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Volkswagen cuts its power to make a mark on pollution00:02
Sailing: Britons enjoy a clean sweep00:02
Civil Service White Paper: Whitehall to shed 50,000 jobs in drive for efficiency: Departments given right to decide over contracting-out services. Chris Blackhurst reports00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
PLO aides expelled00:02
Singapore investor buys hotel in London00:02
UK police enlist Russians in war on mafia00:02
Chains that bind the world: In the electronic age, the curse of the chain letter is only going to get worse00:02
If you cut Sir Humphrey, does he not bleed?00:02
Homes plan fear00:02
Letter: Parental paranoia is restricting children00:02
Cabinet to endorse closure of Rosyth base00:02
Call of the wild00:02
Human error blamed in US helicopter disaster00:02
Haiti's rulers massacre their opponents00:02
Great leap forward00:02
Binder offices defect to Stoy00:02
Rhodes reinforced00:02
The Daily Poem: Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw00:02
Breast scan success00:02
Parents in baby case were seeking second child00:02
Abbie's aunt makes second plea00:02
DANCE / Louise Levene on Dance00:02
BEST-SELLERS / Top 10 Diet Books00:02
Man charged with murders00:02
Leading Article: A rather stately 'council house'00:02
Parents win the crying game: A specialist clinic in Lambeth is helping families with babies that cry constantly00:02
Old remedy revives a sick market: Tough competition and healthcare cost cuts are hitting drug sales but Julia Kaminski finds a growth area in less conventional treatments00:02
Obituary: Jack Davies00:02
Italy fires chiefs of three spy agencies00:02
Sporting Digest: Pools News00:02
A gateway leading nowhere: Jonathan Eyal questions the political rationale behind America's new special relationship00:02
Woman killed in sex assault00:02
POP / Albums: That was, and is, the man that Was00:02
Today's Number: 4000:02
Slav leaders to meet00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Cycling / Tour de France: 'El Conquistador' in control: Indurain on road to fourth triumph as Boardman pulls out00:02
Football: Sutton will choose his destination today00:02
Legacy of year on the gas-mask assembly line: Susan Watts talks to a retired Boots worker who intends to sue for QBY: SUSAN WATTS00:02
EU to help integrate Ireland00:02
MP admits offer was a dubious privilege: Inside Parliament00:02
Fashion Update: Wearing the weed00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
The world in their scoop: Artichoke and Lemon Curd was a big mistake, but Chunky Monkey is a real winner. Reggie Nadelson reports on Ben and Jerry's green dream of an ice cream, now in a freezer near you00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
True Gripes: Tunnels of fear: Who really cares about Tube safety?00:02
Drugs wave breaks over the capital: Elaine Fogg talks to the police fighting an unprecedented plague of cocaine-related violence00:02
Education: How many prefabs fit in one garden?: Wendy Berliner visits a school bursting at the seams00:02
Art Market: Chatsworth recaptures errant duchess00:02
Fresh surge in health service complaints: NHS ombudsman 'rather fed up' with repeated mistakes00:02
A sound buy00:02
'If you walk about at night they kill you': Haiti massacre: sweet smell from three large graves near capital marks where the bodies are buried00:02
Racing: Melbourne reaps a bumper Crop: The organisers of Australia's most prestigious contest are thinking big after last year's successful European raid00:02
Economy back on course for growth and low inflation00:02
DTI pays out more than pounds 26m: Lawyers and accountants reap reward of running investigations00:02
'Up to 1 million' Hutus flee advancing rebels00:02
Always something to remind them: Unlike us, the French know that commemoration may prevent war, says Douglas Johnson00:02
Letter: 'Times of India' did not copy price war00:02
50,000 jobs to go in Whitehall reforms00:02
Greenback takes note of changing times00:02
Drop us and buy one00:02
Personally healthy and socially secure00:02
Hurd warns Serbs not to reject plan00:02
Letter: Why jihad means struggle, not a holy war00:02
MP to press for changes on GP staff complaints00:02
Fatal crash00:02
View from City Road: Supervisory winds swinging to Brash00:02
Obituary: Kurt Josten00:02
Boxing: Lewis bout at Wembley00:02
End of pay freeze threatens inflation: IoD survey coincides with figures showing better unit wage costs00:02
Rail strike union in legal threat over safety00:02
Obscene caller00:02
Britons on holiday 'easy prey' for thieves00:02
Krishna temple decision deferred00:02
Letter: And the greatest of these is charity00:02
Mitterrand may opt for third term00:02
Sporting Digest: Speedway00:02
Pembroke: Glow of like minds00:02
Abject Riddick admits he was wrong00:02
Letter: Theory of evolution is not proved by finch beak 'blips'00:02
Gay beach patrol00:02
Something Else00:02
Bad news for Johnny Hun, Clinton wants to get friendly00:02
Golf / The Open: Olazabal ready to roll in shadow of rock: 123rd Open: Taking the not so rough with the smooth as old Ailsa faces a hiding. Tim Glover reports from Turnberry00:02
CENTREFOLD / Pierce de resistance: An LA artist whose work is more than skin deep00:02
Birthdays00:02
Nigerian pledge00:02
Lambeth to hire pounds 500,000 tax snoops00:02
Yates Wine Lodges lowers price of flotation00:02
Gillooly jailed00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Gummer targets bad architecture00:02
Docklands joy00:02
Blair pitches welfare reform at middle class00:02
POP / Riffs: A shower of hard, warm rain: Mick Harris of Scorn on Herbie Hancock's psychedelic 'Rain Dance'00:02
Dilemmas: A daughter trapped by fear00:02
US helicopters 'downed in error'00:02
Dear Sofia Richmond: Spare us the supernatural nonsense, the Independent's science correspondent tells the 'prophetess' who foresees Judgement Day in a crashing comet00:02
POP / All mouth and trousers: Dwight Yoakam, the man who mistook his life for a hat, is in London. Jasper Rees watched and listened00:02
Sporting Digest:00:02
View from City Road: Europe's number unobtainable00:02
O J 'evidence'00:02
Bottom Line: Owners going places00:02
THEATRE / Happy birthday, Edward Bond00:02
Fashion: Toon Armani: Saturday in Newcastle toon, and the lads have one thing on their minds: if you're not wearing a designer T-shirt, you're not a Geordie. Tamsin Blanchard explains00:02
Golf / The Open: Three outsiders worth keeping a close eye on00:02
Where shall we meet?: The Club Bar, Waldorf Hotel00:02
Racing: Melbourne reaps a bumper Crop: The organisers of Australia's most prestigious contest are thinking big after last year's successful European raid00:02
Kim Jong Il moves closer to taking full control in N Korea00:02
MPs call for new curbs on 'nasty videos'00:02
Obituary: Jack Davies00:02
Overstretched squads hamper drugs battle: Cash shortages forcing police to ignore narcotics inquiries00:02
Athletics: British trio set to run at Palace00:02
Athletics: British trio set to run at Palace00:02
Dog days for goal scorer00:02
Rugby League: Featherstone face contract battle for Aston00:02
Hockey: Russians shock Australia00:02
Parliamentary Questions - Written Replies00:02
Schools: Latymer Upper School00:02
Guidelines on mentally ill 'failing'00:02
Letter: Foetuses only react, they do not 'feel'00:02
Traffickers jailed00:02
Carry two spare wheels to work00:02
Letter: Perfect English? You must be French00:02
Do-it-all wrong00:02
Smog, I see no smog: As you pant your way through London - oh the heat, the crowds, the grime, the smog - take no comfort from the fact that nobody who matters is doing much about it in a hurry.00:02
Bulmer seeks answer to cheap rivals00:02
Fraud charges overshadow new Bank of Spain governor: Predecessor may face jail term for alleged insider trading00:02
Letter: Theory of evolution is not proved by finch beak 'blips'00:02
Chess: Deep Thought overcomes all00:02
Missing student00:02
Too pregnant for their tutus: Having babies can be particularly traumatic for top ballerinas. Judith Mackrell asks about the leap from Nutcracker to nappies00:02
Man accused of theft skips court for baby's birth00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby Union00:02
Hedges no barrier to theft00:02
Bottom Line: Cray is transformed at the cutting edge00:02
Girl 'was assaulted in pool': Five-year-old alleges sex attack at Esther Rantzen's holiday home00:02
Price rise figures steady dollar00:02
MPs seek more funding for primary schools00:02
Leading Article: Commons unites in hypocrisy00:02
Law Report: Defendant not required to pay security for costs as if a plaintiff: C T Bowring & Co (Insurance) Ltd v Corsi & Partners Ltd - Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Dillon, Lord Justice Millett and Sir Michael Kerr), 16 June 1994.00:02
Football / World Cup Semi-Final USA '94: Romario gives Brazil their final reward: Two former champions advance to a 1970 encore as Sweden and Bulgaria fall short of their best form00:02
Clinton squeezed into a corner over invasion00:02
Golf / The Open: Woosnam rules himself out: Guy Hodgson on a Welshman with problems00:02
Smile please, you've just been nicked00:02
Alcoholic and ominous00:02
CBS gives up QVC merger as cable company steps in00:02
Fashion Update: Scent for the scentless00:02
Market Report: Shares steam ahead despite rail strike00:02
Rule-change urged on media ownership00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Window dressing for spies and spooks: 'In From The Cold' - Laurence Lustgarten, Ian Leigh: OUP, 22.50 pounds00:02
Germans will stay in bed with French: Inside File00:02
Bottom Line: Easy to swallow00:02
Absent parents 'being forced to quit jobs': Lilley admits many people left with less of their money than intended. Rosie Waterhouse reports00:02
Court Circular00:02
Shopping survey00:02
Boxing: Lewis bout at Wembley00:02
Cheapest Lada00:02
BT loses out on payments from eight rivals after Oftel ruling00:02
Goldfinger's modernist inspiration secures place in history: An unlovely London townhouse has been saved for the nation. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Athletics: Commonwealth Games snub to Pieterse00:02
Security savers00:02
Letter: Theory of evolution is not proved by finch beak 'blips'00:02
THEATRE / David Benedict on Theatre00:02
Outlook for forecasts: 84% correct00:02
Passenger growth takes off at British Midland: Rise in volume heads for double digits00:02
Luxury shuttles00:02
Desert rescue00:02
Golf Competition winner00:02
THEATRE / Ice cream dream: Paul Taylor and Edward Seckerson salute Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me00:02
Anniversaries00:02
MUSIC / Small and silent: Nicholas Williams on music from the new republics, and a tribute to Mikhashoff00:02
Police seek driver of bomb lorry00:02
Golf / The Open: Daly shows why he is still a hot potato: Martin Johnson heads for the fairways and the players' final practice at Turnberry00:02
Soccer success kick-starts Bulgarian self-confidence00:02
Golf / The Open: Watson hints at past glory: Five-times winner hands out warning to younger generation00:02
POP / Gig guide00:02
Libel damages00:02
Civil Service White Paper: Market-testing initiative is given a quiet burial00:02
POP / Pop chart00:02
Football / World Cup USA '94: Update00:02
POP / On the Road: How late it was: Luggage disasters, heavy metal hell and spooky goings on as Squeeze travel America. And what's that Labour MP doing in the audience?00:02
Silly Questions: Clouding the window issue00:02
Sporting Digest: Snooker00:02
Son knows best00:02
Bridge: Hand makes a rare appearance00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Light sentence00:02
Women to sue over asbestos illnesses: Wartime factory workers seek compensation for pain and suffering after exposure to risk during assembly of gas masks. Susan Watts reports00:02
Trans World warned in Emap takeover battle: Panel says shareholders must be consulted00:02
Diary00:02
Sporting Digest: Hockey00:02
It was me, honestly]: Raj Persaud on the psychology of people who make hoax phone calls00:02
Leading Article: Mandarins cover their own backs00:02
Civil Service White Paper: Unions condemn 'dire and irrational plans'00:02
Michael Portillo, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at the Hilton Hotel in London, where he presented the Adam Smith Institute '1994 Economy in Government Awards', aimed at making public expenditure more cost-effective00:02
Bond dealer accused of stealing pounds 2m00:02
Letter: UK support for US agenda on world defence00:02
TELEVISION REVIEW / Wednesday: popped over to Pol Pot's for a chat00:02
Japanese no-how: Japan's traditional drama is in crisis: next week London hosts a radical fusion of three classic genres. Clare Bayley sets the scene00:02
Let playgoers hit the boos: Opera fans should lose their monopoly on vocal disapproval, says David Lister00:02
Eggs 'exploded'00:02
POP: Mick and Keith (and a bit of Charlie): Don Was produced the new Rolling Stones album, Voodoo Lounge. He compared notes with Mick Jagger in a conversation recorded in New York and ranging from Mozart to men in frocks00:02
Japan disapproves00:02
EU's new visa allows precious little access00:02
Pilot, 73, injured00:02
ARTS / And what's more . . .00:02
'Mottie' left speechless by remarkable decision00:02
FILM / John Lyttle on Cinema00:02
West End gallery provides nursery for contemporary Chinese artists00:02
View from City Road: Taking on the boardroom pay-offs00:02
Education: When you need more than brains: Students with special needs can succeed, but only if universities offer the facilities, says Brenda Parry00:02
Motor Racing: FIA Council summons Hill00:02
Cricket: Kirsten's double century00:02
Education: When big does not mean beautiful: Judith Judd considers how parent choice can be made to fit00:02
Glaxo to move cash mountain to external fund managers: Review of holdings follows rumours of pounds 100m losses on volatile US bonds00:02
Obituary: Lewis Brown00:02
Fashion Update: Happy birthday, G00:02
Civil Service White Paper: Unions condemn 'dire and irrational plans'00:02
Football / World Cup Semi-Final USA '94: Baggio's magic puts Italy through: Two goals in five minutes see former champions through to the final as Bulgarians fail to find their best form