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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 Octomber 2007:
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U.S. Plan for Airline Security Meets Resistance in Canada
A Homeland Security Department plan would require Canadian airlines to turn over data about passengers flying over the United States...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
At an Army School, Blunt Talk on Iraq
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the intellectual center of the U.S. Army, has become a front line in the military?s soul-searching over Iraq...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Rumblings in Spain Over Royal Family
A recent series of small protests against the King Juan Carlos of Spain have broken taboos and prompted debate about the role of the monarchy...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Book Faults Israeli Air War as Scattered
A new study of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war commissioned by the U.S. Air Force concludes that insufficient discernment in its airstrikes helped Israel lose the war for public opinion...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Persecuted Sect in Iraq Avoids Its Shrine
Nearly 15 percent of the 500,000-strong Yazidi sect in Iraq have fled the country as growing persecution has forced their religious observances underground...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Portable Halls of Justice Rise in Guantánamo
In the long-running limbo that is Guantánamo, a portable complex to try detainees may be the perfect architecture...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
After Rebuff, U.S. Visitors Reach Out to Russians
The American secretaries of state and defense sought to show that the United States and Russia could find common ground, or at least outward civility...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Myanmar Arrests 4 Top Dissidents, Human Rights Group Says
Amnesty International said that authorities in Myanmar had arrested U Htay Kywe, a former student leader who helped organize recent protests, and three other dissidents...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Iran?s Top Cleric Calls for Boycott of Peace Talks
Iran?s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for all Muslim countries to boycott an American-sponsored meeting for Middle East peace...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
In China, a Lake?s Champion Imperils Himself
Lake Tai, the center of China?s ancient ?land of fish and rice,? succumbed this year to floods of man-made waste. By then, the activist who had been trying to save the lake was in jail...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Analysts Find Israel Struck a Nuclear Project Inside Syria
A site attacked last month by Israel was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, according to Israeli and American intelligence...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Heart test failings costing lives
Young people at risk of heart attacks are not being given screening tests which could save lives...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Bingo club's second millionaire
A Glasgow pensioner wins £1m on bingo - the second big prize at the same hall in just three weeks...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Exile condemns Iraqi 'corruption'
Iraq's former anti-corruption chief accuses the government of PM Nouri Maliki of widespread abuse...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Rugby L: Leeds win Grand Final
Leeds Rhinos ensure Tony Smith's last game as coach ends with a Grand Final victory over defending champions St Helens at Old Trafford...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Son in Sound of Music family dies
Werner von Trapp, a member of the family made famous by the film The Sound of Music, has died aged 91...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Vatican bars prelate in gay row
A high-ranking Vatican official is barred after saying in a supposedly anonymous TV interview that he is gay...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Death crash father seeks reform
The traditional driving test should be scrapped, says a man whose daughter died in a car driven by a teenager...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Wilkinson kicks England into final
Jonny Wilkinson sends England into the Rugby World Cup final as the champions dramatically beat France 14-9 in Paris...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
'No corruption' in Lawrence case
There is no evidence the first Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry was hindered by police corruption, a watchdog says...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Sir Menzies hits back at critics
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell hits back at "idle chatter" about his performance...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Opik to step down from party post
Lembit Opik appeals for an end to backbiting as he steps down as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Campaigners march over NHS cuts
Up to 14,000 people take part in a rally against plans to reorganise hospital services in West Sussex...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Man found dead at bottom of cliff
The police are trying to identify a man who was found dead at Cavehill mountain in north Belfast...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Iran leader urges summit boycott
Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei urges Muslim states to boycott a US-sponsored Middle East conference...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Rice attacks Kremlin's power grip
Condoleezza Rice voices unease about Russia, saying too much power is concentrated in the Kremlin...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Thailand's king taken to hospital
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is taken to hospital after feeling weak in his right side, the royal palace says...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Rugby U: Semi-final countdown
Latest news and chat from Paris ahead of England's semi-final clash against hosts France...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
UN in talks to rescue Sudan deal
The top UN official in Sudan has meets the SPLM to discuss its withdrawal from the unity government...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
England ease to win over Estonia
Wayne Rooney scores his first competitive international goal since 2004 as Estonia are well beaten in the Euro 2008 qualifier at Wembley...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Football: On-song Scotland win
James McFadden inspires Scotland to victory as they end Ukraine's Euro 2008 qualification hopes and stay top of Group B...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Tesco suspends its property sales
Tesco suspends the private sales section of its property website and offers a full refund to customers...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Key activists arrested in Burma
Burma's military junta arrests three of the last remaining leaders of the recent pro-democracy protests...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Ministers hail post strike deal
The government welcomes a deal between Royal Mail bosses and union leaders which could end strike action...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Russian Craft Docks With Space Station
The Russian Soyuz craft bearing the first woman to command the International Space Station, Peggy A. Whitson, left, docked with the station. The capsule ferried Dr. Whitson; Col. Yuri I. Malenchenko, a Russian flight engineer; and Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysia?s first astronaut. This is Ms. Whitson?s second six-month stay on the station; she served as a science officer aboard the orbiting laboratory in 2002. The change of command will occur Oct. 19, and she will greet the crew of the shuttle Discovery, which is expected to launch Oct. 23. The Discovery will also be commanded by a woman, Col. Pamela A. Melroy, retired from the Air Force, and will carry a new module to the station...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Incense, Orchids and Prayer for a Soldier Killed in Iraq
A soldier from Queens killed in Iraq was mourned in a prayerful ceremony that blended the Buddhist traditions of his Thai ancestors with the symbols of American military service...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
With Prize, Gore Is Vindicated Without Having to Add President to Résumé
Amid speculation about a presidential bid, friends say that Al Gore is likely to keep people guessing...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Names of the Dead
The Department of Defense has identified 3,813 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Abroad: A Symbol of Freedom and a Target for Terrorists
Proximity is the cost, and virtue, of a civil and democratic society. We run the risk that some lunatic or self-promoter will violate the public trust of an open space because we value that space as a democratic ideal...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Orchestra Considers Invitation to Korea
New York Philharmonic officials were returning yesterday from an exploratory trip to North Korea with glowing reports of concert possibilities in the capital...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Vatican City: Knights Templar Secrets Revealed
The Vatican has published secret documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a parchment, showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval order of heresy...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Mayor Opens War Against Mexico City Street Vendors
Mayor Marcelo Ebrard sent more than 1,000 police officers in riot gear into the historic center to keep street vendors from setting up stands and blocking sidewalks...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | United Nations: U.S. Judge Jails Russian Ex-Diplomat
Vladimir Kuznetsov, a former Russian diplomat who once led the United Nations budget oversight committee was sentenced to 51 months in prison by a Federal District Court judge in New York for money laundering...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Classic Mercedes for Sale; Previous Owner a Saint
A 1959 Mercedes-Benz that belonged to Padre Pio, the 20th-century monk said to have had stigmata and supernatural powers and who was elevated to sainthood in 2002, will be auctioned in Padua on Oct. 27...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Czech Republic: Hospital in Baby Mix-Up Fires 2
Two nurses were responsible for ?serious mistakes? in which two baby girls were swapped at birth 10 months ago and ended up in the wrong families, and they will be fired, a hospital in Trebic said...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Serbia: $1.4 Million Reward Offered for Fugitive General
Serbia offered a reward of 1 million euros, or $1.4 million, for information leading to the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who directed the Srebrenica massacre in 1995...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: The Netherlands: Ban on ?Magic Mushrooms?
The government said it would ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, tightening the country?s famed liberal drug policies after the suicide of an intoxicated teenage girl...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
In Bangladesh, Dozens Riding on Train Roof Injured in Derailment
DHAKA (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and about 50 were injured when five carriages of an inter-city train jumped of the tracks in southeastern Bangladesh on Saturday, officials said...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Rice Meets With Russian Rights Activists
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Russian human rights activists on Saturday she wanted to help them build institutions to protect people from the 'arbitrary power of the state'...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
New Calls for Boycott of Mideast Peace Conference
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader called on Muslim countries to boycott a U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference, saying Saturday that the international meeting would hurt the Palestinians...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
U.S. Investigates Civilian Toll in Airstrike, but Holds Insurgents Responsible
A strike on Thursday killed 15 civilians, one of the highest tolls from a single U.S. military action since the start of the Iraq war...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Roberts picks up Hollywood honour
Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts collects the 2007 American Cinematheque award...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Leadership issue as Lib Dems meet
Mike German is poised to tell Welsh Liberal Democrats if he wants to carry on as their assembly leader...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Overnight violence in Castlemara
Police appeal for calm following disturbances in the loyalist Castlemara estate in Carrickfergus...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
UN concern over Sri Lanka rights
UN human rights chief Louise Arbour criticises Sri Lanka's record as the country returns to effective civil war...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Dreamspace survivor hurt again
A four-year-old girl who escaped death in an inflatable artwork is involved in another accident...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Gas blast wrecks Ukraine building
Six people are feared dead after a gas explosion in a block of flats in eastern Ukraine, officials say...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Burma stages big pro-junta march
Thousands of Burmese attend a pro-government rally in Rangoon, as the UN envoy prepares for a new visit...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Staff in boot camp case walk free
All eight defendants are acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died at a Florida boot camp...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Darling attacked on green agenda
A leading environmentalist has accused the government of "crabby incrementalism" over green initiatives...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Family want plastic pen tops ban
The parents of a boy who choked to death on a plastic pen top step up a campaign to get them banned...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Parents 'ignorant about cannabis'
Senior police accuse parents of complacency in the face of widespread cannabis use among teenagers...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Rice encourages Russian activists
Condoleezza Rice backs local human rights activists in Moscow as she continues a sometimes tense visit...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Soe Win, 59, Junta Member Blamed in ?03 Burmese Raid, Is Dead
General Soe Win was nicknamed ?the butcher of Dipeyin? for his role in overseeing a bloody attack on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her followers in 2003...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Rebels Killed in Raid on Kashmir Police
Two Muslim rebels who stormed a police camp in Kashmir?s main city, firing guns and throwing grenades, were shot dead after a nightlong gun battle, police said...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
The Saturday Profile: A Pakistani-American Voice in Search of a True Home
Moshin Hamid?s novel, ?The Reluctant Fundamentalist,? has been shortlisted for the Britain?s Man Booker Prize, but has found a warmer commercial reception in the U.S...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Energy Crunch Threatens South American Nations
An energy shortage in Brazil, Argentina and Chile is generating tensions between neighbors and emerging as one of the biggest brakes to growth and integration...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is ?a Nightmare?
Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez is the most senior war commander of a string of retired officers who have harshly criticized the conduct of the Iraq war...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
New China Hierarchy May Limit President?s Power
President Hu Jintao has been denied a decisive consolidation of power in the new Communist Party leadership...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire
Fresh accounts of a shooting in Baghdad last month cast further doubt on guards? statements that they were responding to insurgents...
New York Times - October 13, 2007
Video games: the next generation
BBC Click finds out what the games industry expects to find in the next generation of games...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Hope for ovarian cancer vaccine
An ovarian cancer vaccine has produced promising results in preliminary trials, scientists say...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Coast towns 'should be preserved'
Two-thirds of people believe seaside resorts are at the centre of national identity, a survey finds...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Fury at Puerto Rico pet killings
Dozens of cats and dogs are reportedly hurled off a bridge by Puerto Rico workers enforcing a no-pets policy...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Football: Rooney tipped to score
England coach Steve McClaren says Wayne Rooney will soon show his best form at international level...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Cameron studies US gang policy
David Cameron holds meetings in Los Angeles to hear how the city deals with the problem of gangs...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Forum tackles genocide
A conference in the Canadian city of Montreal discusses ways to try to prevent genocide...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
'Iraq a 'nightmare' says general
The conflict in Iraq is "a nightmare with no end in sight" for America, warns a former US military chief...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
New charge over 'honour killing'
A man is charged with the murder of a 20-year-old woman whose father was earlier jailed for life...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Taxes 'should recognise marriage'
The tax system should encourage couples to marry, cabinet minister Andy Burnham has suggested...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
No timetable for Farepak refunds
People affected by the collapse of Farepak say there is no timetable for them getting any cash back...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
Rice holds Russia rights meetings
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets rights officials as she continues her tense Moscow visit...
BBC News - October 13, 2007
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