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Thursday, 29 February 1996
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- Forbes win throws race wide open
- Boom in jobs for US car industry
- Bishop faces heresy trial over gay deacon
- 'Vision thing' keeps Keating in contention
- Size does matter for the Euro-condom
- Peres turns up heat on Arafat
- EU man in Moscow behaved 'deplorably'
- Turkey's centre-right cobbles up a coalition
- Serial killer returns
- Clinton cuts a deal to ostracise Cuba
- Alpine killer strikes again
- Italy heads back into a political void
- Revenge by Tutsis claimed 100,000 victims, paper says
- Cubans knew targets were Cessnas
- Sino-British thaw over Hong Kong
- Japan desperate for male heir to oldest monarchy
- IN BRIEF : Kohl's big sleep
- IN BRIEF : Portugal offers Indonesia ties
- Reversal of fortune focuses minds on business matters
- Indonesian hostages met by Red Cross
- US jets on alert as Cubans went for kill
- Final straw for German spy chief
- Siege of Sarajevo declared at an end
- At peace with God and Mammon in the new South
- IN BRIEF : Hamas offers Israel conditional truce
- IN BRIEF : Rwanda denies revenge massacre
- Grey man with a streak of steel set for power in Spain
- Forged letters jolt Keating on election eve
- TV chiefs agree to curb sex and violence
- PEOPLE : Banderas moves left to star in meaty role
Business
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : Positive signs as ABP profits rise
- New signs of weakness as US house sales fall
- Standard Chartered surges to pounds 661m
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : Quality pays for Capital Shopping
- Orange prepares for market with pounds 2.4bn price tag
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : Doing the right things costs more than pounds 80m at BICC
- Ofgas issues price warning to Transco
- Agnelli hands over the reigns at Fiat
- Governor backs watchdog merger
- ECONOMIC VIEW : The ghost of ERM is due to appear at the euro feast
- Timber sell-off nets $500m for Hanson
- Jobs battle over pounds 400m warship order
- CITY DIARY : Mr Norris snatches a preview of the Treasury quiz masters
- $16m for AT&T boss as 40,000 jobs are cut
- Market-makers accused of plotting Stock Exchange 'coup'
- COMMENT : Competitors will play Orange at its own game
- Short cuts to a loyal clientele
- Gas connection to Europe gets approval
- COMMENT : Rail link could succeed where Eurotunnel failed
- Shareholders threaten Park Lane deal
- 3,000 jobs face axe in $5bn BP-Mobil deal
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : Lasmo is leaner after the escape
- CITY DIARY : An analysts' note full of sound and fury
- MAI merger set to go through
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : Burford offers shelter
- Signs of housing recovery as prices start to creep up
- US agrees to open-skies deal
- Daiwa unsure of merger after $340m fine
- pounds 500,000 for sacked Exchange chief
- Storehouse in pounds 62m stores deal
- THE INVESTMENT COLUMN : BAe keeps clear of black holes
- 'No talks with GEC' says BAe
- Trade gap narrows to pounds 550m
- consumer counsel
- INDUSTRY VIEW : Sir Ron must solve the 16-plus education riddle
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- LETTER : Noah's dove over Westminster
- LETTER : Noah's dove over Westminster
- LETTER : Noah's dove over Westminster
- LETTER : Yasser Arafat v Gerry Adams
- LETTER : Wonderful Emma
- chess excellent end-game
- numbers a giant leap in time
- LETTER : Flashing red
- Who'll say no to a flutter?
- LETTER : Beyond the reach of majority votes
- LETTER : Pots of money?
- LETTER : The invention of the tea bag
- LETTER : Citizenship and the al-Fayeds
- LETTER : Landfill taxes
- LETTER : Imran Khan's political appeal
- LETTER : Best on the links
- ANOTHER VIEW : A God for the modern audience
- Look and learn before you list
- Poised between triumph and disaster
- What's in a name? Your queries answered
- LETTER : Medical negligence: suing for compensation, or just saying sorry?
- LETTER : Scottish lessons
- LETTER : Medical negligence: suing for compensation, or just saying sorry?
- LETTER : Medical negligence: suing for compensation, or just saying sorry?
- 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 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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