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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2006:
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Merchant takes top comedy honour
Stephen Merchant beats comedy partner Ricky Gervais to best actor at the British Comedy Awards...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
IVF father figure clause 'to go'
The requirement for fertility clinics to consider the need for a father when deciding on IVF is set to be abolished...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Village evacuated amid flooding
Dozens of families are rescued from their homes in Milnathort after being trapped by rising flood water...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Noise dispute man 'shot himself'
A man who complained about noisy neighbours shot two brothers then killed himself, a coroner says...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Senate control hinges on 'stroke'
A US senator suffers a possible stroke, which could lead to Republicans regaining control of the Senate...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Football: Chelsea close on Man U
Didier Drogba's late winner moves Chelsea to within five points of Premiership leaders Man Utd...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Football: Arsenal move to third
Arsenal beat Wigan to go third in the table as Emmanuel Adebayor scores late on for the Gunners...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Disaster funds 'unfairly divided'
Millions of disaster victims are missing out on vital aid despite record donations in 2005, a report says...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Princess Diana crash findings due
The findings of an inquiry into the car crash which killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed will be revealed later...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Second body to be moved from wood
Police investigating multiple murders in Ipswich are set to remove a second body from a wooded area...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Bush defends Iraq strategy delay
US President George W Bush says he will not be rushed into deciding how to change his Iraq policy...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Saudis Say They Might Back Sunnis if U.S. Leaves Iraq
Saudi Arabia?s warning reflects fears among America?s Sunni Arab allies about Iran?s rising influence in Iraq...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Iraqi Army to Widen Role in Baghdad
A plan presented to the U.S. calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
New rules for broadband switchers
New rules should make it easier for UK net users to switch broadband suppliers...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
NHS 'pride of Britain' says Blair
Tony Blair claims the NHS is the "pride of the country", despite criticism of mismanagement and deficits...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Earliest flying mammal discovered
Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Assembly budget is finally passed
After months of wrangling, the Welsh Assembly Government's £14.4bn budget for next year is voted through...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Labour anger over funding plans
Labour MPs oppose a suggestion political donations - including from unions - be capped at £50,000...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
NI soldiers convictions revealed
More than 1,300 members of the armed forces receive criminal convictions while serving in Northern Ireland...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
'Filthy' restaurant fined £18,000
A restaurant in the capital is fined £18,000 after hygiene inspectors found mouse droppings on dishes...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Europe passes new chemical law
The European Parliament approves landmark legislation to control the use of toxic chemicals in industry...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Botswana bushmen win land ruling
A Botswana court rules that bushmen from the Kalahari desert were illegally moved from their homeland...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Cricket: England ready
England must win in Perth to retain genuine ambitions of hanging onto the Ashes...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
US actor Peter Boyle dies aged 71
US actor Peter Boyle, best known as the curmudgeonly father in Everybody Loves Raymond, dies aged 71...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Football: Curbishley joins W Ham
Former Charlton boss Alan Curbishley succeeds Alan Pardew as manager of West Ham...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
MoD names gun death marine
A Royal Marine killed in a gun battle with Taleban forces in Afghanistan was aged 23 and from Surrey...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Tough new child support powers
A body to enforce child maintenance will be able to dock wages and withdraw the passports of absent parents...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Pakistan 'out to enslave Afghans'
President Karzai hits out at Pakistan for continuing violence, accusing it of trying to turn Afghans into "slaves"...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Circumcision 'cuts' HIV infection
Circumcision can dramatically cut the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual men, results from two African trials show...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Scalded baby dies in hospital
A 10-month old baby badly burnt when scalding water poured into her cot from burst pipes has died...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Body removed in murders inquiry
Police investigating multiple murders of prostitutes remove one of two bodies from Suffolk woodland for identification...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Iraqi Army Plans for Wider Role in Security of Baghdad
A plan presented to the United States calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Mountain range spotted on Titan
The Cassini spacecraft maps the tallest mountains yet seen on Titan, Saturn's major moon...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Touts target Diana concert seats
Tickets for the Concert for Diana are offered by touts at inflated prices moments after selling out...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Beckett backs Iraq policy review
Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says it is time to reassess whether there should be a shift in policy in Iraq...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Doctors warned on freeze therapy
Doctors are told too many patients have been let down by poor use of freeze therapy to remove diseased tissue...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Deal reached on assembly budget
Labour and Plaid Cymru reach agreement to save the assembly government's spending plans...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
India HIV/Aids 'overestimated'
The number of Indians affected by HIV/Aids may be lower than the UN estimate of 5.7 million, a study suggests...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Molten metal blaze at steel plant
Firefighters avert a major disaster at a steelworks when 80 tonnes of molten metal spilled from a container...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Orde holds talks with Sinn Fein
A Sinn Fein delegation led by party president Gerry Adams meets the head of Northern Ireland's police...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Dutch crisis as minister censured
The Dutch cabinet holds crisis talks after parliament censures hardline Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Saudi ambassador quits Washington
The Saudi Arabian envoy to the US, Prince Turki al-Faisal, abruptly resigns and leaves Washington...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Botswana bushmen in legal setback
Botswana bushmen's hopes of returning to their ancestral lands fade as one of three judges rules against them...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
China ends school fees for 150m
China is to abolish tuition fees for 150 million rural students in a bid to tackle rural poverty, state media say...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Row over Pinochet funeral speech
Augusto Pinochet's grandson faces military discipline over an unapproved speech at his grandfather's funeral...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Football: Curbishley to be named
West Ham are expected to name Alan Curbishley as their new boss in a news conference at 1500 GMT...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Ashes: Flintoff faces challenge
England captain Andrew Flintoff says the third Ashes Test in Perth is the biggest match of his players' careers...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
'NHS-wide faults' led to deficits
Mismanagement across the NHS in England has led to the current multimillion pound deficit, MPs find...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Unemployment falls to 1.7 million
UK unemployment fell by 7,000 to 1.7 million in the August to October period, official figures show...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Surgery to tackle rising obesity
NICE recommends a raft of measures, including surgery, to tackle the growing obesity epidemic...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Car bomb strikes Baghdad
A car bomb kills at least 10 people in eastern Baghdad, a day after dozens died in an attack on the city centre...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Victory for anti-war protesters
Law lords rule that campaigners' rights to "freedom of movement and lawful assembly" were violated at an anti-war protest...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
UK 'plot' terror charge dropped
A Pakistani judge drops terrorism charges against a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot in the UK...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Massive response in murders probe
Police receive more than 2,000 calls after the murder of three prostitutes and the discovery of two other bodies...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Hamas judge killed in Gaza Strip
A prominent member of the Palestinian militant group Hamas is shot dead in the southern Gaza Strip...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Israel Fading, Iran?s Leader Tells Deniers of Holocaust
?The Zionist regime will disappear soon, the same way the Soviet Union disappeared,? President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Leader Pushes Spain to Left, Rejecting Calls to Slow Down
Dispensing with the moderation of previous Socialist governments, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has opened rifts in a country long dominated by religious conservatism...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Pakistan?s Support for Militants Threatens Region, Karzai Says
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan warned that a failure to bring peace to his country would destroy the whole region...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
White House to Delay Shift on Iraq Until ?07
Officials suggested that the president?s advisers were locked in internal debates on several fronts about how to proceed in Iraq...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Saudis Give a Grim What If Should U.S. Opt to Leave Iraq
Saudi Arabia has said that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq's Shiites if U.S. troops leave Iraq...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Iraq Army Plans for a Wider Role in Securing Baghdad
The plan calls for Iraqi troops to assume the primary responsibility for security in Baghdad early next year...
New York Times - December 13, 2006
Languages made degree requirement
A key university is to make a language GCSE a requirement for entry to try to stop schools abandoning the subject...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Baghdad suicide bombing kills 70
A suicide bomb attack on a Baghdad square is now known to have killed at least 70 and injured more than 230 people...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
EU unfreezes Iran group's funds
An EU court reverses a four-year-old decision to freeze the funds of an Iranian opposition group...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Botswana bushmen face key verdict
A Botswana court is to decide whether the Kalahari bushmen were evicted illegally from their ancestral lands...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Ashes: Aussies call up Symonds
Australia name all-rounder Andrew Symonds in their side to face England in the third Ashes Test...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Italian sparks euthanasia row
A court mulls a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Falconio DNA evidence 'damning'
A court has heard DNA evidence that helped convict Bradley Murdoch of killing backpacker Peter Falconio was "damning"...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Translation costing public £100m
More than £100 million of public money is spent on translation services in Britain, the BBC learns...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
'Crisis looms' in adult education
A crisis in adult education is looming as courses and posts are axed, unions and college leaders warn...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
Detectives to name murder victims
Police investigating the murders of three prostitutes are expected to confirm the names of two more victims...
BBC News - December 13, 2006
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