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Global News Archive for November 2005:
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Sergeant May Face Court-Martial in Deaths of 2 G.I.'s in Iraq
An inquiry has recommended that a staff sergeant face court-martial in the deaths of two U.S. soldiers last spring in Tikrit...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Israeli Airstrike Kills 2 Palestinians
An Israeli airstrike near Gaza City today killed two wanted Palestinians, including one that Israel had singled out as a top priority...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
4 Prisoners Die as Kyrgyz Troops Quell Jail Disorders
The violence highlighted anew the challenges faced by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who came to power this year after the ouster of an exhausted post-Soviet government...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Tory contest set to get under way
The contenders for the Scottish Conservative Party leadership are expected to declare on Wednesday...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Women warned over state pension
More than two million women are failing to build up entitlement to the basic state pension the Department for Work and Pensions warns...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Blair makes climate summit call
Technology will provide at least part of the solution to global warming, says Tony Blair as 20 nations hold talks...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Cancer patients 'can be fathers'
Most men treated for testicular cancer will be able to father children, researchers say...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
'Hasty' school policy criticised
An expert review of 14 to 19 learning in England criticises "piecemeal" government policies...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Rumsfeld defends UN visit curbs
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he will not allow UN monitors free access to Guantanamo Bay prisoners...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Iraqi militants 'to try' hostages
A statement apparently from al-Qaeda in Iraq says two kidnapped Moroccans are to be tried in an Islamic court...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Anti-terror laws face new hurdle
Planned new anti-terror laws face their first real test in the Commons as MPs begin detailed scrutiny...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Chelsea suffer loss
Real Betis throw their Champions League group wide open by beating Chelsea...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Football: Wenger hits out
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho re-opens his war of words with Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
DNA businessman defends Blunkett
The businessman who advised David Blunkett to join a biotech firm says there should be no furore over the affair...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Royal couple visit Ground Zero
Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall begin their US tour by paying their respects at Ground Zero...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Two Koreas to Compete as Single Nation at Olympics
The deal followed years of talks that had often been disrupted by political tension over the North's nuclear weapons development...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Rule by Law | Commercial Hardball: Dispute Leaves U.S. Executive in Chinese Legal Netherworld
China's legal system has progressed slowly in backing foreign investors and ordinary citizens against the state...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Another U.S. Death in Iraq Ends a Lethal Month
Ninety-three Americans were killed in October, making it the fourth deadliest month for troops in Iraq since the war began...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Terror Blasts Cast a Pall Over Hindu Festival in India
Many residents stayed away from markets and public places across New Delhi in the wake of the weekend terror bombings...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Hospital booking 'a year behind'
Government's plan to introduce an electronic booking system across the NHS in England is a year behind schedule...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Adults tackle learning 'gremlins'
More than a million adults have learned basic English and maths skills since 2001, the government says...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Two new moons found around Pluto
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted two possible new moons around Pluto, the ninth planet in the Solar System...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Google restarts online books plan
Google resumes its controversial digital library project, saying it will focus on books in the public domain...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Greysteel killer to serve terms
Greysteel murderer Stephen Irwin is to serve out the eight life sentences he received for the 1993 atrocity...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Police release banker death tapes
Recordings of a wife's plea for help for her dying husband and an interview with his grieving son are released...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
'Ruthless' rapist jailed for life
A man with a history of sexual violence and deemed to be a serious public risk is given life for two "carefully planned" attacks in north Wales...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Firms 'must pay up' for pensions
UK firms may have to pay an extra £130bn into final salary pension schemes over the next 10 years, the watchdog warns...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Koreas 'to unify Olympics teams'
North and South Korea agree to compete as a single team in the 2008 Olympics, a South Korean official says...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Bavarian leader quits government
A top German conservative, CSU leader Edmund Stoiber, confirms he is pulling out of the new left-right cabinet...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
UN probe 'can quiz key Syrians'
Syria says a UN team investigating Rafik Hariri's death can question two relatives of President Assad...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Archers star Wimbush dies at 81
Actress Mary Wimbush, the voice of Julia Pargetter-Carmichael on The Archers, dies aged 81...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Jail for eBay phishing fraudster
The leader of an internet identity fraud gang, a practice known as phishing, is jailed for four years...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Angry Wenger hits out at Mourinho
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says Jose Mourinho's comments about him are "out of order and disrespectful"...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Tennis: Rusedski dream ends
Greg Rusedski's hopes of ending 2005 as British number one end suffer with defeat to Nikolay Davydenko...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Zanzibar president wins elections
Zanzibar's President Amani Karume is re-elected after Sunday's poll, the election commission announces...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Gold Cup legend Best Mate dies
Triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate collapses and dies on his return to action at Exeter...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Billie-Jo died 'almost instantly'
Billie-Jo Jenkins was struck five times with an iron bar, dying at the hands of her foster father, a prosecutor tells a court...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
US quake helicopter 'fired upon'
The US military says it believes a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an aid helicopter in Kashmir...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
OFT faces supermarket challenge
The Office of Fair Trading faces a court challenge of its decision not to refer supermarkets to competition watchdogs...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Tributes paid to bombing victims
Survivors of the 7 July London attacks join relatives of the 52 victims to light candles in a service of remembrance...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
I am not resigning, says Blunkett
David Blunkett says he will not quit the Cabinet, as it emerges he failed to consult a watchdog over a third job...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Volunteer call for the tech-savvy
An international development charity is looking for computer-literate teachers to volunteer their skills...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Peers slate government BBC plans
The BBC will stay vulnerable to political pressure despite government plans for its future, according to peers...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
LSE takeover conditions set out
Euronext and Deutsche Boerse are given the go-ahead to bid for the London Stock Exchange - but only if certain conditions are met...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Male mouse sings a song of love
Male mice serenade potential mates with ultrasonic love songs, scientific research from the US has revealed...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Man charged with mother's murder
A 35-year-old man appears in a Belfast court charged with the murder of his mother in the north of the city...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Family's call for E.coli lessons
The mother of a five-year-old boy killed in the south Wales E.coli outbreak says lessons must be learnt from his death...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Subdued Diwali in bomb-hit Delhi
Hindus in India mark their main festival amid fear and tight security in Delhi, after bombs killed 62 people...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Hospital faces patient death case
A hospital is to face criminal proceedings over the death of a patient after two doctors were convicted of manslaughter...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Violent Paris youths defy police
A Paris suburb sees another night of sporadic street violence as copycat incidents are reported elsewhere...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Kyrgyz prisons hit by violence
Unrest breaks out in several Kyrgyz jails after officials reportedly tried to move a high-profile inmate...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Democrats to fight US court pick
Democrats gear up to fight the nomination of Samuel Alito for the US Supreme Court, welcomed by Republicans...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Cricket: England struggle again
England have a nightmare second day with the bat as they plunge to 39-6 in their second innings in Rawalpindi...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Ethiopian police shoot protesters
Riot police in Ethiopia's capital shoot dead five people and wound at least 13 others in election protests...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Zimbabwe admits 'errors' on land
A Zimbabwe minister says many of those given land since 2000 know little about farming and this has led to food shortages...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
BAA shake-up to cost 700 jobs
Airport operator BAA says it is to shed 700 jobs as part of a cost-cutting drive to save £45m a year...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
DNA 'match' to Falconio suspect
Blood on Joanne Lees' T-shirt was an "exact" DNA match to murder suspect Bradley Murdoch, a court hears...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Murder police release 999 tape
Police release a recording of a wife's desperate plea for help in a 999 call following her husband's murder last year...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
'Hammer blow' to drug traffickers
A cocaine seizure by the Royal Navy off the Nicaraguan coast has dealt a "sledgehammer blow" to traffickers, the defence secretary says...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
UN investigator returns to Beirut
Investigators fly to Lebanon a day after the UN demands Syrian co-operation with its Hariri inquiry...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Royal visit starts at Ground Zero
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are set to begin their trip to the US with a visit Ground Zero...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
No 10: Blunkett should keep job
Downing Street says David Blunkett has made a mistake, but not one that should stop him doing his Cabinet job...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Malawi Is Burning, and Deforestation Erodes Economy
Loggers in Malawi have illegally laid waste to half the nation, but for many it is the only way to make a living...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Cuba Accused of Illegal Campaign Gifts in Brazil
A Brazilian newsmagazine has reported that the country's president received up to $3 million in illegal campaign contributions from Cuba...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
7 More U.S. Deaths in Iraq End a Lethal Month
Deaths announced on Monday brought the number of Americans killed in October to 92, the highest monthly toll since January...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
U.N. Tells Syria to Stop Impeding Slaying Inquiry
The Security Council warned Syria of "further action" if it failed to comply with an investigation of the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
German Socialist to Quit; Coalition in Doubt
The leader of one of Germany's two main parties said he would step down after losing an internal power struggle...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Winter's Cold and Disease Are Raising Quake's Toll
Doctors say that in the wake of Pakistan's earthquake, hundreds of injured victims in remote areas are still in need of treatment...
New York Times - November 1, 2005
Patients 'miss out' on clot care
The majority of NHS patients at risk of blood clots do not get preventative treatments, a study suggests...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Colleges lobby over course funds
College students and staff are to present a petition to Downing Street in a call to protect funding for adult education...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Tories embark on leadership hunt
Senior Scottish Conservatives are to hold talks on Tuesday to discuss a timetable for the election of a new leader...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Hu to address Vietnam assembly
Chinese President Hu Jintao will address parliament, on the second day of his visit to neighbouring Vietnam...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Syria denies hindering UN inquiry
Syria again hits back at claims it is not co-operating with the UN probe into the death of ex-Lebanon PM Rafik Hariri...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
'Faster' way to make bird flu jab
Scientists believe they have found a more efficient way to make a vaccine that would save lives if an outbreak of bird flu hits as predicted...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Racing: Diva wins Melbourne Cup
Makybe Diva makes horse-racing history as she wins the Melbourne Cup for a third consecutive time...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
US soldier faces 'murder' hearing
A US soldier charged with killing two colleagues in Iraq has a pre-trial hearing to decide if he should stand trial...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Warning over disease cost burden
Taxpayers should not meet the cost of disease outbreaks, like foot-and-mouth, according to a House of Commons report...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Talks to open on climate change
Energy and environment ministers meet in London for a new round of post-G8 summit climate discussions...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Memorial service for bomb victims
The Queen will lead a national memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral dedicated to victims of the 7 July bombings...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
Iraq attacks 'stunt rebuilding'
The US is making progress in rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure, but its efforts are hampered by violence, a report says...
BBC News - November 1, 2005
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