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US remains reluctant to commit troops in Bosnia00:02
700,000 pounds ransom demanded for stolen painting00:02
Best-Sellers00:02
Law: Coming to the aid of the franchise: Firms are calling in consultants to help them prepare to meet the Legal Aid Board's specifications. Barbara Lantin reports00:02
Racing: Dunwoody signals his resolution: Adrian Maguire's lead in the title race is cut to three as the reigning champion rides a double00:02
Weary men in the trenches pray peace deal will stick: Frontline troops hope the Croat-Muslim accord is the beginning of the end of the war00:02
Lower profits blow to Micro Focus shares: Revenue growth fails to meet targets00:02
Trust Boost00:02
Increased market share helps Rhino to record: Virgin stores purchase plays part in surge00:02
Letter: MPs who travel00:02
Hungerford PC found dead00:02
Leading tenor leaves the stage after lending operatic air to naming of cross-Channel locomotive00:02
Cricket: Atherton anxious to restore morale: Inexperience of tourists' squad threatens disaster as West Indies prepare for further one-day assaults00:02
REVIEW / Smouldering rage and simmering sauce00:02
Death plunge00:02
Knife-wielding youths abduct motorist as she parks00:02
'Public-sector pay rises must be funded by productivity': Minister gives wages warning in rare appearance at TUC meeting, as survey shows wider earnings gap. Barrie Clement reports00:02
Business & City Summary00:02
Sailing: Fleet on alert for damaged British boat00:02
Letter: Executive perks00:02
Bangladeshi families shrink00:02
Letter: Nasreen's heroism00:02
Fantasy phone calls get thumbs up from the hung up00:02
Law Update: West End merger00:02
Chiapas rebels ponder peace00:02
Golf: Faldo held at bay by the Blue Monster00:02
The things they say about John Birt . . .00:02
Letter: Recognition for the red dragon00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Aid-and-trade warning issued nine years ago00:02
Pounds 193m value for publisher00:02
Hunt for aircraft00:02
China puts limit on accountant numbers00:02
History classes to focus on Britain00:02
Pizza Express shares rise on profit jump: Better restaurant margins key to progress00:02
Computers: Advances that are less than perfect: Steve Homer berates his word processor for losing sight of the essentials in favour of more bells and whistles00:02
Simply the best in the sky: Concorde never quite took off commercially, but it is 25 this week. It deserves a successor for the 21st century, says Jonathan Glancey00:02
Flemings launches pounds 100m Indian investment trust: Fund will work via Mauritius to take advantage of tax treaty00:02
Teenager's life of fear after rapist is bailed: Law allowing release of attacker before appeal condemned as injustice by family of victim. reports00:02
Letter: Legal protection for antiquities found in British soil00:02
Football: Non-League notebook: James savours his Shrimps00:02
Golf: School for Seniors: Interest indicates need for qualifying00:02
Benign brain tumour linked to epilepsy: Advanced scanning technique offers hope of surgical cure, writes Liz Hunt00:02
Bird wars00:02
Policeman 'carried gun to guard Guildford Four man': Former officer tells appeal court he was ordered to carry Smith & Wesson00:02
Super-Jumbo development widened to new partners00:02
Fact and fable put First Lady Hillary on edge00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Budapest woos Jacques Delors as Vienna changes its tune and Brussels wanders further into its language labyrinth00:02
Motor Racing: Briatore builds dream: Benetton chief backs Schumacher to trouble Senna. Derick Allsop reports00:02
Pembroke: Friends of the Earth calls banking summit00:02
Stepfather jailed for condom row killing00:02
Fugitive cleared00:02
US fires round two at Japan00:02
Computers: Getting the news from Maine to Texas: Matthew Hoffman wonders whether travelling on the Internet is more interesting than what arrives, in a step-by-step guide to joining for Mac users00:02
Life Sciences on way back after poor year00:02
Bodies-in-garden case man collapses in dock Garden bodies murder charge man collapses00:02
Music fraud00:02
German hopes of lower rates dashed by Bundesbank00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Zeneca profits up 42% in first year after demerger: Volume and price growth, but conditions remain tough00:02
Computers Feedback: Legal actions stack up00:02
Golf: The clock turns back for Garrido00:02
And What's More ..00:02
Sailing: Maxi pack leader aims to reel in the 60s: Grant Dalton (left), heading his class on board NZ Endeavour, continues his captain's log for the Independent on the Whitbread Round the World Race00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Doctor killed boy00:02
Outside Edge: Joseph Gallivan on a band of Pixelvisionaries00:02
Conflict ahead over Ulster committee00:02
View from City Road: BT puts cat among cable company pigeons00:02
Bunzl adds two US firms to its stack00:02
The ghost of Baruch Goldstein00:02
Anniversaries00:02
French students take to streets to protect minimum wage00:02
Leading Article: Europe builds a new tower of Babel00:02
Ladbroke recovery ends with 10p slide: Caution prevails despite dividend cut and detailed results00:02
Heseltine turns Euro-sceptic00:02
Frontline tense but precarious peace is holding in Sarajevo00:02
DANCE / And the earth moved . . .: When the LA earthquake deprived Twyla Tharp of a venue, the London Riverside stepped in. Smart move. Review by Judith Mackrell00:02
Don't quack and don't eye up the audience: Perhaps the US feminist takes her cue from lecturers such as C S Lewis, who abhorred adoring females, says David Lister00:02
Today's Number: 1300:02
A cut too far00:02
Overseas aid system open to corruption, adviser says: Allegation of hidden pay-offs in Pergau-style contracts shocks Chalker00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Letter: Sliced and wrapped00:02
Write a short story for children and win pounds 2,00000:02
Hold your piece: If you recognise their voice, they're not doing their job. Jasper Rees on the mellifluous, sensitive, altruistic art of the documentary voiceover00:02
Students face fight for places00:02
Rugby Union: McGeechan may become Saint00:02
Letter: Death is not taboo00:02
Woman cured after being told she was dying00:02
Life for murder00:02
Tears for cups that runneth over: Her daughter hates being an uncomfortable size 34EE and has booked in for a breast reduction operation. Stella Hargreaves can't help feeling resentful00:02
Obituary: Keith Spencer00:02
IG Metall members vote to begin strike: Engineers face worst industrial disruption for a decade00:02
Diary00:02
Associated British Ports sails into black with pounds 62m: Company sees strong rise in car, shipping and timber imports00:02
Letter: MPs who travel00:02
People: Kerrigan tarnishes her silver image00:02
In Albania, it's a wise proverb that has no meaning00:02
Sporting Digest: Athletics00:02
Rugby Union: French refuse to be drawn into ignoble combat: Berbizier and Carling air their feelings about discipline as France and England prepare for tomorrow's showdown00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Surge in sales plunges Dell into dollars 36m loss: US mail-order computer supplier unable to match demand00:02
View from City Road: Clarke's late conversion on pay00:02
Letter: Please don't slug it out00:02
Shrinking market undermines King Coal: Ten years after start of the pits strike, only 17 mines remain in operation, write Mary Fagan and Barrie Clement00:02
Gagging orders attacked as 'unthinkable': Scott questions use of Public Interest Immunity certificates. David Connett reports00:02
Major shifts on troops for Bosnia: More British soldiers may be sent as generals press Prime Minister to reinforce Sarajevo ceasefire00:02
Killing verdicts00:02
Leading Article: A plea for more peace-keepers00:02
Cricket: UAE in World Cup00:02
Letter: Legal protection for antiquities found in British soil00:02
Other new releases: Go west, young woman00:02
Computers: Sex, lies and cyberspace: Mike Hewitt looks at the severe imbalance of the sexes and truth in the world of on-line dating00:02
Computers Feedback: I'm a lumberjack00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Climbers missing00:02
Schools tobacco advert ban proposed00:02
Racing: Lower hits high spot00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Casualty of war decides to sleep with the enemy: Karl Maier met a Huambo hotelier with an eye for business openings in Angola provided by Unita guerrillas00:02
Gould pressured over Dagenham by-election00:02
Law Report: Journalist need not reveal source: Broadmoor Hospital v Hyde: Queen's Bench Division (Sir Peter Pain) - 3 March 199400:02
Racing: Stable says Dubacilla is booked for the Ritz00:02
Interpreters have the last laugh00:02
REVIEW / For crying out loud: Sheila Johnston on Richard Attenborough's version of William Nicholson's play about romance late in the life of C S Lewis . . .00:02
Whistle-blower 'plotted to have his wife murdered': Man who exposed drugs firm in 1973 'wanted life insurance money'00:02
Tory tax policies 'exaggerate gap between earners'00:02
PLO man fears new massacre00:02
Journalist's sources safe00:02
Out of Russia: Diva finds a looking-glass world00:02
Dockers' deal00:02
Letter: Student support for Malaysia's PM00:02
Competition result00:02
Obituary: Manmohan Desai00:02
Anger course for violent husband00:02
Bottom Line: Labroke double00:02
'Dial-a-Shakespeare' scheme offers theatre master-classes00:02
Obituaries00:02
Germany's real woes00:02
Dewar puts case for pension alternatives00:02
Dear Lord St John of Fawsley00:02
Hockey: Holland's strike proves decisive: Army miss their chances and find the going sticky00:02
Smith rebukes whip on Sunday trading: Labour leader angered by personal battle against shops Bill00:02
Arrested Kurdish MPs could be executed00:02
Tibet conditions 'getting worse'00:02
Rewind: The ladykillers: Herbert Lom, the actor, recalls filming Ealing Studio's classic 1955 comedy00:02
BBA plastics businesses sold for pounds 25m00:02
Sarah, Katy, Alice: the bodyguards: They left the wine-bar crowd to help refugees in Guatemala. Catherine Matheson heard why00:02
GPs offered help to identify depression00:02
Obituary: Professor Paul Feyerabend00:02
Football: Game's rise exceeds gate expectations: Guy Hodgson looks at the reasons behind the national sport's recent rise in popularity00:02
Sporting Digest: Rallying00:02
Earthlings, keep off: This site will be poisonous for 10,000 years. Construct a warning people will understand in AD 12000. Phil Reeves reports from New Mexico00:02
Leading Article: Aid, trade and Great Britain plc00:02
The Daily Poem00:02
Rugby Union: Five Nations Focus: Cabannes the French bionic man: Back-row hero returns to face England in Paris tomorrow. Ian Borthwick reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Russia cuts gas to Ukraine00:02
Bottom Line: Epwin gamble pays00:02
Hebron killer praised as a hero by young Israelis: Teachers are shocked at the level of support for anti-Arab violence, writes Sarah Helm in Jerusalem00:02
Letter: Recognition for the red dragon00:02
Bottom Line: Bag some Bensons00:02
Mother who did not want girl died after abortion00:02
Rugby League: Crowd spur for Wales00:02
Market Report: New-fangled financials hit as old-timers steer clear00:02
Knifeman arrest00:02
Law Update: Century brief00:02
Law Update: Middle East00:02
Shaping Britain in a failed Tory image00:02
Philips pays dividend after return to black00:02
Executives jailed for pounds 230,000 bribes plot00:02
Law: Small shops win lease of life: Sharon Wallach reports on a battle to amend the Sunday trading law00:02
Train may take the strain of aid effort to Tuzla: Railway may speed help to town00:02
'The main legacy of the dispute is ill: Jonathan Foster reports on an adult education centre that salvaged hope out of the despair of the NUM's defeat00:02
Football: Van Basten out of World Cup: Untimely diagnosis for Dutch international striker00:02
A battle is brewing outside town: Property developers are furious at a threat to halt the shopping centre revolution. Tom Stevenson reports00:02
Law Update: Going Dutch00:02
Law biased against part-time workers, Lords rules: Ministers forced to improve job protection. Barrie Clement and Patricia Wynn Davies report00:02
'Moral hazard' at heart of foreign deal00:02
Sporting Digest: Bowls00:02
Working at BBC 'like life under communism': Former head of Radio 1 berates corporation bureaucracy00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Fashion statement: Jamie Reid's images symbolised punk rock. But now his creed is shamanarchy in the UK. Joseph Gallivan listens in00:02
THEATRE / Guilt edged: Paul Taylor on Daniel Magee's Paddywack at the Cockpit00:02
Receivers sack employees as insolvency crisis deepens00:02
Birthdays00:02
ANC accepts constitution demand00:02
Heron admits it may never repay pounds 307m debt in full00:02
View from City Road: An unhealthy mix at Zeneca00:02
After Hours00:02
FILM / Life, but not as they know it: Adam Mars-Jones on Short Cuts, Robert Altman's all-star adaptation and full-scale appropriation of short stories by Raymond Carver00:02
BT technology set to rival cable TV: How the phone line can put favourite films on your television screen00:02
Swing to right in Dutch election00:02
Buyers of books give romance a miss00:02
Cricket: Cronje warns of an Australian advance: Injured Mark Waugh given only an even chance of playing in first Test against South Africa as Middle Eastern country prepares for the grand stage00:02
Good omens for Graham Group debut00:02
Austria stops wanting to be alone00:02
Inside Parliament: Attacks from all sides put Major on the defensive: Churchill deplores Army redundancies - Ashdown chastised for Bosnia 'carping'00:02
Vital fragments of humanity and horror00:02
Rugby League: Platt free to play in cup semi-final00:02
London power prices cut: Charges to be lowest for three years Impact of VAT reduced00:02
MUSIC / On the rocks: Adrian Jack on Kremer and Argerich at the RFH, and Hampson at the Wigmore Hall00:02
Sporting Digest: Motor Racing00:02
Protests over get-rich-quick ban00:02
1bn pounds in public aid for Channel link00:02
BA sued over Air Europe collapse: Former chairman of ILG seeks damages for alleged conspiracy to injure and wrongful interference00:02
Afghan faction blocks Kabul food convoy00:02
Law: Barcodes make light work: Sharon Wallach checks out how to cash in on supermarket technology00:02
Thatcher silent on dam00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
Lautro warns of tougher penalties00:02
Law Update: Direct access00:02
Obituary: Jimmy Stevens