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Sunday, 16 August 1992
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- Three drown
- Ecstasy seized
- Woman killed
- Woolly jockeys
- Expatriate workers 'risking financial ruin': Britons injured in accidents abroad have found too late that their insurance was inadequate. Will Bennett reports
- Full-time care needed for car crash victim: Britons injured in accidents abroad have found too late that their insurance was inadequate. Will Bennett reports: Paul Turley will need full-time care for the rest of his life, but cannot claim damages
- Red card for footballer who ignored legal advice
- Hospital failed in its 'duty' to dying patient
- One man's fight against paralysis and Saudi law: Britons injured in accidents abroad have found too late that their insurance was inadequate. Will Bennett reports: Ben Bentley's hopes that he would be insured for injuries from a company taxi crash were soon dashed
- Divers find royalist warship off Scots coast
- NHS 'abandoning its long-term care for elderly'
- Banker tells of his wife's kidnap ordeal
- Protein to be tested on motor neurone patients
- Statement urged over Falklands 'war crimes'
- Distraught husband is found hanged
- Barn accommodation forces performers to muck in together: Fifty Fringe artistes are escaping exorbitant rents charged in Edinburgh by sleeping in a cowshed
- Government determined to hold firm on economy: The Chancellor disappointed many Tories yesterday by maintaining in a newspaper article that there is no alternative to his strategy. Colin Brown reports
- DTI passed ferry as safe weeks before deaths
- Ramblers publish list of obstructive landowners
- Sizewell is targeted for nuclear expansion
- Ministers oppose cut in benefits for jobless
- Abducted baby comes home
- Liverpool bids farewell as Columbus armada sets sail: Oliver Gillie reports on a spectacular day of nostalgia as 73 ships leave for home
- Coating may make contact lenses safer
- 'Trivial' dietary advice attacked by nutritionists
- Man found shot dead in house
- Car explosion
- Man dies in blast
- Horsebox crash
- Sheep shot
- Rich 'will gain most from the council tax'
- Greyhound taken
- Software bugs put byte on bosses
- Father's Day Out: The Glorious Twelfth - The lairds have gone to ground
- Fraud Squad investigates pounds 20m 'wasted' on NHS plan
- Cerullo's 'miracles' questioned
- Nightmare on Acacia Avenue: As plummeting house prices turn dismay into panic, Gail Counsell asks how much further they can fall
- A tall ship and a star to steer her by: Michael Fathers reports from Liverpool
- Friends over the other side: James Cusick investigates Scottish support for the UDA, which has been outlawed only in Northern Ireland
- Brits struggle at bottom of the pom-pom league table
- Du Cann struggles to buy back his estate
- Pounds 40,000 ransom frees bank wife
- Stolen art exports 'easy', say police
- Lesbian art comes out of the closet
- Self-help parents build a school
- Council tax set to hit middle-classes
- Brink's-Mat bullion launderers guilty
- Bomb injures two soldiers
World
- Climbers killed
- The sins of 'Little Fidel' embarrass Cuban leader
- Baghdad 'prepared to hit Kurds' if attacked by US
- Rights & Wrongs: Silence of the six-year-old soldier
- Republican Convention in Houston / Convention Diary: Houston fights to keep control
- Black day for an embattled Collor
- Republican Convention in Houston: Cynicism of 1988 returns to haunt Bush: The President has his last real chance to unite the party and boost a flagging campaign
- Republican Convention in Houston: Unaccustomed underdogs snap under pressure
- Tests for Hussein
- Congolese vote for a president
- Strike ends
- 'No deportations'
- Deferred glory
- Escobar reward
- Voodoo politics
- Bustard hunt ban
- Battalion disarms
- Out of Japan: Destination Twin Peaks for the ultimate flight into fantasy
- Afghan rebel will 'fight on'
- Somali gunmen storm and loot UN relief ship
- Mobutu 'ready' for Zaire democracy
- Border clampdown hits vital Iraq aid
- Children who could hold out no longer
- Hardship bends a steel city to the Democrats
- New Europeans who still think like Alf Garnett: Brussels trainees are just as prone to prejudice as the legendary TV bigot, says Brian Cathcart
- Rough ride on the roller-coaster: The second Russian revolution made Boris Yeltsin a hero - but its harsh aftermath may turn him into a villain. Peter Pringle reports from Moscow
- Bush looks for trump card in a bad hand: Patrick Cockburn in Washington on the President's morals problem as the Republicans try to boost their flagging campaign. And (below) Bill Clinton's bandwagon rolls in Pittsburgh
- US airlift brings hope to Somalia
- British do not want troops in a Balkan war
- Bank robbers run riot in LA
- Bosnia: - Why are they killing each other? - How did the crisis start? - How will it all end?: A plain person's guide to the new tragedy of the Balkans
- 'Best' dinosaur
- Hard times that fuel antipathy in the Antipodes
- Controllers strike
- Tshisekedi back
- Iran expels two Britons and Indian
- Judge Sirica dies
Science
- Guinea-pigs running after a mouse: In the US, it seems, a million programmers can be wrong. Wendy Grossman explores the limits of computer culture
- The monkey with the million-dollar looks: Nicholas Schoon joins ecotourists on a visit to the threatened golden lion tamarin
- Just the treatment for a dirty gargoyle: Lasers are being turned to tasks ranging from cleaning sculptures to designing clothes, says Ruth McKernan
- Microbe of the Month: Take your shoes off, breathe deep: yes, the pong has gone]: Those who suffer from odoriferous feet may soon walk tall, writes Bernard Dixon
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 3 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 4 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Two bailed after arrest over Woolwich attack Twitter comments
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