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Friday, 11 December 1992
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- The Week in Review: Home news
- Law Report: Insurers' rights of subrogation can be enforced: Lord Napier and Ettrick and others v R F Kershaw Ltd and others - House of Lords (Lord Templeman, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Slynn of Hadley), 10 December 1992
- Law: The last word in legal: Sharon Wallach talks to the chairman of Clarity, a group campaigning for the profession to replace unintelligible language with plain English
- Law Update: Discrimination at work
- Law Update: Strategy on property
- Law Update: European group meets
- Law Update: Scottish challenge to 'bureaucratic' French
- Law Update: Say it in Portuguese
- Law: Please, m'lud, I'll have that sentence: Plea bargaining looks attractive: it can cut costs and shorten cases. But it has dangers. Christopher Sallon and Anthony Burton argue for a tighter form of courtroom deal
- Police and shoppers injured in bomb blasts
- Young jobless total doubles to 1 million
- Art Market: Rare medieval ewer is sold for pounds 660,000
- Generators could defer closures of some mines
- Accuracy of electoral roll challenged by councillor
- Health watchdog rounds on 'inept' hospitals service
- Sindy dolls up for her court outing
- Heads seek delay on technology lessons
- Home in fire hazard case likely to be relicensed
World
- India's street children get caught in communal crossfire
- Revealing the lost kingdom of apartheid: A non-country, rife with poverty and despair, is hosting this year's Miss World extravaganza, writes John Carlin from Sun City
- Tajikistan refugees flee to Afghanistan
- Clinton appoints women to top posts
- Malawi opposition comes into the open
- 'Red Sun' still shines over rural Peru: It will take more than the arrest of their leader to crush the Maoist guerrillas in the countryside, writes Colin Harding
- Storms sweep eastern US
- Palestinian dies after shoot-out
- Timor leader 'accepts Jakarta'
- Warlords sign ceasefire in Mogadishu
- North Korea replaces PM
- Talks on Kurds
- SA 'may have used relief planes to ferry weapons'
- Clampdown in Uzbekistan
- Troops leave
- Stand-off between UN and US worsens
- Mobutu suspends Zaire council
- India's street children get caught in communal crossfire
- Cabinet shuffle alters Japan's power balance
- HIV indictment
- Paper silenced
- Unita names four ministers
- Timor trial
- Jordan to try Iraqis over killing
- Gunfire erupts in Dushanbe
- China threatens boycott of Hong Kong meetings
- Bombay convulsed by riots
- Pretoria 'could raid Zimbabwe'
- US forces consolidate their position in Mogadishu
- US threatens Somali 'khat' habit
- Congress and Wall St meet in Clinton team
People
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- Obituaries
- Obituary: Margaret Brown
- Court circular
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- Obituary: Tom Jobe
- Obituary: Yehia Haqqi
- Faith and Reason: Time for peace to end war of words: The last article in a series on the Christian liturgy, ancient and modern, is by Canon Michael Perham, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.
- Obituary: William Shawn
- Obituary: Sir John Summerson
- Obituary: Judge Niall McCarthy
- Anniversaries
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- Obituary: Dan Maskell
- Obituary: Dan Maskell
- Court Circular
- Obituary: Vincent Gardenia
- Obituary: Bernadette Villars
Science
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Museum tours in your own home
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Buying a computer: Christopher Gilbert offers readers a guide through the jungle of jargon and sales come-ons to find the right PC
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Meteoric rise in satellite viewing despite 'sparklies': David Guest looks at the increasing array of television shows beamed from our skies at night
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Wizard technology puts you in the picture: Cameras, videos and camcorders are easier to use than ever, writes David Guest
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Dearest Santa: video games, not records: Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends have ousted pop music, writes Martin Whitfield
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Mobile phones aimed at the popular market: The latest offers may look tempting but, warns Steve Homer, the cost of staying in touch may be higher than you first think
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Enough books to fill a library in the palm of your hand: With a portable CD, you can carry your reference books in your pocket. Tony Feldman reports
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Battle of the giants to give you digital sounds at home
- Special Report on Electronic Gifts: Teenage pirates and the junior underworld: Parents should know that children can buy or sell illegal copies of video games - and 'Sex', writes Justin Keery
Life & Style
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- Food: Vegetarians? Let them eat rabbit: But this one is entirely meat-free. Emily Green suggests some ways to feed the odd herbivore, while the rest of you tuck in to the turkey
- Food and Drink: Enough bull to convince a matador: Sand in the ashtrays, blood-red walls. Emily Green visits a Spanish restaurant with a strong sense of the dramatic
- Food: The feast of the two dozen
- Food and Drink: Bottled up in the high street: Nosing through the wines on offer at the main retail chains, Anthony Rose nominates his best-value selection for Christmas and New Year
- Food: This sweet, scented season: Joanna Blythman went along to Strasbourg's famous Christmas fair expecting to hate its kitsch cuteness. She was surprised
- Food: Recipe: Sichuan spice in a wok
- Food: Gastropod
Motoring
- Motoring: The Independent Road Test: It's much too good to be interesting: Smooth, fast, spacious and soon to be made over here, Toyota's Carina E lacks only character. It'll probably sell very well, says Phil Llewellin
- Motoring: The new home of Britain's car industry: Toyota joins Nissan and Honda next week when production begins at its Derbyshire factory. Richard Feast reports
Arts & Entertainment
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- BOOK REVIEW / A Scot adrift in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams of exile - Ian Bell; Mainstream pounds 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Fat cop seeks mute kid: Diamond solitaire - Peter Lovesey: Little, Brown pounds 14.99
- Look out for the fine print: Peter Guttridge meets the founders and editors of the Greville Press
- BOOK REVIEW / Portrait of the statesman as a young dog: Godfrey Hodgson on the weight of research behind the new biography of John F Kennedy: JFK: Life and death of an American president - Nigel Hamilton Century pounds 20
- BOOK REVIEW / The historian of homelessness: Barbara Everett welcomes a new, coherent Life of Henry James, the lonely novelist with a formidable social existence: Henry James: The imagination of genius - Fred Kaplan; John Curtis pounds 25
- BOOK REVIEW / Canon to the right of them, canon to the left: Daughters of Africa Ed. Margaret Busby: Jonathan Cape pounds 30
- BOOK REVIEW / By any other name: Tom Shone wonders why there are three new editions of The Name of the Rose
- BOOK REVIEW / Tyrant with a limited thirst for power: Richard Ollard on a work that sees Charles I as his own man and challenges existing myths - The personal rule of Charles I: Kevin Sharpe Yale pounds 25
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 4 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 5 Why Arsène Wenger must spend to put icing on the cake and buy likes of Stevan Jovetic for Arsenal
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