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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 March 2005:
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C.I.A. Chief Defends Interrogation Policy and Disavows Torture
Porter J. Goss declined, however, to provide broad assurance about all interrogation techniques used by the agency since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
U.S. Envoy Leaves Iraq, Conceding 'Job Is Far From Done'
John D. Negroponte, the outgoing American ambassador, left Iraq today after a nine-month tour...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
Palestinian Groups Agree to Extend Cease-Fire
Although the groups set conditions on Israel, their move bolsters recent efforts to end four-and-a-half years of fighting...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
Three injured during disturbances
A police officer and a teenager are injured in Londonderry and a man is stabbed in Downpatrick...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Breastfeeding law comes into play
Scotland's new breastfeeding bill comes into force with a change in legislation from Friday...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Banks named in Parmalat inquiry
Four banks and an Italian firm are accused by investigators of helping dairy firm Parmalat mislead the market...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
NHS smoking drive 'insufficient'
NHS services are insufficient on their own to persuade people to kick the habit, a study says...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Atmosphere found on Saturn moon
The Cassini orbiter has detected a significant atmosphere around the bright Saturnian moon Enceladus...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Somali MPs in peacekeeper brawl
Somali MPs trade physical blows as parliament votes against the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Vanunu charged for media contacts
Israeli nuclear dissident Mordechai Vanunu is charged with violating the terms of his release from jail...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
US demands Pakistan nuclear help
Condoleezza Rice urges Pakistan to reveal what it knows about the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Sex slave gang 'tip of iceberg'
Three illegal immigrants jailed for selling a 15-year-old Lithuanian girl as a sex slave are just the tip of the iceberg, police say...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Star's home 'was pleasure island'
Michael Jackson's former housekeeper tells his child abuse trial how children ran riot at his Neverland ranch...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
BBC 'will cut 1,500 extra jobs'
The BBC is to cut around 1,500 jobs in news and other programmes over three years, it has been claimed...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Sharon hails Palestinian truce
Israel's prime minister welcomes a pledge by Palestinian militants to extend a halt in attacks...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
UN calls for Syria pullout by May
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he expects Syria to pull out of Lebanon fully before May elections...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Football: Boro crash out
Middlesbrough fail to reach the quarter-finals of the Uefa Cup as a late goal sees them beaten in Lisbon...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Olympics: Moscow bullish over bid
The IOC finish their inspection of the five 2012 Olympic bidding cities by completing a four-day visit to Moscow...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Soldier wins VC for Iraq bravery
A soldier serving in Iraq is awarded the first VC in more than 20 years for saving his unit from an ambush...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Family encouraged by Bush talks
The family of Belfast murder victim Robert McCartney say they are encouraged after meeting President Bush...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Afghans Again Put Off Parliamentary Elections, Citing Logistics
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the announcement, apparently inadvertently, during a news conference with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
Russian Electricity Magnate Escapes Ambush Outside Moscow
Anatoly B. Chubais survived a roadside ambush this morning as he was driving to Moscow from his extravagant dacha outside the capital...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
St Pat's partying in full swing
St Patrick's Day is being celebrated in colourful style with parades across Northern Ireland...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Deal is reached in ferry dispute
Shop stewards representing CalMac ferry workers suspend plans for next week's 12-hour strike...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
BMA backs medics' pay 'calamity'
The British Medical Association supports a no confidence motion in the Assembly Government's handling of a consultants pay row...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
MP thrown out over Blair war jibe
MP Adam Price is thrown out of the Commons chamber after claiming Tony Blair "misled" MPs on the Iraq war...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Football: Uefa clears Mourinho
Uefa clears Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho of causing referee Anders Frisk to resign...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Mugabe's anger at court 'madness'
Zimbabwe's president tells his supporters to ignore an Electoral Court ruling that a jailed opposition MP can stand for re-election...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
China frees top Uighur prisoner
China frees prominent Uighur political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer, a US-based human rights group says...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Control orders 'could target IRA'
The government refuses to rule out using new terror law control orders against members of the IRA...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
UK police foil massive bank theft
British police foil an attempt to steal £220m from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Skydiver's death 'set up' theory
Death plunge skydiver Stephen Hilder may have wanted his death to look like murder, a coroner says...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
NHS row woman has surgery
The pensioner at the centre of a political row about the cancellation of her shoulder operation finally has surgery...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Karzai announces election delay
President Karzai says Afghan elections will be held in September, not May, as Condoleezza Rice makes her first visit to the country...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Racing: Baracouda misses treble
Inglis Drever beats favourite Baracouda in the World Hurdle at Cheltenham...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
McCartney sisters meet Bush
The family of Belfast murder victim Robert McCartney has a private meeting with US President George Bush...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Pre-poll clash on tax and spend
Labour and the Tories clash over tax and spending as the Budget row turns into a full scale pre-election battle...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
No verdict in Wragg murder trial
Jury is discharged after failing to reach a verdict over whether a man murdered his terminally ill son...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Under 18s 'shouldn't use sunbeds'
World Health Organization guidance says nobody aged under 18 should use a sunbed...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Have hackers recruited your PC?
Research shows thousands of home PCs have been hijacked by hackers and criminals...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Actor Blake not guilty of murder
US actor Robert Blake is found not guilty of killing his wife after more than a week's deliberation by a jury...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Are the chancellor's plans affordable?
The chancellor insists that his spending plans are "affordable" following the budget but the Tories claim they will lead to tax rises. What do you think?...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Inquiry calls in Air India case
Victims' families urge Canada to hold an inquiry into the Air India bombing after two men are acquitted...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Russia power boss survives attack
Russian electricity boss Anatoly Chubais survives an assassination attempt unhurt, officials say...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Syria 'ends first pullout phase'
Syria completes the first phase of its withdrawal from Lebanon, say Lebanese military sources...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
'Five killed' in Kandahar blast
At least five people are killed and more than 30 injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Activists 'no-go' zone rejected
The High Court rejects an exclusion zone against animal rights activists but warns them about their conduct...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
NI gears up for St Patrick's Day
St Patrick's Day is to be celebrated in colourful style with parades across Northern Ireland...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
New targets to cut waiting lists
The assembly government is set to announce new targets to bring down the longest hospital waiting times...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
UK retail sales continue slowdown
High Street sales inched higher in February, official figures show, but Christmas sales were even weaker than previously reported...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
US Church moves to avoid splits
The US Anglican Church says it will not appoint new bishops or publicly bless same-sex relationships for a year...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Morrisons issues profit warning
Shares in supermarket group Morrisons fall 5% after it issues a profit warning following problems with Safeway...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Cricket: Pakistan tame India
Younis Khan and Yousuf Youhana hit unbeaten centuries as Pakistan reply to India's 407 with 273-2...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Racing: Baracouda chases treble
Baracouda and Rule Supreme head a field of 12 for the World Hurdle at Cheltenham...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
African Darfur crimes court urged
Nigeria proposes an African-run tribunal to hear cases of alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
China releases leading dissident
China frees leading Uighur political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer, a US-based human rights group says...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
UK voters' panel: Budget 2005
Three of the BBC News website's panel of UK voters give their reaction to the Budget...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Afghanistan's elections delayed
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says parliamentary elections due in May will now take place in September...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Brown denies Budget 'black hole'
Gordon Brown insists his spending plans are "affordable" amid Tory claims they will lead to tax rises...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Theft fears over 'Shipman gems'
Police ask families of Harold Shipman's victims if they can identify items of jewellery found in his garage...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Iraqi Assembly Opens as Talks Over a Government Drag On
The divisiveness of the negotiations was evident when the assembly failed to take even the first formal step of appointing a president...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
Palestinians Gain Security Control of Jericho
The move was largely symbolic but pointed to the prospect of a broader Israeli pullback in the West Bank...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
Iran Offers Europe 'Guarantees' on Its Nuclear Program
Iran said it is ready to provide "objective guarantees" that European negotiators were seeking about the country's nuclear program...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
U.S. May Give Help to India on Atom Site
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needed to do what it could to help India cope with its growing energy needs...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
British Labor Party? Embassy Staff in U.S. See Lack of Solidarity
Workers at the British Embassy in Washington are seeking to join an American labor union, but Britain's government has resisted recognizing the union...
New York Times - March 17, 2005
MPs call for a halt to academies
Ministers should stop opening expensive new academies until they prove their worth, MPs say...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Opposition ends Bolivia blockades
Bolivia's opposition leader Evo Morales calls off nationwide blockades that have undermined President Mesa...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Universities to charge top fees
Nine out of 10 universities in England are to charge the most they can in top-up fees from next year...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
BSE beef 'entered UK food chain'
Beef which could have been contained with BSE entered the UK food chain...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Military facing 'capability gaps'
MPs warn the armed forces could be facing "gaps in capability" but support ending arms plotting...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
McCartneys set to meet Bush
The family of murder victim Robert McCartney is to join President Bush for a St Patrick's Day reception...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
London police foil huge bank raid
British police foil an attempt to rob £220 million from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
Economy battle set to intensify
The pre-election battle over the economy hits full pitch as the parties try to seize the upper hand over the Budget...
BBC News - March 17, 2005
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