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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Global News Archive for Octomber 2007:
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French Debate: Is Maori Head Body Part or Art?
When Rouen?s mayor arranged to return mummified, tattooed human head of a Maori warrior to New Zealand, France?s Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Parole Unlikely for Jailed Russian Oil Executive
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos Oil chief executive now at the halfway point of his eight-year prison sentence, is unlikely to be released from prison anytime soon...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Iraq Offers Turkey a Nonmilitary Plan
Iraq?s foreign minister today offered to ?pacify, isolate and disrupt? Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Photos Show Cleansing of Suspect Syrian Site
The site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'
Some Neanderthals probably had red hair much like modern-day humans, a DNA study shows...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Many lacking good diabetes care
Less than a third of people with diabetes receive all the recommended tests, a national audit shows...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Vote on constitution 'inevitable'
A referendum would be "inevitable" if plans to give the UK a written constitution go ahead, a minister says...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Windows and Halo boost Microsoft
Microsoft sees quarterly profits rise 23% following demand for its Halo 3 video game and Windows operating system...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Further cuts at cosmetic factory
A further 150 temporary workers at a cosmetic factory already hit by redundancy plans, are to lose their jobs...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Poll probe 'blamed all parties'
An election expert writes a letter to clarify his findings on who was to blame for the Scottish election fiasco...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Turks 'losing patience' with PKK
Turkey says it is losing patience with Kurdish rebels as Iraqi delegates head to Ankara for 'last chance' talks...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Democrats set up fresh veto fight
The Democratic-led House of Representatives votes to pass an expanded child health bill, despite a renewed veto threat...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Libya seals peace deal for Chad
Four rebel groups in Chad seal a peace agreement with the government, after three weeks of talks...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Football: Braga deny Bolton
El-Hadji Diouf's header is not enough to give Bolton victory over Braga as new boss Gary Megson watches on before taking up his new role on Friday...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Football: Spurs sack manager Jol
Tottenham Hotspur confirm the sacking of manager Martin Jol following the club's Uefa Cup defeat by Getafe...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Prince's plea to save rainforests
The Prince of Wales says saving the world's remaining rainforests is now vital to stop climate change...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
BP fined $373m by US government
The US Department of Justice announces oil giant BP is fined $373m (£182m) for fraud and environmental crimes...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Madeleine sketch shows 'abductor'
Madeleine McCann's parents release images of a man they believe abducted their daughter in Portugal...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Bush flies over California fires
US President George W Bush touches down after an air tour over the area hit by the California wildfires...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
U.S. Soldier Trial in Rome Thrown Out
ROME (AP) -- A court on Thursday threw out the case against a U.S. soldier charged in the 2005 shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, a killing that infuriated Italians and soured relations with Washington...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Filipino Ex-President Pardoned
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines has pardoned former president Joseph Estrada, who was convicted last month of corruption charges, her spokesman said today...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Opposition Leader Meets Burmese Official
The meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi was the first tangible response by the generals to pressure following an uprising...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
U.N. Warns of Environmental Threats
Damage to the environment could soon pass a point of no return, according to a major report from the U.N...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Turkey Urges U.S. to Act Against Rebel Kurds
Turkey?s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked for help in the struggle against Kurdish separatists in Iraq...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
U.S. Levels Sanctions Against Iran Military Unit
The decision to single out the Revolutionary Guard Corps reflects America?s frustration with the pace of diplomacy...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Virtual worlds threaten 'values'
Virtual worlds for children could undermine the human values that societies need them to learn, says industry veteran...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Natural decline 'hurting lives'
Environmental degradation is affecting health, nutrition and the natural world, says a flagship UN report...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
UK secrecy laws facing shake-up
Britain's secrecy laws face a major shake-up under constitutional reform plans announced by Gordon Brown...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Mattel in fresh toy recall alert
US toymaker Mattel is recalling 12,000 toys sold in the UK and the Irish Republic, an EU official says...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Bereaved mum injected baby girl
A bereaved mother injected a friend's baby with insulin because she was jealous of her healthy child...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Hundreds at school closures demo
Hundreds of parents opposed to Wales's biggest school closure proposals stage a protest in Gwynedd...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Lawyer may face voyeurism retrial
A Belfast solicitor who filmed a girl in a leisure centre changing room could face a retrial...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Hotel girl 'may have been pushed'
Spanish police believe a seven-year-old British girl may have been pushed from a hotel balcony in Majorca...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Israel approves Gaza power cuts
Israel's defence minister backs a plan to cut electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza to try to halt rocket attacks...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Bush flying over California fires
US President George W Bush is taking an air tour over the area hit by the California wildfires...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Sarkozy gives France green plan
France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and for French use of pesticides to be halved...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Suu Kyi meets Burmese minister
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds her first meeting with the minister appointed to liaise with her...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Football: Bolton choose Megson
Gary Megson signs a two-and-a-half year contract to be the new boss at Bolton Wanderers...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Oil governor removed in Nigeria
Nigeria's Supreme Court annuls April's election of the governor of oil-rich, violence-prone Rivers State...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Watson 'critical' after surgery
Singer Russell Watson is in a critical condition after having brain surgery to remove an 'aggressive' tumour...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Race row DNA scientist quits lab
A Nobel scientist who claimed Africans were less intelligent than Europeans quits a leading US research institution...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
'Missed chance' on smacking ban
The decision not to ban smacking is a "missed opportunity" to protect children, says England's children's commissioner...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Menezes 'acted like commuter'
The Brazilian shot dead by police who mistook him for a suicide bomber was acting no differently to any other commuter, a jury hears...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Father warned M56 death boy
The father of a boy killed on the M56 in Cheshire says he warned his son about going near the motorway...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Injured Diana spoke, witness says
Princess Diana was heard saying "oh, my God" as she lay injured in car wreckage, an inquest hears...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
US imposes sanctions on Iran
The US steps up its sanctions on Iran for "supporting terrorists" and pursuing nuclear activities...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Indonesian Volcano Spews White Smoke
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A volcano erupted in central Indonesia on Thursday, shooting plumes of white smoke and sand nearly 5,000 feet into the air and covering nearby villages in ash, officials said...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Sex Scandal Snares Young Vietnamese Star
An online sex video featuring a Vietnamese celebrity has riveted the nation for more than a week, and her television show has been canceled...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
10 Suspected Taliban Killed in Clash
A suicide car bomb went off near a convoy of cars carrying a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan, wounding nine people...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Largest Jet Ends First Flight
The world?s biggest jumbo jet landed safely in Sydney, ending its first commercial flight from Singapore...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
E.U. report to criticize Turkey
A keenly awaited European Union report will criticize E.U. candidate Turkey on human rights, the role of the military and its failure to open its ports to Cyprus, a draft showed...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Detective Quits Bhutto Attack Probe
The detective leading Pakistan?s inquiry into the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto withdrew from the case...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Lebanese Troops Fire on Israeli Aircraft
Lebanese troops opened fire on Israeli warplanes flying low over southern Lebanon, but no hits were reported, Lebanese officials said...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Mexico Oil Rig Accident Kills 18
At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Pregnant Berry shines at premiere
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry attends the UK premiere of her latest film, Things We Lost In the Fire, in London...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Shuttle prepares to dock with ISS
Space Shuttle Discovery closes in on the International Space Station high above the Earth...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Pupil absences reopen controversy
The government denies a Tory charge that targets for reducing truancy in England's schools have been dropped...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Straw sets out reform proposals
Justice Minister Jack Straw is briefing MPs on government plans for constitutional reform...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Child dies in driveway accident
A one-year-old boy dies after being crushed by a car which rolled down the driveway of a house in Inverness-shire...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Parents plan school closure demo
Councillors examining Wales's biggest school closure programme will be lobbied by opponents of proposals to shut 29 primaries...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
NI Executive pledging 6,500 jobs
The Northern Ireland Executive aims to create 6,500 jobs in its programme for government...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Beach deaths spark safety probe
Portuguese authorities are to investigate the safety precautions at a beach near where four people died...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Fatal attack on Pakistan troops
At least 15 Pakistani soldiers are reported to have been killed in an attack on an army vehicle in Swat...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Israel 'to cut Gaza power supply'
Israel is planning cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza to try to halt rocket attacks, officials say...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Key discussions on Kurdish crisis
Iraqi delegates are heading to Ankara in an effort to avert attacks by Kurdish rebels over the Turkish border...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Mexican oil rig accident kills 18
At least 18 oil workers die after a drilling rig and an oil platform collide in stormy seas in the Gulf of Mexico...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Philippines' Estrada given pardon
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is pardoned by his successor after being convicted of corruption...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Rebels tell China 'leave Sudan'
Darfur rebels seize oil workers from a Chinese-run facility in Sudan as the UN threatens some rebels with sanctions...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Benitez clings on to Euro dream
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez believes his side can still reach the Champions League knockout stages despite being bottom of Group A...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Woolmer murdered, expert insists
The pathologist who carried out Bob Woolmer's autopsy maintains the Pakistan cricket coach was murdered...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Brain surgery for Russell Watson
Singer Russell Watson is undergoing brain surgery to remove an "aggressive" tumour...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
'Extra lane' plan to be extended
A scheme allowing motorists to drive on the hard shoulder is to be rolled out on the M6 in the Midlands...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Suu Kyi 'to meet Burma official'
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi reportedly leaves her home for talks with a military official...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Father warned motorway death boy
The father of a boy killed on the M56 in Cheshire says he warned his son about the dangers of going near the motorway...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
UK call to share Afghan burden
Gordon Brown asks the international community to share the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Superjumbo's first real flight
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, lands in Sydney on its first commercial flight...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Ministers rule out smacking ban
A total ban on smacking in England and Wales is rejected by ministers, after a review suggests parents oppose it...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Panel Finds Ex-President Endorsed Kidnapping
A government panel said the former president of South Korea gave a tacit nod to a secret operation in 1993 to kidnap Kim Dae-jung, then a dissident leader who later became the first opposition-backed president and a Nobel peace laureate. The fact-finding panel of the National Intelligence Service also said it could not rule out the possibility that the former president, Park Chung-hee, may have directly ordered the kidnapping of Mr. Kim. South Korean intelligence agents kidnapped Mr. Kim from a Tokyo hotel in August 1973, just days before he was to start a coalition of Japan-based South Korean organizations to work for their country?s democratization. The panel did not draw a clear conclusion on whether the kidnapping was ultimately aimed at killing Mr. Kim, who said his abductors nearly dumped him from a ship at sea a few days after his capture, but stopped when a United States military helicopter made a low pass over the vessel. Mr. Park died in 1979...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Kyrgyzstan: Journalist Shot Dead
A journalist who reported extensively for the Voice of America was shot to death outside his office in Osh, near the border with Uzbekistan...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Train Drivers Strike Again
German train drivers brought local rail services across the country to a standstill to press their demand for higher wages...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Houses Collapse Into Mine Tunnel; 12 Dead
Five houses toppled into a collapsed coal mine tunnel in northern Shanxi Province, killing at least 12 people, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Workers had been extending the tunnel under a residential area in the city of Yangquan when the houses fell. The report did not say if the people who died were in the houses or the tunnel...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Bolivia: Prostitutes Sew Lips Together in Protest
Prostitutes in El Alto, outside La Paz, sewed their lips together as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars he ordered closed last week...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Russian Convicted as Serial Killer of 48
Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin, a former supermarket worker, was found guilty of murdering 48 people...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Governor Survives Suicide Blast
The governor of southeastern Khost Province, Arsallah Jamal, survived a suicide attack on his convoy unhurt, officials said. He has been the target of several attacks. Three people were wounded. ?The car bomber hit a vehicle ahead of me,? Mr. Jamal said. ?I am fine.?...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
10 Oil Workers Killed in Gulf of Mexico
The workers were killed when a drilling platform hit an oil rig, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico. About 18 other workers were reported missing or awaiting rescue...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Israel?s Top Court Backs Loophole in Farming Law
The loophole used to allow Jewish-owned farms to grow and sell kosher produce every seventh year, but the Israeli Supreme Court order the chief rabbinate not to allow local rabbis to decide for themselves this year...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Darfur Talks in Danger of Lacking Attendance
The U.N. envoy for Darfur on Wednesday urged fractious rebel groups and the Sudanese government to overcome their internal differences and attend a peace conference scheduled to begin in three days...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Sri Lanka Admits More Damage by Rebel Raid
A rebel attack on a Sri Lankan air base this week caused far more damage than previously acknowledged, destroying eight aircraft, including a vital surveillance plane...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Rice Admits U.S. Erred in Deportation
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted Wednesday that the United States had mishandled the case of a Canadian who was deported to Syria and who has said he was tortured there...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Kremlin Secures Price Controls on Food Items Before Elections
The Russian government on Wednesday signed an agreement with major food producers instituting temporary price controls on basic products...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
U.S. Faults Its Bid to Replace Iraq?s Accounting System
An American project to replace the Iraqi government?s opaque and easily manipulated accounting system has failed to achieve its goals after four years and more than $38 million...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
State Dept. Official Resigns; Oversaw Blackwater and Other Private Guards
Richard J. Griffin has been the director of the State Department?s diplomatic security bureau since June 2005 and faced stiff criticism from Congress in recent weeks...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
China Sends Its First Probe for the Moon Into Space
China launched its first lunar probe on Wednesday as the Communist Party moved a step closer to fulfilling its ambitions of one day reaching the moon...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Across the River: 2 Divergent Paths in Southeast Asia
The Moei River separating Myanmar from Thailand also symbolizes a wider, more basic gulf between the nations: major disparities in health, well-being and prosperity...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
News Analysis: How the Applause Meter Rates Bush?s Pressure on Cuba
President Bush, in issuing his warning on the coming transition in Cuban leadership, is addressing audiences with differing priorities...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
The Right Confronts Rice Over North Korea Policy
A dispute has erupted between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and conservative lawmakers over her pursuit of diplomacy with North Korea...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
Under Siege, Blackwater Takes on Air of Bunker
The secretive world of the Blackwater compound in Baghdad has begun to fray under scrutiny from the F.B.I., the American military and the Iraqi government...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
New Steps by U.S. Against Iranians
The Bush administration will roll out on Thursday its long-awaited statement accusing a division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran of supporting terrorism...
New York Times - October 25, 2007
MPs urge rethink on special needs
MPs urge a rethink of the government's refusal to split the assessment of special needs from its funding...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
'Bird-friendly' call for gardens
People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
NHS repairs 'backlog' hits £4bn
NHS trusts have a £4bn backlog of key maintenance repairs, government figures suggest...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Credit crisis still poses risks
The UK remains vulnerable to further shocks from the credit crunch, the Bank of England warns...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
SNP pressed over police recruits
The Scottish Conservatives lead a Scottish Parliament debate about the recruitment of additional police officers...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Uzbek reporter shot in Kyrgyzstan
Alisher Saipov, an Uzbek journalist critical of President Karimov, is shot dead in the Kyrgyz town of Osh...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Flown-in organic food rule change
Food flown into the UK will be stripped of its organic status unless it meets stricter ethical standards, the Soil Association warns...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Securitas judge breaks up quarrel
The judge steps in after a witness tells one of the £53m Securitas raid defendants he is "talking out of his bottom"...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Superjumbo's first real flight
The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, leaves Singapore for Sydney on its first commercial flight...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
'Extra lane' scheme goes national
A scheme allowing motorists to drive along the hard shoulder is to be rolled out across the country...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
Fire winds ease over California
Weather forecasts raise hopes of some respite from the fires raging across southern California in recent days...
BBC News - October 25, 2007
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