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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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Hamas Fighter Killed in Gaza
JERUSALEM ? A Hamas fighter was shot to death on Friday in Gaza near the border with Israel, but the Israeli army said it had nothing to do with it...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Cubans Still Waiting for Castro
Fidel Castro did not make an appearance at the inauguration of an oil refinery, as had been speculated...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Iraqi Shiite Wants to Limit Sunni Patrols
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said that the neighborhood patrols in Sunni areas must submit to government authority...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Mbeki Plans to Stay in Office
South Africa?s president intends remain in office until his term ends in 2009, despite being ousted as leader of the African National Congress by his rival and likely successor, Jacob Zuma...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Not one but 'six giraffe species'
The world's tallest animal, the giraffe, may actually be several species, a new genetics study suggests...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Emap sells trade mags for £1bn
Media group Emap has agreed to sell its trade magazine and exhibitions businesses for £1bn...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Fujimori sorry for abuse victims
Ex-Peru head Alberto Fujimori apologises to victims of abuse but denies at his trial he ordered death squads...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
UK troops to make early Iraq exit
Around 350 British troops are to return to the UK from southern Iraq four months early...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Defeat in pub TV football appeal
A pub landlady suffers a setback in her battle to show live UK football through a foreign broadcaster...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Pakistani police seek bomb clues
Pakistani police hunt those responsible for a suicide bombing that killed 50 people at a mosque near Peshawar...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Holiday misery as firm collapses
Thousands of people lose their Christmas and New Year holidays as a travel firm ceases trading...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Christmas message for Madeleine
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have sent her a Christmas message in a new appeal for information...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Warning over Pentagon war funding
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns the Pentagon could running out of money for Iraq and Afghanistan...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Japanese Minister OK?s Fighting Godzilla
Japan?s defense minister stirred a minor media squall after joking with reporters about possible invasions by space aliens and movie monsters during a regular news conference...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Belgium Arrests 14 in Terrorist Plot
The suspects were planning to use explosives to free an Al Qaeda sympathizer from prison, officials said...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Manhunt 2 to face court challenge
British censors win the right to fight the release of video game Manhunt 2 in the High Court...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
General GCSE Diploma idea dropped
The government has quietly scrapped its plan for a General Diploma recognising GCSE achievement...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
300 children saved by new vaccine
A new pneumococcal vaccine saves more than 300 children from serious illness in England in a year, estimates show...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Memo sparks foreign prisoner row
The PM is attacked over the claim that officials have "no interest" in deporting foreign criminals jailed for under a year...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Rock to hold emergency meeting
Northern Rock will hold an emergency meeting for shareholders on its sale process on 15 January...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Man denies murdering fire couple
A man denies murdering a couple who died in a fire at their home in County Armagh last year...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Nepal court rules on gay rights
Nepal's Supreme Court orders the government to scrap laws that discriminate against homosexuals...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Last Bradford rioter is sentenced
The 200th and last rioter to be sentenced after the 2001 violence in Bradford is jailed for two and a half years...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Iraq children 'paying high price'
Two million Iraqi children are facing threats including poor nutrition, lack of education and violence, Unicef says...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
French on trial for Chad 'kidnap'
Six French nationals accused of trying to kidnap 103 children go on trial in Chad, amid tight security...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Football: Arsenal draw AC Milan
Premier League leaders Arsenal are paired with holders AC Milan in the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Festive getaway off smoothly
Roads are said to be busy but with no major problems as an estimated 18 million cars head off for the festive getaway...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
New royal baby named James
The Count and Countess of Wessex name their son James Alexander Philip Theo, Buckingham Palace says...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Court rules against pub TV appeal
The High Court rules against parts of an appeal by a pub landlady who showed foreign feeds of live English football...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Pakistan suicide blast 'kills 50'
At least 50 people die in a suicide attack on a mosque in north-west Pakistan, but a top politician survives...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Heart unit suspends transplants
Heart transplants in Scotland are suspended for several weeks and a review ordered, after a rise in patient deaths...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
DNA test halted after Omagh case
Police chiefs suspend the use of a DNA technique following the Omagh bomb verdict...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
New Zealand Quake Clean-Up Under Way
A strong earthquake struck New Zealand night, collapsing at least three older buildings in one coastal city on North Island, sparking small fires...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Japan to Drop Humpback Whale Hunt
Japan is dropping its plan to kill humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, the country?s top government spokesman said...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Aid Workers on Trial in Chad Case
Six French aid workers accused of trying to kidnap 103 children went on trial in Chad, where there is popular pressure for them to be punished...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Picasso Painting Stolen in Brazil
Thieves homed in on two paintings, one by Pablo Picasso and another by Candido Portinari, in the first successful heist in the history of Brazil?s premier modern art museum...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Belgium Arrests 14 in Terror Probe
Fourteen people were arrested for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
50 Killed in Pakistan Bombing
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb inside a mosque as people celebrated a major holiday with a former interior minister...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Apple shuts down rumours website
A legal row over leaked details of Apple products ends with the rumours site being shut down...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Winehouse album is UK top-seller
Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, is set to be the biggest-selling album of the year...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Outspoken school adviser ousted
The controversial education adviser Sir Cyril Taylor is replaced after 10 years spearheading school reforms...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Wii players need to exercise too
Playing "active" computer games such as the Nintendo Wii is no substitute for playing real sports, warn experts...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Cameron plea to China on Mugabe
Tory leader David Cameron urges China to end aid to the "evil" Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
High Street sales staying steady
Retail sales in the UK remain steady in November, official figures show, despite fears of a fall-off in spending...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
£3 cap on hospital parking charge
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon puts a £3 cap on car parking charges at hospitals across Scotland...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Fears for 400 steel company jobs
A steel firm employing around 400 workers in south Wales goes into administrative receivership...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Man held over double fire deaths
A man is being questioned by police investigating the murders of a County Armagh couple last year...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
'Severe trauma' of flood victims
Flood victims in the worst-hit parts of the country are so severely traumatised some consider suicide, it is claimed...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Europe's border-free zone expands
Celebrations mark the enlargement of Europe's Schengen border-free zone to include nine more EU states...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Football: Sanchez leaves Fulham
Struggling Fulham end Lawrie Sanchez's reign as boss at Craven Cottage...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Winnie makes comeback in ANC vote
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is the top candidate in votes for the executive body of South Africa's governing ANC...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Football: Arsenal draw AC Milan
Premier League leaders Arsenal are paired with Champions League holders AC Milan in the draw for the last 16...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Humpback whale hunt halted
A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
'No action' for Menezes officers
Four senior Met Police officers will not face disciplinary action over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
300 children saved by vaccine
Over 300 children have avoided serious illness since the pneumococcal vaccine was introduced in England 12 months ago...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Criticism grows of Omagh policing
The NI secretary does not publicly back the ex-head of the RUC after criticism of the Omagh bomb inquiry...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Bus chip killer sent to Broadmoor
A paranoid schizophrenic is sent to Broadmoor for stabbing a man to death on a bus in a row over chips...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Pakistan suicide blast 'kills 38'
At least 38 people die in a suicide attack on a mosque in north-west Pakistan, but a top politician survives...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Memo reignites foreign criminals row
Gordon Brown is attacked over claim officials have "no interest" in deporting foreign criminals jailed under a year...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Man United fans jailed in Italy
Four Manchester United fans are jailed in Italy for their part in a fight with Roma fans...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Airport workers vote for strikes
Workers at some of the UK's busiest airports vote to strike in January over plans to change pension rights...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Election Date Set
Spain will hold a general election on March 9, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said. He said that he would dissolve the current Parliament on Jan. 14 and that the election campaign would start on Feb. 22. (AP)...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Sierra Leone: Blast in Capital Kills 17
A huge explosion in the center of the capital, Freetown, killed at least 17 people and wounded many more, according to witnesses and rescue officials...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: 3 From GuantÁnamo Freed in London
Three former British residents who were held for more than four years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and detained on their return to Britain on Wednesday, were reunited with their families...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Long Lives the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain?s oldest-ever monarch, reaching a new milestone in a job she has held for more than a half century...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Kyrgyzstan: On Top of Old Santa
The authorities say they plan to name one of the country?s snowy peaks Mount Santa Claus. Why such an honor from the predominantly Muslim and former Soviet land? ?We want to develop tourism, and Santa Claus is an ideal brand to help us do this,? said Nurhon Tadzhibayeva, a tourism official...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Prodi Faces Down 2 Confidence Votes
Prime Minister Romano Prodi survived his 29th confidence vote in 19 months to pass a portion of the 2008 budget...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China and India in First War Games
China and India began a weeklong joint military exercise in China?s southwestern Yunnan Province...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Lawyers? Leader Rearrested
Pakistani officials rearrested Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of Pakistan?s lawyers movement, just 18 hours after granting him a three-day release from detention as a good-will gesture for the Id al-Adha holiday...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: ?Lazy? Bismarck Quits Parliament
Amid calls to resign for being ?Germany?s laziest M.P.,? as the press called him, Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, left, the 46-year-old great-great-grandson of the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, has quit Parliament after a two-and-a-half-year term...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: India: Premier Asks States to Fight Maoists
With ill-equipped and short-staffed local police forces unable to handle an increasingly well-organized Maoist insurgency in central India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged state governments to establish special police forces to take on the guerrillas...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Australia Suit Over Wheat for Iraq
Six Australian businessmen are facing the possibility of millions of dollars in fines in a new civil case connected with huge bribes paid to the government of Saddam Hussein...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Housing Aide Out Over Cheap Home
Jean-Paul Bolufer, the chief of staff in the Housing Ministry, was ordered to step down for enjoying a subsidized 2,000-square-foot Left Bank apartment at a quarter of the market rent...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Qaeda Deputy to Take Queries
Arabic-language Web sites have begun publishing invitations purportedly issued by Al Qaeda for questions to be submitted to an ?open interview? with Osama bin Laden?s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Shut Out in Kyrgyzstan Elections, Opposition Party Vows Protests
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev called the election three years ahead of schedule to break a stalemate with the previous Parliament, which was dominated by the opposition...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Man Cleared in 1998 Northern Ireland Blast
The long-awaited verdict left investigators in Northern Ireland without a single conviction in the Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people and wounded more than 200...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Bomber Hits A Gathering Of Civilians And G.I.?s
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vest among a group of local residents as they received holiday gifts from soldiers northeast of Baghdad...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Sarkozy in Rome: Affairs of State and the Heart
A Vatican statement described the meeting as cordial, touching on ?the future of Europe,? the Middle East, problems in Africa and unspecified ?hostage dramas.?...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
House Panel Subpoenas C.I.A. Official Over Destroyed Tapes
The subpoena for Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., who officials say ordered the destruction of the tapes, came after the committee?s staff pored over classified documents at C.I.A. headquarters...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
U.N. Body Plans to End Investigation of Contracts
The General Assembly plans to put an early end to an in-house panel that has exposed more than $600 million in tainted U.N. contracts and is investigating an additional $1 billion...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Open Borders Extended Within European Union
The expansion of the so-called Schengen zone, where people can travel without showing passports, removed border barriers first in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia at midnight...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
30 Killed in Pakistan Bombing
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a residential compound of Pakistan?s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Indictments Stir Plot in the Case of the Cash-Filled Bag
Federal prosecutors indicted four Venezuelans and one Uruguayan on charges of illegally operating as agents of the Venezuelan government in a scheme to deliver $800,000 to Argentina?s new president?s campaign...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
China Grabs West?s Smoke-Spewing Factories
In its rush to recreate the industrial revolution that made the West rich, China has absorbed most of the major industries that once made the West dirty...
New York Times - December 21, 2007
Humour 'comes from testosterone'
Men are naturally more comedic than women because of the male hormone testosterone, an expert claims...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Discounting 'rife' in UK stores
Retailers are having to slash prices earlier to attract pre-Chrismas shoppers, a survey suggests...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Search to resume for missing men
The search for three crewmen feared dead after a tug capsized in heavy fog on the River Clyde is due to resume...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
'Twelve die' in Pakistan attack
At least 12 people die in a suicide attack in north-western Pakistan, according to police...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Control order for detainee Hicks
An Australian court issues a control order for former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, ahead of his release...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Brazil bishop ends hunger strike
A Brazilian bishop protesting against a major irrigation project gives up a hunger strike after 24 days...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Police greet shot boy TV response
A televised appeal by the mother of a teenager gunned down at an ice rink prompts a "positive response"...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Rice in Guantanamo closure plea
Condoleezza Rice urges countries with nationals detained at Guantanamo Bay to help the US shut the camp...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
French six due for trial in Chad
Six French nationals accused of trying to kidnap 103 children in Chad go on trial in the capital, N'Djamena...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Haneef wins Australia visa appeal
An Indian doctor briefly linked to UK terror attacks wins a court battle to regain his Australian work visa...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Europe's border-free zone grows
Celebrations mark the enlargement of the Schengen zone to include nine more EU countries...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Airport strike ballot result due
The result of a vote that could lead to strikes at some of the UK's busiest airports is to be announced...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Police ponder Omagh trial fallout
Police and prosecutors study the implications of the Omagh bomb trial after a man is cleared of all charges...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
Memo sparks deportation row
Immigration staff have "no interest" in deporting foreign inmates who serve less than a year in jail, a memo says...
BBC News - December 21, 2007
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