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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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Election Rules Complicate Kenya Race
The fine print of Kenyan election law could result in an inconclusive end to the closely contested presidential race...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Treasure sequel tops US box office
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicolas Cage, strikes gold at the US and Canada box office...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Clue to migraine headache cause
Scientists may be a step closer to uncovering the cause of certain types of debilitating migraine headaches...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Italy seeks Condor plot suspects
Prosecutors in Italy issue 140 arrest warrants over the decades-old South American plot Operation Condor...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Police investigate office blast
Investigations are continuing into a fire in a taxi office which killed two women in Lincolnshire...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Jazz legend Oscar Peterson dies
Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson, who was famous for his virtuoso style, has died in Toronto aged 82...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
The Lede Blog: A Times Article on Italy Hits a Nerve
A published account of Italy?s national malaise prompted a critical ? and very public ? collective self-assessment...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Uzbekistan Re-elects Its President
President Islam A. Karimov won 88.1 percent of votes in an election that drew criticism from observers...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Thai Party Says It Can Form Coalition
A party that backs former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that it had enough allies in parliament to form a government...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
A Heppy Holiday Greeting From Ma?am
Queen Elizabeth has started a new channel on YouTube and plans to use it to broadcast her Christmas address...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
U.S. Aid Plan for Tribal Areas in Pakistan Is Threatened
The ambitious $750 million five-year plan is imperiled by unresolved questions about whether the money could fall into the wrong hands in the restive region...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson dies
Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson dies aged 82, according to Canadian media reports...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Beavers could be released in 2009
Plans are in the pipeline for beavers to be released into the Scottish wild for the first time in 500 years...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Brothers' deportation is halted
The deportation of two brothers is stopped minutes before they were due to be sent back to Pakistan...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Irish Royal visit is 'inevitable'
A visit to the Republic of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II is inevitable, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has said...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Couple lose everything in blaze
A couple have lost "a whole lifetime" of family memories in a fire at a storage depot in Aberdeenshire...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Tourists shot dead in Mauritania
Four French tourists are killed by gunmen in an attack in the west African country of Mauritania, police say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Israeli cluster bomb use 'legal'
Israeli military prosecutors say the use of cluster bombs last year in Lebanon was legal under international law...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Snow storms in US claim 14 lives
Fierce snow storms reportedly claim at least 14 lives and leave tens of thousands with no power in the central US...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Football: Cech injury worries
Petr Cech could miss Chelsea's holiday matches after suffering bruising in Sunday's win at Blackburn...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Kenyan rivals rally their troops
The top candidates in Kenya's presidential election hold final rallies in Nairobi before Thursday's vote...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Firm quits Sicily to spurn Mafia
An Italian cement firm says it is pulling out of Sicily as a sign of its refusal to submit to Mafia extortion...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Football: Gunter to join Spurs
Cardiff and Wales full-back Chris Gunter will join Tottenham when the January transfer window opens...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Shoppers in late Christmas rush
UK shoppers left their Christmas shopping late this year but there was a seasonal rush, retailers say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Yorkshire Ripper hurt in attack
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, nicknamed the Yorkshire Ripper, is wounded in an attack in a high-security hospital...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Brown set to oppose MP pay rise
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to oppose a proposed pay rise of above inflation pay rise for MPs, sources say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Thousands sought over child porn
Germany pursues 12,000 suspects in what is said to be its biggest case of internet images of child abuse...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Archbishop to press for 'respect'
The Archbishop of Canterbury will use his Christmas sermon to call for more "reverence" of people and the planet...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Air passengers stranded after fog
Up to 200 passengers face spending Christmas in hotels after fog causes major flight disruption at Heathrow...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Iraq Kurds warn Turkey over raids
The leader of Iraq's northern Kurdish region condemns Turkish air strikes, saying innocents have died...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Deaths Reported in Egypt Building Collapse
CAIRO (Reuters) - Five Egyptians were killed on Monday when a 12-storey residential building collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a security source said...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Kyrgyz President Names Premier
ALMATY (Reuters) - The president of the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan on Monday appointed former energy and industry minister Igor Chudinov as prime minister, the president's office said...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Bombing Near Baghdad?s Green Zone Kills 2
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A bomb hidden inside a minivan exploded near the Baghdad governor's office on Monday, killing two people and injuring six others, the latest violence to mar a relatively calm holiday season in the capital...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Former Premier?s Party Wins Thai Vote in Rebuke to Army
A party that backs former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won a parliamentary election on Sunday, defeating a party backed by the generals who ousted him in a coup 15 months ago...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
U.S. Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan
Money intended to bolster Pakistan?s military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban has been diverted toward weapons systems to counter India, officials said...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Don't be lonely at Christmas time
A guide to some of the alternative social networking sites available to meet and greet this Christmas...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Variations in school cash queried
England's school funding system should be investigated by the National Audit Office, the Lib Dems say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
UBS to face credit crunch probe
The Swiss banking regulator is to investigate how UBS ran up billions of dollars of losses in the credit crisis...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Rail passengers held up for hours
Passengers were stranded as a train hit "material" on the track while on its way from London to Inverness...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Police reject Home Office message
Three of Wales' police chiefs refuse to circulate the Home Secretary's Christmas letter after pay row...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Three killed on roads at weekend
Three young people - two men and a woman, all in their 20s - die in separate weekend road accidents...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Hamas militants die in Gaza raid
Two members of Palestinian militant group Hamas are killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Child kidnap 'surge' in DR Congo
Recent fighting in eastern DR Congo has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups, a charity says...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Uzbek voters 'offered no choice'
Foreign monitors accuse Uzbekistan of holding a presidential election without any genuine choice...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Football: Becks praises Capello
David Beckham says new England coach Fabio Capello is a manager "players look up to" and hopes to continue his England career under him...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Two killed in taxi office fire
Two people die and a third is seriously injured in a fire at the offices of a taxi company in north-east Lincolnshire...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Haiti plea over child abductions
Haiti President Rene Preval marks Christmas with a call for gangs to end to a spate of abductions of children...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Queen to urge care for vulnerable
The Queen will mark her 50th televised Christmas message by calling for care for vulnerable people...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
NHS 'can be trusted' over records
The NHS can be trusted despite the loss of 168,000 patient records by nine trusts, health bosses say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Thaksin party 'can form alliance'
The party allied to ousted Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra claims it has enough backing to form a coalition...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Fresh delays as more flights axed
Air passengers face further delays on Christmas Eve, a day after thick fog grounded more than 140 flights...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Nepal to End Its Monarchy in a Deal With Ex-Rebels
The Maoist former rebels, who ended their decade-long civil war last year, demanded an immediate declaration of a republic, but the decision will go into effect after next year?s elections...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
In Iran, Search for American Yields Little
The former agent?s wife, Christine Levinson, who traveled to Iran on along with her son and sister, said at a news conference that they found no new information about her husband...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Blast Kills 9 in Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed four Pakistani soldiers and five civilians on Sunday in an attack on a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Saudi Police Arrest 28 in Foiled Plot During Hajj
The news that almost all of the men were Saudi and that the supposed plot was to have taken place during a religious holiday caused widespread consternation...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels in Iraq for 2nd Day, Kurds Say
The Turkish military, which made three large cross-border attacks in the past week, had not issued a statement confirming an operation by Sunday night...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Beirut Journal: Home on Holiday, the Lebanese Say, What Turmoil?
The Lebanese diaspora reverses itself on holidays, as migrants return from jobs across the globe to spend time with their families. Nothing will deter them...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Chinese Unveil Mammoth Arts Center
The National Center for the Performing Arts, a $400 million complex, has attracted at least as much attention for its cost overruns, safety concerns and provocative aesthetics...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Uzbekistan Is Expected to Re-elect Its President
President Islam A. Karimov has ruled this former Soviet republic of 28 million since becoming first secretary of the local Communist Party in 1989...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Former Premier?s Party Wins Thai Vote
A party that supports the former prime minister who won the parliamentary election appeared to be ahead of one backed by the generals who ousted him in a coup...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Serbia Enlists Some Unlikely Faces
As the dispute over Kosovo?s future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world?s best known statesmen ? all of them dead...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Israel Rejects Hamas Overture, and Presses Housing Construction
At the same time, Ehud Olmert?s government is seeking budget approval to build more housing for Jewish residents in areas that the Palestinians claim for their future state...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Billions in Aid to Pakistan Was Wasted, Officials Assert
The money the U.S. spent to bolster the Pakistani military effort against militants has been diverted to help finance weapons systems designed to counter India, not Al Qaeda or the Taliban, officials said...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Hindu Radical Is Re-elected in India
Narendra Modi, arguably India?s most incendiary officeholder who was once denied entry into the U.S. for violations of religious freedom, was elected chief minister of the western state of Gujarat...
New York Times - December 24, 2007
Asthma risk 'rises in menopause'
Women going through the menopause have a higher risk of developing respiratory diseases, researchers say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
BJP to announce fresh Modi term
India's BJP is to announce Narendra Modi will continue as chief minister in Gujarat after his election win...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Assurances over US biometric data
Strict safeguards will prevent the world's biggest biometric database from being abused, US authorities say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Man in court over 'terror plans'
A man charged with preparing a terrorist attack is due to appear in court...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Storage firm fire belongings lost
A removal company is contacting hundreds of families whose personal belongings were lost in a large fire at a storage depot...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Family speak after man's stabbing
The family of a father of three found stabbed in Bristol say his death has "ripped the heart" out of their community...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
'Racist murder' inquiry continues
Police continue to question two people suspected of the "racist" murder of an Asian man...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Online shopping complaints rise
Complaints about late online shopping deliveries are up a third in the Christmas run-up, a consumer group says...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Nepal monarchy to be abolished
Nepal's government agrees to abolish the monarchy in a bid to persuade Maoist ex-rebels to rejoin the administration...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Thai parties in coalition talks
Thailand's rival parties begin what could be protracted talks to form a governing coalition after Sunday's poll...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Xbox games tackle drink driving
Anti-drink drive adverts will appear in Xbox games amid concern at the growing number of young drink drivers...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Snow storms in US claim 11 lives
Fierce snow storms claim at least 11 lives and leave tens of thousands without electricity in the central US...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
Call to rethink NHS database plan
The government should rethink its database plans following the loss of NHS records, the Tories say...
BBC News - December 24, 2007
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