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Global News Archive for Octomber 2005:
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Norwegian Storm Over Russian Trawler Dies Down
A minor incident with a private trawler surged into a diplomatic storm, with a response from the military of Norway and Russia...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Meeting With Abbas, Bush Expresses Optimism for Peace
President Bush said that he was more confident that peace could be achieved than at any time in his presidency...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Ads fuel soaring Google profits
Internet search engine Google reports a jump in quarterly profits to $381.2m on the back of strong advertising sales...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Early retirers don't live longer
People who take early retirement may die early rather than increase their life expectancy, research suggests...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Russian army cleared over Beslan
Russian troops who used flame-throwers in Beslan school siege will not face charges, a prosecutor says...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
UN Hariri report points to Syria
A UN inquiry into the death of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri says evidence points to Syrian and Lebanese involvement...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Cisse admits hitting boy on head
Liverpool player Djibril Cisse is cautioned by police for striking a teenager over the head in a park in south London...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
'Confidence lacking' in IRA move
IRA decommissioning has not produced confidence within the unionist community, a Protestant clergyman says...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Administrators win stadium battle
Wrexham FC's administrators win a legal fight to seize control of the troubled club's ground from owner Alex Hamilton...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Football: Boro secure Uefa win
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scores as Boro win their opening Uefa Cup Group D game...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
US to discuss role in South Korea
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in South Korea to discuss the future of the two sides' military alliance...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Wilma closes in on Mexico coast
Thousands of tourists and locals flee Hurricane Wilma as it sets its sights on Mexico, Cuba and Florida...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Kidnapped reporter freed in Iraq
A Guardian newspaper correspondent kidnapped in Baghdad on Wednesday is freed unharmed...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
EU plans fight against flu threat
European countries must work together to plan for a flu pandemic, EU health ministers have said...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Supreme Court choice rapped
US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is criticised for giving poor replies to senators' questions...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Mortar Hits Baghdad School, Killing at Least One Child
The attack at an elementary school also killed two security guards. Also, a suicide bomber killed four civilians...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Defiant Hussein, Lashing Out at U.S., Goes on Trial
On the first day of his trial, Saddam Hussein maintained a prideful defiance in the face of charges for the killing of 148 men in 1982...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Rumsfeld Ends Beijing Visit With Talk With Chinese Officers
An unusual round-table session turned into a lively, but never hostile, discussion about the two countries' military intentions...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Spyware 'rampant' in UK computers
The UK has one of the highest rates of PC infected with spyware software, research shows...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Review of John Lewis plan granted
Planning approval for a new John Lewis superstore is set to be reviewed by judges after rival traders objected...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Judges review parking death case
The Crown says a woman who killed a grandmother in a fit of parking rage should have been jailed...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Shop murder police get more time
Detectives are given an extra 12 hours to question a woman after a 75-year-old widow is stabbled to death in a store...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Ford plans shake-up after losses
US car giant Ford Motor reports a third-quarter loss of $284m and warns of "significant" factory closures...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Deal offer on religious hate law
Rowan Atkinson is among campaigners proposing a compromise on religious hate laws to protect free speech...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
DR Congo asked to help fight LRA
Uganda says it wants to launch joint military operations with the DR Congo to attack the rebel Lord's Resistance Army...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Bush renews Palestinian state vow
George Bush reaffirms support for a two-state solution to the Mid-East conflict in talks with the Palestinian leader...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
India MP in TV 'most wanted' row
MP and actor Govinda defends himself after a TV channel shows him with India's most wanted man...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Cockle survivor cries for friend
A man who survived the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster tells a court how he failed to save his best friend...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Man killed in 'night of violence'
A gang of youths who violently attacked people for "pleasure" murdered a barman, the Old Bailey hears...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Record immigration levels to UK
Official figures suggest 582,000 people came to live in the UK in 2004 - higher than predictions...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Arcadia nets Philip Green £1.2bn
Entrepreneur Philip Green's firms get a dividend of £1.2bn from Arcadia, a sum he says is "conservative"...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Football: Spurs move ruled out
Tottenham's hopes of moving to London's 2012 Olympic Stadium have been ended by Games organisers...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Cameron and Davis top Tory poll
David Cameron and David Davis are through to a run-off vote of party members to choose the next Tory leader...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Four terror suspects given bail
Four suspected terrorists who faced deportation from the UK are granted bail but cleric Abu Qatada's request is refused...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Man remanded in Ripper probe
A man is remanded in custody charged with being the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer known as Wearside Jack...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Report Calls Communist Party Rule Essential to Democracy in China
China's first white paper on democracy left little doubt of the Communist Party's determination to maintain its grip on power...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Hurricane halts Latin MTV awards
The approach of Hurricane Wilma forces MTV to postpone its Latin America Music Awards ceremony in Mexico...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Jump in GCSE-level exam results
The GCSE-level results achieved by England's teenagers rose two whole points this year to 55.7%...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
UK resists radical net overhaul
The group that manages .uk net names, Nominet, says it does not want a radical change to how the net is run...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
General rules out Iraq exit date
The UK's top soldier says Iraqi forces could be up to strength in a year but no date should be set for pulling out troops...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
'No spare places' in Welsh jails
New inmates are sent to English jails because all prisons in Wales are so full, say managers...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Morrisons plunges deep into red
Supermarket group Morrisons drops into the red as a result of heavy costs incurred from integrating Safeway...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Afghans denounce Taleban killings
Several thousand people protest in eastern Afghanistan against the Taleban's continuing insurgency...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Man killed in two car collision
One man dies and another is in a stable condition after a car crash in County Down, say police...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
US planning invasion, says Chavez
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, says in a BBC interview that the US plans to invade his country...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Abbas to meet Bush at White House
The US president and Palestinian leader are due to meet, amid worsened relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Liberian death threats by texts
The United Nations in Liberia says it will deal robustly with death threats sent to the chief of the elections body...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Ronaldo rape allegation 'fantasy'
Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's agent denies an accusation of rape levelled against the player...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Football: Mourinho warns rivals
Jose Mourinho insists Chelsea are a strong bet to win the Champions League after they thrash Real Betis 4-0...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Hurricane Wilma evacuation
Mexico, Cuba and Florida warn tens of thousands of people to leave areas threatened by Hurricane Wilma...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Quake 'is UN's worst nightmare'
The UN says the quake aid situation is worse than last December's tsunami and calls for a massive airlift...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Lees re-enacts Outback escape
Joanne Lees, the girlfriend of Peter Falconio, re-enacts in a Darwin court her escape from her alleged captor...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
'Gentle' victim of shop stabbing
A 75-year-old widow stabbed to death in a Cardiff city centre store, was "vivacious yet gentle", say her shocked neighbours...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Man charged in Ripper hoax probe
Police hunting the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer known as Wearside Jack charge a man from Sunderland...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
No charges for gun death officers
Two police officers will not face murder charges after shooting dead a man who was carrying a table leg...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Violent crime shows 6% increase
Violent offences rose while crime overall fell in the second quarter of 2005, Home Office figures show...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Iraqis Watch the Trial on TV, With Emotions Running High
Sunni Arabs expressed some sympathy for Saddam Hussein, and Shiites and Kurds barely contained their hatred...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Army Examining an Account of Abuse of 2 Dead Taliban
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan allegedly burned the bodies of two Taliban and then used the corpses in a propaganda campaign...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Old Ways of Life Are Fading as the Arctic Thaws
For the four million people who live north of the Arctic Circle, a changing climate is threatening their environment, homes and traditions...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Bird Flu Going to East Africa, United Nations Officials Fear
The U.N. is concerned that the avian flu virus is on its way to East Africa, where the disease could be nearly impossible to control...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Rice, in Testy Hearing, Cites Progress in Iraq
The secretary of state declined to predict when American forces could withdraw or to rule out widening the war to Syria...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
Gingerly, U.S. and China Plan to Strengthen Military Ties
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld agreed to strengthen military ties with China, but said the country needed to clarify its regional military goals...
New York Times - October 20, 2005
US probe into 'Taleban burnings'
The US military promises to investigate after TV footage appears to show troops burning Taleban corpses...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Decision on 'no win no fee' deals
The Law Lords judge on the Mirror's bid to change "no win, no fee" rules after it got a £594,00 bill from Naomi Campbell's lawyers...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Superquarry consultation to close
Public consultation is about to close on plans to extend Europe's biggest coastal superquarry...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Barriers to pensions for women
Stopping work to have children is a crucial factor in women being poor when they retire, research suggests...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Google is sued by book publishers
Internet search engine Google is being sued by a group of book publishers over plans to put millions of titles online...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Football: Liverpool edge win
A Djibril Cisse volley gives Liverpool a narrow win over Anderlecht...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
New avian flu death in Thailand
A man dies of bird flu in Thailand, bringing the number of dead from the virus in the country to 13...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Colombia re-election ban lifted
Colombia's Constitutional Court rules that President Alvaro Uribe can stand for re-election...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Tory contenders face crunch vote
The three contenders left in the Tory leadership race battle to woo voters ahead of Thursday's second vote...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Lees 'did not see suspect earlier'
The girlfriend of Peter Falconio has denied seeing his alleged killer in a fast food restaurant hours before the attack...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
Annan slams Pakistan quake help
UN chief Kofi Annan warns of a second wave of deaths in quake-hit Pakistan unless the world provides far more aid...
BBC News - October 20, 2005
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