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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 2005:
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Quiet Tension Grips Iraq as Constitution Vote Nears
Clerics, divided along sectarian and ethnic lines, beseeched worshippers to take part in Saturday's vote on a new charter...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Russia Continues Hunt for Rebels, Putting Death Toll at 96
Roads to Nalchik, in southern Russia, remained blocked today as authorities searched for additional insurgents...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Needs of Quake Survivors Overwhelm India and Pakistan
With temperatures plummeting, India faced an acute shortage of tents, leaving earthquake survivors in villages of Kashmir to spend their seventh night outdoors...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
U.S. and France Agree Iran Must Stop Making Nuclear Fuel
France said that Iran should be allowed to have a civilian nuclear power program as long as it acquires the nuclear fuel elsewhere...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
US budget deficit shrinks in 2005
The US budget deficit falls to $319bn in fiscal year 2005, equivalent to 2.6% of GDP, according to official figures...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Online university form 'glitches'
Moving to a completely online application system for UK universities has not gone without a hitch...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
EU vets agree bird flu measures
EU bird flu experts agree measures to try to prevent the spread of the virus, as a new case emerges in Romania...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Syria death 'could herald change'
The apparent suicide of Syria's interior minister could herald a more positive future, a leading rights activist says...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Mosque bomb kills Afghan cleric
A leading pro-government cleric is killed in a bomb attack at a mosque in south-eastern Afghanistan...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Child grabbed on walk to school
Police have appealed for information after a nine-year-old boy was abducted and left behind shops in Belfast...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Tornado jet crashes off Scotland
An RAF tornado plane crashes into the sea off the east coast of Scotland, injuring two crewmen...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Football: Fergie condemns Blatter
Sir Alex Ferguson hits out at Sepp Blatter's comments about Wayne Rooney...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Kenya-Uganda rail deal is sealed
South African-led consortium Rift Valley wins the right to run Kenya's and Uganda's railways for the next 25 years...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Russia Continues to Rebel Hunt, Putting Death Toll at 96
Roads to this city in southern Russia remained blocked today as authorities searched for additional insurgents...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Pakistan Keeps Searching as Hope Dwindles
Pakistan's Meteorological Department warned today of coming bad weather, which could hamper relief and rescue efforts...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Morocco Said to Abandon Hundreds of Migrants in Desert
An independence movement in the Western Sahara said today that authorities are expelling African migrants from the country...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Hollywood pursues fake film sites
The movie industry is taking legal action against sites it accuses of posing as legal film download services...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Child porn ring run from net cafe
A student admits running an international child porn ring from an internet cafe in Glasgow...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Babysitter sex assault Pc cleared
A police officer accused of sexually assaulting a child minder 12 years ago, breaks down as he is found unanimously not guilty...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Case of bird flu drug resistance
A patient has become partially resistant to the drug experts plan to use to tackle a human bird flu outbreak...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Special needs 'under-resourced'
Many heads and teachers feel some of their pupils would be better off in a special school, a survey finds...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Rove testifies again in CIA case
White House aide Karl Rove appears a fourth time before a grand jury probing the leak of a CIA agent's identity...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Bird flu in new Romania village
Bird flu is found in a second Romanian village, as European veterinary experts hold emergency talks on the virus...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Saudi king vows to crush al-Qaeda
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah says he will eliminate al-Qaeda, in his first interview since becoming king...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Girl found alive in quake rubble
Pakistani rescuers pull a toddler alive from the rubble six days after South Asia's deadly earthquake...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Assets frozen after city searches
Assets worth almost £1m belonging to two people are frozen following searches in Londonderry, say police...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Cameron plea over addict relative
Conservative leadership contender David Cameron urges media restraint over a relative's heroin battle...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Keane ends international career
Roy Keane retires from playing for the Republic of Ireland following their failure to qualify for the World Cup...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Football: Hleb injury hits Arsenal
Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb is out for up to eight weeks with a knee injury...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Football: New deals for Man U pair
Midfielder Darren Fletcher and utility player John O'Shea extend their Man Utd contracts until 2009...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Uzbek soldiers 'shot civilians'
An Uzbek woman tells a court she saw government troops shoot unarmed civilians during protests in Andijan in May...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Defeat for Railtrack shareholders
Railtrack shareholders lose their High Court case for £157m compensation from the government...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Daniel Craig takes on 007 mantle
New James Bond actor Daniel Craig says he wants to take the film series "somewhere it's never gone before"...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Dutch police make terror arrests
Dutch police make seven anti-terror arrests as security forces ring government offices in The Hague...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
DTI 'damaging' green power sector
Problems with government grant programmes are damaging the UK's renewable power industry, companies claim...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Spielberg takes film magic to EA
Acclaimed film director Steven Spielberg is working with games giant EA to develop three original titles...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Wallace and Gromit movie hits UK
Wallace and Gromit's first feature film comes out in the UK as its creators recover from a devastating fire...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
McLetchie 'misclaimed' expenses
The Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie claimed for two journeys to which he was not entitled, it emerges...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Study finds drop in school meals
A BBC survey finds the number of school meals is dropping in many areas hit by the E.coli outbreak...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Somerfield backs £1.1bn takeover
Supermarket group Somerfield accepts a £1.1bn takeover offer from a consortium including equity firm Apax...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Public urged to be calm over flu
The UK government urges the public not to panic after a deadly form of avian flu is seen in birds in Turkey...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Rice meets allies for Iran talks
The US secretary of state is visiting Paris and Moscow to discuss Iran's controversial nuclear programme...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Iraq Sunni party offices attacked
The offices of an Iraqi Sunni party which lifted its opposition to the constitution are bombed...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Quake rescue mission winds down
Rescue operations in Pakistan and Kashmir are winding down as hopes fade of finding more earthquake survivors...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Falconio lover returns for trial
The former girlfriend of British backpacker Peter Falconio is in Australia for the trial of the man accused of his murder...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
NI bird flu measures 'advanced'
Plans are in place to deal with any outbreak of avian flu in humans in NI, says the health department...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Football: World Cup play-off draw
The six European countries in the World Cup play-offs find out their opponents...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Cricket: Australia on top
Matthew Hayden hits 111 as Australia reach 331-6 on the opening day of the Super Series Test in Sydney...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Somali pirates free hijacked ship
Pirates in Somalia free a ship carrying United Nations food aid, two days after hijacking it from a southern port...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Japan's postal shake-up approved
Japan's parliament passes a bill to privatise the post office, a key issue in PM Junichiro Koizumi's reforms...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Russia crushes rebel city attack
All rebel resistance in the Russian city of Nalchik is over, a day after a mass series of militant raids, authorities say...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Security alert grips Dutch city
Police seal off a government building in The Hague in a security operation which does not appear to be a drill...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Lloyds steps up online security
Lloyds TSB has become the first UK bank to begin trialling access code devices to fight internet banking fraud...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Cameron pressed over drugs
Tory hopeful David Cameron attacks media intrusion as he refuses to say whether or not he has ever tried hard drugs...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Zimbabwean wins asylum test case
A failed Zimbabwean asylum seeker wins a battle against deportation that could block the return of others...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Daniel Craig in line for Bond job
Daniel Craig is expected to be unveiled as the new James Bond after his mum appeared to confirm the news...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
At Least 85 Slain as Rebels Attack in South Russia
The attacks took place in Nalchik, a city until now free of the worst violence in Russia's war with the republic of Chechnya...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
A U.S. Democrat to Go to North Korea for Nuclear Talks
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico will travel to North Korea for talks aimed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear arms program...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Asia Avian Flu Confirmed as Killer of Birds in Turkey
Thousands of birds that died in Turkey in the past week had the avian influenza virus, tests confirmed. It is the first time the disease has been reported in Europe...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Some Sunnis Now Support Constitution, Splitting Opposition
The leaders made their remarks a day after several prominent Sunni Arabs denounced the compromises...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Pinter Wins Nobel for Dramas of Ominous Power Struggles
The British playwright, poet and political campaigner uses spare and often menacing language to explore powerlessness, domination and the tyranny of the state...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
In a Scripted TV Scene, Soldiers Reassure Bush
While President Bush asked the Tikrit-based troops a half-dozen questions, the troops evidently had prepared their answers...
New York Times - October 14, 2005
Elite NHS hospitals facing debts
Foundation hospitals finished last year £37m in debt, a report to go before parliament next month will show...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
EU holds bird flu crisis meetings
Health experts are to hold emergency talks to discuss measures to prevent the spread of bird flu in Europe...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Saudi 'working to cut oil price'
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah says he is working towards cutting oil prices, in his first interview since coming to power...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Cigarette alert after 'date-rape'
A woman was raped after accepting a spiked cigarette in a bar, a sexual health clinic in Kent warns...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Zimbabwe refugee ruling due
Zimbabwean asylum seekers await a crucial court ruling which could stop the government from deporting them...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Rice to make surprise Moscow trip
The US secretary of state is to make an unexpected visit to Moscow to discuss Iran's nuclear programme...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Seizure order on SA white farm
South Africa acts for the first time to expropriate a white-owned farm under a redistribution plan...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
'War zone' Russian city is sealed
The Russian Caucasus city of Nalchik is sealed off by security forces after it was attacked by militants...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
Toni-Ann murder accused in court
A man charged with killing a girl and the man she thought was her father two years ago is due in court...
BBC News - October 14, 2005
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