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Thursday, 17 February 1994
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- Mackintosh's icons of design sold for 2.2m pounds: Prophet of postmodernism has status further enhanced by record-breaking sale of elegant masterpieces collected by his 'rediscoverer'
- Saucy skater card makes record price
- Clinic offers 'deal' for human eggs
- Vicar found guilty
- Atom privatisation
- IRA rocket kills police officer in Belfast
- Flaws 'exposed in youth crime policy'
- Authors nominated
- Escape blamed on 'cost-cutting'
- Murder charge
- Minder acquitted
- Back to Bash-ics
- Baby abducted
- Fraud inquiry
- GPs seek fines for trivial call-outs
- Shotgun death
- Blandford arrest
- Royal visit to Russia
- Downing St diamonds are forever
- PC's murderer escapes escort
- Breakthrough on anti-cancer drug
- 'Smuggler' aged 80
- Euthanasia pleas rejected by Lords
- Life sentence for woman in 'fatal attraction' case: Divorcee recruited her 16-year-old son to murder love rival
- Patten to stand down as fellow of Oxford college
- Travelling families fear end of the road is approaching: Eviction and jail are threatened under planned legislation. Mary Braid reports
- Banker jailed
- Architects honour husband and wife team: Michael and Patty Hopkins have managed to marry the ultra-modern with the traditional. Jonathan Glancey reports
- Committee on Church finance
- Pools win sets new record
- Climber promises share of cash for rescuers
- Two 'flying bishops' are named
- One year for shop guard who killed a burglar: Victim's family in tears after judge passes sentence and says most people in Yemeni man's position might have done the same
- Wretched crime ended with fatal mistake: Death almost routine in city where violence involving guns has increased dramatically. Jonathan Foster and Jodie Taylor report
- Barclays blamed for suicide
- Potter 'deceived antiques experts'
- Gangland enforcer sets the record straight about 'the bad old days': Rhys Williams meets 'Mad' Frankie Fraser, once known as Britain's most violent man
- BSkyB invests in film industry
- Police interviewed 10,000 in hunt for Warrington killers: Bombers who murdered boys still free, inquest told
- The Daily Poem: The Half of Life (To Barry Humphries)
- Wartime entertainers help launch 50th anniversary exhibition of D-Day landings
- 'Three Graces' decision delayed
- Road crash victim lost in hospital: Patient found 24 hours later in broken lift
World
- Buthelezi rejects ANC election concessions: Inkatha chief will boycott poll even though key demands have been met
- Opposing tribes debate peace or war, life or death: Richard Dowden, journeying through Zaire, reports from Masisi on the struggle for survival between migrants and local people
- Brazilian President gets down to basics
- Yemenis to sign peace accord
- Earthquake deaths reach 184
- Somali workers besiege Britons
- Sanctions drive brings Haiti to the edge of ruin: Patrick Cockburn in Port-au-Prince found the army has reason to publicise the plight of the poor
- N Korean heir-apparent 'hurt in shooting accident'
- Egyptians hold 900 Muslim suspects
- America dreams of a future without debt
- Aids campaigner Randy Shilts dies
- UN arms inspectors arrive in Iraq
- Double money trouble
- Words of peace spell war for Kabul
- Oil price dips below level of 1970s: Harvey Morris analyses the underlying causes of the unusual mid-winter slump in the market
- Attempt to pardon plotters fails
- 1,000 dead in Ghana clashes
- Khmer Rouge chief out of a limb
- Peru's PM quits over rights case
- California first again by a nose
- Eight gunmen shot dead in Algeria
- Rocket attack kills 13 in Kabul
- US uproar over chip that could turn spy: Civil-liberty groups and computer firms oppose eavesdrop device
- Japan to take trade tussle to Gatt
- Call for Clinton inquiry
- Zhirinovsky refused Spanish visa
- President spells out cash facts in fight on crime
- UN inspectors head for Iraq
- Army kills Kashmir rebel leader
- ANC caves in to civil war threat by Inkatha
- Earthquake in Indonesia kills 134 and leaves 500 injured
- Burial for Gamsakhurdia agreed
- Out of Turkey: Deafening silence in city of terror
- 'Black hole' from which little news emerges: In the first of a series of reports on a journey through Zaire, Richard Dowden reaches Goma and finds the country still deserves its reputation for anarchy
- N Korean retreat fails to resolve bomb issue: Restrictions on access to nuclear site leave key questions unanswered
- Sweet elephant story ends sadly
- Polish workers quit Egyptian city
- Bankers convicted in Israel scandal
People
- Obituary: Anona Winn
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- Calls to the Bar
- Obituary: Graeme Matheson-Bruce
- Obituary: Professor Arnold Tustin
- Obituary: James Rusbridger
- Birthdays
- Court Circular
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- Obituary: Ignace Strasfogel
- Obituary: Mel Calman
- Obituary: Laura Grimond
- Obituary: Arnold Smith
- Obituary: Margaret Lane
- Obituary: Fritz John
- 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 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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