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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Global News Archive for May 2008:
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Razansai Journal: In a Kyrgyz Garden, Unburied Soviet Memories
The Soviet Union collapsed almost 17 years ago, but for many on the outer edges of the empire it feels like yesterday...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
France Convicts 7 in Iraq Jihadist Recruitment Trial
The men were given prison terms of up to seven years on Wednesday for their roles in helping to send French youths to fight alongside insurgents in Iraq...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
In Spite of Truce, War Over Wall Goes on in Sadr City
A daily battle of attrition continues to be waged over the concrete barrier the Americans have built in hopes of establishing a safe zone in the southern tier of the Shia enclave...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Shareholders back RBS cash plan
Shareholders approve Royal Bank of Scotland's request for £12bn in new capital to shore up its finances...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Lebanon revokes Hezbollah curbs
Lebanon has cancelled measures targeting Hezbollah that triggered a week of violence between political factions...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
UN raises Burma cyclone estimate
The UN sharply increases to 2.5m its estimate of those severely affected by Cyclone Nargis in Burma...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Rangers' cup dream ends in defeat
Rangers fans are left heartbroken after the club's Uefa Cup dream ended in defeat in Manchester...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Guilty of £40m cocaine boat plot
A man is found guilty of trying to smuggle £40m worth of cocaine into the UK hidden in a luxury yacht...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
New deadline for Zimbabwe's vote
Zimbabwe's government extends by 90 days the deadline for a presidential run-off to be held...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
In pictures
Images from the Queen's state visit to Turkey...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Private view
When can papers you're carrying be photographed?...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Edwards endorses Obama in US race
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been endorsed by former rival John Edwards...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Slow to arrive
BBC reporter in Burma describes patchy aid efforts...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Speedboat sting
Ben Ando tells how a £40m smuggling plot was foiled...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Man charged with Oxford St murder
An 18-year-old man is charged with murdering 22-year-old Steven Bigby in London's Oxford Street on Monday...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Rangers suffer Uefa Cup heartache
Russia's Zenit St Petersburg lift the Uefa Cup thanks to a 2-0 victory over Scotland's Rangers in Manchester...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Call for sell-off of Royal Mail
The UK's postal regulator calls for the part privatisation of Royal Mail to ensure a high-quality mail service...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Man charged over bakery killing
A 19-year-old man is charged with the murder of a 16-year-old in a bakery in south-east London...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Fritzl's victims thank the public
The family of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter in a cellar release their first message...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
US orchestra finds out what it's like to be conducted by a robot
US orchestra is conducted by a robot...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Henin announces shock retirement
World number one Justine Henin quits tennis with immediate effect - at the age of 25...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Staff to be given training rights
Workers in England are to be given the right to ask employers for training, the Prime Minister has announced...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Whales are 'cheetahs of the deep'
The way super-fast pilot whales hunt their prey has brought comparisons with the fleet-footed land predator, the cheetah...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Cannes kicks off with panda power
An invasion of panda bears helps launch the 61st Cannes Film Festival, which is getting under way in France...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Can red, white and blues enhance the taste of wine?
Playing a certain type of music can enhance the way wine tastes, research by psychologists suggests...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Action to 'help family finances'
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced a series of plans that will affect people's finances, homes and work...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Performance pay for NHS hospitals
Ministers plan to ramp up competition in the NHS by linking hospital funds to the quality of services they provide...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
New deadline for Zimbabwe's vote
Zimbabwe's government extends by 90 days the day a presidential run-off vote must be held...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
'No access' to Burma cyclone zone
Burma's military rules are beefing up security to keep foreigners out of the areas affected by Cyclone Nargis...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Extreme challenge
Nasa spacecraft set for nail-biting descent to Mars...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Husband guilty of roof box murder
A man is found guilty of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a car roof top box in the couple's garden...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Superbug test case can go ahead
A pensioner who contracted a hospital superbug is given the go ahead to bring a test case against an NHS board...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
M50 murder may be looked at again
The murder of a pregnant woman killed after her car broke down on the M50 in 1988 is likely to be reviewed...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Town murder investigation begins
A post-mortem examination prompts a murder investigation to begin in a County Down town...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Will it work?
Did the PM's speech hit right spot with voters and MPs?...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Rangers invasion
Thousands of fans party in Manchester for Uefa Cup final...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Expats in trouble
Property price crash in Spain hits British residents hard...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Pair guilty of radio theft murder
Two brothers are convicted of murdering a father-of-two after they tried to steal a radio from his car...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
First Burma aid plane to leave UK
The first flight carrying aid from the UK to Burma is due to leave East Midlands airport...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Clegg's £7k renovation expenses
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg reveals he claimed £7,000 on expenses to renovate his constituency home...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
No drug charges for Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse will not face charges over a video supposedly showing her smoking crack cocaine...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Brown sets out future programme
Gordon Brown outlines a range of reforms he plans for next year - but the Tories say he has "run out of steam"...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Public inquiry into Iraqi's death
The government announces a public inquiry will be held into the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa in 2003...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Attack, Blamed on ETA, Kills 1 in Northern Spain
A bomb blamed by local authorities on the violent Basque separatist group ETA exploded outside a police barracks in northern Spain, killing a police officer and wounding four...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Live - Uefa Cup final build-up
Thousands of fans descend on Manchester as Rangers prepare to take on Zenit St Petersburg in the Uefa Cup final...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
McGeechan given Lions coach role
Wasps director of rugby Ian McGeechan is appointed Lions head coach for next year's tour to South Africa...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Dr Who fan in knitted puppet row
A Doctor Who fan is embroiled in a row with the BBC after publishing knitting patterns for the show's monsters online...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
MySpace wins bumper spam payout
MySpace has won $234m in damages from spammers - but has little chance of getting the cash say experts...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Car bomb kills policeman in Spain
One policeman is killed after a car bomb explodes outside barracks in the Basque region of Spain...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Train crash at Bangladesh station
At least eight people are killed and others injured in a train crash in eastern Bangladesh, officials say...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
UK unemployment rises by 14,000
UK unemployment rose by 14,000 to 1.61 million in the three months to March, official figures show...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
New Labour principles 'abandoned'
The Conservatives say the "emergency budget" shows New Labour principles are being "abandoned"...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Ruane says test call 'difficult'
The education minister says keeping academic selection for another three years was a "difficult move"...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Sudan want rebels on terror list
Sudan asks for the Darfur rebel that led the weekend attack on the capital to be listed as a terrorist group...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Clinton fights on after victory
Hillary Clinton says her win in West Virginia means the race for the Democratic nomination is not over yet...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Arabs push for Lebanon dialogue
An Arab League delegation arrives in Lebanon to mediate between the government and opposition...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Dodging the junta
BBC journalist on rigours of reporting from Burma...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Pair arrested over stabbing death
Two teenagers are arrested by police investigating the murder of a man on London's Oxford Street...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Football fans flock to Manchester
Thousands of Rangers fans start partying in Manchester ahead of the Uefa Cup Final against Zenit St Petersburg...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Aero firm's £100m research boost
The future of an Airbus plant and its employees could be secured by development of new wing technology...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Shatila slideshow
Life in a Palestinian refugee camp after 60 years of exile...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Defiant victory
Hillary Clinton keeps hopes alive with convincing win...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
China quake
Anxious family waits for news of missing UK tourist...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Where is ET?
Academic explains the truth behind Britain's UFOs...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Predicting 1960s
No men on the Moon - the experts who got it wrong...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Thai premier in Burma aid talks
The Thai prime minister departs for Burma, where he will urge leaders to allow in urgently-needed aid...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Speaker's wife complaint rejected
A complaint about taxi journeys claimed on expenses by Commons Speaker Michael Martin's wife is dismissed...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Inquest into 10 hospital deaths
An inquest is opened into the deaths of 10 patients at a Hampshire hospital in the late 1990s...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Ripper in legal bid for freedom
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe aims to win his freedom by claiming his human rights have been breached...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Brown to set out future programme
Gordon Brown is to outline his legislative plans for the year ahead, expected to include schools and GP care...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
China quake toll close to 15,000
Nearly 15,000 people died in the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province, the official news agency says...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
UK inflation woe 'set to worsen'
The UK's outlook for inflation has deteriorated in the past few months, the head of the Bank of England says...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Taliban Tell Public to Turn Off TVs
Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programs...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: France: Bistros to Offer Drinks and Breathalyzers
Barely recovered from the imposition of a smoking ban this year, the French are bracing for the next novelty in their favorite bistros: a Breathalyzer...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Memo From Liedekerke: Seams of Belgium?s Quilt Threaten to Burst
A little town?s insistence on its ?Flemish nature,? making all town business and schooling take place in Flemish, is part of a growing split between French and Flemish-speaking Belgians...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Italian?s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face
An Italian man?s detention underscores real but little-known dangers that many travelers from Europe and other first-world nations face when they arrive in the United States...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Zimbabwe Police Confront Diplomats
The police confronted diplomats seeking to investigate allegations of torture Tuesday, halting their convoy at a roadblock on the edge of the capital...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Water Shipped to Parched City
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New York Times - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Vietnam: Journalists Arrested for Corruption Reports
Two Vietnamese journalists whose articles on bribery, corruption and gambling in the Transportation Ministry rocked the ruling Communist Party in 2006 have been arrested and accused of abusing power...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Court Finds G.I.?s Justified in Iraq Killing
The National Court dismissed homicide charges against three United States soldiers accused of killing a Spanish television cameraman when they opened fire on a Baghdad hotel in 2003...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Saudi Arabia: Iran Accused of Backing Hezbollah
The Saudi government accused Iran of backing what it called a coup d?état by Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Nationalist Premier of Serbia Teams Up With Radical Party
It was the opening move in an elaborate coalition mating dance following Serbia?s inconclusive general election on Sunday...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Earthquake in China Highlights the Vulnerability of Schools in Many Countries
The loss of life in schools collapsed by the earthquake around China could have been reduced using known methods for designing or retrofitting structures in earthquake zones, experts said...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
North Korea Documents Make Debut, at a Distance
The documents, which officials have described as representing a complete accounting of North Korea?s plutonium production, were briefly displayed to the media on Tuesday...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Shmuel Katz, an Opponent of Begin?s Peace Effort, Dies at 93
Mr. Katz was a close adviser to Menachem Begin, Israel?s prime minister in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but later became an opponent of Begin?s peace efforts with Egypt and the Palestinians...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Saad al-Sabah, Ex-Emir of Kuwait, Dies at 78
Sheik Saad was briefly the emir of Kuwait, a political crisis having forced him down from his post in 2006, only 9 days after he had become the emir...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Factory Visit Tied to Ouster of Attachés From Russia
The two U.S. military attachés who were expelled from Russia early this month had made an uninvited visit to a military aviation factory in Siberia that Russia regards as strategic...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Blair Unveils Proposals to Improve Life on the West Bank
Tony Blair, envoy of the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers, said improving living conditions for Palestinians was necessary to make political negotiations work...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Gates Says New Arms Must Play Role Now
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that expensive new conventional weapons must prove their value to current conflicts if they are to be included in further Pentagon budgets...
New York Times - May 14, 2008
Rangers & Zenit chase Uefa glory
Rangers are aiming to win their first Uefa Cup in Wednesday's final against Russian's Zenit St Petersburg...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Extinction fear for butterfly
A UK mountain-dwelling butterfly could be wiped out in Scotland because of climate change, experts say...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Curfew imposed after India blasts
A curfew is imposed in the old city in Jaipur in western India after a series of blasts killed at least 60...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
£120 for basic rate taxpayers
The chancellor announces a change in tax allowances which means all basic rate taxpayers gain £120 this year...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Method to spot viable IVF embryos
Scientists use gene analysis to identify the genetic profile of IVF embryos that result in a successful pregnancy...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Bush begins tour of Middle East
US President George Bush travels to Israel to take part in celebrations of the country's 60th anniversary...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
EU official to press Burma on aid
The European Union is sending a top envoy to Burma to urge its military rulers to be more flexible on foreign aid...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Camp life
Slideshow explores Shatila refugee camp in Beirut...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Sunbed operators try to stop ban
Sunbed parlours attempt to stop a ban on the use of coin-operated tanning machines by teenagers...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
In pictures
Previously classified files on UFO sightings in the UK...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Jaipur trauma
Indian city slowly recovers from shock of bomb blasts...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
The way we pay
Mobiles for banking, pre-paid cards and an end to cheques?...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Call for debate on dementia care
A debate is needed over the ethical dilemmas facing people caring for dementia patients, experts say...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Clinton: 'Race is not over yet'
Hillary Clinton says her clear win in the West Virginia primary means the race for the Democratic nomination is not over yet...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Freud work sets new world record
A Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman sells for $33.6m (£17.2m) in New York, a new record...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Rangers fans in Manchester invasion
The tension mounts for Rangers fans as up to 100,000 are expected in Manchester for the Uefa Cup Final...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Files released on UFO sightings
Secret files on UFO sightings in Britain are made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
PM to outline 'Queen's Speech'
Gordon Brown is to outline his legislative plans for the year ahead, as he tries to move on from the 10p tax row...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
Struggle to reach quake trapped
Chinese rescuers battle rain and blocked roads as they try to reach thousands buried by a devastating earthquake...
BBC News - May 14, 2008
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