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Saturday, 27 February 1993
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- Bonds
- Three die in pile-up
- Strangeways riot fugitive 'guilty'
- Semtex seized
- Tories try to make coal deal with Ulster MPs
- DAF managers' bid
- Tribute to James
- All you need is faith, Major tells the party
- Police catch hideaway boy
- IRA bomb blast hurts 18 in high street crowded with shoppers
- Fashion stars who won't wear Britain: Roger Tredre explains why our top designers are quitting London and having their shows abroad
- Universities free to 'dump' art burden
- Welfare 'favours the middle class'
- Short's breakaway may be a blunder
- Teletext changes
- This TV duck's no canard: Darkwing's mission is to win back the missing viewers, writes Martin Wroe
- The Prince takes on inner-city decay: Last week, the Prince of Wales made a powerful attack on unemployment and housing. Stephen Castle reports
- G7 launches team effort for jobs
- The Week in Review: Home News
- Fatal blaze
- Fraud charges
- Father jailed
World
- Italians face the end of the good life as corruption lays low the body politic
- Cairo bomb
- Serbs fire on 1,500 refugees
- Kim goes public
- Hindu zealots find an avenging angel: An Amazon who loves Barbie dolls is spurring women to communal violence. Tim McGirk reports from New Delhi
- KGB lifts lid on the world's dirty weapons: Patrick Cockburn in Washington on the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological arms
- Somali deal
- The storming of Fortress America: The unthinkable has happened. The distant scourge of urban terrorism has penetrated America's defences. Peter Pringle and Patrick Cockburn report from New York on the shock waves of the World Trade Centre bomb
- Big Apple's terrorist history
- Whites taste apartheid's shame: John Carlin in Pretoria talks to impoverished Afrikaners who must swallow their pride and seek charity hand-outs
- 2001: Australia's republican odyssey looms: Robert Milliken reports from Sydney on Keating's target date for severing links with the Queen
- World health chief faces fraud inquiry: Michael Sheridan in Geneva reports on a growing row over the WHO director's re-election tactics (CORRECTED)
- Central Asia steps nearer to unity
- Iraqi drainage scheme cripples Marsh Arabs: Saddam Hussein's attempts to strangle the Shias' insurrection have led him to an engineering assault on their habitat, writes Robert Fisk
- Clinton package buoyed by polls
- 'Suicide doctor' in legal noose
- Chalker insists on role for Inkatha
- Syria pushes for more peace talks
- Ozone hole over half of Antarctica
- Out of China: Women clamour for a more acceptable face
- Killer son jailed for 60 years
- Virginia restricts handguns
- Zaire troops end parliament siege
- Escobar man surrenders
- Angola peace talks delayed
- Peking 'ready to restart talks on Hong Kong'
- US to pull out despite riots
People
- Obituary: Orrea Pernel
- Court Circular
- Service appointments
- Appointments
- Royal College of Physicians
- Birthdays
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- Church appointments
- Anniversaries
- Schools: King's School, Canterbury
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Loretto/Heriot-Watt University Essay Prize 1993
- Appeals: The Glasite Meeting House
- Appeals: War Child
- Faith and Reason: Democracy depends on a moral system: Digby Anderson opens a new series on the Loss of Virtue by arguing that the importance given to social order, on which law and policing depend has been subverted and neglected
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Appeals: The Mary Hare Foundation
- Obituary: Dame Ethel Wormald
- Obituary: Orrea Pernel
- Obituary: Jozef Czapski
- Obituary: B. A. Steward
- Obituary: Adina Blady Szwajger
- Obituary: Leslie Norman
Life & Style
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- Food and drink: Gastropod
- Food and Drink: If at first you don't succeed: Egg on our faces: Correction
- Food and drink: A pizza of bread
- Food and Drink: Store wars: will we all be losers?: Shopping trends offer some alarming scenarios as supermarket giants vie with the discounters. Patrick Hosking investigates
- Food and Drink: I'll take my Chateau Lafite with a screwcap, thanks: Corked wine has become such a problem that alternative stoppers are now serious contenders, says Anthony Rose
- Food and Drink: Wine Box
- Food and drink: Delicious rice dreams from Italy: Just one risotto recipe and the right kind of rice are all you need to create one of the world's great dishes. After that the permutations are endless
- Food and Drink: My biological clock wants its dinner
- Food and drink: Made in England, steeped in Ireland: Emily Green is well fed at the restaurants of an Irishman, an Englishwoman and a Scot in Piccadilly, Oxford Street and Shepherd's Bush
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedBooks
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: The Face of War - Martha Gellhorn: Granta, pounds 6.99.
- BOOK REVIEW / Old names come to a surprise party: The Oxford Book of American Short Stories - Ed. Joyce Carol Oates: OUP, pounds l7.50
- BOOK REVIEW / Stung by shifting sand at Little Rock: Net of Jewels - Ellen Gilchrist: Faber, pounds 14.99
- BOOK REVIEW / Starved for attention: Peerless Flats - Esther Freud: Hamish Hamilton, pounds 14.99
- Bookshop Window: The Father - Sharon Olds: Secker & Warburg, pounds 6
- Bookshop Window: A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles - Ed. Frank Ormsby: Blackstaff, pounds 12.95
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Under the Jaguar Sun - Italo Calvino, tr. William Weaver: Vintage, pounds 3.99
- BOOKS / Ahi] There's a bug in my sonnet: Andrew Brown explores the database that holds 1300 English poets
- BOOKS / Songs of God and clifftops: Martin Wroe meets R S Thomas, Wales's finest poet and a man in love with his own language
- BOOK REVIEW / Recent paperbacks: Thereafter Johnnie - Carolivia Herron: Virago, pounds 5.99.
- BOOK REVIEW / Glances into the art of darkness: Natasha Walter on a brave attempt to put morality back on the cinema screen: Hollywood vs America - Michael Medved: HarperCollins, pounds 17.99
- Bookshop Window: Collected Poems - P J Kavanagh: Carcanet, pounds 18.95
- Bookshop Window: Out of Land: New and Selected Poems - Lawrence Sail: Bloodaxe, pounds 7.95
- Bookshop Window: The Dream Songs - John Berryman: Faber, pounds 9.99
- Bookshop Window: Provinces: Poems 1987-1991 - Czeslaw Milosz: Carcanet, pounds 6.95
- Bookshop Window: Bloomsbury Poetry Classics, pounds 9.95 each.
- BOOKS / As the axeman says: let's do it: Glyn Maxwell urges his fellow poets to take up their guitars and appeal to their audiences with the directness of rock music
- 1 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 2 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 3 China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- 4 Exclusive: Championship clubs set to push for safe-standing trials
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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