Maternity benefit is payed for by employers. LUXEMBOURG: 16 weeks on 100 per cent salary. Employers are looking for a settlement well below 3.5 per cent.Chemicals crisis, page 29. A LABOUR MP is tabling a parliamentary motion opposing the entry into the British telephone market of AT&T, the US giant. LARGE shareholders in Barclays Bank want Andrew Buxton, the chairman and chief executive, sacked. Thirty-four years after the revolution, Cuba still shares the USA's national game of baseball.A billboard planted on a hillside in the middle of nowhere reminds passing motorists that 'capitalism offends human dignity'.

He also draws attention to the way true reports of adultery can be embellished by colourful false details.He dwells on the furore over Diana: Her True Story, but does not pass comment on the way in which Lord McGregor, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, was initially deceived by Palace officials over the involvement of the Princess in telling her story.Instead Sir David turns the incident against the commission, which he clearly sees as ineffective. We got the win because we kept going.' Palace's manager, Steve Coppell, a former United player, defended Young, who was booked for the incident. The motorist, whose name has not been released by the police, was driving his Toyota Tercel in Harlesden, west London, when he was stopped by a policeman and summonsed. The do-it-yourself bull bars on the Toyota were very prominent and that is what, in the policeman's view, made the vehicle potentially dangerous. Instead, Jesse is smilingly offered up, and taken through a picture-book account of the life of Buddha (Keanu Reeves).

At the time she volunteered her disclaimer, the House had already been told that the amendments had been drafted by parliamentary counsel.'Her statement did not so much mislead the House as it exasperated it.' Mr Scott has already apologised to the House for misleading MPs after admitting the amendments had been drafted by officials, but was cleared by the Speaker of allegations of lying to the House, over earlier denials.However, Mr Scott is still facing demands for his resignation, which intensified last Friday when, in effect, he talked the Bill out.The Government believes the Bill, to outlaw discrimination against the disabled at work and in public areas, would be too costly. But old racist demons of the South have been summoned forth, and they may not be quickly laid to rest.Henry Sterling, of the black-run Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which is helping run the 'freedom schools', said he had received telephoned death threats. He also presents himself better.'Nicol, who decided against taking a place at Aberdeen University in order to concentrate on a squash regimen that often starts at 7.30am, knows quite well how he has progressed. But her story stands as a touching example of how literature can reach out to schoolchildren and change their lives. 'While we will debate in Edinburgh, we will still have to vote in London,' he said.. 'We wanted stability to be restored and public confidence in economic management to be strengthened. It comes before any question of what his work is about; indeed it's the reason why anyone would stop to ask that question.

I couldn't miss out Mark Wallinger at Anthony Reynolds gallery, for his witty water-sculpture. .2 0 0 2 9 36 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To be played: 6 March: England v Scotland (Twickenham); Wales v Ireland (Cardiff). South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Sang Ock, arrived in Peking for the signing today of an accord establishing diplomatic ties.. She was surrounded by inquisitive cows with cow-bells going off like car alarms, and a mad dog chained up.There was also a sign on the side of the farm in big letters: 'Formaggio - Vendita Diretta' Cheese - direct sale to the public. Attendances, often under 1,000 a day, are much lower than expected and far below the 20,000-plus a week needed to break even.

The Derby form receives its first serious test in the King Edward VII Stakes, in which tradition dictates that an Epsom also-ran starts favourite, only to be beaten before the turn for home. Dealers who take stands in the hotel ballroom like to suggest that it rivals Ascot and Henley as a magnet for the social elite It is always spectacular. Only the appearance of Glenn Close makes sense: she's obviously present to prove that she and Meryl Streep are not the same person. 'I told you it would be,' he said.From an original list of nine contenders, five warranted discussion: Valderrama, La Manga, La Moraleja, El Saler and Novo Sancti Petri. But the drama is in the psychology, and much of that is left unspoken. THE outstanding achievement of Nick Ponting and Joanne Wright in becoming the first home winners of an All-England championship for nine years last month has created hope that an injury-hit England squad can still win several medals when their European Championship campaign begins in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, today, writes James Leigh.