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Big Issue Energy crisis hitting home
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Scientists Virginia sharks pup a virgin birth
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago 1 arrest
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Carter, peacemakers see Cyprus peace deal near
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2005:
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4 U.S. Troops Killed in Push Against Iraqi Rebels
The U.S. military has pressed a series of sweeps in the province of Anbar to disrupt insurgents in advance of Dec. 15 elections...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Death Toll at 11 as 3rd Bombing Targets Bangladesh Judiciary
The third suicide bombing in as many days signaled a new low in an already steep decline of law and order...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
French Court Overturns Pedophilia Convictions
An appeals court overturned the conviction of six people accused of participating in a pedophilia ring five years ago...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
South Africa's High Court Rules in Favor of Gay Marriage
The ruling made the nation one of just five worldwide that have removed legal barriers to gay and lesbian unions...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Millions plea for stem cell work
A leading UK stem cell expert calls on the government to invest at least £350m into research by 2016...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Primary school results revealed
The annual tables for England's primary schools show how well their pupils did in their Sats tests...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Floods force people out of homes
People living in the lower Ormeau area of Belfast spend the night out of their homes after they were flooded...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Drink crash driver spared jail
A mother condemns a sheriff for not jailing the drink driver who knocked down and seriously injured her son...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Credit cards to restrict lending
Credit cards companies are taking steps to refute the accusation that they lend irresponsibly...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Gunmen raid Ivory Coast barracks
Armed men attack army barracks in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan, and shots are heard elsewhere...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Australian executed in Singapore
Australian drug smuggler Nguyen Truong Van is hanged in Singapore, despite pleas for clemency...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Lennon reveals all in new tapes
John Lennon compares life in the band to ancient Rome, in an interview to be broadcast in the UK for the first time...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Six cleared over French child sex
A French appeals court acquits six people who had been wrongly convicted of child sex abuse in 2004...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
UK returns Metro bomb accused
An Algerian man, wanted in connection with the 1995 Paris Metro bombing, is extradited to France...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Iraq 'propaganda' concerns Bush
The White House expresses concern over reports that the US military is paying Iraqi papers to run positive stories...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
£55m fraudster gets 12 years jail
An international tax cheat who cost the Inland Revenue £55m is jailed for 12-and-a-half years...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Belgian woman bomber identified
Details emerge about the Belgian woman believed to have carried out a suicide attack in Iraq last month...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
UK prepared to reduce EU rebate
The government signals it may give up part of the UK's £4bn EU rebate to get a budget deal at a summit next month...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Conrad Black appears in US court
Press tycoon Conrad Black appears in a US court to deny charges that he defrauded his former media group...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Masai Nomads Meet Jet Set; Goats and Wives Abound
The Masai are Kenya's most traditional tribe. They are also the most romanticized...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
U.S. Military Continues Sweeps in Western Iraq
The military is trying to cut off munitions, supply lines and transit routes for foreign fighters flowing in from Syria...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
In 3rd Round of Egyptian Vote, Police Kill Political Activist
Riot police blocked voters from getting to the polls in parliamentary elections, according to independent poll watchers...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Bush Gives Plan for Iraq Victory and Withdrawal
Two and a half years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush laid out what he called a strategy for victory...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
A covert campaign is under way to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay Iraqi journalists monthly stipends...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
HIV subject of global lesson
Around 10m pupils worldwide are taking part in a lesson to raise awareness of children with HIV...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Study treads on footprint claim
Impressions in volcanic ash hailed as footprints made by the earliest known people in the Americas may not have been made by humans at all...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Sewage theory in water bug probe
Untreated sewage may have got into the water supply say experts investigating an illness outbreak in north Wales...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
ECB ignores fears to raise rates
The European Central Bank (ECB) ignores warnings about an economic slowdown and raises interest rates...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Japan POW payments under review
An "urgent review" is under way of criteria for compensating Britons interned by Japan during the Second World War...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Drug disorder schizophrenia link
Almost half of patients treated for a cannabis related mental disorder will develop a schizophrenic illness...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Mehlis slams 'Syrian propaganda'
The head of a UN inquiry into the killing of Rafik Hariri accuses Syria of using propaganda against him...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Indian PM: 'Talk about safe sex'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asks Indians to start talking openly about safe sex to check the spread of HIV...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Hidden feline takes the biscuit
Staff at a Cornish biscuit firm discover a cat living in the roof, surviving on a diet of stolen clotted cream biscuits...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Crews deal with floods aftermath
Emergency crews spend the day dealing with the damage caused by floods in the greater Belfast area...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Confusion in drug addict policy
Scottish Executive ministers do not know how many people are being given methadone...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Military justice reforms planned
A new bill to merge the armed forces' prosecution authorities is to be outlined by government...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
£620m deficit predicted for NHS
The NHS could be heading for a deficit of about £620m for 2005-06, according to government figures...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Sex trafficking gang sent to jail
Five men are jailed for their part in forcing young Lithuanian girls who had been trafficked to Britain to work as prostitutes...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Football: Pompey in for Harry
Former boss Harry Redknapp, Lawrie Sanchez, Brian Kerr and Alex McLeish are all on Portsmouth's managerial shortlist...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Cricket: Pakistan ease ahead
Mohammad Yousuf and Kamran Akmal score centuries as Pakistan take a lead of 158 over England in the third Test...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Nigeria summons 'rogue' governor
Nigeria's anti-corruption body moves against a governor in a special court, which can strip elected officials of immunity...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Blair ready to reduce EU rebate
Tony Blair is ready to give up part of the UK's £4bn EU rebate to secure a budget deal at a summit next month...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Cousins jailed for racist murder
Two men who murdered black teenager Anthony Walker are jailed, with minimum terms of over 17 and 23 years...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Violence mars Egyptian elections
Egyptian opposition activists and police clash at polling stations in the last round of key parliamentary elections...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Anti-war envoy in hostage plea
A British anti-war campaigner is going to Iraq to appeal directly for the release of hostage Norman Kember...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
David Jason collects knighthood
Actor David Jason collects his knighthood from the Queen in a Buckingham Palace ceremony...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Grand webcast to honour Einstein
Scientists and computing pioneers from around the world are hooking up for a 12-hour live webcast...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
'Twice as many men' pay for sex
The number of men paying women for sex has nearly doubled in a decade, research suggests...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
110 people ill with stomach bug
Public health officials say 110 people in north Wales have now been struck by a water-borne stomach bug...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Eurozone rates set for increase
The European Central Bank is expected to end more than two years of inactivity and raise interest rates...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
MPs want 'torture flights' answer
A new all-party group of MPs is to probe claims the CIA used UK airports to move suspects to secret prisons...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Deal reached on route for bypass
The Aberdeen bypass will not be routed through land used by a community for people with special needs...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Bachchan 'stable' after surgery
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is stable in hospital after abdominal surgery, his doctors say...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Police preparing 1972 bomb report
Police begin compiling a report on the 1972 Claudy bombing to be sent to the Public Prosecution Service...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Australian man prepares to hang
The family of an Australian facing the death penalty in Singapore visits him for probably the last time...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
EU sees Ukraine as market economy
The European Union grants Ukraine market economy status - seen as a key step to boost trade ties...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Insurgent offensive on Iraqi city
Iraqi insurgents attack US bases and government offices in Ramadi, and then disperse across the city...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Fans angry over Xbox 360 stocks
Gamers express frustration at the expected Xbox 360 shortage as the console gears up for its UK debut...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Football: Warnock stays at Blades
Sheffield United boss Neil Warnock decides to stay at Bramall Lane despite interest from Portsmouth...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
South Africa to have gay weddings
South Africa's highest court rules in favour of same-sex marriages, which are banned under current legislation...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Tense election finale for Egypt
Egyptians vote in the last round of parliamentary elections, after mass arrests of opposition activists...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Drugs arrest for singer Doherty
Pete Doherty, lead singer with Babyshambles, is arrested by police on suspicion of possessing class A drugs...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Doubt cast on Falconio CCTV film
An expert disputes claims that CCTV footage shows the man accused of killing UK backpacker Peter Falconio...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Blair aims to sell EU budget deal
UK PM Tony Blair is to hold talks with seven new EU members in a bid to reach a deal on the 2007-13 budget...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
News Analysis: Gaining Control in Iraq, and Regaining Support at Home
President Bush is committed to holding tough in Iraq, even if it means disregarding domestic political repercussions, aides say...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
The Media: U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
A covert campaign is underway to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay Iraqi journalists monthly stipends...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
British Panel Urges Retiring Later and Private Investment Accounts
The proposed changes played into the debate in rich countries, including the U.S., which have forecast a pension crisis as societies age and retirees live longer...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
French, in First, Use a Transplant to Repair a Face
The recipient of the transplant was a 38-year-old woman who had been severely disfigured in an attack by a dog...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Bill Clinton Finds Better Relief Coordination in Tsunami Area Tour
Former President Bill Clinton visited Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to survey the progress of the reconstruction effort...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Peres Hails Sharon's Leadership as He Supports New Party
Shimon Peres announced that after more than four decades of membership he was leaving the Labor Party and would back Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new centrist party...
New York Times - December 1, 2005
Egypt set for tense vote finale
Egyptians are to vote in the last round of parliamentary elections, after mass arrests of opposition activists...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
China mine blast death toll rises
At least 164 miners are now known to have died in a blast in a Chinese coal mine on Sunday, state media says...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Lula's scandal-hit ally impeached
The Brazilian president's former chief of staff is expelled from Congress over a corruption scandal...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Christmas drink-drivers targeted
The annual Christmas campaign against drink-driving is due to be launched by the government...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
No end in sight for Cole lay-off
Arsenal's Ashley Cole says he does not yet know when he will return from his foot injury...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Pair face life for racist murder
The cousins who murdered black student Anthony Walker using an ice axe face life terms in jail...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Worship closure plan criticised
Plans to allow courts to close places of worship suspected of inciting extremism are criticised by police...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Primary reading set for overhaul
The way children are taught to read in primary schools in England needs to be changed, says a government review...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
Blair attempts to broker EU deal
Prime Minister Tony Blair is holding talks with new EU members in a bid to reach a deal on the 2007-13 budget...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
CSA 'costs more than it recovers'
The controversial Child Support Agency is recovering less money than it costs, it has emerged...
BBC News - December 1, 2005
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