The Department of Health expects the first babies of mothers raped last summer to be born next month. A SHARP rise in the dollar against the mark yesterday forestalled the widely-feared speculative attack on the European exchange rate mechanism following the weekend devaluation of the Irish punt. It reduces Homo sapiens to a bit player [...]

But again there was a sense of players harnessing, by instinct, some deep-rooted energy in Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony. In Ian Bishop’s second over Nick Knight was leg before, before Jon Lewis was bowled by a nasty delivery from Allan Warner that bit past his ankles. AS DRAWS go it was not of the hold-your-breath variety. [...]

The collapse last year of Taurus, a computer system at the London Stock Exchange, at an estimated cost of about pounds 70m and the loss of 350 jobs seems to have taught private commerce, particularly in the City, some important lessons.But it is the public sector that provokes most worry. But he was half-American, and [...]

A few kilograms of a chemical compound called perfluorocarbon will be released high over Brittany and its spread around Europe monitored.. THE EUROPEAN UNION and Nato will both take steps in the next few days to reassure the Baltic states about their links with the West. London listings are being sought by some to make [...]

They will encounter savage visions of urban criminality:
Now, as I get to school, I hear the late bell ringingRunning through the hall I hear the glee club singingGet to the office, I can hardly speak’Cause it’s the third late pass that I got this week.(Young MC, ‘Principal’s Office’.)They will be confronted with ferocious rejections of [...]

‘Cool music for warm evenings’ is this festival’s catch-phrase. ‘Then I had a phone call saying they wanted it back.’Olazabal, who missed from five feet when his putt at the play-off hole lipped out, won pounds 65,000 and has advanced to eighth in the Ryder Cup table and sixth in the Order of Merit. ‘Firm [...]