During the 1992 running period of the LEP e+e- collider, the DELPHI ex
periment accumulated approximately 24 pb-1 of data at the Z0 peak. The
decays into hadrons and charged leptons have been analysed to give va
lues for the cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries
which are significantly improved with respect to those previously publ
ished by the DELPHI collaboration. Incorporating these new data, more
precise values for the Z0 resonance parameters are obtained from model
-independent fits. The results are interpreted within the framework of
the Standard Model, yielding for the top quark mass m(t) = 157(-48)+3
6(expt.)-20(+19)(Higgs) GeV, and for the effective mixing angle sin2 t
heta(eff)lept = 0.2328 +/- 0.0013 (expt.)-0.0003(+0.0001)(Higgs), wher
e (Higgs) represents the variation due to Higgs boson mass in the rang
e 60 to 1000 GeV, with central value 300 GeV.