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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 April 2006:
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Iraq's Parliament Will Convene Next Week
The announcement by the speaker of Parliament came on a bloody day, as a car bomb killed at least 26 people...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Prodi Confident of Victory as Italy Recounts Votes
The leader of the center-left coalition said he expected that the provisional results would stand...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Italian Minister Declines to Seek Extradition of C.I.A. Operatives
The 22 officers were accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan and flying him to Egypt for interrogation...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Fossils fill gap in human lineage
Fossil hunters find remains of a probable direct ancestor of humans that lived more than four million years ago...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Antibiotics 'could treat asthma'
Antibiotics could be used to treat asthma, ground-breaking research suggests...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Teachers receive 'record payouts'
Teachers from one of the largest unions were awarded a total of over £7.6m in compensation last year...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Sri Lanka violence leaves 16 dead
At least 16 people are killed in a market blast and ensuing riots in the Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee, police say...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Salt case couple to face retrial
A couple jailed for the salt poisoning manslaughter of a three-year-old boy win their appeal and face a retrial...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Aircraft bomb scare was a 'hoax'
Police confirm that no explosive device was found on the plane that was diverted to Prestwick airport...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Pointer Sisters singer dies at 52
Singer June Pointer, the youngest of the US group Pointer Sisters, dies of cancer...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Blast kills 25 near Iraqi mosque
A car bomb kills 25 people by a Shia Iraqi mosque near the city of Baquba as other attacks leave 17 dead...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Football: Boro make it to semis
Middlesbrough book their place in the last four of the FA Cup following a thrilling replay win over Charlton...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Football: Pompey rescue point
Lomana Lua Lua's second-half equaliser earns Portsmouth a valuable point...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Rebels close in on Chad capital
Rebels vowing to overthrow Chad's president are within 100km (65 miles) of the capital, foreign sources say...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Judge to decide explorer's fate
A Russian judge will decide whether a British explorer who is walking around the world should be tried for entering the country without paperwork...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
New powers 'will improve schools'
Local authorities are to get new powers to raise standards in poorly performing schools, says Ruth Kelly...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Transplant girl gets heart back
A girl is thought to be the first UK heart transplant patient to have her donor organ removed and her own heart restarted...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
British 'hacker' fears Guantanamo
A British hacker could end up at Guantanamo Bay if extradited to the US, his lawyer has claimed...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
ElBaradei puts pressure on Iran
UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Tehran for talks, amid international outcry over Iran's nuclear activities...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Today's Russian Newspapers
Russian-Georgia tensions worsen, and other news from Russia and the post-Soviet nations...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Iran Says It Is Making Nuclear Fuel, Defying U.N.
A top U.N. official was scheduled to arrive in Tehran today to make another appeal for Iran to halt its enrichment program...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Prodi Rejects Call for Coalition Government in Italy
Romano Prodi's center-left coalition gained a wisp of a victory in divisive national elections...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Deaths of U.S. Soldiers Climb Again in Iraq
At least 33 soldiers have been killed this month, already surpassing American military deaths for all of March...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Iran Details Nuclear Ambitions; Rice Urges 'Strong Steps'
Iran's declarations about its nuclear program drew international criticism, including from Condoleezza Rice...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Teachers condemn city academies
City academies amount to the privatisation of state education, teachers say...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
African fish leaps for land bugs
Belgian researchers describe a fish from Africa that can hunt and catch its prey on land...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Spears 'not facing' child probe
Britney Spears is not being investigated after a visit from child protection officers, her lawyer says...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Girl, nine, in canoe rescue drama
One girl is airlifted to hospital, and another child and adult are injured, after a canoe overturns in a Powys river...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
UK concern at Iran nuclear claim
Jack Straw says Iran must show by "words and actions" it is not trying to develop a nuclear bomb...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Health authorities being cut back
The number of strategic health authorities in England will be cut by 18 to 10, the health secretary has said...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Rapist guilty of pensioner murder
A Tyrone man released after a rape sentence is convicted of murdering Strabane woman Attracta Harron...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
French MPs back revised jobs law
France's lower house of parliament passes a youth employment law, amended after national protests...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Many killed after Sri Lanka blast
At least 14 people are killed in a market blast and ensuing riots in the Sri Lankan town of Trincomalee, police say...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Clairvoyant conman foresees jail
A judge tells a clairvoyant he probably predicted being jailed for conning money from a bereaved widow...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Football: PFA nominees revealed
Chelsea's John Terry has been nominated for the PFA Footballer of the Year Award along with team-mates Frank Lampard and Joe Cole...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Security tight in Chad's capital
Soldiers are deployed on the streets of Chad's capital as rebels claim to be advancing on three fronts...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Problems mount from 9/11 fallout
The number of people with medical problems linked to dust fallout from the 9/11 attacks rises to at least 15,000...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Papers to pay Rooney damages
Footballer Wayne Rooney accepts £100,000 damages from the publishers of the Sun and the News of the World...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
UK loses Guantanamo case
The Home Secretary loses a bid to deny a terror suspect held in Guantanamo Bay the right to British citizenship...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Cricket: Strauss leads way to win
Acting captain Andrew Strauss hits 74 as England beat India by five wickets in the sixth one-dayer...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Italy faces post-election limbo
Italy faces weeks of uncertainty as PM Silvio Berlusconi refuses to accept Romano Prodi's poll win...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
US jurors hear 9/11 cockpit tape
The jury in the Moussaoui trial hears a chilling recording of the last minutes aboard one of the hijacked 9/11 airliners...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Flight diverted after bomb alert
Tornado aircraft escort a Paris to Dublin flight to Prestwick Airport after an onboard security alert...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
World Bank Chief Outlines a War on Fraud
Paul D. Wolfowitz has in recent months made corruption the defining issue of his brief tenure at the bank...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Deaths of U.S. Soldiers Climb Again in Iraq
At least 32 soldiers have been killed this month, already surpassing American military deaths for all of March...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Search users 'stop at page three'
Most search engine users go through three pages of results before giving up, a study has found...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
UK wins Zimbabwean asylum appeal
The UK has won its appeals over a ruling that meant failed asylum seekers could not be deported to Zimbabwe...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Prostate cancer cholesterol link
Scientists have produced evidence linking high cholesterol levels to a raised risk of prostate cancer...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Assaults on teachers 'must stop'
Children who assault teachers must not be allowed to go unpunished, a union has demanded...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Spears in child protection visit
Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline are visited by child protection officers...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
NI firm begins collapse inquiry
A County Tyrone firm begins an inquiry into how scaffolding collapsed at one of its building sites in England...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Probation for infant death mother
A young mother who admitted smothering her newborn son at her parents' home avoids jail...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Auditor's warning on NHS finances
The NHS in Wales is facing mounting financial problems, according to a report by the auditor general...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
UK jobless figure keeps on rising
The number out of work in the UK has risen to 1.56 million, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Pakistan probe into deadly attack
Police in Pakistan investigate a suspected double suicide blast that killed at least 57 people at a religious festival...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Plea to save park's wild animals
Tigers, lions and other animals at a wildlife park may have to be put down unless a buyer is found in the next 11 days...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
French MPs consider new jobs law
France's parliament examines amendments to a youth employment law which sparked national protests...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Egypt frees 900 militants
Egypt has released about 900 members of the militant group Gamaa Islamiya, the interior ministry says...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Howard faces Iraq probe grilling
Australian PM John Howard is summoned to testify in person at an inquiry into alleged corruption over Iraq...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Chad government 'recaptures' town
Chad's government says it has retaken a key town as rebels claim to be advancing towards the capital on three fronts...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Football: Kenyon denies rift
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon says rumours of a rift with manager Jose Mourinho are "fabrication"...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Edmonds accepts libel damages
TV presenter Noel Edmonds accepts "substantial" libel damages from The Mail On Sunday newspaper...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Iraqi death squads 'not police'
Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr blames licensed and private security agencies for a wave of sectarian killings...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Iran urged to stop nuclear work
Russia joins the US in saying Iran's successful enrichment of uranium is a step in the "wrong direction"...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Water leak at Japan nuclear plant
Radioactive water leaks inside a Japanese nuclear compound, the latest in a series of atomic accidents...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Salt boy couple facing a retrial
A couple jailed for the salt poisoning manslaughter of a three-year-old boy, win their appeals but face a retrial...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Blair to push on with NHS reform
Tony Blair defends the government's reforms of the NHS, predicting they will lead to a stronger service...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Woman wins Herceptin court fight
A breast cancer patient wins her legal battle to be given the potentially life-saving drug Herceptin...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Injuries Mount as Demonstrators Battle With Police in Nepal
With the disruptive pro-democracy demonstrations mounting, so too were the questions about the very authority of the king...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Berlusconi Says He Will Contest Vote
The Italian prime minister alternately suggested a recount, or a German-style coalition government...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Police Seize Top Mafioso After 43 Years
Italian police caught up with Bernardo Provenzano near the Sicilian hilltop town of Corleone...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
50 Killed in Bombing at a Sunni Prayer Service in Karachi
The explosion occurred on a stage set up for some 35,000 worshipers who had gathered to mark the birth of the Prophet Muhammad...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
29 Are Indicted in Connection With Attacks in Madrid
A Spanish judge suggested that the group attacked Spain for its support of the American-led invasion of Iraq...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Iran Reports Big Advance in Enrichment of Uranium
The director of the U.N. atom agency is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to make another appeal for Iran to halt its enrichment program...
New York Times - April 12, 2006
Schools to get £50m for diplomas
Schools and colleges which offer diplomas in subjects like engineering will get an extra £50m, the government says...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Zimbabweans in key asylum ruling
Judges are to decide whether the UK government can deport failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Elderly 'dying undignified death'
More training is needed to help health workers deal with old and dying patients, a survey suggests...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
US condemns Iran nuclear advance
The United States says Iran is "moving in the wrong direction" by announcing it has enriched uranium...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Woman admits farm blackmail
A fourth person admits conspiracy to blackmail after a protest which included the desecration of a grave...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Harry to pass out from Sandhurst
Prince Harry is graduating from Sandhurst as a commissioned officer in the Army...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
China makes US trade concessions
China makes a number of trade concessions to the US ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit next week...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Venezuela marks coup anniversary
Venezuelans commemorate the fourth anniversary of a failed military coup against President Hugo Chavez...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Ministers quizzed on RAF flights
Ministers are urged to explain why they took hundreds of journeys on
the Queen's Flight...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Court to rule in Herceptin battle
The Court of Appeal is to rule on whether a breast cancer patient should receive a potentially life-saving drug...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Missing Briton's body found in NZ
The body of a missing British hiker is discovered in the New Zealand bush by a search team...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Iraqi minister denies terror link
Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr tells the BBC his forces have no connections with Shia death squads...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Inquiry into scaffolding collapse
Three workers are in hospital, two with serious injuries, after scaffolding collapses at a hotel construction site...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Blair seeking to calm NHS crisis
Tony Blair will meet local health bosses to discuss the growing financial crisis in the NHS amid spiralling job cuts...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Jurors shown 9/11 images
Pictures of dead Pentagon workers are shown to a court deciding the sentence for Zacarias Moussaoui...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
Police merger plan draws protest
The government's controversial plans to merge police forces are attacked by an alliance of local leaders...
BBC News - April 12, 2006
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