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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 May 2008:
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Venezuela Denounces U.S. After an Airspace Violation
Authorities said an S-3B Viking aircraft piloted by United States Navy personnel was detected over La Orchila, a Caribbean island with a Venezuelan military base...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Google mulls Microsoft response
Google says it is considering its response to Microsoft's fresh attempts at doing a deal with Yahoo...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Food price rises 'to hit UK hard'
The UK is "more exposed" to food price rises than its peers, adding to recessionary fears, a report suggests...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Go-ahead for Iceland's whale hunt
Iceland's minke whale hunt is set to begin, with environmental groups warning of damage to the country's reputation...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Cuba accuses US envoy over funds
Cuba accuses the top US diplomat in Havana of passing on funds from an exile Cuban group to a leading dissident...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Egypt discusses Hamas with Israel
The Egyptian president meets Israel's defence minister amid Egyptian efforts to broker a truce in Gaza with Hamas...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Reliance in major Hollywood deal
Indian's Reliance Big Entertainment group says it has signed deals with eight Hollywood production houses...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Celtic legend to be laid to rest
The funeral of Celtic legend Tommy Burns will take place in the east end of Glasgow - five days after he died from cancer...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Officer car bomb scene revisited
Police revisit the scene of a booby-trap car explosion in which a police officer was seriously injured...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Soros warning
Billionaire investor tells BBC global boom may be over...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Corpse exhumed in search for DNA
The headless body of a woman is exhumed 33 years after her death as police try to use DNA to find her killer...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Rangers win sends title race to wire
Rangers beat St Mirren 3-0 to draw level with Celtic going into Thursday's SPL finale...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Moscow pitch causes final concern
Chelsea and Man Utd will train at the Luzhniki Stadium on Tuesday on a pitch the groundsman calls "disappointing"...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Fuel prices 'keep cars off road'
Current petrol and diesel prices are keeping some drivers off the road, a survey suggests...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
A rush of funds to the head - pop band Coldplay buy school a piano
Coldplay buys a £3,000 piano for a primary school that lost its instruments during the 2007 floods...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
MPs 'give up secret expenses bid'
MPs finally abandon their legal battle to ensure details of their expense claims are not made public...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
'Nazi guard' loses last US appeal
A man accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp in World War II loses his final appeal to stay in the US...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
European strikes hit travellers
Travellers heading for Europe face disruption from two separate strikes by workers in Belgium and France...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
MPs back hybrid embyro research
The government survives two big challenges to plans to update the law on embryo research for the first time since 1990...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Warning panics China quake zone
Tens of thousands of people in China's quake-hit Sichuan province flee their homes after an aftershock warning...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Evans pays record £5m for Ferrari
BBC DJ Chris Evans pays more than £5m for a Ferrari - making it the most expensive car ever sold at auction...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Armed Forces Day recommended
An armed forces public holiday is recommended by a study on improving public recognition of the military...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Emergency measles steps ordered
Children in London are given two MMR jabs in quick succession to halt a measles outbreak...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
MPs criticise testing 'shambles'
Questions have been raised in the Commons about problems with this year's school tests in England...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Laser heats up the fusion future
The world's most powerful laser is used to heat matter to 10 million Celsius - hotter than the surface of the Sun...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Malaysia's Mahathir quits party
Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir Mohamad resigns from the ruling party in protest at its poor election result...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Neapolitans torch rubbish piles
Naples firefighters battle blazes overnight as Italy's prime minister prepares to address the city's lingering rubbish crisis...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Gretna lay off remaining 40 staff
Gretna have made their entire staff redundant as they continue to negotiate with a potential buyer...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Pupil death conviction quashed
A headteacher who was found guilty of health and safety breaches over a pupil's death has his conviction overturned...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Killer will appeal life sentence
A County Tyrone man jailed for murdering a retired librarian in 2003 is to appeal his life sentence...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
US 'violated Venezuelan airspace'
Venezuela denounces what it says was a violation of its airspace by a US military aircraft at the weekend...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Boys to men
Do you have to go away to war to become a hero?...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Getting nasty
How foreign policy is impacting on US presidential race...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Off the bloc
Boffins analyse voting patterns in Eurovision contest...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Brother jailed for blaze killings
A teenager who killed his two sisters when he set fire to the family's Tyneside home is jailed...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Chelsea & Man Utd head to Moscow
Chelsea and Manchester United players and officials leave for Moscow ahead of Wednesday's Champions League final...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Poisoning case
Are UK prosecutors any closer to a trial one year on?...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Wave of violence
Migrants to South Africa tell of beatings and fear...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
In pictures
Gardeners flock to the annual Chelsea Flower Show...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Cameron 'will seek to reduce tax'
David Cameron says a Conservative government would be committed to "long-term tax reduction"...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Duchess defends her "fit and healthy" daughter Beatrice
Sarah Ferguson accuses parts of the media of making "outrageous" claims that her teenage daughter is overweight...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Rare pygmy hogs head for the Indian wild
Pygmy hogs, the world's smallest and rarest species of wild pig, are being released in the wild in Assam, reports the BBC's Subir Bhaumik...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Oram defies England to claim draw
Jacob Oram hits a resilient 101 as New Zealand frustrate England to secure a draw in the first Test at Lord's...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
UK soldier dies in Afghan blast
A British soldier has died in an explosion in Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
China honours earthquake victims
China begins three days of mourning for earthquake victims, with a three-minute silence and half-mast flags...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Labour's 'toff' campaign defended
Labour's candidate in Crewe and Nantwich defends her campaign's focus on her Tory rival's background...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
MPs debating hybrid embryo laws
Allowing scientists to carry out research using hybrid human-animal embryos "is a step too far", MPs are told...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Burma to mourn cyclone's victims
Burma declares three days of mourning for victims of Cyclone Nargis - 17 days after the deadly storm struck...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Heroin family death pair jailed
The mother and half-sister of a teenager who died of a heroin overdose are jailed for her manslaughter...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Facebook set for major facelift
Social networking site Facebook is getting its first major makeover since the site was launched in 2004...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Forum seeks to ban cluster bombs
Diplomats from around the world are gathering in Dublin to secure a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Taxpayer pain too much - Cameron
David Cameron warns that taxpayers "can't take any more pain" and calls for an end to "reckless" spending...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Killer will appeal life sentence
A County Tyrone man jailed for murdering a retired librarian in 2003 is to appeal his life sentence...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
'Snipers primed' in Zimbabwe plot
Zimbabwe's opposition alleges the military is plotting to assassinate its presidential candidate using snipers...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Qatar pushes Lebanese unity plan
The Qatari hosts of Lebanon crisis talks await a response from rival factions to a unity cabinet proposal...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Lords review police appeal cases
Two landmark rulings accusing the police of failing the victims of crime are reviewed by the Law Lords...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Murder arrest after man, 88, dies
Police are questioning a man about the suspected murder of an 88-year-old man in Gwynedd...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
In pictures
Anti-immigrant riots create fear in Johannesburg...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Benefit fraud linesman sentenced
An ex-mayor, secretly filmed as a football linesman while claiming mobility allowances, is given a suspended jail term...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Live - England v New Zealand
James Anderson and Ryan Sidebottom strike early on day five of the Lord's Test against New Zealand...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Cipriani ruled out for six months
Wasps confirm Danny Cipriani has suffered a fracture dislocation of his right ankle...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Backing for Armed Forces Day plan
An Armed Forces public holiday is recommend by a government-backed study on improving public recognition of the military...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Thousands flee S Africa attacks
Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, aid workers say...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Inspectors push 'stalled' schools
School standards are "stalled" says Ofsted, as a more tailored inspection system is announced...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
YouTube epilepsy videos condemned
Epilepsy campaigners have criticised the posting of footage on the YouTube website of people having seizures...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Burma 'to take more foreign aid'
Cyclone-hit Burma has agreed to accept increased assistance from Asean nations, the regional grouping says...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Pirates Seize Jordanian Ship Carrying Aid to Somalia
The hijack was the latest in a string of attacks off Somalia?s lawless coast, where piracy is rampant...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
In a Running Family, Someone Had to Be First
Bernard Lagat has established himself as a favorite for the 2008 Summer Games. But his Olympic dreams got a push from his sister...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills 11 Near a Pakistani Army Base
The blast came just days before the government was expected to complete a peace deal with Taliban militants...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Colombia Denies Its Forces Entered Venezuela Illegally
The differing accounts of Colombian troop activity in an area known to be a redoubt for Colombian guerrilla groups are part of a dispute that has been festering for months...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Islamists Win 24 of 50 Seats in Parliament of Kuwait
The Islamists gained two seats over the last round of elections two years ago, but it is not clear how their greater share of power will affect the Kuwaiti Parliament...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Afghan Bombing Kills 4 Civilians
A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a police convoy in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing four civilians and wounding eight other people...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Hopes Fading in Search for Quake Survivors in China
As the search for survivors was scaled back in many areas, officials announced a three-day mourning period during which the Olympic torch relay will be halted...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Memo From Seoul: Courtroom Drama to Test Korean Adultery Law
An extra-marital affair in the marriage of two television stars turned into a legal challenge over the constitutionality of South Korea?s law that makes adultery illegal...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Al Jazeera English Tries to Extend Its Reach
The English-language offshoot of the Arabic news network is pushing to become available to American viewers...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Bangladeshi religious leader held
The leader of Bangladesh's largest religious party is detained in the government's anti-corruption drive...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Fuel cost concerns on EU agenda
Scottish ministers demand talks to address high fuel costs hitting fishing boats...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Consent guidance for doctors
The General Medical Council is calling for a fresh approach in the way doctors seek patient consent for treatment...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Top Farc commander surrenders
A senior Farc rebel commander known as "Karina" hands herself over to Colombia's authorities...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Gunman kills eight in Philippines
A man shoots dead eight people, including five children, in a gun rampage near the Philippines capital, Manila...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Drinking diaries
Doctor's verdict on the weekly intake of two drinkers...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Seeking relief
China's earthquake survivors try to deal with aftermath...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Hope 'runs out' for missing diver
Rescue teams have given up "any real hope" of finding alive a diver missing off the Northumberland coast...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Trump plans 'could avoid dunes'
Environmental charities put forward alternative plans for a proposed £1bn golf resort in the north east of Scotland...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Drop the bomb
Why UK is resisting calls for outright cluster bombs ban...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Crop threat
The UN warns help is needed to save Burma rice harvest...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
In pictures
Stars come out as Indiana Jones film debuts in Cannes...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
PMQs enter digital age with online version for the public
Gordon Brown seeks to embrace the digital age by launching a website-based version of prime minister's questions...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Burma neighbours in cyclone talks
South East Asian countries hold urgent talks on how to get aid to the victims of the devastating cyclone in Burma...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Anger over climate change loans
The government is accused of making stealth cuts to a fund set up to help poorer nations deal with climate change...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Backing for school cadet proposal
Ministers are to back plans for more school cadets and an Armed Forces Day to boost support for UK troops...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Elderly couple found dead at home
Police investigate the "unexplained" deaths of an elderly couple at their home in East Sussex...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
MPs to vote on hybrid embryo laws
MPs prepare to vote on the use of hybrid embryos and abortion time limits, as part of a planned shake-up of embryology laws...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
China mourns earthquake victims
China begins three days of mourning for earthquake victims, with a three-minute silence to be observed...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Drinkers 'ignorant' about alcohol
A careful drinking campaign is launched, as a study suggests many people are ignorant about recommended alcohol limits...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
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