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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Audiovox to expand availability of TV on the road
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Congo rebel faction denounces Nkunda as leader
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Arabs put Hamas in UN draft, West offers own text
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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New US-led naval force to battle Somali pirates
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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How many scorpions? London Zoo does critter count
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Pope Benedict jokes about hoarse voice
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Handlers on phone ordered Mumbai gunmen to kill
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Global News Archive for Octomber 2008:
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Japanese businessman in murder plot hangs himself
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles has committed suicide in his jail cell, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Tim Robbins gets star of Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Murder case ends blocks from where it began in LA
A strange cold case murder story that stretched halfway around the globe and back over a span of nearly 30 years ended this weekend a few blocks from where it began, with the shocking suicide of Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura in a downtown jail cell...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks
National forests and parks _ long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels _ have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Counting cards NY collection includes 6,356 decks
The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Washington weighs lethal meds for terminally ill
The emotionally charged battle over end-of-life decisions has taken to the airwaves as Washington state voters decide whether to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Ringer helps Spartans run past Northwestern 37-20
Javon Ringer ran for 124 yards and two touchdowns to lead No. 23 Michigan State to a 37-20 win over previously unbeaten Northwestern on Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Lisa Marie Presley gives birth to twins
Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again.A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Fridays late-night TV wrap-up
Late-night TV show hosts found humor in the presidential debate. A sampling from Friday night:...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Palin criticizes Obama on abortion at Pa. rally
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attacked Barack Obama on abortion on Saturday, saying the Democratic presidential candidate has "left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life."...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Riding high, Obama nods to McCain, rallies fans
His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked voters to have faith in him as the next president...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Stafford, No. 10 Bulldogs drop Vols, 26-14
Matthew Stafford passed for a career-best 310 yards, Knowshon Moreno ran for 101 yards and No. 10 Georgia beat Tennessee 26-14 on Saturday, leaving the Volunteers 0-3 in the Southeastern Conference for the first time in 20 years...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
No. 22 Tar Heels hold off Notre Dame 29-24
Cameron Sexton scored on a leaping 4-yard keeper to start the fourth quarter, Quan Sturdivant returned an interception for a touchdown and No. 22 North Carolina rallied to beat Notre Dame 29-24 on Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Trojans defense dominates Sun Devils
Mark Sanchez passed for one touchdown and ran for another, and the Southern California defense dominated Arizona State as the eighth-ranked Trojans beat the Sun Devils 28-0 on Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Clintons launch campaign swing for Obama
When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Rep. Lewis says McCain sowing seeds of hatred
Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese man held in LA in wifes 1981 slaying
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife killed 27 years ago was returned to Southern California on Friday to face trial...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
North Korea releases pictures of Kim Jong Il
North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Bush, allies seek to calm jittery investors
President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Bush, allies pledge joint action on global crisis
President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dalai Lamas surgery ends successfully aide
Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent the Tibetan spiritual leader from traveling again by the end of the month, a top aide said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression
The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews _ and at one point led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic _ died early Saturday in a car accident. He was 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Indian army works to rescue boy trapped in well
Soldiers worked Saturday to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot-deep abandoned well in northern India...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aide Dalai Lama to be released from hospital soon
The Dalai Lama is likely to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days, a senior aide said Saturday, a day after surgeons removed gallstones from the Tibetan spiritual leader...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Pirates threaten to blow up arms-laden ship
With U.S. warships lurking nearby, the pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia threatened to destroy the vessel unless a ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Antiquities dealer has colorful, checkered career
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica _ a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
2nd ship seized as pirates threaten to blow up 1st
Armed pirates hijacked a massive tanker as world powers on Saturday headed toward the Somali coast to end a two-week standoff aboard a ship laden with tanks and weapons, officials said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes
In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Mercurial Austrian rightist dead in car crash
Joerg Haider, who catapulted his party into a powerful force in Austrian politics with a mix of folksy aphorisms, in-your-face attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Italian woman in right-to-die case worsens
The condition of an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die case worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Zimbabwes president claims key ministries
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, locked in a standoff with the opposition in power-sharing talks, went ahead Saturday and laid claim to all key ministries as he tries to retain his iron grip on the struggling southern African nation...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Strong quake shakes Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Ex-volunteers angry at Peace Corps Bolivia pullout
It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Officials 3 killed in missile strike in Pakistan
Two Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three people near a market close to the Afghan border...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
2 Arab homes torched in Acre police
Two Arab-owned apartments were set ablaze in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs, police said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Official 3,000 Christians flee Iraqs Mosul
Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Mexico offers reward in bar massacre investigation
Officials are offering a reward of 500,000 pesos (US$37,300) for the capture of gunmen who killed 11 people in a northern city bar...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Common fibre a 'true superfood'
A fibre found in most fruit and vegetables may help ward off cancer, experts believe...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Hurricane batters Western Mexico
Hurricane Norbert strikes Mexico's Baja California peninsula, blowing down roofs and causing residents to flee to shelters...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Deadlock 'encourages dissidents'
The deadlock at Stormont is encouraging the rise of dissident republicans and anti-agreement unionists, the PUP says...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Meter cheaters
How the energy thieves put their families at risk...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
UK must assist Scotland - Salmond
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is asked for reassurance about major public projects during FMQs...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Five alive (just)
Rare, not well done - the species on the brink of extinction...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Rooney double as England hit five
Wayne Rooney grabs two late goals as England beat Kazakhstan 5-1 in their World Cup qualifier at Wembley...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Wales 2-0 Liechtenstein
Wales struggle to beat minnows Liechtenstein in their World Cup Group Four qualifier...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
The spoof Sarah Palin boosting the comedy ratings
A US impersonator's parodies of Alaska governor Sarah Palin are becoming a hot election issue, the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan reports...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
UK will lead the way, says Brown
Gordon Brown promises Britain will "lead the way" through the global financial crisis ahead of an emergency EU summit in Paris...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
'Progress made' in Iceland talks
Significant progress has been made over frozen UK cash in failed Icelandic banks, say Treasury and Icelandic officials...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
IMF in global 'meltdown' warning
The world financial system is facing "meltdown", the International Monetary Fund warns, as it offers emergency funds to credit-starved countries...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Western group petitions for species protection
A tortoise, a hare, a mouse and a half-dozen mussels are some of the creatures that a conservation group hopes to save through a "Western Ark" project aimed at petitioning the government for federal protection...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese businessman in murder plot found dead
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Accused Japanese businessman found dead
An attorney for a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Tim Robbins gets star of Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Paparazzo may be bad word in Reeves case
A celebrity photographer wants to make "paparazzo" a four-letter word during his upcoming civil trial against Keanu Reeves...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Marriage ruling not the end of debate in Conn.
Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a longshot bid to block the unions...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Palade dies at 95
Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the University of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Jackets Nash wins it in overtime, 5-4 over Stars
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Newcomers lead Columbus to victory at Dallas
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Fridays late-night TV wrap-up
Late-night TV show hosts found humor in the presidential debate. A sampling from Friday night:...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Bush, allies pledge joint action on global crisis
President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression
The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese man held in LA in wifes 1981 slaying
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife killed 27 years ago was returned to Southern California on Friday to face trial...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
North Korea releases pictures of Kim Jong Il
North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dalai Lamas surgery ends successfully aide
Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent the Tibetan spiritual leader from traveling again by the end of the month, a top aide said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police say Austrian rightist Haider dead at 58
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police Austrian pol Haider dies in car accident
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned
Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews _ and at one point led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic _ died early Saturday in a car accident. He was 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Indian army works to rescue boy trapped in well
Soldiers worked Saturday to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot-deep abandoned well in northern India...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
2nd ship seized as pirates threaten to blow up 1st
Armed pirates hijacked a massive tanker as world powers on Saturday headed toward the Somali coast to end a two-week standoff aboard a ship laden with tanks and weapons, officials said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aide Dalai Lama to be released from hospital soon
The Dalai Lama is likely to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days, a senior aide said Saturday, a day after surgeons removed gallstones from the Tibetan spiritual leader...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Pirates threaten to blow up arms-laden ship
With U.S. warships lurking nearby, the pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia threatened to destroy the vessel unless a ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes
In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Antiquities dealer has colorful, checkered career
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica _ a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Official Greek tanker hijacked near Somalia
A maritime official says a Greek chemical tanker with 20 crew members has been hijacked by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist Haider dies in car accident
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US says 4 militants killed in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led coalition says its troops have killed four militants, including an al-Qaida commander, in central Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Ex-volunteers angry at Peace Corps Bolivia pullout
It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police 2 Arab homes torched in Israel town
Police say two Arab-owned apartments were torched in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Russian missile makes record flight
Russian officials say a submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Strong quake shakes Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Robbins gets star on Walk of Fame
Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins becomes the 2,371st celebrity to be awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
US space tourist set for launch
US space tourist Richard Garriott will follow in the footsteps of his astronaut father when he blasts off into space on Sunday...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
PM set for crisis talks in Paris
Gordon Brown is to head for France to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on the global financial crisis...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Lib Dems demand cut in income tax
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats renews his demand for a 2p cut in income tax as part of a "radical" economic package...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Irish 'should be made official'
Official status should be given to the Irish language, says a lobby group at a rally in Belfast city centre...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Bond assassin's golden gun stolen
The £80,000 golden gun used in the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun is stolen from studios in Hertfordshire...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
The 2CV at 60
It was the perfect car for a camping trip to the USSR...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Baghdad blues
When will it be safe for Iraqis to go back home?...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Haider shock
Death of Austrian politician stuns friends and foes...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Icelandic banks
Risk for money in subsidiaries' offshore accounts...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Blind Belgian tops 300km/h to break world speed record
Belgian Luc Costermans breaks the world blind road speed record, reaching 308km/h on an airstrip in France...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Live text - World Cup qualifiers
England host Kazakhstan while Wales face Liechtenstein after Scotland are held to a disappointing draw by Norway in Saturday's World Cup qualifiers...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Scotland 0-0 Norway
Chris Iwelumo misses an open goal as Norway's draw delivers a blow to Scotland's World Cup qualification hopes...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Scarlett mother faces Goa warning
The mother of murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling is told to appear before authorities in Goa, India, over neglect claims...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Man charged over key fob weapon
A man is charged after police seize a key fob gun during a stop and search in Greater Manchester...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Retail tycoon in UK stores talks
Billionaire Sir Philip Green holds talks with officials in Iceland, which could lead to him buying several leading UK stores...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Bush plea for unity amid crisis
US President George W Bush says the serious global financial crisis demands a serious global response...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
'Progress made' in Iceland talks
Significant progress has been made over frozen UK cash in failed Icelandic banks, say Treasury and Icelandic officials...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
N Korea taken off US terror list
The US removes North Korea from its state terror list after the North agrees to nuclear inspection demands, the US says...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Worried Asian investors pray amid stock plunge
After a free fall in share prices this week, investors in Asia could do little else but pray...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aide says Dalai Lama to undergo gallstone surgery
The Dalai Lama will undergo surgery to remove a gallstone, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Friday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese businessman in murder plot found dead
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide, less than 24 hours after he set foot in the continental United States to answer to the charges...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Accused Japanese businessman found dead
An attorney for a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Wyo. town reflects 10 years after Shepards murder
A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
FBI files show long hunt for Jack Anderson sources
In caustic comments on internal FBI memos, legendary bureau director J. Edgar Hoover referred to prominent columnist Jack Anderson with undisguised contempt, calling him "a jackal" as agents combed his articles for errors and hints about possible sources...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Judge Castroneves can race in Australia
A Miami judge has agreed to modify bail conditions on tax charges so Helio Castroneves can race later this month in Australia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Newcomers lead Columbus to victory at Dallas
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Fridays late-night TV wrap-up
Late-night TV show hosts found humor in the presidential debate. A sampling from Friday night:...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Tim Robbins gets star of Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Paparazzo may be bad word in Reeves case
A celebrity photographer wants to make "paparazzo" a four-letter word during his upcoming civil trial against Keanu Reeves...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Jackets Nash wins it in overtime, 5-4 over Stars
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Mazda says no decision on Fords stake sale
Mazda says no decision has been reached on Ford possibly selling its stake in the Japanese automaker, as has been reported in Japanese media...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Report stings Palin over Troopergate flap
The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dice-K, Red Sox lead Rays 1-0 after 6 innings
Daisuke Matsuzaka took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning and Jed Lowrie had a sacrifice fly, giving the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 lead over the Tampa Bay Rays in the opener of the AL championship series Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Qwest reaches tentative agreement with union
Qwest Communications International Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a union representing about 20,000 employees...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression
The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese man held in LA in wifes 1981 slaying
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife killed 27 years ago was returned to Southern California on Friday to face trial...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Israeli town struggles to move on after clashes
Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions after two days of rioting that shook a mixed Jewish-Arab community...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen
Dozens of bodies washed ashore Friday in Yemen after smugglers threw nearly 150 Somali migrants overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dalai Lamas surgery ends successfully aide
Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent the Tibetan spiritual leader from traveling again by the end of the month, a top aide said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Peru president accepts resignation of Cabinet
President Alan Garcia accepted the resignation of his entire Cabinet on Friday without naming replacements in response to an oil kickbacks scandal...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago 1 arrest
A man was arrested Friday as a suspect in the slaying of a Swedish couple who were found hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the normally placid southern Caribbean island of Tobago...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police say Austrian rightist Haider dead at 58
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police Austrian pol Haider dies in car accident
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned
Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
North Korea releases pictures of Kim Jong Il
North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews _ and at one point led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic _ died early Saturday in a car accident. He was 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Indian army works to rescue boy trapped in well
Soldiers worked Saturday to rescue a 2-year-old boy trapped for more than 36 hours in a 150-foot-deep abandoned well in northern India...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Israeli hospital hosts cancer-stricken Iranian boy
The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the bitterly divided countries...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aide Dalai Lama to be released from hospital soon
The Dalai Lama is likely to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days, a senior aide said Saturday, a day after surgeons removed gallstones from the Tibetan spiritual leader...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist Haider dies in car accident
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US says 4 militants killed in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led coalition says its troops have killed four militants, including an al-Qaida commander, in central Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian politician Haider dies in car accident
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
USVI jury finds 3 guilty in killing of Pa. man
A jury on Friday found three men guilty in the killing of a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man outside a St. John bar last year...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Pirates threaten to blow up arms-laden ship
With U.S. warships lurking nearby, the pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia threatened to destroy the vessel unless a ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Official Greek tanker hijacked near Somalia
A maritime official says a Greek chemical tanker with 20 crew members has been hijacked by armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
GM and Chrysler 'in merger talks'
Struggling US car giants General Motors and Chrysler are in talks about a possible merger, US media say...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
PM launches Kashmir train service
India's PM launches Kashmir's first train service amid heavy security and after protests that left two people dead...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
New rebels attack DR Congo town
A new rebel group threatens the key town of Bunia in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Mexico braced for lethal storms
A hurricane set to hit the west coast of Mexico has strengthened and become "life-threatening", meteorologists warn...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Tributes paid to bus crash victim
Tributes are paid to an "intelligent and beautiful" Chinese student killed in a road accident in Lancashire...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Tartan Army faces rail disruption
Scotland fans travelling to Hampden for the World Cup qualifier against Norway may face rail disruption...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Carpark ramp crash man critical
An 18-year-old man is critically injured after a collision with a car on a carpark exit ramp during a night out...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Stand-off could 'go on to 2009'
The Stormont Executive might not meet before the end of this year, Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey says...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Burley shrugs off 'must-win' hype
Scotland manager George Burley says he feels no added pressure despite being told by his chief executive that Saturday's meeting with Norway is a "must-win"...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
NI boss says fans have key role
Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington says the team's supporters have a big role to play in the World Cup qualifier in Slovenia...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Bellamy set to make Wales start
Craig Bellamy will start his first Wales game for a year when they play Liechtenstein on Saturday...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Car bomb hero in intensive care
Glasgow Airport car bomb hero John Smeaton remains in intensive care after suffering an asthma attack...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Jordan in dressage demonstration at the Horse of the Year Show
Model Katie Price gives a dressage demonstration at the Horse of the Year Show...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Hamilton snatches pole in Japan
Lewis Hamilton secures pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji with title rival Felipe Massa back in fifth...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Palin abused power, probe finds
John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor for personal ends, a report concludes...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Father's grief over flood deaths
A British man who lost his wife and one of his twin daughters in flash-floods in Spain describes the tragedy...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Mugabe 'gives Zanu-PF key posts'
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gives key ministries to his own party - in defiance of a power-sharing deal, reports say...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Worried Asian investors pray amid stock plunge
After a free fall in share prices this week, investors in Asia could do little else but pray...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aide says Dalai Lama to undergo gallstone surgery
The Dalai Lama will undergo surgery to remove a gallstone, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Friday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dalai Lama to undergo surgery to remove gall stone
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama says the Tibetan leader will undergo surgery to remove a gall stone...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Jolie says Pitt changed her mind about pregnancy
Angelina Jolie, an advocate of adoption, credits partner Brad Pitt with her decision to have biological children...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Accused John Cusack stalker accepts plea deal
A woman accused of stalking John Cusack has accepted a plea deal that will let her avoid state prison...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Judge Castroneves can race in Australia
A Miami judge has agreed to modify bail conditions on tax charges so Helio Castroneves can race later this month in Australia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Death toll rises to 9 in Calif. charter bus crash
The death toll has risen to nine in the crash of a charter bus that was on its way to casino in Northern California...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Japanese man held in LA in wifes 1981 slaying
A Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife killed 27 years ago was returned to Southern California on Friday to face trial...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dice-K pitches Red Sox over Rays in ALCS opener
Unhittable most of the game, Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox taught Tampa Bay all about dominant postseason pitching...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Newcomers lead Columbus to victory at Dallas
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Tim Robbins gets star of Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tim Robbins is known in Hollywood as an Academy Award-winning actor, director, activist and hockey fanatic. On Friday, he added comedian to his repertoire while getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Paparazzo may be bad word in Reeves case
A celebrity photographer wants to make "paparazzo" a four-letter word during his upcoming civil trial against Keanu Reeves...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Voter fraud accusations mar presidential campaign
Accusations of voter fraud have hurled a giant mud ball into an already messy presidential campaign, with Republicans alleging that Democrat Barack Obama has close ties to an activist group accused of compiling fake registration forms, including ones for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys _ submitted in Nevada...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Jackets Nash wins it in overtime, 5-4 over Stars
Rick Nash scored from the slot with 20 seconds left in overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 5-4 season-opening victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Mazda says no decision on Fords stake sale
Mazda says no decision has been reached on Ford possibly selling its stake in the Japanese automaker, as has been reported in Japanese media...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Reports Chrysler, GM discuss merger, acquisition
Published reports say General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Palin says supporters want tougher attack on Obama
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said more than one person has whispered in her ear in Ohio that John McCain needs "to take the gloves off" in his campaign against Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US to buy stake in banks, first since Depression
The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Stocks end wild session mixed after 8-day slide
Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that left stocks with a widely mixed finish. Late-day buying helped curb steep losses and gave the market its best showing of the week as investors snapped up bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive losses...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Economy is overriding issue in governors races
In his bid to become the next governor of Missouri, Rep. Kenny Hulshof survived a bitter primary that at one point saw the candidates bashing each other for supporting public funding for drugs such as Viagra...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
NATO agrees on Afghan drug role for military
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to US$100 million (euro74 million) a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Israeli town struggles to move on after clashes
Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions after two days of rioting that shook a mixed Jewish-Arab community...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
France Russia only partly met Georgia obligations
Russia has only partially met its obligations in Georgia under an EU-negotiated ceasefire, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner declared Friday as he toured damaged villages and spoke to displaced people in Georgia...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
2 expats appeal for release in Somalia
Two foreign aid workers appealed for their freedom Friday in the Somali capital, surrounded by armed kidnappers who seized them last month in a restive region of Ethiopia, local media reported...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
2 aid workers appeal for their freedom in Somalia
Two aid workers kidnapped in Ethiopia appealed for their freedom Friday in the Somali capital, surrounded by their heavily armed captors, local media reported...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen
Dozens of bodies washed ashore Friday in Yemen after smugglers threw nearly 150 Somali migrants overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dalai Lamas surgery ends successfully aide
Surgeons successfully removed gallstones from the Dalai Lama on Friday, an operation that will not prevent the Tibetan spiritual leader from traveling again by the end of the month, a top aide said...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Peru president accepts resignation of Cabinet
President Alan Garcia accepted the resignation of his entire Cabinet on Friday without naming replacements in response to an oil kickbacks scandal...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago 1 arrest
A man was arrested Friday as a suspect in the slaying of a Swedish couple who were found hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the normally placid southern Caribbean island of Tobago...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar
Gunmen opened fire at a bar in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, killing 11 people, officials said Friday...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Police Austrian pol Haider dies in car accident
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned
Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
North Korea releases pictures of Kim Jong Il
North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Israeli hospital hosts cancer-stricken Iranian boy
The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the bitterly divided countries...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Canadian dollar takes steepest one-day dive
The Canadian dollar posted its steepest one-day decline against the U.S. greenback Friday, dropping by 4.5 American cents...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian rightist Haider dies in car accident
Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
US says 4 militants killed in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led coalition says its troops have killed four militants, including an al-Qaida commander, in central Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Austrian politician Haider dies in car accident
Austrian police say far-right politician Joerg Haider has died in a car accident...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
USVI jury finds 3 guilty in killing of Pa. man
A jury on Friday found three men guilty in the killing of a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man outside a St. John bar last year...
Southern Ledger - October 11, 2008
Aceh guerrilla leader flies home
Former rebels flock to Banda Aceh to welcome home one of Indonesia's best-known guerrilla leaders, Hasan di Tiro...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Oil row brings down Peru cabinet
Peru's President Alan Garcia accepts the government's resignation over alleged bribes for oil contracts...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Virtual healing
How students use 3D technology to beat cancer...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Pay back
Heavy marketing of payback loan companies...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Mike Baker
Are we asking too much of our teachers?...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Divisive career
Joerg Haider split political opinion, in Austria and abroad...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Live text - Japan GP qualifying
Lewis Hamilton aims to extend his championship lead as he vies for pole at the Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Live text - India v Australia
India lose four early wickets on day three as they chase Australia's 430 in Bangalore...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Spain flood deaths father's grief
A British man who lost his wife and one of his twin daughters in flash-floods in Spain descibes the tragedy...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Call to ban junk food from NHS
Hospitals and GP surgeries should follow the lead of schools and ban sugary drinks and snacks, experts say...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Deal sought for UK-Iceland funds
A UK Treasury delegation is in Reykjavik in a bid to resolve the dispute over UK funds invested in failed Icelandic banks...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Grammars pressed over poor pupils
Grammar schools take half the rate of poor bright pupils than non-selective state schools, research suggests...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Austria's Haider dies in accident
Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident in Carinthia, Austria, police reports say...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
People 'unaware' of pension risks
Millions of people are being encouraged to take too much risk with their pensions, the Pensions Advisory Service warns...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
Palin abused power, probe finds
Sarah Palin abused her power as governor for personal ends, a report by the Alaskan state legislature concludes...
BBC News - October 11, 2008
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