
Monday, December 28, 1998 Published at 09:42 GMT


 |  |  | Queen: Ties that bind the generations The Queen makes one of her most personal broadcasts to the nation and the Commonwealth, reflecting on what different generations can learn from one another. |  |
   |  |  | Christmas dinner: the healthy option? Christmas is synonymous with eating and drinking and making merry. But is all that excess good for you? News Online presents a health analysis of Christmas meals from around the world. |  |
  |  |  | White Christmas washout White Christmas? Forget it, say forecasters who predict just a sprinkling of snow in Scotland followed by gale-force winds on Boxing Day. |  |
  |  |  | Stars cash in at Christmas It's Christmas bonus time, not just for overpaid city types, but for the artists whose Christmas records, like leftover turkey, turn up every year. |  |
  |  |  | Santa's sack of software We look at an unprecedented year of growth for the computer games industry - and why gaming goodies will be under a Christmas tree near you. |  |
   |  |  | Ding dong merrily online 'Tis not the season to be stuck in front of a computer, but you can count the days to Christmas and get a direct line to Santa among the festive attractions on the Net. |  |
  |  |  | Movie magic in '98 It was a year in which Hollywood's blockbusters failed to live up to the runaway success of Titanic - Annette Mackenzie looks back at some of the film's that have hit the headlines. |  |
  |  |  | Animal crackers in 1998 There seems to have been more than the usual crop of wacky animal stories this year. Here is a roundup of some of the reports about our furry, feathered, slimy and scaly friends. |  |




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