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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 December 2007:
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For Korea, Sports Showcase the Nation
South Korea has embarked on a frenzy of bids for international events displaying its pride in building one of the world?s top economies from the ashes of the Korean War...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Police Kill a Protester and Wound 5 in Kashmir
Chanting antigovernment slogans, demonstrators set fire to a government bus and a police vehicle and threw rocks at police officers and paramilitary soldiers who tried to disperse them...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Communists Nominate Leader to Run for President of Russia
Russia?s Communist Party on Saturday nominated its leader, Gennadi A. Zyuganov, to run for president ahead of elections in March...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Court Inquiry on Tape Case Is Opposed
The Justice Department has urged a federal judge not to hold a hearing on the Central Intelligence Agency?s destruction of videotaped interrogations of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Phenomenon: The Newest Mandarins
In China, the ancient classics have become nationalist icons. But what about the texts? real meaning?...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Nation: Look Who Talks to the Enemy
Seven years of George W. Bush?s Don?t-Talk-to-Evil policy are over, even under the helm of the administration that crafted it...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The World: Russia?s Knockoff Democracy
While the political rules are being followed, giving the veneer of legitimacy in Moscow, Vladimir V. Putin seems, at least for now, to be retaining control...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Russia Helps Its Muslims Take the Journey to Mecca
Islam is in a state of revival after years of confinement to the kitchens and basements of the Soviet Union, which severely restricted the open practice of all religions...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Kurdish Director, Stuck Between Iraq and Iran
Bahman Ghobadi, the international face of Kurdish cinema, works in countries that are less than accommodating...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Protests Seek More Autonomy From Bolivia?s Capital
Four of Bolivia?s wealthiest provinces celebrated efforts to seek greater autonomy from the central government on Saturday, even as the president said he would mobilize the armed forces to prevent any secession plans...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Frustration With Charities and U.N. Grows in Congo
Many Congolese want the U.N. to intervene more forcefully and fight beside the Congolese Army against rebel forces...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Gazans Show Allegiance for Hamas
About 200,000 Gazans rallied in support of Hamas on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of its founding...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Iraqi City Poised to Become Hub of Shiite Power
Iran is playing a key role in a plan to increase Najaf?s autonomy, further weakening the central government...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
As Concerns Rise, U.S. Is Reviewing Afghan Mission
Three top-to-bottom reviews of the mission in Afghanistan are acknowledgment of the need for greater coordination in fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Play Station hijackers raid lorry
A lorry containing £120,000 worth of computers and Sony Play Stations is hijacked and stolen in County Antrim...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Limb operation girl can go home
An Indian girl born with four arms and four legs is well enough to go home after surgery, doctors say...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Bolivia regions declare autonomy
Bolivia's three provinces declare autonomy, protesting against constitutional reforms of President Evo Morales...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Rugby: Wasps Cup hopes alive
Wasps keep their Heineken Cup hopes alive after holding on for victory in a thrilling game at Adams Park...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Football: Showdown for big four
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes this season's Premier League is the most competitive title race yet...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Flight baggage chaos predicted
Plans to lift the one piece hand luggage limit for airline passengers is expected to lead to mass confusion, airport officials say...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Authors drive to slash illiteracy
More than 500 writers deliver a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a "push" to eliminate childhood illiteracy...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
President defends emergency rule
President Pervez Musharraf says his emergency rule had saved Pakistan from chaos, and elections would be "fair"...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
'Difficult' Christmas for McCanns
Madeleine McCann's parents thank those who have supported them as they prepare for Christmas...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Leon Jackson takes X Factor crown
Scottish crooner Leon Jackson looks set to be the UK's Christmas number one after winning the X Factor...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
'Many' Musa Qala civilians died
People in Musa Qala say many civilians died in an operation to re-take the Afghan town from the Taleban...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
US sets terms for climate talks
The US insists developing states must take their fair share of cuts under the Bali climate change process...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
11 Killed in Attacks on Patrols in Iraq
The dead included four members of American-backed security patrols charged with rooting out insurgents...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Gazans Rally on Hamas Anniversary
About 200,000 Gazans rallied in support of Hamas on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of its founding...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War
The Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is said to be forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight rebels...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
After Six Weeks, Musharraf Lifts State of Emergency
The lifting of emergency rule will not resolve the tensions in Pakistan, in particular between the judiciary and the president...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Lower school leaving age proposed
The head of the UK's biggest education authority says some children should have the option to leave at 14...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Man, 52, killed in works accident
Police and health safety officials are investigating after a man of 52 died at a recycling unit...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Fire rescued 'lucky to be alive'
A man and two women are taken to hospital after being rescued from a fire at a flat in Downpatrick...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Random searches on rail network
More than 14,000 people and vehicles have been searched by British Transport Police in Scotland since July...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Comic's skull fractured in attack
A comedian is in hospital with a fractured skull and a broken arm after he was attacked in Norwich...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Belgians stage big protest rally
Thousands of Belgians protest against rising prices and the failure of Belgium's politicians to form a government...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Kyrgyzstan set for key election
People in Kyrgyzstan prepare to vote in a parliamentary election that could end two years of turmoil...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Football: Role excites Capello
New England boss Fabio Capello says the job will be his last in football and admits he has a hard task ahead of him...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Football: Fans in Bangura protest
Watford midfielder Al Bangura appeals to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to overturn a decision to deport him to Sierra Leone...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Live - Premier League
Fulham host Newcastle in Saturday's late Premier League game after wins for Wigan, Spurs and Everton...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Dead humpback whale recovered
Coastguard teams recover the body of a humpback whale which was spotted floating in the sea...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Spice Girls gear up for O2 debut
The reunited Spice Girls get set for their first UK concert in nine years - with Emma Bunton on crutches...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Gaza marks Hamas anniversary
At least 300,000 people turn out in Gaza City to mark the 20th anniversary of Hamas's founding...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Low turnout for fuel price demos
Nationwide protests against the rising cost of fuel have failed to attract as many demonstrators as organisers hoped...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Tennant 'is leaving Doctor Who'
Comedian Catherine Tate suggests the next series of Dr Who could be the last for actor David Tennant...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Targets 'destroy trust in police'
The Police Federation head says too many government targets have led to a breakdown in public trust...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Brunstrom's anger over police pay
North Wales' chief constable calls UK Government conduct over police pay "shabby and dishonourable"...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Truckers protest high fuel costs
A convoy of about 45 trucks takes to the roads across central Scotland as part of a protest over fuel prices...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Murder bid man shot in buttocks
Police say the shooting of a man on a Teesside street was not a random attack, but attempted murder...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Orange hall attacked by arsonists
An Orange hall is attacked by arsonists at Portadown in County Armagh, according to the organisation...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Gaza crowds mark Hamas's founding
Tens of thousands of people turn out in Gaza City to mark the 20th anniversary of Hamas's founding...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Tutu urges ANC not to choose Zuma
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urges South Africa's governing ANC not to choose Jacob Zuma as its new leader...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Tennis: Murray justifies revamp
Andy Murray defends his decision to employ a team of coaches following his split from Brad Gilbert last month...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Savoy to close for restoration
One of the world's best-loved hotels is to close for 16 months while a £100m refurbishment takes place...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Google debuts knowledge project
Google has started a project to set up a repository of expert information about any and every subject...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Man remanded over killings
A man appears in court charged with the murder of two men found dead above a chip shop...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Pakistan emergency state lifted
President Pervez Musharraf lifts a state of emergency and restores the constitution, reports say...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Further tests in bluetongue case
Further tests are carried out on a North East farm as a cow suffering from bluetongue is culled...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Slow start to fuel price protests
Farmers and lorry drivers are taking part in protests across the UK against the rising cost of fuel...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
New surgery for dog maul woman
A kennel worker who had part of her arm amputated after being savaged by a Rottweiler undergoes more surgery...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Climate deal sealed by US U-turn
Delegates at the UN summit in Bali agree a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Party Gears Up for Showdown
Some 4,000 delegates of the African National Congress are descending on Polokwane in northern Limpopo Province for a five-day conference that starts Sunday, to decide whether President Thabo Mbeki will remain leader of the party of Nelson Mandela or whether the job should go to Jacob Zuma, the man he fired as deputy president. The conference is being described as the most significant political event in the country since the first democratic elections after the collapse of apartheid in 1994. Mr. Zuma looks set to win, which would virtually assure him of the country?s presidency in the 2009 election because of the party?s wide support. Mr. Mbeki is legally barred from seeking a third term as president, and losing the helm of the party could hurt his authority in his last two years as president...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Algeria: U.N. Death Toll Raised to 17
The United Nations confirmed that 17 of its staff members died in the bombing of two of its buildings in Algiers on Tuesday, which the government said killed 37 people. Marie Okabe, a spokeswoman for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said the earlier toll of 11 dead had risen after more bodies were dug out from the rubble. The United Nations said that all but three of the dead ? a Dane, a Filipino and a Senegalese ? were thought to be Algerians...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Bosnia: Muslim Fighter Deported
Bosnia has deported the first of dozens of Muslim former fighters identified as threats to security after investigations requested by the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the newspaper Nezavisne Novine reported. Atau Mimun was deported to Algeria, where he was born. He was among hundreds of foreign volunteers who arrived in Bosnia during the 1992-95 war to fight alongside Muslims against Serbs and Croats, and who stayed on after marrying local women...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Iraq: Marine Discharged Over Killing
A Marine reservist, Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes, 22, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced in rank to private, a day after being convicted at Camp Pendleton, Calif., of negligent homicide in the 2006 stabbing death of an Iraqi soldier he stood watch with at a guard post in Falluja. He has served 10 months in a military prison and will not spend any more time in custody. The lance corporal?s lawyer has said that the killing was in self-defense. Prosecutors contended that he killed the Iraqi and then set up the scene to support his story. He was also found guilty of making a false official statement...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Saboteurs Attack Speed Cameras and Demand Ransom
A group calling itself the Nationalist Revolutionary Army Faction says it has blown up at least seven speed cameras on French roads and has demanded money from the government to stop, the police said. The radio station RTL said the group had asked for a significant sum, along with tax cuts and ?less repression.?...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Argentina: Torture Suspect?s Autopsy Finds Poison
An autopsy found a large quantity of cyanide in the blood of Héctor Febres, a former coast guard officer and the only suspected torturer at the notorious Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires during the 1976-83 military dictatorship whose case has made it to trial. He was found dead in his cell before breakfast on Monday, four days before an expected verdict and a possible sentence of life in prison. An investigation is under way, and the police have detained his wife and two grown children, who reportedly dined with him the night before his body was found...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Yuli Vorontsov, Envoy to U.S. and Afghanistan, Is Dead at 78
Mr. Vorontsov served the Soviet Union and Russia as ambassador to Afghanistan and the United States in a career spanning the cold war and the Persian Gulf war...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Musharraf?s Rural Support Seems Less Than He Claims
In random interviews, some rural Pakistani villagers criticized President Pervez Musharraf?s government for high inflation and failing to help the poor...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Politeness of China Talks Can?t Disguise the Discord
U.S. relations with China are going through a difficult phase, as disputes are sometimes crowding out areas of agreement between the two nations...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
The Saturday Profile: On Retainer in Pakistan, to Ease Military Rulers? Path
Mysterious, influential and scorned by protesters, Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, 84, fixes things when military rulers take over in Pakistan...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
With Color and Panache, Afghans Fight a Different Kind of War
A much wider audience will be introduced to Afghan kite culture with the American release of the film ?The Kite Runner? on Friday...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
North Korea Replies to Bush With an Offer and a Condition
North Korea agreed on Friday to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, provided that the United States reciprocates by normalizing relations between the countries...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Bolivians Now Hear Ominous Tones in the Calls to Arms
Political tension in Bolivia may reach a crest on Saturday when leaders of several provinces are expected to declare their autonomy before tens of thousands of antigovernment protesters...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Justice Dept. Seeks Delay on C.I.A. Inquiry
The Justice Department said a House investigation into the destruction of interrogation videotapes presented ?significant risks? to its own inquiry...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into War Against Rebels
The Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight, according to Western officials, refugees and defectors...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems...
New York Times - December 15, 2007
Rhydian tipped for X Factor crown
Welshman Rhydian Roberts is the bookmakers' favourite to win the final of ITV1's talent show The X Factor later...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Navigating the Diploma conundrum
Mike Baker asks whether government moves to shore up diplomas could backfire...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Mass deaths of rare croc in India
At least 21 endangered crocodile-like gharials are found dead in northern India, officials say...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
New target for anti-malaria drugs
Targeting a key protein may help overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to existing drugs, UK researchers say...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Five dead at Pakistan army base
A bomber kills five at an army base in north-west Pakistan, hours before a state of emergency is to be lifted...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Bolivia tense amid autonomy push
The police and army go on alert in Bolivia, as some of its richest regions prepare to declare autonomy...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Asian outcry over Dutch adoption
A Dutch diplomat denies trying to "get rid" of his adopted South Korean daughter after putting her in foster care...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Savoy to close for refurbishment
One of London's best-known hotels is to close for 16 months while a £100m refurbishment takes place...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Five dead in Kabul rocket attack
A rocket attack near the governor's residence in the Afghan capita, Kabul, kills five people...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Diana letters show love for Dodi
The details of letters written from Princess Diana to Dodi Al Fayed are revealed at their inquest...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Drivers to stage petrol protests
Farmers and lorry drivers are set to take part in protests across the UK against the rising cost of fuel...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Supermarkets recall naan breads
Sainsbury's and Morrisons urge shoppers to return various naan bread products over fears they may contain glass...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
Banks 'prey on customers in debt'
Banks are being accused of pressuring customers into taking out costly loans to try to clear their debts...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
New doubts on Bali climate deal
A dispute between developing nations and the West delays UN climate talks after a deal on curbing emissions...
BBC News - December 15, 2007
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