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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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No U-turn on capital gains reform
The government will not back down on controversial changes to capital gains tax when it unveils its plans...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Flanagan apology to bomb families
Northern Ireland's former police chief apologises to the families of the victims of the Omagh bomb...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Stabbed girl 'was unrecognisable'
The grandfather of stabbed schoolgirl Jessica Knight says she was so hurt he could barely recognise her...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Egypt 'won't force Gazans back'
Egypt says it will not use force to return Palestinians who crossed from Gaza after the border was breached...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Football: Rangers 6-0 E Stirling
Rangers brush aside Third Division East Stirlingshire, with Kris Boyd grabbing a Scottish Cup hat-trick...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Chelsea into Carling Cup final
Chelsea secure a Carling Cup final meeting with Tottenham thanks to a Joe Cole strike that sees off the challenge of Everton...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Bodyguard denies Diana cover-up
Trevor Rees again tells the inquest into Princess Diana's death that he remembers little of the fatal crash...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
US shares rebound sharply
US shares rebound sharply on fresh government plans to steady the US economy, after UK shares fell earlier...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
EBay chief executive has resigned
Meg Whitman, the chief executive of online auction website eBay announces she will step down on 31 March...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Council tax 'set to rise by 4%'
Council tax bills across England are expected to rise by an average of 4% this year, the BBC learns...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Heath Ledger autopsy inconclusive
An autopsy on the body of Australian actor Heath Ledger, who has died aged 28, is found to be inconclusive...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Robots to collect dangerous data
Unmanned aircraft are to help scientists with research flights that are too dangerous or difficult for human pilots...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Healthy living strategy launched
Ministers launch a £372m strategy designed to cut soaring levels of obesity in England...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Warning about US downturn
A recession is on the cards for the United States, predict economists at the World Economic Forum...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
No appeal for 'abuse cash' priest
A priest who financed the grooming of a child for sex loses his bid to appeal against his sentence...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Firefighter dies in engine crash
A firefighter dies and four others are injured after a fire engine crashes responding to an emergency call...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Dog leash goths 'hounded off bus'
A goth who leads his girlfriend around with a dog lead complains after being thrown off a bus...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Russia plays down Iran sanctions
Russia plays down reports a draft UN resolution on Iran's nuclear programme calls for new sanctions...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Embattled Italy PM backed by MPs
Italian PM Romano Prodi wins a vote of confidence in parliament but his coalition looks set to fall in the Senate...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
China in power shortage warning
China says it faces serious power shortages as severe winter weather causes unusually high demand...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Eastern Congo peace deal signed
Armed militias and DR Congo's government sign a peace pact aimed at ending years of conflict in the east...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Football: Burley payment deal
The Scottish FA reach a financial settlement with Southampton to take manager George Burley...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Virgin unveils spaceship designs
Virgin Galactic shows off the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Murdered woman 'spiralled down'
One of five women killed in Suffolk descended into prostitution after her father died, a court is told...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Dodi 'insisted on car decoy plan'
Crash survivor Trevor Rees tells the inquest into Princess Diana's death Dodi insisted on the doomed decoy plan...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
WMD dossier 'must be published'
The Foreign Office is ordered to release an early draft of the dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Hotel leap man cleared of murder
A British man who leapt from a balcony of a Crete hotel with his two children, killing one, is cleared of murder...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Police to 'assess' Winehouse film
Scotland Yard says it will "assess" footage of Amy Winehouse apparently smoking a crack pipe...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Work stress 'changes your body'
A stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research shows...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Web worries after suicide spate
Fears are voiced that social networking sites risk "romanticising" suicide, after a spate of young deaths...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Ward move after bug-linked deaths
Thirteen people are being treated in a special ward in County Antrim for the bug C. difficle...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
W Bengal bird flu 'is spreading'
Bird flu spreads in the Indian state of West Bengal, as authorities battle to cull birds and control the outbreak...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
CCTV of stabbed schoolgirl issued
CCTV images are released as a man, 21, is arrested over the stabbing of 14-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Knight...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Clashes end Kenya prayer meeting
A prayer meeting in Kenya's capital for post-poll victims is halted by skirmishes between police and youths...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Heath Ledger is found dead in US
Australian actor Heath Ledger is found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence, police in New York say...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
UK homes to get super-fast fibre
UK homes in certain towns will benefit from 100Mbps broadband, delivered via the sewers...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Football: Scotland close on Burley
The Scottish FA board ratifies the move to make Southampton boss George Burley the new Scotland manager...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Two held over hotel blaze deaths
Police arrest two men in connection with the deaths of three people in a fire at a Cornish hotel...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Diana survivor denies conspiracy
Crash survivor Trevor Rees-Jones tells the inquest into the death of Princess Diana there was no murder cover-up...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Balcony plunge dad 'loved family'
A man accused of murdering his son by leaping from a hotel balcony says he "loved his family more than anything"...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
European stocks hit by rate fears
European stocks are under pressure, amid fears that the biggest US rate cut for 25 years will not help growth...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Gazans flood into Egypt
Thousands of Gazans surge into Egypt to buy essential supplies, after militants destroy parts of the border...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Jail terms for Ghana drug girls
Two British teenage girls are jailed for one year each for trying to smuggle cocaine from Ghana to the UK...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Police in protest rally over pay
An estimated 18,500 police officers are marching in central London in a protest over pay...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
EU reveals energy plan of action
The European Commission sets out a plan of action which it says will meet the challenge of climate change...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
iPhone helps Apple ring up profit
Apple sees profits surge 57% in the three months to December, but profit forecast disappoints...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Anti-fraud schemes 'too costly'
The government is spending more on tracking benefit fraud as it is getting back, a report says...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Trump praises 'amazing' Salmond
The American tycoon Donald Trump hails the First Minister Alex Salmond as "an amazing man"...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Teenager stabbed 'up to 30 times'
A 14-year-old girl critically injured in a "frenzied" knife attack may have been stabbed "up to 30 times"...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
UN powers agree new Iran draft
Leading UN powers agree on a draft resolution that would expand sanctions against Iran, Germany says...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Pakistan weapons 'in safe hands'
President Pervez Musharraf says there is a no chance of al-Qaeda gaining Pakistan's nuclear weapons...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Greek PM in historic Turkish trip
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis travels to Turkey in the first such visit for almost half a century...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Ex-PM's wife set for Thai trial
Ousted Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra's wife goes on trial in Bangkok on charges of corruption...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Tennis: Ivanovic beats Venus
Ana Ivanovic will play Daniela Hantuchova in the semi-finals of the Australian Open after a thrilling win over Venus Williams...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Pre-marital sex 'more accepted'
British people are increasingly tolerant of sex before marriage, a survey suggests...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
EU to map low-carbon path
The European Commission is to detail wide-ranging proposals for achieving its goals on climate and energy...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Economic trials loom - Bank boss
Bank of England chief Mervyn King warns that UK economy will suffer from slowing growth and inflation risks...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Palestinians blow up border wall
Hundreds of Palestinians pour into Egypt from Gaza after masked militants blow several holes in a border wall...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
Asian markets rally after US cut
Asian stocks bounce back after an interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve helps calm investor anxiety...
BBC News - January 23, 2008
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