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Sunday, 30 August 1992
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- Victim dies
- Sword attack
- Doctors identify common link in many heart attacks
- Car Wars: Time runs out for drivers who fiddle meters: Oliver Gillie reports on technological advances that will make life difficult for motorists in search of a free parking place
- Asians changing names to help job prospects
- Families make most of 'Fun Day' at prison: Rob Brown reports on an afternoon of carnival gaiety enjoyed by a few inmates at Barlinnie
- Muslims threaten revenge over their lost investments
- Psychologist warns firms to tackle office bullies
- Teenager survey confirms parents' fears
- HIV man threatened with deportation dies
- The doctor brings Chinook down to earth: William Hartston sees the world draughts champion triumph over a machine
- Child care 'jealousy' deters employers
- Ministry knew of Iran arms deal that broke embargo: Tim Kelsey examines the links between government licensing bodies and a British company that sent products abroad to fuel a war in the Middle East
- Fake cola passed off as the real thing
- EC directive on equality 'flouted': The Government is accused of discriminating against 50,000 women pensioners paid less in invalidity benefits than men. Ian MacKinnon reports
- Pensioner wins the argument but still loses out
- Hazards of disposable nappies 'ignored'
- Tate acquisition
- Belfast arrests
- Inside Story: Peace? What Peace?: At the Yugoslav peace talks everyone thought Slobodan Milosevic had agreed to change. Steve Crawshaw and Tony Barber found him to be master of political trompe-l'oeil
- Sex attack on boy
- Trade facts turn into guesswork
- Drivers stay at home
- Crossmaglen killer sought
- Man beats machine
- EC farm boss quits
- Paddington 'kidnap'
- Veterans of the road
- How the UK fed a war machine: A European network of firms secretly supplied ammunition to both sides in the Iran/Iraq conflict, often with government complicity. Tim Kelsey reports
- The Serbian connection
- Rave for Jesus interrupts normal service
- Hotel seeks snorers
- NHS gets a bargain buying new private hospital
- The Great British Republic: As the Royal Family crisis deepens, Michael Fathers peeps into a crystal ball that shows a fateful evening in the next century when the House of Commons is told that the monarchy is to be abolished
- Grade attack on BBC wins praise
- Father and son get life for beheading man
- Balham: 6.45 and the Virgin Mary appears
- Leading lights of the underground: Two artists are planning to convert a subterranean water-tank into an environmentally friendly Gothic palace, complete with mosaic floors and a secret passage
- The public schools that come bottom
- Sony's footwear posters do a walk
- Students turn against industrial courses
- Spendthrift's guide to recession: The economic slump has hit the very rich, too, so if you have some spare cash to splash out on a luxury treat, now is the perfect time to sample the high life. Michael Durham reports
- Thousands hail great pretenders
World
- 60 die as Kurds and Turks clash
- Hope for end to Idaho gun siege
- Few hopes for Kabul's new truce
- Collor hints that he may quit office early
- Bush struggles to dent Clinton's lead
- Churchmen held
- Premier gets boost for new Quebec deal
- Andrew cost more than Kuwait's war: Many years reporting disasters could not prepare Robert Block for the damage the hurricane wrought in his home town
- Freedom hope
- Omar's havoc
- Out of Japan: Hell on earth when you try to fly out of Narita
- Hijackers give up
- Pinatubo kills 8
- Militants jailed
- Crisis ending
- Georgian clashes
- Malawi police arrest clerics
- Muslims gain by Christian poll boycott
- Baghdad claims big success in marshland war
- Iraqi push to complete strategic 'Third River'
- Somali militia warns on plan to boost troops
- Guyana poll date
- Kabul ceasefire
- Motorway sniper
- UTA bomb link
- Race hate warrior at bay in Rockies: Armed to the teeth, a fanatic ex-commando and his family are locked in a bloody stand-off with police. Phil Reeves reports from Los Angeles
- Georgia peace
- Aids empowers an old and deadly enemy: A potentially catastrophic chapter in the history of TB is unfolding. Neil McKenna reports on the HIV factor
- Cemetery bomb
- Embattled Bush gets caught in the rain: Patrick Cockburn reports from Washington on the President's identity problems
- Poverty fuels the rise of TB in Britain
- Fighters over Kuwait as BA 149 flew in
- UN soldiers hit in Sarajevo
- Koreans dream of revenge on Japan
- East Germany's gateway to the world closed by violence: John Eisenhammer reports on the racism that is ravaging the city of Rostock
- Fear and loathing on the Maastricht trail: The Balkans impasse and economic fall-out from Germany are mocking appeals to European unity. Andrew Marshall explains why the French are saying 'non'
- Atassi freed
- Snags hit hurricane relief effort
- Hijackers refuel
- Wave of illegals makes for Spain: Phil Davison on the African boat people fleeing to Europe
- Vietnam VP dies
- Damage in Guam
Science
- A bumper moon shines over the harvesters: Spooning lovers and farmers watch out] The evening sky can fool your eyes - at any time of the year. Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest explain
- Science: Armed with a rifle and a licence to cull: Martin Booth has a radical plan aimed at protecting endangered species and their habitats while benefiting communities
- Science: Raincoats in a drought?: Michael Price explains Britain's water shortage
- 1 Freedom fighters? Cannibals? The truth about Syria’s rebels
- 2 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 3 Special Report: US troops are stationed in Japan to protect the nation. But to sex workers in Okinawa, they bring fear, not security
- 4 Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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