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Global News Archive for November 2006:
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Hamas Offers to End Rule if Aid Resumes
Hamas committed today to folding its government if that would restore international assistance to the Palestinians...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Pentagon to Review Its Strategy in Iraq
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said military leaders are taking a hard look at Iraq. But the White House said its definition of success has not changed...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Marines’ Reaction to the News: ‘Who’s Rumsfeld?’
For some of the young marines in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s departure appeared to mean almost nothing...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Man arrested for shopkeeper death
A 46-year-old man is arrested in connection with the death of a shopkeeper in South Ayrshire...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
US army 'to suggest Iraq changes'
US military leaders are set to recommend changes in strategy on Iraq, America's top military officer says...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Rugby U: Gloucester stay top
Gloucester stay top of the Premiership thanks to their victory away to London Irish in Reading...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Bush vows to back US envoy to UN
The White House vows to seek confirmation of US envoy to the UN, John Bolton, in the Democrat-held Senate...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
BSE scare hits Asda and Co-op
Beef products are removed from some shops after a meat company breaches BSE regulations...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Boxing: Hunter loses title fight
Michael Hunter's bid to claim the IBF super-bantamweight title fails when he is stopped by Steve Molitor...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Veteran western star Palance dies
Veteran US actor, Jack Palance, who starred in Shane and City Slickers, has died aged 87...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
French rugby star murdered wife
Former French rugby captain Marc Cecillon gets a 20-year jail term for murdering his wife at a party...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Gamers line up for PlayStation 3
The long-awaited console has gone on sale but gamers are being forced to wait to get their hands on one...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
No winners of £103m EuroMillions
No-one scoops the EuroMillions lottery jackpot, estimated at a record £103m (153m euros)...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Nairobi Journal: Chased by Gang Violence, Residents Flee Kenyan Slum
More than 10 people have been killed and 600 homes burned to the ground in an unusual burst of violence between Nairobi gangs...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Israel Holds Gay Rally Under Heavy Guard
After Supreme Court rulings, rioting and criticism from the Vatican, Jerusalem’s gay community staged a small, orderly rally today under heavy police guard...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
European Mars launch pushed back
The European Space Agency will delay the launch of its rover mission to Mars from 2011 to 2013...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Kylie returning to Sydney stage
Pop star Kylie Minogue is set to perform her first concert following treatment for breast cancer...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Online scams target the wealthy
High-income earners in the US are the target of online "phishing" scams a study shows...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Doctors now back face transplants
Leading doctors, who had serious reservations, now give cautious backing to face transplants...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Dissident bomb attacks cost £25m
Attacks carried out by dissident republicans cost £25m in seven months, the Northern Ireland Secretary reveals...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Shopkeeper's murder 'unprovoked'
A murder hunt is launched in South Ayrshire after a shopkeeper dies following an attack...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Arrest over multiple death crash
A teenager is arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in which four girls died...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
UN delays report on Kosovo future
The UN postpones a key report on the future status of Kosovo until after Serbia's 21 January election...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Palestinian PM offers to resign
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas offers to resign if this will bring an end to a Western aid boycott...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Tributes paid to choke death girl
The family of a girl who died after choking on her school lunch reveal she had ambitions to be a paramedic...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Rwanda nun jailed over genocide
A Roman Catholic nun is jailed for 30 years for helping Hutu militiamen kill Tutsis during the 1994 genocide...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Richards named in England squad
England coach Steve McClaren names Man City's Micah Richards in his squad for Wednesday's friendly against Holland...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Cricket: BBC wins online rights
BBC Sport secures the rights to show Ashes video highlights online soon after play finishes each day...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Actress Diana Coupland dies
Actress Diana Coupland, best known for her role in 1970s sitcom Bless This House, dies aged 74...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
LA police in YouTube beating film
An investigation begins after a video of a man being beaten by Los Angeles police is posted on YouTube...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
£103m EuroMillions sales soaring
EuroMillions lottery ticket sales are soaring ahead of the estimated £103m jackpot draw...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Student's killer jailed for life
A 22-year-old man who stabbed a student to death on a train in Cumbria is jailed for life...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
BNP leader cleared of race hate
BNP leader Nick Griffin and party activist Mark Collett are cleared of inciting racial hatred during speeches...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Blair backs MI5 terrorism warning
Tony Blair backs a warning from MI5's chief that Britain faces the threat of multiple terror plots...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
When Soldiers Fall, Grief Binds a Unit’s 2 Worlds
The First Battalion, 22nd Infantry in Iraq has suffered more casualties than any other battalion in October...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
PlayStation 3 launch due in Japan
The long-awaited Sony PlayStation 3 console goes on sale in Japan on 11 November...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Blanchett swaps film for theatre
Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett puts her Hollywood career on hold to direct an Australian theatre company...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
School leaving age may be raised
The government repeats its commitment to see all youngsters in England in education or training until they are 18...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Spiny creature's genome insight
Scientists say the genetics of the sea urchin have much to tell us about the biology of humans...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Millions 'hit by toilet phobia'
A campaign is being launched to raise awareness of the crippling impact of toilet phobia...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Johnson starts deputy leader bid
Education Secretary Alan Johnson is launching his bid to become Labour's next deputy leader...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Workplace pensions 'could be cut'
Two-thirds of firms may cut pension payments when a new national savings scheme begins, a survey suggests...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Millionaire is cleared of bribery
A property magnate who says he "naively" left £5,000 for a council's top official as a donation for a swimming pool is acquitted of bribery...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Drivers warned over M8 work
A £2.2m project to rebuild a section of the M8 near Edinburgh is to get under way on Friday evening...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Shots fired at rural police base
A number of shots are fired during an attack on a rural police station in County Armagh...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Gun hand-in nets 400 weapons
Some 400 guns are handed in to Manchester police in the wake of the killing of teenager Jessie James on Moss Side...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Iran warning over UN resolution
Iran's nuclear negotiator says they will review ties with the UN's nuclear watchdog if the UN approves sanctions...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Vietnam court jails US citizens
Three Americans and four Vietnamese are jailed for 15 months after Vietnam accuses them of terrorism...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
UN aid chief willing to meet Kony
United Nations aid chief Jan Egeland says he would meet Uganda's rebel leader, if abducted children are freed...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Flintoff upbeat despite hammering
England captain Andrew Flintoff refuses to be despondent despite a heavy loss in their opening Ashes tour game...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Football: Premiership picks
Mark Lawrenson's verdict on this weekend's Premiership games...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
£100m EuroMillions sales to soar
EuroMillions lottery ticket sales are expected to soar ahead of the estimated £100m jackpot draw...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Killer quizzed over missing boys
A convicted paedophile is questioned over the Boxing Day disappearance of two boys 10 years ago...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
US envoy to UN 'set to lose job'
Washington's UN envoy, John Bolton, looks likely to lose his job after the Democrats' victory in mid-term polls...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Google 'aids medical diagnoses'
Using internet search engine Google can help doctors diagnose tricky cases, researchers have said...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Iraqi official: War dead 150,000
Iraq's health minister says 150,000 people have died in the war, far more than other officially accepted figures...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Prison plan at barracks ruled out
A plan to convert a former barracks into an open prison is abandoned because soldiers' families live nearby...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Lord Sainsbury quits as minister
Science minister Lord Sainsbury - one of Labour's biggest donors and a key ally of Tony Blair - resigns...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Huge 'hurricane' rages on Saturn
A hurricane-like storm, two-thirds the diameter of earth, rages on Saturn, the first seen on another planet...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Markus Wolf, German Spy, Dies at 83
The famously elusive East German spymaster’s feats of espionage were the stuff of Cold War legend...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Palestinians Mourn Civilians Killed by Israel
Israel’s prime minister called the strike a mistake and offered to meet the Palestinian president to ease tensions...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
American Political Shift Linked to the War Is Met With a Shrug by Baghdad?s Elite
The most striking part of the Iraqi political elite’s reaction to the changes in U.S. politics is that there did not appear to be one...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
When Soldiers Fall, Grief Binds a Unit?s 2 Worlds
The First Battalion, 22nd Infantry in Iraq has suffered the most casulties of any other battalion in October...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
Marines Get the News From an Iraqi Host: Rumsfeld’s Out. ‘Who’s Rumsfeld?’
For some of the young marines slogging through the war in Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s departure appeared to mean almost nothing...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
After Rumsfeld: Bid to Reshape the Brain Trust
Robert M. Gates will likely seek advice from moderate Republicans on the Iraq war...
New York Times - November 10, 2006
UK women to become 'tribal wives'
The BBC sends six British women to be "second wives" to tribesmen in some of the world's most remote communities...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Mars rover may get one-way ticket
The chief scientist on Nasa's Mars rover mission considers whether to send Opportunity into a crater with no escape route...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Foreign students 'do not mingle'
Foreign students at British colleges rate their courses very highly - but most do not mix with the locals...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Google 'aids doctors' diagnoses'
Using Google, the internet search engine, can help doctors diagnose tricky cases, researchers have said...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Pupils set to take 11-plus test
More than 15,000 Northern Ireland children prepare to sit the first exam in this year's 11-plus transfer test...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Fatigue cited in air crash deaths
Pilot fatigue and lack of recent flying practice may have contributed to the crash of an air ambulance, a report finds...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Further sea clashes off Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan navy says it has sunk two Tamil Tiger boats, killing a number of rebels, in fresh sea clashes...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Police bailed in corruption probe
Five Metropolitan Police officers and four members of the public are arrested on suspicion of money laundering...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Mubarak warns on Saddam execution
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says sectarian divisions in Iraq will deepen if Saddam Hussein is executed...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Lawmakers face arrest in Colombia
A Colombian court orders the arrest of three congressmen over alleged ties to a right-wing paramilitary group...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Thai coup chiefs in extra pay row
Thailand's coup leaders face criticism for allegedly taking extra payments that effectively double their pay...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Cricket: England badly beaten
England lose by 166 runs to the Prime Minister's XI in the first game of their tour of Australia...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
US citizens face Vietnam trial
Three Americans and four Vietnamese nationals have gone on trial in Vietnam charged with terrorism...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
TV's Snow rejects 'poppy fascism'
Newsreader Jon Snow sparks controversy by refusing to wear a Remembrance Day poppy on air...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Sri Lankan MP shot dead
A pro-Tamil Tiger politician dies in hospital after being shot by unidentified gunmen in the Sri Lankan capital...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Lawyers 'can wear veils in court'
Legal advisers may wear the Islamic veil in court unless it interferes with the "interests of justice", judges are told...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
Democrats hail return to power
Democrats celebrate after being confirmed as the majority party in both houses of the US Congress...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
MI5 chief's warning on terrorism
MI5 knows of 30 terror plots and is keeping 1,600 individuals under surveillance, says the service's chief...
BBC News - November 10, 2006
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