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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
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Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American Airlines to charge for first checked bag
For some time now, cash-strapped airlines have been doing away with once-complimentary perks such as earphones, meals and extra legroom in exit rows...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gay ex-NJ gov says divorce costs left him bankrupt
Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey on Wednesday said he owes a quarter-million dollars to his boyfriend but wants to pay child support for the daughter he has with his estranged wife, as well as for a child from an earlier marriage...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witness in R. Kelly trial IDs alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case said she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the case...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prosecution witnesses in R. Kelly trial ID alleged victim
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins Europeans Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Manchester United wins European Champions League
Manchester United beat Chelsea 6-5 in a rain-soaked penalty shootout to win the European Champions League title Wednesday night following a 1-1 tie...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Clinton may take delegate fight to convention
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was asked whether she would support the states if they continue the fight...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Giants rally late for 3-2 win over Rockies
Omar Vizquel doubled to start a game-tying rally in the ninth and then drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama, Clinton chart an endgame
Two weeks before the final primary in their marathon battle, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were campaigning hard Wednesday. Both were in Florida, but their goals could hardly have been more different _ or said more about how each one hopes to bring their historic race to a close...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Prices soar for Memorial Day fixins for barbecues
Hamburgers and hot dogs? Check. Lighter fluid? Check. Beer? Check. More money?...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices near $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $133 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil prices pass $134 after report of supply drop
Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car _ and paying for just about everything else _ a growing burden for Americans...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US to let Americans send cell phones to Cuba
President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cubans _ a move that he hopes will push the communist regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Bush vetoes farm bill, saying it is irresponsible
President Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill on Wednesday, calling it a tax increase on regular Americans at a time of high food prices in the face of a near-certain override by Congress...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US guards drag Afghan detainee to war-crimes court
An Afghan detainee is in a war-crimes court in Guantanamo for a pretrial hearing after U.S. military guards dragged him from his cell...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Zimbabwe inflation now over 1 million percent
Weary Zimbabweans are facing a new wave of price increases that will put many basic goods even further out of their reach: A loaf of bread now costs what 12 new cars did a decade ago...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Top ETA official arrested in France
Spanish and French police arrested the reputed leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and five other people, hitting back amid a sustained campaign of bombings by the militant organization, officials said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
South Africa allows military to help stop attacks
President Thabo Mbeki gave the go-ahead Wednesday for military troops to step in and quell a surge of anti-immigrant violence that has left 42 dead and driven tens of thousands from their homes...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
South African troops to help quell violence
President Thabo Mbeki gave the go-ahead Wednesday for troops to step in and quell a surge of anti-immigrant violence that has left 42 dead and driven thousands from their homes...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chavez accuses US of spying on Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez is accusing the United States of using anti-drug flights in the Caribbean to spy on Venezuela...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cyclone Nargis survivors ousted from shelters in Myanmar
With few places to seek refuge, the wooden schoolhouse seemed as good as anywhere...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Deals signed at Palestinian investment conference
Saudi and Qatari companies signed up with Palestinian partners for $550 million in construction projects Wednesday, kicking off an investors conference meant to help revive the Palestinian economy and support Mideast peace efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel holding peace talks with Syria
Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced Wednesday the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break, saying they have been speaking indirectly through Turkish mediators "in order to achieve the goal of comprehensive peace."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
2 arrested in bomb scare at Swedish nuclear plant
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the 2005 London transit bombings, officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel engages in indirect peace talks with Syria
Israel and Syria unexpectedly announced Wednesday the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break, saying they have been speaking indirectly through Turkish mediators "in order to achieve the goal of comprehensive peace."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Jordan militants sentenced for plotting chemical attack
Eight al-Qaida-linked militants were handed life sentences on Wednesday _ three in absentia _ for plotting a 2004 chemical attack on the U.S. Embassy and other sites in the kingdom...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kenya mob kills 11 accused of being witches
A group of up to 300 young men killed 11 people who were accused of being witches and wizards in western Kenya, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
8 earthquake pandas going to Beijing
Eight pandas from a Chinese reserve severely shaken by a deadly earthquake are expected in the capital this week to go on display for the Olympics, a Beijing Zoo spokesman said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Syria seizes more smuggled Iraqi artifacts
Syrian customs officials seized 40 artifacts stolen from the National Museum in Iraq as they were being smuggled across the border into Syria, state media reported Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US Mosul attacks down 85 percent
The number of daily attacks in Mosul has dropped at least 85 percent since U.S.-Iraqi forces began an offensive against Sunni insurgents in the city earlier this month, the top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Microsoft offers cash back search
Microsoft is offering shoppers cash rebates to use its new service in a bid to close the gap on market leader Google...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Patient safety worry over records
Thousands of NHS patients are seen every year without doctors having access to their records, an investigation has revealed...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Exam-boosting drug tests 'loom'
Schools may need to test students sitting exams for brain improving drugs in the future, experts say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Call to settle ocean care dispute
Governments are urged to agree measures to protect oceans and the sea floor at a UN conservation meeting...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
ITV 'failed to meet show quotas'
ITV fails to meet the quota for the number of programmes it makes outside of London, Ofcom says...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
France braces for day of strikes
French rail workers are to be joined by other workers in a day of strikes against pension reform plans...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Cowen criticised for swear word
Irish prime minister Brian Cowen apologises after Dáil microphones pick up remarks in which he used the F word...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
'Witches' burnt to death in Kenya
Eleven elderly people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in Kenya, police say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Democratic rivals target Florida
Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign in Florida, as they vie for the party nomination...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Man U win Champions League
Manchester United fans celebrate in Moscow and at home after beating Chelsea...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Epilepsy nurse numbers 'too few'
A charity calls for more nurses to help treat the 40,000 people in Scotland affected by the condition...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Hatton Sr wary of Lazcano threat
Ricky Hatton's father Ray says his son's latest opponent is a far tougher opponent than he is being given credit for...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
No father figures
Churches unhappy at change in law on IVF treatment...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Jersey home
How important is the latest news in the abuse inquiry?...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
In pictures
English clubs battle it out in Moscow...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Ex-policeman in sex slave probe
A former British policeman is arrested in Thailand over claims he sold women who were used as sex slaves...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Exploding star caught in the act by astronomers
Astronomers capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Could a trust drug be the cure for social phobia?
A nasal spray can neutralise our fear of social interaction, scientists find...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Radcliffe waits on hip scan news
The severity of Paula Radcliffe's hip injury is set to be revealed after an MRI scan...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Man Utd win in dramatic shoot-out
Manchester United clinch the Champions League after beating Chelsea 6-5 in a penalty shoot-out...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Rural homes dominate broadband UK
Rural households are now more likely to have a broadband connection than residents of towns, says Ofcom...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Man charged over Nairac killing
A 57-year-old man is due in court charged with kidnapping and the false imprisonment of Captain Robert Nairac...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Police free former al-Qaeda man
Police release former al-Qaeda recruiter Hassan Butt without charge after 12 days...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Crewe voters set to go to polls
Thousands of voters are due to go to the polls in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy released from hospital, heads to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital and is heading to his Cape Cod home after being diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kennedy leaves hospital and returns to Cape Cod
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumor...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Big Oil defends profits before Senate panel
Top executives of the five largest oil companies tried to shift anger over high prices to a debate over supplies Wednesday, leading a senator to accuse them of acting like "hapless victims" while racking up record profits...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Pink Floyd, Renee Fleming win Polar Music Prize
Pink Floyd and soprano Renee Fleming were named winners of the 2008 Polar Music Prize on Wednesday for their contributions to their musical genres...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lee Eastwood omitted black troops in WWII films
Spike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Analysis Race draws to end, time for legacies
The Democratic presidential race is all but over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama closes in on Democratic nomination
Sen. Barack Obama pulled within shouting distance of the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, though he still needs help from superdelegates to claim the prize...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to begin charging for first checked bag
American Airlines said Wednesday it will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag, cut flights
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off possibly thousands of workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
American to charge for 1st checked bag,Delta balks
American Airlines will start charging $15 for the first checked bag, cut domestic flights and lay off workers as it grapples with record-high fuel prices...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Time Warner to reap $9.25 billion in cable spinoff
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion windfall and allowing it to focus on cable network, entertainment and publishing operations...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups rush to help attacked migrants in S. Africa
Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil settles above $129 for first time
Just in time for the start of the summer driving season: Oil near $130 a barrel and gas up nearly 20 percent over last year. It may be worth packing some extra cash along with the picnic supplies this Memorial Day weekend...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Investigators dig for bodies at Manson refuge
Investigators delicately dug with shovels in the desert heat Tuesday in a painstaking hunt for possible victims of Charles Manson and his followers at a ranch where they hid after a 1969 killing spree...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
State media Myanmar shuns aid from US warships
Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims on Wednesday, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lebanese rivals reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rival Lebanese factions reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel says it is holding peace talks with Syria
Israel says it is holding indirect peace talks with Syria mediated by Turkey...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Indian rights activist to remain in jail
Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Somali official Gunmen seize 3 aid workers
Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in southern Somalia on Wednesday in what a government official described as a "terrorist act."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
China orders budgets cut to feed $10B relief fund
A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China _ the only person found alive Wednesday _ while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Myanmar shuns aid from US warships UN urges more relief
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar to focus on saving lives, not on politics, after the military government on Wednesday shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone survivors...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Zimbabwe inflation now over 1 million percent
Weary Zimbabweans are facing a new wave of price increases that will put many basic goods even further out of their reach: A loaf of bread now costs what 12 new cars did a decade ago...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US guards drag Afghan detainee to war-crimes court
An Afghan detainee is in a war-crimes court in Guantanamo for a pretrial hearing after U.S. military guards dragged him from his cell...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Swedish nuclear plant sealed off due to bomb scare
Authorities sealed off a nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden after a welder arrived for work with a plastic bag containing traces of an explosive substance, police and plant officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Report Conflicts using child soldiers declines
The number of conflicts in which child soldiers were involved dropped sharply from 27 in 2004 to 17 at the end of last year, according to a report by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Pakistan authorities, militants reach peace deal
A senior official says the government has agreed to a 15-point peace deal with militants in an area of Pakistan plagued by insurgent violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police say at least 11 killed by gunfire in Baghdad
At least 11 people were killed Wednesday when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, scene of a major military clampdown, Iraqi police said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Facts about the Golan Heights
Israel and Syria said Wednesday they are holding peace talks through Turkish mediators on a dispute that centers on the Golan Heights. Some facts about the territory:...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
156 die drinking tainted liquor in India
Locally brewed liquor apparently tainted with lethal chemicals continued to kill in southern India, with another 66 people dying and bringing the overall death toll from the past five days to 156, police said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Pop mogul gets 25 years for fraud
Lou Pearlman, who created Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for a $300m fraud...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
'Fight continues' on abortions
Pro-life campaigners have vowed to continue their fight to cut the abortion limit after the next election...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Study into health impact of MRI
Experts are to investigate whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners can damage health...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Exploding star caught in the act
Astronomers have been able to capture and record the moment when a massive star begins to blow itself apart...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Ban to meet Burma's top general
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says General Than Shwe has agreed to meet him when he visits cyclone-hit Burma...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Naples faces 'disaster measures'
Italy's prime minister announces the southern city's rubbish crisis will be handled like a natural disaster...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Pakistan in deal with militants
Pakistan agrees to pull troops out of a valley in the north-west under an accord with pro-Taleban militants...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Fans stranded by cancelled flight
More than 200 football fans give up hope of reaching Moscow after their flight from Gatwick is cancelled...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
163 jobs to go at rubber factory
Competition from the Far East is blamed for 163 job losses with the planned closure of a factory after 70 years...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Bombs left in baby-changing room
Two fire bombs, one partially exploded, are found in a baby-changing room in a fast food outlet, the police say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
SA leader orders army to deploy
South Africa's president approves the deployment of the army after recent attacks kill more than 20 foreigners...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
'Like Butlins'
Doing time didn't put this young offender off crime...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
PMQs verdict
The wider Gordon's grin, the less he is enjoying it...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Belts tightening
Why are we still buying fancy shoes and fine wine?...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
PM Brown 'in by-election bunker'
David Cameron accuses the PM of hiding in "his bunker", instead of campaigning in Crewe and Nantwich...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Scotland plans tobacco display ban
Plans to ban the open display of cigarettes in shops are announced by the Scottish Government...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Owners wait to discover if Labrador cross Bella is the oldest dog in the world
A Derbyshire couple are trying to prove their dog is the oldest canine in the world...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Jersey bones 'may suggest murder'
Bone fragments found in the cellar of a former Jersey children's home had been cut, police say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Fishermen clash with Paris police
Fishermen clash with police in Paris as they step up protests, including a channel blockade, over fuel costs...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Pilot compensation appeal refused
The government is refused the right to appeal against a damages claim by a pilot wrongly accused of training 9/11 hijackers...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Neglect charge over girl's death
A man and woman are charged with neglect and remanded in custody after the death of a seven-year-old girl in Birmingham...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY gov. spends birthday undergoing eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson spent his 54th birthday in the hospital undergoing an emergency procedure for glaucoma, but his physician said he could likely resume normal activity on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family realing after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedys family deals with a real curveball
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
APNewsBreak Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
First contestant axed during Dancing finale
And then there were two on the "Dancing With the Stars" finale...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Kennedys family reeling after grim diagnosis
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cowell Archuleta wins Idol in a knockout
The Arch triumphed on "American Idol," but this is still a democracy, after all...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ky., Ore. voters choose US Senate candidates
The speaker of the Oregon House held a narrow lead over a fiery political activist Tuesday in the race for a chance to unseat the sole GOP senator on the West Coast...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Analysis Race draws to end, time for legacies
The Democratic presidential race is all but over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil rises to record on supply worries, weak dollar
Oil prices rose to another intraday trading record Wednesday in Asia as supply concerns mounted and the dollar weakened...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil rises above $130 for first time
Crude oil prices are shooting further into record territory, breaking above $130 a barrel for the first time on persistent supply concerns and a weaker dollar...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Feds may help cell phone users get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil rises above $130 a barrel for first time
Oil prices rose above $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday in Asia as supply concerns mounted and the dollar weakened...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
4 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza airstrikes
Israeli aircraft launched at least three attacks on Palestinians Tuesday, killing four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, Palestinian doctors said. Despite the violence, Israeli defense officials said an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire could take effect within days...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet
A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships _ and was speared through the leg by a javelin...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Opening statements begin in R. Kelly trial
A prosecutor in the child pornography trial of R. Kelly warned jurors Tuesday they would have to watch a videotape depicting an "underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Jolie, Eastwood film premiering at Cannes festival
Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the story behind her latest drama hits close to home: the loss of a child...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups rush to help attacked migrants in S. Africa
Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chinas post-quake challenge 5 million homeless
China is grappling with the next massive task in the aftermath of its earthquake _ how to shelter the 5 million people left homeless...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Polisario rebels celebrate 35th anniversary
It was a military parade but there were no fighter jets, tanks or missiles. Neither was there much public or press...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cabinet minister Lebanese rivals reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached an agreement Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that erupted into bloody violence and pushed the country to the edge of another civil war, a Cabinet minister said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Official Rival Lebanese factions reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached an agreement Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that erupted into bloody violence and pushed the country to the edge of another civil war, a Cabinet minister said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
State media Myanmar shuns aid from US warships
Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims on Wednesday, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lebanese rivals reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rival Lebanese factions reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
China orders budgets cut to feed $10B relief fund
A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China _ the only person found alive Wednesday _ while the government ordered budgets slashed to free money for relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Indian rights activist to remain in jail
Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NATO 2 alliance soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Officials say violence in Afghanistan has left 18 dead, including two NATO soldiers and 14 insurgents...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NZ pilotss prayer answered in emergency landing
It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field _ coming to rest right next to a sign reading, "Jesus is Lord."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Israel says it is holding peace talks with Syria
Israel says it is holding indirect peace talks with Syria mediated by Turkey...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sinn Fein IRA figure Brian Keenan dies of cancer
The Sinn Fein party says senior IRA commander Brian Keenan has died of cancer...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Swedish nuclear plant sealed off due to bomb scare
Authorities sealed off a nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden after a welder arrived for work with a plastic bag containing traces of an explosive substance, police and plant officials said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Amy Winehouse to play Glastonbury
Organisers have confirmed that the troubled singer will play the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm on 28 June...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Net downloads to get age ratings
Games and videos downloaded from the web are to be policed by a voluntary age rating scheme...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Bank voted 8-1 to maintain rates
The Bank of England voted eight to one to keep interest rates on hold at 5%, its latest minutes show...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
LIVE: PMQ Point-by-point
The key points as Gordon Brown takes prime minister's questions in the House of Commons...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
MPs reject cut in abortion limit
MPs vote to keep the upper time limit for abortions at 24 weeks - despite attempts to cut it...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Diploma take-up lower than hoped
Education ministers are promoting the new Diplomas amid signs that numbers applying are lower than hoped for...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Israel-Syria confirm peace talks
Israel and Syria say they are holding indirect, Turkish-mediated talks to reach a comprehensive peace agreement...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
China warns over quake corruption
Chinese regulators say relief work for the earthquake must be transparent, and warn corruption will be punished...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Indian toxic alcohol toll soars
About 150 people in southern Indian have now died from drinking poisonous illegal alcohol, police say...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Tributes to police car death girl
Tributes are paid to the "happy, popular and fun loving" 16-year-old hit and killed by a police car...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Shopkeeper killer jailed for life
A man who killed an Ayrshire shopkeeper in an unprovoked attack is sentenced to life in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Bride-to-be dies in island resort
A woman dies after a fall, within an hour of celebrating her engagement on the island of Cyprus...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Warning follows 900 NI wildfires
Firefighters tackle 900 wildland fires in just six weeks - including an overnight arson attack at a forest...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
South Africa attacks reach Durban
Violence against foreigners in South Africa spreads outside Johannesburg for the first time to the port of Durban...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
English invasion
So far so peaceful as football fans pour into Moscow...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Bin Laden tapes
Do web messages reveal al-Qaeda problems in Iraq?...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Final wish
Terminally ill man campaigns to the end for donors...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Evading the junta
Burmese people try to get aid to cyclone survivors...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Build-up to Champions League final
Thousands of Man Utd and Chelsea fans gather in Moscow for the Champions League final...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Grant focused on final not future
Chelsea manager Avram Grant insists his attention is on the Champions League final, not his future at Stamford Bridge...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Design revamp for '$100 laptop'
Future versions of the OLPC laptop will be a dual-screen, e-book device that will cost just $75...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Why has a new portrait of Margaret Thatcher proved controversial?
A giant tin portrait of Margaret Thatcher inside the Welsh assembly building divides AMs...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
The US is told to revamp the size and texture of its dollar notes
The US government is told to change the size or texture of dollars as it is difficult for blind people to tell them apart...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Lebanon rivals agree crisis deal
Lebanese leaders agree on steps to end months of political deadlock that led to the worst violence since the civil war...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
English fans await Moscow final
Thousands of football fans are in Moscow for the first all-English Champions League final, between Chelsea and Manchester United...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Dalai Lama addresses Parliament
The Dalai Lama appears in front of MPs at Westminster, amid criticism of the government's decision not to give him a Downing Street reception...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Tax changes to hit '18m families'
A leading think tank says that Labour's temporary tax concessions will lead to 18 million losers next year...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Parties' last bid for Crewe votes
The three main parties are out in Crewe and Nantwich for the final day of campaigning ahead of the by-election...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Smith 'betrayed' police over pay
The home secretary is accused of making a "monumental mistake" by refusing to backdate a pay rise for police...
BBC News - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside SoCal church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Police Gunman wounds 3 outside California church
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cell phone users may get break on fees
The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy has cancerous brain tumor
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ted Kennedys family deals with a real curveball
The grim diagnosis that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has an almost certainly fatal brain tumor was "a real curveball" that left his family stunned even as he joked and laughed with them, his wife told her friends...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
NY gov. spends birthday undergoing eye procedure
Gov. David Paterson spent his 54th birthday in the hospital undergoing an emergency procedure for glaucoma, but his physician said he could likely resume normal activity on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
First contestant axed during Dancing finale
And then there were two on the "Dancing With the Stars" finale...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cowell Archuleta wins Idol in a knockout
The Arch triumphed on "American Idol," but this is still a democracy, after all...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Kouzmanoffs homer leads Padres past Cardinals, 3-2
Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, a rare clutch hit for San Diego that carried the Padres to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals but came too late to give Greg Maddux the victory Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chad Billingsley shuts down Reds in Dodgers 4-1 win
Chad Billingsley pitched seven scoreless innings and singled home a run, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over Cincinnati on Tuesday night and sending the Reds to their eighth straight loss at Chavez Ravine...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Rays take advantage of error to beat As 3-2
Scott Kazmir scraped out another impressive win thanks to one clutch hit...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama wins Oregon, moves to brink of nomination
Barack Obama stands at the brink of victory in the Democratic presidential race. He has defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Oregon primary and is within 100 delegates of the total needed to claim the top prize at the party convention this summer...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Ky., Ore. voters choose US Senate candidates
The speaker of the Oregon House held a narrow lead over a fiery political activist Tuesday in the race for a chance to unseat the sole GOP senator on the West Coast...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Analysis Race draws to end, time for legacies
The Democratic presidential race is all but over...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Target, Saks expect weak sales climate for year
For U.S. retailers, the phrase "challenging environment" has become a shared refrain for one of the toughest quarters in decades. And merchants expect the climate to remain rough for the rest of the year as higher gas and food costs as well as slumping home prices weigh on shoppers...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Obama inching ever closer to nomination
Barack Obama is inching ever closer to locking up the Democratic presidential nomination despite another resounding loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton, this time in Kentucky...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil holds above $129 on supply worries
Oil prices held steady above $129 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after hitting another record in the previous session as supply concerns mounted and traders poured in for last-minute buying as the June contract expired...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Oil holds above $129 a barrel on supply worries
Oil prices held steady above $129 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after hitting another record in the previous session as supply concerns mounted and traders poured in for last-minute buying as the June contract expired...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Queens eldest grandson weds at Windsor Castle
The eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II married his Canadian fiancee Saturday in a private ceremony at Windsor Castle...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
4 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza airstrikes
Israeli aircraft launched at least three attacks on Palestinians Tuesday, killing four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, Palestinian doctors said. Despite the violence, Israeli defense officials said an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire could take effect within days...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Eastwood says he wont be back as Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Photographer speared by javelin at Utah meet
A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships _ and was speared through the leg by a javelin...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Opening statements begin in R. Kelly trial
A prosecutor in the child pornography trial of R. Kelly warned jurors Tuesday they would have to watch a videotape depicting an "underage child performing sex acts that you have never seen before."...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
12 die in South Africa anti-foreigner violence
Emmerson Ziso fled hunger and repression in neighboring Zimbabwe, but now he wants to go back. Even his violent, chaotic homeland seems a haven compared to Johannesburg, where weekend attacks on foreigners left at least 12 dead...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Jolie, Eastwood film premiering at Cannes festival
Pregnant with twins, Angelina Jolie says the story behind her latest drama hits close to home: the loss of a child...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Groups rush to help attacked migrants in S. Africa
Aid groups struggled Tuesday to feed and shelter thousands of immigrants chased from their homes by attacks on foreigners, while critics said the government must shoulder some of the blame for the eruption of violence...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Attacks on Khyber trucking threaten US supply line
Thieves, feuding tribesmen and Taliban militants are creating chaos along the main Pakistan-Afghanistan highway, threatening a vital supply line for U.S. and NATO forces...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
FROM AP ARCHIVES Bosnian Olympian dodges shells
Running scared in borrowed track shoes, Mirsada Buric strides through the debris-strewn streets of this former Olympic city, risking sniper fire to keep alive her dream of competing in the Summer Games...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cell phone beep marked days for China quake victim
As he lay pinned by a concrete slab on his chest, Yuan Jiang heard the stuttering beep of the alarm clock on his cell phone, the only thing helping him keep track of time while trapped in a collapsed office building...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Chinas post-quake challenge 5 million homeless
China is grappling with the next massive task in the aftermath of its earthquake _ how to shelter the 5 million people left homeless...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Cabinet minister Lebanese rivals reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached an agreement Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that erupted into bloody violence and pushed the country to the edge of another civil war, a Cabinet minister said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Polisario rebels celebrate 35th anniversary
It was a military parade but there were no fighter jets, tanks or missiles. Neither was there much public or press...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Official Rival Lebanese factions reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached an agreement Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that erupted into bloody violence and pushed the country to the edge of another civil war, a Cabinet minister said...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Gulf states rise higher on oil boom
Gulf countries swimming in oil wealth are using the money to build huge industrial cities and gleaming financial centers to sustain them when the wells run dry...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Lebanese rivals reach agreement
Rival Lebanese factions reached a deal Wednesday to resolve an 18-month political crisis that pitted Hezbollah against the Western-backed government and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
State media Myanmar shuns aid from US warships
Myanmar shunned a U.S. proposal for naval ships to deliver aid to cyclone victims on Wednesday, according to state-run media, dimming hopes that the vessels could provide a major boost to relief efforts...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
US heartbroken that terrorists use children
The top American envoy at the U.N. slammed terrorists and insurgents for using children to carry out violence, but said Tuesday that the U.S. tries to provide special treatment when it detains those young people...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Death toll in Philippine storm up to 37
The Philippine disaster agency says the death toll from a tropical storm that battered the northern Philippines over the weekend has risen from 12 to 37...
Southern Ledger - May 21, 2008
Witness Somali gunmen seize 2 Italian aid workers
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