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Swedish PM hails 'deal of the century'00:02
Leading Article: Divorce may lead to happier unions00:02
Raine halves payout as profits rise00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: Vietnam dispels theories on addiction00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Chess: 39 steps to victory for title holders00:02
Hasidic Jews shot in Brooklyn00:02
Four children die as car is torn apart in head-on crash: Young victims' bodies are found in a field after being thrown 30 metres by force of impact. Andrew Gliniecki reports00:02
View from City Road: Banks may have to limit their hedging00:02
The rat, the minister and the facts00:02
Bosnian Serb fear of peace deal 'sparked air assault': After three days of US-sponsored talks, Croats and Muslims announce initial agreement on forming Bosnian confederation00:02
ASW expects steel subsidies to continue00:02
Bottom Line: GA is well placed00:02
Train death00:02
Theatre: Notices00:02
Sex-abuse case against cardinal is dropped00:02
Law Report: No duty owed to cargo owner: Marc Rich & Co AG v Bishop Rock Marine Co Ltd and others: the Nicholas H: Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Balcombe, Lord Justice Mann and Lord Justice Saville) 3 February 199400:02
Obituary: Ron Leighton00:02
Letter: Massed Tories00:02
To Aiming, heroically, an illegal son00:02
Media: Anchor of the right mettle rises to the top: Diane Sawyer's dollars 7m deal with ABC makes her a brand name in US prime-time news. Peter Pringle and Edward Helmorein report00:02
Cricket: Atherton begins to feel the heat: England stumped by mood swinging from cheery to fretful as bowlers give cause for concern before today's one-day international00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
PLO caught in a double bind00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Moscow arrests man 'spying for Britain'00:02
Obituary: Robert Cecil00:02
Football: Life after Milan for Papin00:02
Hunt to address TUC jobs meeting00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
ANC and Inkatha agree to work for poll peace: Buthelezi and Mandela extol 'friendship and love' but Zulu chief says he is not ready to join election00:02
Admiral improves to pounds 4.6m00:02
Football: League and FA take hard line on 'soft' referees: Premiership match officials accused of going easy on top players while the new Wales manager gets tough with his main men00:02
Accident driver was banned00:02
And What's More . . .00:02
Policy on Ulster talks reaffirmed00:02
Solzhenitsyn bids farewell00:02
Ford's output to be increased00:02
Court Circular00:02
Ballet star snubs Nureyev tribute: Former protege refuses to dance at charity gala00:02
Policy on Ulster talks reaffirmed00:02
INTERVIEW / Plowman's half hour: Jon Plowman is the straight man behind the funny women played by French and Saunders. Life's a gag, the TV producer tells Sabine Durrant00:02
Global warming 'taking place': Scientists list evidence of man-made climate change and warns of global threat to natural resources00:02
Racing: Wragg's reward is Walk of life00:02
Underrated: Poet, patriot: The case for Rudyard Kipling00:02
Theatre: Out of site, but not out of mind: Daniel Magee was a published poet by the age of 12, a brickie by 15 and a Republican for life. He'd rather be known as a 'builder's labourer who writes'.00:02
Tories to defy rules on Lloyd's00:02
Driver jailed00:02
Junk-food diet 'threatens child health': Improvements in heart care could be wiped out by an addiction to fatty foods. David Nicholson-Lord reports00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: Anti-ulcer medicine 'targeted by addicts'00:02
Equality pay00:02
Porn club death toll increases to nine00:02
Letter: Europe's choice for president00:02
Architecture: Above: a great place for a gallery: When it comes to picking a site for the Tate's next project, Bankside Power Station should be the choice, and not the more troublesome South Bank, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
View from City Road: Abbey readjusts to reality00:02
Market Report: Shares march down again amid interest rate worries00:02
Racing: Will to win may lose a title: Greg Wood on why camaraderie vanished in the home stretch00:02
Boys die in fire00:02
Lyell will fight to avoid being only scapegoat: Patricia Wynn Davies on the Attorney General's likely testimony to00:02
Obituaries00:02
Nuclear team in N Korea00:02
GKN bid too low, claims Westland00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: The Police: Alarm at rise in drug-related violent crime00:02
Tennis: Bailey set to return00:02
Letter: Good for business00:02
Bailey to reverse into Markheath00:02
A veritable bible of good news? Seeing is believing00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Letter: Global silence on the slaughter of Israelis00:02
Ballet star snubs Nureyev tribute: Former protege refuses to dance at charity gala00:02
US growth of 7.5% shocks markets: 'Bloodbath' in bonds continues as fears grow that Federal Reserve will soon increase interest rates to dampen inflation00:02
China promises not to hit at British firms00:02
Rugby Union: Cooke leaves glorious monument behind him: Mark Bailey, an England player in the early years of Geoff Cooke's rule, analyses the manager's strengths00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
US opposition grows to friendship with Russia: Ames case gives Republicans ammunition to attack President Clinton's Moscow policy00:02
Lilley to target poor families00:02
Oedipus Schmoedipus, Hite knows better00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
An old war, a new awareness: As veterans fade away, their fight is at last recognised as the decisive struggle it really was00:02
Police hold 26 over murder of French MP00:02
Architecture: Finding heaven in a tin of bully-beef: Peter Dunn on the restoration in Wales of an unusual Second World War monument: a Baroque chapel built by Italian POWs out of ration boxes, cement sacks and food cans00:02
Birthdays00:02
46 cows killed00:02
Competition00:02
Racing: Whitbread spring target for Cogent00:02
Rowing: Laing lends full support00:02
Letter: Elegance on the wind and power beneath the waves00:02
Golf: Open hospitality sting: R&A give way to commercial pressures00:02
REVIEW / . . . As the priestess said to the Bushman00:02
Computer clone suffers as big names fight back: Mary Fagan explains why Dell, once a rising star, is now struggling to keep up00:02
THEATRE / Planks and passion: Paul Taylor on The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, a new production from Theatre de Complicite at Riverside Studios00:02
Algerian journalist killed00:02
Walking: Belligerent past fires the imagination: Michael Leapman enjoys the peace of a Surrey valley where a gunpowder industry flourished for centuries00:02
Obituary: Robert Cecil00:02
Letter: Agony beyond the West's Bosnian 'triumphs'00:02
Cricket: Odumbe goes into overdrive00:02
Abbey cuts back on fixed-rate lending: Bank unable to support 18.5 per cent share it built by active marketing00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: The Cartels: Cocaine trade surges in Europe: Colombians exploit lucrative market00:02
Best-sellers00:02
Letter: Elegance on the wind and power beneath the waves00:02
Rugby Union: Rowell and Rossborough in running for manager's job00:02
US and Russia move to divide Bosnia00:02
Gruesome tales from a dark, dank world: Emma Daly finds the conditions of unspeakable suffering in east Mostar are relieved only by candlelight and courage00:02
Business & City in Brief00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
View from City Road: Fundamental fears emerge among investors00:02
Row over TV rights in Poland00:02
Motor Racing: Brundle in a McLaren00:02
Fisons ends long hunt for finance director00:02
Airbus-Boeing talks in danger of collapse00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Malaysia calls for flights concession: Row over deals is followed by demand for Heathrow rights00:02
Property prices slip back00:02
Today's Number: 300:02
BOOK REVIEW / Blistered dwarfs and cringing Gollums: Wagner's ring of the Nibelung: A Companion - Thames & Hudson, pounds 24.9500:02
Warning over safety of Sellafield reactors00:02
The real cost to society in lives and cash: Special report: the drugs explosion00:02
Two more bodies found in garden: Missing persons' files scrutinised00:02
GA provides for claims on pensions: Less than pounds 5m allocated by insurer with only small share of market in personal policies00:02
Pembroke: Tarmac's Sir Eric finally takes to the road00:02
Ivory Towers: Drowning by numbers, or how to spot a simulated suicide note00:02
Racing: Dunwoody banned as rivalry boils over: Champion's title hopes slip with suspension for obstructing Maguire00:02
Treasury tries to revive finance plan00:02
Leading Article: Ploughing, delving, discovering00:02
Mobile phone company to extend free calls offer00:02
Treasure 'cowboys' face pounds 5,000 fines: Bill targets illegal sale of historic items00:02
Steel tells MPs of Pergau link00:02
Media: Will Rupert's eastern Star turn to dust?: Satellite TV seemed to offer Murdoch riches in Asia, but he faces a dish of difficulties, says Maggie Brown00:02
Media Viewpoint: Ten million reasons why the cameras will roll: David Elstein bites back at Michael Grade for calling BSkyB's latest film deal an 'insult to viewers'00:02
Protest dominates Grand Met meeting: Inntrepreneur publicans take rent dispute to shareholders00:02
Company News In Brief00:02
Dyke steps down at Yorkshire00:02
Veteran Labour MP dies00:02
Football: Fan's Eye View: Butler's silver service: No. 64: Barnsley00:02
Minister admits flaws in vocational qualifications00:02
Anniversaries00:02
EU deal with Swedes, Finns and Austrians00:02
Letter: Safer motoring00:02
Football: Arsenal look to England's forgotten men: Spiked Gunners prepare for the silencing of Silenzi in the shadow of the Alps as Graham aims to draw shroud over Turin hopes00:02
Rabuka back in charge00:02
Out of America: Cosmetic job fails to save mayor's face00:02
Gummer in third snub to councils00:02
Football Round-Up: Celtic fans stage Parkhead boycott00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations Focus: Coaching the cause of England's famine: It is 12 months since Will Carling's team scored a try. Barrie Fairall hears some of the reasons why00:02
Letter: Europe's choice for president00:02
Life in a cage for feminist who dared to tell the truth: Taslima Nasreen's candid views on sexual issues enrage Muslim fanatics in Bangladesh. Tim McGirk spoke to her in Dhaka00:02
Bottom Line: Cowie motors ahead in a buoyant market00:02
Major and Clinton seal new rapport with Sarajevo plan: Prime Minister and President put their past differences aside and reaffirm 'breadth and depth' of special relationship00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: The dealer: Profits get blown away in cloud of crack smoke00:02
Sacked espionage chief 'had unmasked UK agent': Moscow compares the damage done to Cold War activities of a senior KGB officer who was executed00:02
Rugby League: Perrett takes his chance with Wales00:02
Letter: Elegance on the wind and power beneath the waves00:02
Mexico to allow poll obsevers00:02
Six killed in Yemen fighting00:02
The London Fringe: Side-splitting stuff00:02
View from City Road: GKN must try harder00:02
New pounds 2 coin00:02
Salt 'n' vinegar with sugar on top: It's National Chip Week. Just one example of a food industry on the defensive, says David Nicholson-Lord00:02
Chase charges00:02
Management: Director excellence is not out of reach: When the price of shares is seen as the priority, the temptation to make other decisions fit that goal may be irresistible00:02
Court challenge to wild bird shooting00:02
Letter: Malaysia's links with Britain00:02
Dealership pushes Cowie earnings to record pounds 38m: Keep Trust purchase boosts turnover at motor retailer by 33%00:02
Dear Gossard: Your Ultrabra commercials may have upset the PC brigade, but thery are uplifting news for me, writes a woman with D cups00:02
Curator's Choice: Alexander Keiller Museum00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: Problem among young00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: One in three backs legalising cannabis00:02
Disposal in US pushes Dawson into pounds 80m loss: Pringle maker signals a deep cut in its dividend00:02
Cricket: TCCB acts to stop trouble brewing: Authorities launch campaign to control the excessive consumption of alcohol by spectators00:02
Bottom Line: Dawson's delays00:02
Obituary: Sir Michael Ansell00:02
Obituary: Sir Harold Acton00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Root shock00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: The Addict: Wild years of heroin, theft and self-destruction00:02
Britain's Drugs Crisis: The drug culture: Rise in deaths through experimentation by young and explosion in violent crime are signs of escalating use and abuse00:02
Malkin visits00:02
Boxing: Oxford boxers on ring road to domination: Jonathan Rendall on the remarkable team leading a resurgence of university boxing00:02
Kalon hoped to gain Manders paint for free00:02
Leading Article: Some questions for Sir Nicholas00:02
Inside Parliament: Thatcher entourage 'entangled' in dam fiasco: Sir David Steel accuses Tory backers of links to trade deals - Government retreats on the Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
MUSIC / A conservative party: Michael Dervan reports from Dublin on Music Now, a celebration of contemporary Irish music00:02
Media merger rules 'unfair' to small firms: TV regulator attacks two-franchise limit00:02
Yeltsin insists he is in control: President warns defiant opponents of jailing if they stir up trouble00:02
Whale of a tale about love under the ocean waves00:02
Coal Investments to reopen two pits00:02
'Freebies' galore for hundreds of MPs (CORRECTED)00:02
Medecin fights extradition00:02
Fatah faithful turn against their leader: Arafat's most loyal backers are now questioning his authority, writes Sarah Helm in Jerusalem00:02
Comedy: Prima Donna: She's a stand-up who's a woman who's a lesbian - in that order. James Rampton talks to the outgoing Donna McPhail00:02
Diary00:02
Lyell's fate hangs in the balance: Major returns to fresh crisis and Tory anger at Heseltine accusations QBY: COLIN BROWN, Chief Political Correspondent00:02
Bank marks 300th birthday