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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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Generation Faithful: Dreams Stifled, Egypt?s Young Turn to Islamic Fervor
Across the Middle East, many people are forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence. In their frustration they turn to religion for solace...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Machines 'to match man by 2029'
Machines will achieve human level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor predicts...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
The Elite Squad wins Golden Bear
The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Spinal injury regeneration hope
Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
TV poll backs Berwick border move
According to a television poll, 60% of people in Berwick-upon-Tweed want the town to become part of Scotland...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
UN hints at Iraq refugee returns
A top UN official hints that security may improve enough soon for 4m displaced Iraqis to begin returning...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Danish MPs refuse cartoon apology
Danish MPs cancel a trip to Iran after Tehran demands they apologise for the Muhammad cartoon row...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
FA Cup: Man U thrash Arsenal
Man Utd outclass Arsenal at Old Trafford to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Fire at Grand Hotel in Brighton
Hundreds of guests are evacuated from the Grand Hotel in Brighton following a fire in a sixth-floor room...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Call for calm after Pakistan bomb
The leader of Pakistan's main opposition party urges calm after a bomb kills 37 at a rally ahead of polls on Monday...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Paedophile check trials launched
Parents will be able to check if people have child sex convictions under trials of a new policy...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
PM backs Scottish powers review
Prime Minister Gordon Brown backs a review of the powers of the Scottish parliament, including taxation policy...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Kosovo gears up for independence
Jubilant ethnic Albanians in Kosovo pour onto the streets, ahead of an expected declaration of independence...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Bush, in Africa, Emphasizes Successes Over Conflicts
President Bush defended his decision not to visit violence-stricken nations like Kenya and Sudan, saying he wanted to focus on his programs to fight AIDS and malaria...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills 37 at Pakistan Rally
The blast two days before parliamentary elections hit a rally organized by a candidate affiliated with Benazir Bhutto?s party...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
By Making Holocaust Personal to Pupils, Sarkozy Stirs Anger
France?s president has touched off protests with a plan to have students learn the life stories of children killed by the Nazis...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Fears of Violence as Pakistani Election Nears
Pakistan?s parliamentary elections on Monday have included charges of armed intimidation and bribes, and the suspicion of rigging hangs thick in the air...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Warming risks Antarctic sea life
Sharks will migrate into Antarctic waters if warming continues, threatening marine animals, scientists warn...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Minister may hold C. diff inquiry
Health Minister Michael McGimpsey says he is ready to hold a public inquiry into the C. diff outbreak...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Indian Maoists kill 14 in Orissa
Maoist rebels attack police stations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, killing 13 officers and a civilian...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Woman, 70, holds up post office
Police hunt an armed robber, thought to be aged up to 70 years old, who held up a post office in Manchester...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Iranians urge Dutch to ban film
The Iranian government calls on the Dutch to stop the screening of a film about the Koran...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Wheelchair-dump deputy charged
A US sheriff's deputy who dumped a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair to search him is charged...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Athletics: Bekele world record
Kenenisa Bekele eclipses Haile Gebrselassie's two-mile world record at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Peacekeeping head in Darfur plea
More troops must be deployed in Darfur now, even without full equipment, the area's peacekeeping chief says...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Teddy row teacher's China job
A Liverpool teacher who was jailed in Sudan for calling a teddy bear Mohammed, is preparing to start a job at a school in China...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Barnsley shatter Reds' Cup dreams
Barnsley send Liverpool crashing out of the FA Cup thanks to Brian Howard's injury-time winner...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Ex-SS guard extradited to Italy
A former Nazi prison guard, 83, arrives in Italy from Canada to serve a life sentence for murder...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Seven killed at US drag car race
Seven people are killed as a car careens into a crowd at an illegal drag car race in the United States...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Kosovo's PM in independence nod
Kosovo's prime minister gives the clearest indication yet that independence from Serbia will be declared on Sunday...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Hospital probe into rapist escape
An inquiry is under way into how a convicted rapist managed to escape twice from a London hospital...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
'Super surgery' plans condemned
Doctors and patients groups have criticised plans to set up health centres known as "polyclinics" across England...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Deadly blast at Pakistan meeting
A bomb kills 37 as supporters of murdered Pakistan ex-PM Benazir Bhutto's party meet two days before elections...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Political Heir Is Less Rosy Than Putin on the State of Russia
Dmitri A. Medvedev, the presumptive next president, also struck markedly liberal notes in a speech...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Brits 'fail' industry, David says
R&B singer Craig David accuses the Brit Awards of failing to "represent" the true reality of the music business...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Gecko 'begs' insect for honeydew
A bizarre relationship between a gecko and a sap-sucking insect is caught on camera for the first time...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
"No Wales-only" fixes says Brown
The Prime Minister tells Welsh Labour members that UK-wide solutions are needed for some of the biggest challenges...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Music promoter honoured at awards
A world-renowned Belfast-based music promoter has been honoured by the Irish music industry...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Three killed in motorway accident
A crash leaves three people dead and part of the M20 in Kent closed as police examine the scene...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Football: Wenger lauds Ronaldo
Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger are wary of each other's leading scorers ahead of the FA Cup tie between Manchester United & Arsenal...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Woman was 'sacked by voicemail'
A Northern Ireland woman wins an unfair dismissal case after being sacked by a voicemail on her mobile phone...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Police probing deaths of cousins
Police say the deaths of two cousins in Bridgend are not linked to 14 apparent suicides in the area...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Two held over restaurant shooting
Two men are arrested after a number of shots are fired at a Birmingham city centre restaurant...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Bush urges Kenya power-sharing
US President George W Bush backs a power-sharing deal to end Kenya's turmoil, at the start of a tour of Africa...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Judges Asked to Widen Inquiry at French Bank
A lawyer representing Société Générale shareholders asked judges on Friday to interview a supervisor of Jérôme Kerviel to try to determine when his superiors were first alerted to his actions...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
China?s Trade Surplus Jumps, but Imports Are Rising
Exports in January rose 26.7 percent, to $109.7 billion, while imports grew by 27.6 percent, to $90.2 billion, according to the official Xinhua news agency...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Give the Dog a Clone
A Seoul-based company says it has received the world?s first commercial order to clone a pet dog, from a California woman who wants to recreate her dead pit bull terrier...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Opposition Faction Backs Mugabe Challenger
President Robert Mugabe is seeking a sixth term in the March 29 elections...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: German-Pakistani Accused of Supporting Al Qaeda
The police in Germany arrested a citizen of Pakistani origin on suspicion of acting as a courier of money, night-vision equipment and radios to Al Qaeda in the Afghan-Pakistani border area...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Bitter Winter Claims More Than 900 Lives
Cold, snowstorms and avalanches have killed 926 people as the country suffers what is thought to be the worst winter in three decades, the authorities said...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Czech Republic: Euroskeptic President Re-elected
President Vaclav Klaus, a center-right conservative, was narrowly re-elected to a five-year term with the support of 141 lawmakers in Parliament...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Eritrea: U.N. Protests Thwarting of Peacekeepers
In a rare rebuke of an individual nation, the United Nations Security Council ?strongly condemned? Eritrea for obstructing the peacekeeping mission on its disputed border with Ethiopia...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Abortion Law Is Suddenly a Key Issue in Italy?s Elections
The controversy over Italy?s 30-year-old law legalizing abortion stirred up demonstrations this week in its defense...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Gates Foundation?s Research Influence Criticized
A memo at the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Bomb Kills Man on Street in Mexico
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which killed one man and wounded two other people...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Finance Officials for U.S. and Iran Had Secret Talks
The talks took place in Paris last month at a multinational conference, despite the Bush administration?s near-absolute ban on formal contacts with Iran...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Blast at House in Gaza Kills Militant and 5 Others
Israel denied it had anything to do with the blast, and Palestinians speculated that an arms cache might have exploded...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
River of Danger, River of Peace
In the Agua Boa, an upper tributary of the Amazon near the Venezuelan border in Brazil, fly fishing for peacock bass is a favorite pastime...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
The Saturday Profile: An Iranian Revolutionary, Dismayed but Unbowed
Despite having been an adviser to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Ebrahim Yazdi has been marginalized by the system he helped create...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
On the Stump, Pakistani Candidates Avoid Musharraf
After 10 months of political turmoil, President Pervez Musharraf is so unpopular that his own party is distancing itself from the president, candidates and party officials admit...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
U.S. Struggles to Tutor Iraqis in Rule of Law
American investigators working with Iraqis acknowledge that many criminal inquiries have yielded mixed results...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Sarkozy Stirs Anger With Holocaust Curriculum
France?s president touched off protests with a plan to have students learn the life stories of children the Nazis killed...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
China Didn?t Check Drug Supplier, Files Show
An ingredient in a blood thinner linked to four deaths was made at an uncertified plant in China that was not inspected...
New York Times - February 16, 2008
Malaysian police break up protest
Malaysian security forces used tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest by ethnic Indians...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
UN troops 'trapped' in Eritrea
The UN condemns Eritrea, saying its peacekeepers are being prevented from leaving the country...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Hunt after rapist flees hospital
A rapist is on the run after escaping from the same south-east London hospital for the second time...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Contamination alert over salmon
Ten major food stores withdraw nearly 50 salmon products from sale because of contamination fears...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
'Shots fired' in city restaurant
Diners flee a restaurant in a Birmingham city centre retail complex after a number of shots are fired...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
EU approves Kosovo mission
The EU approves a police and justice mission for Kosovo, which is poised to declare independence from Serbia...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Adventurer Fossett declared dead
Missing US adventurer Steve Fossett is declared legally dead, five months after his plane disappeared...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
One-stop clinics 'are the future'
Single-doctor clinics should be replaced by one-stop health shops run by more GPs, says health minister Lord Darzi...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
Bush trip touts Africa successes
US President George W Bush is starting a tour of Africa, seeking to highlight US development projects...
BBC News - February 16, 2008
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