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Global News Archive for April 2005:
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Video Shows Apparent Killing of Survivor of Helicopter Attack
The video appeared as violence continued, with nine people killed in a car bombing behind a Shiite mosque in Baghdad...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Boy, five, injured in 'shooting'
Police in Enniskillen begin an investigation after a child is taken to hospital with a serious head injury...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Football: Henry could miss final
Thierry Henry will miss Arsenal's next two games and faces a race against time to be fully fit for the FA Cup final...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
CBI boss rejects immigration cap
The Confederation of British Industry's boss says Tory immigration plans would hamper business...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Moussaoui enters 9/11 guilty plea
Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged over the 9/11 attacks, admits conspiracy and could face execution...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Car Bomb Attack at Baghdad Mosque Kills at Least 9
The blast is part of a recent rise in violence after a comparative lull following the Iraqi elections in January...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
24 Go on Trial in Madrid for Links with Al Qaeda and 9/11
Three people are accused of helping plan the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Japan Reiterates Apology to China for World War II
The prime minister of Japan is expected to meet with the president of China in an attempt to defuse a diplomatic row...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Academics back Israeli boycotts
UK lecturers vote to support calls for an academic boycott of two universities in Israel...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Cavers smash world depth record
Cavers venture 2,080m (6,822ft) below the Earth - deeper than anyone has been before...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Reward in armed bank raid inquiry
The search for robbers who shot a bank security guard switches to the English midlands, as a £50,000 reward is offered...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Envoy in Nottingham 'danger' row
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, claims Saudi Arabia is safer than Nottingham...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Arrests in cash van robbery bid
Two men are arrested after police foil a Securicor van robbery at a filling station at Newry in County Down...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Police identify shooting victim
Detectives appeal for help to track down the killer of a man who died after being shot in a garden in Glasgow...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
German cannibal to face retrial
The German man jailed for killing and eating a person he met over the internet is to face a retrial...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Car bomb rocks mosque in Baghdad
At least nine people die and 20 are injured in a blast at a Shia Muslim mosque in the Iraqi capital...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
India presses Nepal on democracy
India tells King Gyanendra of Nepal to lift a state of emergency and free detainees held after the royal coup...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Football: FA extends Bowyer ban
The FA extends Lee Bowyer's ban for fighting with team-mate Kieron Dyer by three games...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
New Pope condemns gay bill
Benedict XVI, the new Pope, condemns a Spanish bill allowing gay marriage in one of the first acts of his papacy...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Help to stop woman selling eye
Offers of help from around the world for a woman trying to sell her eye to provide for her daughter's future...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Despair led to Shipman suicide
Mass murderer Harold Shipman killed himself because he could not cope with the prospect of spending life in jail...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Shoebomb plotter gets 13 years
British terror suspect Saajid Badat is jailed for plotting to blow up a passenger jet with a shoebomb...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Two arrested in knife attack case
A man and a woman are arrested by police investigating the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Polio Back in Yemen After 6-Year Absence
Polio has broken out in Yemen and may have been imported by pilgrims returning from Mecca, international health officials said...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Moore's Law original issue found
The original magazine in which Moore's Law was published is found under a UK engineer's floorboards...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Expert barred from Jackson trial
Prosecutors in the Jackson trial cannot call an expert to explain the behaviour of his accuser's mother...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
'Drugs taken' in teen rail death
A teenager killed when he fell under a train had been taking both drink and drugs, an inquest hears...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Man gunned down at block of flats
A murder inquiry is under way after a man is shot outside a block flats in the east end of Glasgow...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Tributes paid to Plaid's pioneer
Ex-Labour leader Michael Foot says Plaid Cymru's first MP, Gwynfor Evans, who has died at 92, was 'decent nationalism's' best advocate...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
UK's economic growth in slowdown
The rate of UK economic growth slowed during the first three months of the year, official statistics show...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Diabetes drug 'may stop cancers'
A drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes may prevent cancer, say researchers...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Belarus president consults Putin
The presidents of Russia and Belarus meet in Moscow a day after the US secretary of state calls for change in Minsk...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Iraq militants show 'crash video'
Insurgents say they shot down a helicopter in Iraq - and issue a video they say shows a survivor being shot...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Nepal frees political prisoners
Nepal's king frees a former deputy premier and 60 others detained after February's royal coup...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Falconio murder trial postponed
The trial of a mechanic accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio on an Outback highway is postponed...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Day care prevents child cancers
Sending your baby to day care in the first few months of life could protect them against leukaemia, say experts...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
'Infomania' worse than marijuana
Workers distracted by incoming messages lose more brain power than marijuana smokers, new research claims...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Togo turmoil as poll delay urged
Togo's interior minister is sacked, after calling for a delay to Sunday's poll, warning of civil war...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Spain tries 9/11 terror suspects
Three people go on trial in Spain charged with helping plan the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Hauliers threaten poll disruption
Fuel tax protesters threaten to start a campaign of oil refinery blockages and go-slows two days before the general election...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Car clue to stabbed mother's attacker
Police investigating the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls want to speak to a couple seen driving a blue Peugeot...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
BA pilot wins discrimination case
A British Airways pilot who claimed sex discrimination in a dispute over working hours wins her case...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Blair accuses Tories over asylum
The Tories are trying to exploit people's fears on immigration and asylum, claims Tony Blair...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Striving for Continuity, Pope Reappoints Senior Officials
Pope Benedict XVI reappointed his secretary of state and kept leaders of the church's bureaucracy in place...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Israel Takes a Step Closer to a 3-Week Delay in Leaving Gaza
Israel's defense minister, Shaul Mofaz, called for a three-week delay in the government's plans to remove Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
At NATO Talks, Accord and Discord for U.S. and Russia
NATO acted to open discussions with Ukraine about becoming a member and the secretary of state met with opposition leaders from Belarus...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Ecuador's New Chief Picks Cabinet; Leftist in Economic Post
A day after President Lucio Gutiérrez was driven from power, his successor, Alfredo Palacio, named a new Cabinet...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Bush Backs His U.N. Nominee, but Powell Warns of Volatility
Associates of Colin L. Powell said that he had expressed doubts about John R. Bolton in talks with two Republican senators...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
A Private Copter Crashes in Iraq; 6 Americans Die
Officials said the helicopter may have been brought down by hostile fire but there was no confirmation of the cause of the crash...
New York Times - April 22, 2005
Court refuses post vote challenge
The High Court refuses a challenge over the postal vote system, which could have delayed the election...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
'Little progress' in malaria war
The global partnership set up to fight malaria is failing, the Lancet medical journal says...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Shakespeare portrait 'is a fake'
The mystery surrounding a famous portrait of William Shakespeare has been solved, say experts...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Japanese MPs visit war memorial
More than 160 Japanese MPs or their representatives pay respects at a controversial Japanese war shrine...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Hunt for mother's knife attacker
Police say they are "determined" to catch a man who stabbed a woman as she pushed her son in a buggy...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Lib Dems pitch for female voters
The Liberal Democrats will on Friday highlight proposals to tackle discrimination against women...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Students face UK visa price rise
Students coming to the UK from outside the EU face a rise in visa costs under government plans...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Japanese PM apologises over war
Junichiro Koizumi expresses remorse at an Asian-Africa summit, to try to defuse tensions with China...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
Blair focus on immigration issue
Tony Blair is to make a speech on immigration and asylum as Tories focus on policing and Lib Dems on women...
BBC News - April 22, 2005
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