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Global News Archive for April 2008:
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Mugabe?s Control of Zimbabwe Weakens
Analysts and opposition members contended that negotiations were under way for President Robert G. Mugabe to step down after trailing in the the country?s presidential election...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Hu Jintao Says Security Is Priority for Olympics
The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, has ordered his nation?s security forces to place a top priority on the Olympics in August, saying that the country?s international reputation was at stake...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
North Korea Attacks South?s President
North Korea unleashed a propaganda tirade against South Korea?s new president, Lee Myung-bak, calling him a ?traitor? and ?U.S. sycophant.?...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Click on Rick
On Rick Astley's renewed fame - and other virals...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
In-form Man Utd coast to Roma win
Man Utd close in on the Champions League semi-finals with an impressive 2-0 win over AS Roma in the Stadio Olimpico...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Schalke 0-1 Barcelona
Barcelona survive to beat Schalke 04 and give themselves the upper hand of their Champions league quarter-final...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Defiant Mosley vows to fight on
Max Mosley pledges to continue as president of the FIA, despite allegations about his private life...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
BT advert trials were 'illegal'
Trials of an online ad system carried out by BT on its customers were potentially illegal, says a digital rights lawyer...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Home birth safety under spotlight
There may be serious risks for the baby when mothers who chose a home birth transfer to hospital, a study suggests...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Nobel winner tear-gassed in Kenya
Kenyan police fire tear gas at dozens of protesters, including Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, in Nairobi...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
France to send Betancourt mission
The French president says he intends to send a medical mission to Colombia to treat hostage Ingrid Betancourt...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
IRA killer given life in prison
An IRA killer, released under the Good Friday Agreement, is sentenced to life in prison at a court in Dublin...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
First Direct stops new mortgages
First Direct withdraws all its mortgages from new customers as the number of products available plummets...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Terror laws face Commons battle
The Counter Terrorism Bill passes a first hurdle in Commons but the government is warned to expect stiff opposition later...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
'No deal' for Mugabe to step down
Zimbabwe's opposition leader and a government minister deny reports of a deal for Robert Mugabe to step down...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Medal of Honor for Navy Officer in Iraq
A member of the Navy Seals who threw himself on a grenade in Iraq to save his comrades will be posthumously awarded the nation?s highest military tribute, the Medal of Honor, the White House announced. Petty Officer Second Class Michael A. Monsoor, 25, of Garden Grove, Calif., was part of a sniper team in Ramadi in 2006 when an insurgent threw a grenade at him, the Navy said. He was the fifth person to receive the honor since the beginning of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: American-Owned Bank Bombed
A homemade bomb destroyed the entrance of a branch of Citigroup?s Mexican subsidiary, Banamex, in southern Mexico City, causing no injuries. No one claimed responsibility, but small guerrilla groups have previously attacked foreign-owned banks...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Cuba Ends ?No Cubans Allowed? Hotel Policy
President Raúl Castro?s new government will begin allowing Cubans to stay at hotels that were previously set aside for foreign tourists, the latest in a string of moves liberalizing internal restrictions on Cubans. In other changes, Cubans will be able to rent cars and buy cellphones, computers, microwaves and DVD players. However, with state salaries of about $20 a month, most Cubans will not be able to afford them...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Ecuador Sues Colombia Over Coca Spraying
Ecuador filed a lawsuit against Colombia in an international court, seeking to end Colombia?s fumigation of coca crops along the border. Ecuador says that the aerial herbicide spraying also kills legal crops in Ecuador and that it sickens Ecuadoreans living near the border. Faced with previous complaints, Colombia had recently increased manual eradication of coca plants as part of an antinarcotics program financed by the United States. The lawsuit, filed in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, followed a raid by Colombian forces on March 1 on Colombian guerrillas in Ecuador...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Chad: French Aid Workers Pardoned
Six French aid workers who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor for the attempted kidnapping of 103 children were pardoned and released. The workers had chartered a plane to fly to Europe children they claimed were orphans of the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Most of the children were neither orphans nor from Sudan. The workers were serving their time in France, but after France pledged to help defend Chad?s president, Idriss Déby, from rebel attacks in February, he agreed to consider pardoning them...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Tiananmen Protesters Still in Jail, Advocate Says
At least 60 people remain jailed in China over the June 1989 protests by pro-democracy demonstrators centered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a human rights activist says. John Kamm, executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, an advocacy group for political prisoners, urged China to release the protesters, who may number as many as 100, before the Summer Olympics in Beijing in August. The protests led to a military crackdown that killed hundreds of people...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Bush Supports Ukraine?s Bid to Join NATO
President Bush risked a diplomatic confrontation with Russia even as the sides seek a missile defense agreement...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Negotiations May Lead to Mugabe?s Exit in Zimbabwe
The opposition leader is in talks with President Robert G. Mugabe?s advisers amid signs that people close to Mr. Mugabe may encourage him to resign, a diplomat and a political analyst said...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
In Gaza, Hamas?s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace
While the Palestinian Authority has made efforts to end incitement against Israel and Jews, Hamas feels no such restraint...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Worming ways
One council's weapons in the war on landfill waste...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
RAF at 90
WWII Spitfire pilot says forces need more recognition...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Ticket to ride
How far can you get on the new free bus pass?...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
High stakes
Riot squads flood streets of Rome before Man U clash...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Painful wait
Families of Hercules crew killed in 2005 want answers...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Swinney demands more UK funding
Finance Secretary John Swinney says he will take his dispute with the UK Treasury to a devolution committee...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't
It's here again, the day when jokers set out to make fools of the rest of us. But not every bizarre story is a hoax. Here is a round-up of some of the day's seemingly spoof news stories which are actually true (and one that isn't)...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Shoaib given five-year suspension
Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is banned for five years by the Pakistan Cricket Board...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Resignation call over school test
A teachers' union says the board of governors at a Londonderry school should resign over its entrance test...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Secret 'dino bugs' revealed
Scientists use X-rays to find a host of animals trapped in 100-million-year-old opaque amber...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
IOC warns China over web access
China must ensure open access to the internet during the Beijing Games, Olympic officials say...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Couple found dead at house
A 35-year-old man is arrested after a man and woman are found dead at a house in south Liverpool...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Kashmir police refuse body demand
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir reject a demand to investigate reports of up to 1,000 unidentified bodies...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Lib Dem peers oppose referendum
The chances of a referendum on the EU treaty take a blow after Lib Dem peers say they will vote against one...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Shoukri trial judge steps down
A judge steps down from a trial involving six alleged loyalist paramilitary supporters...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Brown rejects cap on immigration
Gordon Brown says skilled migrants have boosted the UK's economy and rules out an annual cap on immigration...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Hercules inquest hears radio call
The last radio call from an RAF Hercules shot down in Iraq is heard at the inquest into 10 servicemen's deaths...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Major damage in police HQ blaze
Part of North Wales Police's force HQ is badly damaged by a fire which started in its roof during refrubishment work...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Deal 'close' for Mugabe to leave
The outline of a deal is done for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to step down, opposition sources tell the BBC...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
UK's first hybrid embryos created
Scientists have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Woman's head found on beach
Police cordon off part of a beach in Arbroath as children playing there find a woman's head in a plastic bag...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Teachers vote to strike over pay
Members of the National Union of Teachers vote to stage a one-day strike over pay, their first national stoppage for 21 years...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Speaker facing expenses inquiry
Parliament's standards chief launches an investigation into Commons Speaker Michael Martin's taxi expenses...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Argentine President Offers Concessions to Striking Farmers
The president, however, refused to reduce the tax increase that sparked the nationwide rebellion nearly three weeks ago...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Hamas?s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Effort
While the Palestinian Authority has made efforts to end incitement against Jews, Hamas feels no such restraint...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Words of history
Rare Abraham Lincoln letter set to be sold in US...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Mosley asked to drop Bahrain trip
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says FIA president Max Mosley should not travel to the Bahrain Grand Prix in the wake of allegations about his personal life...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Don't demolish it
10 steps to turning around a rundown housing estate...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Ferguson concern over Rome return
Manager Sir Alex Ferguson is wary of further crowd trouble when Manchester United meet Roma in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Montgomerie slams Masters invites
Colin Montgomerie is critical of the Masters for inviting three Asian players for commercial reasons...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Estelle steps in for Jools show
R&B singer Estelle will stand in for Gnarls Barkley on the first live edition of Jools Holland's Later show...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Hercules inquest hears radio call
The last radio message from an RAF Hercules shot down in Iraq is heard at the inquest into the deaths of 10 men...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Bush backs Ukraine on Nato bid
US President George W Bush gives his strong support for Ukraine's membership of Nato, during a visit to Kiev...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
India footballer in Tibet protest
India's soccer captain Baichung Bhutia refuses to carry the Olympic torch during its run through India...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
UK companies raising prices
The price of manufacturers' goods rose at the fastest pace in more than eight years in March, a survey says...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
MPs debate terror detention limit
MPs will debate controversial proposals to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Almost 100 post offices to close
Almost 100 Post Office branches in Northern Ireland will close as part of a UK-wide restructuring process...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Ugandan rebel 'too ill' for peace
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has delayed signing of a peace deal because he is ill, mediators say...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Iraqi death toll climbs sharply
The number of Iraqis killed in March rose by 50% compared to the figure for February, according to official counts...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Marines killed in Helmand named
Two Royal Marines killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan are named by the Ministry of Defence...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Last appeal for Meredith suspects
Three suspects held in Italy over with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher are making a final appeal to be freed from prison...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Free bus travel scheme extended
Free off-peak bus travel for pensioners and the disabled is being extended so they can go anywhere in England...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Harman defends wearing stab vest
Harriet Harman denies that she wore a stab-proof vest during a police walkabout because she did not feel safe...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Police headquarters is evacuated
Staff working at North Wales Police's headquarters are evacuated from the building after a fire...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Diana's butler 'obviously' lied
Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell "obviously" lied at the inquest into her death, the coroner says...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Iraq UK troop reduction delayed
There are no current plans to cut UK troops in Iraq, despite previous announcements, Des Browne is expected to tell MPs...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
UBS doubles sub-prime writedowns
Swiss bank UBS says it has lost $37bn from the sub-prime crisis, the largest loss by any bank so far...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Visa Application Period Opens for Highly Skilled Workers
Technology companies have urged Congress to raise the annual limit of 65,000, saying they face damaging shortages of engineers and software technicians...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Lucerne Journal: A Push to Stop Swiss Cats From Being Turned Into Coats and Hats
Cat fur is used in garments and blankets in Switzerland, the last western European nation where such a trade is still legal...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
In London?s Mayoral Campaign, a Conservative Jokes His Way Into Contention
Boris Johnson bounded through Borough Market the other day like some kind of hyper-articulate Labrador, trawling for votes in the May 1 mayoral election...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Opponents of Musharraf Assume Posts in Pakistan
A stern-faced President Pervez Musharraf swore in a new cabinet on Monday that was filled with political opponents from the main opposition parties...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
In Gaza, Hamas?s Fiery Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Effort
While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect, efforts to end incitement against Jews, Hamas feels no such restraint...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Ping-pong politics
The game that got the diplomatic ball bouncing...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
A long wait
Zimbabwe woman says result delays prompt concern...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Under strain
Turkey struggles with soaring prison population...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Hitting a century
What future for the Territorial Army as it turns 100?...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Business to choose water supply
Businesses and public bodies in Scotland are allowed to decide who supplies them with water...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
The World War II heroine who was not classed as leadership material
The World War II heroine who was not classed as leadership material...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Scottish prescriptions cut to £5
The cost of NHS prescriptions in Scotland are cut from £6.85 to £5, in the first move towards making them free...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
'Ecuador incursion' into Colombia
Colombia condemns "an incursion by an Ecuadorian military helicopter" which it says took place on Sunday...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
N Korea hits out at South leader
The new South Korean leader's stance could have "catastrophic consequences", North Korea warns...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Bush to back Ukraine for Nato
President Bush is set to offer his backing for Kiev's controversial bid to join Nato as he arrives in Ukraine...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
NZ teen convicted of cyber crime
A New Zealand teenager is convicted of computer crimes linked to an international cyber-crime ring...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Necklace is 'oldest in Americas'
A necklace found in Peru is the oldest known gold object made in the Americas, archaeologists say...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Many die in Angolan base collapse
Angolan rescuers recover 21 bodies from the ruins of a police building that collapsed in Luanda on Saturday...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Health screening for the over-40s
People aged 40 to 74 will be given key health checks under government plans which aim to save 2,000 lives a year...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Judge says courts 'overstretched'
The most senior judge in England and Wales says a "stream" of legislation has put pressure on the criminal justice system...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
MPs debate terror detention limit
MPs will debate controversial proposals to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Democrat Pelosi urges end to race
Senior US Democrat Nancy Pelosi urges a quick decision to choose the party's presidential candidate...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Immigration 'small benefit' to UK
Record immigration levels have had little impact on the UK's economic well-being and should be capped, peers say...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
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