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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Global News Archive for February 2007:
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Cheney Warns Pakistan to Act on Terrorism
The vice president delivered a tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf that U.S. aid could be cut unless he becomes more aggressive in hunting Al Qaeda leaders...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft of Oil Law
The move marked a major agreement among the country?s ethnic and sectarian political blocs on a highly divisive issue...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
DNA tracks origin of seized ivory
A DNA trail has helped investigators trace the largest recent shipment of illegal ivory to elephants in Zambia...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Mirren crowned best actress
Dame Helen Mirren wins the best actress Oscar for her role in The Queen, as Martin Scorsese wins two awards...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
UN powers end Iran nuclear talks
Key powers end 'productive' talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions, saying work has begun on a new UN resolution...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Airport scraps free car parking
Free parking at Belfast International Airport is to be scrapped from Thursday, the BBC learns...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Deadly Guatemala jail riot ends
A riot at a Guatemala jail ends after four police held there over the murder of three politicians are shot dead...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Genocide ruling frustrates Bosnia
Bosnian Muslims voice disappointment after the top UN court clears Serbia of genocide in the Bosnian war...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Pair killed in coal mine accident
Two men are killed in an industrial accident at an open cast coal mine in East Ayrshire...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
1.7m 'will have dementia by 2051'
More than 1.7 million in the UK will have dementia by 2051, costing billions of pounds each year, experts forecast...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Iraq cabinet approves new oil law
The Iraqi cabinet approves a draft law allowing Iraq's oil revenues to be split between ethnic groups...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
2-Year Study of Polar Changes Set to Begin
The effort by scientists from more than 60 countries aims to understand the dynamics of life at the ends of the earth...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Seeking Skills, Indians Find Career Path to Sky
Young Indians are pursuing careers unavailable to their parents, and new private airlines provide opportunities...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Town?s Elders Plead for Help With Taliban
Taliban fighters who seized control of an Afghan town have started a campaign of arrests and reprisals against tribal elders and townspeople...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Game profitability 'under threat'
Video games for next generation games consoles are unlikely to make a profit in the near future, a report says...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Take That announce new UK tour
Reformed boy band Take That are to tour the UK for the second time after getting back together last year...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
League tables sway high flyers
Unofficial league tables are increasingly influencing university choices, suggests research...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Toyota '£100m' secures 200 jobs
Toyota will build the engine for its latest car at its Flintshire plant - with massive investment in a new production line...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Gun-gesture youth's drug fine
A teenager seen making a gun gesture at Tory leader David Cameron is fined for possessing cannabis...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Two people die in road collision
Two men die following a road crash involving a car and a lorry at Cookstown in County Tyrone...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
German trial over Anne Frank book
Seven suspected neo-Nazis go on trial in eastern Germany over the burning of a copy of Anne Frank's diary...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Jesus tomb found, says director
Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried with Mary, a film by Titanic director James Cameron claims...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Lille to continue Man Utd protest
Lille appeal against Uefa's decision to allow Man Utd's goal to stand in their stormy Champions League clash...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Football: Brawl action awaited
Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor and Chelsea's Mikel Jon Obi appeal against their sendings off in the Carling Cup final...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Ofcom to probe BSkyB/ITV stake
Media watchdog Ofcom is ordered to investigate BSkyB's controversial purchase of a 17.9% stake in ITV...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Price squeeze 'hitting farmers'
The National Farmers' Union president accuses supermarkets of forcing some of his members out of business...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
French killed in Saudi shooting
At least three French nationals are shot dead in Saudi Arabia in what police regard as a terrorist attack...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
UK boosts Afghan force by 1,400
The UK is to send an extra 1,400 troops to Afghanistan, bringing total numbers up to 7,700, MPs are told...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Rail crash report blames points
A set of points near the site of the Cumbria train crash was defective, an initial investigation finds...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Wireless users 'do more online'
People who use the wireless new "show deeper engagement with cyberspace," says a study...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Climate change institute created
A £12m private donation is to fund the Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Virgin spat may hit BSkyB profit
BSkyB warns its operating profit could be hit by up to £20m if it fails to reach a deal with Virgin Media...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
'Perfectionism' bowel pain link
Perfectionists are more prone to developing irritable bowel syndrome after an infection, a study finds...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Extra guards for violent patient
A Scottish hospital reveals that it spent £42,000 on extra security guards and a special room for one patient...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Eye drug private costs 'immoral'
Elderly patients are paying up to £2,000 a month for sight-saving injections while the NHS awaits guidance on new drugs, BBC Wales finds...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
'Evict gun thugs' families' call
Families who shield gun criminals from the police should be evicted from their homes, a police chief says...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Girls' plea for help over suicide
Nearly 140 young girls rang a NI charity helpline last year worried about suicide, a leading charity has said...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Cheney in surprise Pakistan talks
US Vice-President Dick Cheney meets President Musharraf on an unannounced visit to Pakistan...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Polish vote on controversial road
Poland is to hold a regional referendum to try to defuse a row with the EU and environmentalists...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Blast injures top Iraqi officials
A bomb explodes inside an Iraqi ministry injuring the visiting vice-president and killing five other people...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Senegal president 'in clear lead'
Senegalese voters await the first offical results, as President Wade's supporters claim a strong lead...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
US hint on North Korea sanctions
The US is ready to end a row with North Korea over a Macau bank which threatened nuclear talks, officials say...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Football: Apology for fans' delays
Network Rail apologises for a signals fault which delayed thousands of fans at the Carling Cup final in Cardiff...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Arsenal and Chelsea await FA rap
Arsenal and Chelsea are braced for Football Association disciplinary action after the Carling Cup final ended in a brawl...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Tour operators challenge air tax
Tour operators launch a legal challenge to Air Passenger Duty, which was doubled at the start of this month...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Eurotunnel wins Sangatte payout
Eurotunnel wins a claim for compensation for losses it suffered because of the Sangatte refugee camp...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Fourteen stone child 'risks care'
An eight-year-old boy who weighs over 14 stone may be taken into care by a local authority...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Diplomats meet for key Iran talks
Key UN nations hold talks in London on how to make Iran comply with demands to halt its nuclear programme...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Cleric loses deportation appeal
Radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada loses his appeal against a Home Office move to deport him...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Dame Helen crowned best actress
Dame Helen Mirren is named best actress, as Martin Scorsese also triumphs at the 79th Academy Awards...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Court clears Serbia of genocide
The UN's top court clears Serbia of genocide but says it failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Militant Iraqi Shiite Cleric Denounces Security Push
Moktada al-Sadr said the push to quell violence in Baghdad was doomed to fail as long as it was directed by the U.S. military...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Leeuwarden Journal: At Dutch National Pastime?s Top Event, Mother Nature Wields the Starting Gun
In Leeuwarden, where the famed national ice skating race takes place, the ice hasn?t frozen hard enough to allow the race since 1997...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
U.S. Says Raid in Iraq Supports Claim on Iran
A raid on a Shiite weapons cache is cited as evidence of Iranian involvement, but critics contend the case remains circumstantial...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Training for India?s Job Boom and Finding Career Path to Sky
Young Indians are pursuing careers unavailable to their parents, and new private airlines provide a broad avenues of opportunity...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Thais Struggle With Violent Insurgency
Since a new government policy of conciliation toward Muslim separatists, violence has grown worse in southern Thailand...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Bush to Warn Pakistan to Act on Terror
President Bush will send a tough message to President Pervez Musharraf that U.S. aid could be cut unless he becomes more aggressive in hunting Al Qaeda leaders...
New York Times - February 26, 2007
Pregnancy diabetes care attacked
A report attacks the quality of pre-conception services offered by the NHS to women with diabetes...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
School selection comes under fire
City academies should lose control of their admissions to create a more mixed intake, says a think-tank...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Bid to end puppy farm 'misery'
The SSPCA and MSP Christine Grahame call for tighter legislation to stop the puppy farm trade...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Man dies after nightclub collapse
Police launch an investigation after a 26-year-old collapses at a Swansea club and dies in hospital...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Women execs rarer in small firms
Women are even less likely to be on the board of AIM listed companies than FTSE 100 giants, says Deloitte...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Senior politicians held in Dhaka
Several senior politicians are arrested in Bangladesh as part of the government's anti-corruption drive...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Salvador murder suspects killed
Four Guatemalan policemen held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians are shot dead in prison...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Senegal awaits election outcome
Votes are being counted in Senegal with partial results so far giving President Abdoulaye Wade the lead...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Huge polar study about to begin
The largest polar research programme for 50 years, by thousands of scientists, gets under way this week...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Suicidal girls calling for help
One in six calls to a 24-hour helpline last year concerning mental health came from girls contemplating suicide...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Court in landmark genocide ruling
The UN's highest court is to rule whether Serbia should be held accountable for wartime atrocities in Bosnia...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Tories unveil border police plans
The Conservatives set up a working group on creating a police force to defend the UK's "porous" borders...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Violence costs NHS '£100m a year'
Violence and abuse against staff costs the NHS more than £100m a year, according to a BBC investigation...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Afghan deployment to be outlined
The defence secretary is due to confirm the deployment of an extra 1,000 UK troops to Afghanistan...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Diplomats set for key Iran talks
Key UN nations hold talks in London on how to make Iran comply with demands to halt its nuclear programme...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Scorsese's Departed sweeps Oscars
US mob drama The Departed wins four Oscars, with major acting awards for Dame Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
Initial rail crash findings due
Investigators are due to release their initial report on the possible cause of the fatal Cumbria train crash...
BBC News - February 26, 2007
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