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Global News Archive for June 2006:
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Bodies of G.I.'s Show Signs of Torture, Iraqi General Says
The U.S. plans to run DNA tests on the remains of the two Americans, suggesting that they had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Iraq Debate in Senate Turns Emotional
Lawmakers reacted to reports of the killing of two U.S. soldiers by adopting two measures opposing amnesty for any Iraqis who attack U.S. troops...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Chilly chip shatters speed record
A supercooled microchip capable of half a trillion calculations every second has been demonstrated in the US...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Sorry England suffer heavy defeat
Sanath Jayasuriya hits 122 as Sri Lanka beat England by 46 runs to go 2-0 up in the one-day series...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Front garden yields ancient tools
Handaxes unearthed in Kent suggest the Britons of 250,000 years ago were smart tool makers...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Owen could miss rest of Cup
England striker Michael Owen is almost certainly out of the World Cup, BBC Sport has been told...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Taylor flies in for Hague trial
Ex-Liberia leader Charles Taylor arrives in the Netherlands where he is to be tried on war crimes charges...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Guantanamo clouds EU-US talks
US President George Bush is in Austria for a summit where the EU will call for the closure of the Guantanamo camp...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Gaza air strike 'kills children'
An Israeli raid on Gaza kills two children and a teenager, injuring 14 other people, Palestinian officials say...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Anti-whaling activists detained
Ten activists are arrested while protesting against moves towards a return to commercial whaling...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
England squander Sweden victory
England will play Ecuador in the last 16 of the World Cup after drawing with Sweden - while Michael Owen suffers a worrying injury...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
US Church defiant on gay bishops
Members of the US Episcopal Church reject a demand from Anglicans that they stop appointing gay bishops...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Smuggled cigarettes cost billions
Billions of pounds in VAT is being lost in Britain to tobacco smugglers, says a key Commons committee...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Immigration sites 'lack decency'
The Chief Inspector of Prisons criticises "systemic deficits" at four short-term immigration detention centres...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
London Journal: Pigeons May Coo but They Aren't Cute, the Mayor Says
Mayor Ken Livingstone has made it his mission since he took office to eradicate pigeons from Trafalgar Square, long the center of pigeon activity in London...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Japan to Pull Its Ground Troops Out of Iraq
The decision ends the country's most significant overseas deployment since World War II...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Missing G.I.'s Are Found Dead in Iraq
An Iraqi general said that the two bodies had marks showing that "they had been tortured in a barbaric fashion."...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Senators to Debate Iraq Measure Today
A week after partisan and often angry House debate over the war, leading Democrats urged the start of a phased withdrawal, but avoided setting a firm timetable...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Debutant panel: Crunch time
Eight people - one from each of the debutant nations at the World Cup - are regularly giving us updates from their country as they watch the tournament...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Araafa and Target light up Ascot
Araafa wins the St James' Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot, while Takeover Target provides the romance...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
BBC calls time on Top of the Pops
The BBC's flagship music programme Top of the Pops is cancelled after 42 years on air...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
White light 'blinds' film pirates
A device that locates and then "blinds" hidden digital cameras has been developed by US scientists...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Thai man bailed ahead of appeal
A Thai-born man facing deportation from Shetland is freed on bail pending his appeal...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Ambulance inquiry call is passed
In a surprise move the assembly votes in favour of a public inquiry into the state of the Welsh Ambulance Service...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Brown in pension 'raid' demand
Gordon Brown is ordered to reveal the forecasts he was given about the impact of his pensions "grab" in 1997...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
US memo reveals Iraqis' grim life
A leaked cable from the US embassy in Baghdad paints a depressing picture of the daily lives of Iraqi staff...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Army deputy apologises to women
The second-in-command of the Indian army apologises for saying it does not need women officers...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Heiress's killer given jail term
A man cleared of murdering a tycoon's daughter is jailed for more than eight years for her manslaughter...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
UDA expels two Shoukri brothers
The loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association expels brothers Andre and Ihab Shoukri...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
N Korea defies missile pressure
North Korea declares it has the right to test a long-range missile, reports say, drawing international concern...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Argentina holds 'Dirty War' trial
An Argentine policeman goes on trial for murder in the first such case since an amnesty was scrapped...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Sicilian anti-Mafia raids net 45
Italian police arrest at least 45 people in what they say is a major anti-Mafia crackdown in Palermo...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Ecuador 0-3 Germany
Germany beat Ecuador with two goals from Miroslav Klose and one from Lukas Podolski to win their group...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Costa Rica 1-2 Poland
Two goals from Boratosz Bosacki give Poland a pride-restoring victory in their final Group A match...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
World Cup scam 'made £60,000'
An internet company which sold fake World Cup tickets may have made more than £60,000 in the scam...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
US soldiers' bodies found in Iraq
Two US soldiers missing in Iraq since Friday are found dead south of Baghdad, the US military says...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Move to tighten schools vetting
The education secretary is to tighten guidelines designed to stop sex offenders working in schools...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Four men arrested in terror raids
Four men are being held as part of an investigation into alleged international terrorism, say police...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Reconstruction: Army Cancels Contract for Iraqi Prison
The cancellation of the $99.1 million contract is another harsh rebuke for Parsons, one of the largest companies working in Iraq...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Racing: Ascot shows off new look
The five-day Royal Ascot meeting gets under way on Tuesday with the official opening of his £200m facelift...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Dutch MP3 search site shut down
The record industry welcomes a Dutch court ruling against a website that provided links to MP3 files...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Chef Ramsay wins £75,000 damages
Chef Gordon Ramsay accepts libel damages over a false newspaper claim that he faked scenes for his TV show...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Young 'failed' on mental health
Doctors warn one in ten children have a mental health problem - and services are ill equipped to cope...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Nuclear power 'stings' taxpayers
Sir Menzies Campbell will argue a new nuclear power stations cannot be built without huge subsidies...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Falls death verdict is overturned
The High Court overturns an unlawful killing verdict on a 16-year-old boy who drowned during an outdoor activity trip...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
May sees bumper mortgage lending
Gross mortgage lending reaches £28.7bn in May, the second-highest monthly figure on record, say lenders...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Deport man bailed ahead of appeal
A Thai man facing deportation from Shetland is given bail pending his appeal...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Hopes dashed over World Cup scam
The government's sport department says it will be "very difficult" to find 400 tickets for victims of a fraud...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Residents angry at parade ruling
Residents say a decision to permit an Orange Order parade in a nationalist area of Belfast is "shameful."...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Iraqis 'plotted to kill Allawi'
The trial opens in Germany of three Iraqis accused of plotting to kill then Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Sudan rejects 'colonial' troops
Sudan's leader says there will be no Western troops in his country, as experts call for UN peacekeepers...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Japan to pull troops out of Iraq
Japan is to pull its troops out of Iraq, ending its first foray into an active war zone since World War II...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Kewell escapes ban for ref insult
Harry Kewell can play in Australia's crucial Group F game against Croatia after escaping punishment from Fifa for insulting a referee...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Cut excess packaging, WI urging
A campaign against excess packaging used by supermarkets is launched by the Women's Institute...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Countdown to England v Sweden
England will look to secure top spot in Group B when they face Sweden on Tuesday...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Paris unveils tribal art museum
French President Jacques Chirac opens a museum of tribal art in Paris - his legacy to the nation...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
PM to get two 'Blair Force Ones'
The prime minister is to get the go-ahead for two personal planes to fly him on official trips, the BBC learns...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Charles Taylor leaves for trial
Ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor is flown out of Sierra Leone to face trial in The Hague on war crimes charges...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
US soldiers 'found dead' in Iraq
Two US soldiers missing in Iraq since Friday are found dead south of Baghdad, Iraq's defence ministry says...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Annan Cautions Rights Council to Avoid Rifts
The U.N. created the new Human Rights Council in an effort to strengthen its mechanism for defending human rights...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Rice Says North Korean Missile Test Would Be 'Provocative Act'
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned North Korea again on Monday to refrain from testing a long-range ballistic missile...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Violence: Afghan Guerrillas Kill 32 With Ties to Legislator
The attack, in broad daylight, was the latest sign of the strength of suspected Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
The Former Leader: Prosecutor in Hussein Trial Calls for the Death Penalty
Saddam Hussein reacted dismissively as the prosecutor demanded that he and three associates be given the death penalty for the persecution of a mainly Shiite town...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Revisiting Sgt. York and a Time When Heroes Stood Tall
The heated examination of a celebrated World War I battle helps explain why it is hard to be a hero these days...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Detainees: Murder Charges for 3 G.I.'s in Iraq
The three soldiers are suspected of killing three detainees and threatening a soldier with death if he reported the shootings...
New York Times - June 20, 2006
Cameron to call for childcare tax break
David Cameron is to call for working parents to qualify for tax relief on childcare to help make it affordable to all...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Hospital car park costs 'a lottery'
Patients are losing out because of huge variations in the costs of parking and travelling, campaigners say...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
New universities 'attract cash'
Universities which get little state funding for research are better at appealing to firms for money, a report says...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Public sector pension scheme fear
Scotland's public spending watchdog says a shortfall in public sector pension schemes could rise to £53bn...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Politicians held in India scandal
Two former ministers of Indian-administered Kashmir are arrested in connection with a sex scandal...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Anti-whalers rally after key vote
European and South American officials seek to intensify efforts to prevent a return to commercial whaling...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
England fans held after skirmish
Sixteen German police officers are slightly injured and four England fans arrested during a skirmish in Cologne...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Troops to police N Orleans again
US soldiers will return to keep order in New Orleans for the first time since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
IVF 'good for British economy'
The cost of IVF treatment is outweighed by the economic contribution the resulting child can make, experts report...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Paedophile policy 'not media-led'
The Home Office rejects claims by a top police officer that policy on paedophiles is being driven by the media...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Japan says troops to leave Iraq
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announces plans to withdraw his country's troops from Iraq...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
Lapses in teacher vetting records
Schools are failing to keep records of whether staff are safe to work with children, a report says...
BBC News - June 20, 2006
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