Global average temperatures have risen by about half a degree Celsius in the past century. THE Government intends to bring forward legislation to reform local government in Scotland and Wales, writes Ngaio Crequer. ‘Since Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) became strong a year or more ago, we have witnessed suicide attacks for the first time,’ he told the Knesset in Jerusalem on Monday. According to the alliance, PowerPC is different not just in the impressive speed claimed for it, but more importantly in that it can run different operating systems.Programs such as word processors and spreadsheets have to be written for use with a specific operating system – the software that controls the basic functions of the computer – but most operating systems are designed to run on one specific type of computer processor.Microsoft’s Dos and Windows operating systems will only run on processor chips designed by the giant Intel, while Apple’s System 7 was designed for Motorola’s 68000 range of processors.This has given Intel and Microsoft immense control over the computer industry. In our experience, once a playing field is lost, it is lost for ever. MPs are expected to raise the issue in the Commons today.David Clark, Labour’s defence spokesman, said: ‘This demonstrates the need for a proper defence review,’ adding that the closure of Rosyth could be a disaster for Scotland, which was heavily dependent on the defence industry, and would be a betrayal of the Government’s promise to keep the yard open.Gordon Brown, the shadow Chancellor whose Dunfermline East constituency includes Rosyth, said: ‘I believe there will be a Tory rebellion, leaving the party in huge disarray and division if John Major tries to close Rosyth.’. The options for its successor are now being discussed, ministers confirmed yesterday.

He once commented that he found this subject rather hard, though as a result of his work others have introduced the idea of a Gorenstein ring. Mr Mulroney skilfully exploited this Quebec resentment to get his Conservative Party elected, and since then he has been trying, as a form of political quid pro quo, to change the constitution to facilitate a legal recognition of Quebec’s special status.When his first attempt was blocked two years ago, Quebeckers interpreted the defeat as a rejection by English-speaking Canada, and separatist sentiments soared. All the practitioners interviewed here would condemn any therapist who has sex with clients as a way of ‘breaking down barriers’. Universal coverage would not be achieved, but the pain of high premiums would be eased. The FT-SE 100 index, at one time down 23.1 points, ended 14.6 lower at 2,827.4. It alleges that Mike Morley, the producer, tricked his way into Albany prison to film the interview in conjunction with police and Paul Britton, a clinical psychologist. There were groans, which he silenced by saying that they could go home that much earlier.In May 1947 Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State in the absence of General Marshall at a Big Four conference in Moscow, was asked by President Truman to make a speech at Cleveland, Mississippi.

Glass shards from a jewellery store window had opened a gash across his chest and he bled to death.
Together with the other Muslim coolies from Zaveri Bazaar, Mr Ali scraped together enough rupees so that he could wash his brother’s body with rose water and bury him in the garden beside the Sonapur mosque. This was partly attributable to an increase in the number of cases coming to court, but there was also an unexplained leap in the cost of each case. Certainly, maintaining a career with a husband who is changing location every few years is virtually impossible. CORRECTION (PUBLISHED 10 DECEMBER 1993) APPENDED TO THIS ARTICLE

ALLIED Irish Banks is making a Ir pounds 57.84m ( pounds 55.6m) one-for-one rights issue to expand its lending and treasury activities in Ireland and the UK, writes John Willcock.
AIB intends to double its market share over the next five years through organic growth and the acquisition of suitable loan portfolios.The bank said it would continue to concentrate on the lending with which it had been successful in the past – solid secured lending to the middle market and professional sectors.By increasing capital resources to more than Ir pounds 140m the bank plans to reduce the cost of funds and broaden their source.The directors also believe that the increased equity base will encourage more credit rating agencies to rate the bank.The rights issue is not aimed primarily at helping AIB’s other main strategy – buying more banks on the east coast of the US, which has proved a success with First Maryland Bancorp.Allied Irish Banks is issuing 121,675,649 new ordinary shares of Ir25p each at Ir50p per share.The rights issue has been underwritten by AIB Capital Markets and Paribas Capital Markets.

The ability to hold on tight is the key to riding Muse, a tearaway front runner whose impeccable hurdling allows him to take the obstacles at disconcerting speed. Eurotunnel was yesterday granted a 10-year extension to its concession to operate the Channel tunnel in return for agreeing to drop a pounds 1bn-plus compensation claim against the British and French governments. But hopes of relief held by exhausted firefighters were cruelly dashed. A network of volunteers offers a service to people whose pets have died, gone missing or had to be given up Phone 0891 615285.. The up side, though, said the editor of a London gay newspaper, is ‘the prospect of someone trying to create a new generation of gay geniuses such as Michelangelo or Benjamin Britten.’If biology is destiny, homosexuality could not be considered a matter of choice; gay rights would automatically be protected. Russia was on a narrow path and had to stay the course, he said. He lasted only a few months at MCC before resigning to build up K-III for KKR.Mr McQuillen was put in charge of Macmillan after Mr Reilly left, but he was poached shortly before MCC collapsed in 1991.Other groups known to be interested in Macmillan include Simon & Schuster, the publishing arm of Paramount Pictures; General Cinema, which owns publishers Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; and the management, which has been approached by a number of venture capital funds.Peter Davies, chief executive of Reed Elsevier, said the Anglo-Dutch publishing giant wants to buy Official Airline Guides, the US travel publishing group also owned by MCC.Wall Street analysts say OAG could be worth dollars 400m.