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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 Octomber 2005:
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Indonesians Question U.S. Terror 'Partnership'
A senior Bush administration counterterrorism official quickly discovered that many Indonesians don't think Americans are cooperating or treating them as equals...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Azerbaijan Leader Predicts Victory and Scoffs at 'Revolution'
President Ilham Aliyev predicted today that his party would win overwhelmingly in parliamentary elections next month...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Europe Warns It Isn't Ready for Bird Flu Threat
A European Union commissioner expressed concern that most European countries did not have sufficient antiviral drugs...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Rumsfeld Strikes Less Severe Tone in China
The Secretary of Defense's visit to China comes in advance of a trip here by President Bush next month...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Officials Press Voting Inquiry as Results Arrive in Baghdad
The officials say they are looking into "unusually high" vote tallies in favor of the constitution in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
New worm species dines on whales
Scientists describe a new species of marine worm found off the Swedish coast that lives off the bones of dead whales...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Street's Shelley quits the Rovers
Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay, who plays Rovers barmaid Shelley Unwin, is to quit the soap...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Teen sex fears over advice plan
Health professionals fear teens may be put off seeking sex advice by proposed changes to confidentiality laws...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Worker jailed for CD row killing
A Portuguese worker is jailed for seven years for stabbing to death a Polish housemate in a row over loud music...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Refco seeks bankruptcy protection
US finance firm Refco files for bankruptcy protection and agrees to sell its futures brokerage business...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Labour survives ID card rebellion
Controversial plans to introduce ID cards have cleared the Commons - but with the government's majority more than halved...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Boy, 3, is found with dead mother
A three-year-old boy survived alone for a fortnight in an Edinburgh flat alongside the body of his dead mother...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Abbas discusses arms in Lebanon
The Palestinian leader says he is ready for talks with no conditions about Palestinian arms in Lebanon...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
UN presses for Haiti's elections
The UN Security Council calls for free and fair polls in Haiti to take place as scheduled in December...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Fleeing boat nears Russia waters
A Russian trawler which sped off with two Norwegian officials aboard after an inspection nears home waters...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Football: Kerr axed as Irish boss
Brian Kerr's tenure as Republic of Ireland manager ends after the FAI decide not to renew his contract...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Sparta Prague 0-2 Arsenal
Thierry Henry's brace beats Sparta Prague and sees him surpass Ian Wright as Arsenal's all-time leading scorer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Football: Lille thwart Man Utd
Paul Scholes is sent off as Man Utd draw with Lille in the Champions League...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Wilma up to hurricane force
Hurricane Wilma threatens Cuba and Mexico and is expected to strengthen as it heads north...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
India hails Pakistani quake plan
India welcomes Pakistan's offer to open Kashmir's de facto border to help quake victims...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Falconio girlfriend identifies 'killer'
The girlfriend of missing backpacker Peter Falconio looks at his alleged attacker in court and says he is the killer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Man arrested in Ripper hoax case
A man is held over hoax letters and a tape which misled detectives hunting the Yorkshire Ripper...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Saddam 'buoyant' on eve of trial
Saddam Hussein is in good spirits on the eve of his trial opening in Baghdad, his lawyer is reported as saying...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Nintendo in McDonald's wi-fi deal
Nintendo is to offer free wireless internet access in the US for its DS handheld at McDonald's restaurants...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Madonna 'begged' Abba for sample
Madonna admits she wrote a grovelling letter asking Abba if she could sample them on her new single...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
24-hour pub opening 'a disaster'
Round-the-clock drinking would be "a disaster" for Northern Ireland, an addiction expert says...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Budget airline hit by new delays
Hundreds of holidaymakers suffer long delays as a new problem hits budget carrier Air Scotland...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
E.coli inquiry butchers to appeal
The meat supplier at the centre of an investigation into the E.coli outbreak will try to reopen next week...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Byers to face Railtrack grilling
MPs are to be given a chance to debate whether Stephen Byers lied to the Commons transport committee...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Pinochet undergoes medical exam
Chile's former military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, has new medical tests to determine whether he can stand trial...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Venus mission ready for blast off
Europe prepares to send a spacecraft to Venus, our closest planetary neighbour...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Iran sends Saddam charges to Iraq
Iran hands Iraq a list of charges against Saddam Hussein a day before his trial begins in Baghdad...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Quake help 'yet to reach 500,000'
Some half a million survivors of the South Asian earthquake have still received no help, the UN warns...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Prison for spin wash cat killer
A woman who killed a cat by putting it in a washing machine is jailed for six weeks...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Open up Kashmir, Pakistan urges
President Musharraf says Pakistan and India should open Kashmir's de facto border to help quake victims...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Journalists 'manipulated' shares
Two journalists who wrote the Daily Mirror's City Slickers column aimed to "manipulate" the market, a court hears...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Sky set to lose football monopoly
The Premier League's boss says talks with the European Commission over future TV rights were "fruitful"...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Football: Xavier to fight charge
Middlesbrough's Abel Xavier says he did not intentionally take a banned substance...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Tennis: Early exit for Rusedski
Greg Rusedski loses to big-hitting Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the first round of the Madrid Masters Series...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Storm Wilma up to hurricane force
Tropical Storm Wilma becomes a category one hurricane and could hit Florida by the weekend...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Britons killed in Tanzania crash
Four British tourists are killed after a plane crash in a remote area of Tanzania in east Africa...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Deal on public sector pensions
The TUC says it has reached agreement with the government on the future of public sector pensions...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
EU urges global bird flu response
An international co-ordinated response is needed to tackle the threat of a global bird flu pandemic, say EU ministers...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Clarke knocked out of Tory race
Ex-chancellor Ken Clarke has been eliminated from the race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
ITV trials broadband TV service
Commercial broadcaster ITV has become the latest firm to try out offering TV over the internet...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Jackson drops King Kong composer
Director Peter Jackson has dropped the score for his remake of King Kong and hired a new composer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Kennedy urges ID card opposition
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy calls on MPs to unite against ID cards when the issue returns to the Commons...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Call for reform of NHS regulation
Regulation of the NHS is in need of a radical overhaul if it is to keep pace with reforms, experts say...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
UK should 'reverse astronaut ban'
The UK should start funding its own astronauts, a report written for the Royal Astronomical Society says...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Pc's madam wife admits fraud
A police officer's wife who worked as a madam to fund her lifestyle admits a £100,000 mortgage fraud...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Top civil servant moves to Bank
A top civil servant, Sir John Gieve, has replaced a leading hawk as the deputy governor of the Bank of England...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Road toll leads to diplomatic row
Britain and the United states are embroiled in a diplomatic row over paying London's congestion charge...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Work starts on £1bn docks project
Work on the first phase of the £1bn Titanic Quarter development in Belfast's docklands begins...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Storm Wilma threatens Caribbean
Tropical Storm Wilma is gaining strength and could become a hurricane, threatening the Caribbean...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
German parliament chooses speaker
The new German parliament elects a speaker in its first meeting since September's dramatic election...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Kashmir minister killed in attack
Suspected militants kill Education Minister Ghulam Nabi Lone in Indian-administered Kashmir...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Obote's body back home in Uganda
The body of former President Milton Obote is flown back to Uganda from his exiled home in Zambia...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
China calls off Japanese visit
China cancels a visit by Japan's foreign minister, in a fresh row about a controversial war shrine...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Petrol pushes up UK inflation
UK inflation rises in September - but at a lower-than-expected rate, despite fears over surging petrol prices...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Russian forces hunt city rebels
Russian security forces kill one suspect in search operations in Nalchik days after a bloody raid by Chechen-led rebels...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Trio questioned over gay murder
Three men are arrested and bailed in connection with the murder of a gay bar manager in south London...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Football: Xavier to explain test
Middlesbrough's Abel Xavier is set to make a statement on Tuesday after his positive drug test last month...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Candidates braced for Tory vote
Tory MPs prepare to vote for the first time in the leadership contest, with one of the four hopefuls to be eliminated...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Quake survivors face new threats
Aid workers in Kashmir say cold weather and untreated injuries could cause another wave of deaths...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
EU 'prepared' for bird flu threat
EU officials seek to soothe bird flu fears but call for a global response to tackle the threat...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
£36m tower breaks on first day
A man is trapped 100ft from the ground in Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower on the day it opens to the public...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Outback girl identifies Falconio 'killer'
The girlfriend of murdered backpacker Peter Falconio looks at his alleged attacker in court and says he is the killer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Monitors in Iraq Review Votes Where 'Yes' Ballots Hit 90%
Election officials are investigating "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, calling the results into question...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Fearing Ukrainian-Style Uprising, Belarus Cracks Down
Belarus's beleaguered opposition efforts are shaping up as a new struggle over democracy in what was once the Soviet Union...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
For Earthquake Relief Workers, a Race Against Winter
Outsiders still have not reached an area in northern Pakistan where there are believed to be hundreds of dead and injured people...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Asians Angered, Again, by Visit to War Shrine by Japan Leader
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a nationalist war memorial on Monday drew immediate and fierce criticism from Asian countries...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Merkel Appoints 6 Conservatives to Join a Shaky German Cabinet
Angela Merkel appointed a theologian, a gynecologist and former political foes to her cabinet in a decision that will test her ability to introduce change...
New York Times - October 18, 2005
Dick and Dom up for Bafta double
Duo Dick and Dom are nominated for two children's Bafta awards for the second year running...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Mandelson faces EU trade critics
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson faces foreign ministers' criticism over his trade talks stance...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
New test in prostate cancer cases
Researchers say there may be a better marker to indicate when a man has a more aggressive form of prostate cancer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Japanese MPs fuel war shrine row
Almost 200 members of Japan's parliament visit a controversial war shrine, a day after PM Koizumi...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Israel cracks down after killings
Israel re-imposes travel curbs on Palestinians and suspends security contacts after the killing of three settlers...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
£2.4bn Lottery funds left unspent
MPs launch a scathing attack on National Lottery fund distributors over a £2.4bn surplus of "good causes" cash...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Girlfriend faces Outback 'killer'
The girlfriend of murdered backpacker Peter Falconio looks at his alleged attacker in court and says he is the killer...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Row mars S Asia quake aid effort
India and Pakistan fail to agree terms for Indian aircraft to help earthquake survivors on the Pakistani side...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Iraq result delay over fraud fear
Iraq's constitution vote result will be delayed while voting anomalies are checked, say officials...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Aid 'too little too late' - Oxfam
Thousands are dying because help given by world leaders to deal with disasters is "too little, too late", Oxfam says...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
'Bad' car bumpers costing drivers
Badly-designed car bumpers are costing drivers £250m a year in unnecessary bills, it is claimed...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
Tory hopefuls ready for MPs' vote
The four Conservative leadership candidates are bracing themselves for the first vote of MPs...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
WHO warns against bird flu panic
The World Health Organization urges people not to panic-buy a drug they hope will protect against bird flu...
BBC News - October 18, 2005
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