However, it is true that his popular opposite, the other maestro of Milan, Gianni Versace, hates anything but praise. Graham Gooch and Allan Border will choose either the reprieved Duke or the Reader ball which was used in the first two Tests.. But here, for once, the paper’s language is precise; there is not simply [...]

RCA Records cancelled a promotional tour by its new teenage idols Take That, after 5,000 girls laid siege to a record store in Manchester for almost four hours, trapping the group inside.. The rhythm fits into his game.’Big servers operate in the hope that opponents never get into a rhythm, which is why Agassi’s last-16 [...]

Sibton Abbey took this contest 12 months ago after landing the Hennessy Gold Cup, but, like one of his rivals, Another Coral, this season’s results have been poor. China, like Britain, is waging an active campaign for the hearts and minds of the Hong Kong people. But I tell my husband, if you won’t accept [...]

WITH Hong Kong’s rumour mill working overtime, Sinologists and stockbrokers were braced yesterday for an ‘important’ statement from Peking, fearing the death might be announced of China’s ailing paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping. That is a disingenuous title if ever there was one: there can be little he hadn’t already found out about Lenny, but, for [...]

Determined to spread the word, Mr McEwan has teamed up with the Hertfordshire Training and Enterprise Council to stage a one-day conference on the topic for independent schools in the county early next year. ‘Hassle at work? Broken up with a boyfriend? House burgled? You can cope with Kalms,’ said a newspaper advertisement Wendy was [...]

Stripped of the European Cup and banned from this season’s tournament, they have also had their 1993 League title taken away from them by the French federation. Something was wrong with Indian society, the pundits proclaimed: graduates were supposed to be getting jobs in banks and computer firms, not scrambling after rats. Fluke’s impersonality, shared [...]

But it is a team game and good spearheads regularly earn wickets for lesser bowlers.Several other county attacks could have profited from Caddick’s disillusionment with New Zealand when he arrived here in 1989 fed up with being constantly displaced by Chris Cairns in junior representative teams. well, British audiences would probably regard him as a [...]

But while the tourists were struggling to beat the Midlands and then South- West after thrashing London they gave evidence in support of Geoff Cooke’s unchanged theory of the essential build of back-row forwards. North American cable operations ran into trouble, falling from profits of pounds 1m to losses of pounds 3m on pounds 224m [...]

Nearby, Asia’s tallest telecommunications tower is taking shape.In the centre of Shanghai, streets, shops and clubs have a Western buzz and are stocked with consumer goods and expensive clothes. Having started with a presumption in favour of marriage, she limits herself to asking questions like ‘What kind of partnerships do we expect? What kinds of [...]