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Dear Mike Tyson: So the imprisoned heavyweight champ has become a heavyweight reader. Voltaire, Tolstoy, Mao Tse-tung, he's devoured them all. What an amazing talent for fiction Tyson has, the boxing writer tells him00:02
Leading Article: The whole dam scandal00:02
Law Update: Jump to it00:02
Breast cancer drug raises new fears: Benefit of treatment tried on thousands of women under question00:02
The 'Independent'00:02
Labour urges inquiry into suicide of 'harried' debtor00:02
Leading Article: Giving gangsters a touch of glamour00:02
Aids campaigner Randy Shilts dies00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
MUSIC / Sorting the men from the girls: Adrian Jack on vocal discoveries and disappointments, plus a promising young pianist, in recital at the Wigmore Hall00:02
Bottom Line: Restricted scope00:02
Off-licence rapist jailed for 16 years00:02
Out of Russia: Master of revels in a political motley00:02
Buthelezi rejects ANC election concessions: Inkatha chief will boycott poll even though key demands have been met00:02
Inside Parliament: Bosnia ruling under attack: Major refusal 'music to the ears of Serbs' - Smith proves taxing over 'basics' truth - Modest waves ruffle calm of Navy debate00:02
Anti-abortion activists in 'Scream' link00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Cricket: Hong Kong are tied up00:02
UN arms inspectors arrive in Iraq00:02
UK bows to ban on dumping N-waste at sea00:02
Tennis: Becker set for Stich showdown00:02
Clinic offers 'deal' for human eggs00:02
Two found guilty of sergeant's murder: Widow backs campaign for protective vests for police officers00:02
Brazilian President gets down to basics00:02
Diary00:02
View from City Road: Flextech deal shows HTV is switched on00:02
Market Report: Talk of bids and deals enlivens media sector00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Atomic Energy Authority arm to be privatised00:02
View from City Road: UK rates feel wind of change from Germany00:02
Jilted lover convicted of campaign00:02
Sporting Digest: Table Tennis00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Law Update: Matter of course00:02
Vicar found guilty00:02
Cadbury 'helps to cut pay-offs'00:02
Airbus still hopes for order00:02
Obituary: James Rusbridger00:02
IRA rocket kills police officer in Belfast00:02
Obituary: Graeme Matheson-Bruce00:02
Can we dispense with the normalities?: The age of consent for homosexuals ought to be fixed at 18, but no lower, argues John Habgood, the Archbishop of York00:02
Winter Olympics / Skiing: Wasmeier winds back the clock: German joy00:02
Dying plants found on sale at garden centres00:02
Racing: Double's edge on display: Grand National favourite's odds are cut after a foot-perfect exhibition00:02
1,000 dead in Ghana clashes00:02
Call to review treatment for overdoses00:02
Cut in timber losses helps Wickes to build up pounds 17.8m: Profits rise fivefold as opening of 16 new stores boosts sales00:02
Letter: Remember Spain00:02
SNC to take appeal over shares to Lords00:02
Cricket: England's bowling options increase: Fraser unlikely to be risked for Test after Lewis's return to form00:02
National health: a family affair: Has there ever been a golden age of health care? Three generations of nurses should know. They talk to Celia Dodd00:02
Law Update: American chance00:02
Law Update: Free advice00:02
REVIEW / Sterilisation - and it's all for a good cause00:02
Service failed to raise a smile: Matt Hoffman finds the 'worm' in his Apple hard to digest00:02
A wheel of fickle fortune: Britain's last state lottery became a shambolic source of doubtful profit, warns James Raven00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Muslims awarded pounds 1,000 in compensation for race bias: Tribunal hearing regarded as a test case for the Asian community00:02
Letter: Should the taxpayer bear the expense of saving adventurous souls?00:02
TV veteran says Bosnia war will be his last00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
FILM / A long road to recovery: Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is every bit as distressing as a film about the Holocaust should be. But how good is it? By Adam Mars-Jones00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Athletics: AAA Indoor Championships, Birmingham00:02
Football / FA Cup Countdown: Wembley fans Byrne desire: Oxford's talismanic target-man sets sights again. Trevor Haylett reports00:02
FILM / Director's Cut00:02
Letter: Should the taxpayer bear the expense of saving adventurous souls?00:02
Rugby League: Dorahy faces charges00:02
Law: The collective approach: An action group could be the answer for out-of-pocket investors, says Jenny Grove00:02
Non-League Football: Price is right for Parsons00:02
FILM / Video00:02
Obituary: Professor Arnold Tustin00:02
Select but not strong00:02
Actors bring furious spirit to theatre of war: Emma Daly met young people who returned to Sarajevo just before the shelling began but refuse to be daunted by the siege00:02
Law: Taking liability to excess: Cases of solicitors being sued by their employers remain a problem, writes Sharon Wallach00:02
Somali workers besiege Britons00:02
Table Tennis: Germans overwhelm English00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Law Update: Getting on course: Correction00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Oil price dips below level of 1970s: Harvey Morris analyses the underlying causes of the unusual mid-winter slump in the market00:02
Scott inquiry told how Government bent the rules00:02
Experts oppose moralists on gay sex: Church groups and many Tories reject professional view on Monday's vote. Marianne Macdonald reports00:02
Shipyard throws off 30-year jinx: Profit announced at Govan as Norwegian owner reports better-than-expected results00:02
Treasury admits that tax rises are higher than 'Labour's bombshell'00:02
US taking wrong track on trade, says Sir Leon: Europe urges co-operation to open Japanese markets00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Hospital waiting lists rise 9% to record high00:02
Saucy skater card makes record price00:02
Hockey: Leman at the end of the road00:02
Flaws 'are exposed in juvenile crime policy': Custody is not the solution, report says00:02
America dreams of a future without debt00:02
Gangsters want to give up life of crime: Peace offer to authorities 'signals split' in the Camorra, the Naples mafia00:02
Sanctions drive brings Haiti to the edge of ruin: Patrick Cockburn in Port-au-Prince found the army has reason to publicise the plight of the poor00:02
Words of peace spell war for Kabul00:02
'Elle' breaks ground with edition in Czech00:02
Letter: Absent at the altar00:02
The Daily Poem: Shelling Bihac00:02
Alfred McAlpine shares leap on boost for housing: Disappointing results from minerals and US00:02
Egyptians hold 900 Muslim suspects00:02
LBS says tax rises will slow recovery00:02
Howard heads for conflict with police over Bill: The Home Secretary is determined to avoid more concessions on issue of local control. Patricia Wynn Davies reports00:02
Winter Olympics / Ice Skating: Britons face the music: Kerrigan and Harding refuse to acknowledge each other00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Earthquake deaths reach 18400:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Law Update: Help for Poland00:02
Flaws 'exposed in youth crime policy'00:02
Law Update: Short-term view00:02
THEATRE / An appetite for argument: Paul Taylor on The Life of Galileo at the Almeida, London00:02
'Cover-up' fears over Gardner death case00:02
GP faces legal tangle over replica gun00:02
Pressure on Sinn Fein to be intensified: Ulster settlement plans continue tomorrow, reports Colin Brown00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend / Canoeing: International Exhibition, Crystal Palace00:02
Blackmail inquiry00:02
Authors nominated00:02
Bottomley tells NHS doctors that treatments 'must work'00:02
Racing: Eider down00:02
FILM / See the ones that got away: Readers' Season of Lost Films00:02
Admire roads, ignore chain gangs: This week Aung San Suu Kyi, political prisoner, was allowed to speak to a US congressman. It was Burma trying to put on a better face. It didn't wash. Raymond Whitaker reports00:02
N Korean heir-apparent 'hurt in shooting accident'00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations Focus: Jenkins aiming for a perfect No 10: Wales' unkempt goalkicker has smartened up his act. Tim Glover reports00:02
Children 'forced to live in crowded homes'00:02
Kleinwort lifts payout after turnaround: 'Good feeling of confidence' running through bank, reports chairman00:02
Letter: Labour's agenda on health care00:02
Westland chairman attacks GKN00:02
Bank deposits are frozen: Wimbledon & South West Finance calls in administrators00:02
Khmer Rouge chief out of a limb00:02
Athletics: Chinese puzzle for Ondieki00:02
Tennis: Seles says she must 'live for today': Former world No 1 has no timetable for her return after stabbing00:02
Designing the best role for Britain: Design is a British success story, but one that is not always exploited to its full potential, writes Diane Coyle00:02
Yemenis to sign peace accord00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
British troops to join UN force in city: British soldiers hastily redeployed with Russians to protect Sarajevo00:02
Winter Olympics: Americans fight back00:02
Will the whistle-blower reveal the secret of the game?00:02
Letter: Classroom doldrums00:02
Boxing: Fighting to breach the defences of a hard trade: The men who run boxing are having to accept that women can do it, too. Jonathan Rendall reports on the run-up to tomorrow's event at Bethnal Green00:02
Golf: Westwood heads off in style00:02
Oldest person00:02
MP's death inquiry incomplete00:02
Letter: Labour's agenda on health care00:02
Hanged spy sent letter on fetishes00:02
EXHIBITION / Spectator sport: Turning his back on the football field, Julian Germain takes photographs of aspiring fanatics. Owen Slot calls the shots00:02
Publisher aims for pounds 200m float: Midland Independent Newspapers will use proceeds to cut debt00:02
Individual route to personal success: Mihir Bose hacks through the jargon jungle to enter the 'real world' of fast-track computing00:02
Glaxo dismisses Zantac fears: New drugs produce an impressive performance as half-year profits top pounds 1bn00:02
Sarajevo ceasefire may benefit the Serbs: Moscow's initiative could freeze situation to advantage of attackers00:02
Sarajevo air strikes forestalled by Russians: Serbs pull back guns but Muslims fear Moscow's troops will freeze siege lines00:02
Obituary: Anona Winn00:02
Letter: British subjects with nowhere to go00:02
Winter Olympics: Results from Lillehammer00:02
Bungee jumper hurt eyes00:02
OUTSIDE EDGE / The good burghers of Hammersmith00:02
Rugby Union / Five Nations' Championship: Clarke hands over to Ojomoh00:02
Letter: Prison officers denied the key to unlock an impossible system00:02
Football: Sullivan stung for pounds 130,000 over Fry: Birmingham's blues00:02
Volvo-Renault alliance ends: Car makers go separate ways after revolt by shareholders00:02
Today's Number: 300:02
Bottom Line: Troubles forgotten00:02
FILM / Best of the Reps00:02
Arts chief to quit00:02
Opposing tribes debate peace or war, life or death: Richard Dowden, journeying through Zaire, reports from Masisi on the struggle for survival between migrants and local people00:02
The West rattles a toy sabre00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead: European Table Tennis Championships in Birmingham00:02
Demonstrators protest00:02
Goldsborough to raise pounds 29m: Share sale will fund nursing home purchases00:02
Quest for secrets of bathroom cabinets00:02
Winter Olympics / Ice Skating: Americans' cold war continues00:02
Member of Lloyd's found dead in car00:02
Escape blamed on 'cost-cutting'00:02
After Hours00:02
Letter: Should the taxpayer bear the expense of saving adventurous souls?00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Launch of Sector Iceman Challenge00:02
Jackie could teach Di a bit about dress sense00:02
Letter: Prison officers denied the key to unlock an impossible system00:02
C&G profits surge as market share rises: Provisions for mortgage bad debt plummet00:02
Coating of health for screens: Tim Nott reports on Samtron's new 'Bio-monitor', which holds the promise of a safer work environment00:02
View from City Road: The case for a born-again SFO00:02
Legal disputes 'fact of life' for Tring00:02
Cricket: Kiwis offer limited resistance: Trio of pace bowlers put Pakistan in driving seat during second Test00:02
Attempt to pardon plotters fails00:02
Double money trouble00:02
Pembroke: Smurfit goes for fortune and fame00:02
Bottom Line: Two questions for Glaxo to answer00:02
US prices data best for 4 1/2 years00:02
BOOK REVIEW / When Blastberg meets Manbreaker: 'The Norton Book of Science Fiction' - Ursula K Le Guin, Brian Attebery: Norton, pounds 2200:02
Life companies threaten PIA plan: Watchdog has to consider separate compensation deal for personal pensions00:02
Letter: Should the taxpayer bear the expense of saving adventurous souls?00:02
Calls to the Bar00:02
Birthdays00:02
World Piano Competition00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Correction: Medical tests for new benefit 'unfair'00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Muslims awarded 1000 pounds for race bias00:02
Benefit 'not passed on to children'00:02
Debt cleared as HTV links with Flextech00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Mawhinney wants more generic drugs prescribed: Mixed reaction to move that could save NHS pounds 60m. Nicholas00:02
Fatal bus crash revives seatbelt calls00:02
Leading Article: Steel nerves, Serbian guns00:02
Union of price and plenitude: Cliff Joseph reports on the LC475 . . . 'Apple of his eye'00:02
Birkby makes agreed pounds 58m bid for In Shops: Departing chief receives pounds 295,000 pay-off00:02
FILM / Charts00:02
Mackintosh's icons of design sold for 2.2m pounds: Prophet of postmodernism has status further enhanced by record-breaking sale of elegant masterpieces collected by his 'rediscoverer'00:02
Clinical shares soar on market debut00:02
Nationwide to cut tie00:02
Major and Clarke want interest rates to follow German lead00:02
Dambuster beer advert leaves a bad taste00:02
Atom privatisation