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Global News Archive for Octomber 2007:
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Nigerian Judge Reverses Election
A judge in northern Nigeria has ordered a rerun of a local election, ruling in favor of an opposition candidate who argued that the polls were marred by fraud and violence...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
3,500 Palestinians in West Bank to Get Residency Permits
Israel will grant residency permits to 3,500 Palestinians who have been living illegally in the occupied West Bank. Many are relatives of Palestinians who entered on travel visas...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Poll Shows Misconceptions in U.S. About Global Child Mortality
Most Americans think AIDS and malaria, rather than pneumonia, diarrhea and childbirth complications, are the top killers of young children around the world...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Zoellick Defends Aid for Nations in ?Middle?
Robert B. Zoellick, the new president of the World Bank, said Wednesday that the bank should aid ?middle income? nations coping with problems related to rapid growth...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
A Climate Meeting Packed With Nobel Winners
Fifteen Nobel Prize laureates assembled in Potsdam, Germany, for a momentous task: saving the world from global warming...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
German and 5 Afghans Freed in Taliban Trade
A German engineer and five Afghans who had been kidnapped by the Taliban in July were freed on Wednesday, in exchange for the release of five Taliban prisoners...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Syria Tells Journalists Israeli Raid Did Not Occur
Syria brought reporters to a research center where Israel was reported to have struck a nuclear-related facility...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
House Panel Approves Armenian Genocide Measure
President Bush had warned that passage of the nonbinding resolution could seriously jeopardize the delicate relationship with Turkey...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
2 Women Killed in Security Shooting Are Buried in Iraq
Relatives insisted that the private security guards who unleashed a barrage of gunfire on the women?s car be brought to justice...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Keeping kit out of supermarkets
Football kit manufacturers are taking steps to discourage supermarkets from stocking their products...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Water bill should be put on rates
Water charges should be added to rates bills, a review on how to fund water and sewerage services says...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Chrysler strike lasts six hours
The United Auto Workers agrees a deal with Chrysler after sending workers to the picket lines for six hours...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
'Terror camp plot' trial begins
Five men go on trial accused of their part in a plot to create terrorist training camps in the UK...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Gore climate film's 'nine errors'
English schools can show the climate change film by Al Gore - but with the other side of the argument, a judge rules...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
US bill on Armenia moves forward
A bill recognising the "Armenian genocide" clears its first hurdle in Congress despite warnings by Turkey...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Hamas ready for talks with rival
Hamas says that it will hold talks with its Palestinian rival, Fatah, and could give up control of Gaza...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Cameron says PM looks 'phoney'
David Cameron launches a scathing attack on Gordon Brown during heated clashes in the House of Commons...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Lockerbie bomber in fresh appeal
The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to launch a fresh appeal at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Ohio student goes on gun rampage
A 14-year-old student commits suicide after a shooting spree at a school in Ohio, authorities say...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Surveyors see house price falls
House prices are continuing to turn down, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
German Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl?s work in surface chemistry has applications across an array of fields, including the environment...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
German Hostage in Afghanistan Freed
A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for six Taliban fighters, an Afghan official said...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Putin Sees No Proof of Iran Arms Plans
Russia has no evidence that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, President Vladimir V. Putin said today...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
China Announces Gains in Air Defense
China?s announcement today that it has a seamless network of air-defense radars coincided with a military parade in Taiwan...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Palestinians Return to Lebanese Camp
The first 500 Palestinian who returned found their homes shattered by bombs, a month after the Lebanese Army ousted a jihadist splinter group from the camp...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Harrison's solo albums go online
Nine solo albums by the late Beatle George Harrison are made available to download for the first time...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Barroso and Brown to hold talks
Gordon Brown and Jose Manuel Barroso will meet on Thursday ahead of crucial talks on the new EU treaty...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Call for more university links
Universities are being urged to forge ties with secondary schools in England...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Death crash teenager not guilty
An 18-year-old is not guilty of causing the deaths of four friends by dangerous driving days after passing his test...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Four jailed for match pub trouble
Four Dublin men are jailed for riotous behaviour in a bar ahead of a soccer cup final in Londonderry...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Footballer admits cocaine charge
A Scottish Premier League player is convicted of having an illegal drug at a music festival...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Judge's death 'was not accident'
A judge who died in his shed after telling his wife of an affair did not die by accident, his mistress says...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Burials follow Waziristan clashes
Villagers in a Pakistani tribal area bury the dead after days of fighting between troops and pro-Taleban militants...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Chrysler car workers in walkout
Thousands of workers at US car firm Chrysler start to walk out after a union deadline to settle a pay dispute passes...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Taleban free German hostage
A German engineer and four Afghans held by the Taleban since mid-July have been freed, officials say...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Football: Chelsea's Ten Cate deal
Chelsea reach agreement with Ajax for coach Henk Ten Cate and will appoint him assistant manager within 24 hours...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
England seal historic series win
Alastair Cook hits 80 to follow a fine England bowling display as the tourists clinch victory in Colombo and a first series win in Sri Lanka...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Rugby U: England team same
England coach Brian Ashton names an unchanged team for Saturday's World Cup semi-final against France...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Unions warn BBC of strike action
Broadcasting unions warn the BBC Trust of strike action over possible job cuts at the corporation...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Dreamliner hit by six-month delay
Boeing announces that its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft will be delivered six months behind schedule...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
More funds for talking therapies
The government is spend millions more on "talking treatments" for depression and anxiety in England...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
'Terror plot' man pleads guilty
The man linked to an alleged plot to set up terror training camps in the UK admitted soliciting murder, it emerges...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Fallon conspiracy claims 'absurd'
The race-fixing claims alleged against former champion jockey Kieren Fallon are "absurd", the Old Bailey hears...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Menezes CCTV shows armed police
Armed police officers in pursuit of Jean Charles de Menezes are seen in CCTV images shown in court...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Bush warns against Armenia bill
George Bush urges US lawmakers not to declare the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Taiwan Stages Military Parade
Fighter jets streaked across overcast skies as Taiwan held a National Day military parade for the first time since it halted such displays of war-fighting prowess in 1991...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Indians Protest Western-Style Stores
More than 20,000 traders, farmers and shopkeepers protested against the entry of private retail giants into India...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
German Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
Gerhard Ertl won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, research that has advanced the understanding of the ozone layer...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Atomic Energy Chief Visits India
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency will arrive in India as concern grows that a government row with the communists could scupper a nuclear deal with the U.S...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Radiohead album set free online
Fans download Radiohead's latest album, In Rainbows, after setting their own price for the collection...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Surface chemistry awarded Nobel
A German scientist is awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his studies of processes on solid surfaces...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Blair agent suspended for threat
Tony Blair's ex-agent is suspended as a councillor for a month, for threatening a Labour colleague...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
IMF warning over slowing growth
The global economy may face a marked slowdown next year because of financial market turmoil, the IMF warns...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Chancellor defends spending share
Chancellor Alistair Darling rejects claims that Scotland was short-changed over its share of UK spending...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Teenage death crash jury returns
The jury is to continue deliberations in the trial of an 18-year-old accused of causing the deaths of four girls by dangerous driving...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Prince praises Mary Rose workers
The Prince of Wales praises Mary Rose staff - 25 years after the flagship was raised from the Solent's mud...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Heart op for soccer's Whiteside
Norman Whiteside, former NI and Manchester United soccer star, is diagnosed with a serious heart condition...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Families return to Lebanon camp
The first families are allowed back to the Lebanese refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, following months of fighting...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Indian children work despite ban
Millions of Indian children are still employed illegally a year after a law banning under-14s from work, researchers say...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Europe fights capital punishment
Europe marks its first anti-death penalty day after Poland moves to veto an EU-sponsored event...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria
Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
US envoy urges Burma 'transition'
Burma's generals need to begin a transition of power, US ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad says...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Football: Bellamy in Wales side
Craig Bellamy is passed fit for Wales' Euro 2008 qualifiers with Cyprus and San Marino...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
24 star jailed for drink-driving
Actor Kiefer Sutherland will serve 48 days in jail after pleading no contest to charges of drink-driving...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Putin plays down Iran bomb fears
Russia's President Putin says he has no information that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear weapon...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Doors closing on Iraqi displaced
A growing number of Iraqi provinces are turning away refugees from other parts of Iraq, the UN says...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Review of long-term care funding
Ministers to examine the case for reform of the system of funding long-term care of elderly and disabled people in England...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Man threw dogs into path of cars
A Teeside man is given a five-year Asbo for throwing dogs into the path of oncoming traffic...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Net firms quizzed on speed limits
Top British net firms are asked to explain why broadband speeds often fall short of what is advertised...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Cameron says Brown 'looks phoney'
David Cameron accuses Gordon Brown of looking like "a phoney" in heated clashes in the Commons...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Wildcat strikes plague Royal Mail
Wildcat strikes hit postal services despite the end of an official 48-hour Royal Mail walkout...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Dozens Rounded Up in Mafia Raids
The police arrested dozens of people suspected of being members of the Sicilian Mafia in an operation they said was linked to the killing of a member of the Santapaola crime family. They said they had issued 32 warrants and carried out most of them, in Sicily, Naples and Genoa...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Executions Break Afghan Moratorium
Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three foreign journalists during the U.S.-led invasion, the prisons chief announced...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: India: In Search of Nigerian Crude
Chasing China in resource-rich Africa, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to fly to Nigeria on Sunday in the first state visit there by an Indian prime minister in 45 years. Energy-starved India has been courting oil-rich African countries in recent years. Nigeria already provides for 11 percent of India?s crude oil supply, and Nalin Surie, a foreign ministry official, told reporters that India would seek deeper energy ties...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China-India War Games Off
China and India have indefinitely postponed their first joint military exercise, which was to have been held in China next month...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China Opposes Sanctions on Myanmar
China signaled its ?resolute opposition? to United Nations sanctions against the government of Myanmar after the violent suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations there this month. ?Any action adopted at the Security Council should be extremely prudent and responsible and helpful to the mediation efforts of the secretary general,? said a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Liu Jianchao...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Dalai Lama Accused of ?Cults?
China opened a new attack on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, accusing him of supporting the banned movement Falun Gong...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Faster Army Expansion Plan Approved
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has approved a plan to ease the strain of two wars on the military by increasing the size of the active-duty Army to 547,000 by 2010...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Bill Is Approved to Protect Against Contractor Fraud
The House voted 375 to 3 on Tuesday to make it easier to convict private contractors of defrauding the federal government during wartime...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Car Bombs Kill 22 in Iraq
Two suicide car bombs killed at least 22 people in northern Iraq in attacks targeting a police chief and a Sunni Arab tribal leader, police said...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Stark Differences on Arms Threaten U.S.-Russia Talks
Growing disagreements over how to carry forward arms control treaties threaten to bog down meetings in Moscow between top-level Americans and their Russian counterparts...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Leader Says He Intervened in an Inquiry in Colombia
President Álvaro Uribe said he called a Supreme Court justice to ask about an investigation of a jailed paramilitary leader who connected Mr. Uribe to an unsuccessful plot to assassinate another militia chief...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Judge Halts Transfer of Guantánamo Detainee
A federal judge has barred the Bush administration from sending a Guantánamo detainee to his home country, where he claims he would face torture...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Argentine Priest Receives Life Sentence in ?Dirty War? Killings
An Argentine tribunal sentenced the Rev. Christian von Wernich to life in prison for conspiring with the military in murders and kidnapping against leftist opponents...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
For Mexicans, Little Surprise Over Madrazo?s Shortcut
Roberto Madrazo, a veteran politician for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was disqualified this week for cheating in the Berlin Marathon...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Macao Journal: In a Wave of Gambling Profits, an Undertow for Some
Despite years of spectacular economic growth in Macao, locals say the area is little changed and has been left on the margins of the casino boom...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Physics of Hard Drives Wins Nobel
Two physicists who discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks, were named winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Political Paralysis Lets Pakistan Militants Thrive
Three days of fierce fighting have convulsed Pakistan?s tribal areas and exposed what some concede is the government?s lingering paralysis in dealing with the threat from Al Qaeda and the Taliban...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Torture Appeal
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal filed on behalf of a man who claims he was abducted by United States agents and tortured by them while imprisoned in Afghanistan...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S.
At issue is whether intelligence presented by Israel showing nuclear ties between Syria and North Korea was conclusive enough to justify military action...
New York Times - October 10, 2007
How mother moose outwits the bear
Pregnant moose seek human company when they are about to give birth, moving closer to roads where bears do not go...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Iraq provinces 'limit refugees'
The UN says the options for Iraqi internal refugees are narrowed by several Iraqi provinces refusing them entry...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Republicans clash over tax cuts
Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney clash over tax cuts during a televised debate in Michigan...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Dino print could be T. rex mark
A British palaeontologist finds what he believes to be the preserved footprint of a Tyrannosaurus rex...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Palestinian takes on UK in court
A 60-year-old Palestinian man is to begin a case against the UK government in the High Court over sales of arms to Israel...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Missing Ben new picture released
An artist's impression of how a missing Sheffield boy would look 16 years after he disappeared is released...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Schools to link with universities
Every secondary school in England is to be partnered with a university, John Denham is to announce...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
Flood defence money 'falls short'
Money for flood defences announced by Alistair Darling falls well short of the amount needed, UK insurers say...
BBC News - October 10, 2007
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