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Wednesday, 29 January 1997
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- Milosevic turns up the heat in Kosovo
- Sharif ready to maul election rivals as Bhutto is forced on to the hustings
- Saddam arrests wife and targets Kuwait again
- EU states accused of hypocrisy over race
- Germany is harassing Scientologists, says US
- Turkish flotilla sails into missile row
- Spain announces share offer in bid for the Rock
- Chirac launches human export drive to tackle unemployment
- Calls for gun ban as youths die in Miami shootings
- OJ was framed, jury told
- Hong Kong fortress raises British flag
- Cash scandal forces Korean leader to axe foreign visit
- Albania blames riots on Stalinist plotters
- Leadership hiccup in Expo '98 countdown
- Burma is the last straw for Pepsi
- Rifkind boosts Romania's bid to join Nato
- Jubilant Maskhadov claims landslide victory in Chechnya
- `He is honest, pleasant and modest. He will be a very good leader'
- Britain holds on to top UN post
- Uneasy head that would wear Ethiopia's crown
Business
- CBI rejects union curbs
- Unit trust ownership broadens
- Halliburton to buy OGC for pounds 72.6m
- Tax avoidance behind pounds 2bn of VAT shortfall
- Fresh bid for Newman expected
- Granada content to delay hotel sales
- People & Business: Robinson refuses to crumble under pressure
- The Investment Column: Misys banks on financial clients
- Short-term approach by British business holds back investment
- The Investment Column: WH Smith finds its footing again
- Investors in People Special Report:Investors In People UK realises that time is precious
- Market Report: Transatlantic concerns crush Footsie's confidence
- Investors in People Special Report: Putting people first is a capital idea
- Northern Rock windfalls to average pounds 1,000
- The Investment Column: Capital shares power ahead
- Investors in People Special Report: Getting big companies involved
- Investors in People Special Report: Trade unions and senior executives work in tandem
- Investors in People Special Report: Winning over the wary workforce
- Home repossessions fall to 1990 levels
- M&S Christmas turnover up 8%
- WH Smith recovers to pounds 38.6m profit despite weak sales growth
- Grade rules out early leisure acquisitions
- Ford's plants in Europe plunge pounds 180m into the red
- BoE says rates may need sharp rise
- Comment: Grade brings some sparkle to First Leisure
- Premier profit warning stuns stock market
- Sweb puts pounds 35m computer on ice
- Ladbroke unfazed by Hilton's ITT bid
- Phoenix sale leaves founders millionaires
- Eastern Group facing pounds 75m pension pay-back
- Kenwood warning raises bid spectre
- Southampton busmen set to cash in
- Ground fleet sell-off affects 500 BA staff
- BA talks to Iberia about joining alliance
- Small band nets millions on Stagecoach
- Wise person's team keeps a grip on Golden Guru award
- London tops poll for European research
- Buyout would slash Cook's salary
- Menvier-Swain looks secure
- LucasVarity leads blue-chip charge on payout pledge
- US jobs figures boost markets
- Water competition to go ahead
- The day Domino scored pounds 28,000 from bingo
- Clyde closes its defence with profits up 93%
- Imperial Tobacco rolls out pounds 185m offer for Rizla
- Watchdog reprimands French companies
- H&C seeks to distance itself from DTI inquiry
- EU holds key to inward investment `miracle'
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Letter: Hard to swallow
- Letter: Who really killed Hanratty?
- Letter: Hard to swallow
- Letter: Moralist medics lose a donor
- Letter: Psychiatric beds needed urgently
- Leading article: Our duty to give a home to Empire's orphans
- Letter: How America pays for research
- Letter: New Labour and old students
- Letter: Britain's duty over agony of Bloody Sunday
- Letter: Forget the Ten Commandments
- Letter:Navy can do job of royal yacht
- Letter:Navy can do job of royal yacht
- 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 Exclusive: Championship clubs set to push for safe-standing trials
- 4 China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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