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Friday, 11 February 1994
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- Race award
- Pounds 450m bill of Ulster conflict
- Shoplifting death
- Sailors killed
- Care ruling delay
- Air passengers hurt
- Valentine record
- Consultants' fees for private patients likely to be cut: BMA ordered to stop publishing guidelines on charges
- Far-right author sentenced to jail for contempt of court
- Drunk driver jailed for death
- High track charges could push up rail fares: Battle with Treasury over extra subsidies
- Classics for pounds 1 as book price war rages: Penguin and tiny publishing rival in battle to finish quids in. Will Bennett reports
- Bronze makes British debut in huge exhibition emphasising the importance of Picasso's work as a sculptor
- Family suspected of killing ex-INLA chief
- Teenage arsonists copied TV film: Pair get two-and-a-half-year custody terms for setting house alight
- Law Lords uphold test-case ruling on dangerous dogs
- Sun sets on school that rose out of the Empire: Chris Mowbray reports on the demise of a 140-year-old institution
- MPs back Bill to ban tobacco advertising
- Drug addicts 'commit half of property crimes'
- Police lose appeal against home rampage convictions
- Law Update: Joining up
- Murder charge
World
- Israel fears Islamic threat after two are murdered
- Himalayan ordeal for fleeing nuns: Their crime was supporting the Dalai Lama, their treatment horrific. They told their story to Tim McGirk in Dharmsala
- Opposition predicts revolution in Iran: Former minister says popular uprising will sweep Islamic leadership from power to save country from 'catastrophe'
- Mandela goes back to jail to collect more votes: Election duty makes ANC leaders return to South Africa's Alcatraz - but this time they can leave whenever they want
- Destination freedom for boy on a bike
- Azerbaijan to sign oil deal with BP to ward off Russia
- US-Japan summit fails to avert: Meeting between Clinton and Hosokawa deadlocked over dollars 60bn trade imbalance
- Jackie Onassis treated for cancer
- Killer named
- 'Nuclear' fire
- Clinton 'request'
- Playing both sides
- Somali battle
- Carnival bonanza
- Peres queries settlements
- Fishers' protest
- Shuttle lands
- Pilot resigns
- Rebels flee
- Plain sailing
- Angry Iraq
- Indian troops quell riots
- Papal visit
- Armenians see little hope of peace: President Levon Ter Petrosian tells Annika Savill that neither side in the bloody war in Nagorny Karabakh is ready to compromise
- Mexico's rebels look to the future: Guerrilla leader 'Subcomandante Marcos' seems confident of victory, and his support is growing, writes Phil Davison
- Unkind cut
- Japan's PM to face the music in Washington
- Dud start for NY bomb trial defence: Lawyers for four accused of Trade Center attack begin to chip away at evidence
- Skating star heads for Norway while rival heads for court
- Cairo deal brings little joy to Gaza: Changes on the map fail to please those on the ground
- Dying diver's diary of her final hours
- 'No war' in peace force
- O'Reilly eases ANC worries on newspapers
- King Hussein joins his countrymen in a prayer, not for peace but rain
People
- Obituary: Mel Calman
- Anniversaries
- Court Circular
- Appointments
- Church appointments
- Service appointments
- Appeals
- Wills
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Audrey Haagensen
- Obituary: Dominic McGlinchey
- Obituary: Greg Usher
- Obituary: The Right Rev Laurence Brown
- Faith and Reason: Up against the powerbrokers: Ziauddin Sardar continues the debate over Islam in the modern world started by the Right Rev Michael Nazir-Ali and Shabbir Akhtar. He is the presenter of Islamic Conversations on Channel 4
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Obituary: Dr Mostapha Kamill
- Obituary: Ken G. Hall
- Obituary: Jack Kirby
- Obituary: Monica Rose
Life & Style
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- Gastropod
- Food and Drink: A new barbera vine mystery - Who masterminded the rise to fame of an underrated grape? Anthony Rose cracks the case
- Going off the boil but returning infused: Joanna Blythman, a confirmed coffee-drinker, went unwillingly to Mariage Freres, a specialist tea shop in Paris, and found herself completely seduced
- Food and Drink: When my wine glass overflows ..
- Food and Drink: Rich beyond the dreams of epicures - Why stop at pancakes? Shrove Tuesday is a traditional excuse to plunder the larder for goodies
- Food and Drink: Pharaohs try to defeat the coyote's curse - Good food, like authenticity, is optional in theme restaurants. But Emily Green finds a sort of oasis in the desert
Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment RSS Feed - click to grab the feedMusic
- DISCS / DOUBLE PLAY: Grandeur by the gallon: German weight and Slavic passion from Edward Seckerson and Stephen Johnson
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / In search of the ideal: Thoughts and memories of Witold Lutoslawski, who died this week
- OPERA / Double indemnity: The Alden brothers may be identical twins, but that doesn't mean they deliver lookalike opera. By Mark Pappenheim
- CLASSICAL MUSIC / Greatest of late starters: Anthony Payne feasts on Chabrier
Books
- Recommended Books
- Off The Shelf: In love with bad rent acts: Philip Edwards on George Moore's A Drama in Muslin
- BOOK REVIEW / From shoelaces to orgasms: Geoff Dyer watches Nicholson Baker doing his old tricks in a new novel, The Fermata. 'The Fermata' - Nicholson Baker: Chatto & Windus, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / A siren song for the old: Christina Hardyment on Betty Friedan's affirmation of old age. 'The Fountain of Age' - Betty Friedan: Jonathan Cape, 17.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / The thistle blossoms: Peter Forbes examines a poetic renaissance in Scotland. 'Dream State: The New Scottish Poets' - Ed Daniel O'Rourke: Polygon, 10.95 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Nasty, brutish and rather long: 'To the White Sea' - James Dickey: Simon & Schuster, 14.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Seeing the light, West Coast style: Robert Fisk on a Californian Muslim whose account of the pilgrimage does his new faith no favours. 'The Hadj' - Michael Woolfe: Secker & Warburg, 18.99 pounds
- BOOK REVIEW / Scarab powder fuels the sex war: 'The First Century after Beatrice' - Amin Maalouf; tr. Dorothy S Blair: Quartet, 14.95 pounds
- Postcard from Turin: The stranger's hand: Ian Thomson met Mario Soldati to learn more about Primo Levi. Instead, the conversation was entirely dominated by a third man
- BOOK REVIEW / 'Glasgow's People 1956-1988'
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 'He was always smiling': Lee Rigby named as Woolwich victim
- 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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