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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Italian premiers political party OKs merger plan
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Iraq Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Global News Archive for March 2005:
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M74 opponents plan direct action
Campaigners battling against a motorway link say they want to cause "maximum disruption" to the project...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Teachers' head chides Ruth Kelly
NUT president Hilary Bills says Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is the wrong person for the job...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Local net TV takes off in Austria
Austrian village leads the way on local net TV stations...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Jackson trial hears print experts
Jurors in Michael Jackson's trial hear more evidence about fingerprints found on the star's adult magazines...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Taiwan to rally against China law
Senior Taiwanese politicians urge their people to join a protest against China's anti-secession law...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Turkey PM rights advisor resigns
The chairman of the Turkish prime minister's human rights advisory board tells the BBC he will resign...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Easter getaway causes travel woes
Travel delays hit hundreds of holidaymakers as they try to get away for the Easter break...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Moves to quell Kyrgyzstan unrest
Kyrgyzstan's new leaders take steps to restore order, as the acting president promises fresh elections...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Railway accident leaves two dead
Two people have been killed after being hit by a train, just north of Darlington, police say...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Sacked Tory MP ousted from seat
Spending row MP Howard Flight will not be a Tory election candidate after being deselected by his local party...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Pay row woman stays on board ship
A Filipina worker in a row over pay is refusing to leave a ferry crossing between Wales and Ireland...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Wrangles over teachers' workloads
More money is needed to head off disruption in primary schools in England and Wales, the NUT says...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Tsunami alert technology - the iron link
The Indian Ocean's tsunami alert technology will be up and running by the end of 2006 - but is it the iron link in a paper chain?...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Brazilian star's mother released
Police in Brazil free the mother of Brazilian football star Rogerio, three days after she was kidnapped by gunmen...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Russia lays Chubais attack charge
Russian prosecutors charge a retired army colonel with trying to kill electricity boss Anatoly Chubais...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
US will accept Israel settlements
The US expects Israel to retain control over large settlements in the West Bank, says the US ambassador...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Man recounts MRSA hospital ordeal
A Lisburn man describes how he thought his world had ended after he contracted the MRSA superbug...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Schiavo parents lose new appeal
The parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo lose a fresh legal appeal in an attempt to keep her alive...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Rugby L: Wigan edge Saints
Wigan edge St Helens in front of a record Super League crowd at the JJB Stadium...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Crew 'burnt alive' on Ghana ship
At least 10 people are feared dead after they were trapped on a burning ship in Ghana's main port near Accra...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Night-time intruder rapes child
Detectives have described the rape of a young girl at her home in Basildon in Essex as "every parent's nightmare"...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Woods body identified as Joanne
Police confirm a body found in North Yorkshire woods is that of missing Hull woman Joanne Nelson...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
US to sell fighters to Pakistan
The US government approves the sale of F-16 fighters to Pakistan, despite objections from India...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Christians gather for Good Friday
Millions of Christians worldwide mark Good Friday - but ill health forces the Pope to keep a low profile for Easter...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Kyrgyzstan leader condemns 'coup'
Kyrgyzstan's deposed leader Askar Akayev denies he has resigned, as the acting president promises fresh polls...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Sacked Tory refuses to stand down
MP Howard Flight vows to fight his party leader's bid to bar him as a Tory election candidate...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Sponsors 'manipulate' scientists
University scientific researchers are put under pressure to tailor their results to suit their sponsors, a survey finds...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Fastest supercomputer gets faster
The world's fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene, has broken its own speed record, reaching a trillion calculations a second...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Fingerprint shown in Jackson case
The jury in the Michael Jackson trial see a fingerprint on an explicit magazine said to belong to his accuser's brother...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
South Sudan peace force approved
The UN votes to send some 10,000 peacekeepers to southern Sudan but remains deadlocked on Darfur...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
UN agency pulls out of Aceh
The UNHCR is withdrawing from tsunami-hit Aceh, ahead of new restrictions on foreign agencies...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Schiavo parents in Florida appeal
The parents of Terri Schiavo make a further legal appeal to a Florida court in an attempt to keep her alive...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Three Eta suspects held by police
Spanish police arrest three suspected members of Basque militants Eta in San Sebastian...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Pakistan mulls nuclear handover
Pakistan considers sending nuclear parts to a UN watchdog to help it determine if Iran is researching atomic weapons...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Female staff agree to pay deal
Around 1,500 female hospital staff agree to an equal pay deal after a meeting in Cumbria...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Minister defends education cuts
NI Education Minister Barry Gardiner defends his decision to cut school budgets despite protests and resignations...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Bodies combine over cafe 'slum'
Two bodies announce they will work together on the £2m appeal to replace the summit cafe on Snowdon...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Tory quits in 'hidden cuts' row
Tory deputy chair Howard Flight resigns over secretly taped comments about the party's spending plans...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Iraqi police killed by car bomb
Eleven Iraqi special police commandos die in a suicide blast at a checkpoint in Ramadi, the US military says...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Prince Rainier health 'worrying'
Monaco's Prince Rainier is in a "worrying" condition, and the prognosis is "uncertain", says the palace...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Easter getaway travel woes
Travel delays have hit hundreds of holidaymakers as they try to get away for the Easter break...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
T rex fossil has 'soft tissues'
Dinosaur experts extract samples of what appear to be soft tissues from a Tyrannosaurus rex leg fossil...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Intruder rapes girl in own home
A child is raped during the night by an intruder at the house she was sharing with her mother and five other youngsters...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Football: Eriksson Cole role hint
Sven-Goran Eriksson may hand Joe Cole an England starting place against Northern Ireland...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Labour targets 'secret Tory cuts'
Labour goes on the offensive after a senior Tory resigns over comments about the party's spending plans...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
New Kyrgyz leader promises polls
An opposition leader swept to power in Kyrgyzstan by Thursday's protests promises fresh elections in June...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Government silence in torture row
The government has been criticised for twice refusing to reveal whether it uses information extracted under torture by foreign countries...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Developing world at superbug risk
Hospitals in the developing world are hit by 'alarming levels' of hospital-acquired infections, researchers warn...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Teachers oppose education plans
The biggest teachers' union in England and Wales is beginning its annual conference at loggerheads with the government on a range of issues...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
'Podcasters' look to net money
Ex-MTV VJ Adam Curry thinks the fledgling "podcasting" trend, DIY net radio, has potential for making money...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Film star jailed over violation
Saving Private Ryan star Tom Sizemore is jailed for 17 months after violating his probation...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
UN approves force for south Sudan
The UN Security Council votes to send more than 10,000 troops to monitor a peace accord in southern Sudan...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Patriarch 'did not help Israelis'
Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox leader denies involvement in the sale of Palestinian land to Jewish developers...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Bad diet 'not down to price tags'
Even when healthy foods are cheap and accessible people continue to eat unhealthily, warn experts...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Pope illness overshadows Easter
Christians begin to celebrate the Easter weekend, amid concerns about the poor health of Pope John Paul II...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Fischer arrives in Iceland
Controversial US chess champion Bobby Fischer lands in Iceland, after being freed from detention in Japan...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Millions hit the road for Easter
The great Easter getaway has begun in earnest with as many as 17 million vehicles expected on the country's roads over the holiday weekend...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Parents wait for 'Joanne' body ID
A post mortem examination will be carried out on a body found by police searching for teenager Joanne Nelson...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
New Kyrgyz rulers take charge
Kyrgyzstan begins its first day in opposition hands, after street protests toppled President Askar Akayev...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
Secret Iraq legal advice probed
An independent watchdog is to decide whether to release the Attorney General's legal advice on the Iraq war...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
UN wants new Lebanon inquiry
The UN says Lebanon's inquiry into the killing of former PM Rafik Hariri is flawed, and calls for an international probe...
BBC News - March 25, 2005
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