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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 June 2005:
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Iraq Moves Further Toward a Political Stalemate
Shiite leaders offered to give Sunnis 15 seats on the constitutional committee, but Sunnis rejected the offer. Also today, Iraqi police found 20 bodies buried in a field...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Hundreds of Women Protest Sex Discrimination in Iran
The protest was the first public display of dissent by women since the 1979 revolution...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Kuwait Appoints First Female Cabinet Member
The move marked another victory for women's rights activists just a month after they won the right to vote in the Persian Gulf state...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Lebanon Holds Third Phase of Parliamentary Election
Nearly half the 128-seat Parliament was elected today, with 34 Christian seats and 24 Muslim seats in the evenly divided body at issue in the central mountains and the Bekaa Valley...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Coldplay storm into album chart
Coldplay's latest album X&Y storms to the top of the chart with nearly 500,000 copies sold in its first week...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Results of Lebanon poll awaited
Counting of ballots is under way in Lebanon after the crucial third round of voting in parliamentary elections...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Pink Floyd reform for Live 8 show
Classic Pink Floyd line-up to reunite for Live 8 concert - 24 years after their last stage performance...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Batman gets European premiere
Christian Bale and Katie Holmes attend the European premiere of the new Batman film in London...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
F1: Raikkonen wins dramatic race
Kimi Raikkonen wins the Canadian Grand Prix from Michael Schumacher to give his title chances a big boost...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Cherie warned on Malaysia talk
Cherie Blair is asked to reconsider giving a law lecture in Malaysia unless she is willing to highlight its human rights record...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Iraqi police discover 20 bodies
The decomposing bodies of 20 men, bound and shot, are found in a shallow grave near Baghdad, Iraqi police say...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Freed journalist back in France
Journalist Florence Aubenas arrives in Paris after being held hostage for five months in Iraq with her interpreter...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Straw goes on EU budget offensive
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw calls the EU budget system "wasteful" as he defends the UK's £3bn rebate...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Blast Derails Moscow-Bound Train
A bomb derailed a passenger train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow today, injuring at least 15 people in what officials described as a terrorist attack...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Four Palestinians Executed in Gaza Strip
The executions marked the first time in about three years that the death penalty has been implemented by the Palestinian Authority...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Lebanese Rivals Face Off in a Crucial Stage in Elections
Parliamentary elections enter a crucial stage in the mountains above Beirut today as rival anti-Syrian candidates face off...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Mandela's G8 plea at Aids concert
Speaking at a benefit concert, Nelson Mandela urges the world's richest nations to tackle the HIV/Aids pandemic...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Hain 'can remain honest broker'
NI Secretary Peter Hain says his views back in the 1970s on a united Ireland were part of a bygone era...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Brush up on your nanotechnology
US scientists create the world's smallest brushes, with bristles more a thousand times finer than a human hair...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Balloon crash injures two women
Two women are treated for injuries in hospital after a hot air balloon crashes into a tree in Kent...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Car in canal owned by missing man
A body found in a car dumped in a canal is not identified but the car was owned by missing man Gareth O'Connor...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Police plea over warehouse murder
Detectives try to establish whether a man shot dead in a Glasgow warehouse knew his killer...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Friends' bodies in submerged car
The bodies of four friends - among them two brothers - are found in a car overturned in water near Newport...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Tennis: Roddick wins at Queen's
Andy Roddick beats Ivo Karlovic to claim his third straight Stella Artois Championship at Queen's...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Bishop condemns Harare evictions
The Catholic Archbishop of Harare, Robert Ndlovu, says Zimbabwe's slum-clearance policy is "inhuman"...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Chinese flood kills 87 children
A flash flood that hit a school in north-eastern China kills 91 people, most of them children, state media says...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Italy politicians defy Church
Leading Italian Catholic politicians defy a call by the Vatican to boycott a two-day referendum on fertility laws...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Five charged over Afghan kidnap
Five people are charged in connection with the kidnapping of an Italian aid worker who was freed on Thursday...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Legal threat over Sellafield leak
Investigators may prosecute over a leak of highly radioactive material at Sellafield nuclear plant...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
String of bomb blasts strike Iran
Five bombs explode in Iran killing at least nine people days before the presidential election...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Pink Floyd to play Live 8 show
Veteran rock band Pink Floyd are to play at next month's Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Unions hail school hours proposal
Teaching unions give a cautious welcome to plans that could see English schools stay open from 8am to 6pm...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Abigail's unborn baby still alive
The unborn child of three months pregnant Abigail Witchalls is doing well, says the hospital treating her...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Iraqis held over soldier deaths
Insurgents suspected of killing two British soldiers in Iraq have been arrested, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Straw ready to defend EU rebate
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw prepares to defend the £3bn EU rebate during negotiations in Luxembourg...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Digital shakes up entertainment
Film, TV and music makers are figuring out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Live 8 ticket offer closing looms
Pop fans have until Sunday night to apply for tickets for the UK's Live 8 concert...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Is debt relief the answer for Africa?
Finance ministers from the world's richest countries have agreed a deal to help some of the poorest nations...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Anger over death scene painting
Police brand artist Damien Hirst "insensitive" over plans to paint the murder scene of a father-of two...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Rail link reopens after 40 years
Passengers can try out the Vale of Glamorgan railway line from Sunday - for the first time since 1964...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Doubts over Eurotunnel's future
Eurotunnel's chairman warns that the company could face collapse by October unless it secures an agreement with its creditors to reduce its huge debt...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Abbas brings back death penalty
Four prisoners are executed after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas revives the death penalty...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Indian PM visits Siachen glacier
Indian PM Manmohan Singh says the Siachen glacier in Kashmir should become a "peace mountain" between India and Pakistan...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Five injured as balloon hits tree
Five people are taken to hospital suffering serious injuries after a hot air balloon crashes into a tree in Kent...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Blockades in Bolivia city removed
The last remaining blockades around Bolivia's main city La Paz are lifted, allowing fuel in for the first time in weeks...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Portuguese ex-PM Goncalves dies
Vasco Goncalves, a leader of Portugal's 1974 revolution and former prime minister, dies aged 83...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Italians vote on fertility laws
Italians are voting on changes to fertility law in a poll the Catholic Church has urged them to boycott...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Rugby: Taylor out of Lions tour
Scotland's Simon Taylor is ruled out of the Lions tour to New Zealand after failing to recover from a hamstring injury...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Bombs kill several in Iran city
At least five people die in bombings in south-western Iran, as the country prepares for elections next week...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
French journalist freed in Iraq
French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter are freed after five months of captivity in Iraq...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Videotape of Serbian Police Killing 6 Muslims From Srebrenica Grips Balkans
The videotape has brought the pain of that time to the surface for the families of the men killed, but is also having an effect in Serbia...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
122 Are Killed by Flood and Fire in China
The authorities in Beijing were struggling to handle the disasters thousands of miles apart...
New York Times - June 12, 2005
Blair embarks on G8 summit talks
The PM is heading on a tour to discuss Africa and climate change with world leaders ahead of the G8 summit...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
'Test tube' hope for hep C drug
US scientists have been able to create infectious hepatitis C in the lab for the first time, offering renewed hope of drugs to beat the virus...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Iran journalist returns to prison
An Iranian dissident journalist returns to prison after vanishing for three days while on temporary medical leave...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Woman held over death of man, 72
A woman, 27, is being held on suspicion of murder over the death of a 72-year-old Surrey man...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Body recovered from car in canal
Police looking for a missing Armagh man find a body in a car which was recovered from a canal...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Bolivia capital returns to normal
The last remaining blockades around Bolivia's capital La Paz are lifted, allowing fuel in for the first time in weeks...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Climate row US official resigns
A senior White House official resigns after reportedly playing down global warming in official documents...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Extra school hours plan unveiled
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly will detail plans that could see English schools opening from 8am to 6pm...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Lebanese vote in key poll round
Nearly half the seats in parliament are up for grabs in the third round of Lebanon's staggered elections...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Nuclear plant to close for months
Part of Sellafield's nuclear reprocessing plant may be closed for months after a leak of highly radioactive material, the BBC learns...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Crunch EU summit considers rebate
EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the future of Europe's constitution and the UK's £3bn rebate...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Tyson quits boxing after defeat
Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson says he will quit boxing after losing to Irishman Kevin McBride...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
Cautious welcome for G8 debt deal
Campaigners welcome a debt relief package for some of the world's poorest countries, but say more should benefit...
BBC News - June 12, 2005
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