May the fruits of the couple's labours be profitable - and may all their children not be little couch potatoes.The Adidas Streetball Challenge, featuring the Nintendo Challenger, takes place in Battersea Park on Saturday and Sunday 23 and 24 Jul from 10am Free admission(Photograph omitted). This time the Republicans, who cheered the Gulf war and the interventions in Grenada in 1983 and Panama six years later, flatly oppose doing the same thing in Haiti now. You need pounds 20,000 to join the Discovery club at this level. TO THOSE who know Brian Lara, who have followed his single-minded domination of opposing bowlers from the time he was a frail little boy in his native Trinidad, hardly able to lift a bat, yesterday's achievement would have come as no surprise. 'The outlook for pretty much the whole complex is bullish.'It is a view shared by Alec Gordon, senior commodities analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, a private business consultancy. There is still far more bubbling, youthful enthusiasm in his game than there is of the world-weary and worldly-wise 'I'll play till I drop,' he promises. But as the emissions limit is reduced, prices are likely to soar.

In 1931, a Catalan republic was proclaimed in Barcelona, and for the next eight years, until the city fell to Franco's fascist army, it was riven by faction fighting between assorted groups of socialists, Communists and anarchists (a struggle wonderfully recorded by George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia).Barcelona's resurrection as one of the great cities of Europe was completed two years ago, when it hosted the 1992 Olympic Games. President Yeltsin is under no obligation to change the government, he said, but a reshuffle will have to be 'discussed'.Hardline nationalists also did well in single-member constituencies for another 225 Duma seats. In Monte Carlo over the next three days, the International Amateur Athletic Association's arbitration panel will assess appeals by Germany's double world sprint champion of 1991, along with her compatriots, Grit Breuer and Manuela Derr, against a two-year ban for using clenbuterol, banned as a stimulant yet promoted by the Underground Steroid Handbook for its muscle-building qualities and source of much division in sporting circles. The film's rhythm is all wrong, so we rush through without time to relish the comedy, feel the anguish, or fly with the fantasy.

Back in January, the group was forced to take a pounds 140m hit after the discovery of massive and unauthorised currency speculation at its Japanese associate.In contrast, BP's results were better than expected and provided further evidence of an improving trend. I pointed out that I hadn't lost them; I merely wanted to cash them, my passport providing proof of identity Nothing doing. He said that the US could hardly expect support when the West failed to intervene in Bosnia. But for many of their House counterparts, they are akin to betrayal.Under intense pressure to spare the President a humiliating defeat, enough of them swallowed their doubts last month to give risky backing to the unpopular BTU tax and permit the package a hair's breadth 219-213 victory on the House floor Now that tax has been withdrawn to appease the Senate. The child's body was formally identified by her divorced father.A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said last night: 'We have launched a murder inquiry because we are satisfied that she was dead at the time the fire started.'Although we do not yet have a cause of death, natural causes have been ruled out.

Two months after I placed my order, I got back my cheque and a polite note that they too were sold out. The rush to fill an order for a load of glass for a Sugar Puffs advert is interrupted by the telephone 'Euro Disney,' he explains 'They want some icicles.'(Photograph omitted). The problem with marrying someone younger is that you don't have a shared memory of the past: my school years seem so far behind me now, whereas for Jason they're still quite immediate.MARK MALONE, management consultant: My current partner is 15 years older than me, she's 42, and we have a great time together. 'They were strands rather than plants.It was like a mass of spaghetti,' one officer said.The orchids had been stripped of their roots - the plants can survive for a remarkably long time in this state.