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Friday, 23 August 1996
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- China picks endangered dolphin for HK symbol
- TV tale of sex, taxes and the minister's 'vendetta'
- How land of Gandhi came to love the bomb
- Violent dawn raid ends sit-in at church
- Seat of Flight 800 revealed traces of explosive
- Lull in Grozny, and silence in Moscow
- Mafia experts suspect defector's 'revelations'
- Russians sit tight in Grozny's sandbag forts
- Besieged city breathes sigh of relief
- US neo-Nazi jailed for four years
- Yeltsin recruits former opponent
- Juppe hints at softer line over migrants' sit-in
- Human tide races to beat Spain's deadline for tougher rules
- ANC admits abuses in apartheid war
- Deng's heirs hold conclave to chart the succession
- Lebed's Chechen deal falls foul of Yeltsin
Business
- TAKING STOCK
- BA rival carriers excluded from 'open skies' transatlantic talks
- EMI moves into radio as GWR acquires Classic FM
- Daewoo sells cars ... by buying them itself
- Rover motor sales slump by 16 per cent
- Footsie soars through 3,900 barrier
- Serious news finds a place in the silly season
- N Wales miners drop pit buyout
- Global warming puts businesses in the shade
- Lloyd's rescue plan faces fresh obstacle in US
- Airbus secures $900m United Airlines order
- Market Report: Princess Metropole float stumbles at the first hurdle
- Treg ups the odds in Kepit battle
- TAKING STOCK
- Interest rates fall across Europe
- Scope for UK cuts as consumer boom fails to emerge
- Labour attacks United spending
- Upbeat Rentokil to keep 'non-core' BET operations BET operations
- 'A chauffeur per exec' sparks Nat Grid row
- Weir shows its new confidence:The Investment Column
- Government snubs EC on guest ale rule
- European rate cuts power Footsie to record high; MARKET REPORT
- No tears for the tobacco barons
- Prudential up on rumours of M&G sell-off
- Signet takes the shine off profits:The Investment Column
- Retailers are trying to hold back the Internet tide
- Sir Clive's iron rule at Rentokil
- Clarke could get away with another rate cut
- News Corp profits drop 25% but UK newspapers thrive
- Utilities plan to counter windfall tax
- Fear of new US tobacco curbs hits BAT shares
- Bass on verge of pounds 200m Carlsberg-Tetley deal
- Car trade is still slow for Evans:The Investment Column
People
- Wills
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Faith & Reason / Visions of a future Church of England
- Obituary: Robin Lorimer
- Obituary: John Fenton Murray
- Obituary: Sir Frank Whittle
- Obituary: George Samways
- Anniversaries
- Birthdays
- Obituary: Sir Brian Warren
- Obituary: Masao Maruyama
- Obituary: Professor Stephan Kuttner
- Obituary: John Lanigan
Arts & Entertainment
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- Paperbacks
- All you need to know about the books you meant to read
- Book Review / Vaudevillian vampires and the scent of baloney
- Book review / Losing your heart in the madhouse
- Book review / Ava Malaria
- Avenging the prince with crocodile tears
- French verbs and the face of Christ
- The end of the world is nigh. Call Jerry for information
- The legacy of dust and Ashes
- Book review / Limp Lampitts' last bow
- Book review / A very peculiar childhood
Extras
Extras RSS Feed - click to grab the feedEntertainment
- Radio review
- Site unseen: Conrad Noel's house, Thaxted, Essex
- THE FLOATING VOTER
- Film of the week: The Perez Family
- Ryan Gilbey on film
- Decca Aitkenhead on Mardi Gras
- Angela Lewis on pop
- The sex machine
- On the box
- David Benedict on theatre
- Iain Gale on exhibitions
- Alister Morgan on clubs
- Joining the chain gang
- Wheels of fortune
- Day planner 23 - 29 August
- 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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