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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2006:
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Truck Bomb in Iraq Kills 70 in Crowd of Shiites
More than 230 were wounded when a pickup truck packed with explosives was detonated in a crowded square in the city?s center...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Kylie's New Year's Eve London gig
Pop star Kylie Minogue returns to the UK stage to play a one-off London concert on New Year's Eve...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Strategy to tackle rising obesity
NICE has recommended a raft of measures to tackle the growing obesity epidemic...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Nationalist pledge on council tax
The Scottish National Party has pledged to freeze council tax levels if it wins next year's Holyrood elections...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Free ATMs pledge for poor areas
Up to 600 free-to-use cash machines are to be sited in low income areas of the country, a committee of MPs says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Iran: Israel 'will end like USSR'
Iran's president tells a forum in Tehran questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days are numbered...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Bush delays fresh Iraq strategy
The US president postpones his announcement of a new American strategy for Iraq until early next year...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Ashes: 'Give Harmison new ball'
Former England bowler John Lever says Steve Harmison's talents are not being fully utilised in Australia...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Army inquiry into Deepcut death
An Army inquiry into the death of Private Geoff Gray at Deepcut barracks has been launched, the MoD says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Troop shortages 'a clear danger'
A lack of personnel is creating a "clear danger" the military will be unable to maintain its commitments, MPs warn...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Truck Bombing Kills at Least 56 in Baghdad
At least 220 were wounded when a pickup truck packed with explosives was detonated in a crowded square in the city’s center...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
'Improving school' faces closure
A London school is told it must close despite making good progress and coming out of special measures...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
BBC puts celebrities in TV court
Disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer and actress Honor Blackman will serve on a the jury of a fictional rape trial...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Iran a 'major threat', says Blair
Prime Minister Tony Blair says Iran's "deeply extreme" regime poses a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Assembly budget is facing defeat
The assembly government faces defeat in a key budget vote but an opposition split could save its day...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Cadbury salmonella bill hits £30m
Cadbury Schweppes raises the estimated cost of a salmonella outbreak at one of its plants to £30m...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Hunger striker taken to hospital
A rapist on hunger strike in a protest over his innocence is to be given intravenous nutrition, a judge rules...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Holocaust meeting provokes outrage
A conference in Iran questioning whether the Holocaust took place draws international condemnation...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Indian school throws out HIV boy
A HIV-postitive boy of four is thrown out of nursery in southern India after complaints from parents...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Interpol joins Litvinenko inquiry
Interpol joins the investigation into the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, officials say...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Mengistu found guilty of genocide
Ethiopia's Marxist former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Football: Curbishley talks
Chairman Eggert Magnusson opens talks with Alan Curbishley about West Ham's managerial vacancy...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Chambers' track future in doubt
Dwain Chambers will miss the indoor season and might not compete again, says his agent Cubie Seegobin...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Tributes paid at Pinochet funeral
The family and supporters of Chile's ex-military ruler pay their last tributes to his presidency at his funeral...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Man convicted of shooting officer
A man is found guilty of the attempted murder of a Nottinghamshire police officer...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
UK 'won't cut and run' from Iraq
British forces will not follow a "prescriptive timetable" for withdrawal, Defence Secretary Des Browne says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
New UK pension scheme is unveiled
Plans to enrol millions of workers into a new pension system automatically are unveiled by the government...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Royal Marine dies in Afghanistan
A Royal Marine has died during an exchange of fire with insurgents in Afghanistan, the MoD confirms...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Murder police find two more dead
Police investigating the murder of three prostitutes in Suffolk find two bodies, feared to be two missing women...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Iran Opens Conference on Holocaust
The gathering included Holocaust deniers, discredited scholars and white supremacists under the guise of a “debate” on the era...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Killing of 3 Young Children Worsens Palestinian Tension
Gunmen killed three sons of a Palestinian security officer who is a member of Fatah, which is locked in a power struggle with Hamas...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Iraqis Consider Ways to Reduce Power of Cleric
Several major political parties are in talks to form a coalition to break the influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, Iraqi officials say...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Community websites take wiki path
The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Move to block Borat DVD rejected
A US judge rejects a move by two university students to halt the DVD release of the spoof movie Borat...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Nasdaq unveils hostile LSE offer
The Nasdaq reveals a £2.7bn hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Police close DNA match sex case
The inquiry into a 1987 sex attack on a 14-year-old boy is closed following DNA tests and the suicide of a suspect...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Anti-bigotry football body set up
A plan aims to call full time on sectarianism in Scottish football by establishing a new national body...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Youths charged over street murder
Two teenagers are charged with murder after a 43-year-old man is kicked to death in an Oxfordshire town...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Pensioners targeted in robberies
Five elderly pensioners are targeted in separate robberies at their homes in County Antrim...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
UN fears for Sri Lanka civilians
The UN says it is "deeply concerned" that civilian areas are being shelled by both sides in Sri Lanka's conflict...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Bahrain names Shia deputy premier
The Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf state of Bahrain appoints its first Shia Muslim deputy prime minister...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Chileans set for Pinochet funeral
A funeral is to be held for Chile's former military leader, Augusto Pinochet, in the capital, Santiago...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Ethiopia deadline to quit Somalia
Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack"...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Aceh frontrunner praises election
The man expected to be Aceh's new governor hails the province's first direct vote but says hard work lies ahead...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Cricket: Pietersen 'ready'
Kevin Pietersen says England will take the attack to Australia in the third Ashes Test in Perth...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Football: Angel escapes action
Juan Pablo Angel will not face FA action over his alleged elbow on Chris Morgan as referee Mark Halsey included it in his report...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Princes reveal Diana concert plan
Sir Elton John and Duran Duran are to perform at a memorial concert for Princess Diana at Wembley next year...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
West Ham talk to Curbishley
Former Charlton boss Alan Curbishley says West Ham want to talk to him about becoming their new manager...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Woman's double hand transplant
A Spaniard has become the first woman in the world to receive a double hand transplant...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Sport 'social drugs' ban queried
Sports people should not be banned for using "social" drugs, UK sports minister Richard Caborn suggests...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Gaza protest erupts in violence
Supporters of rival Palestinian groups exchange gunfire in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least four people, reports say...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Folic acid 'should be in flour'
Folic acid should be added to flour to cut the risk of birth defects such as spina bifida, experts have recommended...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
UK experts back primate research
There is a strong scientific and moral case for using primates in medical research, a report concludes...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Terror stop and search questioned
The UK's senior counter terrorism police officer has queried the value of stop-and-search powers...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Third prostitute was asphyxiated
Anneli Alderton, who was found dead in woods near Ipswich, was asphyxiated, Suffolk police say...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
News Analysis: Legacy of Division Survives Pinochet
The timing of Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s death has left a host of troubling legal and political questions unresolved...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Annan Urges U.S. to Reject Unilateralism
The departing secretary general challenged the Bush administration to shun go-it-alone diplomacy...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Hospitalizations in Hamburg Tied to Radiation
Four people who had contact with a business associate of a murdered former Russian spy were hospitalized on Monday...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Eastern Europe Struggles to Purge Security Services
Soviet-era security services are still sending shudders through the region nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Perils of Somali Flood: Hunger and Beasts
A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the area’s woes to a whole new level...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Iraqis Consider Ways to Reduce Power of Cleric
Several major political parties are in talks to form a coalition to break the influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, Iraqi officials say...
New York Times - December 12, 2006
Tories demand human rights focus
The Foreign Office must do more to promote human rights, shadow foreign secretary William Hague says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
43 maternity units 'under threat'
Forty-three maternity units across the UK are under threat, the Conservatives have warned...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
'Only 50%' finish apprenticeships
Only half of work-based apprenticeships in England are completed, the chief inspector for adult learning says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Efforts stepped up to end bigotry
Ministers are to publish new plans to tackle sectarianism in Scotland, particularly in football...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Call centre services 'declining'
More than a third of Britons believe the level of service they receive from call centres has got worse, a survey says...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
UN chief encouraged by Aceh poll
The UN secretary general says he is encouraged by the "orderly conduct" in historic elections in Aceh, Indonesia...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
UN rights body to discuss Darfur
The UN Human Rights Council is to hold an emergency session on the conflict in Sudan's region of Darfur...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Cricket: Aussies 'look past Ashes'
Australia vice-captain Adam Gilchrist says the Ashes "are not the be-all and end-all"...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Paedophile moved from home
A convicted paedophile is moved from his Somerset home by police after angry residents gather outside his door...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
World's oldest person dies at 116
American Elizabeth Bolden, officially recognised as the world's oldest person, dies at the age of 116...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Experts 'to back monkey testing'
UK research organisations are expected to back scientific experiments on monkeys after an 18-month review...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Israeli PM in nuclear arms hint
Israel's PM appears to come close to admitting it has nuclear arms, but officials deny a change of policy...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
New pension plan to be unveiled
Details of a new national pension system will be unveiled in a government White Paper...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Dozens killed in Baghdad blasts
At least 54 people are killed and over 140 injured in two car bombs in a main square in central Baghdad...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Murder police comb red light zone
Police spend the night patrolling Ipswich's red light area as the hunt continues for the killer of two prostitutes...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Arctic sea ice 'faces rapid melt'
The Arctic may be free of all summer ice by as early as 2040, new data from scientists suggests...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
Postal service 'far too patchy'
The postal service in some areas is "chronically poor", while customers are not always the priority, MPs say...
BBC News - December 12, 2006
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