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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Global News Archive for March 2008:
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Cameron attacks big price rises
David Cameron says the government's measure of inflation ignores huge prices rises for staple goods...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Teachers criticise over-testing
Teachers say that over-testing and league tables are making children in British schools unhappy...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
City police attacked by 70 people
Police are attacked by up to 70 people at what is believed to have been an illegal dissident republican parade...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Cleaner sweeps up £1.2m bingo win
A 38-year-old cleaner wins what bingo bosses claim is the game's biggest ever win - almost £1.2m...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Tibetan riots continue in China
Riots continue in Tibetan-populated areas of China, with state media reporting the death of a policeman...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Basra imposes night-time curfew
The south Iraqi city of Basra imposes an indefinite night curfew amid fears of Shia militia violence...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Live - New Zealand v England
Ryan Sidebottom leads England's attack as New Zealand chase a record 553 to win the deciding Test...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Diving: Daley claims Euro gold
Thirteen-year-old Tom Daley is the new European champion after winning the 10m platform title in Eindhoven in Holland...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Comoros president orders assault
The president of the Comoros islands authorises military force to retake the island of Anjouan from rebels...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Beatles' ally Neil Aspinall dies
Neil Aspinall, a friend of the Beatles and chief executive of the Apple music empire, dies aged 66...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Tributes for Bailey Rae's husband
Fans of soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae's husband lead tributes to him on social networking websites...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Pensioner dies after house fire
A man in his 70s dies in hospital four days after a fire at his home in Bangor, County Down...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
MP calls for meeting over embryos
A Labour MP writes to Scotland's leading Roman Catholic to arrange a meeting over embryo research...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Three arrests after hotel blaze
Three men are being questioned following a fire which badly damaged a disused seafront hotel...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
JP Morgan raises Bear Stearns bid
JP Morgan Chase raises its offer for troubled bank Bear Stearns to $10 a share, from an original $2...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Latvia hunts for mystery tycoon
Latvia searches for a Russian-born tycoon who vanished a week ago in suspicious circumstances...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Saudi king to boycott summit
Saudi Arabia says King Abdullah will not attend a forthcoming summit of Arab leaders in Syria...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Community shock over 'dumped' boy
Members of a London community where a nine-year-old boy was abandoned express their shock...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Olympic torch lit despite protest
The Olympic torch is lit in Greece, in a ceremony briefly disrupted by pro-Tibet demonstrators...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Beckham seeks more than 100 caps
David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Football: Lampard & Rooney fit
Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney both train with the England squad ahead of Wednesday's friendly against France...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Troops leave for Comoros assault
Five boats with African Union troops aboard have left the Comoros ahead of a planned assault on Anjouan...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Call to offer faith class choice
Imams, rabbis and priests could be brought into schools to offer religious instruction, the teachers' union says...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Peer and Church in embryo clash
A Labour peer accuses a senior Catholic of misleading people over the government's embryo research bill...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
15mph speed limit for eco-towns
Roads in new eco-towns will have 15mph speed limits under plans to reduce their environmental impact...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Pakistan PM vows to free judges
New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani says he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Beatles' ally Neil Aspinall dies
Neil Aspinall, a friend of the Beatles and chief executive of the Apple music empire, dies aged 66...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'
The top US general in Iraq says he has evidence Iran was behind Sunday's attack on Baghdad's Green Zone...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Probe launched into hotel blaze
A joint investigation is launched into the cause of a fire which badly damaged a disused seaside hotel...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
HBOS bosses in share support move
Senior managers at HBOS buy more than £6m worth of shares in the bank, after it was hit by "malicious rumours"...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Pakistan to elect prime minister
Pakistani MPs are to choose a PM, with the candidate of the Pakistan People's Party expected to win...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Boy, 10, disappears on walk home
Police make an urgent appeal after a 10-year-old boy goes missing a short distance from his home...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Man still held over town murder
Police continue to question a man about the murder of Sean Fitzpatrick in Dungannon at the weekend...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Police name head-on crash victims
Three people who were killed in a head-on crash in Moray on Sunday are named by police...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Football: Three still in it - Fergie
Sir Alex Ferguson still believes three teams are in the Premier League title race despite his Manchester United side increasing their lead to five points...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Talks seek to end Somali violence
Somalia's interim prime minister meets Hawiye elders as he tries to quelll insurgent attacks...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Taiwan markets rally after poll
Taiwan's stock market and its currency get a big boost after the opposition wins the island's presidential election...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Casualties in south Russia blast
A car bomb injures at least four in Nazran, the main town in Russia's southern republic of Ingushetia...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Hamas 'wrecking Mid-East peace'
US Vice-President Dick Cheney says Hamas, along with Iran and Syria, is trying to torpedo Middle East peace...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Schools could offer Koran classes
Imams and rabbis could be brought into schools to offer religious instruction to pupils, the teachers' union has said...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Al-Qaeda deputy calls for attacks
A message attributed to al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Zawahiri calls for attacks on US and Israeli interests...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
MPs back new complaints body
A "one-stop-shop" should be created to make it easier to complain about public services, MPs say...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Bhutanese vote in historic poll
The people of Bhutan are voting in their first parliamentary elections for the 47-seat National Assembly...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Ukrainian sailors missing off HK
Hopes fade for 18 Ukrainian sailors trapped underwater when their boat sank after a collision off Hong Kong...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Ecuadorean death report confirmed
Colombia confirms that an Ecuadorean was killed when its troops attacked a rebel camp in a cross-border raid...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Hezbollah calls for Beirut rally
Hezbollah is to hold a rally in Beirut to mark the end of mourning for its assassinated commander, Imad Mughniyeh...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
High security for Olympic flame
Security is tight for the lighting of the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games, amid threats of pro-Tibet protests...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Sarkozy's ex-wife marries in NY
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz
remarries at private ceremony in New York...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Strauss ton sets up winning chance
Andrew Strauss (173 not out) and Ian Bell (110) give England a huge lead on day three of the third Test against New Zealand...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Peer and Church clash on embryos
A Labour peer accuses a senior Catholic of misleading people over the government's embryo research bill...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Thousands 'still hit by floods'
More than 10,000 people are still unable to return home after last summer's flooding, figures obtained by the BBC suggest...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Call for delay to biofuels policy
The UK's chief environment scientist deals a damaging blow to the government's biofuels policy...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Hawker family renew appeal
The family of murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker are in Japan to raise awareness of the hunt for her killer...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Cigarette display ban considered
Shops may be banned from displaying cigarettes under plans being considered to try to reduce smoking...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
US military Iraq toll hits 4,000
The US military death toll in Iraq since 2003 reaches 4,000, the US military and independent counts say...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
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