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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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Dispute Slowing Russian Work on Iran Nuclear Plant Said to Be Over
Russia and Iran have resolved a dispute over payments for Iran?s Bushehr nuclear power plant, the Russian contractor on the project said Thursday...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Abbas Government Calls for End to Gaza Blockade
The statement by the moderate Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank was in a departure from its policy...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
In Portrait of Algiers Bomber, Shades of Poverty and Desperation
Larbi Charef grew up in a tough neighborhood in Algiers alongside other suicide bombers, with none of the advantages of the university students he blew up on Tuesday...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Bitter Divisions at Climate Talks
Amid growing frustration with the U.S. in deadlocked talks at a global warming conference, the European Union threatened to boycott new talks proposed by the White House next month...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Market falls on more credit fears
The UK's main share index, the FTSE 100, falls sharply on fears of further credit woes in the banking sector...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Patients' info on stolen laptop
A laptop stolen from a GP surgery had personal details of almost 1,000 diabetes patients, it emerges...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Yacht racing QC dies in hospital
A Northern Ireland QC critically injured in a yachting accident in the Caribbean dies in hospital...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Park warden stops family pictures
A park warden tries to stop a couple taking pictures of their own child playing on a swing...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Life for Corsica prefect murderer
A French court sentences Yvan Colonna to life in jail for killing the top French official on Corsica in 1988...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Baseball 'drug culture' condemned
Dozens of players are linked to banned substances, as a report on Major League Baseball alleges a serious drug culture...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Capello set for England hot-seat
Fabio Capello is poised to be named as the new England manager after key FA officials approve his appointment...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
British serviceman killed in Iraq
A British soldier dies after a road accident on Wednesday in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Judge frees stoning death boys
Five boys sentenced for stoning a father who collapsed and died from a heart attack are freed...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
4 Lanes of Hope in China and Vietnam
On a frontier where Vietnamese and Chinese soldiers once exchanged bullets, construction workers from the two countries will soon join forces to build a highway...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
5 Soldiers Killed in Pakistan Suicide Attack
Suicide bombers struck a military checkpoint in Quetta, a an area with a history of sectarian and nationalist violence...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
After Clashes, Fear of War on Congo?s Edge
A confrontation between the Congolese Army and a Tutsi general is plunging the country back toward war...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Bitter Divisions Exposed at Climate Talks
Amid growing frustration with the U.S. in deadlocked talks at conference on global warming, the European Union threatened to boycott new talks proposed by the White House next month...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Atonement leads field at Globes
World War II drama Atonement leads the field as nominations for the 2008 Golden Globes are announced...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
2007 data confirms warming trend
This year has been one of the warmest globally since reliable records began, a preliminary analysis concludes...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Hospital 'fines' for patient harm
Hospitals should be fined if they harm patients, the government's chief medical officer has proposed...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Brown belatedly signs EU treaty
Gordon Brown signs the EU reform treaty in Lisbon, hours after the leaders of the other 26 member states...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
SNP Trump move 'smells of sleaze'
First Minister Alex Salmond comes under fire over Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort plan at question time...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
M4 crash driver had heart defect
A lorry driver whose fatal motorway collision caused severe day-long traffic delays had a hole in the heart...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
'Jealous' man stabbed footballer
A man admits stabbing a former Manchester United player who had begun seeing his ex-girlfriend...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Armour 'failed' dead NI soldier
A coroner rules that a Londonderry soldier who died while on duty in Iraq was killed unlawfully...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Suicide bombs rock Pakistani city
At least eight people including five soldiers die in two suicide bombs in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
'Terror T-shirts' Danes cleared
Seven Danish people are acquitted of supporting terrorism after selling T-shirts to help fund militant groups...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
US factory prices at 34-year high
US factory prices rise at their highest rate in 34 years, raising inflation fears at a time of interest rate cuts...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Mugabe to run again for Zanu-PF
Zimbabwe's governing party endorses Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate for next year's election...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Man caught anthrax from drums
An inquiry into a man's death from anthrax concludes he contracted it from playing or handling West African drums...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
JK Rowling book sold for £2m
A handwritten copy of author JK Rowling's new book, which will never be published, sells for almost £2m...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Death care home owners freed
Police investigating five deaths at a Somerset care home release the owners on bail to return at Easter...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Court clears control order nurse
Mental health nurse Cerie Bullivant is found not guilty of breaching the terms of a control order...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Man cleared of 1980 woods killing
A former taxi driver is cleared of murdering nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe in Dundee 27 years ago...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Yacht deaths trial clears seaman
A car ferry officer is cleared of all charges relating to the deaths of three yachtsmen whose boat sank...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Thousands wrongly cleared to work
More than 11,000 people were cleared to work in the UK who should not have been, the home secretary says...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Jury sees duke's letters to Diana
Letters between Princess Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh are shown to jurors at the inquest into her death...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Train Bomb Kills 5 in Northeast India
GAUHATI, India (AP) -- A bomb tore through a moving train in India's remote northeast Thursday, killing five passengers and wounding four others, officials said. A little-known militant group claimed responsibility for the attack...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Malaysian Activists Held Under Strict Security Law
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian authorities arrested five ethnic Indian activists Thursday under a security law that allows indefinite detention without trial, a lawyer said...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
An Appeal for Calm After Suicide Bombings in Algeria
A day after suicide terror attacks rocked Algeria?s capital, the country?s foreign minister urged calm on Wednesday, saying that the bombings did not portend civil war...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Focus of Climate Talks Shifts to Helping Poor Countries Cope
With little progress on the primary goal of United Nations climate talks, a secondary quest to help poor countries cope with global warming has now become a central theme of the gathering...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
European Threatens Boycott of U.S. Climate Talks
European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions, Germany's environment minister said Thursday...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
US soul musician Ike Turner dies
US soul legend Ike Turner, former husband and musical partner of Tina Turner, dies at the age of 76...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Auction for 'digital dividend'
A multi-billion pound auction of airwaves for a new wave of digital services is announced by Ofcom...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Reforms 'to go wider and deeper'
Gordon Brown says public sector reforms will go "wider and deeper" with more private and voluntary involvement...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
EU 'snub' threat at climate talks
EU delegates threaten to boycott a US-led climate summit as the US opposes emissions targets at UN talks...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Bugs and waits top NHS priorities
Ministers have made tackling hospital infections and hitting waiting targets as key priorities for the coming year...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Treaty in UK's interest - Brown
Gordon Brown says the EU reform treaty he will sign later "is in Britain's interest" as the Tories call him "gutless"...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Northern Rock chief leaves firm
Beleaguered bank Northern Rock says its chief executive Adam Applegarth has left the firm, earlier than planned...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Wife murderer in intensive care
A man who murdered his wife is in hospital after being found in his cell ahead of his sentence by a judge...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Kenya slum dweller gets degree
A Kenyan from Nairobi's slums gets a Masters from the UK university whose prospectus he found in a rubbish bin...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Mother of two dies after crash
A 29-year-old woman has died after being injured in an accident in County Armagh at the weekend...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Red Cross demands Mid-East action
The Red Cross calls for immediate political action to contain the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Musharraf is criticised in survey
An international opinion poll of Pakistanis suggests widespread opposition to President Musharraf...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Far-right leaves Swiss government
A vote to oust the far-right justice minister has brought an end to consensus rule in Switzerland...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
US poll race quickens amid debate
US Republican presidential contenders hold their last TV debate before the nominating race kicks off in January...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Cricket: Draw keeps series alive
England draw the second Test against Sri Lanka and keep the series alive after rain brings an early end in Colombo...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Winnie Mandela proposes deal
Winnie Mandela, ex-wife of the former South African leader, suggests a way to end the ANC leadership rift...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Football: Capello for England
Fabio Capello will be appointed as the next England manager later on Thursday, BBC Sport understands...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Six held as United fans stabbed
Six Britons are arrested and five Manchester United fans stabbed during fighting between rival fans in Rome...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Officer cleared over Ouzo charges
A ferry officer is cleared of all charges relating to the deaths of three crewmen who died when their boat sank...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Brown defends police pay move
The decision to delay the full police pay increase was taken "in the national interest", Gordon Brown tells MPs...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
British forger fools US museum
A sculpture at a Chicago museum is unmasked as a fake created by a forger based in Bolton...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Man critical after cyanide vat fall
A 62-year-old worker is in a critical condition after falling into a vat of diluted potassium cyanide in Greater Manchester...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Cash rescue plan helps rates fall
A surprise move by central banks to inject huge amounts of cash into money markets has had an immediate effect...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
EU leaders to sign landmark treaty
European Union leaders sign a reform treaty in Lisbon designed to replace the ill-fated EU constitution...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Canada: Mounties Urged to Restrict Taser Use
In a report, the watchdog commission that oversees the police recommended that Taser stun guns be used only on people who are ?combative or posing a risk of death or grievous bodily harm.?...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Sudan: South Set to Rejoin Government
Leaders from the government and the semiautonomous South said that they had resolved most of their differences and that the South?s main political party would rejoin the national unity government...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Bangladesh: Sundarbans Devastated by November Cyclone
Unesco said that the cyclone that struck southern Bangladesh last month destroyed 40 percent of the Sundarbans, one of the world?s largest mangrove forests and a World Heritage site...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Greece: Tens of Thousands March in Strike
A one-day strike by unions representing 2.5 million workers brought Athens to a standstill...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Tropical Storm Kills 14 in Caribbean
A rare December tropical storm left at least 14 people dead in the Caribbean as pounding rains caused floods and landslides...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Russia Tells Britain to Shut Cultural Offices
Russia?s Foreign Ministry ordered Britain to close the cultural offices of the British Council outside of Moscow, saying it had broken tax laws and the Vienna Convention by operating out of British consulates...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
The Hague: General Who Besieged Sarajevo Gets 33 Years
The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced Dragomir Milosevic a former Bosnian-Serb general, to 33 years in prison...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
China: High-Rise Fire Kills 21
Twenty-one people were killed in a fire that tore through a 28-story apartment building in eastern Wenzhou...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Mexico: Counterfeit Million Seized
The authorities said that federal agents raided a house in Tonalá, a suburb of Guadalajara, this week and seized more than $1.1 million in counterfeit $100 bills...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Swiss Parliament Deals Setback to Leader of Far-Right Party
Swiss parliamentarians ejected Christoph Blocher, leader of the far-right Swiss People?s Party, from the Federal Council, which runs the government by consensus...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Aiming to Translate Politics Into Hope for Palestinians
Tony Blair visited Bethlehem to promote Western tourism to the holy sites of the West Bank, one of the ways he hopes to quickly improve Palestinian economic life...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
U.S. Links Smuggled Cash to Venezuela
A Miami man who brought $800,000 into Argentina was trying to deliver a campaign contribution from the Venezuelan government to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, American prosecutors said...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Kasparov Says He Was Forced to End Bid for Presidency
Garry Kasparov, the opposition leader, said his political movement had been unable to rent a hall in Moscow for a nominating convention, a requirement under Russian law...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
News Analysis: C.I.A. Agents Sense Shifting Support for Methods
For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment
For all of Italy?s outside adoration, the country finds itself in an economic, political and social funk...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Most Want Musharraf to Quit, Poll Shows
A public opinion poll in Pakistan has found that 67 percent of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to resign immediately...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
C.I.A. Chief Cites Agency Lapse on Tapes
The director of the C.I.A. acknowledged his agency failed to keep Congress fully informed about videotapes of interrogations of Qaeda operatives...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
Bomb Kills Lebanese General Who Battled Militants
The bomb struck an unexpected blow at the country?s most widely respected institution and further undermined Lebanon?s precarious stability...
New York Times - December 13, 2007
A greener way to recover methane
Oil reservoirs could have an environmental make-over with the help of bacteria, researchers say...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Body clock 'control switch' found
Researchers say they have found the chemical switch that triggers the mechanism regulating body clocks...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Bright poor children 'slip back'
Clever poor children face being overtaken by less bright children from affluent homes, a study says...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Brown under fire over EU treaty
Gordon Brown is accused of running scared over a diary clash that will mean he misses the EU treaty's official signing...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Train blast kills five in Assam
A bomb rips through a parcel van of a passenger train in India's north-east state of Assam, killing five people...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Terror chief gets Menezes 'advice'
The Met's top anti-terror officer will be given "advice" over the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
US cool on closer N Korea ties
The US says it is not ready to engage broadly with North Korea despite warmer relations recently...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Live - Sri Lanka v England
Play resumes after a brief stoppage in Colombo as England try to save the second Test...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Saturn's rings 'may live forever'
New observations indicate Saturn's iconic rings may be billions of years old - far older than previously thought...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
House price fall 'accelerating'
UK house prices have fallen for the fourth month in a row, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Wife released in care home probe
Police investigating five deaths at a care home in Somerset release one of the owners...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
'Victim surcharge' not collected
Criminals are not paying into a victims' fund because a computer is unable to recognise their details...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
Mental health 'costs UK billions'
Mental health problems cost British businesses £1,000 a year per employee on average, research shows...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
UK welcomes world cash injection
Gordon Brown praises a joint plan by some of the world's main central banks to ease credit problems...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
EU reform treaty goes under pen
European Union leaders gather in Lisbon to sign the reform treaty drafted to replace the ill-fated EU constitution...
BBC News - December 13, 2007
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