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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Global News Archive for April 2008:
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Brilliant Rangers into Uefa semis
Rangers beat Sporting Lisbon 2-0 in Portugal to set up a Uefa Cup semi-final against Fiorentina...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Drug to protect against radiation
A drug which may protect the body against radiation, such as that in cancer treatments, is developed by US scientists...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Extra £225m to beat fuel poverty
Up to 100,000 households could be helped with fuel bills as the big energy firms pledge an extra £225m...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Holy Islamic key sets sale record
A 12th Century key to the holiest site in Islam sells for a record $18 million at Sotheby's in London...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Boy burned in tanning salon visit
A teenage boy suffers burns to his face after visiting a tanning salon three times in one day...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Man treated for gun shots to legs
A 29-year-old man is treated in hospital following a paramilitary-style attack in west Belfast...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Fixer 'kept gangster off Gerrard'
Steven Gerrard's father says a figure known as The Psycho threatened to shoot the Liverpool star in the legs...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Brown's stance
How a visit to the Olympics became embarrassing...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Bush hails 'major shift' in Iraq
President George W Bush declares that the US now holds the initiative in Iraq following the troop surge...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Fears over pro-suicide web pages
People surfing for suicide information are more likely to find sites encouraging it than giving support, a study says...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Hope over US Alzheimer's therapy
More research is needed into a US treatment for Alzheimer's that appears to produce improvements in some patients, experts say...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Safety worries on Shannon estate
Residents voice safety fears as senior officers in the Shannon Matthews case address the community...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
London shoppers get animal dung coffee fix for £50 a cup
London shoppers get animal dung coffee fix for £50 a cup...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Hicks calls for Parry resignation
Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks calls for chief executive Rick Parry to resign...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Review into efficiency of exams
The government has agreed to a review of the exam system's value for money...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Ancient serpent shows its leg
Scientists use X-rays to find the lost rear limb of a fossil snake locked in 92-million-year-old Lebanese limestone...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Slovak MPs end row to pass treaty
Slovakia and Poland ratify the Lisbon Treaty, bringing to nine the number of EU countries approving it...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Nepal votes in historic election
People in Nepal complete voting in mostly peaceful elections that will decide the future of the country...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Glastonbury 2007 'generated £73m'
The 2007 Glastonbury Festival generated more than £73m, according to a report into the economics of the event...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Cameron Olympic 'dithering' claim
David Cameron says Gordon Brown would win gold for "dithering" after confusion over his Olympic plans...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Orde rebuked for 'tribal' remarks
The Policing Board seeks clarification after NI's chief constable allegedly said it had "gone a bit tribal"...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Uganda rebels delay peace signing
The leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels puts off signing a deal to end 20 years of civil war...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Bush backs Iraq withdrawal freeze
President Bush says he will freeze the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, as requested by Gen Petraeus...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Egypt beefs up Gaza border force
Egypt sends hundreds of security personnel to the border with Gaza after Hamas threatens to breach the frontier...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Harare journal
Looking for good omens as waiting dampens mood...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Washington diary
Matt Frei on the Olympic light shed on China...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Tax probe led to football arrests
Birmingham City say the arrest of two club directors centred on tax investigations involving two players...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Rapist 'too dangerous to release'
A convict who abducted and raped a teenager is too dangerous ever to be freed, says a top prosecutor...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
'Spitting vicar' sacked by bishop
A Church of England vicar accused of intimidating and spitting at his parishioners is ordered to leave his post...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
In the spotlight
McCanns face media to push for missing child alerts...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Over the fence
Why can't we stop drugs getting into prisons?...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
'Bring it on'
First-time buyers praying for a property crash...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Flag a taxi
Think it's hard finding a cab? Try it in a wheelchair...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Zimbabwe rivals to attend summit
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will attend an emergency regional summit...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Bin Laden 'inspired bomb plotter'
Osama Bin Laden inspired a man accused of plotting to bomb transatlantic planes, his trial hears...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Women bailed in Shannon inquiry
Three women are bailed by detectives investigating the disappearance of Shannon Matthews...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
7/7 friends 'helped find targets'
Three men helped the 7 July suicide bombers to find potential London targets and visited top tourist attractions, a court hears...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Ferguson relishing Barcelona test
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson cannot wait to face Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals after beating Roma...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Rowling honoured at book awards
Harry Potter author JK Rowling receives an outstanding achievement prize at the Galaxy British Book Awards...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Computer viruses hit one million
The number of malicious programs in circulation has hit the one million mark, says security firm Symantec...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Piece of cake: UK taxman faces big bill over biscuit mistake
The UK Treasury faces a £3.5m bill, because VAT was wrongly slapped on a Marks and Spencer teacake...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Live - Masters 2008
Tiger Woods will take aim at an historic Grand Slam when the first round of the Masters begins at 1300 BST...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Students tell of fees resentment
Resentment and concerns over high university fees and poor standards are expressed by students...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Uganda rebels due to sign peace
Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels are expected to sign a peace agreement ending 20 years of civil war...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Bush 'to speak on US Iraq course'
President George W Bush is set to endorse a freeze on troop withdrawals from Iraq, US officials say...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Israel will 'respond' over raid
Israel says it will retaliate at a time and place of its choosing against Hamas over a fuel depot raid...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
RWE in 'offer for British Energy'
German utility RWE has made a £11bn takeover approach for UK nuclear operator British Energy, reports say...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Men face Cypriot jail over crash
Two men, found guilty in their absence of killing a Cypriot teenager, are sentenced to three years in jail...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Crash driver admits killing five
A driver who killed five people after overtaking on a blind summit admits responsibility for the crash...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Energy bills 10% higher in Wales
Energy customers in Wales are paying up to 10% more than in England, a watchdog group finds...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
New move over 1981 child murder
A convicted child killer could soon face trial in Northern Ireland for the unsolved murder of a schoolgirl...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Snakes with legs
In search of ancient serpents that still had limbs...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Futile fight?
Why Yahoo's Google deal will not save the firm...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
McCann alert 'could have helped'
The mother of missing Madeleine McCann believes there would have been a "greater chance" of finding her if a missing child alert system had been used...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Europe-wide food colour ban urged
A food safety watchdog calls for an EU ban on six artificial food colourings after research links them with hyperactivity...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Birmingham City shares suspended
Birmingham City FC asks for its shares to be suspended after its bosses are questioned over allegations of false accounting...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Leading figures mark NI Agreement
Some of those who helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement are in Belfast to mark its 10th anniversary...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
GMTV host Garraway wins damages
Presenter Kate Garraway accepts "substantial" libel damages over newspaper claims that she had an affair...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Bank lowers interest rates to 5%
The Bank of England cuts the cost of borrowing to 5% from 5.25% to shore up the UK's slowing economy...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
SFO unlawful in ending BAE probe
The High Court rules that the SFO acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption probe into a £43bn Saudi arms deal...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Three men 'helped 7 July bombers'
Three men helped the 7 July suicide bombers to find potential targets such as the London Eye and the Tube, a court hears...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Cleaning 'improves mental health'
Working up a sweat while performing household chores could benefit your mental health, a study suggests...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig
Archaeologists say they have broken through to a layer which could help to explain why Stonehenge was built...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Radio 'Oscars' nominees revealed
Radio 1 star Chris Moyles and comedian Russell Brand are nominated for this year's radio industry Sony awards...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Four prisoners executed in Japan
Four death row prisoners are hanged in Japan, two months after the last round of executions...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Nepal votes in landmark elections
Nepal begins voting in nationwide elections mired by violence that has claimed eight lives...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Judges rule in Saudi arms inquiry
Judges are to rule whether the scrapping of a probe into a controversial UK-Saudi arms deal was illegal...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
New appeal to identify Islay body
A fresh plea is made for help in identifying a man's body which washed up on Islay two years ago...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Obama calls for Beijing boycott
Barack Obama calls on US president to consider boycott of Beijing Olympics after the torch's US leg...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Google and Yahoo to share web ads
Yahoo and Google announce a two week experiment that will see them share advertising space...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Alarm bells
Could the McCanns' idea of an EU-wide alert save children?...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
In pictures
Anti-Chinese protesters outfoxed in US torch relay...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Burma migrants suffocate in lorry
More than 50 Burmese illegal migrants suffocate in the back of a lorry taking them into Thailand, police say...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Brown urges action on food prices
Gordon Brown calls on the G8 group of industrialised nations to devise an international plan to deal with rising food prices...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Prisons drug trade 'worth £100m'
Drugs worth £100m could be being traded in prisons every year, a former prison service manager tells the BBC...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
Olympics to 'rebound from crisis'
The head of the Olympic committee says the Games will recover from "crisis" after days of anti-Chinese protests...
BBC News - April 10, 2008
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