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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 2005:
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Pope Condemns Terrorism, Praises Human Rights
In his first annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI today emphasized the importance of international humanitarian law...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
U.S. Envoy Says Detainee Abuse Was Worse Than Described
Zalmay Khalilzad said today that more than 100 detainees had been abused in two Iraqi detention facilities...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Probe Supports Allegations of C.I.A. Prisons in Europe
A Swiss investigator said that evidence suggests American agents kidnapped and illegally transferred terror suspects...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Lebanon Mourns Latest Victim of Assassination
The killing of Gibran Tueni, a critic of Syria, reverberated far beyond the winding short-cut road where a car packed with explosives detonated...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Woman 'wrongly held' during siege
A woman claims she was wrongly detained for 14 hours by police involved in an armed seige in Newport...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Fed pushes US rates up to 4.25%
The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the 13th time in a row, sparking a debate on future increases...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Long wait for cancer test results
Women are having to wait up to two years for the results of a gene test to tell them if have a raised risk of breast cancer, say campaigners...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Oil blaze schools set to reopen
Almost all of the schools closed after the explosions at the Buncefield oil depot are set to reopen...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
CIA abduction claims 'credible'
Claims that the CIA illegally abducted terror suspects are credible, a European investigator says...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
'No offer' on Euro rebate
The UK will not give up any more of its EU rebate without agricultural policy reform, the BBC has learned...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Kidnapped woman found by police
A kidnapped woman is found by police 24 hours after she was seized as part of a robbery plot in County Down...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
G8 report details economic impact
A report is expected to claim that Scotland benefited from this year's G8 Summit at Gleneagles, despite the £72m bill for policing...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Greece to probe abduction claims
Greek police are to investigate allegations that seven Pakistani men in Athens were illegally held by British agents...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Football: Northwich to face S'land
Non-league Northwich will meet Premiership Sunderland in the FA Cup third round after beating Woking...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Trade meeting aims for progress
Global trade negotiators aim for progress on more market access for poorer countries in their first full day of talks...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
UN debates latest Hariri report
The UN Security Council discusses the latest report into the assassination of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Schools plans face Labour attack
The blueprint for reforming England's schools is set to come under assault as Labour MPs unveil alternative plans...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Kennedy told to improve or resign
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy faces calls from senior MPs in his own party to "raise his game" or step down...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Public inquiry into 7 July unlikely
The government rejects a public inquiry into the 7 July London bombings, in favour of an account of events...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Rule by Law | The Limit-Tester: Legal Gadfly Bites Hard, and Beijing Slaps Him
Gao Zhisheng has become the most prominent in a string of outspoken lawyers facing persecution...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Two Days Before Vote in Iraq, Insurgents Kill Sunni Candidate
Insurgents also tried to kill a Shiite politician in separate attack today, the last day of campaigning for Iraq's election...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Palestinian Gunmen Storm Election Offices
The raids added to the climate of political instability in advance of parliamentary elections planned for next month...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Trade Talks Begin in Hong Kong With Protests
A World Trade Organization conference started today with protesters scuffling with the police and even jumping into the harbor...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Iraqi Ministry Denies Captives Were Abused
The declaration was delivered as early voting began in Iraq's election for a full, four-year parliament...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Actor Farrell admitted to rehab
Actor Colin Farrell is admitted to a treatment centre for exhaustion and addiction to prescription drugs...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
M&S wins landmark tax rebate case
Retailer Marks & Spencer has won its £30m European Union court case for the right to deduct foreign losses from its British tax bill...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
CIA flight assurances 'worthless'
UK reassurances on claims the CIA has flown terror suspects through the UK may be "worthless", MPs claim...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Bereaved couple win legal fight
A couple whose baby died after experimental treatment win a victory in their fight to have action taken against doctors involved...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Oil fire schools set to re-open
Almost all of the schools closed after the explosions at the Buncefield oil depot are set to re-open...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Daughter's tsunami death was lie
A man who sparked a hunt for a fake daughter he said died in the Asian tsunami is found guilty of wasting police time...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Four admit city centre abduction
Four men accused of kidnapping Belfast man Bobby Tohill from a city centre bar plead guilty to his abduction...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Sudan bars Darfur atrocity probe
Sudan's government says it will not allow international investigators into Darfur to collect evidence on alleged war crimes...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
EU backs landmark chemicals law
European Union ministers approve a law to control the use of toxic chemicals, after two years of discussion...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Iraq Sunni politician shot dead
A leading Sunni Arab politician is killed in Iraq, as expatriate voting begins in the general election...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Quake survivors blankets appeal
More than a million survivors of the South Asian earthquake face winter without adequate blankets, the UN warns...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Ex-minister fined for being drunk
Former Labour minister Stephen Twigg is fined £50 after being arrested for being drunk...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Malnutrition 'costs UK billions'
Malnutrition costs the UK more than £7.3 billion a year - more than double the bill for obesity, a report finds...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Athletics: Montgomery banned
Former world 100m record-holder Tim Montgomery and Chryste Gaines get two-year bans for doping offences...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Brokeback leads Globes pack
Ang Lee's cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain dominates nominations for the 2006 Golden Globe Awards...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Police cleared of patrol car rape
Two police officers are found not guilty of raping a woman in the back of their patrol car...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
CIA flight claims 'credible'
Claims the CIA illegally abducted terror suspects are credible, a European investigator says...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Building 'explodes' in New Jersey
An explosion in a building in a residential area of New Jersey sparks fires and fears of multiple injuries...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Oil depot tank fires extinguished
Residents near the Hertfordshire oil depot blaze are allowed back home as crews extinguish all tank fires...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Slow start for Xbox 360 in Japan
Microsoft's new Xbox 360 has got off to a slow start in Japan, selling only 62,000 units, say reports...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Critics favour Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain wins three more awards, putting the film ahead for Golden Globe nominations...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Three-quarters back tuition fees
An annual survey of social attitudes finds wide support for the principle of students paying university fees...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
MSP expenses published in detail
The Scottish Parliament releases an unprecedented amount of information about expenses claims...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Police quiz pair over Pc's murder
Two men arrested in Wales in connection with the killing of a Bradford policewoman are questioned...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
FirstGroup wins rail franchises
Rail and bus operator FirstGroup wins two new rail franchises, worth more than £1bn a year in revenue...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Falconer defends new protest law
It is "ridiculously overdone" to say curbs on protests near Parliament undermine free speech, Lord Falconer says...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Beirut mourns dead press magnate
Lebanon's capital marks an unofficial day of mourning for murdered anti-Syrian paper owner Gibran Tueni...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
One killed in factory gas blast
One man dies and three others are injured after a gas container explodes at a factory in Liverpool...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
IRA 'is not involved with crime'
The IRA is no longer involved in organised crime, according to Security Minister Shaun Woodward...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Colombia rebels in Cuba for talks
Colombia's second-largest rebel group is in Cuba for talks with the government on a possible peace process...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Croat Serb ex-leader faces trial
Milan Martic, former head of Croatian Serb rebels, goes on trial in The Hague on war crimes charges...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Cricket: Pietersen tour over
England batsman Kevin Pietersen will miss the last three one-dayers in Pakistan because of a rib injury...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Nigeria air crash officials fired
Two Nigerian aviation officials are sacked as a memorial service is held for the 70 pupils who died in Saturday's air crash...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Terror suspect wins UK citizenship
David Hicks, the so-called Australian Taleban, wins a High Court battle to become a British citizen...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Trade battle starts in Hong Kong
Six days of world trade talks begin in Hong Kong amid protests, with key players at loggerheads over farming...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Tax credit fraud hits Job Centres
Up to 13,000 Job Centre staff may have had personal details stolen by criminals to make fraudulent claims for tax credits...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
UK inflation level falls to 2.1%
UK inflation falls for the second month in a row to its lowest level since June, official figures show...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Murdoch guilty of Falconio murder
Australian Bradley Murdoch is jailed for life for murdering UK backpacker Peter Falconio on a deserted outback road...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
US ex-gang boss Williams executed
Former gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams is executed after the failure of a high-profile campaign for his life...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
M&S wins landmark tax case
Retailer Marks & Spencer wins a £30m EU court case that could spark hundreds of claims against the Treasury...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
A New Law in Tijuana Regulates the Oldest Profession
In an attempt to regulate its flourishing sex trade, Tijuana, Mexico, is requiring prostitutes to have monthly medical exams and to carry licenses...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Iraqi Election Will Not End Security Threats, Bush Says
President Bush hailed Iraq's coming election as a "remarkable event in the Arab world" but said that the voting would not bring an end to violence...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Serbian Court Finds 14 Guilty in '91 Massacre of Croatians
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 12 (Reuters) - Serbia on Monday convicted 14 Serbian former militia members of the massacre of nearly 200 people during the battle of Vukovar in November 1991...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Beirut Car Bomb Kills Lawmaker, a Critic of Syria
Gebran Tueni was editor of An Nahar, Lebanon's most important newspaper and a voice of opposition to Syrian involvement in Lebanon...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Prison Abuse: Iraqi Ministry Denies Captives Were Abused
The Iraqi Interior Ministry said 625 prisoners discovered last week were not tortured, despite assertions by U.S. officials...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Chad Backs Out of Pledge to Use Oil Wealth to Reduce Poverty
Chad abruptly announced that it plans to alter a law requiring that almost all of the money it earns on oil exports be spent for poverty reduction...
New York Times - December 13, 2005
Parkinson's hope over 'implants'
US scientists move a step closer to developing a brain implant therapy for Parkinson's disease symptoms...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Nasa probes shuttle 'oxygen leak'
Nasa investigates the possibility of a gaseous oxygen leak, posing a fire risk, during Discovery's launch...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Afghans adopt justice action plan
Afghanistan approves a plan to investigate allegations of human rights abuses and war crimes...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Schools exam results 'misleading'
Scotland's Highers results are published in a potentially misleading ways, says statistics watchdog...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Ex-US diplomat in 'Taiwan case'
A former top US diplomat pleads guilty to concealing a relationship with a Taiwanese intelligence officer...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Ninth bird flu death in Indonesia
An 35-year-old Indonesian man who died last month is confirmed as the country's ninth bird flu victim...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Football: Dyer felt 'suicidal'
Newcastle's Kieron Dyer reveals the extent of his injury frustration...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Jury out in Falconio murder case
A jury in Australia trying a man for the murder of UK backpacker Peter Falconio retires to consider its verdict...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
WTO talks to start in Hong Kong
Six days of world trade talks are set to start in Hong Kong as protesters say free trade could ruin them...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Sydney police 'to get new powers'
Sydney police will be given tough powers against rioters following recent violence, the NSW premier says...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
Fire crews hoping to douse blaze
Firefighters tackling the blaze at a Hertfordshire oil depot are hoping to put it out, 48 hours after it erupted...
BBC News - December 13, 2005
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