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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 September 2006:
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First Rabbis Ordained in Germany Since Holocaust
German leaders hailed the ordination as a milestone in the rebirth of Jewish life here...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Writing on Stone May Be Oldest in the Americas
A stone slab bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Singer Faithfull has cancer
Singer Marianne Faithfull postpones a world tour after being diagnosed with breast cancer...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Doubts voiced over emergency pill
Making emergency contraception more available has had no effect on cutting the abortion rate, an expert says...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Police probe car hijacking spree
Thieves suspected of a series of car hijackings force a pensioner to drive with a rope around his neck...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Ford 'wants to cut 75,000 jobs'
Ford is to offer redundancy and early retirement packages to more than 75,000 US staff, says its main union...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Football: Uefa Cup results
Football: Uefa Cup results...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
West Ham 0-1 Palermo
Andrea Caracciolo scores the only goal as Palermo beat West Ham in the Uefa Cup first-round, first-leg tie...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
US 'committed' to N Korea talks
US President George W Bush says he is committed to reviving talks with North Korea over its nuclear programme...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Man charged after weapons raid
A 55-year-old man is charged with weapons offences following the seizure of guns in Dartford...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Ex-president blasts Blair US role
Ex-US President Jimmy Carter criticises Tony Blair's "subservient" relationship with the White House...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Senators defy Bush on tribunals
A US Senate panel defies President Bush by approving legislation to set up trials for foreign terrorism suspects...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
China Vows New Rules Will Not Affect Press Freedoms
Chinese officials said new rules restricting the sale of foreign wire-service news would not affect press freedoms, but they also strongly defended efforts to control the distribution of financial and economic news inside the country...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Ijmuiden Journal: In the Netherlands, Life Runs on 2 Wheels (Sometimes 3)
The Dutch are turning to bicycles in ever greater numbers. Sales are booming, and there is a proliferation of designs for all sorts of purposes...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Man Who Shot Up Montreal Campus Is Identified
Kimveer Gill killed a woman and wounded 19 others before dying in a gun battle with the police...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Cut Off, Gazan Economy Nears Collapse
With the Palestinian Authority cut off from funds after the election of Hamas, the Gaza Strip is enduring a severe economic depression with growing signs of malnutrition...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Judge Says Hussein Was No Dictator
The comment came a day after a prosecutor in the court demanded that the judge be removed for showing bias...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
UK undergraduates 'may go abroad'
UK students will go abroad for courses if universities do not improve, Education Secretary Alan Johnson warns...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Brewers defend music sponsorship
The drinks industry reacts angrily to a call for the government to ban brewers from sponsoring live music...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Mother's plea over cocaine death
The parents of a woman who died after collapsing after taking cocaine with her boyfriend are angry he will not answer questions...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Microsoft Zune out for Christmas
Microsoft announces that its Zune digital music player will be released in the US in time for Christmas...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Short in Labour explusion threat
Ex-minister Clare Short faces disciplinary action for saying she wants a hung Parliament after the next election...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Pensioner robbed at knife-point
The daughter of an 83-year-old man robbed at knife-point near Dungiven says she is disgusted by the attack...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Booker Prize shortlist unveiled
Welsh novelist Sarah Waters is one of six writers shortlisted for this year's £50,000 Man Booker Prize...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Golf: Woods in shock exit
Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk and Ernie Els all crash out in the first round of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Judge says Saddam 'not dictator'
Saddam Hussein's trial judge says he was not a dictator, a day after being accused of pro-Saddam bias...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Roof collapses at Spanish airport
At least two people are injured as the roof of an airport building on the Spanish island of Menorca collapses...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Tighter alcohol controls rejected
Calls to tighten alcohol controls to combat a rise in consumption by young people are rejected by ministers...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Plot suspect 'happy' after 9/11
A terror suspect accused of a bomb plot was "happy" about the 11 September attacks on the US, he tells a jury...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Canada college gunman named
Canadian police name the gunman who killed a young woman in a killing spree at a Montreal college...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
US Iran report branded dishonest
The UN nuclear watchdog protests to the US over what it calls an "erroneous" report on Iran's nuclear programme...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
California film honour for Mirren
British actress Dame Helen Mirren is to be honoured at the Mill Valley Festival in California...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
December launch for Nintendo Wii
Nintendo says it will launch its new Wii console in Japan in December, costing a maximum of $215...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Bid move for Anglian Water firm
Anglian Water-owner AWG says it has received an approach which may lead to a takeover bid for the company...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Brown says Blair 'is my friend'
Chancellor Gordon Brown insists that Tony Blair is his friend, in the wake of Labour's recent squabbles...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
School drug test plans rejected
Ministers resist calls from a head teachers' union for random drug testing of pupils in Scottish schools...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Paper sorry for 'Best care story'
George Best's sister and her husband win damages over a story about the support they gave the ill soccer legend...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Insurer axes 450 jobs in Scotland
Insurance company Norwich Union announces that about a tenth of its 4,000 jobs cuts will be in Scotland...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Schoolgirl fight video is removed
A video of two Cardiff schoolgirls having a vicious fight is removed from the internet after criticism from anti-bullying campaigners...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Russia central banker shot dead
Top Russian Central Bank official Andrei Kozlov dies after being shot by gunmen in Moscow...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Man found guilty of Mumbai blasts
A court in the Indian city of Mumbai finds a man guilty of planting explosives in deadly blasts in 1993...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Doubt over DR Congo election date
The second round of DR Congo's landmark elections is thrown into confusion after a Supreme Court ruling...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Indonesian jailed for Bali bomb
A fourth Indonesian man is found guilty of involvement in the 2005 Bali bombings and sentenced to 15 years...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Cuba releases new Castro images
Cuban state TV shows new photos of President Fidel Castro, who is believed to be recovering from surgery...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Warnings over social site 'abuse'
Report reveals shortcomings in social networking sites Bebo and MySpace...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Sixties star Faithfull has cancer
Singer Marianne Faithfull, a household name in the 1960s, is diagnosed with breast cancer...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Football: Giggs injured in thriller
Man Utd's Ryan Giggs could be out for three weeks with a hamstring injury picked up in the 3-2 win against Celtic...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Probe into Canada college attack
Canadian police investigate the motive of a college gunman who killed a student before being shot dead...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
UK withholds World Bank donation
The UK is withholding £50m from the World Bank in protest at the way it fights corruption, ministers say...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Alcohol education 'not working'
Lessons to teach children about alcohol and tobacco need to be tougher, an advisory panel warns...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Poland to boost Nato Afghan force
Poland is to send an extra 1,000 troops to Afghanistan to join Nato forces there, but not until next year...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Norwich Union cuts 4,000 UK jobs
The UK's biggest insurer Aviva, which owns Norwich Union, announces plans to cut 4,000 UK jobs by 2008...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Typhoon Toll Much Higher Than China’s Leaders Let On
The emergency response to Typhoon Saomai last month had been trumpeted as a triumph, but in the storm’s aftermath, a very different account of events has taken shape...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
On Another Grim Day, Bodies Lie Everywhere in Baghdad
As Iraqi police gathered up at least 60 bodies, several car bombs rocked the capital, killing and wounding dozens more...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Gunman Kills Woman in Montreal; 19 Are Injured
A man dressed in a long coat and carrying an automatic rifle shot people on a college campus before being killed...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Pakistan Bid to End Abuse of Women Reporting Rape Hits Snag
Efforts to pass a measure called the Women’s Protection Bill have run into opposition from members of the governing coalition, as well as from Islamic parties...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Amnesty International Says Hezbollah Committed War Crimes
Matching an earlier condemnation of Israel, the group accused Hezbollah forces of indiscriminate rocket attacks and “deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects.”...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Gazans Go Unpaid, and Children Go Hungry
With the Palestinian Authority cut off from funds, the Gaza Strip is enduring a severe economic depression with growing signs of malnutrition...
New York Times - September 14, 2006
Hewitt wants public say on leader
A public vote should decide Tony Blair's successor as Labour leader, Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt says...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
'Run-down' GP surgeries warning
Hundreds of GP surgeries across the UK are "not fit for purpose", a study suggests...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Churches unite to 'end Trident'
Scotland's religious leaders are joining campaigners on a march for peace from Faslane naval base to the Scottish Parliament...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Reservoir 'biggest in 25 years'
Plans for a £1bn reservoir in Oxfordshire are unveiled by Thames Water in order to meet increased demand...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Shot Russia bank chief 'critical'
Senior Russian Central Bank official Andrei Kozlov is critically ill after being shot by gunmen in Moscow...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Israel general quits over Lebanon
Udi Adam, an Israeli general who had a key commanding role during the conflict in Lebanon, resigns...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
IMF lifts world growth estimates
World economic growth will be higher than predicted, the IMF says at the start of Singapore meetings...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Champions League round-up
Lyon beat Real Madrid and AC Milan start well, plus a round-up of the rest of Wednesday's ties...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Supermarkets 'not green enough'
Supermarkets must do more to help customers make environmentally-friendly choices, a consumer group says...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Woman dies after gun rampage
A young woman dies after being shot by a gunman who went on a shooting spree in a Montreal college...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
'Drastic' shrinkage in Arctic ice
A Nasa satellite records major changes to ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2005...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Six in court after terror raids
Five men and a youth are due in court charged in connection with an alleged network of terrorist recruiters...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Blair condemns anti-US 'madness'
The "anti-American feeling" of some European politicians is "madness", Prime Minister Tony Blair says...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Disabled 'suffer healthcare gap'
An investigation finds people with mental health problems and learning disabilities often receive poor treatment...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Hezbollah accused of war crimes
Amnesty International accuses Hezbollah of war crimes for targeting Israeli civilians in the recent conflict...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Drugs education 'is not working'
Lessons on drugs have not worked and more must be done about smoking and alcohol, advisers say...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
Iraq war 'disaster for Mid-East'
UN chief Kofi Annan says most Mid-East leaders regard the US invasion of Iraq as a disaster for the region...
BBC News - September 14, 2006
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