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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 August 2007:
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Bombers Kill at Least 175 in Northern Iraq
Suicide bombers hit a town in northwest Iraq today, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, the Iraqi military said...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Stars mourn Mike Reid's passing
TV stars, including cast members from EastEnders, attend the funeral of Mike Reid who died last month...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Older patients' rights 'abused'
MPS and peers warn many hospitals and care homes fail to protect the human rights of older patients...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Pensioner injured in bomb attack
A pensioner suffers minor injuries after a petrol bomb is thrown at his home in west Belfast...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Man dies after litter row attack
A man dies a week after a violent confrontation with two youths who threw litter into a car window...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Israeli strikes kill six in Gaza
Six Palestinians, including several militants, die in a series of Israeli military strikes in the southern Gaza Strip...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Guatemala adoption home 'legal'
The owner of a Guatemalan children's home under investigation, rejects claims it was operating illegally...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Tennis: Murray out in first round
Andy Murray slumps to a 6-1 6-2 defeat to Marcos Baghdatis in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Football: Rangers win first leg
Nacho Novo fires an 89th minute winner for Rangers in their Champions League third round qualifier at Ibrox...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Workers airlifted from blazing rig
Dozens of workers are airlifted from a drilling rig in the North Sea following an engine fire...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Spurs slip to second defeat
Big-spending Tottenham suffer a second successive Premier League defeat as they lose to a strong-willed Everton...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Euro Lottery winner to go public
The holder of a EuroMillions lottery ticket worth £35.4m is set to be unveiled at a hotel near Falkirk...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Equality plea as India celebrates
The Indian president calls for a more inclusive economy as the country's marks its 60th anniversary of independence...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
McConnell to step down as leader
Jack McConnell will step down as Labour leader to undertake new challenges including Third World education projects...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Police hunt for two sex offenders
Two men who pose a danger to children are being hunted after absconding from their approved addresses...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Biker shooting 'had been planned'
A biker who was shot dead on the M40 was followed by his murderer onto the motorway, police say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
More arrests over father's death
Three more youths are arrested over the murder of a father-of-three in Warrington, Cheshire...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
'Scores die' in Iraq bomb attacks
At least 175 people have died in a series of suicide bombings apparently aimed at a religious minority, Iraq's army says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Ousted Thai Leader Haunts Junta
From exile in London, Thaksin Shinawatra is watching and, perhaps, waiting for his moment to return...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Many Feared Dead in N. Korean Flood
Severe flooding has left hundreds dead or missing and inflicted widespread damage, North Korean officials acknowledged today...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
10 Dead in Iraq Bridge Bombing
A suicide attack on a bridge north of Baghdad killed 10 people today while disrupting an American supply route, as American and Iraqi forces began a big push north of the capital...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Map reveals ancient urban sprawl
A new map of the medieval temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia reveals the extent of urban settlement around it...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Tenor Pavarotti to leave hospital
Doctors in Italy give opera star Luciano Pavarotti clearance to leave hospital, his manager says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Thatcher leads tributes to Biffen
Baroness Thatcher describes Lord Biffen, who has died at the age of 76, as a "great Parliamentarian"...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
O'Leary threatens Aer Lingus move
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary threatens to block Aer Lingus's plans to cut its Shannon to Heathrow service...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Court interpreter cost concerns
A sheriff calls for people who fail to show up for court dates to pay the costs of hiring their interpreters...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Patient killed in hospital attack
A 58-year-old mental health patient dies after being attacked at a hospital in Greater Manchester...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Iraq suicide bomb hits key bridge
A suicide truck bomber attacks a bridge north of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people, Iraqi police say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Turkey's Gul vows secular agenda
Turkey's Abdullah Gul says he will run again for president as a secularist, but critics fear an Islamist agenda...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Deadline to end Malawi deadlock
Malawi's president gives parliament two days to agree a budget or he says he will "close it down"...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Football: Boro to sign Mido
Middlesbrough look to set to win the race for Tottenham striker Mido, who is having a medical on Teesside...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Cricket: Prior's 'toughest week'
England's under-fire wicket-keeper Matt Prior tells BBC Sport the last week has been the hardest of his career...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Stars attend Mike Reid's funeral
TV stars, including cast members from EastEnders attend the funeral of Mike Reid who died last month...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
£1m for hard-hit tourism industry
The tourism industry is to get £1m in aid after the dual blows of flooding and foot-and-mouth...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
New disease cases suspected
Two suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Kent and Surrey are being probed, the UK's chief vet says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Further case of E.coli confirmed
Another case of E.coli infection linked to the Scottish outbreak is confirmed as a woman falls ill in Ireland...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Mattel recalls millions more toys
The US toymaker Mattel recalls millions more toys, two weeks after an earlier recall by its Fisher Price division...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Biker shooting was 'pre-planned'
A biker who was shot dead on the M40 was followed by his murderer onto the motorway, police say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Bridge Collapse in China Kills 22
A bridge being built as a tourist attraction in central China collapsed, China Central Television reported...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Pakistan Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Independence
Artillery guns boomed at daybreak in Islamabad, and military cadets held a changing of the guard ceremony at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan?s founder, in Karachi...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Bomb Derails Train in Russia
A bomb set along railroad tracks exploded and derailed a passenger train between Moscow and St. Petersburg, injuring scores of passengers...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Nokia admits mobile battery issue
Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries for its mobile phones after reports of overheating while charging...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
VSO warning against gap-year aid
Young people would be better to travel the world than take part in gap-year aid projects, VSO says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Tory ex-minister Lord Biffen dies
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Lord Biffen dies, aged 76, his family say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Inflation falls on food price war
UK inflation fell to 1.9% in July, official figures indicate, helped by a price war in the country's supermarkets...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
'Good Samaritan' tourist stabbed
A fitness instructor acted as a "good samaritan" before he was fatally stabbed while on holiday, say US prosecutors...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Severe weather hits yacht race
Yachts take shelter at ports as bad weather forces more than 90 to retire from the Fastnet race...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Big rise in child drug treatments
The number of children treated for drug or alcohol abuse in NI more than trebles in the past two years...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Iran leader denies arms supplies
Iran's President Ahmadinejad denies on a visit to Kabul that Iranian weapons are reaching the Taleban...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Four killed in Israeli Gaza raid
Four Palestinians are killed during an Israeli incursion, involving tanks and aircraft, into the Gaza Strip...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
New Turkey presidency row looms
Turkey's Abdullah Gul says he will run again for president, raising fears of a clash with the army and secular elite...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Canada pig farmer prosecution rests case
Prosecutors in the multiple murder trial of a Canadian pig farmer wrap up, after hearing 98 witnesses...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Gunmen seize Nigerian MP's mother
Unknown gunmen kidnap the mother of a local state legislator in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, authorities say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Football: Owen's fitness boost
England striker Michael Owen declares himself fit after safely coming through a Newcastle friendly following a thigh injury...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Cricket: Strauss role questioned
Graham Gooch says the position of Andrew Strauss in England's Test line-up "will come under scrutiny"...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Lottery winner claims record prize
A ticket holder has won £35.4m in the EuroMillions draw - the biggest single payout in UK lottery history...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Soldier killed in Helmand named
A British soldier killed after his base came under attack in Afghanistan is named as Captain David Hicks...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Fewer teens achieve maths target
Fewer 14-year-olds have met the required standards in maths, new test results show...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Toddler stabbed to death in flat
A toddler is stabbed to death in a flat in east London and her mother is seriously injured, police say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Gangmaster's licence revoked
A Cornish company which left its foreign workers to scavenge for food has its licence is revoked...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Foot-and-mouth case suspected
A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in Kent is being probed, the UK's chief vet tells the BBC...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
SNP outlines independence plans
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond sets out his party's plans for a referendum on independence...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Woman dies from E.coli infection
A woman dies and six others are affected by an outbreak of E.coli linked to cold meat at two supermarkets...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
California: Defendant Apologizes to Wiesel
A man charged with dragging the Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel from a hotel elevator in San Francisco apologized to him in court...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Business Briefing: U.S. Seeks W.T.O. Ruling on Product Piracy in China
The Bush administration asked the World Trade Organization to rule in a complaint against China over piracy of copyrighted movies, music, software and books, escalating a dispute that has strained commercial relations between the two trading giants. After consultations failed to resolve differences over what the United States argues are weak Chinese laws to safeguard patents and copyrights, the Trade Representative?s office took the formal step of asking the trade organization, which is based in Geneva, to decree that China?s laws fall short of international agreements...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Television Review | 'Gaza E.R.' : In Gaza, Even a Hospital is a Battlefield
Like a lot of documentaries, ?Gaza E.R.,? tonight on PBS?s ?Wide Angle? series, makes a grim subject a little more palatable by occasionally tossing in some humanism via a likable character...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
At Australia?s Bunny Fence, Variable Cloudiness Prompts Climate Study
A fence across the Australian outback has unintentionally allowed scientists to study the effects of land use on regional climates...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Trial for Accused Serial Killer
Aleksandr Pichushkin, an accused serial killer, appeared in a Moscow courtroom and requested a jury trial...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Bomb Derails Train; Dozens Hurt
An explosion derailed 12 cars of a passenger train on the country?s busiest line, injuring dozens and suspending rail service between Moscow and St. Petersburg...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: North Korea: ?Very Big? Flood Damage
North Korea said hundreds of people were dead or missing and thousands of homes destroyed in torrential rains...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Troops Sent to Ingushetia
Hundreds of federal police troops have reinforced Russian forces in the southern region of Ingushetia in recent days...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: 5 Die in Fall From Ride
Five family members fell 65 feet to their deaths from a Ferris wheel after the car they were in unexpectedly overturned at a traveling carnival...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: India: Marathon Boy?s Coach Is Arrested
The coach for the 6-year-old slum boy whose long-distance running set off an outcry last year, was arrested and charged with regularly beating and torturing him...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Amazon Deforestation Slows
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest from August 2005 to July 2006 decreased by 25 percent since the previous 12 months...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Castro Turns 81 in Private
Fidel Castro turned 81 and spent his second consecutive birthday convalescing at an unknown location...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Taiwan Presidential Candidate Acquitted
A court acquitted Ma Ying-jeou, the Nationalist Party candidate for president, on Tuesday...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Pilots Say Missile Was Fired at Airliner in Northern Iraq
A European civil aviation authority said that it was reviewing security conditions at airports in northern Iraq after the pilots said their passenger airliner had been attacked...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
A First Lady?s No-Show Is Seen as a No-No
Cécilia Sarkozy is under scrutiny for ducking out of public appearances where a presidential spouse would be expected...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
As Dissent Grows in Gaza, Hamas Tightens Its Grip
Hamas rulers have imposed a security crackdown in the Gaza Strip in an effort to maintain public order and control...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Defending Nuclear Pact, India Premier Faces Criticism
Politicians from the right and left pounced on the government for its landmark nuclear accord with Washington, heckling the prime minister...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Rights Group Accuses Somali Interim Rulers of War Crimes
Human Rights Watch said that Ethiopian troops had shelled hospitals, that Somali officials had blocked aid convoys and that both forces had shown wanton indifference toward civilians...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
U.S. May Provide Billions to Mexico to Fight Drug Cartels
The aid is said to include money and training for the Mexican police, as well as advanced eavesdropping, surveillance and other spying technology...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Cash-Stuffed Suitcase Splits Venezuela and Argentina
A scandal has left President Néstor Kirchner of Argentina and his wife scrambling to contain any potential damage to her bid to succeed him as president...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Taliban Release 2 Korean Hostages
Two women who were among 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban were freed on Monday and turned over to South Korean officials...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Turkish Presidential Pick Sets Up Clash, Again
Turkey?s governing party has chosen Abdullah Gul as its candidate for president, placing the party on a collision course with the country?s secular elite...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
The Outsider: Defense Chief Keeps Own Counsel on Iraq
An important voice in the war debate, that of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, has been largely silent about next steps on Iraq...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Amsterdam Journal: A Rising Tide of Gentrification Rocks Dutch Houseboats
New owners are leading a gentrification of Amsterdam?s houseboats, many of which are relics of the flower power era...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
The General: For Top General in Iraq, Role Is a Mixed Blessing
In interviews, Gen. David H. Petraeus stresses the downside, and the upside, of the military effort in Iraq...
New York Times - August 14, 2007
Pot belly linked to heart disease
Waist-to-hip ratios can help gauge heart disease risks and are more useful than measuring BMI, scientists say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Stocks mixed as jitters continue
Asian stocks are mixed in Tuesday trading, as fears continue over sub-prime loans and the global economy...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Report raises police racism fears
A report says young people from ethnic minorities in Scotland believe some actions by officers amount to racism...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Murdered biker was shot in head
A biker who was killed on the M40 in Warwickshire died from a single gunshot wound, police say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Kashmir blaze toll climbs to 20
The death toll from a fire at an ammunition dump in the Kashmir Valley has risen to 20, the army says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Iranian leader due in Afghanistan
Iran's President Ahmadinejad is due in Kabul for talks with Afghan leaders on the first leg of a regional tour...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
'Hundreds dead' in N Korea floods
Flooding caused by heavy rain leaves hundreds dead or missing in North Korea, state media reports...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Celebrities set for Reid funeral
TV stars, including cast members from EastEnders are to attend the funeral of Mike Reid who died last month...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Bridge collapse in central China
A bridge being built in central China has collapsed, killing at least 22 people, the authorities say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
'Even light exercise' aids health
Exercising for less than the recommended minimum each week may still have health benefits, scientists say...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
First-time buyer demand 'drops'
The number of first-time home buyers falls at its fastest rate in more than three years, a report says...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Hundreds due at airport protest
Hundreds more protesters are set to join a climate camp near Heathrow to demonstrate against aviation expansion...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
Thai court to hear Thaksin case
The first of a series of corruption cases being brought against Thailand's ex-prime minister is to begin...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
SNP to unveil independence plan
Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond is to set out plans for an independence referendum...
BBC News - August 14, 2007
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