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Sunday, 31 January 1993
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- Woman strangled
- Bonds
- Go-ahead for university league tables
- 'Freebie machines' find their place in the life of the House: After the coal report, the Commons select committees have earned respect, writes Stephen Castle
- Unkindest cuts of the thieves who trade in stolen paintings
- Having a fine time: glad you're not here: Flying from Gatwick on a package holiday could damage your reputation as a serious traveller. Frank Barrett tells you where to go
- Look] No sea
- MI5 chief moves
- Coal pledge to pit rebels
- Museum reformer 'forced out' by leading directors
- Boy disturbs horse attackers
- Rush to join train speed tests
- Labour sheds its 'tax and spend' policy
- Shamed law chief's wife found dead in her home
- Right-wingers held
- Talks on Hoover relocation
- Child dies in blaze
- Catering for the heat of the kitchen: Clare Latimer has a sparky attitude to Westminster's gossip machine, says Kathy Marks
- Are they sly or just slow about doing the rate thing?
- What made the Gorbals famous? Drunks, poverty, razor-gangs? The answer is none of these. The answer is a novel: Jeff Torrington belongs to a long tradition. Cal McCrystal unravels the tragic story of another novelist, who first gave the Glasgow slum its notoriety
- Pounds 10,000 ticket to a pickled eternity
- No more hand-outs on huge mortgages
- Reid takes on ministers over rail privatisation
- Aspirin use may prevent cancer
- Now for Kasparov: The champion awaits as Britain's challenger Nigel Short clinches victory against Timman to win a place in the world chess final. William Hartston reports
- Major loses face in pub
- Secrets charges
- Man stabbed
- Hospital alerts 1,000 women in hepatitis scare
- Councils braced for harsh cuts in spending: Schools and social services face job losses and libraries may be closed. Ngaio Crequer reports
- Police hurt after party arrests
- Quiet celebration marks Short's 82,500 pounds pay day
- Many people with HIV 'do not know they are infected'
- Ability of personality test experts questioned
- Spending halt on rail safety urged
- Physics research to face 'savage' cuts
- Rock and pop auction
- MacGregor to break up InterCity rail network
- Death of ex-DPP's wife not suspicious, police say
- Public spending gaps within UK closing
- ICI staff win 14.5% pay rise
- Universities fear political bias by funding councils
- Contemporary Art Market: Designers' wares give a twist to traditional style
- Thompson takes a starring role at film awards
- Threatened mines 'will be sold on open market'
- Cleaned gannet
- Guide to where the axe will fall: Ngaio Crequer and Lydia Slater asked a sample of 73 local authorities about their finances and found they expected to face a total of more than pounds 850m in cuts with the loss of 15,000 public sector jobs (CORRECTED)
- Orchids extracted
- Police cell hanging
- Red letter day at the BBC as Forgan spreads the word
- Pilot's body found
- TA officer charged
- Girl injured
- Stott for 'Today'
- BBC top in sport
World
- Elvis Presley's princess is one for the money: For her 25th birthday the King's daughter gets a dollars 200m present. Phil Reeves reports
- Father's grief at murder
- Money can't buy you grunge
- IRA extradition case will test Clinton's nerve
- Gen MacKenzie slams UN's nine-to-fivers
- Geneva talks fail
- World's richest man dies
- A stick to beat the sultans of swing: Raymond Whitaker reports from Kuala Lumpur on a bitter power struggle between wayward royals and a thoroughly modern prime minister
- Villages 'saved'
- President caught in no man's land: Clinton's pledge on gays in the forces helped get him elected. Now it is knocking him off-course. Patrick Cockburn reports from Washington
- Zulu tribe comes under doctor's orders: In Zululand, John Carlin meets a woman who has taken over a traditional male role - as the chief of her clan
- 114 killed as train falls into river
- Russians told there is no alternative: Helen Womack in Moscow on the plummeting rouble
- The World This Week
- Police end search at Kenya train crash site
- Angolans talk peace again
- Rushdie 'fatwa' is irrevocable
- Refugees flee Lome troops
- 66 killed as train hits bus
- Zaire wards over evacuations
- No peace at heart of old Khmer empire: A UN worker tells Raymond Whitaker of war and elections in Cambodia's Angkor Chum district
- Republicans find hope amidst wider disarray
- Escobar's hand seen in Bogota bomb atrocity
- Expatriates leave Kinshasa
- 'Hijacked' ship bound for US
- Out of Japan: The wrestler, his coach, his fiancee and her mother
- Iraq plagued by wave of violent crime: The spirit of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves lives on, Charles Richards writes from Baghdad
- Rabin pushed into corner by killings
- An Israeli prophet sees signs of hope: Yeshayahu Leibowitz tells Sarah Helm in Jerusalem why he thinks change is coming
Science
- Science Update: Research funds cut
- The sharpest eyes in the Universe: Giant telescopes using the latest in mirror technology will provide astronomers with their best clues yet about the origins of our solar system, writes Peter Bond
- Smile] This will have you in a spin: Photo CD will make the family album a thing of the past, says Steve Homer
- Science Update: Tried, but not true
- Countdown to a tanker disaster: From new information, Nicholas Schoon pieces together the events on board the oil tanker that caused last month's Shetlands disaster
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 3 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 4 Archaeologists uncover nearly 5,000 cave paintings in Burgos, Mexico
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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