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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 April 2008:
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Klitschko rules out Haye showdown
Wladimir Klitschko says proposed talks with David Haye over a heavyweight title fight came to nothing...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Junior doctors attack NHS reforms
Junior doctors will warn patient care could suffer as a result of NHS reforms at their annual conference...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Voting starts in Nauru's election
Elections seen as crucial to ending months of political deadlock are underway in the South Pacific island of Nauru...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Scappaticci wins newspaper case
An alleged high-ranking British spy within the IRA has won an apology from a tabloid newspaper...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Angola allows arms ship to dock
Angola authorises a Chinese ship to dock, but arms on board will not be allowed passage to Zimbabwe...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Iraq militias 'recruit child bombers'
Insurgent groups in Iraq are recruiting children for suicide attacks, according to a senior UN official...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Importing comedy
Will rerun of 'Allo 'Allo! make Germans laugh?...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Chasing Amy
Covering the singer and her husband's appearances...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Microsoft shares fall on forecasts
Microsoft sees shares fall 6%, a day after posting a fall in profits and disappointing earnings forecasts...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Shark kills swimmer off US coast
A swimmer is killed by a shark in the Pacific Ocean, a few miles north of San Diego, California...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86
Humphrey Lyttelton, the veteran jazz musician and chairman of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, dies at the age of 86...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Refinery shut down ahead of strike
The Grangemouth oil refinery shuts down ahead of a planned strike - which BP says could mean a major oil pipeline shutting...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Three people bitten by rabid dog
Three people are treated for rabies exposure after being bitten by an infected puppy which was being held in quarantine...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Security tight for torch in Japan
The Japanese leg of the Olympic torch relay is due to be held amid tight security in the city of Nagano...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Lampard set to miss Man Utd clash
Frank Lampard is set to miss Chelsea's Premier League showdown against Man Utd following his mother's death...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Tables 'restrict A-level choices'
The pressure of league tables forces independent and state schools to stop pupils taking difficult subjects, it is claimed...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Mission to prove Europe's sat-nav
Europe's quest to build its own version of GPS is about to take an important step forward with the launch of a test spacecraft, Giove-B...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Morrissey saves anti-racism gig
Singer Morrissey steps in to save Sunday's Rock Against Racism music festival from possible financial ruin...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Hackers warn high street chains
High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world's elite hackers warn...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Ferguson & Grant set for decider
Chelsea are determined to stop Man Utd from all but retaining the Premier League crown with a win at Stamford Bridge on Saturday...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
UN condemns Turkey border deaths
The UN blames Turkish police for the deaths of four men forced to cross a fast-flowing river on the Iraqi border...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Oil climbs on UK pipeline fears
Oil prices approach record levels as a planned UK refinery strike threatens production in the North Sea region...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Plea to avoid petrol panic buying
Motorists should not buy more fuel than normal ahead of a planned refinery strike in Scotland, says No 10...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Man charged with pensioner murder
A 43-year-old man denies murdering a pensioner in the Finaghy area of Belfast 20 years ago...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
New fighting stops DR Congo aid
Fighting in eastern DR Congo forces the UN refugee agency to suspend aid to displaced people...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
US vessel fires at boats in Gulf
A ship contracted by the US Navy fires warning shots at two unidentified speed boats in the Gulf...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Clive James on...
... why it's not easy for the world to right wrongs...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Pair complete Pole-to-Pole feat
Two young explorers complete an epic 26,000 mile expedition from the North Pole to the South Pole...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Trucker jailed over woman's death
A sleep-deprived lorry driver is jailed over a fatal crash after he had been on the road almost non-stop for 19 hours...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Sexy or sexist
Nordic neighbours split over sexually-loaded ads...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Zimbabwe police in election raids
Armed riot police raid the offices of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and independent poll monitors...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Security breach at Norwich airport
A BBC East investigation uncovers security issues at one of the UK's regional airports...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Winehouse arrested over 'assault'
Singer Amy Winehouse is arrested at a police station in London over an alleged assault on Wednesday...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Police stripogram's truncheon not an offensive weapon, judges rule
A police stripogram's truncheon was not an offensive weapon, judges have ruled...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Missing man was found in suitcase
The body of a 22-year-old disabled man was found in a suitcase in the garden of his family home, police confirm...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Many dead in Sri Lanka bus blast
At least 24 people are killed by a blast on a bus near Sri Lanka's capital, which officials blame on Tamil Tiger rebels...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Two jailed over boy's pool death
Two men who forced a boy into a flooded clay pit and watched him drown have been jailed for five-and-a-half years...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Police acquitted over NY shooting
A judge in New York acquits three police officers over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in 2006...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
UN probes US Syria reactor claim
The UN's nuclear agency is to investigate US claims that Syria was building a secret nuclear reactor...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Strike refinery shutdown complete
The shutdown of the Ineos oil refinery at Grangemouth is complete ahead of a planned strike, the company has said...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Yahoo kicks off re-wiring project
A mammoth re-engineering project at Yahoo aims to turn the site a vast social networking community...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Henry would only consider Arsenal
Thierry Henry tells BBC Sport he is happy at Barcelona and claims he would only return to England to play for former club Arsenal...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Ferguson focuses on title decider
Boss Sir Alex Ferguson wants Manchester United to overcome fatigue and effectively win the Premier League title by beating Chelsea...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Stuntman stable after Bond crash
A stuntman is in a stable condition after crashing a car while making the new James Bond film in Italy...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Beijing warned of 'terror threat'
The Beijing Olympics faces the real possibility of a terrorist attack, the head of global police body Interpol says...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Nepal torch security 'too harsh'
A religious leader in Nepal criticises security measures ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival on top of Everest...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Workers 'stunned' by closure plan
An electronics plant in the west of Scotland is to close with the loss of 300 jobs, according to a union...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
GP patients 'wait over fortnight'
Some GPs in parts of south Wales keep patients waiting more than two weeks for a routine appointment...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Payoffs defended by minister
Payouts totalling £15m to senior managers in the health service are defended by the health minister...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Zimbabwe police storm MDC office
Armed riot police raid the offices of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and arrest scores of activists...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
7 days quiz
Joanna, Carla, Helen and Coleen. The odd one out?...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Deadliest animal
Malaria mosquito feeds on refugees from conflict...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Pier jumping deaths 'accidental'
An inquest returns verdicts of accidental deaths on two men who jumped into the sea off Clacton pier...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Many parents 'block cancer jab'
Nearly three in ten parents failed to agree to their children receiving a new cervical cancer vaccine during a trial...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
UK economic growth still slowing
The UK economy grew 0.4% in the first three months of the year, its weakest quarterly growth in three years...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
UK couple overjoyed at the birth of 'miracle' identical triplets
A midwife has beaten one-in-200-million odds by giving birth to identical triplets...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Too 'cushy'?
Do prison inmates really have it too easy inside?...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Alien sounds
Get behind the sofa! We recreate the Dalek voice...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
More time granted in murder probe
Magistrates grant police more time to question a man and a youth on suspicion of the murder of a disabled man...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Beijing 'to talk to Dalai aides'
China will hold talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives for the first time since pro-Tibet protests, state media says...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Snipes imprisoned for three years
Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced by a US judge to three years in jail for tax offences...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Strike to close key oil pipeline
An oil pipeline, which provides a third of the UK's daily oil output, will close if a strike by refinery workers goes ahead...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Probe into UK tobacco prices
Supermarkets and cigarette firms have been engaged in unlawful practices linked to retail prices, the OFT alleges...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Car bomb kills three in Pakistan
A car bomb in Pakistan ends a lull in attacks since a new government took over in March end...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Microsoft sees slide in profits
Microsoft sees third quarter profits decline, hit by lower demand, but the results beat forecasts...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
US blocks genetic discrimination
The US Senate passes legislation forbidding discrimination against people because of genetic details...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Iran votes in second round poll
Iranians vote in a second round of elections expected to confirm conservative dominance of parliament...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Sarkozy admits he made mistakes
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy says he made some mistakes in his first year in office, in a live TV interview...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Co-pilot's final words revealed
The last words of the co-pilot of a plane which crashed into a Kent house, killing five, are published in a report...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Port immigration offences surge
More than 1,000 people have been identified as illegal immigrants at ports in southern Scotland...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Anti-racist rock
Can music change things or should it avoid politics?...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Finding optimism
David Miliband sees a new confidence on his visit to Iraq...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Fighting Back
France's president appears on air to assert his authority...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Third of girls 'have self-harmed'
A third of UK girls and a fifth of boys aged 11 to 19 have tried to harm themselves, a survey suggests...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
50-shot verdict
Verdict will decide if NYPD cops were "trigger happy"...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Your pictures
Your perspective on the world during the past week...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
'Stepfather held' in murder probe
Police are believed to be questioning the stepfather of a disabled man who was found dead five days after going missing...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Jails 'too comfy' to merit escape
Inmates are so comfortable in jail that they do not want to try to escape, a prison officer union leader claims...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
Gun smuggling 'common' in Army
Two ex-soldiers who were jailed for their involvement in a gun smuggling ring say the practice is common in the British army...
BBC News - April 25, 2008
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