They’ll say ‘I’m black, I can’t do it,’ which is rubbish because there’s plenty of black guys out there who are doing it. The ‘more open’ China of the slogans still, for instance, demands that visiting journalists need the authorities’ permission to interview people on the streets about their opinions of the Olympics bid.The favoured [...]

The agreement appeared to exclude Chief Moshood Abiola, the candidate for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who was reported to be well ahead in the polls until they were scuttled.
An SDP spokesman, Femi Oredein, maintained that Chief Abiola still expected to be sworn in as president, but that appeared increasingly doubtful as early reports came [...]

Scientists from many countries told the same story of decline and extinction. It is centred on an armoured infantry battalion of the Cheshire Regiment, with 45 Warrior infantry fighting vehicles, plus a squadron of the 9th/12th Lancers with Scimitar light tanks for armoured reconaissance and 35 Engineer Regiment, plus a large logistic support group.All these [...]

One orchard whose trees were groaning under apples in 1991 produced barely a smattering this year. Sixteen (including three from the 16th century) were blown up in the town of Banja Luka , and two (built in the early 18th century) were dynamited in Trebinje.Four 16th-century and two 17- 18th-century mosques were destroyed in similar [...]

What they also had in common was their reluctance to go to the police because they were convinced that no one would believe their word against his.Among other women who gave statements to police was one who was interviewed as a nanny for Courtney’s one-year-old son. If your opponents are scoring a try at one [...]

In a trial of 100 women, the new test picked up 25 per cent more cases of HPV than the conventional smear test.. Claudio Chiappucci, the last of the pretenders, was forced to bow to the ‘Spanish express’, who drove his overall lead out of the Italian’s clutches in the beautiful Loire countryside where the [...]

LIONEL BLAIR: Do you remember the Olympus commercial with George Cole saying, ‘Hang on, it’s Lionel Blair’ and it was Lord Lichfield and vice versa? I have been sent up so much I think I live up there, and it’s not done me any harm. Her attempts to block as ‘Madame Non’ were a key [...]

He is already executive deputy chairman of the group and head of BZW, the securities arm. And the shrine in the woods, site of that primal, sensual, forgotten female language, becomes the locus for a violent and sinister village wartime history.There is a great deal of pain and anger, focused especially on the loss of [...]

It is likely to fuel allegations by Mr Yeltsin’s opponents that he took power thanks to American support.As soon as the coup started on 18 August 1991, the NSA, America’s largest intelligence organisation, was able to decrypt conversations between the coup’s two leaders, Vladimir Kryuchkov, chairman of the KGB, and Dmitri Yazov, the Defence Minister, [...]

It will be a very long time.’
The 27-year-old Dubliner, who will undergo an operation in three weeks’ time to stitch the ligament together, is a key component in Jack Charlton’s Irish game plan and his possible absence could allow Chelsea’s Tony Cascarino, a more modest version of the muscular target man, to become the Republic’s [...]