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A-Rod in Mexico City on same weekend as Madonna
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Madonna, Alex Rodriguez in Mexico City
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle Endeavour lands in California
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle lands in Calif. after 16-day mission
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle Endeavour finishes 16-day mission
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Orphan of slain rabbi in Mumbai lands in Israel
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Raul Castro attends first beatification in Cuba
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Refugees from Bhutan settle in Pittsburgh
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2005:
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Investigator Says Syria Was Behind Lebanon Assassination
The prosecutor conducting the U.N. inquiry said today that Syrian officials were obstructing his investigation...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
French Arrest More Than 20 Islamic Radicals and Petty Criminals
The police said the more than 20 Islamic radicals and petty criminals who they asserted were plotting terrorist acts in France...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Croatian Suspect in War Crimes Appears Before Tribunal
Ante Gotovina, the retired general from Croatia, remained polite and distant during his appearence today before the war crimes tribunal in The Hague...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Bush Hails Iraqi Election, but Says It Won't End Violence
In the third of four planned addresses on the Iraq war, the president said about 30,000 Iraqis were killed...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Oil fire 'particles' shut schools
Safety fears are forcing the closure of hundreds of schools, after the explosions at the Buncefield oil depot...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
800 species in last chance saloon
Researchers identify sites where species are heading for imminent extinction, and propose steps to save them...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
UK poor fall to lowest since 1987
The extent of poverty in the UK has improved in the last year, says a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Hospital waits 'still too long'
Patients do not think the achievements with hospital waiting times are good enough, a survey says...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Syria faces more Lebanon pressure
Syria faces growing pressure over its role in Lebanon, after the murder of an anti-Syrian MP and the latest UN report...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Afghanistan hit by strong quake
A strong earthquake hits north-eastern Afghanistan, the US Geological Survey says...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Night-time deer cull on busy road
Deer straying onto the A9 in Perthshire are to be shot at night by a marksman in a bid to reduce accidents...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Football: Ticket boost for England
England supporters are set to receive more tickets if their World Cup opponents fail to sell their full allocation...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Football: Spurs beat Pompey
Spurs come from behind to beat Portsmouth in Harry Redknapp's first game back in charge...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Oil depot fire crews resume work
Firefighting crews tackling the blaze at a Hertfordshire oil depot resume work after fears of a blast halted work...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
US ex-gang boss denied clemency
Arnold Schwarzenegger denies clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams, due to be executed on Tuesday...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Officers arrest Pc murder suspect
Officers hunting the killers of a policewoman arrest one of the men named as a suspect, after an armed siege...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Immigrants' Dreams Mix With Fury Near Paris
The town of La Courneuve has become a symbol of France's failure to integrate Arab and African immigrants...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
War Crimes Case Revives Passions in a Divided Croatia
Ante Gotovina, who faces a war-crimes trial at The Hague, is seen as a war hero at home...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Iraq Prison Raid Finds a New Case of Mistreatment
A raid of an Iraqi government detention center in Baghdad turned up more than 600 prisoners packed into a cramped space, 13 of them requiring hospital treatment...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Car Bomb Kills Anti-Syrian Lawmaker in Beirut
Gibran Tueni, a Lebanese lawmaker, was also the general manager of the independent newspaper and a vocal critic of Syria...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Narnia tops US and UK box offices
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film takes $109.1m (£61.5m) in 13 countries, according to industry figures...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Oil blast to keep schools closed
Hundreds of schools will be closed for a second day, following the explosions at the Buncefield oil depot...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
E.coli firm reopens for business
A meat firm at the centre of an E.coli outbreak inquiry plans to rebuild after it is allowed to trade again...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
British Gas in Acas strike offer
British Gas offers to enter into conciliation talks in an attempt to end the pensions dispute that sparked a strike...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Woman died on cannabis drug trial
An inquest investigates whether there is a link between a woman's death and a cannabis-based drug she was taking...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
No statement on 'spy' case: Hain
The NI Secretary says he sees no need for a statement about the dropping of charges over an alleged IRA spy ring...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Lebanon PM urges UN investigation
Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora calls on the UN to investigate attacks against anti-Syrian figures, after an MP is killed...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Croat suspect denies war crimes
Croatian war crimes suspect General Ante Gotovina pleads not guilty to war crimes charges at the Hague tribunal...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Museveni rival set to run in poll
Uganda's opposition leader can submit his election nomination papers from prison, the election commission says...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Asian group raps Burma on rights
South East Asian body Asean makes an unusually direct call on Burma to free political prisoners...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Cricket: Pakistan crush England
Shoaib Akhtar takes 5-54 and Kamran Akmal hits 102 as Pakistan beat England by seven wickets to level the one-day series...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Environmental impact of oil blaze
The Buncefield oil depot fire could pose environmental dangers but there is little sign of damage so far...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Controls on five terror suspects
Five new control orders have been imposed on terror suspects, restricting their movement...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Vioxx court case ends in mistrial
A US judge declares a mistrial in the first federal lawsuit against drugs giant Merck and its Vioxx painkiller...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Second night of riots hits Sydney
Fresh violence breaks out in Sydney, despite PM John Howard's condemning the weekend's race riots...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Pc murder suspect, 24, arrested
Police say a man wanted over the killing of a Bradford policewoman is held in south Wales on Monday...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Jail for 'honour killing' family
A father and his two sons who murdered his daughter's boyfriend in an "honour killing" receive life imprisonment...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Blast fears halt depot fire crews
Crews tackling the blaze at a Hertfordshire oil depot withdraw from the site amid fears of a potential explosion...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Report Ties Sudan Chief to Darfur Crimes
The United Nations should impose penalties on top political and military leaders in Sudan and investigate crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Iraq Prison Raid Finds a New Case of Mistreatment
A raid of an Iraqi government detention center in Baghdad turned up more than 600 prisoners packed into a cramped space, 13 of them requiring hospital treatment...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Military Officer Tied to Killings Is Held by China
The response suggested high-level concern over whether a crackdown on villagers protesting land seizures was justified...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Online anti-piracy service closes
A firm that used to seed file-sharing networks with fake copies is being shut down...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Narnia works US box office magic
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film takes $67m (£38m) in the US, according to studio estimates...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Magnetic north pole drifting fast
The Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Too soon to judge Cameron - Blair
Tony Blair warns David Cameron's abilities should not be judged over a week but over "months and years"...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
House price inflation falls again
UK house prices continued to slowdown in October, according to the government's own house price survey...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Murder case 'shortcomings' found
An independent review into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a Fife teenager is published...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
India MPs suspended for 'bribes'
India's main political parties suspend nine members of parliament for allegedly taking bribes, say party officials...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Residents protest for flood money
Homeowners whose properties were damaged in flooding in south Belfast are to protest at Stormont...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Howard condemns riots in Sydney
Australian PM John Howard calls for ethnic and religious tolerance in the wake of race riots in Sydney...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Croatian suspect appears in Hague
Croatian war crimes suspect General Ante Gotovina makes his first appearance at the Hague war crimes tribunal...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
In pictures: Fuel depot blasts
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BBC News - December 12, 2005
Officials track oil blast cloud
The plume of black smoke from the oil depot explosions in Hemel Hempstead will remain as firefighters tackle the blaze...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Companies assess blast damage
Online retailer ASOS and Dixons owner DSG are among many firms assessing the damage from the weekend's oil depot fire...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Straw: 'No record' of CIA flights
The UK has no records of US requests for permission to use its airports to move CIA suspects, says Jack Straw...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Wikipedia joker eats humble pie
The man who added fake data to a biography on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has apologised...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Abortion 'leaves mental legacy'
An abortion can cause five years of mental anguish, research suggests...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Beirut bomb kills anti-Syria MP
A car bomb kills a vocal Lebanese critic of Syria as the UN gets a new report on the killing of ex-PM Hariri...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Falconio judge in drugs warning
Claims that the man accused of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio is a drug-runner do not make him a killer, a judge says...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Fire crews move to quell inferno
Firefighters are smothering the blaze raging at a Hertfordshire oil depot with a gigantic foam blanket...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Father cleared of murdering son
A father who smothered his terminally-ill 10-year-old son with a pillow is cleared of murder...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
2 in Chile Are Headed for a Presidential Runoff
With ballots counted in the first round of voting in Chile's presidential election Sunday, Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera have advanced to a decisive runoff...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Pacific Quake Prompts Tsunami Warning
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 jolted an area off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific on Monday...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Boys of Baghdad College Vie for Prime Minister
The three front-runners for prime minister of Iraq, once schoolmates, have very different visions for their country's future...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
War Crimes Case Revives Passions in a Torn Croatia
Since the arrest of Ante Gotovina, one of the most wanted suspects from the Balkan wars, protests have erupted in Croatia, where many see the ex-general as a hero...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Political Activism Begins to Take Hold in Kyrgyzstan
More than eight months after what has been called both a popular revolution and a coup, Kyrgyzstan is taking steps toward embracing the fundamentals of democracy...
New York Times - December 12, 2005
Limited optimism for trade deal
As global trade leaders arrive in Hong Kong for key talks, there is little optimism that they can secure a new deal...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Blair's drive to combat criminals
Tony Blair will today back plans to grant police greater powers to claw back cash and assets from criminals and combat anti-social behaviour...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Arctic orcas highly contaminated
Killer whales have become the most contaminated mammals in the Arctic, new research indicates...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Diplomats seek clues on hostages
Diplomats in Iraq are trying to discover the fate of British hostage Norman Kember and three colleagues...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Review of killer inquiry awaited
A review of a police and council report on the handling of teenage killer Colyn Evans is due to be published...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Rows may overshadow Asian summits
East Asia's leaders gather for Asean and East Asia summits in Kuala Lumpur with rows threatening the harmony...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Chilean election set for run-off
Michelle Bachelet polls under 50% in her bid to become Chile's first woman president, setting up a run-off...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Croat suspect to appear in Hague
Croatian war crimes suspect General Ante Gotovina is to make his first appearance at the Hague war crimes tribunal...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Terminal key part of oil network
Background details on the Buncefield fuel depot that has been rocked by explosions...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
'Bomb blast' rocks Athens square
Athens is rocked by a bomb explosion at a post office in the city's main Syntagma Square, police say...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Siege ends with man still missing
An armed siege at a house in south Wales ends but police say the suspect remains on the loose...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Survey finds optimism in Iraq
Iraqis are generally optimistic about their lives but remain concerned about security, a BBC opinion poll finds...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
'It's a miracle I survived'
Security guard Raheel Ashraf escaped with a few scratches after being caught up in the fuel depot explosion...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Smoke cloud spreading
A plume of black smoke spreads over southern England after a series of explosions at an oil depot...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
Clues destroyed as inferno rages
As firefighters prepare to douse a raging blaze at an oil depot it is feared the flames may have destroyed clues...
BBC News - December 12, 2005
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