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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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Two Stolen Paintings Found by Swiss
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- A frantic search for four stolen Impressionist paintings led to a most unlikely place: the parking lot of a mental hospital just a few hundred yards from the scene of the crime...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Sentence Reduced in Oil-for-Food Case
A U.S. District Court judge has reduced the sentence of a South Korean businessman who accepted more than $2.5 million to secretly work on Iraq?s behalf to influence the U.N. oil-for-food program...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Abbas and Olmert Struggle to Move Talks Forward
he Israeli and Palestinian leaders met here on Tuesday amid growing dissonance over the content of their talks and the kind of agreement they are trying to achieve...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Angry Serbs Burn Border Posts in Kosovo
Serbs set fire to two U. N. posts in the north of Kosovo, forcing NATO troops to intervene and fanning fears that Kosovo?s declaration of independence could lead to partition...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
In Rwanda, Bush Mourns 2 Conflicts
President Bush toured a museum dedicated to those killed in the Rwandan genocide on Tuesday, and also spoke about the frustrations of grappling with the situation in Darfur...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Musharraf?s Party Accepts Defeat
Pakistan appeared to be heading for a transition to an elected civilian government after President Pervez Musharraf said that he accepted his defeat...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
On Havana?s Streets, Few Expect Much Change
What emotion Fidel Castro?s announcement elicited was on the sly, under the eye of a heavy police presence...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Castro?s Circle Likely to Hold Power After Resignation
The announcement that Fidel Castro would step down opens the way for his brother Raúl or another member of his inner circle to become president...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Whitehall 'lacks finance chiefs'
More financial expertise is needed at the top of government departments, the National Audit Office says...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
House price 'threat' to economy
A downward spiral of falling house prices and reduced lending threatens the economy, an economist warns...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Corus fined over worker's death
Steelmaker Corus is ordered to pay nearly £300,000 after the death of one of its workers at its Trostre plant...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Killer flees from security guards
A convicted murderer escapes from the custody of escort guards while being treated at hospital...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Alcohol treatment for 10-year-old
A 10-year-old was treated last year for alcohol-related illness at a Northern Ireland hospital, it has emerged...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Gaza boy 'killed in Israeli raid'
A 10-year-old boy is shot dead by Israeli troops during a raid into central Gaza, Palestinian medics say...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Football: Chelsea draw in Greece
Chelsea draw with Olympiakos after an unconvincing display in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Late Liverpool goals sink Inter
Late Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard goals earn Liverpool victory over Inter Milan and ease the pressure on manager Rafael Benitez...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Sheridan's wife on perjury charge
The wife of former MSP Tommy Sheridan is charged in connection with claims of perjury...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Nato troops close Kosovo border
Nato troops seal Kosovo's northern borders after Serb protestors torch police posts at crossing points...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Criminals' details 'not checked'
Fifteen serious criminals whose details were misplaced for a year by the CPS are sought by police...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
MPs back Northern Rock plans
MPs take the first step towards nationalising Northern Rock, backing plans for "temporary public ownership"...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Parents attack suicides coverage
The parents of a boy who apparently killed himself fear media coverage could prompt others to copy him...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Japanese Destroyer Strikes Fishing Boat
A Japanese Aegis destroyer ran into a two-man fishing boat on Tuesday in waters near Tokyo, apparently slicing the smaller craft in two, Japan?s Self-Defense Forces said...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Chinese Envoy to Revisit Darfur
HONG KONG ? Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China told Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain on Tuesday that China?s special envoy for the Darfur region, Liu Guijin, would make his fourth visit to Sudan on Sunday, China?s Foreign Ministry said...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Bush Welcomes Castro?s Resignation
President Bush said Tuesday that the resignation of Fidel Castro ?ought to be a period of democratic transition? for Cuba...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
China Notes Pollution at Three Gorges Dam
China?s State Environmental Protection Administration said on Tuesday that water quality is barely improving in the main body of water behind the Three Gorges Dam...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba?s President
Fidel Castro stepped down as president after a long illness, according to the official publication of the Cuban Communist Party, ending one of the longest tenures as a head of state...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Musharraf?s Party Accepts Defeat
Pakistan appeared to be heading for a transition to an elected civilian government after President Pervez Musharraf said that he accepted his defeat...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Radio 1 DJ jailed on drug charge
BBC Radio 1 drum 'n' bass DJ Grooverider is jailed for four years in Dubai for possession of cannabis...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Computer software terms 'unfair'
Some of the world's biggest computer firms are accused of imposing unfair contracts on people buying software...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Pcs' 'squabble' over police van
A policeman denies wounding a colleague in a row over who was to drive a force van, a trial hears...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Drivers admit fatal crash charges
Three young drivers admit charges in connection with a crash in which three people died near Dumfries...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Man guilty of teenager's murder
A married man is found guilty of murdering his teenage lover after she started a romance with his older brother...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Assembly backs IRA murder motion
Assembly members vote to condemn the murder of Paul Quinn in the Irish Republic last October...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Stolen paintings found in Zurich
Works by van Gogh and Monet, taken in one of the world's largest art thefts, are found in an abandoned car...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Ugandans reach war crimes accord
Ugandan rebels agree to let courts deal with war crimes - one of the obstacles to a peace deal...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Rugby: Wigglesworth gets call
Sale scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth will make his first England start as one of three changes to the side to face France on Saturday...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Football: Sports claim bet cash
Sporting bodies are to put their case to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee to share profits from betting...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Murder accused's shame over sex
The man accused of killing a teenage model tells a court he is "disgusted" with himself for having sex with her corpse...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
'Hacker' launches iTunes copying
A firm run by a notorious Norwegian hacker offers software to make sharing music and films easier...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Aid workers flee Darfur bombing
UN refugee staff pull out of eastern Chad after bombing across the Sudan border in Darfur...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Gail Sheridan quizzed by police
The wife of former MSP Tommy Sheridan arrives at a police station in Edinburgh for questioning...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Rock plan debated by MPs
The bill to nationalise Northern Rock is being debated by MPs - as it emerges the bank's new boss is a non-dom...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Kosovo Serbs burn border points
Kosovo Serbs set two border crossings ablaze to protest against Kosovo's independence declaration...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Another body found in Bridgend
A teenage girl's body is found in the same South Wales area where several young people killed themselves...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Bhutto party in coalition offer
The party of Pakistan's late former PM Benazir Bhutto offers to partner a key rival in a governing coalition...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
US urges reform as Castro quits
Washington says Cuba should move to democracy after Fidel Castro says he is retiring, but its embargo stands...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Bomb in Southern Afghanistan Kills 1
A car bomb exploded near a police compound Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing at least one person and wounding four, a police official said...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
China?s Inflation Rose to 7.1% in January
It was the largest increase in consumer prices in more than a decade. Officials said the country would likely continue austerity policies to combat inflation...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Rice, in Nairobi, Offers Incentives to End Violence
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that the leaders of Kenya?s rival political factions must move faster to accept a power-sharing deal...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Bush Says Darfur Crisis Needs to End
President Bush called Tuesday on all nations to step up efforts to end ?once and for all? the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan?s western Darfur region...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba?s President
After a long illness, Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday, ending one of the longest tenures as head of state in the world, according to Granma, the official publication of the Cuban Communist Party...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Net news 'threatens court cases'
Articles relating to high-profile court cases should be removed from the net, the former Lord Chancellor says...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Stars pay tribute to Ned Sherrin
Figures from radio, theatre and television attend a memorial service for the late broadcaster Ned Sherrin...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
UK's democracy call after Castro
Cuban leader Fidel Castro's retirement is an opportunity to move towards democracy, Downing Street says...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Sperm damage 'passed to children'
Sperm defects caused by exposure to environmental toxins can be passed down the generations, research suggests...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Credit Suisse traders suspended
Credit Suisse suspends traders suspected of inflating the value of mortgage-backed bond investments...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
NHS dentistry 'set back 20 years'
Dentists claim a new NHS contract means patients have more teeth removed rather than fixed, a BBC inquiry finds...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Campaign bid to protect children
Scottish ministers launch a national campaign aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Ministers 'must review conduct'
The assembly must review its ministerial code, the ex-parliamentary commissioner for standards says...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Homeless man 'lived in airport'
A homeless chef who made Gatwick Airport his home for more than three years is remanded in custody...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Mid-East leaders to review talks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to meet later for another session of peace negotiations in Jerusalem...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Maoists killed in India fighting
Authorities in the state of Chhattisgarh say 11 Maoists have been killed in fighting with security forces...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Russia warns US over Kosovo move
Russia tells the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence threatens international stability...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
US race moves to Wisconsin
Poll contests in Wisconsin, Hawaii and Washington state mark the next stage in the White House race...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Sudan warned over Darfur bombing
The UN humanitarian chief calls for restraint in Sudan's Darfur region after a refugee camp was bombed...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Porsche challenges C-charge rise
Carmaker Porsche plans to mount a legal challenge over plans to increase London's congestion charge to £25-a-day...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Driver in court on attack charges
A London black cab driver appears in court accused of sex attacks on drugged female passengers...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
Toshiba will stop making its HD DVDs, ending a battle with rival format Blu-ray over which would be the standard...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Speaker's air miles in spotlight
A complaint against Commons Speaker Michael Martin's use of air miles is being considered by MPs' standards watchdog...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Fidel Castro announces retirement
Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro says he will not return to the presidency, in a letter published in the official press...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Musharraf foes triumph at polls
The main party backing President Pervez Musharraf admits defeat in Pakistan's elections...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: More Indignation at Marines
Japan voiced anger after the weekend arrests of two United States marines in Okinawa and said it would complain to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visit next week. One marine was accused of driving drunk; the other, the police said, was found drunk in the middle of the night on the sofa of a family who did not know him. ?What?s the matter with the U.S. military?? Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda asked reporters. ?I have to demand seriously that they pin it down.?...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Trinidad Approves Extradition to U.S. in Bomb Plot
A judge in Trinidad and Tobago ruled that three men accused of plotting to bomb a fuel pipeline leading to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York should be extradited to face trial in the United States. The defendants have a week to appeal...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Suspected Crime Boss Arrested
The police arrested Pasquale Condello, said to be a top boss of the Ndrangheta, the crime group of Italy?s far south. He had been a fugitive since 1987...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Chief of World Churches Council Stepping Down
The World Council of Churches, the Geneva-based ecumenical affiliation of 349 Protestant and Orthodox denominations, began a search for a new chief after its current general secretary, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Kobia of Kenya, announced that he would not seek a second five-year term. The election will be in September 2009. Dr. Kobia, a Methodist whose doctorate was revealed last week to have been issued by a nonaccredited institution, said his decision was for private reasons. He will be the first council chief to serve just one term...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot
Parviz Khan, the Birmingham man who pleaded guilty last month to plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier, was sentenced to life in prison. Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment. The plot was uncovered by Britain?s security services. In secret recordings played in court, Mr. Khan was heard teaching his 5-year-old son to carry out a beheading. ?How do you cut them with a knife?? he said to the boy. ?Show me. Like this.? At another point, he asked the boy, ?Who do you love?? The boy replied, ?I love Sheik Osama bin Laden.? Mr. Khan then asked, ?Who do you kill?? The boy?s reply: ?America kill. Bush I kill, and Blair kill.?...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Vatican City: Stricter Criteria for Sainthood
New procedures outlined by the Vatican call for ?greater sobriety and rigor? by diocesan officials in deciding to begin the process of beatification, the main step toward canonization, and in determining the required miracles. Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, who heads the department in charge of the process, said more than 2,200 beatification and sainthood causes were pending and stressed the need for a ?true reputation for holiness? among candidates before the process leading toward beatification began, along with ?rigorous historical research.?...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
BBC Ends English Shortwave Service in Europe
The BBC World Service, which began its shortwave transmissions 75 years ago, ended its English-language shortwave services in Europe on Monday...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Strike by Ethnic Minorities Shuts Down Nepal?s Capital
On Monday a general strike called by ethnic minorities demanding more rights created a fuel shortage that caused schools to close and many buses to stop running in Katmandu...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Qatar Buying Credit Suisse Shares on Open Market
Qatar is buying shares in Credit Suisse and plans to spend as much as $15 billion on European and American bank stocks over the next year...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
British Iraq Dossier Surfaces, Without Crucial Weapons Claim
An early version of a British dossier of prewar intelligence on Iraq did not include a claim about unconventional weapons that became key to Prime Minister Tony Blair?s case for war...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Inspired by Buddha, Admired as Art
Shinjo Ito, a renowned Buddhist artist, will be showing 100 sculptures and engravings at Milk Gallery in Chelsea as he embarks on a world tour...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Germany Breaks With Its Clubby Business Past
From the Siemens bribery investigation to the prosecution of illicit conduct at Volkswagen, the German business world is undergoing a painful national cleansing process...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Brown Defends Takeover of Ailing British Lender
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his decision to nationalize the struggling lender Northern Rock but some shareholders are threatening legal action...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Obama Journal: Candidate Wins Support in the East. No, Farther East.
In Obama, Japan, population 32, 000, some residents are showing their support for the American presidential candidate who shares their town?s name...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
In Turkey, Is Tension About Religion? Class Rivalry? Or Both?
As Turkey lurches toward a repeal of a ban on head scarves at universities, the country?s secular upper middle class is feeling increasingly threatened...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Books of The Times: Unshakable Optimist of the House of Bhutto
If Benazir Bhutto?s own life reads like a Greek tragedy, she was nonetheless a very modern politician, and the book she has written is part manifesto, part spin job, part selective history and part term-paper analysis...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Fear Keeps East Timor Tent Camps Full
The United Nations is worried that refugee camps, which are home to an estimated 100,000 people in East Timor, are a growing source of security problems and aid dependency for the country...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Russia?s Claim Under Polar Ice Irks American
A Russian dive that was the basis of a claim to nearly half the Arctic seabed had American origins...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
Pakistanis Deal Severe Defeat to Musharraf in Election
Early results showed equal gains for Benazir Bhutto?s Pakistan Peoples Party, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the faction led by the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif...
New York Times - February 19, 2008
No agreement in McCartney divorce
Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills' week-long divorce hearing ends without a deal...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
NHS psoriasis care 'inconsistent'
Many NHS units lack specialist care and support for patients with the skin condition psoriasis, a study finds...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Deutsche Post appoints new boss
Frank Appel is appointed Deutsche Post chief executive after his predecessor resigned amid a tax evasion scandal...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Wildcat population to be surveyed
The numbers and distribution of Britain's last surviving native wildcat is to be assessed...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Armenia votes for new president
Armenians go to the polls to elect a new president, as a former leader tries to make a comeback...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Search after Japan navy collision
Ships and helicopters search for two fishermen missing after a collision with a Japanese destroyer...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Football: Benitez 'committed'
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez reiterates his commitment to the club amid further speculation about his future...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Managers working 'extra 40 days'
The average manager puts in an extra 40 days a year to cope with their workload, a survey suggests...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
'Mafia boss' arrested in Italy
Police in southern Italy have arrested the head of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia clan, officials say...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
China inflation hits 11-year high
Chinese consumer inflation reached 7.1% in January, the highest rate for 11 years, official figures show...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Bush hails Kosovo independence
President Bush welcomes Kosovo's independence as "correct", as Serbia withdraws its envoy to Washington...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Finance guidance for new mothers
All new mothers in the UK are to receive guidance about managing money from the financial watchdog...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Police feared 'airport stand-off'
An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped UK arrest because police feared an armed stand-off...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Musharraf party 'lagging in poll'
Opposition parties in Pakistan have taken big leads in the election, admits the party allied to President Musharraf...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
Rock bill going before Parliament
The bill to nationalise Northern Rock is to be debated in the Commons, with the Tories set to vote against it...
BBC News - February 19, 2008
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