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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 July 2007:
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Israeli Soldier Killed in Gaza
JERUSALEM, July 12 ? An Israeli soldier was killed early this morning during a military incursion in the central Gaza Strip, an army spokesman said. He was the first Israeli killed in combat since November 2006...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
2 Journalists Among 16 Killed in Clash in Iraq
Two Reuters journalists were killed today during a battle between the American military and Shiite militias...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
House Rebukes Bush in Vote Calling for Iraq Troop Pullout
The House approval of a bill calling for troops to be pulled out of Iraq by next April came hours after a White House report was released that found some progress on political and security goals in Iraq...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
News Analysis: Defending an Iraq Strategy in a Race Against Time
Some of President Bush?s aides acknowledge that the surge of American forces that Mr. Bush defended so ardently today is already on borrowed time...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
London's small but relentless dip
Scientists trace London's inexorable sinking in a study that will be critical to the planning of defences against sea level rise...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Breast cancer targets 'failing'
An "alarming" number of patients with suspected breast cancer wait too long for diagnosis, doctors warn...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
2007 set to be 'one of warmest'
This year is set to be one of the warmest on record in Scotland, environmental campaigners say...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Sarkozy's wife visits HIV medics
The French president's wife meets the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Rugby L: Bradford docked points
Bradford are docked two Super League points for breaching the salary cap while St Helens escape with a £22,000 fine...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Football: Tevez set for medical
Man Utd distance themselves from reports Carlos Tevez is set for a Tuesday medical at the club...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Government websites 'hard to use'
Many government websites are still too complicated and difficult to use, says a report by the National Audit Office...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
UK girls on Ghana drugs charges
Two 16-year-old students from London arrested in West Africa allegedly carrying cocaine worth £300,000 are "provisionally charged"...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Inquiry ordered into June floods
A government review is ordered into whether floods in parts of England could have been prevented...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
'Core values' to combat poverty
Douglas Alexander MP says core values must be employed in order to tackle global poverty...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
US House votes for troop pullout
The US House of Representatives passes a bill to withdraw most combat troops from Iraq by April 2008...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Captured Pakistani Cleric Leads Funeral for Slain Brother
BASTI ABDULLAH, Pakistan (AP) -- The captured chief cleric of a militant mosque led the funeral for his slain brother Thursday and predicted that the deaths of the mosque's defenders in an army raid would push Pakistan toward an ''Islamic revolution.''...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Photographer, Driver Killed in Iraq
LONDON (AP) -- An Iraqi photographer and driver employed by Reuters news agency were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in an area where U.S. forces were battling militants, the London-based agency said...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Report on Iraq Sees Progress; Bush Rejects Troop Pullout
With the release today of a White House report finding some progress on political and security goals in Iraq, President Bush said that it was premature to be talking about a troop withdrawal...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Game shooting laws to be relaxed
Restrictions on shooting and selling game dating back to the 1830s will end in England and Wales from August...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Reprieve sought for 'sacred' bullock
Hindu monks trying to save a "sacred" bullock facing slaughter will learn on Monday if there will be a judicial review...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Families' anger over Shipman song
The families of victims of Harold Shipman condemn a song about the killer by shamed DJ Jonathan King...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Musharraf vows war on militants
President Musharraf vows to end terrorism in Pakistan after dozens are killed by an army assault on a radical mosque...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
US firings row aide defies House
Ex-White House aide Harriet Miers refuses to appear at a congressional hearing into the dismissal of prosecutors...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Liberia 'to seize Taylor assets'
Liberia's government starts moves to seize the assets of former President Charles Taylor...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Babel to join Liverpool on Friday
Ajax striker Ryan Babel will sign for Liverpool on Friday for a fee reported to be £11.5m...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Cycling: Pozzato snatches victory
Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloden suffer injuries on stage five of the Tour de France, which Filippo Pozzato wins in a sprint...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Columnist Dempster dies aged 65
The Daily Mail's editor pays tribute to the "brilliant" diary writer Nigel Dempster, who has died aged 65...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Langham 'abused vulnerable girl'
Award-winning actor Chris Langham groomed, corrupted and abused a vulnerable teenage girl for three years, a court is told...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Oxford man admits Harrow killing
An Oxford student pleads guilty to killing the daughter of a Harrow schoolmaster in her own home...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
A British soldier is killed and two others are injured in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Bush says US can succeed in Iraq
President Bush says the US can still succeed in Iraq, as a report finds limited success by Baghdad in meeting US goals...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Soldiers' deaths 'were avoidable'
A coroner says the "friendly fire" killing of two British soldiers in Iraq was "completely avoidable"...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Bomb Kills Six Afghan Police Officers
Six Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle, part of a convoy of U.S.-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial police official said...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Israeli Soldier Killed in Gaza
Israeli troops and Palestinian militants clashed in the Gaza Strip and one soldier was killed in an operation against ?terror threats,? the army said...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Lebanese Army Pounds Islamic Militants
The Lebanese army pounded a refugee camp with artillery fire, but it was uncertain if they were preparing for a final assault on Islamic militants barricaded inside...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
South Korea Sends Oil Aid to North Korea
South Korea sent a shipload of oil to North Korea, a move expected to trigger the communist nation to shut down its only working nuclear reactor...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Bush to Declare Gains in Iraq on Some Fronts
A White House report will cite satisfactory progress on some benchmarks but will qualify other verdicts by saying it is too early to make final judgments...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Sony refines PSP console design
Sony unveils a re-designed PlayStation Portable which is slimmer and lighter than the original...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
BBC apologises over Queen clips
The BBC apologises to the Queen after clips implied she walked out during a portrait session...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
MPs urge 'more support for' TA
Part-time soldiers play an "integral part" in Britain's defence and need better training and support, MPs say...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Postal workers in 24-hour strike
Postal workers are to stage another 24-hour strike as part of a continuing row over pay and jobs...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Man jailed over city pub shooting
A man who shot a football fan outside an Edinburgh pub with a sawn-off shotgun is sentenced to 10 years in prison...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Thousands attend Orange parades
Tens of thousands of Orangemen and supporters are attending Northern Ireland's 12 July parades...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Langham child sex trial under way
The trial of award-winning actor Chris Langham who is accused of a string of child sex offences begins...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Pakistan buries Red Mosque dead
The bodies of dozens of people killed after Pakistani troops stormed a mosque in Islamabad are buried...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Lebanon army shells refugee camp
The Lebanese army resumes shelling militants inside a Palestinian refugee camp near the city of Tripoli...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Total chosen as Gazprom partner
Russia's Gazprom chooses French energy firm Total as a partner to develop the Shtokman gas field...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Campaigning starts in Japan polls
Campaigning is under way for Japan's upper house polls, with PM Shinzo Abe aware a defeat could cost him his job...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Owen rejects Newcastle exit talk
Michael Owen dismisses speculation that he wants to leave Newcastle...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Heavy shelling in Somali capital
Shells are fired at the presidential palace and the venue for peace talks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Support offer at bus crash school
Assemblies offering support are held for children involved in a bus crash which left 20 people hurt - two seriously...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Potter embargo 'could be broken'
The final Harry Potter novel could hit shelves earlier than expected as shops try to gain an edge over competitors...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Plea to build new council houses
Campaigners for more council houses are hopeful after Gordon Brown unveiled plans for three million new homes...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Lib Dems plan 4p cut in tax rate
The Lib Dems propose cutting the basic income tax rate in changes they say will benefit those earning up to £68,000...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Curriculum to be 'more flexible'
England's secondary curriculum is overhauled to 'get the basics right' and make teaching more flexible...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
UK girls in Ghana drugs arrests
Two 16-year-old students from London are arrested in Ghana allegedly carrying cocaine worth £300,000...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Robot unravels mystery of walking
Roboticists are using the lessons of 1930s human physiology to build the world's fastest walking robot...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Bush to give 'mixed' Iraq report
The White House is expected to give Congress an interim report on progress in Iraq showing mixed results...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
America?s Pastime Is Only a Blip in Soccer-Crazed Brazil
Brazil?s national amateur team hopes that a strong performance in the Pan American Games can help put baseball on the map in a country where the most popular sport by far is soccer...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Chile: Supreme Court Judge Rejects Extradition of Fujimori
Rejecting recommendations by government prosecutors and lower courts, a Chilean Supreme Court judge has ruled that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, should not be extradited to his homeland. Mr. Fujimori was overthrown in 2000 and left exile in Japan to come to Chile in 2005. Peruvian courts have charged him with corruption, human rights violations and other crimes during the decade he was in power, but Judge Orlando Álvarez said they had not supplied sufficient proof. The Justice Minister, María Zavala, said, ?We?ve lost the battle but not the war.? She predicted that the verdict would be overturned when an appeal reached the full Supreme Court...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Kenya: Slaying of Toddler Linked to Illegal Sect
A 2-year-old toddler was beheaded and chopped up in a slum in Nairobi, the capital, the police said. The killing occurred during a fierce crackdown on an illegal sect blamed for a string of murders and decapitations. The boy?s mutilated torso was discovered in a maize farm and his head 500 yards away at a river bank, the police said. The condition of the body raised speculation of a link to rites used by the politically linked Mungiki sect. The remains were discovered hours after the police said they had killed 12 people in a crackdown on organized crime gangs in Nairobi, including members of Mungiki...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Former Premier May Face Smear Charges
The former prime minister Dominique de Villepin may face charges for his part in a 2004 plot to smear Nicolas Sarkozy before Mr. Sarkozy won the presidency. The so-called Clearstream affair involved false documentation that listed Mr. Sarkozy, then Mr. de Villepin?s chief political rival, as the beneficiary of bribes paid to a secret bank account. Mr. de Villepin was called back from a vacation last week when investigators searched his Paris home and office. He has since issued a statement saying that he will answer investigators? questions later this month and that he may be placed under official investigation...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: European Union: Action to Help Poor Nations Get Drugs
The European Union will exclude medicine patent provisions from future trade deals with poorer countries to ease their access to cheaper drugs, the bloc?s executive commission announced in Strasbourg, France. The European Commission is responsible for negotiating trade agreements for the 27-nation Union. It was responding to a call from the European Parliament, which wants the bloc to do more to help poorer countries prevent the 12 million deaths each year from tropical diseases. Parliament members said a 1994 global trade agreement on intellectual property rights has restricted the development of affordable copycat treatments for poorer countries...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
4 Guilty in Brazil Killing
Four men were convicted Tuesday in the 2005 killing of an American anthropologist in Brazil?s northern jungle...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
World Briefing | United Nations: Step Toward Force for Sudan
Britain, France and Ghana circulated a Security Council resolution authorizing the creation of a 26,000-member joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of military and police personnel to replace the overwhelmed 7,000-person African Union force in the Darfur region of Sudan. Violence there, much of it committed by government-supported fighters, has cost more than 200,000 lives and driven 2.5 million people from their homes. The force, which the Sudanese government agreed to in June only after months of resistance, would be empowered to ?use all necessary means? to protect itself and its facilities, to prevent violations of cease-fire agreements by armed groups and to ?protect civilians under threat of physical violence.? Deployment would begin within 90 days of passage of the measure...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Mexico Plants Still Shut; Army Patrols Pipelines After Blasts
The Popular Revolutionary Army, leftist rebels, took responsibility on Tuesday for the explosions that day and on July 5...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Call to Punish Polish Priest for Anti-Semitic Remarks
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on the Vatican to discipline a powerful Polish priest for making anti-Semitic comments...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Man Arrested in Spain Planned to Bomb a Building, Official Says
Aritz Arginzoniz Zubiarre, who was arrested in Spain this week, was caught carrying a revolver, false documents and two timers for triggering bombs...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
China Orders Western Newsletter to Halt Operations, Editor Says
The China Development Brief, a popular newsletter about Chinese social and economic development, was ordered closed for conducting ?unauthorized surveys.?...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Suicide Bombing Outside Algiers Kills 10 Soldiers at Military Post
Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack, which came on the opening day of the Africa Games...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Philippine Military Reports 14 Marines Killed by Muslim Insurgents
At least 14 Phillipine marines were killed late Tuesday in heavy fighting with suspected Abu Sayyaf on Basilan island, in the southern part of the country...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Investigator Urges Dismissal of Charges Against Marine
Citing a lack of evidence, an investigator recommended dropping all charges against an infantryman accused of murdering three Iraqis in Haditha in 2005...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Libya Upholds Death Sentence in H.I.V. Case
The Libyan Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentences of six medical workers who have been incarcerated for nearly a decade...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Norilsk Journal: For One Business, Polluted Clouds Have Silvery Linings
In the Siberian city of Norilsk, one of the most polluted places on earth, a new business is mining metals that have fallen from the skies...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
In Poland, a Jewish Revival Thrives ? Minus Jews
In Krakow, a new generation of non-Jewish Poles are rediscovering a culture that was nearly annihilated by the Holocaust...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
$282 Million Stolen in Heist at Private Bank in Baghdad
Several officials speculated that the robbers, who were guards at the bank, had connections to the militias, allowing them to escape without being searched...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Abbas Plays on Hamas Boycott to Keep His Cabinet in Place
With parliament unable to meet, Mahmoud Abbas can extend the life of the emergency cabinet he appointed after Hamas took over Gaza...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Judge Sentences 4 in Botched ?05 London Bomb Plot to Life Terms
The bombs, which failed to explode on July 21, 2005, were connected with the terrorist attacks on the transit system two weeks earlier in which 52 commuters were killed...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
News Analysis: After Mosque Battle, Musharraf?s Troubles Persist
In the wake of a two-day-long battle at Islamabad?s Red Mosque, which left more than 60 dead, the outlook for Pakistan?s embattled president remains uncertain...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Senate Narrowly Backs Bush in Rejecting Debate on Increasing Time Between Deployments
Seven Republican senators broke ranks with their party, but failed to muster enough votes to advance the plan to extend soldiers? time home between overseas deployments...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Bush to Declare Progress in Iraq on Some Benchmarks
The White House report says most progress has been in the military realm, and will chide the Iraqi government for failing to capitalize on additional U.S. troops...
New York Times - July 12, 2007
Online advertising 'growing fast'
The annual value of European online advertising will more than double by 2012, a report suggests...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Heart attack treatment 'better'
More patients are getting life-saving drugs quickly after a heart attack, according to a national survey...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Monks seek reprieve for bullock
Hindu monks make a last ditch attempt to save their "sacred" bullock, which faces slaughter after a positive TB test...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Postal workers in 24-hour strike
Postal workers are staging another 24-hour strike as part of an ongoing row over pay and jobs...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Twins celebrate 100 years
Identical twins celebrate their 100th birthday with a glass of champagne at a nursing home...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Amnesty seeks UN probe on Lebanon
Amnesty International urges the UN to probe alleged war crimes committed in Lebanon, a year on from the conflict...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Rangers seal McCulloch transfer
Lee McCulloch signs a four-year deal with Rangers after completing his £2.25m move from Wigan...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Head cameras 'help tackle abuse'
The BBC launches Domestic Violence Day as police reveal how headcams are helping battle abuse in the home...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Queen to pay WWI memorial visit
The Queen is attending a commemoration service marking the 90th anniversary of the WWI battle of Passchendaele...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
UN concerned over US Iraq policy
UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells the BBC he is concerned about where US policy on Iraq might be heading...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Failed bomb attacks 'hurt Islam'
Many people think the recent failed bomb attacks in London and Glasgow have damaged Islam's reputation, a survey suggests...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Inmate suicide cases 'increasing'
Fifty prisoners have killed themselves in jail so far this year, compared to 67 for the whole of 2006...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
Funding gap for UK troop inquests
Extra funds for inquests into the deaths of UK service personnel remain outstanding, the BBC learns...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
NY firefighters attack Giuliani
Firefighters who lost colleagues on 9/11 criticise Republican presidential candidate Rudi Giuliani...
BBC News - July 12, 2007
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