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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 March 2008:
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Generation Faithful: Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics
Many young people in Iraq have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Campaign for NATO Growth in Doubt
Internal political divisions, new tensions with Russia and a combat mission in Afghanistan have exposed disparities of might and will among current members...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Turnout Uneven in Iran Elections
With most high-profile reformists barred from running in the parliamentary elections, religious conservatives are expected to tighten their grip on power...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Heathrow Opens New Terminal
The notoriously congested London airport has opened a fifth terminal, at a cost of around $8.7 billion...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
U.S. Soldier Killed by German Police
The United States Army soldier in Bavaria had taken a former girlfriend hostage, the local police said Friday...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Celebrity culture 'harms pupils'
The cult of celebrity is damaging children's educational aspirations, a teaching union warns...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Saturn moon 'once had ocean'
The Saturnian moon Tethys may once have harboured a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface, scientists tell a planetary conference...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Opera star Watson plans UK tour
Opera star Russell Watson is to go on a UK tour later this year after ending treatment for a brain tumour...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Manhunt 2 wins battle for release
The ban on controversial video game Manhunt 2 in the UK is lifted and the game will now go on sale...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
McKie 'does not want' new inquiry
The father of Shirley McKie says his daughter does not want a public inquiry into her fingerprint scandal case...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Ex-pop star jailed for child sex
A member of the band which had a hit with 'Build Me Up Buttercup' is jailed for child sex offences...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Fresh banking fears knock shares
US shares fall sharply on renewed fears about the impact of bad mortgage debt and the wider credit squeeze...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Medics taught to spot drink abuse
Doctors are to be given special training to spot people who drink too much, the government has said...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Move to ban ruling Turkish party
A Turkish state prosecutor asks the country's top court to ban the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Last case against Zardari dropped
A Pakistani court quashes the last corruption case against Asif Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Death threats posted by girl, 9
A nine-year-old girl admits posting death threats on the internet blog of a cancer sufferer...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Fishing boat crewmen found in sea
Two fishing boat crewmen are taken to hospital after being pulled from the sea off County Donegal...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
No action on Man Utd rape claim
Manchester United's Jonny Evans will face no action over allegations of rape at a city centre hotel...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Denman storms to Gold Cup victory
Denman powers to a formidable victory over stablemate Kauto Star to claim the showpiece Cheltenham Gold Cup...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Nigerian deals 'wasted billions'
Some $2.2bn-worth of Nigerian energy contracts were awarded without bids by the ex-president, officials say...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
US detains 'top al-Qaeda figure'
A top al-Qaeda figure who the Pentagon says has close ties to Osama Bin Laden is taken to Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
EU agrees climate plan deadline
EU leaders agree to wrap up talks by the end of the year on an ambitious plan to fight climate change...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
No radio 'led to parachute death'
A coroner says an Army captain would have survived a parachute jump if he had been given a radio...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Missing girl Shannon found alive
A man is arrested after nine-year-old Shannon Matthews is found hidden in the base of a divan bed in West Yorkshire...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Deaths reported in Tibet protests
At least two people are reported killed in clashes between protesters and police in Tibet's main city of Lhasa...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Police summon Goa girl's mother
The mother of a British teenager murdered in Goa is issued with a summons to appear before police...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Queen opens new Terminal 5
The controversial Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport is officially opened by the Queen...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Canada May Extend Afghan Role
Canada?s Parliament voted 198 to 77 on Thursday to extend the country?s combat mission in Afghanistan nearly two years, until the end of 2011...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Ethnic Protests in Malaysia After Election Losses
Sseveral hundred members of Malaysia?s largest ethnic group gathered Friday on this largely Chinese island, defying a police ban on protests...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
U.S. Soldier Killed by German Police
The United States Army soldier in Bavaria had taken a former girlfriend hostage, the local police said Friday...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Chinese Police Clash With Tibet Protesters
Violent protests erupted in a busy market area of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, as monks and other ethnic Tibetans clashed with Chinese security forces...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Nepal Puts Everest Off Limits for Olympics
Both routes to the world?s highest peak are scheduled to be off limits this spring, as Beijing strives to inaugurate the summer Olympic Games free of pro-Tibetan protests...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Court Dismisses Charge Against Bhutto Widower
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the husband of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Backyard Body Count Up to 33 in Mexico
Mexican investigators found 19 more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 33, officials said...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Shops on Fire in Tibet, Witnesses Say
Shops were set on fire in violence in Tibet?s capital of Lhasa on Friday, witnesses said, as the region was hit by a fresh wave of rare street protests...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
TV's Top Gear to go on world tour
BBC Two car show Top Gear is to be turned into a live event for a world tour that will visit 15 countries...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Yahoo makes semantic search shift
Yahoo is starting to use key elements of next generation net technology known as the "semantic web"...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Boss rues collapse of hedge fund
Carlyle Group pledges to "stand by" investors in the firm's failed fund, the Financial Times reports...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Dyslexia link to school failures
Undiagnosed dyslexia is a major cause of failure in school, according to government-funded research...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Antarctica's unique space rocks
A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own, a space conference is told...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Todd's body released for burial
The family of Manchester police chief Michael Todd are due to begin organising his funeral...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
'Miracle' recovery of crash girl
The father of a schoolgirl critically injured in a crash which killed her cousin says she is talking again...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Judge to head fingerprint inquiry
A senior Northern Ireland judge is to head an inquiry into the Shirley Mckie fingerprint scandal...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Elderly woman injured in incident
An elderly woman has been taken to hospital after she was badly injured in an incident in Cardiff...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Police to resist Zimbabwe change
Zimbabwe's police chief says he will not let opposition "puppets" take power in this month's elections...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
US envoy urges N Korea progress
Some progress was made at North Korea nuclear talks but more is needed, US negotiator Christopher Hill says...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
'Roadmap' focus of Mid-East talks
Israelis and Palestinians are to hold talks with a US envoy on the roadmap plan, the first such meeting for months...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Pair quizzed over Goa girl murder
Detectives continue to question two men over the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in India...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Kauto & Denman set for Gold Cup
Stablemates Kauto Star and Denman head a £30m betting frenzy for the Cheltenham Gold Cup...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
F1: McLaren dismiss engineer
McLaren terminate the employment of chief designer Mike Coughlan, the man at the centre of last year's spy scandal...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Football: Clubs await Euro fate
Four English clubs await Friday's Champions League quarter-final draw at 1200 GMT - and Rangers will learn their Uefa Cup opponents...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
US officials lambast share scam
A father and daughter showed "callous disregard" for the British victims of their share scam, US investigators say...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
'Cat confession' man not guilty
A man is cleared of murdering his partner in her bed as jurors reject claims that he confessed to his cats...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Tories plan extra parental leave
David Cameron says a Conservative government would extend parental leave and give mothers and fathers the choice of who looks after a newborn baby...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Shops on fire amid Tibet protests
Fires break out in Tibet's main city of Lhasa, China's state media says, as rare protests in the province gather pace...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Macedonia: Court Convicts a Bear
A court in the city of Bitola convicted a bear of stealing honey from a beekeeper and damaging his hives...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Reprieve for Gay Iranian Asylum Seeker
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she would review the case of a 19-year-old gay Iranian asylum seeker who fears he will be put to death if he is forced to return home...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: France: Champagne Demand Forces a Bigger Vineyard
The official body that determines France?s wine laws has decided to expand the country?s Champagne-producing region to meet growing worldwide demand...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: Finally, Something to Buy
Citing ?the improved availability of electricity,? an internal government memo has authorized the sale of long-desired appliances and electronics in Cuba...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: Court Backs Suspected Drug Lord?s Extradition to U.S.
The Supreme Court approved an American request for the extradition of Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia, a Colombian accused of smuggling billions of dollars of cocaine into the United States...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Serbia: Parliament Dissolved; Elections on May 11
The coalition government collapsed in a disagreement over pursuit of membership in the European Union...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Study Finds No Qaeda-Hussein Tie
There was no direct operational connection between Saddam Hussein?s government and Al Qaeda before the war in Iraq, says a Pentagon-sponsored study...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: In South Africa, Crime Is Child?s Play
Young children play games where students simulate sexual attacks in South African schools, according to a chilling report issued by the nation?s human rights commission...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Ethiopia: Bomb on Bus Kills 8
Eight people were killed in an explosion near the borders of Sudan and Eritrea, government officials said, and Ethiopia blamed its neighbor Eritrea...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Bomber Kills 8 Afghan Civilians in Attack on U.S. Forces
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) ? A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians on Thursday in an attack on American soldiers near the airport here, a NATO spokesman said...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Canada May Extend Afghan Role
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New York Times - March 14, 2008
Civilians Died in a Strike by Americans, Pakistan Says
The Pakistani Army said Thursday that civilians were killed when American-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border in a strike aimed at Taliban militants...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Two Directors Resign From Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Two of the three artistic directors at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada?s largest nonprofit performing arts organization, have stepped down...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Sudan and Chad Sign Peace Pact
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan and President Idriss Déby of Chad igned a peace agreement meant to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region that includes Darfur...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
U.S. Studies Rebels? Data for Chávez Link
American investigative teams are trying to resolve the nature of the relationship between Columbia?s largest rebel group Hugo Chávez, Venezuela?s president...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Surgeon Held for Deaths in Australia
An American surgeon was in a Portland jail on Thursday awaiting extradition proceedings over charges that he caused the deaths of three patients in Australia...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Palestinians Unite in Anger Against Israeli Attack
At prayers and funerals for four militants killed by Israeli forces, Palestinians displayed a unity rarely seen since Hamas seized power in Gaza last summer...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
In Lagging Haiti, First Lady Finds Positive Signs
Laura Bush?s visit to the poorest country in the hemisphere was aimed at putting a positive face on some of its numerous and seemingly intractable woes...
New York Times - March 14, 2008
Call to fine public drunks £100
People drunk in public should be fined £100, even if they are not causing a nuisance, says a leading doctor...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Female heads 'at all-time high'
The number of women becoming head teachers is rising but more should be encouraged, says a study...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Flexible immigration policy call
The head of the UK equality watchdog is expected to say immigration policy should be adjusted for Scotland...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Clegg wants to see 150 fewer MPs
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg wants the number of MPs cut as part of his plans to rebuild trust in politics...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Yemeni describes CIA secret jails
A Yemeni says he was held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons and accuses the US of torture...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
India to hold Tibetans two weeks
Tibetan refugees held in India while trying to march to the Chinese border face two weeks in custody...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
800,000 train delays 'cost £1bn'
There were 800,000 delays on the railways in 2006/7 costing the public £1bn in lost time, according to the National Audit Office...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Cuba moves to lift appliance ban
Cuba's new President Raul Castro looks set to lift a ban on a wide range of consumer electrical appliances...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Sudan and Chad sign border accord
Chad and Sudan's presidents sign an accord in Senegal to stop support for rebels in each other's territory...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Iranians vote in general election
Voting begins in Iran's polls with many opponents of President Ahmadinejad barred from running...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
BBC hands OFT files on Gaviscon
The BBC gives the Office of Fair Trading files showing plans to thwart competition in heartburn medicine sales...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
'Lax standards' on data security
The government has persistently failed to take data protection seriously enough, MPs and peers say...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Queen to open new Heathrow terminal
The controversial Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport is to be officially opened by the Queen...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
EU set to agree emission cut plan
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are poised to agree on a plan for further cutting greenhouse gas emissions...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
Tories plan extra parental leave
David Cameron says a Conservative government would extend parental leave and give mothers and fathers the choice of who looks after a newborn baby...
BBC News - March 14, 2008
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