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SmithKline challenged on drug patent: Legal action seeks to rescind company's UK rights over top-selling antibiotic00:02
Travel:00:02
General Motors to spin off EDS group00:02
Travel: City savers00:02
'Fat' riposte00:02
Police pay man over assault allegation00:02
Nannies are back in the nursery: Correction00:02
Child slaves freed00:02
Travel: Watch this space00:02
FILM / Cannes Diary: Life and nothing but: They also show movies at the Cannes Film Festival. Sheila Johnston on those making the biggest waves00:02
Bologna sentence00:02
Golf: Legal action threat to Seve: Spanish club denies offering Ballesteros 'sweetener' for Ryder Cup backing00:02
Genetics row fuelled by scorpion's venom: Scientists express concern at 'fast track' clearance for experiment and claim measures taken to protect the trial site are inadequate. Susan Watts reports00:02
CRITIC'S CHOICE / Music & Dance00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Letter: All art and culture in four slim volumes00:02
CINEMA / Critic's Choice00:02
View from City Road: Few defenders of executives' pay00:02
Newsbrief: Towering taste00:02
RADIO / Mild and bitter: Nick Curtis on two from Radio 4: Cause Celebre and Born to Be Mild00:02
Health Update: Computer nursing00:02
Deportation order 'was not contempt'00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
View from City Road: Tough task for BZW sales team00:02
Lufthansa results signal profitable year00:02
TELEVISION / It's space opera, Jim, but not as we know it00:02
Travel: Making Euro tracks00:02
Man raped girl, 1400:02
Spot Check: Planet Hollywood00:02
Education grant00:02
Travel: Double delight00:02
A Hong Kong future beckons for the Ritz as talks with Mandarin proceed00:02
Law Report: Non-disclosure of hypnosis tape was material irregularity in trial: Regina v Browning - Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) (Lord Taylor of Gosforth, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Garland and Mr Justice Curtis), 13 May 1994.00:02
Bottom Line: Worth the paper00:02
Golf: Azinger back on road to recovery00:02
Church considers sale of bishops' palaces: Income needed to replenish finances still blighted by disastrous property speculation of late Eighties00:02
Newsbrief: Film bonanza00:02
Letter: Some like it hot, but not that hot00:02
Racing: BHB enters the market for winning ideas: The Turf's rulers set out their stall for growth, as the last Derby hopefuls line up on trial. Greg Wood reports00:02
Eurofile: EU voters set to make real impact00:02
Rugby League: Larder is open to offers after leaving Widnes00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Shaggy dog tales00:02
Sporting Digest: Golf00:02
Cricket: Adams puts on show of defiance: Surrey swagger onwards00:02
Dear Giorgio Armani: Please, please design us something red . . . . we pasty Brits pale into insignificance in beastly, boring beige, says the Independent's fashion writer00:02
Diary00:02
Cricket: Six Tests for West Indies00:02
Football: Daley set to be Taylor's first buy00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Chelsfield shopping centre stake bears fruit00:02
Dictator could return in Malawi's first free vote00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Travel: Air fares war for Australia route00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Wear any colour except black: Clergymen should follow the orchestral cue, lighten up and go casual, says Nicholas Roe00:02
Campaign to set standards for breast cancer care: Fewer than 50% of patients seen by a specialist, charity's survey reveals00:02
'Nerds' seek revenge in Californian poll: Apathy marks the run up to the contest for governor, writes Phil Reeves in Los Angeles00:02
Clarke clashes with Delors over deregulation of jobs00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
PHOTOGRAPHY / Inside the temple of zoom: Marilyn Bridges hangs from low-flying planes to take aerial pictures of archaeological sites. Jane Richards met her00:02
Market Report: Buoyant Carlton bucks the trend on advertising hopes00:02
BEST-SELLERS /Top 10 Trade Unions00:02
The Daily Poem: Delta00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Libraries fear effect of council changes: David Lister reports on local government reorganisation plans which could threaten free services and the cultural and academic life of many counties00:02
Sporting Digest: Real Tennis00:02
Capital idea for London: A city mayor would end identity crisis00:02
Bike lane painters in court: Protesters call on Gummer to help their campaign for safer cycling00:02
Health Update: Milk in your coffee00:02
LA recharges its batteries: California is upholding a mandate to enforce a sales quota on electric cars from 1998. Phil Reeves reports00:02
EXHIBITIONS / Critic's Choice00:02
Letter: The first Fascists in office since the war00:02
Divorces soar as Peking prospers00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
London lives: Where shall we meet? The ICA cafe: The ICA bar00:02
CENTREFOLD / Refuse collectors: Mime artists recycle old junk00:02
Electronic eye over suburbia: Closed circuit television will turn philanthropist's working-class leafy idyll into a 'rich ghetto'00:02
Whitbread to put emphasis on food00:02
Now they're dead, read the revised life00:02
Cricket: Imran claims reach Richards00:02
Newsbrief: Diff'rent strokes00:02
Schools bias against Catholics 'lawful': Patten to consider implications of High Court ruling over allocation of pupil places00:02
Channel tunnel opens for freight00:02
Trial abandoned00:02
OPERA / Some enchanted evening: Anthony Payne on the RPO / Kirov Opera's Rimsky-Korsakov revival00:02
Football: United in admiration of Hughes: Guy Hodgson on a striking tribute at Old Trafford00:02
Brides restore romance to palace of dreams: Restored mansion gives Glasgow weddings an exotic setting, reports Oliver Gillie00:02
Guilty pleas00:02
Why De La Rue wants Portals00:02
Onassis in hospital00:02
Health: Countdown on the cancer clock: Giving drugs at different times of the day or in certain months can make treatment more effective. Rob Stepney reports on chronotherapy00:02
Letter: Quizmaster raises a difficult question00:02
BAT to invest pounds 133m in Uzbekistan cigarette factory00:02
Scientists attack scorpion venom tests00:02
Letter: Home on the range for mountain bikes00:02
Former policeman fined for contempt at murder trial00:02
Haiti PM defiant00:02
Callers are conned by 'fake' dating adverts00:02
Bank manager and pounds 100,000 go missing00:02
Blackmail charge00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Fateful days glimpsed on the coffee table: The view from the Kremlin - Boris Yeltsin: HarperCollins, pounds 1800:02
Baby had fracture00:02
America stalls UN's Rwanda rescue00:02
London lives: Don't Call Us ..00:02
Letter: The cost of visiting a sick child00:02
Pembroke: A little bare-faced cheek can go a long way00:02
Oldest European00:02
Convoy halted00:02
Health Update: Breaks may not reduce Pill risk00:02
Health: More than a murmur in the heart world: A tiny mesh tube, which acts like a mini-scaffold holding artery walls open, may transform the lives of patients needing coronary surgery, says Jim McGuigan00:02
Negotiations with IRA denied00:02
Football: Irish warming up: Babb and McAteer add youth to Charlton's squad00:02
Thatcher may face extradition bid00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
Racing: Hyperion's TV Tips00:02
On Cinema00:02
Cricket Round-Up: Hooper excels in vain as Essex win00:02
Chess: A return to form00:02
So you really want to be a novelist? Here's how to begin00:02
Southern Yemenis may form new state00:02
Friends share fond memories of 'Johnners': Stephen Ward reports on tributes to a very English cricket commentator00:02
Concern for future of county's 'linchpin': David Lister reports on local government reorganisation plans which could threaten free services and the cultural and academic life of many counties00:02
Health Update: Steroids don't stunt00:02
Saddam drains life from Arab marshes: Scientists fear Iraq's historic wetlands face destruction in 10 to 20 years, says Andrew North00:02
Cash take-away00:02
Algeria sentences00:02
Letter: Some like it hot, but not that hot00:02
Birthdays00:02
Bottom Line: Lie of the land00:02
Barclays launches certificates to attack pounds 4bn property exposure00:02
CSA chief 'asked official to lure women for him': Employee denies having 'fatal attraction' for sacked manager00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
Channel 4 considers breaking ties with ITV00:02
Captain, can you fly straight?: When the pilot spoke on the intercom, Peter Rosengard started to panic00:02
Poker: Time is money in California00:02
Lloyd's is turning the corner, says Middleton00:02
International Football: Venables develops his ageless tactics: Bould and Richardson delighted by inclusion as England continue along mature route00:02
Tax disc purge hits drivers00:02
Me v him: legal, decent and free00:02
ART / Getting hold of the wrong Impression: 'The Origins of Impressionism', on show at the Grand Palais in Paris, throws a spanner in the works. Andrew Graham-Dixon reports00:02
Golf: Davies at the double00:02
Newsbrief: Fewer moans00:02
Death sentence for missing dogs00:02
Letter: Palestine's quest for self-determination00:02
Summit diplomacy00:02
On Theatre00:02
IN THE STUDIO / Deep purple: Iain Gale on Laurence Noga's non-figurative portraits and seductive colour planes00:02
Motor Racing: Williams ponder a second driver00:02
View from City Road: Step nearer the abyss for Eurotunnel00:02
Car manufacturer acts to put brake on spare tyre thieves00:02
Briton murdered00:02
Clinton scrambles to solve Chinese puzzle00:02
Brazilian candidate00:02
Brigadier finds trouble on home front00:02
Battersea block builds in creature comforts00:02
Robbery attraction00:02
Inside Parliament: Tories unable to find community of interest on EU: Heath attacks 'die-hard' anti-Europeans - Minister backs flexible labour markets - Tories head off Lords revolt on 'child jails'00:02
Israel quits Gaza occupation bastions00:02
Increase in raw material costs surprises City: Commodity prices soar as outlook brightens00:02
MUSIC / As sure as eggs is eggs: Correction00:02
Drop in crime on the railways is marred by rise in violence00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
UN troops killed00:02
Pounds 8,000 toothache00:02
Berlusconi unveils his 'dream' to parliament00:02
Liberace piano fails the kitsch test and remains unsold at auction00:02
Capriati arrested00:02
Leading Article: Controversy in the cabbage patch00:02
Racing: Reid given whip ban00:02
Sporting Digest: Gymnastics00:02
Obituary: J. A. Speak00:02
Sporting Digest: Sumo00:02
On Pop00:02
International Football: Barcelona arrive in high spirits00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Cricket: Brinkley defiant to the last ball: Lampitt clamps Gloucestershire00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Nigeria deadline00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
Smith funeral set00:02
Obituary: Maj-Gen Aharon Yariv00:02
Ministers 'dithering' on minibus seat-belts: Coach operators criticise delay in publishing research results00:02
Travel: Crack on to Cracow00:02
Gould resignation paves way for 9 June election00:02
Where are they now?: Gianni Rivera00:02
View from City Road: Widows shows less than good sense00:02
Rugby Union: Happy landing for Jones00:02
Sporting Digest: Cycling00:02
Newsbrief: Pounds 10 spot fines net Tube cash haul00:02
Joker in the global inflation pack00:02
Creativity: Your dinner's on the fridge00:02
People: The champ is floored by a political heavyweight00:02
Lasmo cites Warburg to boost its case: Enterprise 'arguing one thing while its adviser says another'00:02
Generation gap00:02
Police to carry guns openly on London streets00:02
THEATRE / Critic's Choice00:02
True Gripes: South of the border: Into a gastronomic wasteland00:02
Dismay at Bosnia partition plan00:02
Letter: Home on the range for mountain bikes00:02
Travel: Traveller's guide to Universe00:02
Cricket: Somerset's late rally: Mushtaq scares Leicestershire00:02
French carrier seeks rights at Heathrow00:02
Leading Article: Blair faces a healthy debate00:02
Loyalists held as RUC tries to halt killings00:02
Karabakh accord00:02
Huntingdon chief resigns after new profit warning00:02
We all have a stake in how they vote00:02
Vandalism trial00:02
Prince of Wales visits royal tombs in Russia00:02
Leading Article: A risky prospect of perpetual propinquity00:02
'Foreigner hunt' charges00:02
Newsbrief: Woodland skills00:02
Where I Started00:02
Campaign aims to cut store of unused drugs00:02
How secure is their future?: South Africans cannot hope for equality, growth and a powerful military presence, says Susan Willett00:02
Rwandan rebels cut off government from capital00:02
Bulger father denies assault in nightclub00:02
Dominicans vote00:02
Anorexic twin leaves hospital00:02
Today's Number: 1000:02
Pre-hospital care 'vital for heart attack victims'00:02
Heathrow councils try to defer inquiry00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Transmitter mast staff see shares rise pounds 21: Company's financial bonanza is revealed in a leaked internal memorandum. Chris Blackhurst reports00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Letter: Methods for electing a successor to John Smith00:02
Letter: Home on the range for mountain bikes00:02
Investors face pounds 800m Eurotunnel call: Crisis deepens as funding deadline is missedPressure grows on Japanese banks to take up loan burden00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Newsbrief: Park music00:02
Rugby Union: Barnes laid low by a bug: Plot set to thicken over England's stand-off debate00:02
Bottom Line: Whitbread ailing no longer00:02
Council corruption claims go to auditor00:02
Prize is pure genius for an American with blarney: Boston artist wins contest for a bar in Ireland. Alan Murdoch reports00:02
Loyal friends face critical test over Labour's future: Dilemma for Brown as Blair certain to stand for leader00:02
THEATRE / 'It's usually much better . . .': The Cupboard Club is dedicated to 'True Variety'. It operates a 'no quality control' policy. Which, roughly translated, means not a lot of quality and absolutely no control.00:02
Obituary: David Adeney00:02
In Thing: Nice Irma's Bedspreads00:02
INTERVIEW / Atrocious mess, precocious mind: Meet Caitlin Moran, newspaper columnist, television presenter, novelist, screenwriter, pop music pundit . . . and typical teenage slob00:02
US agents helped Yeltsin break coup