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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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CBS Reports 2 Journalists Missing in Basra
Basra has repeatedly been the venue of attacks on both Iraqi and Western journalists...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Sudanese Army Officer Arrested in American Diplomat?s Murder
According to a senior Sudanese official, the army officer was the ring leader of a small cell of terrorists, and was not acting on behalf of the Sudanese government...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Israeli Casts Doubt on Pact This Year
Israeli officials hope to reach agreement with the Palestinians on a ?declaration of principles? for peace by the end of the year, but not on a detailed peace treaty...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Iran Celebrates Revolution, and Muzzles Reformers
Iran celebrated the 29th anniversary of its Islamic revolution as the government appeared to be taking steps to bury the chances of Parliamentary reform...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Twin Car Bombs Kill 11 in Baghdad
The blasts erupted around noon just before the American defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, left Iraq after an overnight visit...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
4 Masterworks Are Stolen in Zurich
The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cézanne was estimated at $163 million...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Flying reptiles came in miniature
A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
More worries over A-level marking
A significant proportion of teachers think the standard of A-level and GCSE marking has deteriorated...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Oil platform alert woman in court
A 23-year-old woman appears in court following a huge security alert on a North Sea oil platform...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Clinton seeks to slow Obama push
Hillary Clinton seeks to slow Barack Obama as three more contests for the Democratic nomination for president loom...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Doctors hopeful for Timor leader
Doctors are hopeful East Timor's President will recover from bullet wounds received in an attack on Monday...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Football: Arsenal five points clear
Arsenal extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to five points after beating Blackburn despite an unconvincing display...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Lab docks with space station
Europe's space laboratory is unloaded from the space shuttle Atlantis and docked with the International Space Station...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
'MI6 in Paris' when Diana killed
An MI6 team was at the UK embassy in Paris at the time of Princess Diana's death, the former ambassador says...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
US arrests four 'Chinese spies'
Four people are accused of passing US defence secrets - including information on the space shuttle - to China...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
European Union to Tighten Border Entry Rules
The sweeping European Union proposals are meant to combat illegal migration, terrorism and organized crime...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
South Korean Gate Destroyed in Fire
The collapse of Sungnye Gate, a 600-year-old landmark designated a top national treasure, shocked the country...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
East Timor Chief in Critical Condition
President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor was in an Australian hospital after being shot by rebel soldiers...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Taliban Commander Is Captured
A senior Taliban commander was arrested by Pakistani forces as he tried to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Armed Robbers Steal 4 Masterworks in Zurich
The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cézanne is estimated at $163 million...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Microsoft agrees Danger purchase
Microsoft agrees to buy Danger Inc, maker of the T-Mobile's SideKick web phone popularised by Paris Hilton...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Astronauts on ISS spacewalk
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are carrying out the mission's first spacewalk...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Segregation 'free speech threat'
Further education colleges are warned they need to prevent Islamic extremists recruiting among students...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Warning of 'Jeremy Kyle' future
A lack of father figures is creating a "Jeremy Kyle generation" of men, senior Tory Chris Grayling warns...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Property market continues to cool
The annual rate of house price growth falls, despite a slight price gain in December, government figures show...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Killer's DNA link 'questionable'
Lawyers for the killer of a Strabane woman have told a court DNA evidence used to link him to his victim is now "questionable"...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Pakistani ambassador goes missing
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan goes missing near the border and is feared kidnapped...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Iran stands firm on nuclear row
Iran's president warns his government will not back down one iota in its nuclear dispute with the West...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Sarkozy 'never sent Cecilia text'
The French president "never sent" a text message urging his ex-wife to come back, his lawyer says...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Chad 'cannot take more refugees'
Chad says it cannot absorb any more Sudanese refugees, after a weekend influx of 12,000 people...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Football: Wenger hails resilience
Arsene Wenger hails his side's mental toughness as they seek to go five points clear at the top of the Premier League by beating Blackburn...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
'Laughing gang' killed teenager
A screaming gang of youths chased and stabbed a schoolboy to death, a jury at the Old Bailey is told...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Yahoo rejects Microsoft approach
Yahoo rejects a takeover bid of more than $40bn from computer software giant Microsoft saying it is too low...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
EU warns firms on text charging
Regulators tell Europe's mobile phone operators to cut the cost of overseas texting and internet access...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Gang robs Zurich of top paintings
Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth $160m are stolen from a Zurich museum...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Williams in synod Sharia address
Rowan Williams says he does not regret raising the issue of Sharia law, but accepts he may have caused confusion...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Newlove killers jailed for life
Three teenagers who kicked father-of-three Garry Newlove to death outside his home are jailed for life...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
US charges six suspects over 9/11
The Pentagon announces charges against six Guantanamo Bay inmates over the 9/11 attacks...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Gates Endorses Pause in Iraq Troop Withdrawals
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates endorsed the concept of a pause in troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Senior Taliban Figure Killed in Pakistan
Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and captured four other militants, a military official said...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Nokia aiming to banish paper maps
Nokia showcases its sat-nav system for pedestrians as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Cure hope over diabetes therapy
Cell transplants for type 1 diabetes, which hold hope of a cure, to be made available at specialist centres...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Miliband defends Afghan presence
The UK's presence is essential to stop Afghanistan becoming a failed state, Foreign Secretary David Miliband says...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
EU to warn firms on text charging
Regulators will tell Europe's mobile phone operators to cut the cost of overseas texting and internet access...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
'Plague' of attacks on fire crews
Attacks on firefighters in Wales rose last year and the true figure could be many times higher, a union warns...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Man is critical after gang attack
A man is in a critical condition after being attacked by a gang of teenagers in Greater Manchester...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Three remanded on murder charge
Three people appear in court charged with the murder of John Mongan in west Belfast last week...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is cremated
Thousands of followers of Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi attend his cremation in the northern India city of Allahabad...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
EU plans resumption of Chad force
The EU hopes to restart its peacekeeping mission to Chad this week after rebel attacks on the capital N'Djamena...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Rwanda's fury at Spanish warrants
Rwanda urges foreign governments and Interpol to ignore Spanish arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Football: Coventry sack Dowie
Iain Dowie is sacked by Championship side Coventry with the club hovering above the relegation zone...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Olympics: Review after gag row
British Olympic officials insist there is no intention to gag athletes from making political comment in China during the 2008 Games in Beijing...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Shot East Timor leader 'critical'
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is in a "serious but stable" condition after being shot at by rebels...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Six hurt as roof ripped from bus
Six people are injured when a double decker bus crashes into a bridge in north London and has its roof ripped off...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
US may pause Iraq troop pull-out
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US may "pause" pulling troops out of Iraq...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Gang steals French art in Zurich
Paintings by famous Impressionists worth more than $91m are stolen from a Zurich museum...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
McCartney divorce hearing begins
Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney arrive at London's High Court for a five-day hearing to settle their divorce...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
PM praises archbishop's integrity
The prime minister praises Dr Rowan Williams as a man of "great integrity" following his remarks on Sharia law...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Marine Arrested Over Japan Rape
A U.S. marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa, an episode that could strain ties between the allies...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Families Adopting in Vietnam Say They Are Caught in Diplomatic Jam
The State Department says that the adoption system in Vietnam fosters ?baby buying?, but some complain that the U.S. is singling out individual cases to embarrass the Vietnamese government...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Attacks Pushing Darfur Refugees Into Chad
The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos, as rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control the area...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Chávez Threatens to End Oil Exports to U.S. in Exxon Feud
The warning ratchets up a fierce legal dispute between Venezuela and Exxon after President Hugo Chávez?s move to exert greater state control over the nation?s oil industry last year...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Egyptian Court Allows Return to Christianity
For the second time in recent month, a court upheld the rights of religious minorities, even as the distinction between law and religion has become increasingly blurred in the country...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Israeli Officials Seek Tougher Military Action in Gaza After Rockets Kill 2 in Sderot
Dozens of Sderot residents came to Jerusalem on Sunday to protest what they said was government inaction in the face of the continued rocket fire...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Mexico City Journal: On Single-Sex Buses, Relief From Unwanted Contact
The buses are a response to complaints from women who say some men are taking advantage of crowded public transportation to leer and grope and then disappear...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Soccer as an Escape to Hope for Afghan Teenager
Shamila Kohestani, the captain of the Afghanistan national women?s soccer team who was deprived an education for much of her childhood, is now growing as a student in America...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
U.S. Ties Europe?s Safety to Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in a speech on Sunday appealed directly to Europeans, saying that their safety from terrorist attacks was linked to NATO?s success in Afghanistan...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
G.I. Gets 10-Year Sentence in Killing of Unarmed Iraqi
Sgt. Evan Vela, who planted a machine gun near the body of the Iraqi to mislead investigators, will receive a dishonorable discharge from the Army...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
President of East Timor Wounded in Rebel Attack
The attack threatened to intensify the continuing unrest that has destabilized the struggling young nation...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Global Classrooms: Oil Money Cultivates a Mideast Ivy League
Education City, the largest enclave of American schools overseas, has become the elite of Qatari education...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Kenya?s Middle Class Feeling Sting of Violence
The well-established middle class is thought to be one of the factors that separates Kenya from other African countries that have been consumed by ethnic conflict...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
The unclassified report identified problems with nearly every organization that had a role in planning the war, including the White House and the Defense Department...
New York Times - February 11, 2008
Jaws star Roy Scheider dies at 75
US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Hauliers urge fuel duty control
Hauliers are due to meet the Chancellor Alistair Darling to urge him not to raise fuel duty another two pence...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Betting shop shooting boy dies
A 16-year-old boy hurt in a double shooting at a bookmakers dies from his injuries...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Venezuelan threat to cut US oil
Venezuela president threatens to cut off oil supplies to the US if it continues an "economic war"...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Scotland becomes toll-road free
Drivers finally begin using the Forth and Tay road bridges for free after charges are abolished...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Grammy triumph for Winehouse
Amy Winehouse wins five prizes at the prestigious Grammy Awards, despite missing the ceremony...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Mothers ask for Iraq war inquiry
The mothers of two soldiers killed in Iraq ask judges to order the setting up of an independent inquiry into the war...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Obama takes clear Maine victory
Barack Obama wins in Maine to complete a weekend of victories advancing his Democratic nomination hopes...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
E Timor president shot at home
The President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, is shot in the stomach during an attack by a rebel soldier...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
Williams to face Anglican leaders
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to address the General Synod after the row over his remarks on Muslim law...
BBC News - February 11, 2008
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