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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
Southern Ledger - January 8, 2009
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Global News Archive for September 2007:
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Zimbabwe Archbishop Resigns
A cleric and opponent of President Robert Mugabe who was accused of adultery after an apparent government sex sting said that the Vatican had accepted his resignation...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Reprieve for the Pint and the Ounce
The European Union has reversed a plan that would have required Britain and Ireland to phase out imperial measurements in favor of the metric system...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Sharif Appeals Deportation
Lawyers for the former Pakistani prime minister today threw down a legal challenge to Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Ebola Outbreak Confirmed in Congo
The lethal Ebola virus has resurfaced in central Congo, U.N. officials said, and health experts were rushing supplies and doctors into the remote area to contain the disease...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
For Iraqis, General?s Report Offers Bitter Truth
Iraqis want nothing more than to have U.S. soldiers leave Iraq, but there is nothing they can less afford...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
The Lede Blog: Watching the Iraq Hearings, Day 2
The Lede blog is following the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing live...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Senators Press Officials on Iraq Progress
Senators expressed doubts and mounting frustration during questioning of Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, today...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Poor teens 'lag two years behind'
The gap in achievement between poor children and their peers widens at every stage of schooling, a report says...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Imaging tools to aid surveillance
Security and surveillance efforts could be bolstered by a simple imaging tool, a scientist claims...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
NHS urged to put case for changes
The NHS should gear itself up to push the case for overhauling hospital care, the head of the health service says...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Hygiene call in new E.coli report
A new report into an E.Coli outbreak in which a boy, five, died makes a number of recommendations...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
House price boom 'causing misery'
The UK's house price boom has brought "misery" to thousands of people, a leading economist argues...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Pill use 'may cut risk of cancer'
The contraceptive pill may cut a woman's overall risk of cancer - but only if used for less than eight years...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Eight die in Nigeria 'jail-break'
Eight inmates are killed when hundreds of inmates try to break out of a jail in Nigeria, police say...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Security high for Estrada verdict
Manila tightens security ahead of the verdict in the corruption trial of ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Rugby: Vickery to miss games
England skipper Phil Vickery will miss the Rugby World Cup games against South Africa and Samoa after being found guilty of a trip...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Cricket: Gayle fails to stop SA
Chris Gayle hits a blistering 117 but South Africa beat West Indies by eight wickets in the opening ICC World Twenty20 match...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Ethiopia rings in new Millennium
Celebrations are held in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia ushers in a new Millennium under the ancient Coptic calendar...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Cup hero Porterfield dies
Sunderland legend Ian Porterfield, who scored the winner in the 1973 FA Cup final against Leeds, dies...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Unions to vote on EU referendum
TUC delegates are expected to back a call for a referendum on the EU treaty - in opposition to Gordon Brown...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Sir Alex hurt in alleged attack
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers minor injuries in an alleged assault at a train station...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Chairman of South Korean Company Gets Suspended Sentence for Beatings
SEOUL (Reuters) - One of South Korea's richest businessmen was handed a suspended 1- year sentence on Tuesday for beating up karaoke bar workers, the latest tycoon in the country to avoid jail despite a criminal conviction...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Anita Roddick, Body Shop Founder, Dead at 64
The crusading entrepreneur founded the vast Body Shop network of cosmetics stores on principles of ending animal testing and supporting the environment...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Hong Kong Politician to Seek Legislative Seat
Anson Chan, one of the most popular political figures in Hong Kong, announced that she would seek election to the local Legislature, giving a boost to a push for full democracy by 2012...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Palestinian Rocket Injures 40 Israeli Soldiers
The attack on an army base today caused more Israeli casualties than any previous Qassam rocket from Gaza...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Ebola Outbreak Feared in Congo
United Nations officials said they did not know if Ebola was the cause of a mystery illness that has killed more than 100 people...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Van With Explosives Found in Turkey
About 660 pounds of sodium nitrate were found in the van, found by bomb sniffing dogs, a TV report said, citing bomb squad officials...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Sharif Appeals Deportation From Pakistan
Lawyers for the former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif today threw down a legal challenge to Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
News Analysis: Envoy?s Upbeat Tone Glosses Over Baghdad?s Turmoil
Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, gave Congress an assessment that left unmentioned some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Envoy Sees No Quick End to Major U.S. Commitment
Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker refused to be pinned down on when large-scale U.S. involvement in Iraq might come to an end...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
The Lede Blog: Senators Voice Skepticism of Iraq Progress
Members of a Senate panel told Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker that they had doubts about the progress the officials had reported in testimony yesterday...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Godwit makes huge Pacific flight
A satellite-tagged bar-tailed godwit takes a week to fly 11,500km from Alaska to New Zealand...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Hospital PFI costs 'set to soar'
The soaring cost of private finance schemes will become an "albatross" around the NHS's neck, a study says...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Tory 'anarchy' comment attacked
The home secretary criticises Tory leader David Cameron for his comments following the death of Rhys Jones, 11...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Driver admits child crash killing
A man pleads guilty to causing the death of a four-year-old girl in a hit-and-run incident in Edinburgh...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Boy 'went up in flames' jury told
A 14-year-old youth goes on trial accused of setting fire to a teenage friend in a garage with a lighter...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Man banned from all British pubs
A man is banned for two years from every pub in the UK after he hit and bit a customer in a Devon bar...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Ice cream man gives ARA £900,000
A Belfast ice cream man who sold smuggled cigarettes has agreed to hand over more than £900,000 in assets...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Arrests at Brussels Islam protest
Belgian police arrest two leaders of a far-right party at a Brussels protest against the "Islamisation of Europe"...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Chavez reforms up before assembly
Venezuela's parliament is set to discuss for a second time President Chavez's call for constitutional changes...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Mugabe critic quits as archbishop
A vocal critic of Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns as an archbishop after an adultery scandal...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
England face crisis at fly-half
England could go into Friday's game against South Africa without a regular fly-half after Olly Barkley is injured in training...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Football: Japan deny England
England have to settle for a 2-2 draw in their Women's World Cup opener as Japan equalise with the last kick of the game...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Obesity 'threatens future of NHS'
Obesity tops a list of threats to the future of the health service, says the man whose work prompted a record rise in NHS funding...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
OFT ponders bank fees deal
The Office of Fair Trading may drop next year's High Court test case over bank overdraft charges, an official says...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Unions back 'co-ordinated' action
Unions vote for "co-ordinated industrial action" against the government over its below-inflation pay settlement...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Lover denies fatal drug injection
The former boyfriend of heroin-user Rachel Whitear denies he was with her the night the 21-year-old died...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US marks sixth 9/11 anniversary
Americans remember the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Democrats attack Iraq testimony
The two leading US figures in Iraq face criticism from Democratic presidential candidates in Congress...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
McCann files to be given to judge
Portuguese prosecutors are to hand over the files on the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann to a judge...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Political Fault Line Is Emphasized by Timing of Hearings
Hearings on the war in Iraq began just before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, but the significance of the timing depended on one?s view of the conflict...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Rocket Explodes at Israeli Army Base
ZIKIM, Israel (AP) -- A Palestinian rocket exploded in an Israeli army base early Tuesday, wounding more than 40 soldiers as they slept in their tents and drawing calls for a major military operation against militants launching rockets from the Gaza Strip...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
[TS] Politicus: America?s Misplaced Hopes on Russia
Moscow is blocking U.S. diplomacy on everything from Iranian sanctions to Kosovo...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
News Analysis: Petraeus Sees Bigger Role in Protecting Iraqi Civilians
In his testimony, Gen. David H. Petraeus proposed an American troop presence in Iraq that would be longer and larger than what many Democrats have advocated...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Mobile system promises free calls
A new way of making calls directly between two phones, for free, is being trialled by Swedish company TerraNet...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Top Gear host has another crash
Top Gear's Richard Hammond is involved in another car accident, less than a year after nearly dying in a stunt...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Unions push for showdown over pay
Public sector workers threaten "co-ordinated industrial action" against the government's pay settlement...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Term-time holidays fuel absences
Truancy in England's secondary schools dipped last autumn then rose again, with many days lost to holidays...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
UK retailers predict tough times
UK clothing retailers Next and French Connection warn of tough times ahead on the High Street...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Legionnaires' holidaymaker dies
An elderly man dies of Legionnaires' disease on his return to Scotland from a coach tour to Italy...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Seven-lane road inquiry to start
A public inquiry into controversial plans to upgrade a bypass into a seven-lane highway is to begin...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Minister defends Causeway move
The environment minister defends her decision to consider a privately-funded Giant's Causeway centre...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Leicester 'to become plural city'
A study claims Leicester will become the first British city to have no ethnic majority group in 12 years time...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Sharif deportation is challenged
Lawyers for Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif challenge his deportation in the Supreme Court...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US-Iranian to be released 'soon'
An Iranian-American academic detained in a Tehran prison since May says he expects to be freed soon...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US base in Germany acts on threat
German police launch an operation to "protect" a US military base after it receives a telephone bomb threat...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US housing woes 'acute'
The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Australia's PM vows not to quit
Australian PM John Howard insists he will lead his party into the next election, despite trailing in opinion polls...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Mugabe critic resigns as bishop
One of the most prominent critics of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe resigns as an archbishop...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Football: Draw for US women
Heather O'Reilly's rocket shot salvages a 2-2 draw for the United States of America against North Korea...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Football: England 'must deliver'
Steven Gerrard says England, who face Russia in a Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday, must end their recent record of under-achievement...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Dallaglio dropped for Boks clash
Lawrence Dallaglio is dropped as England make three changes for their World Cup match against South Africa on Friday...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Davidson exits after TV gay row
Comic Jim Davidson leaves ITV's Hell's Kitchen show after making "unacceptable" remarks...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Protesters arrested at arms fair
As one of the world's largest defence fairs starts in London, protesters target the conference venue...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Postal union set for more strikes
The postal workers union says it will announce further strikes after failing to agree a deal with the Royal Mail...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Iraq welcomes surge 'progress'
Iraq's government welcomes a positive report on the US troop surge by its top commander in the country...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Rocket injures dozens in Israel
At least 69 soldiers in southern Israel are injured by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, the army says...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
McCanns say life is 'unbearable'
Gerry McCann has described the situation surrounding his missing daughter Madeleine as "unbearable"...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Woman cleared of dog attack killing
A woman accused over a fatal dog attack on her granddaughter is found not guilty of her manslaughter...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Low Technologies, High Aims
M.I.T. has nurtured dozens of Nobel Prize winners in cerebral realms, but lately it has turned its attention toward concrete thinking to improve the lives of the poor...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
In Argentina, a Museum Unveils a Long-Frozen Maiden
The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology is displaying Los Niños, three of the best preserved mummies ever found...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
No Relief: In India, a Quest to Ease the Pain of the Dying
Although India produces more for the legal morphine industry than any other country, few Indians benefit...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Torture Charges for Ex-Dictator?s Son
A lawyer for the son of Charles G. Taylor entered a plea of not guilty to charges in a new indictment that says the son, Charles McArthur Emmanuel, tortured political opponents with fire ants and electric shocks...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Attack on Rabbi Is Condemned
The stabbing of a rabbi on a busy street in Frankfurt last Friday has prompted a storm of condemnation from German officials and representatives of Jewish groups...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: U.N. Leaders Say Iran Must Earn Trust
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Iran had to meet Security Council demands to suspend its enrichment programs and move beyond simple cooperation with United Nations nuclear inspectors...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: A Historic Handshake
Ian Paisley, the leader of Northern Ireland, and President Mary McAleese of the Irish Republic shook hands for the first time ? another symbolic milestone on Ireland?s road to reconciliation...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Hungary: Economic Changes Promised
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany promised to enact more economic reforms after he was criticized by Hungary?s president for stoking fears over the far right and for damaging civil rights...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Trial Opens for 2004 Hate Crime
Three men are on trial for desecrating more than 110 Jewish graves in eastern France in 2004...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Portugal: DNA Match for Missing Girl
The Portuguese police have confirmed that a trace of DNA found in the trunk of a rented car perfectly matches that of the missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick Dies
LONDON (AP) -- Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, who used her international cosmetics chain to promote eco-friendly practices long before they were widely fashionable, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Road Accident in Mexico Kills 37 in Huge Explosion
A truck carrying more than 50,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive used in the mining industry, blew up after crashing into a pickup truck and catching fire...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Rebels Blow Up Pipelines in Mexico, Disrupting Service
For the third time in three months, saboteurs blew up several pipelines belonging to Mexico?s state oil monopoly, disrupting service to dozens of factories and briefly rattling financial markets...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Army Captures Cartel Leader in Colombia
Soldiers in Colombia captured one of the world?s most wanted drug lords hiding in bushes in his underwear...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 26 in Southern Afghan Market
The bomb or bombs killed 13 policemen and 13 pedestrians. At least two dozen other people were wounded...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Prosecutors Say Close Ties With Iraq Led Texas Oilman to Take Part in Kickbacks
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. is a Texas oilman accused of violating American sanctions against Iraq, as well as skirting the rules of the United Nations oil-for-food program...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Political Fault Line Emphasized by Timing of Hearings
The hearings on the war in Iraq began just before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, but the significance of the timing depended on one?s view of the Iraq conflict...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
The TV Watch: Winning the Hearing Battle With No Sound Coming Out
If it is true that a battle?s outcome is determined before the first shot is fired, then Gen. David H. Petraeus won the first day of hearings before his microphone was turned on...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
9 American Soldiers Killed in Vehicle Accidents in Iraq
The deadliest of the vehicle accidents, in western Baghdad, killed seven soldiers and wounded 11...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
News Analysis: A Tale of Two Speeches: In Washington, American Ambassador?s Tone Is Upbeat
Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, gave Congress an assessment that left unmentioned or glossed over some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Rocket Hits Sleeping Israeli Soldiers
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a tent filled with sleeping soldiers at a southern Israeli army base, wounding more than 25 of them early Tuesday, Israeli medics and the army said...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Jihad Leader in Lebanon May Be Alive
The fugitive leader of a Sunni extremist group who led a prolonged standoff at a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli, Lebanon, may still be alive, officials said...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Seeking Terror?s Causes, Europe Looks Within
Many Europeans are looking inward to explain why Islamist extremists have made the Continent a favored target, while the U.S. has been spared for the past six years...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Meet in Jerusalem to Move Toward Peace Talks
The leaders agreed to set up a team of negotiators to flesh out their understandings of what a permanent, two-state solution would look like and require...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
New U.S. Law Credited in Arrests Abroad
The government?s ability to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists overseas led to the arrests of militants in Germany, the director of national intelligence said...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Discipline Aided Scholar in Iran Prison
Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American academic imprisoned for four months in Tehran, said she was able to endure by blocking out anything that reminded her of home...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Pakistan Edgy as Ex-Premier Is Exiled Again
Pakistan faced the prospect of fresh clashes after a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, was deported as he tried to return from exile on Monday...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Grozny Journal: Nonstop to Chechnya: As War Ebbs, Flights Return
Although sporadic violence continues in the formerly war-torn breakaway republic of Chechnya, the capital, Grozny, is in the midst of a building boom...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Complex Defeat for Nobel Winner in Guatemala
The reasons why Rigoberta Menchu, the first indigenous presidential candidate in Guatemala, lost nationwide elections on Sunday are as complex as the Mayans themselves...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
News Analysis: General Proposes Bigger Role in Protecting Iraqis
Gen. David H. Petraeus proposed an American presence that would provide for a greater American combat role in protecting the Iraqi population...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Petraeus Warns Against Quick Pullback in Iraq
Gen. David H. Petraeus said that by next summer the U.S. should be able to reduce its troop strength in Iraq to the level it was at before the recent increase...
New York Times - September 11, 2007
Tories square up for mayoral race
Four contenders hoping to be the Tories' London mayoral candidate set out their stalls at a hustings...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Labour 'out of touch' with mood
Former First Minister Henry McLeish claims Westminster Labour are out of touch with the mood in Scotland...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Pakistan ex-PM followers defiant
Supporters of Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif vow to pursue his campaign against military rule despite his expulsion...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Dozens hurt by rocket in Israel
More than 30 soldiers are hurt in southern Israel by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, reports say...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Wiretaps 'foiled terror attacks'
The US director of intelligence says eavesdropping helped foil a bomb attack by suspected Islamists in Germany...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US experts arrive in North Korea
A US team of experts have arrived in North Korea to discuss ways to disable the country's nuclear programme...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
EU gives up on 'metric Britain'
The European Union is abandoning plans to force Britain to phase out the imperial measurement system...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Fear of gun crime 'all over UK'
The fear of gun and knife crime affects people across the UK, even those in rural areas, reports a think tank...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Expensive antibiotics 'over-used'
GPs often prescribe the latest, most expensive antibiotics, when better alternatives are available, research suggests...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
Prosecutor to get Madeleine file
Police are to pass Madeleine McCann's case file to prosecutors who will decide whether to charge her parents...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
PM leads Anita Roddick tributes
Tributes pour in for the founder of the Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, who died aged 64...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
US general under fire over surge
Democrats in Congress challenge top US commander Gen Petraeus' positive view of the Iraq troop surge...
BBC News - September 11, 2007
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