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Global News Archive for May 2008:
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France Strikers Challenge Sarkozy?s Plan to Cut Jobs
The strike was another test of President Nicolas Sarkozy?s resolve in his efforts to cut down France?s large civil service to reduce budget deficits...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Quake Toll Rises Amid Struggle to Reach Survivors
Officials in China warned that the death toll, raised now to 19,500, could reach as high as 50,000, as dozens of villages remained cut off from rescuers Thursday...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Superstition Meets the Web, Stinging Chinese Authorities
Persistent rumors and tall tales by some Chinese bloggers are proving nettlesome to the authorities as they grapple with China?s most calamitous disaster in a generation...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP
Microsoft joins forces with the makers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows XP available on the low-cost computers...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Asbestos cancer chemo questioned
Chemotherapy does not help people with asbestos-related cancer, according to UK researchers...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Dunlop dies after motorbike crash
Motorcyclist Robert Dunlop dies in a crash in Thursday's practice at the North West 200 racing festival...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Zimbabwe bank issues $500m note
Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
England held up by McCullum blitz
Brendon McCullum smashes 97 as New Zealand reach 208-6 after a truncated opening day of the series against England...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Murray falls to Nadal in Hamburg
Andy Murray fails to handle Rafael Nadal's brilliance on clay as the Spaniard wins their round three match in the Hamburg Masters...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Husband arrested after body found
The husband of a missing make-up artist is arrested following the discovery of a body...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Two men in campus terror arrest
Police arrest two men at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
NHS IT 'at least four years late'
It will be at least 2014 before the NHS in England has a single electronic records system, say auditors...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Nigeria pipeline blast 'kills 100'
At least 100 people are killed in an oil pipeline explosion in the Nigeria's city of Lagos, the local Red Cross says...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Bomber Kills at Least 12 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber cloaked in an Afghan woman?s body-covering burka killed at least 12 other people and wounded at least 27 Thursday...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Warnings of problems hitting Sats
Schools and markers highlight problems around the administration of this year's tests...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Investor launches Yahoo challenge
A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Aid for Burma 'must be monitored'
Countries sending aid to Burma must monitor it closely to stop the junta seizing it, a rights group says...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Italian police swoop on migrants
Italian police arrest hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Barclays in £1bn credit writedown
Barclays takes a £1bn hit on its credit assets, confirming its first-quarter profits will be lower than last year...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
'No discussion' over Ruane plans
The executive meeting on education reform ends "without a full discussion of Caitríona Ruane's proposals"...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria
Schools and homes are engulfed in flames as an oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama interprets a speech by President Bush as an attack on his foreign policy...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Deal seeks to end Lebanon strife
Arab League mediators broker a deal aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon that raised fears of a new civil war...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Sea change
Why Benidorm is the new face of eco-tourism...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Bleak reminder
Today's parallels to USSR's defeat in Afghanistan...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Tagged veteran misses parade
An army veteran, 73, misses a march after becoming one of the oldest men in Britain to be electronically tagged...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Call to widen Uefa violence probe
An inquiry into clashes between fans and police in Manchester must be widened, the first minister says...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Chambers to deliver drugs dossier
Dwain Chambers will reveal his Balco drugs regime in a meeting with Britain's anti-doping agency on Friday, BBC Sport learns...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Earthquake Briton
'I thought I might die here and never be found'...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Reading hands
Fidgety, nail bitten, ink-stained - what do hands tell us?...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Amazon challenge
Brazil's new plan to protect and exploit the Amazon...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Body link to make-up artist hunt
Detectives investigating the disappearance of a make-up artist probe the discovery of a body in woodland...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Barack Obama says sorry for 'sweetie' comment
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama offers a "chastened" apology for calling a reporter "sweetie"...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Live - England v NZ
Brendon McCullum hits 97 before bad light stops play at Lord's with New Zealand 208-6 on day one...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
CCTV shows police chased by fans
Police release CCTV images of football fans chasing officers and attacking one of them after the Uefa Cup final...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Photo shows injured 'tombstoner'
The family of a man left paralysed after a jump from a pier release a picture of him in hospital...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vows to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Chinese Soldiers Rush to Bolster Weakened Dams
The Chinese government said the earthquake had damaged nearly 400 dams, and the estimated death toll rose to nearly 20,000...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Stars out for Cannes first night
Cate Blanchett and a host of other stars grace the red carpet at the gala opening of the Cannes Film Festival...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Yahoo faces struggle for control
A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Brown vows to 'win' over 42 days
Gordon Brown says he wants to "win the argument" with his own MPs on terror detention rather than compromise...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Evolution rolls on for Mars rover
The wheels continue to turn on Europe's billion-euro project to put a robotic rover on the surface of the Red Planet...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Israel warns of Gaza rocket range
Israel's intelligence chief says Palestinian militants will soon double the range of rockets they fire from Gaza...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Credit Agricole plans cash call
Credit Agricole reports a big fall in profits and confirms a rights issue after being hit by the sub-prime crisis...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
India issues blast suspect sketch
Police in India issue a photofit of a man whom they want to question in connection with deadly blasts in Jaipur...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Man in court over bakery killing
A 19-year-old man appears before magistrates charged with the murder of teenager Jimmy Mizen...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Tories demand Uefa police probe
The Scottish Conservatives claim Manchester police over-reacted to trouble at the Uefa Cup Final...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Legal threat as bike show dropped
A motorbike show organiser could take legal action after it was cancelled amid police fears of gang violence...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Police plan three base closures
The Police Service of Northern Ireland plans to close three rural police stations in County Tyrone...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Taylor 'ignored rebel protests'
Liberia's Charles Taylor rejected Sierra Leone rebel complaints about his troops' behaviour, an ex-ally says...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
VSO pioneer
'I put my hand up and was given a ticket to Borneo'...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Far from Palestine
Three generations discuss 60 years of exile and loss...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Royal jubilee
The Prince's Trust marks 25 years of helping businesses...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Amazon dilemma
Logging both threat and potential boon for Brazil's Indians...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Celtic's Burns loses cancer fight
Celtic first-team coach and former Scotland international Tommy Burns has died of cancer at the age of 51...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Live - England v New Zealand
Rain delays the start of England v New Zealand at Lord's after Michael Vaughan wins the toss and chooses to bowl...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Charles urges forest logging halt
Prince Charles says the halting of logging in the rainforest is the single greatest solution to climate change...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Flexible working to be extended
The right to request flexible working is to be extended to about 4.5 million parents of children aged up to 16...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Abbas marks Israel 'catastrophe'
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas recalls his people's "suffering", as they mark Israel's creation 60 years ago...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Currys.digital shops facing axe
DSG unveils a revival plan which will lead to the closure of almost half of its Currys.digital stores...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Actor Grant wins privacy damages
Actors Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar win damages over photos taken of them while on holiday...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
I can save economy again - Brown
Gordon Brown says he has kept the UK economy growing during tough times before and insists: "I can do it again."...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
China quake toll 'to top 50,000'
The Chinese government fears more than 50,000 people may have been killed in the earthquake, state media reports...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Uefa violence 'stretched' police
Police in Manchester who came under attack from Rangers fans admit they were stretched by the "unprecedented" event...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: China: Virus Kills 2 Children in Beijing
In the first reported deaths in the capital, two children have died of an intestinal virus that has killed 42 children and infected almost 25,000 others...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Attack Kills a Dozen People
A possible missile strike in a border village destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people, residents and a militant spokesman said...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Taliban Prisoner Exchange
The Pakistan Army released 40 Taliban militants in exchange for 12 members of the army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Environmental Official Replaced
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed the appointment of Carlos Minc as environment minister, replacing Marina Silva, who resigned citing a lack of political support for protecting the Amazon rainforest...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Clashes Kill 9 Near Chechnya
Six insurgents were killed in fighting against government troops this week in Ingushetia, the predominantly Muslim Russian republic adjacent to Chechnya, a Russian general said...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: German Foreign Minister Visits
The Kremlin rolled out the red carpet for the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: New World Bank Plan to Fight Aids
The World Bank said it was shifting from an emergency approach to a long-term strategy to combat AIDS in Africa, the epicenter of the global epidemic...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Presidential Runoff Delayed
Without giving an exact date for the presidential runoff, the government announced a delay in the election...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Sichuan?s Migrant Sprawl Now a Network of Worry
In the aftermath of the earthquake, efforts by migrant workers to get word of their families in Sichuan are being thwarted by downed telephone lines and disrupted cellular phone base stations...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Benjamin Gaon, Who Aided Israel-Arab Trade, Dies at 73
Mr. Gaon was an Israeli industrialist who tried to build trade links with the Arab world and who helped the Israeli economy move from its socialist roots toward privatization...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Colombian Warlord Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges
The right-wing Colombian paramilitary leader, Diego Fernando Murillo, is accused of conspiring to import thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States and to launder the drug proceeds...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Mrs. McCain Sells Funds Tied to Sudan
?Senator and Mrs. McCain are committed to doing everything possible to end the genocide in Darfur,? a campaign spokesman said...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Police Chiefs Seek Asylum
Attacks on Mexican police officers by drug cartels have escalated so severely that three police chiefs have sought asylum in the United States in recent months Customs and Border Protection officials said...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
2 Baghdad Attacks Attributed to Teenagers Kill 11 Others
Meanwhile, the prime minister went to the northern city of Mosul to encourage Iraqi soldiers fighting in a new offensive to rid that area of Sunni Islamic extremists...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Inside a Case Against 2 Men Who Sold Arms
Not many investigations are as intricate as the Drug Enforcement Administration?s three-year pursuit of two arms dealers, who are being prosecuted in federal court in Manhattan...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Italian Trial of C.I.A. Operatives Begins With Torture Testimony
A judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify about the abduction of a radical Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Rescues Require Skills, Specialists Say
Once the first 24 hours immediately after an earthquake pass, rescuing survivors becomes a technical exercise best handled by specialists...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Lebanon Reverses Decisions That Prompted Violence
The decisions brought the country a step closer to resolving the week-old political crisis that set off the worst factional violence since the nation?s 15-year civil war...
New York Times - May 15, 2008
Meningitis B trials 'encouraging'
Initial results of clinical trials on a possible vaccine against meningitis B show "encouraging" results...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Clampdown on disability bullying
Schools in England are being told how to tackle bullying of children with special needs or disabilities...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Natural changes pinned to warming
A survey concludes that shifts in the Earth's physical and biological systems are driven by global warming...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
UN chief to send envoy to Burma
Ban Ki-moon is to send a top official to Burma, where the UN says 2.5m people have been affected by the cyclone...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Brown to face economy questions
Gordon Brown faces questions on the economy after a Bank of England warning that "the nice decade" is over...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Train line reopens after 40 years
Direct rail services between Stirling, Alloa are set to recommence after a break of 40 years...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Proud day
Afghan medals for Royal Marines, some badly hurt...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Ocean racer
Swift pilot whales are the 'cheetahs of the deep'...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
In pictures
Austrian cellar family release public message...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Police apologise over mosque show
West Midlands Police and prosecutors are to apologise for accusing the makers of a Channel 4 show of distortion...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
US lists polar bear as threatened
The US lists the polar bear as a threatened species but says the decision will not affect climate change policies...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Sugar and spice?
The number of crimes by girls is up by 25%. Why?...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Uefa Cup fans clash with police
Riot police and Rangers fans clash in Manchester, after a big screen showing the Uefa Cup final breaks down...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
Crime by girls rises by a quarter
The number of crimes committed by girls in England and Wales has gone up by 25% in three years, according to figures...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
China boosts quake rescue operation
China ramps up relief efforts with more troops and helicopters as the search for earthquake survivors continues...
BBC News - May 15, 2008
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