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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
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Phoenix police College shooter was punched first
One of three people wounded in a computer lab at a community college had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Halle Berry pushes back against backyard paps
Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ed McMahon pitching back into his work
Ed McMahon has a job.The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Williams Jr. to continue Monday Night Football
Hank Williams Jr., who has sung the opening theme for "Monday Night Football" since 1989, will continue the tradition this season...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McMahon works as pitchman for Kimmel in-show spots
Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Jimmy Kimmel together, will air Monday during the late-night ABC talk show...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police kill man who threatened Pa. radio station
A man who had threatened a Christian radio station was shot and killed by police Friday after he fired at officers with a rifle and tried to run them over with his sport utility vehicle, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
FDA Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak _ clearing the U.S. crop...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hermidas pinch-hit homer lifts Marlins past Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Marlins edge Cubs
Jeremy Hermida hit a pinch-hit home run to lead off the ninth inning to help the Florida Marlins to a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Alfredsson sets Evian record, Park leads
Helen Alfredsson shot a course-record 9-under 63 Friday to pull within a shot of leader Angela Park after the second round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Renters go downtown to save on gas, commuting
Sick of filling up the tank for sixty bucks? Considering a place near work downtown and tossing the car keys? Prepare to pay higher rents as more like-minded apartment dwellers flock to urban digs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA fines Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama camp cites Pentagon in scrapping troop visit
An aide to Sen. Barack Obama said Friday the Democratic presidential contender believed he could visit wounded troops at a military hospital in Germany without involving them in a campaign controversy and scrapped his plans after the Pentagon raised concerns...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain rejects audacity of hopelessness for Iraq
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocated...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Okla. crane fall kills man watching construction
Firefighters say a crane fell while putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who was watching the construction...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to UKs Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cooperation hurts inmate at Gitmo trial
An al-Qaida driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network with U.S. agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Hot, impatient crowd vies for Olympics tickets
A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Olympic tickets went on sale. Police shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a stampede...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopins heart
Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Fighting in northern Lebanon kills 5 people
Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing five people, including a policeman, and wounding at least 15, police officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Unexplained explosions kill 5, wound 20 in Gaza
A powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City beach Friday night, killing a Hamas field commander and three other people, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military says US troops killed Iraqi editors son
The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle a day earlier in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Karadzic interviewed about details of his arrest
A prosecutor interviewed war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Friday about the details of his arrest, his lawyer said, amid efforts by the ex-Bosnian Serb warlord to fight his extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Mexican military losing drug war support
This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Fighting in northern Lebanon kills 6, wounds 15
Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing six people, including a 10 year-old-boy and a policeman, and wounding at least 15, police officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Fires force tourists from Greek island of Rhodes
Raging forest fires sent smoke billowing into hotels on the island of Rhodes, prompting the evacuation of more than 2,000 tourists, the Fire Service and municipal officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Body found in search for swimmer
Police searching for a 26-year-old swimmer feared drowned in the Caledonian Canal recover a man's body...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
All that sparkles
Fake gems don't just lack carats but backstories too...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Sprinter Powell eases to 100m win
Asafa Powell completes his pre-Olympic preparations with an impressive victory at the London Grand Prix...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Unexpected fall in puffin numbers
The puffin population on England's biggest colony falls by a third in five years, a survey shows...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Keeper Robinson joins Blackburn
Tottenham and England goalkeeper Paul Robinson joins Blackburn for £3.5m, signing a five-year contract...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
'Four killed' in Gaza explosion
Three suspected Hamas militants and a young girl die in an explosion near a car on Gaza City's beachfront, reports say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Faculty in league table expulsion
A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from this year's league table...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Carol Vorderman quits Countdown
Presenter Carol Vorderman has announced she is to step down from television game show Countdown...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Karadzic appeal deadline passes
A deadline passes for ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition on genocide charges...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Two charged over fatal stabbing
Police charge two men with murder after an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death near his London home...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Obama to meet Brown on UK visit
White House hopeful Barack Obama is to hold talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown after flying into London...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown under fire as allies rally
Critics increase the pressure on Gordon Brown after Labour's defeat in the Glasgow East by-election...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Texans filter through Dollys mess
South Texas was getting back on its feet Friday as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Watchmen aims to answer typical superhero films
Zack Snyder is standing inside a 9,000 pound, tanklike metal pod in the center of the crowded Comic-Con floor. He nonchalantly points out the features of the Owl Ship, a real-life version of the flying vehicle from the award-winning graphic novel "Watchmen."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River will open to some traffic after spill
The Coast Guard says the Mississippi River has reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner opens his last Bayreuth festival
Veteran opera director Wolfgang Wagner welcomed guests to his last Bayreuth festival Friday, walking on the arm of his youngest daughter _ a leading contender to replace him after a 57-year reign and a prolonged struggle over his successor...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
OSHA to fine Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
A Georgia lawmaker says federal officials are proposing $8.7 million in fines against Imperial Sugar for violations at a plant near Savannah where an explosion killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River spill idles 200 ships near New Orleans
About 200 ships were stacked up Friday and more were expected to join them at a bottleneck along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports
Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obamas brief stop in Paris belies his popularity
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Stan Lee to make a cameo in new X-Men movie
The creator of "X-Men" bumped into Wolverine at Comic-Con...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Miss. River reopens to limited ship traffic
The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill near New Orleans...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
8 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
An explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four more, Greek authorities said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to British leader Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a stunning setback when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran to increase cooperation with IAEA
A senior envoy said Friday that Iran wants to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but said the IAEA should not be cast as a "U.N. watchdog" looking for signs of secret nuclear weapons programs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report Karadzic seen in Vienna in 2006
An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to UKs Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
A British army dog handler was fatally shot by insurgents in southern Afghanistan, where a Danish soldier died in a separate roadside bomb attack, officials said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
47 dead, 100 missing in Congo boat accident
Officials say a motorized boat has sunk in Congo, killing at least 47 people. Some 100 people are missing...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 49
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday from ethnic Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 46 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Fighting in northern Lebanon city kills 2 people
Sectarian clashes broke out Friday in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least two people and wounding 12, including a soldier, police officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attackers storm Norway asylum center, hurting 20
A group of men wielding knives, machetes and iron bars stormed into a center for asylum-seekers in a nighttime attack that left more than 20 people hurt, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Economics 'dying out' in schools
Only three economics teachers were trained on postgraduate teacher training courses in the whole of England last year...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Hope of deal in world trade talks
Global trade talks that earlier looked near collapse have made progress and a deal might now be possible...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
PM 'must face leadership contest'
GMB union leader Paul Kenny calls for Gordon Brown to face a Labour leadership contest this autumn...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
US home foreclosures on the rise
The number of homes in some stage of being repossessed more than doubled in the three months to June, a report shows...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fresh clashes shake Lebanese city
Sectarian fighting breaks out between rival Lebanese factions in the northern city of Tripoli with one reported fatality...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
China paper censored for breach
A Chinese newspaper falls foul of the authorities by printing an image from the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Salmond issues challenge to Brown
The first minister challenges Gordon Brown to "change his policy or change his job" following the SNP's by-election victory...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Hanging 'cries for help' warning
The coroner in a county where a number of young people have taken their own lives warns of how quickly hanging can kill...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Sudanese warning on peacekeepers
Sudan again warns it cannot be held responsible for the safety of UN troops in Darfur if its leader is prosecuted for war crimes...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Keeping it private
Papers reflect on what Max Mosley ruling will mean...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
A bug's life
Why are there so many flying ants all of a sudden?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Pc convicted of assaulting child
A police officer is convicted of punching a 12-year-old boy in the face at a Manchester police station...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Beyond a joke
Do Carry On films have a deeper meaning?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Perilous position
When attack becomes defence in Helmand...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Pietersen admits to Trophy fears
England batsman Kevin Pietersen says he has serious reservations about travelling to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Iran to end dispute
Barack Obama tells Iran not to wait for a new US president before resolving the nuclear crisis...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
University expelled from rankings
A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from the league table...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Attacks begin on net address flaw
Net firms urged to patch address flaw as attacks that exploit it circulate online...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Stones ditching EMI for Universal
Veteran rock group The Rolling Stones switch record labels, leaving EMI for Universal after more than three decades...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Karadzic's appeal deadline looms
Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic has hours left to appeal against his extradition to The Netherlands on genocide charges...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown seeks Labour morale boost
Gordon Brown urges Labour to "have confidence" in itself after the party's Glasgow East by-election defeat...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
3 shot at Phoenix college suspect arrested
A long-standing dispute between two men turned violent when authorities say a former student shot three people in a computer lab at a community college, injuring one of them critically. The suspected gunman was arrested nearby...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Beating at N.Y. bar strains US-Serbia relations
It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
One of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. is teaching the food industry the truth of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might get it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Brewers stay hot behind Braun and Hardy
No team in baseball is playing as well as the Milwaukee Brewers and no hitter is on a tear like Ryan Braun...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ochoa leads Evian Masters with bogey-free 65
Lorena Ochoa shot a 7-under par 65 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Evian Masters...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Blancos goal, assist help MLS stars top West Ham
Chicago midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored one goal and helped set up another, and Houston midfielder Dwayne DeRosario snapped a tie with a penalty kick to give the MLS All-Stars a 3-2 victory over English Premier League team West Ham United 3-2 on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New markets spur Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New market demand spurs Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.M. researchers hope to cultivate calming herb
The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Honda reports record 1Q profit
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report War crimes figure Karadzic seen in Vienna
An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran to increase cooperation with IAEA
A senior envoy said Friday that Iran wants to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but said the IAEA should not be cast as a "U.N. watchdog" looking for signs of secret nuclear weapons programs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report Karadzic seen in Vienna in 2006
An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cambodia UN help if border talks fail
Cambodia will pursue U.N. intervention to avoid a military confrontation with Thailand if talks between the two countries fail to produce a breakthrough, the Cambodian foreign minister said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Olympian PR bout under way in Washington
In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
8 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
An explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four more, Greek authorities said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to British leader Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a stunning setback when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
SKorea struggles to probe tourist death in NKorea
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
5 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
Greek authorities say an explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed at least five people and injured four more...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Afghan officials 3 Taliban killed in clashes
Afghan officials say three Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with police in southern Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to UKs Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police Lebanon fighting leaves 1 civilian dead
Lebanese police say sectarian fighting in the northern city of Tripoli has killed one person and wounded 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Primary 'free school meals' call
The government is being urged to scrap means testing and to give free school meals to all primary pupils in England...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Rare fossils in India threatened
Nature protected rare fossils for millions of years, but humans are now destroying them, says the BBC's Salman Ravi in eastern India...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host MTV Awards
Comedian Russell Brand is to present this year's MTV Video Music Awards show, which will be held in Los Angeles in September...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boom times ahead for mobile web
Unprecedented demand will see mobile web-using devices proliferate over the next four years, predicts Intel...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
'Serial bombs' hit India's IT hub
Seven bombs hit the southern Indian city of Bangalore in a span of 15 minutes killing one person, police say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scrabble's owners sue Scrabulous
Hasbro, the company that owns the North American rights to Scrabble, sues the founders of Scrabulous...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Cameron issues election challenge
Conservative leader David Cameron urges Gordon Brown to call a general election after Labour's defeat in Glasgow East...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Bombings hit Gaza Strip targets
A bombing outside a cafe in Gaza City kills one person, while a second attack appears to target the home of a Hamas official...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Seoul irked as inquiry hits wall
South Korea says it cannot resolve questions over the killing of a tourist without access to the scene in North Korea...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Cyprus sets date for peace talks
Leaders from both sides of the divided island of Cyprus agree to launch reunification talks in early September, the UN says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Holiday accidents claim two lives
A six-year-old boy and a teenager die in separate accidents while on holiday in Spain and Portugal...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
DR Congo boat accident 'kills 42'
At least 42 people die after their boat sinks on a remote river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Game On
How LittleBigPlanet turns PS3 players into creators...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Missing climber 'warned off peak'
A missing climber was warned not to attempt a solo attempt on a 20,000ft (6,096m) summit in northern Pakistan, his sister says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Witchdoctor fury
BBC reporter tells of threats for taking on albino killers...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Unsung star
India's top boxer takes a shot at Beijing...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
7 days quiz
How many zeros are there in a quadrillion?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Having fat friends may raise your own risk of obesity
People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them, researchers suggest...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Twenty20 winners to face England
England will warm up for their $20m (£10m) showdown with the Stanford Super Stars later this year by playing the winners of this weekend's Twenty20 Cup...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boycott may hit Champions Trophy
Player associations around the world warn members over travelling to the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan on security grounds...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scrum for last Olympic tickets
Thousands of people descend on ticket booths in Beijing, to get their hands on the last batch of Olympic tickets...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fears for wedding gift list firm
Wedding gift firm Wrapit says it is having financial problems, amid fears that brides and grooms will not get their presents...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boy, 10, slashes woman over cigarette
Police are looking for a 10-year-old boy who slashed a woman's arm after she refused to him a cigarette...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Oyster travel card system fails
The Oyster card system used on London's transport system breaks down during morning rush hour...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Hole forces Qantas plane to land
A Qantas 747 makes an emergency landing in Manila as a hole in its belly causes it to lose cabin pressure, officials say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
EDF customers face higher bills
EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
British soldier killed in Helmand
A British Army dog handler has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
UK economic growth slows sharply
The UK economy has grown at its lowest quarterly rate for three years, as the credit crunch takes its toll...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown seeks to lift Labour mood
Gordon Brown is seeking to rally Labour activists and union representatives after the party's Glasgow by-election defeat...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Herrera earns 1st majors win, Bucs rip Padres 9-1
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Yoslan Herrera earns first career win for Pirates
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wallace & Gromit to become episodic video game
"Wallace & Gromit" are going on a new adventure...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cubs snap losing streak to Marlins with 6-3 win
Carlos Zambrano pitched seven solid innings and the Chicago Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Florida Marlins with a 6-3 victory Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Aftershocks kill 1, injure 10 in China
Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Bleeding cash, Ford looks to Europe for help
Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Texas levees hold but waters rise in Dollys rains
Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama in Europe aims to raise European profile
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with Merkel
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Sudans president vows to work for Darfur peace
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charged with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, vowed Thursday to work for peace in the war-wracked desert region and the return of hundreds of thousands of people forced by attacks to flee their homes...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
FBI agents testify at Guantanamo war crimes trial
A captured driver for Osama bin Laden did not fully cooperate with efforts to find the terrorist leader, FBI agents said Thursday, countering defense claims that he provided valuable assistance...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
China marshals Olympic spirit to rebuild
The streets here are alive with the sounds _ rumbling backhoes, roaring jackhammers, clanging pickaxes _ of a town being brought back from the dead...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe
Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Germans to work with US to stop terror
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stood before an enormous crowd in Berlin on Thursday and summoned Europeans and Americans to work together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Concerns in Europe despite Obamas warm welcome
The warm welcome that washed over Barack Obama during his Berlin appearance Thursday made it abundantly clear that Europeans have a strong desire to heal the trans-Atlantic rift and the Democratic president candidate is a good choice for the job...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Suicide bomber kills 8 US-allied Sunnis in Iraq
A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people Thursday evening, police said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
7 SKoreans killed in house fire
A fire ripped through a boardinghouse in South Korea early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, an official said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Gunmen kill prison director in Mexico
A Mexican police official says gunmen have killed a state prison director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report 8 die in northwest China mosque collapse
A mosque under construction collapsed in northwest China, killing eight people and injuring 23 others, state media reported Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
7 South Koreans killed in house fire
A fire ripped through a boardinghouse in South Korea early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, an official said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
'Wrong bras' can damage breasts
Women who wear the wrong kind of bra could be damaging their breasts, researchers warn...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Trainee teachers 'degrees better'
People seeking to become teachers in England are better qualified than they were a decade ago, analysis shows...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Chavez set to meet Spanish king
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he may hug Spain's King Juan Carlos - who famously told him to shut up last year...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fuel poor tariffs 'must be cheap'
Regulator Ofgem tells energy companies the tariffs offered to their poorest customers must match their cheapest deals...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fire crews tackle warehouse blaze
Firefighters are damping down a large fire which broke out at a warehouse in Melton Mowbray...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Shark spotting
Volunteers wanted to identify basking sharks off Cornwall...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
High note
'Extreme cellists' scale England's tallest mountain...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Home front
Has Obama's trip been a hit with US voters?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Leaving Beijing
Migrants asked to go before Olympics comes to town...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
UK troops receive bravery awards
Dozens of soldiers and marines serving with UK forces in Afghanistan and Iraq receive bravery awards...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Painter fined for smoking in van
A painter and decorator says he is fuming after being handed an on-the-spot fine for smoking in his own private van...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
SNP stuns Labour in Glasgow East
The SNP pulls off a stunning victory, winning one of Labour's safest seats by just a few hundred votes...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown set for union policy summit
MPs, party members and trade union activists gather in Warwick for Labour's National Policy Forum...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
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