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Nine die in Kashmir bus shooting00:02
Swimming: Perkins and Riley shatter world records: Australians sets new standards as Gillingham fails and Hardcastle talks of retirement at World Championships00:02
Lazards in the drink00:02
Look Who's Talking: If I were a rags-to-riches man: Topol00:02
Travel: River deep, mountain high: Jane Taylor hiked through the Picos de Europa, the damp, green peaks of northern Spain which are breathtaking in every sense00:02
Football: Team News00:02
Food & Drink: The Midi strikes back: Languedoc-Roussillon is raising its standards and producing high-quality grapes, says Anthony Rose00:02
Company News in Brief00:02
Amex nabs Thomas Cook in US00:02
Rugby Union: Bath set standards for rivals to match00:02
Air crash renews safety worries00:02
Lighting-up time: Walsall may be landlocked, but it still has a fine tradition of illuminations. Edmund Bealby-Wright goes 'Wooo'00:02
Motor Racing: Alesi rewards home fans with provisional pole: Patient Hill poised to pounce as Frenchman clocks the fastest time in a Ferrari on the first day of qualifying for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix00:02
View from City Road: Mining disaster for Costain00:02
Stone-Age Mike Tyson was gnawed by a wolf00:02
William Donaldon's Week: I'd amuse you and betray you00:02
Money Grouse00:02
In Ireland's green and pleasant land: Roy Foster on the streaks of nostalgia that mark the never-never land described in the stories of Gerry Adams00:02
No death penalty sought in O J case00:02
Major calls for 'anti-yob culture' to cut crime00:02
Rugby Union: Wales replace Copsey00:02
Alison Reid's 'Mad Dogs' which can be seen at the Northern Graduate Art Exhibition for a week from today at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore. It features work by 24 students at 13 colleges00:02
Today's number: 6000:02
US factory prices show inflation on march again: World markets follow New York into steep dive - Kohl views on German outlook add to gloom00:02
100kg of radioactive uranium seized00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Cut price Picassos and cyanide champagne: 'The Rape of Europa' - Lynn H Nicholas: Macmillan, 20 pounds00:02
Cricket: Trescothick represents best value: Young England on top - Yorkshire fail to enforce follow-on - Cumbrian sets standard00:02
Football: Lee at the centre of Newcastle's intentions: For one player this week's England call-up marked the end of a long wait for recognition. Glenn Moore reports00:02
Changes on the menu at Savoy: Departures unlikely to resolve Forte's battle for control00:02
Golf: Gilford and Clark press their claims: Ryder Cup men battle it out at the top of the European Open leaderboard as windy conditions play havoc with second-round scores00:02
Ambulance applicants told to pay for training00:02
Major attacked for brushing aside EU plan00:02
Douboe Play: Shock of the old, shock of the new00:02
Northern fix for one year00:02
Virtuality 'on target' in spite of loss00:02
Obituary: Michael Peters00:02
Letter: Night lights that dim the heavens00:02
Drinking haunt where life imitated TV art: Christian Wolmar and Simon Midgley, on the trail of the paymasters behind the M11 attacks, visit a private club in Southend00:02
Food & Drink: Unstable behaviour00:02
Racing: Sri 10-1 for Guineas00:02
Asprey shares down by a third after profit warning00:02
Landmarks: Hastings Fish Market00:02
Gardening: Tool Box: Pruning trees at pole's length00:02
Blair turns challenge into opportunity: Donald Macintyre watches the labour leader set his own agenda over the signal-workers' dispute00:02
Ossi and Wessi test the German water00:02
Who holds the apron strings? That's a secret00:02
Rugby Union: Steve Bale's club-by-club guide to the Courage National League One00:02
Rugby Union: Scotland gripped by fear00:02
THEATRE / Dream Bottom00:02
Give me knockabout nostalgia, not this00:02
Separatist party poised to conquer Quebec00:02
RBS launches new guarantees00:02
35m pounds computer system at DSS fails in trials: Payments to private firm over two-year project suspended. Tony Collins and Tim Kelsey report00:02
Correction: Paul Reynolds00:02
Up the Rebels - by Gerry Adams: The leader of Sinn Fein is also a writer of fiction. Here, two inmates share a hot cup of tea00:02
Travel: Let those snow clouds start to roll: Poor conditions have dogged European resorts in the past few years. Chris Gill opens the season with a look at how this and other trends have affected our skiing habits00:02
Fatal bite00:02
View from City Road: Inflation warning in the kitchen00:02
Food & Drink: Let's turn to meaty matters: The holidays are over and we need comfort food. Enter the British banger and its adaptable cousin sausage-meat00:02
Heart Searching: Getting write to the heart: Lonely heart, GSOH, cultured, charming, sensuous, discreet, WLTM someone for advice on how to write a small ad. Carole Smythe can help00:02
Bhopal disaster firm quits India00:02
Sport: Quotes of the week00:02
Russians in 5-hour space walk00:02
Wills00:02
THEATRE / Rejuvenating Dorian: Or is it opera? Or a musical? David Benedict talks to Nicolas Bloomfield about The Picture of Dorian Gray; plus Shakespeare in Manchester and Shaw in London00:02
Food & Drink: Wild gambles in the woods: It's mushroom-hunting time. But if you don't know an amanita from a boletus, shop-bought buttons will often do just as well, says Emily Green00:02
ID parades 'are fatally flawed': British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Loughborough.00:02
Racing: Midnight ready to strike for Cumani: A second Leger success may enable a forgotten man among Classic trainers to pass into legend00:02
Job prospects 'poop' for science graduates: British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Loughborough.00:02
Anniversaries00:02
Football Diary: Heysel meets its end00:02
Travel: The Things I've Seen: The Meikleour Beech Hedge00:02
Guard shot in jailbreak00:02
Letter: Past evils are not our fault00:02
GT discount00:02
Separatist party poised to conquer Quebec00:02
Leak shows review of benefits 'goes deep'00:02
Courageous caution that will bolster Irish peace00:02
Sporting Digest: ICE HOCKEY00:02
Appointments00:02
Climber killed00:02
Old Bailey first00:02
Obituary: Major Lance00:02
Cricket: Surrey succumb to Gough's pace00:02
Parsons cuts add to misery00:02
Man jailed for kidnap of son is freed after apology00:02
Cricket: Chapple ensures early finish00:02
I talk to the trees - and they answer me00:02
Cricket: Nixon empowers Leicestershire00:02
Time and tide wait for no man in the high-speed world of windsurfing00:02
Dr Carey will find his hands are tied in China00:02
Tennis: Graf preys on nerves of Novotna: Czech collapses again to help champion reach today's final where she meets Sanchez Vicario00:02
TSB first to disclose true costs of policies00:02
View from City Road: What's the French fuss about?00:02
Appointments: Church appointments00:02
Football: McAllister tackles Roses' thorny issue: Phil Shaw assesses the weekend's Premiership and Endsleigh fixtures00:02
Country Matters: No starry eyes along this milky way00:02
BOOK REVIEW / Scepticism in a cardboard box: 'Values: Collapse and Cure' - Lord Hailsham: HarperCollins, 12.9900:02
Football: Spurs sign Popescu: Sugar takes outlay to 7.5m pounds00:02
Property: A little place in the country00:02
RAF College Cranwell00:02
THEATRE / A flightless Superman: The Devil's Disciple - Olivier Theatre00:02
Milosevic agrees to monitors on Bosnia border00:02
Behind his triumphs, a fading power to heal: The crowds still flock, but this week has shown up Pope John Paul's weaknesses, says Andrew Brown00:02
Sale of Walpole's furniture to aid stately home00:02
Concession by Vatican frees logjam: Conference on population is given renewed impetus as a compromise over abortion is reached00:02
M&G PEP00:02
Obituary: Michael Hosking00:02
Travel: Confiture con00:02
Boxing: Benn eyes a glittering prize00:02
Motor Racing: Fittipaldi in Unser's tracks00:02
And what's more . . .00:02
Bigamist jailed00:02
Conference notebook: Don't worry about precautions, darling00:02
Britain set to accept IRA's word on peace00:02
Motoring: The Independent Road Test: More panache than dash: Roger Bell on the Mazda five-door 323F, an aggressively good-looking rival to the Ford Escort00:02
Rail inspectors say lives not at risk in strikes00:02
Rugby League: Bradford counting cost of injuries00:02
Drive with the Leeds00:02
Dorrell accused over sculpture00:02
Business and City in Brief00:02
Obituary: Clive Caldwell00:02
Food & Drink: Brothers, a drink to your legacy: A Scots brewery, begun by monks in 1415, is still flourishing, says Michael Jackson00:02
Property: The trouble with indexes: Building society figures are a poor guide to the value of your house. For that you must look at underlying trends, says Anne Spackman00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Market Report: BAT keeps warm despite Wall Street's cold feet00:02
Travel: Waiting game00:02
Vatican backs down in abortion row with UN00:02
Gardening: Yellow arches over a lue: Formal laburnum walks, created by a tunnel of the trees, seem to have fallen out of favour in recent years. But not with James Fenton00:02
Swan Hunter goes down amid recriminations00:02
Quote Unquote00:02
Balliol man climbs to top of union tree00:02
Scientific study confirms potential of 'Lorenzo's oil'00:02
Prison sit-in00:02
Birthdays00:02
Letter: Past evils are not our fault00:02
Recommended books00:02
A walk on the safe side: Robert Cowan contrasts Proms appearances by the Dresden Staatskapelle and Pittsburgh SO00:02
Travel: Instant cash00:02
Major's crime speech 'about style': Conservative supporters and opponents find battle cry on law and order is little more than a repeat of past pledges. Jason Bennetto reports00:02
Rhapsody in blue: NYPD Blue was greeted with howls of outrage in America. Now it has 26 Emmy nominations. Gerard Gilbert on the making of a cult00:02
Racing: Tradition last in Saturday stakes00:02
Out of Russia: Stalin of the ballet ripe for a fall in the Bolshoi revolution00:02
Question marks over the empire's decision: Marianne Brace meets Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibar novelist on this week's Booker shortlist00:02
Tearful Walker rushes from court00:02
National identity card high on Tories' agenda00:02
Baseball: Players seek solution: Strike settlement plan proposed00:02
Food & Drink: Gastropod00:02
Letter: An age-old burden 'baby-boomers' should be prepared to carry00:02
Kim Jong Il fails to show00:02
Auctions00:02
BBOK REVIEW / Pea soupers and the smell of Babbage: 'Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem' - Peter Ackroyd: Sinclair Stevenson, 14.9900:02
Threat of wider war looms in Balkans00:02
Letter: An age-old burden 'baby-boomers' should be prepared to carry00:02
Labour plans agency to investigate insiders00:02
Snooker: Thorburn's experience tells00:02
Tory MEPs denounce PM's line on Europe00:02
Mitterrand rules out Nato return00:02
Pine models of the Beatles00:02
TELEVISION / The pain in Spain falls mainly on Ffyona00:02
The Week in Review: Sport00:02
Stockbroker guide00:02
Getting ready for higher rates: Savers and borrowers face tricky choices on fixed or variable options, writes Andrew Bibby00:02
When staying put is the best option: Some insurers are warning against leaving occupational pension schemes, reports Nic Cicutti00:02
Travel: Surprises in a land of temples and tat: Steve Healey found serenity in Japan, where hi-tech trains travel at breakneck speed, joggers obediently run clockwise and traditional life is still as neatly packaged as sushi00:02
Football: 1.75m O'Donnell sets Celtic record00:02
Letter: An age-old burden 'baby-boomers' should be prepared to carry00:02
Faith and Reason: The logic of God in each one of us: Roger Cook, a former Open University tutor, argues that 'near-death experiences', for all their ineffability, have something definite to tell us about the nature of deity.00:02
Obituary: Dennis Morgan00:02
Rowing: Redgrave and Pinsent plan their attack: Britain's Olympic gold medallists are aiming to win a third World Championship in Indianapolis next week00:02
Blair turns challenge into opportunity: Donald Macintyre watches the labour leader set his own agenda over the signal-workers' dispute00:02
Boys raided building society in lunch break00:02
Letter: Tell us more about that paparazzo00:02
Obituary: Barbara Avedon00:02
Motoring: With a battery made for one: Rosemary Harbert tries out the Zeta, a power pack that fits on to pedal cycles00:02
Food & Drink: Patriotic peppers with pomegranate and nuts: Reader recipe00:02
Football: Dublin moves to Coventry00:02
Lambeth discounts00:02
Barclays abroad00:02
Letter: Too many people? Not in Africa00:02
Court Circular00:02
Rugby Union: World Cup leaves clubs' role in doubt: The rigours of a long season threatens to exhaust the top players. Steve Bale reports00:02
Letter: An age-old burden 'baby-boomers' should be prepared to carry00:02
Letter: Why French hotels have the advantage00:02
Leading Article: Blair takes on the old guard00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Unionist MP says IRA ceasefire 'for real'00:02
Table Tennis: Chen remains anxious to prove himself00:02
Auction of Streisand collection boosts Christies result00:02
Athletics: Gunnell gives Britain a flying start: Christie follows example of British women's captain as he produces emphatic performance in 100 metres at World Cup final00:02
Ford dynasty closes in on the top job00:02
Travel: Departures00:02
Appointments: Service appointments00:02
Tennis: Prodigies given new lease of life00:02
Cuba and US agree to stem refugees00:02
Obituary: Ike Williams00:02
Appeals: Chicken Shed Theatre Company Children's Theatre00:02
A small boy in the Egyptian capital takes his life in his hands, dodging the fast-moving cars and lorries, as he sets out his home-made rocking chairs for sale on the main road past the City of the Dead00:02
Gobsmacked by shrimping dweebs: John Windsor scans the latest dictionary for new words that have entered the language Establishment00:02
Costain plan to dispose of coal operation shocks City00:02
Last chance00:02
Obituary: Carlo d'Alessio00:02
Bid-rigging hits Japan's good aid image00:02
Rugby League: Wigan much too smart for Leeds00:02
A new fashion in designer shows?: Martin Margiela showed his new collection on the same day in six different cities. Tamsin Blanchard saw it in London00:02
Hockey: Reading's new faces: Opening day of National League00:02
Golf: Montgomerie keeps his tartan fans in check00:02
'Wicked' bigamist jailed