00:02
Government 'wastes 40m pounds on consultants': Departments duplicate work ordered from outside experts00:02
A dictator's deadly legacy: As talks on North Korea's nuclear programme resume, Raymond Whitaker warns of the dangers of failure00:02
People: Jacko's marriage turns into a Russian tragedy00:02
Tuna Wars: Angry Cornishmen tell of 'terrifying' attack on boats: Spaniards 'descended on British like a wolf pack' - Royal Navy protection vessel fails to prevent further trouble00:02
Golf: Ballesteros in time trouble00:02
Tide runs in bookies' favour at race meet: Ian MacKinnon joins punters on a beach for an unusual day's sport00:02
'Pig-like bargaining' over hostages00:02
Leading Article: The might of the Scottish midge00:02
Freight takes to roads as rail strike continues: Companies are being forced to find alternative transport, writes Russell Hotten00:02
The world is hot, the world is bothered00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Outside Edge: Duncan Steer on the fake psychic Ian Rowland00:02
Holt Lloyd managers in 60m pounds buyout00:02
Now Eurotunnel faces the acid test00:02
Halifax adds best to biggest as C&G falls to second place00:02
1m pounds theft charge00:02
Lloyd's hires debt collector00:02
Cricket: Essex driven by Irani: Chapple shines for Lancashire - Slow progress for Warwickshire - Leicestershire on the move00:02
Sailing: Sidewinder brings best out of Best: Lack of wind a problem00:02
'Doubting' Lib Dems in test of nerve: Senior figure says conference must set party's direction. Stephen Goodwin reports00:02
List exposes unsafe ships: Marianne Macdonald on an initiative to improve standards on cargo vessels00:02
Aga cookers help Glynwed to 60% rise at half-time00:02
Remembering Hitch00:02
John Lyttle on Cinema00:02
View from City Road: Lesson to be learnt from Enterprise fiasco00:02
Israeli jets bomb Hizbollah villages in revenge raid: Retaliation for attacks on Jewish targets in London and Buenos Aires has been slow in coming and was not on the scale that many Lebanese feared, writes Robert Fisk in Tyre00:02
'Ignorance' led to 2bn pounds VAT shortfall00:02
Pembroke: Partner on wrong tack00:02
Clinton tries health-care hard sell00:02
Cricket: England's spirits altered by Atherton: Second Test: Leader ignores controversy to finish one short of a deserved century but Hick disappoints again after promising start00:02
Football: Klinsmann dives in at the deep end: Tottenham Hotspur's German striker confronts his detractors and starts the show with a joke00:02
Holt Lloyd managers in 60m pounds buyout00:02
Labour condemns 20m pounds for advice on rail privatisation00:02
Cricket: Hick stalls while Thorpe races away00:02
France accuses allies00:02
The Daily Poem: Stars00:02
Leading Article: The new battle of Algiers00:02
Gunman 'wanted PC wasted'00:02
Market Report: Tiphook rocked by talk of discounted rights issue00:02
Singing and dancing in the rain: Adam Mars-Jones considers John Greyson's Zero Patience, a didactic 'movie musical about Aids'00:02
Director's Cut: Under a paper moon: Ships that pass in the night: John Duigan on audacity and indolent expectation in Fellini's Amarcord00:02
Letter: Health bosses 'vital for care'00:02
Ritblat takes 10% stake in Herring00:02
Outside Edge: Duncan Steer on the fake psychic Ian Rowland00:02
CRH to pay 45m pounds for US aggregate companies00:02
Obituary: Colin Turnbull00:02
Wild goose chase00:02
Clinton tries health-care hard sell00:02
UK protests to Spain in tuna wars00:02
Sex claim woman 'had dress undone'00:02
Government 'wastes 40m pounds on consultants': Departments duplicate work ordered from outside experts00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
Gunfire in Iranian city00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
View from City Road: Confusion ahead for electricity consumers00:02
Recession puts brake on extra family spending00:02
Police pay 7,500 pounds to Bengali teenager00:02
Russian tax police drop in on MMM00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Golf: Ballesteros in time trouble00:02
'Pig-like bargaining' over hostages00:02
UN chief pleads for more peace-keepers: Rwanda: The resources do exist, Security Council told in letter as fresh details emerge of bureaucratic and political games00:02
Halifax adds best to biggest as C&G falls to second place00:02
Labour condemns 20m pounds for advice on rail privatisation00:02
Coal reopens 6,000 pounds pay offer: Tribunal rules that unions may have influenced miners who said no earlier00:02
Birthdays00:02
Theatre / Dreaming colour: Rhoda Koenig reviews A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford00:02
Crackdown nets 14,000 call-girl cards00:02
Remembering Hitch00:02
Western troops ease into their mercy mission00:02
MUSIC / Clapped in cold blood: Wagner Night - The Proms00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The year of the encyclopaedia nasty: 'Chronology of World History' - Ed. Neville Williams: Helicon, 160 pounds00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Woman, 86, strangled00:02
Eating Out: Service with a swagger00:02
'Ignorance' led to 2bn pounds VAT shortfall00:02
Computers: In the swim with a laptop: Mike Hewitt on how to be cool about this season's hi-tech designer accessory00:02
Inquiry into day centre stabbing: An inquiry has been launched into the death of a man at a mental health day centre in Stratford.00:02
Tuna Wars: Angry Cornishmen tell of 'terrifying' attack on boats: Spaniards 'descended on British like a wolf pack' - Royal Navy protection vessel fails to prevent further trouble00:02
Hot new words for the weather? That's a sticky one00:02
Baby's skeleton found in skip00:02
Asthma sufferers find relief with magnesium increase, study shows00:02
Clinton tries health-care hard sell00:02
Split on the Rock00:02
Obituary: Roy Billinge00:02
Computers: Feedback00:02
View from City Road: Lesson to be learnt from Enterprise fiasco00:02
Hot new words for the weather? That's a sticky one00:02
Open house, closed set: Buckingham Palace reopens this weekend. Mark Simpson charts its demise from national shrine to a monument to kitsch00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
TI raises dividend as interims beat forecasts: Engineer's core businesses all increase market share00:02
Market Report: Tiphook rocked by talk of discounted rights issue00:02
Conference of Muslims sparks fears of violence: Jews want London meeting banned00:02
View from City Road: UK drugs industry is looking dopey00:02
Cricket: Foxes in a chase up table00:02
BOOK REVIEW / The year of the encyclopaedia nasty: 'Chronology of World History' - Ed. Neville Williams: Helicon, 160 pounds00:02
Judges accused of racism over lawyers' eviction: Barrister's claims about rent dispute denied by owners of chambers. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
UK protests to Spain in tuna wars00:02
Court Circular00:02
Bottomley 'making up' health policy: 'British Medical Journal' leading article criticises 'out-of-control NHS changes based on the short-term horizons of politicians'00:02
People: Jacko's marriage turns into a Russian tragedy00:02
View from City Road: Takeover Panel should do the decent thing00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
We're engaged, so is the phone00:02
Police pay 7,500 pounds to Bengali teenager00:02
Bottom line: Good-value Glynwed00:02
View from City Road: UK drugs industry is looking dopey00:02
Art centre freehold sold for 1 pounds00:02
Labour surges to biggest ever lead00:02
Obituary: Roy Billinge00:02
AIB looks for UK acquisition: Irish bank waits for buying opportunity after 40% advance at half time00:02
Boy found safe00:02
TI raises dividend as interims beat forecasts: Engineer's core businesses all increase market share00:02
Computers: Holiday adventures for all the family: Janet Swift finds a place in the summer schedules for electronic activities00:02
CRH to pay 45m pounds for US aggregate companies00:02
Leading Article: Too many boats, too few fish00:02
Zeneca shake-up to cost 100m pounds: East Europe seeds and 500 jobs to go in attack on spending00:02
Law: On course to practical skills: Students have given the new legal practice course a mixed reception, says Barbara Lantin, but one innovation has been widely praised00:02
Zeneca shake-up to cost 100m pounds: East Europe seeds and 500 jobs to go in attack on spending00:02
Conference of Muslims sparks fears of violence: Jews want London meeting banned00:02
Obituary: Innokenti Smoktunovsky00:02
Bonn suspends licence for Astra's star drug00:02
Feminist writer gains a respite00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Letter: Health bosses 'vital for care'00:02
Bottomley 'making up' health policy: 'British Medical Journal' leading article criticises 'out-of-control NHS changes based on the short-term horizons of politicians'00:02
Way opens for Morocco ferry00:02
Letter: Noises in the night and all day, too00:02
'No' vote puts pressure on Knapp: Supervisors refuse to back strike - Railtrack and Government delighted - More trains beat latest stoppage00:02
Soap opera censured00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: I persecute my family, but it's unfair00:02
Leading Article: The might of the Scottish midge00:02
Computers: Holiday adventures for all the family: Janet Swift finds a place in the summer schedules for electronic activities00:02
GEC changes rules for Lord Weinstock00:02
Ritblat takes 10% stake in Herring00:02
Job mix-up over robbery case man00:02
Golf: Spaniard upstages the elite00:02
The hot British summer: phew what a story: Since we are obsessed by the weather, why can't we confront the risk of global warming? Tom Wilkie wonders00:02
Blind to the force of the fatwa00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Suddenly the big business idea is to be thinking small: Everyone agrees its time has come, but no one is quite sure how to define it. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Enjoy an uplifting day in the downlands: Michael Leapman finds fresh air, flowers and ancient art barely a stone's throw from Croydon00:02
Tuna Wars: Fishermen driven to violence by mistrust of unwelcome rivals: Concern that inspectors are ignoring breaches of the rules is at the heart of the dispute. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Obituary: Innokenti Smoktunovsky00:02
MoD may face pay-out to sacked homosexuals00:02
Letter: Transport choices matter, not costs00:02
Blind to the force of the fatwa00:02
Photocopier danger00:02
Letter: The RPF and human rights in Rwanda00:02
Kleinwort profits turn the corner00:02
Lightning hits 200:02
President plays it cool over invasion00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Ethnic protests smoulder after new police-beating video00:02
Sex claim woman 'had dress undone'00:02
My Week: Roll on Friday - I don't have to face the fax: Commuter David Axford gets a three-day break from work, courtesy of the striking signal workers00:02
Asthma sufferers find relief with magnesium increase, study shows00:02
Hot Japanese demand oil00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: My problems pale into insignificance00:02
Slaughter & May at the top00:02
Chris Maume on pop00:02
Tuna Wars: Fishermen driven to violence by mistrust of unwelcome rivals: Concern that inspectors are ignoring breaches of the rules is at the heart of the dispute. Nicholas Schoon reports00:02
Lethal airdrop00:02
Germans are driven to slow down: Fear of air pollution is causing motorists to respect speed limits, reports Adrian Bridge in Berlin00:02
Television (Review): Will the real Lord Lucan please step forward00:02
GEC changes rules for Lord Weinstock00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Today's number: 109,00000:02
Now Eurotunnel faces the acid test00:02
Hedge victory00:02
Hot Japanese demand oil00:02
Cricket: Hick stalls while Thorpe races away00:02
Cricket: Captain shows wounds from slings and arrows00:02
Freight takes to roads as rail strike continues: Companies are being forced to find alternative transport, writes Russell Hotten00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: My problems pale into insignificance00:02
Letter: Accentuated zone00:02
UN chief pleads for more peace-keepers: Rwanda: The resources do exist, Security Council told in letter as fresh details emerge of bureaucratic and political games00:02
Open house, closed set: Buckingham Palace reopens this weekend. Mark Simpson charts its demise from national shrine to a monument to kitsch00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Football: Fashanu joins Villa for 1.35m pounds: Virus makes Shearer likely to miss Blackburn's first two Premiership games00:02
France accuses allies00:02
Lloyd's hires debt collector00:02
Art centre freehold sold for 1 pounds00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Gunfire in Iranian city00:02
List exposes unsafe ships: Marianne Macdonald on an initiative to improve standards on cargo vessels00:02
Sporting Digest: Swimming00:02
After Hours00:02
Job mix-up over robbery case man00:02
Television (Review): Will the real Lord Lucan please step forward00:02
A dictator's deadly legacy: As talks on North Korea's nuclear programme resume, Raymond Whitaker warns of the dangers of failure00:02
Cricket: Walsh to captain the West Indies00:02
Cricket: Essex driven by Irani: Chapple shines for Lancashire - Slow progress for Warwickshire - Leicestershire on the move00:02
MoD may face pay-out to sacked homosexuals00:02
Kleinwort profits turn the corner00:02
Photocopier danger00:02
Woman, 86, strangled00:02
Bog-myrtle to scotch midges00:02
Obituary: Gottfried Reinhardt00:02
Diary00:02
My Week: Roll on Friday - I don't have to face the fax: Commuter David Axford gets a three-day break from work, courtesy of the striking signal workers00:02
View from City Road: Confusion ahead for electricity consumers00:02
Obituary: Colin Turnbull00:02
Where shall we meet?: The Opera Terrace, Covent Garden00:02
Tribunal 'bias'00:02
Obituary: Guy Brenton00:02
Holiday price war00:02
Bog-myrtle to scotch midges00:02
Crackdown nets 14,000 call-girl cards00:02
Obituary: Junnosuke Yoshiyuki00:02
Singing and dancing in the rain: Adam Mars-Jones considers John Greyson's Zero Patience, a didactic 'movie musical about Aids'00:02
Tide runs in bookies' favour at race meet: Ian MacKinnon joins punters on a beach for an unusual day's sport00:02
Cricket: England's spirits altered by Atherton: Second Test: Leader ignores controversy to finish one short of a deserved century but Hick disappoints again after promising start00:02
Obituary: Junnosuke Yoshiyuki00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Racing: Berry saunters to the fifth century: The Cockerham trainer sets his sights on supplementing another ton with a first Group One success00:02
SCI may ask for more time to buy: Board of Great Southern discussing approach from unnamed white knight00:02
President plays it cool over invasion00:02
Fears grow over bombs as N Korea talks restart00:02
Woman priest pulls out of service00:02
Lightning hits 200:02
Milosevic to cut ties with Serbs in Bosnia00:02
AIB looks for UK acquisition: Irish bank waits for buying opportunity after 40% advance at half time00:02
Hedge victory00:02
Way opens for Morocco ferry00:02
Theatre / Dreaming colour: Rhoda Koenig reviews A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford00:02
We're engaged, so is the phone00:02
Computers: Feedback00:02
Where shall we meet?: The Opera Terrace, Covent Garden00:02
Equestrianism: Germany put on a show to take gold: World Games00:02
Pembroke: Partner on wrong tack00:02
Dear Adele Biss: Tourists arriving in Britain quickly get the message: sod off. The Independent's travel editor has some home truths for the head of the English Tourist Board00:02
Computers: In the swim with a laptop: Mike Hewitt on how to be cool about this season's hi-tech designer accessory00:02
Letter: Health bosses 'vital for care'00:02
Soap opera censured00:02
Slaughter & May at the top00:02
Woman priest pulls out of service00:02
David Benedict on Theatre00:02
Birthdays00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Gunman 'wanted PC wasted'00:02
Court Circular00:02
Slip-up payout00:02
Director's Cut: Under a paper moon: Ships that pass in the night: John Duigan on audacity and indolent expectation in Fellini's Amarcord00:02
MUSIC / Clapped in cold blood: Wagner Night - The Proms00:02
Looking for an honest man . . .00:02
View from City Road: Takeover Panel should do the decent thing00:02
Tennis: Mistry of the happy tennis players: Strong competition for the World Team Cup: 'It's not just your ability, it's wheelchair control as well'00:02
FILM / Come back and see me some time: Sheila Johnston on the return of the femme fatale in John Dahl's The Last Seduction, plus the rest of the new releases.00:02
Football: Fashanu joins Villa for 1.35m pounds: Virus makes Shearer likely to miss Blackburn's first two Premiership games00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: After raw life, back to Sunday supplements00:02
Labour surges to biggest ever lead00:02
Computers: Creating more than mayhem00:02
Cricket: Foxes in a chase up table00:02
Russian tax police drop in on MMM00:02
'Doubting' Lib Dems in test of nerve: Senior figure says conference must set party's direction. Stephen Goodwin reports00:02
Another head rolls at Kidder as Jett supervisor is axed: Report crticises brokerage firm for lax oversight, poor judgement and missed opportunities00:02
The bargain between man and Superman: Steve Boggan watches some serious bidders in action during Christie's first comics auction00:02
Law: On course to practical skills: Students have given the new legal practice course a mixed reception, says Barbara Lantin, but one innovation has been widely praised00:02
Equestrianism: Germany put on a show to take gold: World Games00:02
Holiday price war00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: After raw life, back to Sunday supplements00:02
Recession puts brake on extra family spending00:02
Judges accused of racism over lawyers' eviction: Barrister's claims about rent dispute denied by owners of chambers. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
Baby's skeleton found in skip00:02
Football: Klinsmann dives in at the deep end: Tottenham Hotspur's German striker confronts his detractors and starts the show with a joke00:02
'No' vote puts pressure on Knapp: Supervisors refuse to back strike - Railtrack and Government delighted - More trains beat latest stoppage00:02
Another head rolls at Kidder as Jett supervisor is axed: Report crticises brokerage firm for lax oversight, poor judgement and missed opportunities00:02
Eating Out: Service with a swagger00:02
Inquiry into day centre stabbing: An inquiry has been launched into the death of a man at a mental health day centre in Stratford.00:02
Boy found safe00:02
1m pounds theft charge00:02
Ethnic protests smoulder after new police-beating video00:02
Coal reopens 6,000 pounds pay offer: Tribunal rules that unions may have influenced miners who said no earlier00:02
Today's number: 109,00000:02
Feminist writer gains a respite00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Racing: Berry saunters to the fifth century: The Cockerham trainer sets his sights on supplementing another ton with a first Group One success00:02
Cricket: Newport casts a spell on Lara00:02
Letter: Health bosses 'vital for care'00:02
Teenage killer let out to play football00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Aga cookers help Glynwed to 60% rise at half-time00:02
Teenage killer let out to play football00:02
Suddenly the big business idea is to be thinking small: Everyone agrees its time has come, but no one is quite sure how to define it. Roger Trapp reports00:02
Letter: Accentuated zone00:02
Letter: Those meaningful - and elusive - questions about the existence of God00:02
Obituary: Gottfried Reinhardt00:02
Camels banished from the sands00:02
Sporting Digest: Rugby League00:02
Letter: The RPF and human rights in Rwanda00:02
Sailing: Sidewinder brings best out of Best: Lack of wind a problem00:02
Germans are driven to slow down: Fear of air pollution is causing motorists to respect speed limits, reports Adrian Bridge in Berlin00:02
John Lyttle on Cinema00:02
The hot British summer: phew what a story: Since we are obsessed by the weather, why can't we confront the risk of global warming? Tom Wilkie wonders00:02
Israeli jets bomb Hizbollah villages in revenge raid: Retaliation for attacks on Jewish targets in London and Buenos Aires has been slow in coming and was not on the scale that many Lebanese feared, writes Robert Fisk in Tyre00:02
Latin America File: Eyes on Haiti, but watch its backyard00:02
Lethal airdrop00:02
Nigerian strike suspended00:02
Latin America File: Eyes on Haiti, but watch its backyard00:02
Leading Article: The new battle of Algiers00:02
Letter: The RPF and human rights in Rwanda00:02
Chris Maume on pop00:02
Fears grow over bombs as N Korea talks restart00:02
Western troops ease into their mercy mission00:02
Former PM Spadolini dies00:02
Murderers die in US triple execution: State of Arkansas says multiple use of lethal injections reduces overtime and stress on its employees00:02
Golf: Spaniard upstages the elite00:02
Former PM Spadolini dies00:02
The Daily Poem: Stars00:02
Leading Article: Too many boats, too few fish00:02
Letter: Full steam ahead00:02
Golf: Thomson recalls the claret years: Prize-giving day as Australia's five-times Open champion joins the veterans in PGA Seniors Championship00:02
Tennis: Mistry of the happy tennis players: Strong competition for the World Team Cup: 'It's not just your ability, it's wheelchair control as well'00:02
Tribunal 'bias'00:02
The Queen Mother acknowledging well-wishers on her 94th birthday yesterday. Gifts included a nebuchadnezzar of champagne00:02
Letter: Noises in the night and all day, too00:02
Computers: Creating more than mayhem00:02
Enjoy an uplifting day in the downlands: Michael Leapman finds fresh air, flowers and ancient art barely a stone's throw from Croydon00:02
Dear Adele Biss: Tourists arriving in Britain quickly get the message: sod off. The Independent's travel editor has some home truths for the head of the English Tourist Board00:02
Bottom line: Good-value Glynwed00:02
Aids taking heavy toll of city's drug users: Edinburgh feels impact of HIV00:02
Milosevic to cut ties with Serbs in Bosnia00:02
Split on the Rock00:02
The bargain between man and Superman: Steve Boggan watches some serious bidders in action during Christie's first comics auction00:02
The Queen Mother acknowledging well-wishers on her 94th birthday yesterday. Gifts included a nebuchadnezzar of champagne00:02
Murderers die in US triple execution: State of Arkansas says multiple use of lethal injections reduces overtime and stress on its employees00:02
Wild goose chase00:02
Looking for an honest man . . .00:02
Nigerian strike suspended00:02
SCI may ask for more time to buy: Board of Great Southern discussing approach from unnamed white knight00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: I persecute my family, but it's unfair00:02
Bottom line: Intriguing possibilities at TI00:02
Cricket: Walsh to captain the West Indies00:02
Golf: Thomson recalls the claret years: Prize-giving day as Australia's five-times Open champion joins the veterans in PGA Seniors Championship00:02
On your SuperBike: Exhibitions: Remember Chris Boardman? He rode that weird bike at the Olympics. Well, the bike's back. Adrian Turpin reports00:02
FILM / Come back and see me some time: Sheila Johnston on the return of the femme fatale in John Dahl's The Last Seduction, plus the rest of the new releases.00:02
Bonn suspends licence for Astra's star drug00:02
Not any old piano: Dancing dons, a jolly tramp and a magic piano - all you need for a great British musical. Edward Seckerson celebrates 40 years of Salad Days00:02
Diary00:02
Cricket: Captain shows wounds from slings and arrows00:02
Cricket: Newport casts a spell on Lara00:02
Bottom line: Intriguing possibilities at TI00:02
Aids taking heavy toll of city's drug users: Edinburgh feels impact of HIV00:02
Letter: Full steam ahead00:02
Slip-up payout00:02
Obituary: Guy Brenton00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: We are not angels, we're doing a job00:02
Not any old piano: Dancing dons, a jolly tramp and a magic piano - all you need for a great British musical. Edward Seckerson celebrates 40 years of Salad Days00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
But who helps the helpers in Rwanda?: We are not angels, we're doing a job00:02
The world is hot, the world is bothered00:02
After Hours00:02
Camels banished from the sands00:02
Letter: Noises in the night and all day, too00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Letter: Noises in the night and all day, too00:02
David Benedict on Theatre00:02
Letter: The RPF and human rights in Rwanda00:02
Letter: Transport choices matter, not costs00:02
On your SuperBike: Exhibitions: Remember Chris Boardman? He rode that weird bike at the Olympics. Well, the bike's back. Adrian Turpin reports