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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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Tainted Chinese Dumplings Sicken 175 in Japan
Japanese officials said the dumplings contained an agricultural pesticide used in China but not common in Japan...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Gunmen Who Attacked Israeli Embassy in Africa Sought
Investigators from were searching for men who opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the Mauritanian capital early Friday...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Kenya Peace Plan Reached, but Thievery Persists
Kenya?s countryside seems to be settling into a state of lawlessness that is more reminiscent of the checkpoint culture in Somalia or Darfur, Sudan...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Ledger's ex-fiancee 'heartbroken'
Michelle Williams, ex-partner of late actor Heath Ledger, asks to grieve in private, saying: "My heart is broken."...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Might snobbery put off learners?
Mike Baker wonders if the reaction to the "McDonald's A-level" might deter workplace learners...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Delays continue on HMRC website
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says users of its online service are still experiencing delays filing their tax self-assessment...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Russia gave asylum to Milosevics
Russia admits it gave refugee status to wife and son of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Spears' father takes over estate
An LA court hands troubled singer Britney Spears' father temporary control of her finances and affairs...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Poland 'agrees' to host US shield
Poland has agreed in principle to allow an American missile defence system on Polish territory...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Chadian Army Battles Rebels
The rebels are seeking to force the country?s president, Idriss Déby, to share power or step down...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Dozens Killed in Worst Baghdad Attack in Months
Twin suicide bombings struck two markets in mainly Shiite areas of central Baghdad on Friday...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
New cable cut compounds net woes
A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Jay-Z confirmed for Glastonbury
US rapper Jay-Z is to headline this year's Glastonbury Festival, organiser Michael Eavis confirms...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Abolish selection say academics
Grammar schools should be abolished to create an education system that is fairer to all, says a report...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
PM's boost for school sports
Prime minister Gordon Brown announces an initiative to encourage children to do more sport in school...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
'Not all' fast food unhealthy
Some convenience food can be as healthy as home cooked meals, say food experts...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
US sees job cuts as economy cools
The US has seen the first decline in employment since August 2003, in a fresh sign that a recession is looming...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Alexander 'should list' donations
A Holyrood watchdog says Wendy Alexander needs to declare Labour leadership campaign donations...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Burglar jailed for widow attack
A burglar, called an "intoxicated brute" for beating a widow unconscious, is jailed for at least eight years...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Motorists rescued from snowdrifts
A rescue operation is mounted to help 200 motorists stranded in snowdrifts in County Durham...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
DNA fears see terror charges fall
Two cases against men charged with dissident republican activity are dropped over low copy number testing fears...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Medical plea fails in Yukos case
A Russian judge says a jailed former Yukos oil company boss cannot be transferred to a clinic...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Rugby: All set for Six Nations
The 2008 Six Nations, which starts on Saturday, promises to be one of the most open tournaments in years...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Rebels battle near Chad capital
Chad rebels and government forces both claim victory in clashes near the capital, as extra French troops fly in...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Football: Benjani confusion
Portsmouth will have to wait until next week before they discover whether the Premier League will sanction Benjani's transfer to Man City...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Text driver faces jail over death
A woman is convicted of causing death by dangerous driving after she drove into a cyclist while texting...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Kenyan parties agree 'peace plan'
Kenya's feuding political rivals agree a plan to end the violence in the country, says ex-UN chief Kofi Annan...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Boy arrested over school stabbing
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after a 14-year-old was stabbed at a school in Leeds, police say...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Germany rejects troops appeal
Germany turns down a US appeal to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Drivers stranded as storms hit UK
Dozens of people are trapped in their cars by snow as bad weather continues to cause havoc in parts of the UK...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Twin bombs kill scores in Baghdad
Two mentally disabled women were used to carry bombs that were detonated remotely in Baghdad, officials say...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Australia Won?t Punish Lawyer for Leak
The lawyer for an Australian who was a suspect in connection with bungled bombings in Europe is not subject to disciplinary action for leaking information...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Israel?s Mauritania Embassy Attacked
Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania on Friday, setting off a battle with guards that wounded one person...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Blizzards and Coal Shortages Strain China?s Rail Network
After blizzards disrupted coal deliveries, acute electricity shortages across a swath of central and southern China have exposed the fragility of transportation networks...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Baghdad Market Bombings Kill 64
A suicide bomber attacked a Baghdad pet market, killing at least 64 people, and a second bomb killed at least eight in another market...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Second Lawmaker Is Killed as Kenya?s Riots Intensify
Kenyan government officials were quick to say the killing was a ?crime of passion? connected to a love triangle. Opposition leaders called it an assassination...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
TV's Floyd treated after collapse
Keith Floyd's agent says the celebrity chef is stable after collapsing on his return from a work trip to Thailand...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Call for school patriotism debate
Academics claim that patriotism should be taught as a controversial issue in schools...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Man 'hid dead wife in a barrel'
A man denies murdering his wife and hiding her remains in a barrel in his garden for 23 years...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Football transfer fees hit record
New owners and a TV deal help top English clubs reach a record January spend of £150m on players...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Forth oil transfer plan ruled out
Proposals for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Firth of Forth are ruled out by the area's harbour authority...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Operation to float stricken ferry
Salvage crews are to try to refloat a truck ferry which has run aground off the Blackpool coast...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Man denies father-of-six's murder
A 49-year-old man is remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Gerard Devlin...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Egypt arrests militants from Gaza
Egypt announce the arrest 15 armed Palestinians near its border with Gaza, as talks in Cairo continue...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Some EU states oppose Kosovo bid
EU members Romania and Cyprus say they will not recognise a declaration of independence by Kosovo...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
China freeze 'has cost billions'
Chinese officials say recent bad weather has caused 54bn yuan (£3.8bn) of damage and killed 60 people...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
France sends extra troops to Chad
France flies 150 extra troops to Chad as rebels advance on the capital, amid reports of fighting north of the city...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Teenager, 14, stabbed at school
Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy is stabbed at a school in Leeds...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Football: Redknapp's Defoe joy
Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp says new signing Jermain Defoe can re-ignite his career at Fratton Park...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
US seeks troops for Afghanistan
The US urges Germany to send more troops to southern Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Minister backs costly care policy
Scotland's health secretary says she is committed to free personal care for the elderly despite a critical report into the policy...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Driver injured in train accident
A driver is injured and services are disrupted when a train crashes into a collapsed footbridge...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
MPs urged to declare family staff
Labour, Tory and Lib Dem MPs are all urged to declare family members working for them by their party leaders...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Twin bombings kill 64 in Baghdad
Two bombs explode in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 64 people in the deadliest violence for months...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Parole course access 'unlawful'
The Appeal Court rules that the way the parole board operates violates the human rights of some prisoners...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Sea rescues amid stormy weather
Bad weather causes a ferry and trawler to run aground off the UK coast sparking rescue missions in high seas...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo
Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Regulators Warn France Against Protecting Bank
As numerous European banks assess whether to make a bid for Société Générale, regulators in Brussels warned France against any effort to thwart open competition...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Eurozone Inflation Rising at Record Pace
The increase highlighted the difficult task facing the European Central Bank as it seeks to enforce price stability in the face of slowing economic growth...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
China Tries to Reassure U.S. About Its Investing Plans
Seeking to reassure those nervous about foreign takeovers, the head of China?s government investment fund said Thursday that China would invest mostly in portfolios...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
The Rev. Marcial Maciel, 87, Conservative Catholic Leader, Dies
Father Maciel was the founder of the influential Roman Catholic group the Legionaries of Christ and the most prominent priest disciplined after accusations of sexual abuse...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Church Enters Election Campaign
The Roman Catholic Church urged Spaniards to vote for political parties that do not negotiate with ETA, a direct swipe at the policies of the governing Socialists...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Zimbabweans? Shelter Raided
The police raided the Central Methodist Mission in central Johannesburg, where hundreds of Zimbabweans had taken refuge, hauling people in pajamas to a police station...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Western Sahara: Vandalism by Peacekeepers
United Nations peacekeepers were blamed for vandalizing prehistoric sites in Western Sahara, the territory contested by Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: People-Smuggling Arrests in Raids
Scotland Yard officials said they had broken up two Turkish-led gangs engaged in ?large-scale human smuggling? into Britain...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Inflation at New Record
The annual inflation rate accelerated sharply in November to a new peak of 26,470 percent...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
In Report, Officers Call for Major Overhaul of NATO
A group of former senior officers has called for a major overhaul of NATO, as the alliance faces the risk of failure in trying to defeat Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Lawmaker Suspended Over Son?s Pay
A Conservative member of Parliament was found to have paid his 22-year-old son nearly $100,000 in public money for work as a parliamentary researcher...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
European Union Tells Italy to Clean Up Naples
Some 250,000 tons of backlogged trash has been piling up on the streets of Naples since collection came to a near halt in December...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes
Tens of thousands of farmers clogged the streets of Mexico City, warning that the elimination of trade barriers could drive them out of business...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Comrades Speak of Fallen Marine and Ties That Bind
Thursday?s ceremony was less a memorial for Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec, a marine who died last May, than it was a moment for reflection by the men and women gathered there...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Indonesian Chickens, and People, Hard Hit by Bird Flu
Three people died of bird flu this week, pushing the total number of deaths in Indonesia to 101, nearly half of all the bird flu deaths in the world...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Gunmen Attack Israeli Embassy in Mauritania
Unidentified gunmen attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott early on Friday...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Rights Group Says U.S. Is Too Eager to Endorse Suspect Elections
The Bush administration gives lip service to promoting democracy while allowing human rights violations to go unchecked, Human Rights Watch said...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
China Accuses Online Activist of Subversion
International human rights groups say the arrest is part of a broader effort by authorities to crack down on dissidents before China hosts the Olympics in August...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
San Andrés Journal: Talk of Independence in a Place Claimed by 2 Nations
The English-speaking descendants of African slaves who inhabit the Caribbean island of San Andrés feel loyalty neither to Colombia nor to Nicaragua...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
China?s Inflation Hits American Price Tags
Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of China?s rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Nets and New Drug Make Inroads Against Malaria
Widespread distribution of mosquito nets and a new medicine sharply reduced malaria deaths in several African countries, World Health Organization researchers reported...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
Senior Qaeda Commander Is Killed by U.S. Missile
The commander, Abu Laith al-Libi, a Libyan who was about 40 years old, was a longtime lieutenant of Osama bin Laden...
New York Times - February 1, 2008
'Bizarre' new mammal discovered
A new species of elephant shrew is discovered in Tanzania, scientists report...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
MPs suspend Conway from Commons
MPs vote to suspend Tory Derek Conway for 10 days and order him to return £13,161 of payments to his son...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Free health care cost 'not known'
Scotland's free personal care policy was launched without full details of how much it would cost, a watchdog says...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Egypt tightens Gaza border gaps
Egypt stops Palestinians vehicles from crossing the Gaza border, as talks begin in Cairo to resolve the crisis...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Two shot dead by Guyana police
Police in Guyana shoot and kill two gang members alleged to have been involved in a recent village massacre...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
UN urged to act on Kenya unrest
France's foreign minister calls on the UN Security Council to prevent "deadly ethnic conflict" in Kenya...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Fresh snow adds to China freeze
More snow falls over parts of China hit by harsh weather, as the president urges miners to help end power cuts...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Football: Portsmouth sign Defoe
Portsmouth sign England striker Jermain Defoe from Tottenham...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Clooney made UN peace envoy
Actor George Clooney becomes a UN peace envoy, as he returns from a trip to Sudan's Darfur region...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Attack on embassy in Mauritania
Unidentified gunmen open fire on the Israeli embassy in Mauritania, witnesses and officials say...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Japan executes prisoners
Japan hangs three prisoners in the country's second round of executions in less than two months...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Isle prepares for 24-hour power
Electricity available day and night is due to come online for a small island community for the first time...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Democrat pair in key debate
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama clash over Iraq in a TV debate ahead of 'Super Tuesday'...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
Senior al-Qaeda commander killed
A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, top Western officials say...
BBC News - February 1, 2008
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