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Global News Archive for September 2006:
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Bomb Near Group of Iraqi Women Kills at Least 35
Mostly women and children were killed in the Sadr City district of Baghdad when a bomb detonated next to a tanker truck...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
A stark assessment has found that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Islamists Calm Somali Capital With Restraint
The Islamists in Mogadishu seem to be trying to increase public support by softening their views, at least officially...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Mother died still cradling baby
A 23-year-old single mother-of-two from Swansea is found dead with her baby of 10 months in her arms...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Pipe bomb found at police station
A pipe bomb has been found in the grounds of a County Tyrone police station, the police say...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Boy, 15, killed by gang of youths
Police launch a murder inquiry after a 15-year-old boy was beaten to death by a gang of youths in Hull...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Palestinians 'back to square one'
The head of the Palestinian authority says work on a coalition with Hamas will have to start again from scratch...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Protesters flock to Hungary rally
The Hungarian capital Budapest sees the biggest rally yet in a week of protests against the government...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Football: Man Utd salvage draw
Cristiano Ronaldo's equaliser cancels out Kevin Doyle's penalty to salvage a point for Manchester United at Reading...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Football: Celtic win derby clash
Celtic stretch their lead over Rangers to seven points thanks to goals from Thomas Gravesen and Kenny Miller...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Gambian president is re-elected
Gambia re-elects President Yahya Jammeh for a third term with 67.3% of the vote, electoral officials say...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Milan models to get catwalk code
Milan is to have a code of conduct to protect young models vulnerable to anorexia and exploitation...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
WWF helicopter vanishes in Nepal
A helicopter carrying 24 people including WWF conservationists goes missing during bad weather in Nepal...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Dominant Europe extend Ryder lead
Europe go into Sunday's singles as clear favourites to claim an unprecedented third straight Ryder Cup victory...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Composer Malcolm Arnold dies
Film score composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
School closures aim to curb flu
Schools could be ordered to close to try to curb an "inevitable" killer flu pandemic in England...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Brown in pledge to devolve power
Gordon Brown will seek to devolve power away from Whitehall if he becomes prime minister, he tells the BBC...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Teenager shot in back in attack
A 17-year-old youth is shot in the back in a shotgun attack in north Belfast, the police say...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Moira documents could be released
Documents relating to the disappearance of a girl nearly 50 years ago could be released under openness rules...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Lebanese troops deploy on border
Lebanese government forces have been deployed along the border with Israel for the first time in decades...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Baby and toddler killed in blaze
Two boys aged 18 and six months die and three people are resuced from a fire at a house in Peterborough...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
US Anglicans consider gay bishop
The US Episcopal Church prepares to vote on whether to appoint a second openly gay bishop...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Ryder Cup live - Europe 10-5 USA
Paul Casey hits a sensational hole-in-one to seal victory over Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson as Europe stretch their Ryder Cup lead...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Jammeh leads in Gambia election
Partial results show Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is on course to win a third term...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Attacks sweep Iraq on Ramadan
A violent day in Iraq leaves 35 people dead from a Baghdad bombing while nine severed heads are found in Tikrit...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Doctors sceptical over Brown plan
Doctors give a sceptical response to the chancellor's idea of devolving day-to-day control of the NHS to an independent board...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Probe into 'Bin Laden death' leak
President Chirac orders an inquiry into a leaked French intelligence memo claiming Osama Bin Laden had died...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Thousands at city's anti-war demo
Thousands of anti-war protesters take part in a rally ahead of the Labour Party conference in Manchester...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
The Saturday Profile: Berlin Mayor, Symbol of Openness, Has National Appeal
Charming, sociable and openly gay, Klaus Wowereit is the newest star in a German political firmament short on stars...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
23 Die in Crash of German High-Speed Train
The crash was a setback to magnetic levitation technology, which aims to narrow the speed gap between trains and planes...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
News Analysis: Voices of Discontent: Anti-U.S. Leaders Seek Allies
The leaders of Venezuela, Iran and Sudan presented themselves as Davids of the third world seeking to slay the American Goliath...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
La Bamba star on battery charge
Lou Diamond Phillips is charged with domestic battery over an alleged incident involving his girlfriend...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Xbox still hopes to storm Japan
Xbox boss Peter Moore says that Microsoft is still determined to crack the difficult Japanese market...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Hutton call to 'challenge' Brown
Blair ally John Hutton says Gordon Brown should face a contest to become leader of the Labour Party...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Army examining suspicious objects
Army bomb experts are examining two suspicious objects in County Londonderrry...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Iwan's Plaid doorstep challenge
Plaid Cymru's president sets out his vision for connecting with Welsh voters ahead of May's assembly poll...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Two bodies found after house fire
An investigation is under way after a man and a woman die in a fire at a semi-detached property in Lincolnshire...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Australia plans immigrant tests
Australia plans to strengthen immigration law with tough tests on language and culture...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Germany to probe monorail crash
An inquiry is launched into a collision involving a magnetic train that killed 23 people in Germany...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Ryder Cup live - Europe 5-3 USA
Sergio Garcia and Jose Maria Olazabal lead Europe's charge in the Ryder Cup fourballs...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Football: 'Bungs' talks scheduled
The FA and the BBC meet next week to discuss the football bungs scandal revealed by the Panorama programme...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Healthy lunchbox advice offered
Leaflets on how to make a healthy packed lunch is to be given to parents, the BBC learns...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Thai coup chiefs seek civilian PM
The leaders of Thailand's military coup discuss the appointment of a new civilian prime minister...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Many dead in Baghdad attack
At least 31 people, most of them women queuing for cooking fuel, die in a bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Hammond 'has taken first steps'
Top Gear's Richard Hammond continues to recover, with friend Jeremy Clarkson saying he has taken his first steps...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
European Faults U.S. Official for Remarks on Geneva Rules
The European counterterrorism chief criticized the suggestion that the Geneva Conventions should not be considered sacrosanct...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
To Build Trust, U.S. Navy Holds a Drill With China
The U.S. regional commander cast the exercise as a step toward a deeper relationship he hopes to foster between the militaries...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Vast Lebanon Throng Hails Hezbollah Chief, Who Calls the Militia Stronger
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told a mammoth crowd in Beirut that the militant group had 20,000 missiles and would never disarm...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
A Stormy Test for Democracy in South Africa
Some say the bare-knuckled succession struggle for the presidency could foretell how robust South Africa’s young democracy is...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Musharraf Defends Deal With Tribal Leaders
Pakistan’s president tried to convince President Bush that the deal would rid lawless areas of Qaeda and Taliban influence...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
25 Die in Crash of German High-Speed Train
The crash was a setback to magnetic levitation technology, which aims to narrow the speed gap between trains and planes...
New York Times - September 23, 2006
Workers 'want retirement at 65'
The majority of people in Scotland do not want to work past the age of 65, a study shows...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Italy blocks phone tapping leaks
Italy bans he use of illegally tapped phone conversations after a vast phone tapping network is uncovered...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Rugby U: Sharks into second
Charlie Hodgson's kicking earns Sale a narrow victory over Saracens at Edgeley Park...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Ivorian party says troops must go
The ruling party in Ivory Coast calls for the 4,000 French peacekeepers in the country to leave...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Louis Farrakhan reveals illness
The leader of US Muslim organisation Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, reveals that he is seriously ill...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Heads launch Ofsted watch
Head teachers in England launch "Offwatch" to monitor unprofessional Ofsted inspectors...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Time running out for Darfur - US
The US says Sudan is failing in its responsibility to protect its own citizens in Darfur and warns time is running out...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Entry boost for two EU hopefuls
Bulgaria and Romania may join the EU as early as January but tough tests lie ahead, a draft report suggests...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Glitch leaves drivers uninsured
Two thousand motorists could be driving illegally after a major insurer failed to renew their policies, the BBC learns...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Brown plans devolved NHS board
The chancellor is considering devolving day-to-day control of the NHS to an independent board, should he become PM...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Support 'astounds' Hammond family
The public have expressed "astounding" love for injured Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, his wife says...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
Monorail disaster stuns Germany
Germany's chancellor says she is shocked at the scale of the high-speed monorail crash that killed 23 people...
BBC News - September 23, 2006
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