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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 2005:
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U.N. Considers Widening Inquiry Into Lebanese Slaying
The Security Council met today on a resolution extending the term of the inquiry an additional six months, to June 15...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Political Bargaining Likely to Follow a Split Vote in Iraq
With the country almost evenly divided between secular and Islamist parties, the election is likely to be followed by protracted bargaining...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Bush Defends Iraq Strategy on Eve of Parliamentary Elections
President Bush said the U.S. campaign would lead to "total victory" over the forces of tyranny and terrorism...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Tools unlock secrets of early man
Research shows early humans were living in Britain 700,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
'No deal made over spy charges'
Spy charges against three men were not dropped as part of a deal with the IRA, the prime minister says...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
MSPs to vote on divorce changes
Sweeping reforms to domestic life could be passed on Thursday when MSPs vote on changes to family law...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Rich nations criticised on trade
Developing countries turn on the US and EU in Hong Kong, urging them to end squabbling over farm subsidies...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Germany denies 'CIA kidnap' role
Germany denies any role in the alleged abduction of one of its citizens by CIA agents in 2003...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Holocaust comments condemned
Condemnation greets comments by the Iranian president that the Holocaust was "a myth"...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Football: Man Utd crush Wigan
Wayne Rooney scores two as Man Utd ease the pressure on boss Sir Alex Ferguson with a dominant display...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Kennedy pledges to stay as leader
Charles Kennedy tells Lib Dem MPs he intends to lead them into the next election, as he fights for his political life...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Lebanese Express Hope at Funeral for Slain Lawmaker
The daughter of Gebran Tueni, a critic of Syria killed by a car bomb attack, vowed today to keep her father's voice alive...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq From Iran
An Iraqi election official "dismissed" the reports today, asserting that such news is "part of the electoral campaign."...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Israeli Missiles Kill 4 Palestinian Militants in Gaza Strip
Israeli military said the car carrying them was packed with explosives and en route to an attack...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
To Halt Abuses, U.S. Will Inspect Jails Run by Iraq
U.S. military officers will inspect detention centers and embed with Iraqi forces to try to halt widespread abuses...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
U2's Vertigo tops touring chart
Irish rock band U2 had the top-grossing tour of 2005, according to US magazine Billboard...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Cameron relives Black Wednesday
David Cameron says the Tories have learned their lesson from the economic crash on Black Wednesday...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Private treatment centres warning
Private treatment centres harm the NHS and risk compromising patient care, senior doctors warn...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Focus on basics means good GCSEs
The government has finally clarified its new league table targets for England's secondary schools...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Hubble weighs closest white dwarf
Using the Hubble telescope, astonomers have measured the mass of the closest white dwarf to Earth...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Browser users urged to patch up
Microsoft is urging users of its Internet Explorer browser to update to close a "critical" bug...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Syria denounced at Beirut funeral
Tens of thousands of people turn the funeral of murdered Lebanon press chief Gibran Tueni into an anti-Syria rally...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Man jailed for 'eyeball' murder
A man is jailed for life for the murder of his mother's ex-partner whose eye was gouged out and found in a beer can...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Brothel madam caught by Pc boast
A brothel madam was caught when her partner boasted of her lavish lifestyle to police colleagues, a court hears...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Football: Celtic in for Keane
Roy Keane will sign for Celtic - and should complete his move this week, BBC Scotland understands...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Football: Fergie's 'press mistake'
Public relations guru Max Clifford says Sir Alex Ferguson has irrevocably destroyed his relationship with the press...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Count begins after Tanzanian vote
Turnout is reported to be high in Tanzania's delayed parliamentary and presidential elections...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Air marshals test patrols on land
US air marshals expand their work to bus and train stations and ferries in a three-day test to bolster home security...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
EU states reject UK budget plan
Last ditch proposals by the UK to break the EU budget deadlock are rejected by key European leaders...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Blair defiant on education plans
Tony Blair rules out changes to his education reform plans - despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
PM defends bomb inquiry decision
Tony Blair defends ministers' decision not to hold a public inquiry into the 7 July London bomb attacks...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Reality TV betting scam exposed
A reality TV betting scam that made a gang tens of thousand of pounds is foiled by a team of investigators...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Under-fire Kennedy meets his MPs
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy is to meet his MPs after facing criticisms from some senior colleagues...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Bush takes on Iraqi war critics
The US president admits the Iraq invasion was based on faulty intelligence, but says it was still the right decision...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
GP cleared of patients' murders
A retired doctor is found not guilty of murdering three male patients with morphine overdoses...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Four guilty of barman's killing
A teenage girl, two youths and a man are convicted of killing a barman during a spree of random violence...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Plasma engine passes initial test
A new kind of plasma engine which could power spacecraft of the future passes its initial laboratory tests...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
TV glitch mars Xbox 360 Kong game
Gamers playing the King Kong game on the Xbox 360 may find it hard to see what they are doing, admits Ubisoft...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Monster launch for King Kong film
Director Peter Jackson's epic King Kong is receiving one of the biggest launches in cinema history...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Oil blaze schools reopen
Almost all of the schools closed after the explosions at the Buncefield oil depot have reopened...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Police hunt seven-man kidnap gang
The hunt is under way for a gang who kidnapped a County Down grandmother as part of a robbery plot...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Homicide rate hits 10-year high
Scotland's homicide rate for 2004-05 is the highest in almost a decade, according to the latest statistics...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Deal reached in ferries dispute
An agreement is reached in the dispute which has kept two Irish Ferries ships in Welsh ports for 20 days...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
UK unemployment total increases
The number of people out of work in the UK rose by 72,000 to 1.49 million in the three months to October...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
US and EU differ at trade talks
Disagreement between the US and EU dominates the second day of global trade talks in Hong Kong...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Ukraine confirms bird flu cases
Tests on some of the poultry found dead in Ukraine show that they had the lethal H5N1 bird flu strain...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Crowds at Syria critic's funeral
Thousands attend the funeral of an anti-Syrian press chief killed in a car bombing in the Lebanese capital...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Bangladesh 'militant leader' held
Bangladesh security forces arrest the suspected military head of a banned group blamed for suicide bombings...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
ITV's News Channel to close
The ITV News Channel is to close down in the New Year after months of speculation about its future...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Football: Eriksson places pledge
Sven-Goran Eriksson says three places are up for grabs in England's World Cup squad...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Museveni rival to run in election
Imprisoned Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is declared a presidential candidate by the electoral commission...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Sydney police warn of more riots
Sydney authorities warn of more racial unrest as inflammatory text messages continue to circulate...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Anti-Kennedy briefings 'cowardly'
Senior Lib Dem Lembit Opik warns MPs to stop their "cowardly" briefings against leader Charles Kennedy...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
UK outlines new EU budget plan
The UK issues revised plans to resolve the EU budget row, but without offering new cuts to the rebate...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Iranian leader denies Holocaust
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry as a "myth"...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Fresh leads in Pc murder inquiry
Police hunting the killers of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky follow new lines of inquiry after a nationwide TV appeal...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Anger as 7 July inquiry rejected
The government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the 7 July London bombings is strongly criticised...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Police speak to fire claim driver
A driver who fears he may have triggered the fire at the Buncefield fuel depot is interviewed by police...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Latest Assassination and Funeral Heighten Anxiety in Beirut
The killing of Gebran Tueni, a critic of Syria, reverberated far beyond the winding short-cut road where a car packed with explosives detonated...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Palestinian Gunmen Storm Election Offices in Gaza and West Bank
Dozens of masked gunmen belonging to the Fatah movement of the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, burst into election offices in Gaza City...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Prisons: To Halt Abuses, U.S. Will Inspect Jails Run by Iraq
U.S. military officers will conduct inspections of Iraqi detention centers and embed with Iraqi forces to try to halt a pattern of torture...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
The Elections: Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq From Iran
Iraqi border police seized a tanker that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official said...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Beijing Casts Net of Silence Over Protest
China has censored newspapers and the Internet to prevent news of a violent crackdown on protesters from spreading...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
New Army Rules May Snarl Talks With McCain on Detainee Issue
Pentagon officials are concerned that Senator John McCain would be furious at what could appear to be an effort to circumvent his push to ban cruel treatment...
New York Times - December 14, 2005
Gun officer 'should face charges'
The family of a man shot dead by police say the man who pulled the trigger should face charges...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
City 'well-prepared' for attack
Finance firms are prepared for a terrorist attack or natural disaster but can improve in key areas, research shows...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
US presses for global trade deal
A top US official says trade negotiators should agree on a global free trade deal or face a slide into protectionism...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
DR envoy demands Haitian apology
The Dominican Republic's envoy to Haiti demands an apology for clashes during his country's president visit...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Poor basic skills hamper pupils
Improved standards in schools in England are marred by poor levels of literacy and numeracy, says Ofsted...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
New fire burns in oil depot tank
Fire again breaks out at the Buncefield oil depot but is said to be safely contained and will be left to burn itself out...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
UN Hariri probe 'needs more time'
The head of the UN probe into the death of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri says he needs at least another year...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
Colombia ready for hostage talks
In a change of heart, Colombia says it is ready to pull back troops to facilitate hostage talks with rebels...
BBC News - December 14, 2005
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