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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 February 2007:
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A Film Star in Kampala, Conjuring Amin?s Ghost
?The Last King of Scotland? depicts an era Ugandans like to forget, but they are proud it is about their country...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Planning Seen in Iraqi Attacks on U.S. Copters
Documents captured from insurgents indicate that some of the recent attacks are the result of a strategy to down coalition aircraft...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Senate Rejects Renewed Effort to Debate Iraq
For a second time Senate Republicans denied war opponents a debate on a resolution opposing the administration?s strategy...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Airlifted baby now critically ill
A baby airlifted to hospital in Liverpool as there are no spare intensive care beds for babies in NI is critically ill...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Coffin demo over surgery switch
Protesters dressed as undertakers and carrying coffins march over the end of emergency surgery in Llanelli...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
China ushers in year of the pig
China marks the arrival of the New Year, with the golden pig year seen as being particularly auspicious...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Football: Reading secure draw
Reading come from behind to secure a draw with Man Utd in the FA Cup fifth round...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Union leaders shun Guinea talks
Union leaders in Guinea say emergency powers imposed on Tuesday must be relaxed before they enter talks...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
China film wins top Berlin award
A film from China called Tuya's Marriage wins the top honour at the Berlin film festival...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Boxing: Harrison knocked out
Michael Sprott knocks out former Olympic heavyweight champion Audley Harrison at Wembley Arena...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Libya HIV medics appeal sentence
Lawyers for six foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV appeal their convictions...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
French wartime collaborator dies
Convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon dies, aged 96, days after undergoing heart surgery,...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Rice prepares for Mid-East summit
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel for talks prior to a key trilateral summit...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
US Senate blocks vote on Iraq war
Senate Republicans block a motion attacking President Bush's Iraq troop boost, a day after the House passed it...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Rice Meets With Iraqis on Security Plan
The secretary of state said she told Iraq?s leaders to quickly finalize an oil law and stressed the importance of rehiring Sunni civil servants...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Wind shifts devastate ocean life
Scientists witness vast swathes of marine life collapse in "dead zones" off the west coast of the US...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Berlin's Golden Bear film awaited
Actors and directors gather for a gala at the Berlin Film Festival, where the prize for best picture is to be awarded...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Lib Dem pledge support for young
The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader promises to focus on Scotland's young people in its election campaign...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Clashes reported in Iranian city
Police and militants clash in the Iranian city of Zahedan following an explosion, state media report...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Italians march in US base protest
Thousands march in Vicenza in north-east Italy against the planned expansion of a US army base...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Envoys hold Guinea crisis talks
A West African delegation has talks with Guinea's president on ways of resolving the political crisis...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
China lets Aids activist visit US
China is to allow a critic of its HIV/Aids policy to receive an award in the US - a reversal of its earlier stance...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Cameron calls for police reforms
The police must be more accountable to the public, Conservative leader David Cameron says...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Security high for Rio revellers
One of the world's biggest carnival celebrations opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
One man dead after city shootings
One man dies in London, and three are injured in Manchester, in a new spate of shooting incidents...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Rice reviews Iraq security plan
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Iraq's security plan has started well, as she visits Baghdad...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Italy Indicts C.I.A. Operatives in ?03 Abduction
The indictment of 26 Americans marked a turning point in Europe, where anger is high at the United States? program of ?extraordinary renditions.?...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Sound future for music on mobiles
Music is becoming the dominant entertainment on mobile phones, reports BBC Click...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Action plan for killer asteroids
A draft UN treaty to tackle any future giant asteroids heading for Earth is to be drawn up this year...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Richie faces drink-driving charge
TV star Nicole Richie, seen with Paris Hilton in reality show The Simple Life, is charged with drink-driving...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Five injured as car fails to stop
Five people are injured after a car drove through a police checkpoint in north Belfast in the early hours of the morning...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Welsh house prices 'rising fast'
A property survey finds that Wales is one of the most profitable areas in Britain to own and sell a home...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Gladiators 'fought in Cheshire'
Gladiatorial games were probably held at Britain's largest Roman amphitheatre, archaeologists reveal...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Indonesia halts bird flu boycott
Indonesia resumes sharing its bird flu samples in a deal that ensures developing nations have access to new vaccines...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Baghdad unannounced as 10 die in car bombs in Kirkuk...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Tennis: Murray makes semi-finals
Andy Murray comes from a set down to beat Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee and set up a semi-final showdown with Andy Roddick in San Jose...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Lesotho holds legislative polls
Voters in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho go to the polls in what is expected to be a closely fought election...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Broadcaster Sheridan Morley dies
Broadcaster and theatre critic Sheridan Morley, known for hosting BBC Radio 2's Arts Programme, dies aged 65...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Go-slow protest over road charge
A go-slow is held in west London in protest against the westward expansion of the congestion charge zone...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Japan rejects Greenpeace help
Japan rejects New Zealand's plea to allow Greenpeace to tow a stricken whaling ship out of Antarctic waters...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Interviews for passports 'vital'
Making first-time passport applicants have an interview is needed to beat identity fraud, officials say...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Pakistani suicide bomb kills 15
A suicide bomb in a courtroom in the Pakistani city of Quetta has killed at least 15 people, police say...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
US Senate seeks Iraq troops vote
The US Senate aims to repeat a House of Representatives vote critical of President Bush's Iraq troop surge...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Man dies after new gun killing
A man is shot dead in the Hackney area of east London, days after a spate of gun killings in south London...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Baghdad Plan Is a ?Success,? Iraq Prime Minister Tells Bush
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said that the increased effort to provide security in Baghdad had gone exceedingly well so far...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Anglican Prelates Snub Head of U.S. Church Over Gay Issues
The clergy disagree with the new head of the American Episcopal Church over her support of gay clergy and blessings for same-sex unions...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Iranian Force, Focus of U.S., Still a Mystery
The Quds Force is under intense scrutiny by U.S. intelligence agencies because it is suspected of supplying explosives to Iraqi militants...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
Italy Indicts 26, Many From C.I.A., in ?03 Abduction
The indictment marked a turning point in Europe, where anger is high at the American program of ?extraordinary renditions?...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
A Divided House Denounces Plan for More Troops
The resolution was approved 246 to 182. The Senate is expected to consider Saturday whether to move ahead toward a vote on an Iraq resolution...
New York Times - February 17, 2007
What price a university degree?
BBC education correspondent Mike Baker unravels the trends in university applications...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Oil prices up on Nigerian attacks
Oil prices rise above $59 a barrel as the US warns of further attacks in key oil producing country Nigeria...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Brain 'can beat early blindness'
The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children suggests...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Lib Dems pledge support for young
The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader is set to unveil proposals to offer free playgroup places to every two-year-old...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Girls Aloud star intruders guilty
A gang that tried to use a pop star's home as a safe house is convicted of running a drugs empire...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Actor Grant and Khan split
Actor Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan announce they are splitting after nearly three years together...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Bombing sentences welcomed
The foreign secretary welcomes the life sentences given to seven men for the 2003 Istanbul bombings...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Anti-US protest planned in Italy
Thousands of Italians are expected to join a protest march against the planned expansion of a US army base...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
UK co-ops agree merger terms
The UK's two biggest co-operatives agree terms of a merger that would form the world's largest such group...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Stores withdraw houmous items
Five more supermarkets remove houmous products after salmonella is found in two Marks and Spencer varieties...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
Police patrol gun murder streets
Armed police spend the night patrolling streets in south London and stopping vehicles after a string of gun killings...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
'Vital' passport changes defended
Making first-time passport applicants have an interview is "vital" to beating identity fraud, officials say...
BBC News - February 17, 2007
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