite. Mike Rowbottom on a man overcoming hurdles00:02
Liberia attack00:02
Rugby League: Davies returns to haunt Widnes: Warrington victory sees return to the championship lead00:02
ARTS / What's more00:02
Football / First Division Round-Up: Smith aghast at 'worst ever decision'00:02
Campaign to target smoker parents: 12m pounds plan to cut number of young nicotine addicts00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Sporting Digest: Football