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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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Files Cast Questions on Whether 2 Suicide Bombers Had Down Syndrome
Psychiatric case files of the bombers who killed nearly 100 people on Feb. 1 showed they suffered from depression and schizophrenia, but not Down Syndrome, as officials had suggested...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Russia Denies Visa to Rights Group Leader
The director of Human Rights Watch was barred from coming to Moscow to present a report accusing the Kremlin of hindering the work of nongovernmental organizations...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Serbs Press Their Drive to Control Northern Kosovo
A mob of 300 Serbs wielding clubs and tools gathered near a small ethnic-Albanian village, prompting NATO to send armored vehicles and tanks to head them off...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Thousands in Armenia Protest Election Results
Protesters said that Tuesday?s presidential election had been rigged, although international observers evaluated it as relatively free and fair...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Use of Private Care Tests British Health System
Britain is wrestling with how to handle patients who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health service...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Kenyan Opposition Warns of More Protests
Kenya?s leading opposition party accused the government of stonewalling in negotiations to resolve the country?s festering political crisis and threatened to resume protests...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Bush Confronts Hard Questions in Ghana
President Bush faced skepticism on Wednesday about American military policy and his AIDS initiative...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Xbox to deliver community games
Amateur game developers will be able to share their homemade titles over Xbox Live...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
SocGen's controls 'lacked depth'
An internal investigation into losses at Societe Generale criticises controls at the French bank...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
£76m paid over health negligence
Almost £76m has been paid to victims of medical negligence in Northern Ireland in the last five years, it is revealed...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
F-15 pilots rescued off Florida
Two US pilots are rescued alive in the Gulf of Mexico, after an incident involving two F-15C fighter jets...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Fighting 'traps' Darfur refugees
Thousands of Darfur refugees are trapped on the border with Chad after a government offensive, rebels say...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Football: Barcelona beat Celtic
Barcelona seal a first-leg victory in Glasgow with two goals from Lionel Messi...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Football: Man Utd grab draw
Carlos Tevez grabs a crucial away goal for Manchester United late on after Karim Benzema's superb strike for Lyon...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Take That scoop Brits double
Take That, the Arctic Monkeys and the Foo Fighters win two prizes each at the Brit music awards in London...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Clinton eyes big contests
Hillary Clinton is scrambling to revive her flagging bid for the US presidency in next month's key Ohio and Texas primaries...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Royal Marine dies in Afghan blast
A Royal Marine is killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Mother's plea to missing daughter
The mother of a nine-year-old girl missing from her West Yorkshire home appeals for her daughter's safe return...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Earthquake in Indonesia Kills 3
A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia, killing at least three people, injuring 25 others, and damaging several buildings...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Iran Sentences Journalist to Death
Iran has sentenced an ethnic Baluch journalist to death, accusing him of being a member of a terrorist group in the southeast of the country...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Bush Wants Pakistan Victors to Cooperate on Terrorism
President Bush also praised President Pervez Musharraf, saying the Pakistani leader had lived up to his promise to end emergency rule and hold democratic elections...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Pakistan Victors Want Dialogue With Militants
The winners of the parliamentary elections said that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Edna's 'bridesmaid' dies at 100
Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsop, has died aged 100...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Call for GCSE languages regrade
Head teachers and language experts say it is harder to get good grades in modern languages than other GCSEs...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Atlantis ends its Columbus voyage
The Atlantis orbiter touches down on Earth after a 13-day mission to cement Europe's position on the space station...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
'Fullstop-size cure' for cataract
New technology has significantly reduced the length of the incision needed to remove eye cataracts...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Darling hits back over Rock trust
The chancellor moves to calm fears over nationalising Northern Rock after it emerged its best assets would stay private...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Death knell for 125% mortgages?
Lenders are pulling deals for 100%-plus mortgages, leaving first-time buyers with a financial headache...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Soldier denies girls kidnap plan
Staff at an internet cafe caught a soldier discussing on chatrooms the kidnapping of young girls, a trial hears...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Lockerbie case interference claim
The UK government is accused of interfering with the Lockerbie bombing conviction appeal...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Bomb found at mail sorting office
A bomb found by staff at the Royal Mail's sorting office in Mallusk, County Antrim, is defused by the Army...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
US warns India over nuclear pact
India must conclude a nuclear deal with the US if it is to be approved before presidential polls, Delhi is warned...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Child, 12, guilty of raping boy
A 12-year-old boy is convicted of raping a five-year-old boy as they played in a garden in Bradford...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Iraqi police detain street people
Iraqi police detain beggars and mentally ill people found on the streets who could be exploited by militants...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Kosovo 'tool kit for separatists'
Kosovo independence sets a dangerous precedent for other states with separatist movements, says Serbia...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Renewed threat of Kenyan protests
Kenya's opposition warns it will relaunch mass protests if the political crisis is not resolved within a week...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Football: Milan 'ultimate test'
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says Wednesday's Champions League tie against holders AC Milan will be the "ultimate test" for his young team...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Rock shareholders plan to sue
Small shareholders in Northern Rock threaten to sue the government over compensation plans...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Weather may delay satellite shot
The US might have to delay shooting down a defunct spy satellite on Thursday due to bad weather...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Bhutto widower 'rejects PM role'
Benazir Bhutto's widower rules himself out as prime minister despite his party's success in Pakistan's election...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
DNA errors catastrophic - Tories
David Cameron attacks Gordon Brown over the failure to check 4,000 DNA samples for more than a year...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
'Double life' of accused killer
A man accused of murdering his special constable wife was having an affair with a prostitute, a court hears...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
British citizenship tests planned
Immigrants who want to become British citizens will need to pass tests to "prove their worth", under new plans...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Armenian Opposition to Protest Election Outcome
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan has won a clear victory in a presidential election, according to official figures, but opposition parties prepared protests...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Castro Circle Likely to Hold Power After His Resignation
The announcement that Fidel Castro would step down opens the door to his brother Raúl or another member of his inner circle...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Winehouse to sing at Brit Awards
Amy Winehouse is to stage her first public performance since entering rehab at the Brit Awards...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Contract for private space cargo
Nasa is to invest $170m in Orbital Sciences Corporation to develop a resupply ship for the space station...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Point-by-point: Question time
The key points from prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, from 1200 GMT...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Police recapture escaped killer
A convicted murderer who escaped from prison guards during a hospital appointment is recaptured...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
'Bed-blocking' worsening say AMs
More must be done to ensure patients do not stay in hospital longer than needed, a report finds...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Jealous lover jailed for 18 years
A married man who killed his teenage lover and hid her body has been jailed for 18 years...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Maternity unit 'is set to close'
The Maternity Unit at the Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn will close within a year to 18 months, it is reported...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Current PM 'wins' Armenian poll
Complete results show that PM Serge Sarkisian wins Armenia's presidential poll, but his main rival cries foul...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Palestinians 'may declare state'
A top official says Palestinians could unilaterally declare statehood, as Kosovo did, if talks with Israel fail...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Darfur bombing is 'unacceptable'
The UN chief expresses extreme concern after a Sudan army offensive in the west of Darfur...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Chelsea boss sent death threats
Anti-Semitic death threats have been sent to the Chelsea manager Avram Grant, the police say...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Cricket: England hit back
England and New Zealand tie a dramatic one-day match in Napier after both score 340 in their 50 overs...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Obama extends lead over Clinton
Barack Obama wins the Wisconsin and Hawaii Democratic races, building on his lead over Hillary Clinton...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Police search for missing girl
Police search for a nine-year-old girl after she failed to return home from school in West Yorkshire...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Suicide plan 'overdue' - charity
A charity says Wales "lags behind" those nations with strategies and where suicide rates have dropped...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Taxpayers 'to get Rock rubbish'
Peers are set to clash over Northern Rock amid claims its best assets have been "hived off" to a private firm...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Ex-MI6 boss denies killing Diana
MI6's former chief denies that the service murdered Princess Diana at the inquest into her death...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Immigrants 'to face higher fees'
Migrants could be charged higher visas fees to fund public services in a reported shake-up of citizenship...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Rare cooperation to save gorillas
Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Pressure increases over DNA data
Ministers face pressure after a DNA data disc was ignored for a year - leaving 15 serious crime suspects at large...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Gun found in Rhys murder probe
Detectives investigating the murder of Rhys Jones believe they have found the gun used to kill the 11-year-old...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: No Link Found in Youths? Suicides
The body of a 16-year-old girl was found hanging in the woods in the Welsh village of Bridgend, and the authorities said it was the 17th suicide among youngsters in the area since the beginning of last year. No evidence has been found of a suicide pact or a cult, the police said...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: U.S. Nuclear Envoy Meets North Korean Counterpart
Washington?s envoy on the North Korean nuclear issue, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, met in Beijing with Kim Kye-gwan, who leads the North Korean negotiating team, for the first time in two months. Mr. Hill said that they had ?a good, substantial discussion? but that there was no breakthrough. North Korea?s disarmament process has come to a virtual halt over differences on whether the country has fully accounted for its nuclear programs...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Curfew Imposed on U.S. Military Personnel in Okinawa
The United States military indefinitely imposed tight restrictions on all personnel in Okinawa, limiting troops to bases, places of work or off-base housing, amid a furor over the arrest of a marine on suspicion of raping a junior high school girl on Feb. 10 and of several other marines on less serious charges since the weekend. The new restrictions tighten a midnight curfew and bar military personnel from leaving their bases except for official business, work, worship or travel to and from off-base housing...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Kandahar Hit by 3rd Bomb Attack in 3 Days
A car bomb exploded near a police compound in the city of Kandahar, killing one civilian and wounding four, a police official said. It was the third attack in Kandahar Province in three days. More than 100 people were killed by a suicide bomber just outside Kandahar City on Sunday, and 38 died Monday at a market near the Pakistan border in a suicide car bomb explosion. The death toll made the bombings the deadliest spate of militant attacks in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The blasts might also indicate that insurgents are now willing to inflict high civilian casualties to weaken the government in Kabul...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: Suu Kyi Barred From Elections Under New Charter
The military junta declared that a new draft of the country?s constitution had been completed after 14 years and approved for a national referendum in May. It will clear the way for democratic elections in 2010, the junta says, the first since 1990, when the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?s party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory that the junta never recognized. Foreign Minister Nyan Win told a regional gathering in Singapore that the document would bar Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi from running because she had been married to a foreigner, a Briton who died in 1999. She remains under house arrest in Yangon...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Destroyer Hits Fishing Boat
A Japanese naval destroyer collided with a two-man fishing boat in waters near Tokyo, apparently slicing the smaller craft in two, Japan?s military said. No survivors from the fishing boat have been found. The authorities are investigating why the ultra-modern warship?s crew and sophisticated Aegis radar systems had not seen the fishing boat...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Blast in Iraq Kills 15
At least 15 policemen were killed Tuesday after rockets exploded before they could be defused, Iraqi officials said...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
For Cubans in U.S., Views Have Evolved
Many said they expected Cuba?s communist system to stay unchanged under Mr. Castro?s brother Raúl...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
U.S. Ponders Next Steps in Pakistan After Election Results
The U.S. would still like to see some sort of power-sharing deal, officials said, but that notion appears increasingly unlikely...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Tax Inquiry? Principality Is Offended
After weathering days of criticism from Germany over a spectacular tax evasion case, Liechtenstein is digging in to defend its lucrative tradition of banking secrecy...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Driving to the Gold Rush
Leaving jobs at global giants, small miners are striking out for Mexico?s Sierra Madre mountains...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Document Says Trader?s Rogue Bets Began in Summer
New details about the actions of a former Société Générale trader accused of making billions of dollars of unauthorized bets showed that his losses began in July...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Rebels and Ugandan Government Agree to Terms of Prosecutions of War Crimes
Severe crimes committed by the rebels during the war will be tried under a special division of the country?s High Court, according to the agreement...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
2 Paintings Stolen From Zurich Museum Didn?t Get Far
A frantic search for four stolen paintings led to a most unlikely place: the parking lot of a mental hospital just a few hundred yards from the scene of the crime...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Ex-Official in Russia Is Convicted of Aid Theft
Yevgeny O. Adamov, Russia?s former nuclear energy minister, has also been charged in the U.S. with stealing $9 million in American aid intended to improve Russia?s nuclear security...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Stolen Art on Display in a Search for Owners
In a remarkable feat of cooperation between France and Israel, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has opened an exhibition of important art looted by the Nazis from France and then returned after the war...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Trial of 2 Ex-Officials in Iraq Is Delayed as Witnesses Fail to Show
A trial widely seen as a test of the the impartiality of Iraq?s judicial system got off to an inauspicious start on Tuesday...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Chennai Journal: Tackling a Society?s Boundaries, on TV and in a Family
When it is first broadcast later this month, ?Ippadikku Rose? (?Yours, Rose?) is expected to cause a sensation, introducing India?s first transgender celebrity to television...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Tape Inquiry: Ex-Spymaster in the Middle
The actions of a key figure in a controversy over destroyed interrogation tapes show the C.I.A.?s protective instinct...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Pakistan Victors Want Dialogue With Militants
The winners of the parliamentary elections said that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants...
New York Times - February 20, 2008
Brain control headset for gamers
Games will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Plan to boost dying children care
Ministers say services for dying children in England will be transformed by the first-ever palliative care strategy...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Paisley in Scots Government talks
Northern Ireland's First Minister Ian Paisley is in Edinburgh for talks with the Scottish Government...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Nato chief calm on Afghan visit
Nato head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer plays down tensions in the alliance as he arrives in Afghanistan...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
US envoy warns over Iraq pullout
The US envoy to Iraq warns against an over-hasty pullout of troops amid policy pledges by Democratic hopefuls...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Curfew for US troops in Okinawa
The US military imposes a curfew on its troops in Okinawa, amid outrage over a recent alleged rape...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Murder inquiry after youth killed
A police inquiry begins after a 16-year-old boy becomes the fifth teenager to be murdered in London this year...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Music 'can aid stroke recovery'
Listening to music in the early stages after a stroke can improve a patient's recovery, research suggests...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Rock bill clears Commons
Emergency legislation to nationalise Northern Rock is moving to the Lords after being approved by MPs...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Inmates 'at risk' in police cells
Doctors' leaders warn of the potential health risks of putting inmates in police or court cells...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
£800m 'not cutting drop-out rate'
A fifth of students are still dropping out of their university courses despite millions spent on the issue...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Musharraf rules out resignation
Pakistan's President Musharraf says he has no plans to resign, as the opposition seeks an alliance against him...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Bid to tackle 'sick-note culture'
Health Secretary Alan Johnson is expected to set out how he wants to reform the nation's "sick-note" culture...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
Obama wins Wisconsin primary
Barack Obama and John McCain are set to win in Wisconsin, the latest phase of the White House race...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
CPS failed to run suspect checks
Eleven crime suspects whose DNA details went unchecked for over a year have offended in the UK, it emerges...
BBC News - February 20, 2008
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