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Global News Archive for August 2007:
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Australian Court Rules for Indian
A court ruled that the immigration minister had acted improperly when he revoked the visa of an Indian doctor because of his association with the men involved in the botched bombings in London and Glasgow in late June...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Toll in Iraq Bombings Is Raised to More Than 500
The new figure from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society makes last week?s bombings the worst attacks since the invasion...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Hurricane Loses Strength as It Crosses Mexico
Hurricane Dean was downgraded today from Category 5 down to Category 2 as it moved over the Yucatán Peninsula...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
T. rex 'would outrun footballer'
Tyrannosaurus rex was fast enough on its legs to outrun a footballer, a study by a British team suggests...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Arthritis drug gets NHS approval
Patients with severe arthritis are to be given access to a new class of smart drugs on the NHS, advisers have ruled...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Surge in US home repossessions
The number of US home repossessions soared in July, up 93% on a year earlier, figures suggest...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Body find in search for fisherman
Emergency crews searching for missing prawn fisherman Gordon Wilson discover a body in a sunken vessel...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Fighting dogs seized in operation
The USPCA seizes more than a dozen pit bull-type fighting dogs in a major operation...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
M40 biker's mother tells of grief
The mother of a biker shot dead on the M40 tells of her grief as she flies in from Canada...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Michigan mulls primaries date
The US state of Michigan is set to move up its presidential primary elections, a step that could shake up the calendar...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Cricket: Resounding England win
England beat India by 104 runs at the Rose Bowl in the first match of the one-day international series...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
River search locates boy's body
Teams searching for a nine-year-old swept away in a Snowdonia river find a boy's body...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
CIA 'launches Facebook for spies'
The CIA is to open a tool for staff, modelled on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, a report says...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Texas rejects EU executions plea
Texas tells the European Union to mind its own business as the bloc calls for a moratorium on executions...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Ryanair's Eurostar claim banned
Ryanair is banned from claiming its London to Brussels flight is faster and cheaper the train trip by Eurostar...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Lawrence killer a 'present risk'
Papers show the Home Office argued head teacher Philip Lawrence's killer poses a "genuine" threat to the public...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
CIA criticises ex-chief over 9/11
An internal CIA probe accuses ex-chief George Tenet of failing to prepare for the al-Qaeda threat before 9/11...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Hurricane pushes into Mexico gulf
Hurricane Dean moves offshore after lashing Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, toppling trees and homes...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
15 Hussein Aides on Trial in Baghdad
The man known as Chemical Ali and his 14 co-defendants are on trial for their role in suppressing a 1991 uprising...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Hurricane Dean Hits Mexico?s Coast
The hurricane struck the Yucatán Peninsula today at Category 5 level, but within a few hours as it moved westward its force diminished to a Category 3...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Egypt footprint 'could be oldest'
Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered what might be the oldest human footprint ever found...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Festival shuts flooded campsites
This weekend's Reading Festival abandons parts of its campsite, still waterlogged after last month's floods...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
GCSE results 'were not received'
There are reports some students have not received their GCSE results in the post as postage was underpaid...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Stocks up following Fed comments
US stocks rise after the Fed pledges to do all it can to ease credit squeeze fears, but market volatility remains...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Labour gets most cash from donors
Labour continues to receive more donations than the Conservatives, Electoral Commission figures show...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Alexander to lead Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour's new leader-elect Wendy Alexander vows to put the party on the road back to power...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Search continues for boy in river
Teams searching for a nine-year-old swept away in a Snowdonia river say they are focusing on deep water pools...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Dozens of fighting dogs seized
The USPCA seizes dozens of pit bull-type fighting dogs in a major operation in County Armagh...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Bangladesh hit by student riots
Students in Bangladesh fight with police in the first serious unrest during a six-month state of emergency...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Iran frees detained US academic
An Iranian-American academic jailed during a visit to Tehran in May is freed on bail, Isna news agency says...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Copies of Nazi files transferred
The keepers of a vast archive of Nazi Holocaust files transfer millions of documents to Israel and the US...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Deadly clashes in camp in Darfur
A police officer is killed in clashes in a refugee camp in Darfur, Sudan's UK ambassador tells the BBC...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Doherty case dropped after error
Police admit that errors over rock star Pete Doherty's case led to charges of him breaching bail conditions being dropped...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Big names sign up to iTunes rival
Some of the world's biggest record labels begin selling music via a new download service to challenge Apple...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Jellyfish warning to beachgoers
Beachgoers are urged to look out for potentially dangerous jellyfish after a Portuguese Man-o'-War is washed up in Cornwall...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
'Notorious' eBay fraud sentence
A man "obsessed" with eBay fraud is sentenced and told his deception "strikes at the system as a whole"...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Basra police 'work for militias'
Iraqi police officers in Basra are still involved with Shia militias engaged in sectarian violence, the UK's chief police adviser in Iraq has said...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Endeavour shuttle returns safely
The space shuttle lands after a mission to the International Space Station was cut short by Hurricane Dean...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Cameron NHS claims challenged
David Cameron insists at least 29 local hospitals are under threat despite some NHS Trusts rejecting his claims...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Remains found at hotel fire site
Human remains are found by teams searching the rubble of a Cornish hotel destroyed by a fire...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Hurricane Dean hits Mexican coast
Hurricane Dean ploughs into the coast of Mexico near the border with Belize but loses some strength over land...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
15 Hussein Aides Tried in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's cousin known as ''Chemical Ali'' and 14 others faced charges of crimes against humanity for the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War Tuesday as Iraq's third trial against former regime officials began with three of the defendants already sentenced to death in another case...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Pakistan Releases a Man Accused of Aiding Al Qaeda
American officials made clear their dismay at the news on Monday that the man, imprisoned in his home country for three years, had been released without charge...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Australia Court Rules Government Improperly Revoked Indian Doctor?s Visa
The immigration minister had revoked the doctor?s visa on the grounds that the doctor had associated with the men involved in the botched bombing plot in London and Glasgow in June...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Eye of Powerful Hurricane Reaches Mexico?s Coast
Hurricane Dean thrashed the Yucatán coast today with winds near 165 m.p.h. It had become a Category 5 hurricane after battering the south coast of Jamaica...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Charges dropped against Doherty
Rock star Pete Doherty is released after charges of breaching bail conditions are dropped...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Tory apology over hospital 'cut'
A Tory MP is forced to apologise over claims maternity services at his local hospital were under threat...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Search resumes for boy in river
A search begins again for a nine-year-old boy who fell into a river while walking with his mother in Snowdonia...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Threat to green housing measure
A local council measure aimed at cutting carbon emissions in new homes comes under pressure from building groups...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Alexander set to be next leader
Nominations close later for the post of Scottish Labour party leader, with Wendy Alexander the only candidate...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Man's dismembered body discovered
Police confirm that a dismembered body found in east Belfast is that of an unidentified man...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Road checks after doctor stabbing
Police road checks take place exactly a week after a hospital consultant was murdered in her car...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Japanese premier arrives in India
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Delhi on his first ever visit to India...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Ex-kidnap girl 'sorry for captor'
Austrian ex-kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch says her pity for her captor has risen in the year since her escape...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Saddam aides go on trial in Iraq
The trial of 15 aides of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for allegedly suppressing a 1991 Shia uprising opens...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Football: Jol under threat
Dimitar Berbatov has no problem with Martin Jol, despite some club officials appearing to lose confidence in the under-fire coach...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Greek riots over Nigerian's death
Greek police clash with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man in Thessaloniki...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Baby dies as car mounts kerb
A two-month-old boy dies when a car mounts a pavement and hits his pushchair...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Monster attack steals user data
US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
East European immigration slows
The number of Eastern European workers registering in the UK has dropped for the second quarter in a row...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Mortgage fears weigh on markets
European stock indexes fell, despite Asian and US gains and attempts to ease fears about a US mortgage crisis...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Gang crime 'due to absent dads'
The "continuing problem" of gang violence is due to the absence of fathers in black communities, says Jack Straw...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Fatal hotel fire 'a major crime'
The Cornish hotel destroyed by a fire which killed at least one person is being treated as a crime scene...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Lawrence widow shock at decision
The widow of murdered Philip Lawrence tells of her anger over the decision not to deport her husband's killer...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Hurricane Dean hits Mexico coast
Hurricane Dean, a massive Category Five storm, ploughs into the coast of Mexico near the border with Belize...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: The Hague: Liberian?s Trial Off Till 2008
Judges for the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone again postponed the start of the war crimes trial of Charles G. Taylor, the former Liberian president...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Kidnap Motive Was Ransom
Afghan police identified four kidnappers of a German aid worker as local criminals who had demanded a million-dollar ransom, and not Taliban militants...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Sarkozy Seeks Tough Pedophile Rules
President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a halt to early prison release for some pedophiles...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Gaza: Hamas Men Killed in Israeli Airstrike
Six Hamas fighters were killed in an Israeli ground-to-ground missile strike on their jeep as they were traveling near the Bureij refugee camp, Palestinian officials said...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: BBC Removed From FM Station
It was the latest in a series of moves that have reduced access in Russia to news produced by Western news organizations...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Turkey: Gul Falls Short, for Now
In a first round of voting, Abdullah Gul, the foreign minister, fell short of the two-thirds majority needed in Parliament to become president...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: A Decree for the Clocks
Moved by claims that it will help the metabolism and productivity of his fellow citizens, President Hugo Chávez said clocks would be moved forward by half an hour at the start of 2008...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Kazakhstan: Leader Savors Sweep
The party of Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, the authoritarian president who has been in power since the Soviet era, trounced all competitors in parliamentary elections over the weekend, taking all 98 contested seats...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
News Analysis: Thai Vote Shows Division Among Classes Is Simmering
As Thailand returns to democracy after nearly a year of military rule, rural areas will play a more assertive role in politics than in the past, analysts say...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Bush?s Talks With Neighbors Are Overshadowed by Storm
Hurricane Dean?s expected landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico threw into doubt three-way talks that were scheduled for Tuesday...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Pakistan Releases a Man Accused of Aiding Al Qaeda
American officials made clear their dismay at the news on Monday that a Pakistani man accused of aiding Al Qaeda has been released...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
South Africa Official Is Accused, but Not Investigated
President Thabo Mbeki?s spokesman dismissed explosive allegations against South Africa?s minister of health as unworthy of investigation...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Discovering How the Maya Fed the Multitude
Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Former Seoul Mayor Is Picked as Presidential Candidate
Lee Myung-bak is now the clear front-runner to succeed President Roh Moo-hyun in the election scheduled for Dec. 19...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Moscow Journal: For Russians, Summer in the City Means a Freeze on Hot Water
For all its new wealth and aspirations, Moscow remains saddled with an often decrepit infrastructure and every summer residents get a taste of old-style deprivation...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
British Civics Class Asks, What Would Muhammad Do?
A civics class in Britain uses the Koran to answer questions about daily life, with the aim of reaching students who might be vulnerable to Islamic extremism...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Two Senators Call for New Leader in Iraq
Two U.S. senators said that the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki should be voted from office...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Storm Homes in on Mexico After Sweeping Caribbean
Hurricane Dean gained strength on Monday, surging past the Cayman Islands and directly toward Mexico, after leaving a trail of destruction across the Caribbean...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
Governor of Iraqi Province Assassinated
Officials said the attack was a result of an internal power struggle with rival Shiite militias rather than sectarian violence...
New York Times - August 21, 2007
University 'non-courses' attacked
University "non-courses" are a waste of public money, a group campaigning for lower taxes has said...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Virtual game is a 'disease model'
An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, say scientists...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Healthier options 'boost brands'
Brands that answer consumer demands for healthier products have seen strong annual sales in the UK, a survey suggests...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
England look for one-day revival
England look to improve their recent poor one-day record as their series against India starts at Hampshire's Rose Bowl...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Hotel debris search set to start
Police and fire investigation teams are expected to start a detailed search of a Cornish hotel destroyed by fire...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
EU confirms halt to Gaza fuel aid
The EU says it has stopped paying for fuel supplies in Gaza, accusing Hamas of attempting to profit from it...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Japanese PM due for India visit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to arrive in the Indian capital Delhi on his first ever visit to India...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Haneef visa move overturned
An Australian judge overturns a government decision to revoke the visa of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Brazil unveils strategy on crime
Brazil's President Lula says $3bn will be invested in a new plan to reduce the high levels of crime in the country...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Saddam aides face trial in Iraq
Fifteen aides of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein face trial for allegedly suppressing a 1991 Shia uprising...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
A&E closures 'put lives at risk'
Making people travel further for emergency care at big regional centres puts their lives at risk, a study claims...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
UK 'lags behind' on cancer deaths
Cancer survival in the UK is below the European average, despite recent improvements, a report says...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Appeal over teacher killer ruling
The government will challenge the decision allowing the killer of Philip Lawrence to stay in the UK, a minister says...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
Mexico braces for hurricane fury
Mexico evacuates resorts and oil facilities as Hurricane Dean hits "potentially catastrophic" Category Five strength...
BBC News - August 21, 2007
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