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Pyongyang hints at nuclear concessions: Boutros-Ghali to spend Christmas in talks with Kim Il Sung as hopes grow of ending North Korean isolation00:02
Australian authorities get heavy with would-be immigrant nurse00:02
Obituary: Jozsef Antall00:02
Letter: The size of Texas00:02
Sports Listings: Plan Ahead00:02
Sporting Digest: Baseball00:02
Leading Article: A threat to Clinton's recovering authority00:02
Racing: Nation's pet still a firm favourite: Greg Wood finds Desert Orchid is champing at the bit for Boxing Day00:02
And now the Christmas news00:02
Company news in Brief00:02
Letter: Weighed down by earthly values00:02
Sports Listings: This Weekend00:02
Clinton hands over bank files to investigators00:02
Sporting Digest: Tennis00:02
Sporting Digest: Squash00:02
Letter: Christian responsibility for the concept of Hell00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Wit and women: Verbal volleys, wars of words: 'He gets my daughter and I get tickets to the internationals'00:02
Today's Number: 20000:02
'Kristallnacht' synagogue builds a glittering future00:02
Schools lose pounds 50m worth of grants: Teacher-training schemes biggest losers00:02
Letter: Unto Sarajevo a child is born00:02
Profits melt at Ortiz-Miko00:02
Gowrie to chair Arts Council00:02
Error forces Lloyd's to revise pounds 900m rescue offer: Pounds 22m to be reallocated among names after miscalculation - Chairman of Gooda Walker Action Group urges rejection00:02
Obituary: W. Edwards Deming00:02
Rugby League: Hughes has early look at Wigan00:02
Mother mugged00:02
Man who admitted 959 crimes is jailed: Violent offences helped to pay for gang leader's pounds 300-a-day crack habit00:02
Yugoslav inflation continues00:02
Meanings of Christmas: Literal truth or a symbol of faith?: Our series for Christmas week opens with a consideration of belief in the miracle of the Virgin Birth by Professor R. J. Berry, Professor of Genetics at London University.00:02
Birthdays: Boxing Day00:02
Sporting Digest: Ice Hockey00:02
Prison officers call for public inquiry after killer is found00:02
Elliott accused of defrauding Elders: Tycoon faces pounds 30m charge after running out of injunctions in prosecution00:02
Anniversaries: Christmas Day00:02
Sports Listings: Monday / Cyclo-cross: Supacross, Macclesfield00:02
Sinn Fein plays down ceasefire: Downing Street condemns IRA's 'temporary lull in the killing'00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Out of their heads: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Early start to holiday as thousands fly to winter sun: Norwich is favourite for white Christmas followed by London as bookmakers shorten odds00:02
Out of Russia: Return to old icons as the Blessed Margaret fails to deliver00:02
Rape charge00:02
Nothing like the family to make you feel loved00:02
People: A starry night in Honduras00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Hard men, hard battles: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Castro's daughter donned disguise to escape to US00:02
Scottish Life ends society ties00:02
ID cards will be issued for job-seeker's benefit: Ministers agree plans to reduce Giro fraud. Colin Brown reports00:02
Serbs give Bosnians ultimatum as fighting dims hopes for truce00:02
Familiar follies amid the holly00:02
Sporting Digest: Cricket00:02
Students in debt00:02
Food & Drink: The year of eating exotically: Sophie Grigson travelled the world in search of good taste and found the piece of cod that passeth all understanding00:02
Court Circular00:02
Obituary: Maj-Gen H. R. B. Foote VC00:02
Baby's body found00:02
Sales]: Looking for a bargain? Start the search here00:02
Letter: Christian responsibility for the concept of Hell00:02
'Tis the season to be jolly for 160-year-old candlemaking firm00:02
Expenses fraud00:02
This is the 25th year that the charity Crisis has offered Christmas cheer to the homeless00:02
Shopkeepers and markets celebrate: 'Tidings of comfort and joy' in West End as unstoppable Footsie rockets00:02
Sports Listings: Boxing Day / Motorcycling: Mallory Park road races, Kirkby Mallory00:02
British soldiers freed in Bosnia00:02
Farmers forced to defy law and bring home their bacon: Tough EU rules have closed three North Yorkshire slaughterhouses and led to fewer animals being killed at a fourth. Oliver Gillie reports00:02
Church appointments00:02
Food & Drink: A quiz of fiendish vintage: Anthony Rose poses the questions and a case of champagne goes to the winner00:02
Market Report: Shopping bonanza stuns even hardened traders00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Scams and scandals: Verbal volleys, wars of words:'I've even stuck my Amstrad satellite dish in the dustbin'00:02
Cricket: Border's warning: Disappointing day for Donald00:02
Gang leader jailed00:02
Fans freed on bail00:02
Pembroke: Death of BES may snap twig script00:02
Kid gloves off in child's play: As Toys 'R' Us expands in the UK, smaller outlets are under pressure00:02
BOOKS / Absolutely fabulist: 1994 is the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death. Ian Thomson assesses his place in English literature00:02
Moscow extends military role00:02
Continental slump dents British car production00:02
Units body attacks reform plan00:02
Vicar gambles on talents of flock00:02
Football: Selection of England manager imminent: Venables the favoured candidate as Armfield reveals FA's intention to make full-time appointment early in the new year00:02
Christmas orders rush in for professional shoplifter: Anne goes stealing three times a week for her 'customers'. John Arlidge reports00:02
Sports Listings: Next Week00:02
Obituary: Alan Hill00:02
Gift for Balladur proves a turkey00:02
Keith Elliott At Large: Volleyball captures an indoor beachhead: Wintry Wolverhampton's answer to Bondi Beach is playing host to two women seeking gold for Britain at the 1996 Olympics00:02
Birthdays: Christmas Day00:02
Letter: Incoherence in arts subsidies00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: 'Was I responsible for Graham's appointment? People say I was, but I'm not so sure. I can remember Bert was sold on him from the word go': Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Benn speeches a surprise video hit00:02
Legal hurdles reduce chances of conviction: Case prompts renewed concern over justice system, reports David McKittrick00:02
Cricket: Sturt resigns as Middlesex chairman: Disappointing day for Donald00:02
Football: United sitting pretty: Boxing Day preview00:02
Letter: Weighed down by earthly values00:02
Sporting Digest: Football00:02
Letter: Christmas wrap00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Weird and wonderful: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Officials were alerted to Jamaica flight00:02
Candid Caller00:02
Bobsleigh: Just the ticket for Tout00:02
Leading Article: Weakness of the Nativity myths00:02
Anniversaries: Boxing Eve00:02
Guard shot in raid00:02
Price of illegal drugs falling00:02
Travel: In the bleak midwinter: On the shortest day of the year, Simon Calder took the high road to Shetland and Frank Barrett took the low road to the Scillies, as Britain's extremities made ready for Christmas00:02
Saving for a rainy day: Jim White follows the Japanese tourists to a warehouse full of Burberry bargains00:02
Sporting Digest: Bobsleigh00:02
Racing: Abbot in doubt00:02
Tennis: Becker in drugs claim00:02
Obituary: Major Francis Jones00:02
Sporting Digest: Sailing00:02
Christ finds a home near Japan's Eden: Terry McCarthy visits Shingo, where locals claim they are descended from Jesus, who, they say, is buried there00:02
Mayor finds he has a bear behind00:02
Anniversaries: Christmas Eve00:02
Tree lights suspected in fire that killed four00:02
Tourism chiefs write off millions: Biggest errors found in social security budget00:02
US bull run has further to go in 199400:02
Toll rises from German floods00:02
Survival course offers festive escape00:02
Non-League Football: 'Gang of three' fight on: Welsh bitter00:02
Lovell shake-up to cut debts00:02
House price rise predicted00:02
Coroner pleads for information on boy's killer00:02
Food & Drink: Meals on legs: When Lapps see reindeer they think of eating, not of Santa Claus. Lyn Owen feasts on the beast00:02
Apology00:02
Man tortured cat00:02
Man who wrongly served 16 years in jail dies00:02
Gang watches as six youths rape teenagers00:02
Business and City in Brief (CORRECTED)00:02
The Daily Poem: The Magi00:02
Sports Quotes of the Year: Farewells and final partings: Verbal volleys, wars of words00:02
Landlady unmasks armed robber in Brixton pub raid00:02
BOOKS / Politics? Bah] Humbug]: Christmas Presence: In the last of the series, Sean French reads A Christmas Carol again00:02
Sporting Digest: Boxing00:02
Sporting Digest: Basketball00:02
Christmas gloom in Bethlehem00:02
Cricket: Wells practises what he preached: England A maintain run00:02
Birthdays: Christmas Eve00:02
Marines verdict attacked by MPs and rights groups: Scientific evidence leads to acquittal of soldiers on charges of murder and attempted murder in Ulster. David McKittrick reports00:02
Racing: Kempton a natural home for Humour: The Uplands runner can take advantage of a level playing field in the King George VI Chase00:02
That strange fellow in your chimney: He's an old-fashioned fantasy, but we keep inviting him back. Margaret Visser reflects on a benevolent symbol . . . of what?00:02
Howe urges UN to remain in Somalia: Latest US troop withdrawal raises fears of a return to famine and an attempt by Aideed to seize control00:02
Hong Kong's airport prepares to turn away flights00:02
Travel: Living in a world of their own: On the shortest day of the year, Simon Calder took the high road to Shetland and Frank Barrett took the low road to the Scillies, as Britain's extremities made ready for Christmas