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Saturday, 11 December 1993
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- Murder charges
- Actress dies
- Today's papers
- Thorp report suppressed by ministers
- Air bubble saves woman in storm
- Corporation is attacked over charity secrecy
- Private railway that caters for car lovers
- It's first class in here, comrade: Once he had a fleet of Zils, but these days Mikhail Gorbachev is happy to travel by BR. Michael Fathers sat next to him
- 11 hurt in gas blast
- Maggie's Last Stand, the movie
- Where bigotry is part of the job: A policewoman tells of victory over racial and sexual abuse
- Police question siege suspect
- Saddam trusts me and knows I tell the truth, says Heath
- Rampaging bullock
- Hendrix girl backs inquiry
- The millionaire civil servant: Chris Blackhurst on how Gordon Foxley grew rich through backhanders from foreign munitions firms at Britain's expense
- Accept African identity, Grant tells blacks: MP ignores criticism to preach to new constituency
- How much does he earn?: No 9: The Ven George Austin, Archdeacon of York since 1988.
- South of the Border: What price would the people of the Irish Republic pay for peace? Brian Cathcart reports
- Safeguards for animals face the axe
- Major wins EU battle to relax pollution laws
- When the toys came to Oradea: A Welsh Christmas for the orphans of Romania
- Top cat: Roger Dobson picks the best at the 97th National Cat Club Championships at Olympia, the world's largest cat show
- GP struck off
- Labour hijacks business in the Commons: Tory backbench debate sabotaged by 'trench warfare' as Opposition protests over use of guillotine
- Rose Fitzroy, a research assistant at the Cobbe Foundation near Guildford, Surrey, checking notes on a Broadwood square piano, owned by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), which is to be included in a British Library exhibition on the composer from 27 January. The foundation is restoring it to its original condition
- Judge bars Currys shop from Sunday opening
- New nappy can be put down drain: Firm claims biodegradable first
- Man killed in school coach crash
- Car plate fetches a regal sum
- Search for jobs grows tougher for graduates: One in eight still seeking work after six months. Fran Abrams reports
- Across Ulster's great divide: Fences keep family 'safe' in an abnormal existence
- Test case victory for immigrant
- 2m pounds assets targeted in MoD trial: Crown seeks confiscation of homes
- Bullies go public for institution's open day: Stephen Ward visits a young offenders' centre criticised by prisons inspectors as it shows off attempts to reform conditions
World
- Flat Earth
- Empress speaks
- Hawaiians say Goodbye to Aloha: A campaign to reclaim Polynesian land and culture threatens ties with the United States
- Landslide traps more than 50 as 12-storey block of flats collapses in Kuala Lumpur
- China raises pressure on 'creators of chaos'
- Eternal City puts faith in Green man: Rome's new mayor is the people's choice to restore its glory. But he faces a quagmire of pollution, corruption and decay
- SA's new order faces first test
- Brother promoted
- Norway's tree gives Israel the needle
- Rabin and Arafat meet on withdrawal
- Despotism with a dash of democracy: Russians, cowed by crime and turmoil, vote today. The result is likely to give Boris Yeltsin the powers of a modern tsar
- Broadway battle for the soul of The Red Shoes
- A candidate who came in from the cold
- In the vicious circle of exile: A tale of Palestinian and Israeli dispossession that reveals the complexity of the task facing Arafat and Rabin in their peace talks today
- Frei victory
- Russian Elections: Hypnotist seeks power: Helen Womack sees a Russian psychotherapist campaigning in Yaroslavl via a televised seance
- Rabin and Arafat to iron out differences: Last-minute effort to maintain timetable for Israeli withdrawal even while hardline settlers threaten war
- Protest at Gabon vote
- Jackson talks
- Hebron tense as killing spreads
- China warns
- Cairo killing
- Hubble orbit
- Clean-up deal
- Campbell out
- Centre-left set to win in Chile
- New era dawns as Mandela and De Klerk take Nobel
- Rapper trial
- Saudi burger
- US 'Mob state' remains home of corruption: Cleaning up Rhode Island goes beyond destroying Mafia
- Russian Elections: Yeltsin struggles to stir tired voters
- One-man rule
People
- Appointments
- Obituary: Sir Jack Longland
- Appointments: Church appointments
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Birthdays
- Wills
- Appointments: Service appointments
- Faith and Reason: Deadly afraid of dying all alone: The Rev Robert Rea, of Newark, New Jersey, gives an account of the challenge of trying to give individual care to an Aids patient in the last days of his life in an American city.
- Obituary: Lord Mais
- Obituary: Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpaygani
- Obituary: Commandant Paul-Louis Weiller
- Obituary: Sir Patrick Graham
- Obituary: Professor Ronald Lowe
- Church appeals
Life & Style
Life & Style RSS Feed - click to grab the feedFood & Drink
- Food & Drink: Gastropod
- Food & Drink: Light at the end of the meal: Yeast-raised, sweetened breads are more appealing than our crumbly, concrete-topped confections
- Food & Drink: Champagne's message in a bottle: As the grandes marques start trying to improve their product, Anthony Rose offers his guide to the better bargains
- Food & Drink: Recipe: Why not stay at home for an Indian?
- Food & Drink: Wine everywhere, but none to drink
- Food & Drink: Peasant food in an urban jungle: An idealistic and earthy chef has transformed a Victorian pub into a delightful restaurant. Emily Green reports
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedBooks
- Recommended Books
- Off the Shelf: Trailing baroque clouds of glory: Geoffrey Wheatcroft ponders Herbert Read's entrancing novel, The Green Child
- Books: Greek tragedies in Indian villages: Ziauddin Sardar looks at a series of writers from the subcontinent and their victims
- BOOK REVIEW / The city that walks alone: 'Three Sides of the Mersey' - Rogan Taylor, Andrew Ward & John Williams: Robson Books, 16.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Still ain't no black in the Union Jack: 'The Black Atlantic' - Paul Gilroy: Verso, 11.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Twitch on the thread: 'Mr Barrett's Secret' - Kingsley Amis: Hutchinson, 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / First fumbles and cross-dressing: 'The Wives of Bath' - Susan Swan: Granta, 8.99
- Books: Lipogram man: Hugo Barnacle on the remarkable French novelist Georges Perec, who made light work of formal games
- Postcard from Paris: Living only to forget: Jorge Semprun speaks memories with Amanda Hopkinson
- BOOK REVIEW / Sharp points of Sellafield satire: 'Radio Activity' - John Murray: Sunk Island, 7.99
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 3 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 4 Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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