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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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E. Kaestner, 107, German Veteran
BERLIN (AP) ? Erich Kaestner, believed to be the last German veteran of World War I, died Jan. 1 in Cologne. He was 107...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Nuclear Arsenal Remains Secure, General Asserts
A Pakistani official in charge of the country?s nuclear arsenal ruled out any possibility that Islamic extremists, could gain control of nuclear weapons...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
11 Are Killed in a Guyanese Village
Gunmen fatally shot 11 people in a village in Guyana early Saturday in an attack that the police attributed to a criminal gang whose leader has threatened widespread violence...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Tehran?s Mayor Speaks of Making Iran Less Isolated
The annual economic gathering here not only attracts those with power in business and politics but also offers a springboard for those who wish to wield it...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Rights Group Accuses Myanmar of Holding More Dissidents
Four months after a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, the government of Myanmar has stepped up arrests of dissenters, breaking a promise to the United Nations...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
The Medium: Children?s Crusade
How does a computer designed for kids in poor countries connect to us?...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
The World: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
Got vegetables? The days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may be on the way out...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
A Dying Breed
As the Holstein rapidly replaces the longhorn Ankole cow, will the genes that allowed cattle to survive in Africa?s harsh climate be lost forever? A cautionary tale of well-intentioned development...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
Just a few years ago, America?s hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while we?ve been in Iraq ? and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a ??second world.??...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
The World: A New France in the New Middle East: Forget Glory
Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt. Charles De Gaulle left Algeria. Nicolas Sarkozy has nuclear plants to sell...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Shanghai Rail-Line Plan Fuels Middle-Class Protest
Yang Yang had never imagined herself in the role of activist until she began networking with other middle-class opponents who were angered about the train?s effect on property values...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Fashion Review: A Final Curtain Call for Valentino
After 45 years as a leading designer, Valentino said goodbye to the fashion world with a haute couture fashion show in Paris. Givenchy and Jean Paul Gaultier also presented their couture shows...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Ex-Pakistani Official Says Policy on Taliban Is Failing
The second attack in eight months on Pakistan?s former interior minister led him to criticize failure of the government to respond aggressively to the rapidly spreading Taliban insurgency...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
News Analysis: Israel?s Experimental Pressure Backfires
When Hamas blew holes in Gaza?s border, it also blew a hole in the Israeli policy of pressuring the people of Gaza...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
As Suharto Clings to Life, Mystics See Spirits? Power
The diagnosis among believers here in Solo, the heart of Javanese culture, is that powerful occult forces in former President Suharto?s body will not let him go...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Rogue Trader in Custody in France
Investigators were expected to question the trader in connection with a massive fraud at Société Générale...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Ethnic Violence in Rift Valley Tears Kenya Apart
In the deeply troubled Rift Valley, furious mobs rule the streets, brutalizing ethnic rivals with complete impunity...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Egypt Warns Hamas About Border Violence
The Egyptian foreign minister said that at least 36 Egyptian security officers had been hospitalized, some in critical condition, after confrontations with Palestinians...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Pakistan Rebuffs Secret U.S. Plea for C.I.A. Buildup
President Pervez Musharraf dismissed proposals to allow the United States greater latitude to operate in tribal territories where militants are active, officials said...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Female smokers 'double in Russia'
Smoking rates have more than doubled in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, researchers say...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Trade ministers promise Doha push
Trade ministers meeting in Davos say they will meet this Easter in a final attempt to negotiate a global trade deal...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Seized cash to fund crimefighters
Money seized from organised criminals is to be used to expand two crimefighting units...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Iran's FM questions UN resolution
Iran's foreign minister urges restraint over a new draft UN sanctions resolution, in a BBC interview...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Serb minister hurt in car crash
Serbia's Interior Minister, Dragan Jocic, is badly injured after a car accident, police say...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Tennis: Djokovic and Tsonga set
Third seed Novak Djokovic and unseeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will compete for the Australian Open title on Sunday...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Two dead after helicopter crash
Two people die as a helicopter crashes just after take-off at a golf resort near Harrogate, North Yorkshire...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Palestinian radical founder dies
The founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), George Habash, dies...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Polls close in S Carolina primary
Votes are counted in South Carolina's Democratic Party primary, with early signs of victory for Barack Obama...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Kabul vetoes Ashdown envoy role
Afghanistan makes it clear it does not want Paddy Ashdown as the new United Nations envoy to the country...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Labour hit by new donations row
Health Secretary Alan Johnson is accused of accepting a donation channelled through a third party...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Satellite could plummet to Earth
A US spy satellite has gone out of control and is due to crash to Earth within two months, US sources say...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Guyana Shootings Claims 11 Lives
Gunmen stormed into a village and shot dead 11 people, President Bharrat Jagdeo said, in the worst mass killing in this small South America nation in more than 30 years...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Pakistani Official Dismisses Concerns Over Nuclear Security
A top Pakistani official said there was increased security around its nuclear weapons and facilities given recent political turmoil and militant violence...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
American Kidnapped in Afghanistan
The woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in Kandahar on her way to work, the provincial governor said...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Tensions Grow at Egypt-Gaza Border
The Egyptian foreign minister said that at least 36 Egyptian security officers had been hospitalized after confrontations with Palestinians...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
US network faces $1m nudity fine
US TV network ABC could be fined $1.4m for airing an episode of NYPD Blue which showed female nudity...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Private equity defends job record
Research suggests that companies bought by private equity firms are not massive destroyers of jobs...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
No more resignations, says Browne
No more senior Labour figures will quit over the donations row, according to Defence Secretary Des Browne...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Marchers hold Bloody Sunday rally
Hundreds of people take part in a parade in Glasgow to remember the victims of Bloody Sunday...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Spice Girl visit for stab victim
A 14-year-old girl who was stabbed in a Lancashire park is visited in hospital by Spice Girl Geri Halliwell...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Woman threatened to dismember man
A woman threatened to cut off part of a man's body and leave him for dead, a County Down court hears...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Pakistan nuclear sites on alert
Pakistan raises the state of alert around its nuclear sites amid concerns they could be targeted by militants...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Guyana shooting rampage kills 11
Gunmen in Guyana go on a rampage, killing 11 people, including at least three children...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Clashes erupt at Ingushetia rally
Police beat back anti-government protesters in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Japanese PM warns of economy risk
Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda warns action is needed to tackle the growing risks to the world economy...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Live - Africa Cup of Nations
Cameroon take on Zambia and the holders Egypt are up against neighbouring Sudan in Saturday's Group C games...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Liverpool win after Havant scare
Havant & Waterlooville lead twice before Liverpool hit back to reach the FA Cup fifth round...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Skies dim for British astronomers
Astronomy cuts mean UK scientists will no longer have direct access to an 8m-class telescope in the Northern Hemisphere...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Backpacker's body returned to UK
The body of murdered backpacker Karen Aim is flown to the UK from New Zealand for her funeral next week...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Democrats vote in South Carolina
Democratic Party supporters in South Carolina are choosing who they want to run for president...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Police interrogate rogue trader
Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader alleged to have cost his bank billions of euros, is in police custody...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Rock report sparks reform calls
The government faces calls to overhaul the way banks are monitored after a report into the Northern Rock crisis...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Britain Looks for Its Essence, and Finds Punch Lines
A government proposal to define the country?s national identity has prompted shrugs, scorn and British humor...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Violence Continues in Kenya a Day After Talks
While political bickering continued in Kenya, so did violence, with gangs from opposing ethnic groups killing each other with machetes and bows and arrows...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
U.S. Race Captures World?s Eye, and Holds It
From Berlin to London to Jakarta, the presidential candidates? destinies have become hometown news in a way that commentators cannot recall...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
UK's bird watching event begins
The RSPB asks residents across the UK to take part in their annual Big Garden Birdwatch...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Public service planned for Ledger
A public memorial service for late actor Heath Ledger is expected to take place in Los Angeles next week...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Call to use Trident cash for jobs
Money earmarked to replace Trident should be invested in manufacturing instead, campaigners urge...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Mother's plea after rape suicide
A woman whose daughter killed herself after she was raped urges other sex attack victims to seek help...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Police team to re-examine murder
The murder of a boy in Belfast more than 30 years ago is to be re-examined by a specialist police team...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Holed cruiser saved from sinking
A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Egypt watches Gaza traffic go on
Thousands of Gazans pour into Egypt for a fourth day, after Egyptian attempts to reseal the border failed...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Nigeria 0-0 Mali
Nigeria's Africa Cup of Nations' fate is now in the hands of their Group B rivals after they draw 0-0 with Mali...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
FA Cup: Part-timers visit Anfield
Havant & Waterlooville manager Shaun Gale is preparing for his club's biggest game in their history by insisting his team can beat Liverpool...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Shooting victim 'a 14-year-old'
Two youths, one believed to be aged 14, are taken to hospital after a double shooting in Nottingham...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Gilchrist ends Australia career
Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist announces his retirement from international cricket...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Sixth bird flu swan at sanctuary
A sixth swan tests positive for avian flu at the Abbotsbury swan sanctuary in Dorset, Defra says...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Police search rogue trader's bank
French police search the headquarters of Societe Generale, the bank where rogue trading lost huge sums...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Annan hits out at Kenya 'abuses'
Former UN chief Kofi Annan says he saw "systematic" human rights abuses on a tour of violence-hit Kenya...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
US woman seized in Afghanistan
An American woman working for an aid agency is kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, along with her driver...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Teenager dies after park attack
A teenager dies in hospital after being found with serious head injuries in a west London park...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
UK tycoon 'arrested in Zimbabwe'
British property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten is arrested in Zimbabwe, according to local media...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Société Générale?s Sales May Have Incited Market Plunge
The bank?s abrupt reversal of positions on Monday contributed to a decline that snowballed into an avalanche of sell orders around the world, some traders said...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Gold and Diamond Mines Go Dark
South Africa will ration electricity to ease the rolling blackouts that have brought two weeks of chaos and misery nationwide and are threatening the economy...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: U.S. Base Must Weigh Effect on Revered Creature
Plans for a U.S. air base in Japan have failed to assess their environmental impact on the dugong, an aquatic mammal considered a Japanese national treasure...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Rice Lobbies for Trade Deal
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a two-day visit with a strong show of support for President Álvaro Uribe, a close ally of the Bush administration who is seeking a trade agreement with the United States...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Koreas Hold First Talks in New Year
North and South Korea held colonel-level military talks, the first dialogue between the countries this year...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Mugabe Vote Date
President Robert G. Mugabe set March 29 for the election in which he will be seeking a sixth term...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Doubts Over Barcelona Plot
The government expressed doubt about how close an accused Islamist cell may have been to staging suicide attacks in Barcelona...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Venezuelan Pleads Guilty in Cover-Up of Suitcase of Cash
The suitcase contained $800,000 in cash intended as a campaign contribution from the Venezuelan government to Argentina?s president, U.S. prosecutors say...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
18 Killed in China Train Accident
A train ran into group of railway workers, killing 18 and injuring nine others, officials said...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Draft of New Iran Sanctions Restricts Cargo and Travel
The elements of this third measure of sanctions tighten and extend earlier ones but do not go significantly beyond them...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Report by British Military Finds No Systematic Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners by Its Soldiers
The report, denounced by Western human rights organizations, was the outcome of a three-year investigation that focused on six cases involving death or injury to Iraqi prisoners...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
The Saturday Profile: Fighting for Justice, Even at His Own Peril
Taking great risks for himself and his career, Stephen Keim, an unassuming lawyer from Australia, cleared the name of a suspected terrorist...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Britain Seeks Its Essence, and Finds Punch Lines
A proposal to define the country?s national identity has been met with shrugs, scorn and British humor...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Car Bomb Kills a Top Lebanese Terrorism Investigator
The explosion killed an intelligence official in charge of investigating a series of recent attacks and assassinations...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
Egypt Tries to Plug Border; Gazans Poke New Hole
Large numbers of Palestinians continued to stream in and out of Egypt after more of the border wall was breached...
New York Times - January 26, 2008
NHS maternity units falling short
Many maternity units in England failing to provide top quality care, an independent review suggest...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Football: US group targets Derby
Derby County are set to become the latest Premier League club to be taken over by an American-based consortium...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Sickle cell 'causes daily pain'
Daily pain from sickle cell disease may be far more common - and severe - than previously thought, research suggests...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Sharapova wins Aussie Open title
Maria Sharapova beats Ana Ivanovic to win her third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
TUC seeks apprentices' pay rise
The TUC is arguing that the minimum pay for apprentices should rise from £80 a week to £110...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Students' details missing in post
A government body apologises after it emerges the personal details of 1,400 Scottish students go missing in the post...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Democrats set for S Carolina vote
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama hopes for a win in the latest primary in South Carolina...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Garden homes 'raise flood risk'
The rise in new homes built in gardens is increasing the risk of further flooding, an independent reviewer warns...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
Energy price rises 'unjustified'
Watchdog Energywatch says it is time the energy industry was referred to the Competition Commission...
BBC News - January 26, 2008
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