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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2005:
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Iraqis, Including Sunnis, Vote in Large Numbers
In a day remarkable for its calm, millions of Iraqis cast ballots across the war-torn country to elect a Parliament...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Hamas Wins Key Elections in West Bank
The Islamic militant group Hamas won local elections in some of the West Bank's largest cities, according to early results...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Google 'in exclusive AOL talks'
Google shares hit record highs on reports it could take a stake in Time Warner's internet unit, AOL...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Bush stands firm over spying row
President Bush denies infringing civil liberties, after claims he authorised bugging in the US without a warrant...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Iraq vote 'met global standards'
Iraq's landmark parliamentary elections generally met international standards, observers say...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
'Santa' party girl dies in crash
A five-year-old girl is killed by a car on her way home from a school party where her father played Santa Claus...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Snooker: Davis makes final
Steve Davis survives a Stephen Hendry rally to reach the UK Championship final at York...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
UK tables final EU budget offer
The UK prime minister makes his final EU budget offer amid reports that he will further cut the rebate...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Republican admits he was agent
A veteran Sinn Fein figure expelled from the party says he worked as a paid British agent for two decades...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Rescue deal saves van-maker LDV
LDV, one of the last surviving UK-owned vehicle makers, is saved in a rescue deal agreed with a private equity firm...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Suicide Bomber Wounds 3 Civilians in Afghanistan
The bomber tried to ram his car into a convoy of NATO peacekeepers in Kabul, not far from where legislators will gather on Monday...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Whitehall 'missing' green targets
Government departments are failing to meet targets on cutting pollution and waste, a report says...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Key gene 'controls skin colour'
Scientists believe that studying the humble zebrafish may have helped solve the mystery of human skin colour...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Rivals back internet research lab
Microsoft and Google are helping to fund a lab that will help make basic web software run much better...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Beatles sue EMI in royalties row
The surviving Beatles and relatives of the band's late members sue EMI over £30m in allegedly unpaid royalties...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Jail for student rape attempt man
A hooded attacker who attempted to rape a university student during a two-hour attack is jailed for nine years...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Poor nations unite at trade talks
More than 100 developing countries join forces at world trade talks in Hong Kong to press for greater access to the markets of rich nations...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
US to vote on immigration reforms
US Congress is to vote on an immigration bill which includes a plan to build a huge fence along the Mexican border...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Radiation alert at Chechen plant
Prosecutors investigate the discovery of "catastrophic" levels of radioactivity at a factory in Chechnya...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
'Wild dogs' murder youths jailed
Four teenagers are sent to jail for a "brutal and savage" attack on a Chinese takeaway owner outside his shop...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Bin arsonist gets life sentence
An 18-year-old man is jailed for life after setting fire to wheelie bins in a case a judge describes as "highly unusual"...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
TV man wins Iraq dismissal case
A London-based correspondent for ABC News who refused to go to Iraq wins his unfair dismissal case...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Snooker: Davis outplays Hendry
Steve Davis outplays Stephen Hendry to go 7-1 up in their UK Championship semi-final at York...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Bush spying claim causes US storm
Senators react angrily to a report that President Bush backed spying on Americans without court orders...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Robber guilty of killing banker
A man is found guilty of the manslaughter of a City banker - a day after a second man was convicted of murder...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Cameron urges Lib Dems to swap
Tory leader David Cameron makes a direct appeal to Liberal Democrat MPs to defect to his party...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
British UN worker unlawfully shot
A UK inquest jury records a verdict of unlawful death on a UN relief worker shot by an Israeli sniper...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Blair to set out new budget deal
The UK prime minister is to present revised EU budget proposals, amid reports that he will further cut the rebate...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Sinn Fein expels 'British agent'
A senior Sinn Fein figure is expelled by the party which accused him of being a "British agent"...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Palestinian Chief Threatens to Quit Over Rival Fatah Slate
Mahmoud Abbas threatened to resign unless a rival slate of younger Fatah members for the Jan. 25 legislative elections is withdrawn, Palestinian officials said...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Xbox 360 mobile alerts imminent
Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobiles when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
TV comedian in 'net porn' arrest
Award-winning comedian Chris Langham is arrested during an inquiry into internet child pornography...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Thirties 'peak time for babies'
The rate of pregnancies for women in their 30s overtakes that for younger women for the first time...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
David Bell in top education job
The chief inspector of England's schools takes over as the government's top education official...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
'Administration deal' to save LDV
LDV, one of the last surviving UK-owned vehicle makers, plans to go into administration as it tries to save 1,200 jobs, the BBC has learned...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
UK 'must be flexible' for EU deal
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says the UK must show some "flexibility" as it tries to reach a deal on the EU budget...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Firm holds talks over job losses
Textiles company Ulster Weavers is in talks with union leaders over proposals to cut jobs by closing a factory...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Drink-driving up for party season
More drink-drivers are caught as Welsh towns and cities take special action to cope with Christmas revellers...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Iraqis estimate over 70% turnout
More than 70% of Iraqi voters may have taken part in the parliamentary poll, Iraqi electoral officials say...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Sri Lanka in new peace talks bid
Sri Lanka invites the Tamil Tigers to restart peace talks and agrees to a rebel demand they be held overseas...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
No suspects after double shooting
Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the double shooting of two young people in a field...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
S Korea cloning expert hits back
Cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk stands by his apparently breakthrough research, after claims results were faked...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Turk writer's insult trial halted
The trial of novelist Orhan Pamuk, accused of insulting Turkey, is halted just after he first appears in court...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Football: Champions League draw
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Rangers find out their opponents for the Champions League last 32...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Snooker: Legends in semi-final
Former world champions Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry meet in the semi-finals of the UK Championship in York...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Bribes paid to join Kenya police
Kenya cancels the just-ended police recruitment drive, after allegations of widespread corruption...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Tutu urges apartheid prosecutions
Archbishop Tutu says South Africa should have prosecuted apartheid human rights violators who did not confess...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
U-turn as population moves north
More people are moving north in a reversal of a southward trend that has dominated since 1971, say researchers...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Heathrow jet refuels at Stansted
Aircraft flying from Heathrow to the Far East and Australia stop at Stansted to refuel due to rationing at Heathrow...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
EU locked in crunch budget talks
UK officials struggle to come up with an acceptable new proposal on the EU budget before a leaders meeting...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Deaths probe widens in GP case
A coroner investigating the deaths of 12 patients of a retired GP says he may look into further cases...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Zarqawi 'captured and released'
Iraqi police captured and released militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last year, an Iraqi minister says...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Tories pile on Kennedy pressure
Tory David Cameron, is to make a direct appeal to Liberal Democrat MPs to defect to this party...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the National Security Agency has spied on hundreds of people inside the U.S...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Korean Scientist Said to Admit Fabrication in a Cloning Study
The South Korean scientist who claimed a series of advances in cloning and stem cell research has admitted that critical parts of one discovery had been fabricated...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
'A Lot of Joy' for Bush as Iraqis Make the Most of Chance to Vote
There was cheer and relief at the White House over the Iraqi election as President Bush declared the vote "a major step forward" in creating a democratic nation...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
High Sunni Turnout Suggests A Deal for an Election Day Truce
Shedding 11 months of political isolation, thousands of residents in Ramadi poured into polling stations and cast votes...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Iraqis, Including Sunnis, Vote in Large Numbers on Calm Day
Iraqi officials said that initial indications were that as many as 11 million people cast ballots to elect a Parliament...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
Freedom From Fear Lifts Sunnis
The high turnout of Sunni Arabs suggests their seeming willingness to distance themselves from the insurgency...
New York Times - December 16, 2005
'Too few' school psychologists
A new training route for educational psychologists will worsen a shortage in schools, a union fears...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Christmas Carol gets free podcast
An entire audiobook of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is available on a free podcast from Penguin books...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Openness watchdog in case backlog
The watchdog who rules on freedom of information laws has been unable to finish half of his workload...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Assaults on NHS staff increasing
More than 20,000 assaults were carried out on Scotland's health service workers in the past year, figures show...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Nepalese strike against killing
A strike called in protest against the killing of 12 people by a soldier paralyses life in Kathmandu...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
S Korea expert stands by research
Cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk insists he made ground-breaking stem cells, after accusations over his research...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Turkish author's trial to begin
Acclaimed writer Orhan Pamuk is due to go on trial in Turkey on charges that he insulted his nation...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Join us, Cameron urges Lib Dems
Tory leader David Cameron is set to add to Charles Kennedy's woes by urging Lib Dem supporters to jump ship...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Fire pension strike not ruled out
The Fire Brigades Union says it will consider industrial action over government plans to reform pensions...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
TV comedian in 'net crime' arrest
Award-winning comedian Chris Langham is arrested in connection with an inquiry into internet related crime...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Long count starts after Iraq poll
Counting, which could last weeks, gets under way in Iraq after an election declared a success by many...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Lords attack UK's bird flu plans
A House of Lords committee warns of possible food shortages in the event of a bird flu outbreak in the UK...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Man in court on Pc murder charge
The second man to be charged with the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky is due in court...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
Hard bargaining over EU impasse
Tony Blair admits that bridging divisions between EU leaders in Brussels over budget plans is going to be difficult...
BBC News - December 16, 2005
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