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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 January 2007:
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Iran?s President Criticized Over Nuclear Issue
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming under pressure on several fronts at home...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S.
The successful test signaled Beijing?s resolve to play a major role in military space activities and brought expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Your PCs forecast climate future
A climate prediction project run on home PCs, in conjunction with the BBC and scientists, reveals its forecasts...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Nine dead as storms hit England
England is hit by heavy rain and gales which leave nine people dead and road, rail and air services badly affected...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Tesco boss unveils green pledges
Tesco unveils wide ranging proposals to cut carbon emissions and encourage its customers to buy green...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Iraq rape soldier to plead guilty
A US soldier will plead guilty in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in the town of Mahmudiya...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
New US rules on terror detainees
The US defence department drafts a new manual for trying detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Charles flies into hypocrisy row
The Prince of Wales is accused of hypocrisy for flying to the US to pick up an environmental award...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Rows 'not racist', say housemates
Celebrity Big Brother housemates Shilpa Shetty and Jade Goody both deny their rows have been racist...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Nine dead as UK struck by storms
At least nine people are now known to have died as storms wreak havoc across large parts of the UK...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
German Leader Vows to Revive Constitution for Europe
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wanted to save the European Union?s faltering constitution and revive stalled global trade talks...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Memo From London: Some TV Contestants Feel More Equal Than Others
A Bollywood movie star?s treatment on a so-called reality show has provoked complaints that she is the victim of racist bullying...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
American Woman Was Killed After Visit to Sunni Office
The woman was ambushed minutes after leaving the headquarters of a prominent Sunni political party, where she had been teaching a class on democracy...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Brown seeks to calm TV show row
Gordon Brown meets India's prime minister, as the Big Brother row dominates coverage of his visit...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Schools building project defended
The government defends its school building programme but says lessons must be learned...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Thousands without power in storms
Thousands of homes in mid and north Wales are without power as high wind and rain bring widespread disruption...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Seven dead as storms hit England
Gales and heavy rain batter much of England, leaving seven people dead and causing travel chaos...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Ex-church leader guilty of abuse
A former president of the Methodist Church pleads guilty to sexually abusing a schoolboy 40 years ago...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Misbah parents reach settlement
Runaway schoolgirl Misbah Rana is to stay in Pakistan after her divorced parents agree terms...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Huge storms sweep northern Europe
Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds claim at least 10 lives in northern Europe, with Britain and Germany worst hit...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Israel hands Abbas frozen funds
Israel transfers $100m of frozen tax funds to the Palestinian president, bypassing the Hamas-led government...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Nepal Maoists disband government
Nepal's Maoists say they have ended their system of parallel government set up in their 10-year insurgency...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
US harsh weather extends its grip
Snow hits California and storms threaten the south-eastern US, as weather-related deaths rise above 60...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Football: Chelsea back Mourinho
Jose Mourinho is happy to see out his contract as Chelsea boss - so long as he receives "real support" from the club...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
'Best chance' for Somalia peace
The UN envoy to Somalia urges the country not to waste "the best opportunity for peace for 16 years"...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
'Bomb plotter' studied chemistry
One of the alleged 21 July bombers would have had chemistry classes while at college, a court hears...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Foster mother has baby with 'son'
A woman who fostered a Kosovan when he was an asylum seeker has his baby and plans to marry him...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Workers die in Dubai tower fire
At least two workers are killed and dozens injured in a fire at a high-rise block under construction in Dubai...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Iran condemns US 'kidnap' in Iraq
Iran accuses the US of kidnapping five of its citizens alleged by the Americans to be fuelling Iraqi violence...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Blair criticised over Saudi probe
The OECD has "serious concerns" about Tony Blair's decision to drop a fraud probe into a Saudi arms deal...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Abu Hamza must pay £1m for trial
Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been made liable for £1m for his defence at a trial...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Big Brother sponsor suspends deal
Carphone Warehouse suspends sponsorship of Celebrity Big Brother after racism allegations...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Jowell reveals 3% TV licence rise
The BBC TV licence fee will rise by £20 over the next five years in a deal that the BBC has called "disappointing"...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Seven dead as UK struck by storms
Seven people die and road, rail and air services are severely affected as storms batter parts of the UK...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Shiite Fighters Are Arrested, Iraq Says
Several dozen arrests mark the first time the Shiite government had claimed significant action against the Mahdi Army militia...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Americans embrace politics online
Increasingly Americans are turning to the net for news about key political events, a study shows...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Hammond crash pictures released
BBC magazine reveals pictures of the high-speed crash involving Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Election watchdog 'lacks courage'
The Electoral Commission is strongly criticised by a sleaze watchdog in the wake of "cash for peerages" claims...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Severe storms bring travel chaos
Storms and gales gusting up to 80mph are causing widespread disruption and damage across Wales...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Misbah parents 'reach settlement'
Runaway schoolgirl Misbah Rana is to stay in Pakistan after her divorced parents agree terms, says her father...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Burglars lock women in bathroom
Three women are tied up and locked in a bathroom by a gang who rob their County Down home...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Storms cause chaos across England
Gales and downpours batter much of England, leaving one man dead and causing travel chaos...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Washington 'snubbed Iran offer'
Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a former top official tells the BBC...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Gazprom export sales rise by 43%
Russia's controversial state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom sees its annual export revenues soar 43%...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Uganda's mystic rebel leader dies
The woman who began the insurgency in northern Uganda, Alice Lakwena, 50, dies in exile in Kenya...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Fury at Australia cleric comments
Australia's government condemns a Muslim cleric's comments about jihad and Jewish people...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
New £625m deal for Premiership
The Premiership winners will net an extra £50m from next season thanks to a new £625m overseas TV contract...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Football: Jibes anger Shevchenko
Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko is furious at reports he has become an unsettling influence at Stamford Bridge...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Tennis: Murray through
Andy Murray beats Spain's Fernando Verdasco in the second round of the Australian Open...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Vegetative state drug review call
The husband of a woman in a persistent vegetative state who was given an experimental treatment has said she would not have wanted the drug...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Harvey Nichols death 'unlawful'
The murder of a Harvey Nichols beauty assistant "could not have been reasonably foreseen", a coroner rules...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Rescue as ship sinks off Lizard
A rescue operation begins as a British container ship sinks 40 miles south of the Lizard in Cornwall...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Storms hit rush hour travel
Gales and heavy downpours have started to batter many parts of the UK, affecting rush hour travel...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Shetty fears Big Brother 'racism'
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty speaks of her fears that she is the victim of racism...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Iraqi PM seeks US weapons boost
Iraq's need for US troops could fall dramatically if Washington supplies more weapons, Iraq's PM says...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Gates Backs Generals? Afghan Distress Call
The defense secretary said that commanders in Afghanistan had asked for more troops and that he was sympathetic to the request...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
North Korea and U.S. Envoys Meet in Berlin
The United States was seeking to revive stalled negotiations to end North Korea?s nuclear weapons program...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Iraqi Factories, Aging and Shut, Now Give Hope
Surviving factories could present a last chance of sorts for dealing with Iraq?s reconstruction and its insurgency...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Measure in Senate Urges No Troop Rise in Iraq
The symbolic measure declares that the administration?s plan to send additional troops to Iraq runs counter to the national interest...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
After Iraq Trip, Clinton Proposes War Limits
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called President Bush?s plan to send more troops to Iraq ?a losing strategy.?...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Shiite Fighters Arrested in Crackdown, Iraq Says
Iraqi officials arrested several dozen senior members of the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia led by the cleric Moktada al-Sadr...
New York Times - January 18, 2007
Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virus
Scientists who rebuilt "Spanish flu" in the laboratory have witnessed its remarkable killing power first hand...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Non-teachers 'could lead schools'
Business and community leaders could head schools, a report for the government suggests...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Nepal rebel powers to be halted
Nepal's Maoists are set to dissolve their parallel government in rural parts of the country, says their leader...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Downsizing survivors 'depressed'
Workers who keep their jobs after cuts are almost as likely to suffer stress as those who lose jobs, research says...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Tensions mount in Bolivian region
Bolivia's central government refuses to accept a parallel government set up by protesters in Cochabamba...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Foreign workers freed in Nigeria
Five Chinese workers and an Italian kidnapped in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region are freed...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Body found in Australia bush fire
The ongoing bush fires in southern Australia kill one person, and continue to threaten homes...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
French PM honours Harold Pinter
The French PM presents British playwright Harold Pinter with one of France's top awards, the Legion D'Honneur...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Water firms lift hosepipe ban
More than 13 million customers will be able to use hosepipes again as water companies lift their bans...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Shetty speaks of Brother 'racism'
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty speaks of her fears that she is the victim of racism...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
BBC licence fee 'to rise by 3%'
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is expected to announce a 3% rise in the TV licence fee, the BBC learns...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
Defra ups carbon offset standards
The government is proposing standards for carbon offsetting schemes, in a bid to bring clarity to the industry...
BBC News - January 18, 2007
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