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Global News Archive for December 2005:
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Airliner Crashes in Flames on Nigeria Airport Runway, Killing 103
An airliner said to be carrying mainly schoolchildren crashed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, killing 103 people, an aviation official said...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Propaganda: Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive
Hoping to counter anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world, the Pentagon has been conducting a costly information war...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Chile Votes for President With a Woman Ahead and the Right Divided
Chileans go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, and for the first time in their country's turbulent political history, the front-running candidate is a woman...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Muted hello for XBox 360 in Japan
Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console launches in Japan - but the response seems more subdued than elsewhere...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Westlife scoop ITV record prize
Pop group Westlife win the ITV's Record of the Year award with their single You Raise Me Up...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
China confirms it shot protesters
China confirms several rural protesters were shot dead in a confrontation with police earlier this week...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Poles to probe CIA prisons claim
Poland announces a formal inquiry into claims that the CIA ran secret prisons on its territory...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Bomb amputee walks down the aisle
Gill Hicks, who lost both legs below the knee in the July London bombings, marries...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Cameron plans more women MPs
The new Tory leader is to introduce a shortlist of priority candidates for the next general election...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
I was in gutter, admits Chambers
In a BBC Sport exclusive, Dwain Chambers says his two-year doping ban blew his life apart and left him fearing for his physical health...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Boxing: Williams beats Harrison
Danny Williams claims the Commonwealth heavyweight title with a points win over fellow Briton Audley Harrison...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Football: Newcastle beat Arsenal
Nolberto Solano's late winner gives Newcastle victory against Arsenal, who have Gilberto sent off...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Comedian Richard Pryor dead at 65
Groundbreaking US comedian Richard Pryor dies in California at the age of 65 after a long illness...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Hostage families in anxious wait
Relatives of Briton Norman Kember and three other hostages await news after the deadline set by their captors passes in Iraq...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Nigeria jet crash leaves 103 dead
A passenger plane crashes at an airport in southern Nigeria, killing 103 people on board...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Politics, Iraqi Style: Slick TV Ads, Text Messaging and Gunfire
Iraq is in the final days of a campaign that is at once more ruthless and more sophisticated than anything yet seen there...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Glacial Gains on Emissions
The United Nations conference on climate change ended with only a modest agreement to keep talking about how to proceed...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Record Drought Cripples Life Along the Amazon
The Amazon River basin is grappling with a drought that in some areas is the worst since record keeping began a century ago...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
ElBaradei Calls for Nuclear Arms Cuts
The leader of the United Nations' nuclear agency urged the U.S. and other powers to reduce their nuclear arsenals and spend more on international development...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
UK's 'oldest' man dies, aged 111
A former Polish army colonel, thought to have been Britain's oldest man, dies in a Cumbrian nursing home aged 111...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Policing of G8 summit costs £72m
The full financial cost of security and policing at this year's G8 summit in Scotland is revealed...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
UK hails 'historic' climate deal
The UK government and environmental groups welcome an international deal to tackle global warming...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Ethiopia 'to reduce' border force
Ethiopia says it will move troops away from its border with Eritrea amid a crisis over the UN's presence in the area...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
US defends prisoners' transfers
A senior US official defends treatment of terror suspects, as Poland probes reports of CIA jails...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Eriksson appeal over chanting
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson urges fans at next year's World Cup in Germany to drop a "disrespectful" chant...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Cricket: England triumph
England make 327-4, their highest one-day score on foreign soil, to beat Pakistan by 42 runs in Lahore...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Nigeria plane crash 'kills 103'
A passenger plane crashes in southern Nigeria, reportedly killing most of the 110 people on board...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Croatian suspect arrives in Hague
Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina arrives in The Hague to face trial at the UN tribunal...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Hundreds ill from Tehran smog
More than 1,600 people are treated in hospital as the pollution in Tehran reaches critical levels, officials say...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
UN watchdog gets Nobel prize
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
U.S. Rebuffs Red Cross Request for Access to Detainees Held in Secret
The U.S. said that it would continue to deny the International Committee of the Red Cross access to a limited number of prisoners who are held in secret around the world...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
U.S., Under Fire, Eases Its Stance in Climate Talks
The United States dropped its opposition early Saturday morning to nonbinding talks on addressing global warming...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
McFly tipped for ITV record prize
Pop quartet McFly are the favourites to win the UK's Record of the Year award on Saturday...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Taxpayers' £50m G8 policing bill
The cost to the Scottish taxpayer of policing this year's G8 summit was more than £50m, it is reported...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Iraq ambush widow may sue
The widow of a Welsh security consultant shot dead in Iraq discusses legal action against his employers...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Schroeder attacked over gas post
German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is criticised for taking a top job in a Russian-led gas consortium...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Weaker storm spares south India
A storm that forced thousands to evacuate strikes southern India but is weaker than predicted...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Armed robbers tie up estate staff
Armed robbers escape with a substantial quantity of cigarettes from an industrial estate in north Belfast...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Kennedy to quit claim 'nonsense'
Claims that Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy will stand down next year are "absolute nonsense", says his office...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Bomb amputee to walk down aisle
Gill Hicks, who lost both legs below the knee in the July London bombings, is getting married...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
US defends prisoner transfers
A senior US official defends treatment of terror suspects and transfer of prisoners to third countries...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Police killed in Taleban assault
Seven police officers and five Taleban fighters are killed in an assault on government offices in Afghanistan...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Croat suspect 'leaves for Hague'
War crimes suspect Ante Gotovina takes off in a military plane for the UN tribunal in The Hague, reports say...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Last-minute climate deals reached
Ministers at Montreal's climate change conference agree to long-term talks on measures to cut gas emissions...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Concern grows for Iraq hostages
The family of British hostage Norman Kember are praying for his release as the deadline set by his kidnappers nears...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
U.S. Forces Rely on Local Informants in Ferreting Rebels in West Iraq
American military commanders say the help of locally recruited informants demonstrates the increasing willingness of residents to cooperate in fighting guerrillas...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Elections Could Tilt Latin America Further to the Left
Since 1998, three-quarters of South America has shifted to the left. That shift has a chance of spreading to Bolivia, Ecuador and north of the Panama Canal...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Head of Nuclear Agency Again Urges Iran to Cooperate
Mohamed ElBaradei warned Iran to stop hindering an investigation into its nuclear energy program, which the U.S. and other observers suspect is a cover to develop nuclear weapons...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
New Criticism Rages Over South Korean Cell Research
A new round of criticism has broken out in South Korea over the accuracy of a recent article that reported a dramatic advance in human stem cell research...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
U.S., Under Fire, Refuses to Shift in Climate Talks
The U.S. and China refused to agree to mandatory steps to curtail greenhouse gas emissions as U.N. talks neared an end...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Protesters Say Police in China Killed Up to 20
The unusually violent clash marked an escalation in the widespread social protests roiling the Chinese countryside...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
'Wide variations' in death rates
Death rates in Scottish hospitals vary widely, according to a health watchdog...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Football: Scramble for tickets
World Cup organisers expect demand to outstrip supply as the final batch tickets go on sale on 12 December...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Businessmen sue over Chinese leak
Businessmen plan to sue the Chinese state-owned chemical company blamed for a toxic spill last month...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Haiti sacks Supreme Court judges
Five top Haitian judges are fired after ruling that a Haitian-born US millionaire can run for president...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Neptune mission mooted
Neptune and its largest moon could be the targets of a space mission in the decades ahead, researchers propose...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Legal row over pub opening hours
A pub chain wins the right to challenge a local authority's refusal to granted extended drinking hours...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Iraq hostage deadline looms
The deadline set by kidnappers holding British peace activist Norman Kember and three colleagues looms...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Nobel prize for UN watchdog
The UN's nuclear agency and its head Mohamed ElBaradei are in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
UK firm investigated over video
The US examines a video apparently showing security contractors firing at Iraqi civilians...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
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