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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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Annan to Help in Kenya, Group Says
The African Union announced that Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, will try to broker a truce in Kenya...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Bush Outlines Mideast Peace Plan
President Bush outlined the shape of a two-state peace treaty he is hoping to broker between Israel and the Palestinians...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Depp cuts a dash at Todd premiere
Johnny Depp meets screaming fans at the London premiere of Sweeney Todd...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Statins for all diabetics urged
Diabetics should receive cholesterol-busting drugs regardless of their heart disease risk, researchers say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Rally 'may miss out forest stage'
Wales Rally GB organisers tell a public meeting in Brechfa the 2008 event might not go through that forest stage...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Thousands hit by council blunder
A council admits wrongly taking 9,500 payments from bank accounts following a "computer error"...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
US doubts over Iran boat 'threat'
An alleged threat to blow up US ships may not have come from Iranian speedboats, US navy sources say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Freed hostages land in Venezuela
Two hostages freed by Colombian rebels arrive in Venezuela, bringing an end to years of captivity...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Thousands flee Zambezi flooding
Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding in the Zambezi valley, officials say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Football: Beckham eyes 2018 role
David Beckham would be honoured to help England's 2018 World Cup bid, if asked by the Football Association...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Kercher police find 'DNA match'
DNA is found on murdered British student Meredith Kercher's clothes which match an Italian suspect, police say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Diana and Dodi 'were engaged'
At the inquest into their deaths, Mohamed Al Fayed's press spokesman insists Dodi and Diana were engaged to be married...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Sir John Harvey-Jones dies at 83
Former ICI boss and TV 'troubleshooter' Sir John Harvey-Jones dies in his sleep following a long illness...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Manchester Utd in record turnover
Manchester United reports turnover of £245m for the 2006/07 season, a record in English football...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Hain reveals £103k not declared
The work and pensions secretary admits £103,000 of donations to his Labour deputy bid went undeclared...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Everest legend Sir Edmund Hillary dies
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, dies aged 88...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
A previously undisclosed incident has raised new questions about private security contractors in Iraq...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Indians Hit the Road Amid the Occasional Elephant
As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
U.S. Nuclear Envoy Gently Criticizes North Korea
The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to rethink its position and give a ?complete and correct? accounting of its nuclear weapons programs...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Newly Elected South Korean Leader Faces Inquiry
An independent prosecutor will investigate whether President-elect Lee Myung-bak engaged in financial misdeeds...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Colombian Rebels Free 2 Hostages
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela announced Thursday that Colombian guerrillas had freed two high-profile hostages from captivity...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Bush Confident on Mideast Peace
President Bush said he believed that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty would be signed during his term...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
U.S. Bombs Insurgent Hideouts South of Baghdad
American aircraft attacked an area known as a haven for militants linked to Al Qaeda in Mespotamia...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Bomb Kills at Least 23 in Pakistan
An explosion, apparently detonated by a suicide attacker, was aimed at police officers protecting a rally in Lahore...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
Human rights groups have condemned the amputation punishments and the 23 disclosed executions this year...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Americans turn to online videos
A writers strike in Hollywood could be a factor in the dramatic rise in popularity of video sharing sites...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Depp in London for Todd premiere
Fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Johnny Depp at the London premiere of Sweeney Todd...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Huge black hole tips the scales
A Finnish team describes a black hole that is a record 18 billion times more massive than our own Sun...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Fifth of schools below 'GCSE par'
Almost a fifth of England's state secondary schools do not meet the government's GCSE target but things are improving...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
MPs may lose right to vote on pay
The government is launching a review of the current system which allows MPs to vote on their pay annual rise...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Fed boss says 2008 outlook worse
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the outlook for the economy in 2008 has worsened...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Ministers hail nuclear decision
The Scottish Government is pleased there are no plans to build new nuclear power plants north of the border...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Father denies wedding plot
The father of a girl found dead near a river denied sending her to Pakistan to force her to marry...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Ulster fan wins six figure payout
Two more newspapers are ordered to pay libel damages to an Ulster rugby fan who was assaulted at a match...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
US planes launch massive Iraq raid
US warplanes drop tonnes of bombs on suspected al-Qaeda targets on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Colombian rebels 'free hostages'
Colombian guerrillas have freed two women they have been holding, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Karadzic family passports seized
Bosnian police seize the passports of close relatives of wanted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Kenya crisis talks end in failure
High-level talks to end Kenya's political stand-off collapse, though Kofi Annan may lead further discussions...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
F1: New car impresses Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton gives a positive reaction to his first drive in McLaren's new car...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Redknapp out of Newcastle running
Portsmouth say Harry Redknapp will not become Newcastle's new boss, while Alan Shearer is unlikely to take the job...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Man held over quad bike death
A man is arrested after his seven-year-old daughter died in a quad bike accident on Boxing Day...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Philip 'sent Diana cruel letters'
The Duke of Edinburgh wrote "cruel and disparaging" letters to Princess Diana, a therapist alleges at her inquest...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Hain to submit file on donations
Peter Hain is to submit a file admitting he failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds in donations...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Baby death 'government's fault'
A baby girl's death could have been prevented if authorities had warned of the dangers of a hot water tank, a jury says...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Ban on UK-Kenya charter flights
UK charter flights to Kenya are suspended until 14 January, tour operators chiefs have said...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Bird flu discovered in mute swans
Three mute swans in Dorset have been found dead after contracting the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Bush urges Israeli occupation end
President Bush says Israel must cede occupied Arab land so a viable Palestinian state can be created...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Ex-C.I.A. Aide Won?t Testify on Tapes Without Immunity
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., who in 2005 ordered the destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogations, will not offer testimony that might subsequently be used against him...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Suicide Bombing Strikes High Court in Pakistan
A suicide bomber exploded among police guarding a court, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens more...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Air Strikes Target Al Qaeda in Iraq
U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute air strike...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Bush Begins Peace Effort Bonded With Olmert
President Bush and Israeli leader Ehud Olmert have the sort of relationship that Mr. Bush had with Ariel Sharon...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Online drug shopping 'widespread'
The UK's pharmaceutical society launches a logo to validate online chemists amid rising internet drug buying...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Britney's family slams TV doctor
Britney Spears' family criticises therapist Dr Phil McGraw for speaking publicly about visiting her in hospital...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Rock's debt may be sold as bonds
The government may try to sell off its loans to Northern Rock to investors as bonds, the BBC has learned...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Governments facing nuclear clash
The Scottish Government remains opposed to new nuclear energy despite UK plans for more power stations...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Council's 'fight' for new Wylfa
A council says it faces a fight to win one the UK's next generation of nuclear power stations...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Strike threatened at rail company
Hundreds of guards and drivers at rail operator First Great Western vote to go on strike, it is announced...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Drink drive remarks 'are obscene'
A senior officer's suggestion of mitigating circumstances for drink driving are described as "absolutely obscene"...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Pakistan suicide blast 'kills 22'
A suicide bomber in the Pakistani city of Lahore kills at least 22 people, mostly police officers, and wounds more...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Polish PM cautious on US missiles
Polish and Czech leaders are to discuss a US missile shield, with Warsaw voicing concerns...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
China steps in to curb inflation
China's cabinet says it will temporarily intervene in the market to curb rampant food and fuel price rises...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Kibaki swears in Kenyan cabinet
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki swears in new ministers two weeks after disputed elections led to violence...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Tennis: Murray back on track
Andy Murray says he has never been in better shape for a Grand Slam after beating Ivan Ljubicic 6-7 6-4 6-2 at the Kooyong Classic...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Football: Eriksson's Munich plea
Sven-Goran Eriksson wants Man City's fans to be respectful of the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Tata Motors unveils cheapest car
India's Tata Motors reveals that its $2,500 car, the world's cheapest, is a four-doored model called the Nano...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Shearer plays down Newcastle link
Alan Shearer is extremely unlikely to be the next Newcastle boss, while Harry Redknapp distances himself from the job...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Plan to ban deactivated guns
Jacqui Smith announces plans to ban deactivated guns as she visits the area where Rhys Jones was killed...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Two held over stabbing death
Armed police arrest two men over the murder of a teenager in north London on New Year's Day...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Iran airs video of navy stand-off
Iran state TV shows video of what it says is a controversial stand-off between Iranian and US naval forces...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Bank keeps interest rates on hold
The Bank of England keeps UK interest rates unchanged at 5.5%, despite signs of a consumer spending slowdown...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Mid-East deal in sight, says Bush
President Bush says an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is possible in his term, on a landmark West Bank trip...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
New nuclear plants get go-ahead
A new generation of power stations providing "cleaner, more secure and affordable" energy is backed by ministers...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Investigator Arrested
Gerrie Nel, the regional head of the elite anti-graft unit known as the Scorpions who was leading an investigation into the national police commissioner, Jackie Selebi, left, has been arrested...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Inquiry Into Drinking Laws
Justice Minister Brian Lenihan said he would set up an advisory group to examine current laws on the sale and consumption of alcohol and report back to him by March 31...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Libya: U.N. Receives Torture Complaint
Dr. Ashraf al-Hazouz, a Palestinian imprisoned for more than eight years in Libya along with five Bulgarian nurses, all accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with H.I.V., has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva charging that he was tortured in captivity, his lawyer said...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Poland: What Are You Doing Here?
?I thought I was dreaming,? a Warsaw man told the newspaper Super Express after he visited a brothel and saw his wife among the establishment?s employees. The paper said she had told her husband that she worked at a store in a nearby town. The couple, married 14 years, are divorcing...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Panama: Noriega Loses Another Round
Judge Paul C. Huck of United States District Court in Miami denied a request by lawyers for the former Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega to block his extradition to France to face money laundering charges...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Plan for New Hostage Mission
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela said Colombian guerrillas had provided him with the location of two captives, Clara Rojas, a former aspirant to Colombia?s vice presidency, and Consuelo González, a former Colombian lawmaker...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Western Sahara Peace Talks Stall
Peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate on Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Pirate Attacks Increased in 2007, Maritime Group Says
Pirate attacks rose by 10 percent globally in 2007, the first increase in three years, as pirates stepped up attacks off the coasts of Nigeria and Somalia, an international maritime monitoring organization said...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Australia Tracks Japan Whaling Fleet
An Australian fisheries ship has begun pursuing Japan?s whaling fleet near Antarctica to gather evidence for an international court challenge to halt the yearly slaughter...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
4 Say Marines Took Fire in Attack by Afghans
The witnesses in a Marine Corps inquiry offered the first public description of the unit?s reaction immediately after the bomb attack near one of their vehicles last year...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Kosovo Parliament Chooses Former Rebel Chief for Premier
Kosovo?s Parliament voted 85 to 22 to approve a coalition government with Hashim Thaci as prime minister in order to try to steer the province through a declaration of independence...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Icheon Journal: Korean Fire Ends Migrants? Hard Journey Home
The victims were among an estimated 300,000 ethnic Koreans from China who now live in South Korea and pursue their ?Korean dream? at the lowest rung of South Korea?s labor market...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Philip Agee, 72, Is Dead; Exposed Other C.I.A. Officers
Philip Agee was the former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned against the agency and spent years exposing undercover American spies overseas...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Military Leaders Seek 3,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
The proposal has not yet been presented to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, whose very public efforts to get NATO nations to increase troop commitments in Afghanistan have yet to succeed...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
W.H.O. Says Iraq Civilian Death Toll Higher Than Cited
The W.H.O. published a study that estimated the number of deaths was at least twice as high as the oft-cited Iraq Body Count, who put the number at 47,668...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Ex-C.I.A Aide Won?t Testify on Tapes Without Immunity
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., the former Central Intelligence Agency official who in 2005 ordered the destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogations, will not testify without a grant of immunity...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Consultant Questions Beijing?s Claim of Cleaner Air
The new study found flaws in Beijing?s ?Blue Sky? system of air-quality monitoring and noted that the city changed its formula for measuring pollution in 2006, using less polluted locales than before...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
New Penalties Set as Bush Calls Iran a Threat to Peace
The Treasury Department imposed strict economic penalties on a top Iranian military commander, a Syrian-based television station and three Iraqi militants in the region...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Sunni Strongholds
The soldiers died in the volatile Sunni heartlands north of Baghdad as the U.S. military launched its third offensive in a year to dislodge Sunni guerrillas from Diyala Province...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Fighting in Congo Rekindles Ethnic Hatreds
A wave of anti-Tutsi sentiment is sweeping Congo, driven by deep anger over a Tutsi general tied to Rwanda...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
?05 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
The previously undisclosed incident has raised new questions about whether private security contractors in Iraq operate under the same rules of engagement that the American military observes...
New York Times - January 10, 2008
Planets form twice for old stars
Two old stars appear to be generating planets long after the normal period, astronomers say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Point-by-point: Question time
The key points from prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, from 1200 GMT...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Dementia drug instant hit claim
Scientists claim a drug can reverse some early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease - with effects seen in 10 minutes...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
US mulls more Afghanistan troops
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is considering plans to send an extra 3,000 marines to Afghanistan...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Arrest after 32 dead horses found
A man is arrested following the discovery of scores of dead and neglected horses by the RSPCA...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Japan 'preparing climate package'
Japan will give $10bn over five years to help developing nations fight global warming, a newspaper reports...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Kufuor extends mission to Kenya
Ghana's President John Kufuor decides to stay in Kenya an extra day to try to resolve the election crisis...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Tony Blair joins investment bank
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair joins US investment bank JPMorgan in a part-time advisory role...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Plans to support young runaways
Plans for a national support network for runaway children in England are to be announced by ministers...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
'150,000' Iraqis killed since 2003
An estimated 151,000 Iraqis have died in violence since the US-led invasion, a new survey suggests...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Bush to meet Abbas in West Bank
US President George W Bush is to visit the West Bank for key talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Faster NHS drug decisions urged
A faster, more streamlined system of assessing treatments for the NHS should be introduced, MPs say...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
Fifth of schools below par so far
Almost a fifth of England's state secondary schools do not meet the government's GCSE target, tables show...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
New nuclear stations set for go-ahead
A new generation of nuclear power stations is expected to get the formal go-ahead from the government later...
BBC News - January 10, 2008
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