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Global News Archive for Octomber 2004:
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Rebels Loyal to Shiite Cleric Begin Handing In Arms in Iraq
Three police stations in a Shiite area of Baghdad collected hundreds of rockets, mortar rounds and other arms...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Sharon Loses Symbolic Vote on Gaza Withdrawal Plan
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inaugurated a session of parliament today by defending his plan to dismantle settlements...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
U.S. Returns Detainee to Saudi Arabia After 3 Years
Yaser E. Hamdi was held for three years without trial in U.S. prisons after being accused of fighting with the Taliban...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Candidate Drops Boycott of Afghan Election
The main challenger to President Hamid Karzai said he had accepted an inquiry into complaints of electoral fraud...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Chat beats tests in pupil esteem
Research says targets are harmful and young people's fondness for talking could enhance their learning...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Murder charges after couple die
A man is charged with two counts of murder and one of attempted murder following an incident at a house in Fife...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Millions to face pension 'misery'
Many Britons face retirement poverty unless they work longer or save more a government inspired report is expected to say on Tuesday...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
EU panel opposes justice nominee
A committee votes against Italian Rocco Buttiglione as the EU's next justice commissioner, officials say...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Mourners throng Pakistan funerals
Thousands of Shia mourners attend a funeral for two victims of a bomb blast in the Pakistani city of Lahore...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Flowers laid at desecrated grave
The family of a woman whose remains were stolen ask God to forgive the "evil" perpetrators...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Soldiers threaten court action
The Bloody Sunday soldiers are on the verge of taking the Saville Inquiry to court over criminal standard of proof...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Police focus on killer's vehicle
Police appeal directly to those in the car from where the shots that killed Danielle Beccan were fired to come forward...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Racing: Hospital discharges Fallon
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon is discharged from hospital hours after a crashing fall at Leicester...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Rocket Attack in Baghdad
Also, Shiite militia are being asked starting today to turn in heavy weapons at police stations in Sadr City...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
'Enemy Combatant' Is Returned to Saudi Arabia
Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held as an enemy combatant since 2001, was released today...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Candidate Drops Boycott of Afghan Election
The main opposition candidate in Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election backed off a boycott of the vote...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Private head's 'fast-track' option
A private school head teacher is not "barred" from teaching in the state sector - and could be accredited in days...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Long-term ivory trade ban defeat
Kenya's proposal to introduce a 20-year moratorium on the ivory trade is rejected at a meeting in Bangkok...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Northern Ireland '£3bn in debt'
People in NI owe about £3bn on credit and debt, a new report by the General Consumer Council says...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Man charged after couple's death
A man appears in court following the deaths of a man and a young woman in a house in Fife at the weekend...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Health and early learning cash up
Welsh public spending plans for the next three years show big increases in health and in education for 3 to 7-year-olds...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
MoD hits back at kit delay report
The government says MPs' criticism of the way it buys equipment for the armed forces is "unsubstantiated"...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Gene switch can 'turn off cancer'
Switching off a gene can stop cancer growing in mice, offering hope of new human treatments, say researchers...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Commander tribute for crewman
The commander of a fire-hit submarine breaks down as he pays tribute to a crewman who died in the blaze...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Agent blackmail charges dropped
Three men are cleared of blackmailing Wayne Rooney's agent after the prosecution says the court was misled...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
EU lifts arms embargo on Libya
The EU lifts sanctions against Libya and ends an arms embargo, under strong Italian pressure...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
School mourns shot teenager
Classmates of a 14-year-old girl shot to death in Nottingham attend a special assembly at her school...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Call for global action on spam
More international co-operation is needed if spam is to be stopped, a conference is told...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Football: Micky Adams resigns
Micky Adams quits as Leicester manager and Dave Bassett is placed in temporary charge of the team...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Nigerian fuel strike takes hold
Streets are empty and shops shut in many Nigerian cities at the start of a four-day strike over fuel price rises...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Bush camp in new attack on Kerry
The Bush campaign runs a new attack ad against John Kerry, saying he fails to understand the war on terror...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Moscow children to wear dog tags
Moscow schoolchildren are to wear army-style dog tags as Russia tightens security after the Beslan school siege...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
'Strike' on Gaza leader's house
Five people are injured in an apparent Israeli missile strike on a Gaza militant leader's house...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
UN to investigate Afghan election
Poll organisers in Afghanistan ask the UN to investigate alleged voter fraud in the presidential election...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Blair sets out social vision
Tony Blair sets out his vision of the "opportunity society" where social mobility is a dominant feature...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
In an Overture, Taiwan's President Calls for Opening Peace Talks With Mainland China
President Chen Shui-bian called for an emphasis on arms control, in light of mainland China's buildup of ballistic missiles pointed at Taiwan...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Kanye triumphs at Source awards
Rapper-producers Kanye West and Lil Jon win three awards each at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards in Miami...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Christopher Reeve: Your tributes
The US actor Christopher Reeve - star of the Superman films - has died aged 52. Send us your tributes...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
NUM could merge with rail union
The National Union of Mineworkers begins talks about merging with Britain's biggest rail union...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Teenage blood pressure risk clue
Teenagers who cannot process insulin properly have a higher risk of high blood pressure, researchers find...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Pupils 'are missing out on milk'
Millions of children in primary schools in England and Wales are missing out on subsidised milk, the dairy industry claims...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
US seizes independent media sites
The FBI has shut down some 20 sites which were part of an alternative media network known as Indymedia...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Insurer moves 1,100 jobs to India
Insurance firm Royal & Sun Alliance says it is cutting 1,100 jobs in the UK and moving the posts to India...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Remains taken from damaged grave
Police say most of the remains of a 82-year-old woman were stolen when her grave was desecrated...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Witness appeal over street murder
Police try to trace a possible witness to the murder of a 35-year-old man at a Glasgow bus stop...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Appeal over unsolved blaze deaths
Police reissue an appeal for information about a house fire in which a young mother and two daughters died in 1995...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Afghan election count postponed
Afghanistan's election vote count is delayed until the shape of an inquiry into alleged flaws is announced...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Anti-Kerry film ignites new row
A TV company announces controversial plans to air a documentary attacking John Kerry days before the US election...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
EU poised to lift Libya sanctions
The EU is set to lift sanctions against Libya and ease an arms embargo, under strong Italian pressure...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Cricket: Aussie legend Miller dies
Keith Miller, arguably Australia's greatest all-rounder in Test cricket, has died in Melbourne aged 84...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Australian PM sets out priorities
Australian PM John Howard says he will focus on national security and the economy during his fourth term...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Football: Azerbaijan fear Rooney
Azerbaijan coach Carlos Alberto says he might ask three players to mark Wayne Rooney on Wednesday...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Football: Adams to resign
Micky Adams quits as Leicester boss, with Dave Bassett in temporary charge...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Person held over shooting freed
The person arrested over the shooting of a 14-year-old Nottingham girl is released without charge...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Submarine crew back on dry land
The crew of a Canadian submarine have spent their first night ashore since a fire left it drifting in the Atlantic...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Climate fears on sharp CO2 rise
A sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raises fears global warming is speeding up, reports say...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Sainsbury's issues profit warning
Struggling supermarket chain Sainsbury's issues its third profit warning of the year, saying half-year profits are set to fall to as little as £125m...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Iraqi Shia rebels surrender arms
Shia militias in Baghdad begin handing in weapons under a deal with the interim Iraqi government...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Actor Christopher Reeve dies
American actor Christopher Reeve, star of the Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, dies aged 52...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Iraqis Fearing a Sunni Boycott of the Election
Leaders of Iraq's Sunni minority say they have failed to generate any enthusiasm for nationwide elections scheduled for January...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
2 Bombs Kill at Least 11 in Baghdad
The first bomb exploded next to an American military convoy, officials said, and the second near a police academy...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Plan for Investigation Into Afghan Election Eases Dissent
Two of 15 candidates who wanted the election redone said they would accept the results of an independent investigation...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Others at a Shiite Mosque in Pakistan
The suicide attack came just a day after unidentified gunmen killed a leading pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and his aide in Karachi...
New York Times - October 11, 2004
Nigeria fuel price strike starts
A four-day general strike begins against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Venezuela raises oil drilling tax
President Chavez increases 16-fold the taxes paid by foreign oil companies operating in Venezuela...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Man held over flat death inquiry
Gwent Police investigating the death of a 53-year-old woman whose body was found in a flat have arrested a man...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Blair 'clinging to straws' - Blix
Tony Blair and George Bush are "clinging to straws" to justify the war in Iraq, Hans Blix has said...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Antibiotic can 'turn off cancer'
A common antibiotic is able to turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments, say researchers...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
PM setting out third term vision
Tony Blair is setting out his vision of the "opportunity society" that will be his mission for a third term...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Iraq rebels set to surrender arms
Shia militias in Baghdad should start handing in weapons on Monday, under a deal with the Iraqi government...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Suspect held over girl's shooting
Police question the person they arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
Crime reduction strategy 'flawed'
There are "significant flaws" in the principles behind the government's crime reduction strategy, a think-tank says...
BBC News - October 11, 2004
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