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Thursday, 8 August 1996
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- Yangtse floods again, killing 2,000 villagers
- Chechen rebels take charge of capital
- Protesters mark Burmese repression in blood
- Stalemate as trust dries up in Lebanon
- Capitalist cockroaches scuttle through China's open window
- Germany's mission imperative
- Farmers cancel handout to Paris mob
- US air sorties in Gulf anger Iran
- Early release for `vampire rapist'
- Dole ready to choose his man
- Netanyahu faces further revolt
- Chinese dance to a tune from Madame Mao
- Afrikaners trek into wilderness of Mozambique
- Woman who spied for love pays price
- Russian troops storm Grozny rebel blockade
- Serbs and Croats plan recognition
- Syria stalls on Israeli peace talks
- West to set up 'balanced' TV news service for Bosnia
- Russians lose Chechen capital to rebel attack
- The '1997 defence' blocks HK extradition blocked
- Russell keeps faith with its favourite son
Business
- TAKING STOCK
- Competition laws to get teeth
- Industry View: A degree is still the key to better job prospects
- NatWest severs Spanish link with pounds 123m sale
- Market Report: US buying brings unloved conglomerates in from cold
- SFO raids Hinchliffe mansion home
- Police search copper traders' houses
- TV crews devise ways to collar Eddie George; City Diary
- Door-to-door insurance deal makes sense
- McKechnie just keeps growing: The Investment Column
- Reed has nowhere to go but down; The Investment Column
- Rank's review gets a cool reception
- Somerfield fiasco leaves egg on Kleinwort's face
- Willis Corroon rejects calls for merger
- Dull outlook at Westminster: The Investment Column
- Focusing on leisure is risky for Rank
- High street surge to continue as Britain goes on shopping spree
- Cut-price Somerfield offered to rivals in bid to raise more cash
- United finds a friendly Refuge
- Reed pays pounds 100m for legal publisher
- Now it's a black hole in cyberspace from AOL
- Cash-pile boosts GKN's fortunes
- Bad weather losses blast Commercial Union results
- Abbey profits up as it ignores loan wars
- Schering blames poor drug sales on cost cutbacks
- Rawlins bullish about his return to the City
- Standard slims down with workforce cuts
- Man Utd scores its own channel
- GKN to build second Chinese plant
- Hostilities brought to an end at Eurotherm
- Bank warns of inflation risk unless rates rise
- Setting inflation targets nobody wants to meet
- Irish building society buys Mortgage Corp
- Bid for East Midlands blocked by US
- Why housework should be taken into the accounts
- Reed plays key role as punters place bets on takeovers
- Scottish Value keeps options open on Kepit sale
- French awarded franchise to run South-east trains
Arts & Entertainment
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- Classical Music: If at first you don't succeed
- Proms: Handel: Semele; Tan Dun: On Taoism, Orchestral Theatre II Royal Albert Hall, London
- Music on Radio: The age of innocence;
- Classical Music: Double Play: Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane; Le festin de l'araignee BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9494)
- Classical Music Replay: Peter Dawson: Songs and Arias Various accompanists (Recorded: 1925-1939) (Memoir Classics CDMOIR 434)
- Classical Music: As American as mom's apple pie
- Classical Music Replay: Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances; The Bells Yelizaveta Shumskaya (soprano), Mikhail Dovenman (tenor), Alexei Bolshakov (baritone); Russian Republican Capalle Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kiril Kondrashin (Recorded: 1962-1964) (Melo21 32046 2)
Extras
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- Angela Lewis on pop
- The Independent Mind Olympics
- Site Unseen: The Panels on The Monument, London EC3
- James Rampton on comedy
- The Proms
- Television & Radio: On the box
- Alister Morgan on beach volleyball
- Television & Radio: Love thy neighbour
- David Benedict on theatre
- Iain Gale on exhibitions
- The 24 Seven Guide: Keep the balls rolling
- Ryan Gilbey on film
- Poetic licence: The shop-an-MP scheme
- 9 - 15 August day planner
- 1 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 2 Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
- 3 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
- 4 Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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