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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 August 2007:
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Israelis Kill 2 Palestinian Militants Who Attacked Army Post Near Gaza Crossing
Two Palestinian gunmen attacked an Israeli Army post and moved nearly half a mile into Israel before soldiers killed them...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Terror Bombings Kill Dozens in South India
A pair of synchronized explosions tore through two popular spots in Hyderabad, killing at least 30 people and wounding 60 others...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Greece Declares Emergency as Fires Rage
Forest fires that have killed at least 46 people continued to burn out of control, leaving some villages trapped within walls of flames...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
China?s pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Great 'cosmic nothingness' found
Astronomers identify an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Plan to encourage gun informers
Plans are under way for a scheme aimed at encouraging people to inform on others who have a gun illegally...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Football: Arsenal stop City run
Cesc Fabregas' late strike gives Arsenal victory and knocks Man City off the top of the Premier League...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
BBC One wins channel of the year
BBC One is voted terrestrial channel of the year and Dr Who best programme at the Edinburgh TV Festival...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Two dead in Canada balloon fire
A hot air balloon in Canada has burst into flames, killing two people and injuring eleven others...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Man charged with carer murder
A man is charged with the killing of a care worker and the attempted murder of her colleague at a nursing home...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Fires prompt Greek national alert
Greece declares a state of emergency after wildfires kill 46 and one suspected arsonist is arrested...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Forest Fires in Greece Kill at Least 44
Forest fires whipped by powerful winds have swept uncontrolled across southern Greece, charring villages...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Raymond Barre, Former French Prime Minister and Economist, Dies
Mr. Barre was a prominent economist who served as French prime minister during the presidency of Valery Giscard d?Estaing in the 1970s...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
2 Palestinians Killed in Israel Attack
Two Palestinian gunmen entered Israel from the Gaza Strip and moved nearly half a mile into Israel before soldiers killed them...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Teenage hacker unlocks the iPhone
A New Jersey teenager unlocks the iPhone, opening the way to Apple's hit mobile being used by non-US networks...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Listeners turned off by DJ Davina
Davina McCall's stint as a stand-in host on BBC Radio 2 attracts more than 150 complaints from listeners...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Girls found after mountain search
Four teenage girls who went missing overnight in the Cairngorms are found safe and well...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Baby dies after Africa crash
A six-month-old baby dies and his father is seriously injured in a car crash in Swaziland, Africa...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Man says house attack 'sectarian'
A house in Ballymena, County Antrim, comes under attack twice within a five-hour period...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Pakistan tests new cruise missile
Pakistan says it has tested a Hatf-VIII cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Israelis kill seven Palestinians
Seven Palestinians - at least five militants - are killed by Israeli troops in Israeli and Palestinian territory...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Sudan lets expelled EU envoy stay
Sudan says an EU envoy who was ordered to leave will now be allowed to remain until his term ends...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Chelsea win to lead Premiership
Frank Lampard grabs his third goal in a week to end Portsmouth's unbeaten start to the season and send Chelsea top of the Premier League...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Rugby: St Helens claim Cup
St Helens see off battling Catalans Dragons to win the Challenge Cup at Wembley...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
GCSE essays 'sickeningly violent'
Examiners raise concerns over the "sickeningly violent" content they found in some English GCSE essays...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Deadly explosions hit Indian city
At least 34 people are killed in two explosions in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, reports say...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
'Friendly fire' UK soldiers named
The three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan after a US air attack are named by the Ministry of Defence...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Five arrested over Rhys's death
Police hunting the killer of Rhys Jones arrest five more people, including one who was injured as he tried to escape...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Fire Toll in Greece Rises to at Least 37
ZAHARO, Greece (AP) -- Massive forest fires swept across Greece and killed at least 37 people in the south of the country, including several children, the fire department said Saturday. New fires broke out frequently, as embers were carried by the wind...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Bombing Kills One in Thailand, Police Say
PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - A bomb hidden under a bench in front of a food shop killed one person and wounded 10 others in Thailand's Muslim south on Saturday, police said...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Home attacked twice in one night
A house in Ballymena, County Antrim comes under attack twice within a five-hour period...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Teenagers missing in Cairngorms
A search is under way for four teenage girls who are overdue from a Duke of Edinburgh trek in the Cairngorms...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Convicted paedophile abused girl
A police watchdog is to look into the supervision of a paedophile who went on to abuse a four-year-old girl...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Officer snatched in west Pakistan
A senior Pakistani paramilitary officer is abducted along with three others near the Afghan border, officials say...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
No motive over doormen shooting
Police say they have no motive for the shooting of two doormen outside a nightclub in Liverpool...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
French ex-PM Barre dies
Raymond Barre, French prime minister for five years from 1976 to 1981, dies in Paris at the age of 83...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
China to act on gender imbalance
China says it is to draft new laws to tackle the growing gender imbalance, with boys outnumbering girls...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
McCann rues media speculation
Gerry McCann asks the media to end the constant speculation about the fate of his daughter Madeleine...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Flu grips Australia's horse world
An outbreak of equine influenza hits Australia's horse-racing industry, causing meetings to be cancelled...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Man dies after street gang attack
A man with learning difficulties dies after a "sustained and brutal" beating by a gang of youths...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
US probes 'friendly fire' deaths
The US launches an inquiry into the deaths of three UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan by US fighter planes...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
QPR's Ray Jones dies in car crash
QPR footballer and England youth international Ray Jones is killed in a car accident in east London...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Murder hunt police renew appeal
Police investigating the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones say witnesses "should stand up and be counted"...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Death toll mounts in Greek fires
Some 41 bodies are discovered as emergency services battle raging forest fires in southern Greece...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Four in court over M40 shooting
Four men appear before magistrates in connection with the murder of a biker shot dead on the M40...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Western-Style Barbers Shut
Iran has shut down 13 barbershops over the last two weeks that were offering ?deviant Western styles? and eyebrow plucking for men...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Lebanon: Militants? Families Leave Camp
Families of Fatah al Islam militants holed up in the battered Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al Bared were permitted to leave under a temporary truce with the army...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Greece: Fires Claim 15 Lives
At least 15 people died as at least 140 forest fires raged out of control in the southern Peloponnesian peninsula...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: ETA Blamed for Blast Outside Police Station
Two police officers were wounded by flying glass when a huge bomb exploded in the middle of the night outside a barracks in the Basque country town of Durango...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Swiss Reject Request for Yukos Records
A high court in Switzerland has sharply criticized Russia?s case against Yukos...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Bangladesh: Curfew Relaxed
The army-backed interim government temporarily suspended an indefinite curfew for 14 hours...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Turkey: Presidency Remains Deadlocked
Abdullah Gul, the foreign minister and candidate of the governing party, again failed to win a two-thirds majority of votes in Parliament to become president...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
A Gift Offer for Artists in China: Museums
For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but now the country?s leading contemporary artists are being courted by major art collectors abroad and a local government in Sichuan Province is taking notice...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Shepherds Held in Deadly Fire
Two Sicilian shepherds were detained on suspicion of starting a fire that consumed a hotel and killed three people...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Abdel-Rahman Aref, 91, Former Iraqi President, Is Dead
Former President Abdel-Rahman Aref of Iraq was overthrown nearly 40 years ago in a coup that brought Saddam Hussein?s Baath Party to power...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Raymond Barre, Former French Prime Minister and Economist, Dies
Mr. Barre was a prominent economist who served as French prime minister during the presidency of Valery Giscard d?Estaing in the 1970s...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
In Court Ruling, Noriega Is Cleared for Extradition to France
A federal judge in Miami cleared the way for the former Panamanian leader to face money laundering charges...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Protest Broken Up by Armed Hamas Force
Members of the Hamas Executive Force broke up a demonstration by Fatah in Gaza City, firing into the air and briefly detaining journalists...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
In Air Attack, U.S. Soldiers Kill 18 Gunmen
American soldiers battled Shiite militiamen in a poor neighborhood in northern Baghdad early on Friday, firing from helicopters and killing 18 gunmen...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
The Saturday Profile: An Economist?s Task: Building a Model for His People
Salam Fayyad, the non-Hamas prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, faces a difficult, ambitious and dicey task...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
U.S. Bomb Dropped; 3 British Soldiers Die
Three British soldiers died in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in an apparent friendly-fire episode involving a bomb dropped by an American plane...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Pakistan Prepares for Former Prime Ministers? Return
Pakistan?s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said there was a need for dialogue to ensure a smooth period of preparation for elections...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Experts May Have Found Remains of Czar?s Children
Clues led investigators to a makeshift grave in Russia where they found the possible remains of two of Czar Nicholas II?s children...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Georgia Says It Fired on a Military Craft Violating Airspace
A senior Georgian official said that the nationality of an unidentified military aircraft that violated a remote area of Georgian airspace was unclear...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Quake Orphan Reflects Peru?s Loss, and Anger
Relatives of a baby who lost as many as 60 members of his extended family say rescue efforts were tragically slow...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
News Analysis: Iraqi Factions? Self-Interest Blocks Political Progress
Competing constituencies in Iraq have a greater stake in continuing chaos than in compromise, experts say...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Generals Differ on the Timing of Troop Cuts
Fault lines are beginning to emerge in a debate between commanders in the field and senior generals at the Pentagon over options for withdrawing forces in Iraq...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
With Troop Rise, Iraqi Detainees Soar in Number
A 50 percent increase in the number of detainees comes, officials said, because U.S. forces are operating in areas where they had not been present for some time...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
'Tough' market for rural houses
A review by the Bank of Scotland says the housing market in rural areas is "particularly tough"...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Ex-French PM Raymond Barre dies
Raymond Barre, who was French prime minister for five years from 1976-81, has died in Paris, aged 83...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
US Sikhs angry over turban plan
US Sikh groups express anger over changes allowing more rigorous turban checks at airports...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Fires prompt Greek appeal to EU
Greece asks the European Union for assistance as wildfires, which have killed 27, blaze out of control...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Three killed soldiers to be named
Three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan by so-called "friendly fire" from a US fighter plane are set to be named...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Paxman voices fears over BBC
Jeremy Paxman criticises the BBC and TV industry as he wonders if Newsnight will survive budget cuts...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Rhys murder police appeal to fans
An appeal for information on the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones will be shown to up to 40,000 football fans...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Nightclub doormen shot in street
Two doormen are being treated in hospital after they were shot outside a nightclub in Liverpool...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Four men charged over M40 killing
Three men are charged with murder and one with firearms offences after a biker was shot on the motorway...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
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