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Obama, McCain bury campaign pain, vow cooperation
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Obama, McCain bury sour campaign, vow cooperation
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Saks posts bigger-than-expected 3Q loss
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Obama, McCain pledge to work together for reform
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk marred by lost tool bag
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Astronauts end space walk marred by lost tool bag
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Indian navy sinks suspected pirate mother ship
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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UN Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
Southern Ledger - November 19, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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This Time, Sarkozy Embraces Attention to His Private Life
The French president told journalists he did not mind media reports about his love life, one day after reports of his romance with Carla Bruni surfaced in the French press...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
New Prime Minister for Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko, who helped lead the peaceful street protests that overturned a presidential election three years ago, was approved by Parliament as Ukraine?s new prime minister...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Rice in Iraq as Turkey Tensions Rise
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?s visit coincides with new Kurdish accusations of a Turkish incursion in northern Iraq...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Councils lose 1,000 blank cheques
Two councils are facing calls for an investigation after a box of 1,000 blank cheques were lost by staff...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Pupils taught in school corridor
An overcrowded school in North Yorkshire resorts to teaching some pupils in its corridor...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Voting begins in South Korea poll
South Koreans head to the polls as the race to succeed President Roh Moo-hyun begins...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Ten-man Spurs into Carling semis
Ten-man Tottenham end Manchester City's 100% home record to reach the semi-finals of the Carling Cup...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Arsenal youngsters march into semis
Arsenal's classy youngsters show grit to march into the Carling Cup semi-finals after seeing off Blackburn with 10 men in extra time...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Zuma wins ANC election
Jacob Zuma is strongly placed to be South Africa's next president after winning the leadership of the ruling ANC...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Winehouse is arrested by police
Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested and bailed over an inquiry into perverting the course of justice...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Arrest in Man U party rape probe
A man is arrested after the alleged rape of a woman at a hotel where Manchester Utd players were at a party...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Rival UK bank eyes Northern Rock
Bradford & Bingley has approached Northern Rock about buying assets from the lender, the BBC learns...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Baby units 'face staff shortages'
Baby units in England refuse new admissions once a week on average because of staff shortages, a watchdog says...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Politicus: Rhetorical Excess in the Case Against Global Warming
The props of language now being used to support the case against global warming - nations mobilized for war, moral courage, Hitler, Churchill - undercut its credibility...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Pakistan Blocks Ex-Prime Minister?s Appeal
Pakistan?s election commission has upheld an earlier ruling barring former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from running in general elections scheduled for next month...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 10
Israel continued its air attacks Tuesday morning on Islamic Jihad, killing at least three militants...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Rice in Baghdad as Tensions With Turkey Rise
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?s visit comes after Turkey bombed Kurdish militants in Iraq on Sunday...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Funds boost Europe Mars mission
Esa agrees to fund work on its ExoMars mission despite not having final approval from European governments...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Jackson to produce Hobbit movies
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson reaches an agreement to produce two films based on The Hobbit...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Huhne hails 'great leader' Clegg
Chris Huhne, who lost the Lib Dem leadership contest to Nick Clegg, said his rival would be a "great leader"...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Diplomas to exceed three A-levels
The new Diplomas will be worth the equivalent of more than three A-levels in university entrance points...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Midwife suspended over two deaths
A midwife at Antrim Area Hospital is suspended amid a police investigation into the deaths of two babies...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Taleban chief taunts foreign foes
Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issues a statement mocking foreign troops and vowing to fight on...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Murderer among prison absconders
Three inmates, including a convicted murderer, go on the run after absconding from an open prison in Derbyshire...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Militants killed in Israeli raids
Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank kill 13 Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad and Hamas...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Iraq's Kurdish leader snubs Rice
Iraq's Kurdish leader refuses to meet the US secretary of state over Washington's stance on raids by Turkey...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Fed to help US mortgage holders
The US Federal Reserve is set to agree a range of measures giving mortgage holders more protection...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
DR Congo invites rebels to talks
DR Congo's government invites rebel General Nkunda to a peace conference on the war in the east...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Lewis Hamilton caught speeding
British F1 star Lewis Hamilton has his driving licence suspended for speeding in France...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Diana driver 'maniac at wheel'
Dodi Al Fayed's driver Henri Paul was a "maniac" behind the wheel, says a woman who was convinced she would die from his "reckless" driving in Paris...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Voting ends in bitter ANC contest
S Africa's ruling ANC counts the votes in the leadership race between rivals Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Radio 1 backs down over Pogues
BBC Radio 1 will play the Pogues' Fairytale of New York uncut, after criticism of a decision to censor it...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Treasury's Rock aid reaches £57bn
The Treasury guarantees more Northern Rock liabilities, a move that could move the bank closer to nationalisation...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Rape inquiry after Man Utd party
Police investigate an alleged rape of a woman at a hotel where Man Utd players and other guests were at a party...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Nick Clegg is new Lib Dem leader
Nick Clegg vows to "change politics and change Britain" after pipping Chris Huhne to the Lib Dem leadership...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Floods Displace More Than 20, 000 in East Sri Lanka
Flooding displaced more than 20,000 people from their homes in eastern Sri Lanka as a depression over the Bay of Bengal increased monsoon rains, officials said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Lebanese Man Sentenced in Bomb Attempt
A court sentenced a Lebanese man to 12 years in jail for last year?s failed attempt to bomb German trains and acquitted three other defendants, judicial officials said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
15 Afghan Guards Killed in Attack
Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Turkish Soldiers Reported to Enter Iraq
The Turkish army sent soldiers about 1.5 miles into northern Iraq on Tuesday, a spokesman for Kurdish security forces said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Yulia Tymoshenko Restored as Prime Minister
Ukraine?s parliament restored Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister, sealing a political comeback for a leading figure from the 2004 ?Orange Revolution.?...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Sharif Blocked From Pakistan Election
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lost his appeal against the rejection of his nomination for next month?s parliamentary elections, an official said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Secretary of State Arrives, Unannounced, in Iraq
Condoleezza Rice flew to Kirkuk, a city where the United States is emphasizing what it sees as signs of cooperation...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Tech giants form tiny chip group
Seven of the world's leading tech companies collaborate on the development of next-gen chips...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Radio 1 censors Pogues' Fairytale
BBC Radio 1 is standing by its decision to cut the Pogues' hit Fairytale of New York - despite criticism from fans...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Giant rat found in 'lost world'
A giant rodent thought to be new to science is discovered in a remote mountainous area of Indonesia...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Revenue loses 6,500 people's data
HM Revenue and Customs admits losing the details of 6,500 customers of a pension firm at its Cardiff offices...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
ECB lends $500bn to lower rates
The European Central Bank lends money to banks at below-market rates as a means of tackling the credit crunch...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Figures show homicide rate up 27%
Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
School targeted after Ruane visit
Loyalists are accused of burgling a primary school four times since a visit by the education minister...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Afghan security guards 'ambushed'
At least 15 Afghan security guards are killed in an ambush by the Taleban in western Afghanistan, police say...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Missing contraband 'was cocaine'
Contraband that went missing after being seized by customs officers is confirmed as 1.5kg of cocaine...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Israeli raids kill Gaza militants
At least 10 Palestinian militants are killed in successive Israeli air strikes on Gaza...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Turkish soldiers cross into Iraq
Some 300 Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, local officials say, stepping up pressure on Kurdish rebels...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
ANC begins bitter leadership vote
South Africa's ruling ANC is choosing between rivals Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma for the party leadership...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Football: Terry may miss friendly
England captain John Terry is a doubt for February's match with Switzerland after breaking three bones in his right foot...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Cricket: Harmison leads fightback
Steve Harmison takes three wickets as Sri Lanka reach 147-4 on an emotional first day of the final Test against England in Galle...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
'Bubble boy' develops leukaemia
A boy with no immune system being treated with pioneering gene therapy has developed leukaemia, his doctors say...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
King denies criticising Treasury
Bank of England governor Mervyn King says he did not criticise the Treasury for its Northern Rock actions...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Bank lends £10bn to ease crunch
The Bank of England has lent banks £10bn, a move that should ease the impact of the global credit crunch...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Coastguards back potential strike
Coastguard staff have voted to say they would, in principle, hold their first strike in 186 years in a dispute over pay...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
'No cover-up' on lost driver data
The minister who knew millions of drivers' records had gone missing in the US defends his decision not to go public...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Treasury extends Rock guarantees
The Treasury guarantees more Northern Rock liabilities, a move that risks taking the bank closer to nationalisation...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Politicus: Rhetorical Excess in the Case Against Global Warming
The props of language now being used to support the case against global warming - nations mobilized for war, moral courage, Hitler, Churchill - undercut its credibility...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
A Conversation With Alan Rabinowitz: Zoologist Gives a Voice to Big Cats in the Wilderness
Alan Rabinowitz has persuaded dictatorships and democracies alike to protect their felines...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Greece: Labor Minister Fired
The government appointed a new labor and welfare minister after dismissing her predecessor over the weekend...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Italy: 16 Years for Umbrella Killing
A Romanian woman caught on closed-circuit security cameras after she killed a Rome subway passenger by stabbing her in the eye with an umbrella was sentenced to 16 years in prison...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Families Pay as U.S. Agents Under Attack Fire Tear Gas Into Mexico
Families are being caught in the crossfire between Border Patrol agents firing tear gas and those who the agents say are attacking them with stones, bottles and bricks...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Czech Republic: North Koreans Must Go
All North Koreans living and working in the Czech Republic under a program that has allowed them to work in local factories as a source of cheap labor, will have been sent home by the end of January...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Britain: Data on Would-Be Drivers Lost in U.S.
Personal information on three million candidates for British driver?s licenses went missing after an Iowa subsidiary of the government contactor mislaid a computer hard drive...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Lebanon: Presidential Vote Postponed Again
The Syrian-backed opposition boycotted a vote to elect a new president, delaying Parliament?s decision for the ninth time...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
South Africa: Two-Man Fight on for Tuesday
Delegates of the governing African National Congress scheduled the election of party president for Tuesday, ending two days of partisan warfare between supporters of the only candidates to be voted on...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Kyrgyzstan: On the Path to a One-Party State
The Ak Zhol party of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev had captured 49 percent of the votes in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, while the second-place finisher, the opposition party Ata Meken, had 9 percent...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Japanese Ship Downs Missile in Pacific Test
A Japanese Navy destroyer shot down a ballistic missile on Monday in a test about 100 miles over the Pacific, a first for a United States ally...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Belgium: Loser to Lead Interim Government
Guy Verhofstadt, the liberal ousted by voters in June, accepted the job of forming and leading an interim government...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
A Grandfather?s Suicide Bombing Puzzles Algerians
The case of Rabah Bechla casts doubt on the practice of profiling. As a prominent Algerian journalist observed, ?If a grandfather can blow himself up, anyone can.?...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
64 Journalists Killed Worldwide in 2007, the Most Since ?94
Nearly half of the deaths took place in Iraq, which was ranked as the deadliest country for journalists for the fifth consecutive year by the Committee to Protect Journalists...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
12 Killed in Pakistan Bombing
Twelve soldiers were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a sports field used by the Pakistani Army...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Disneyland Date Has Sarkozy in the Limelight
Nicolas Sarkozy let it be known that his new companion is Carla Bruni, a singer and former top model...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
A Midnight Service Helps African Immigrants Combat Demons
Many ministries and congregations in the growing African diaspora in the United States and abroad are grappling with witchcraft...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
New Fraud Inquiry May Complicate South Korean Election
Parliament voted to open a fraud investigation into accusations of fraud against Lee Myung-bak, the leading presidential candidate...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq
Being openly gay is not an option in the new Iraq, where the rise of religious extremism has left many gays feeling especially vilified...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Fashion and Faith Meet, on Foreheads of the Pious
It has become popular among men to have a circle of callused skin on the forehead, which emerges when worshipers press their heads to the ground for prayer...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Putin Agrees to Be Protégé?s Prime Minister
President Vladimir V. Putin formally declared Monday that he intended to become prime minister next year, ensuring his dominance of the Russian government even after his term ends...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Iraq Leaders Denounce Bombings by Turkey
Iraqi leaders criticized Turkey on Monday for bombing Kurdish militants in northern Iraq in the largest known cross-border attack since 2003...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Israeli Airstrike Kills a Top Militant in Gaza
The senior official, Majed al-Harazin, 40, was one of the most important Islamic Jihad military commanders in Gaza, and Israel had tried to kill him three times before...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Statement Hints at Castro?s Retirement
Fidel Castro indicated in a statement that he was willing to hand over the reins of Cuba?s government to a younger generation of leaders...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Songs of Love and Murder, Silenced by Killings
Mexico?s country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate ? 13 in the past year and a half...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Morale 'not to blame' for breach
There is no evidence of fraud resulting from the loss of two discs containing 25m people's data, the chancellor says...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Rebuilt S Lanka venue hosts game
The cricket stadium at Galle in Sri Lanka destroyed by the 2004 tsunami is hosting its first match after being rebuilt...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Palestinians 'win $7bn aid vow'
A foreign aid package for the Palestinians will total at least $7bn, France's foreign minister says at talks in Paris...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Japan tests anti-missile system
Japan uses a ship-based defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile, the first such test by a US ally...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Angolan actors 'killed by police'
Angolan police shoot dead two actors after mistaking them for armed robbers, a film director says...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Live - Sri Lanka v England
England win the toss and field in the final Test against Sri Lanka in Galle, with Matthew Hoggard earning a recall...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Fidel Castro hints at retirement
Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro suggests for the first time that he may step down from power...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
ANC delegates to vote for leader
South Africa's ruling ANC is set to choose between bitter rivals Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma for the party leadership...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
MPs call for honours law reform
Changes to the law are needed to make the honours system more transparent, MPs are expected to say...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Lib Dems to announce new leader
The new Lib Dem leader will be named, after a contest sparked by Sir Menzies Campbell's resignation...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Bank set for credit crunch sale
The Bank of England is set to offer lenders an extra £10bn in funds to limit the impact of a credit crunch...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
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