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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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Iraqi Premier Lashes Out at Democratic Critics
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki today criticized U.S. senators and other officials who have called for his ouster...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
'Blood chemicals link' to eczema
Scientists identify two blood chemicals linked to itchy eczema, offering new treatment possibilities...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Funds raised to help crash father
Collections are made to help a mother travel to South Africa to be with her son seriously hurt in a crash in which his baby died...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Teenage swimmer missing in lake
A 16-year-old boy is feared drowned after going missing while swimming with friends in a water-filled quarry...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Public transport 'poorly linked'
Public transport has too many weak links making it difficult to switch from one mode to another, a report finds...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Iraqi leaders sign unity accord
Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders sign a deal aimed at curbing sectarian violence, Iraq's prime minister says...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Fight to save Olympic birthplace
Fires burn inside the historic site of ancient Olympia, but the famous ruins and museum are safe, officials say...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Iraqi Premier Rebuts Senators Clinton and Levin
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's beleaguered prime minister on Sunday lashed out at Democrats who have called for his ouster, saying Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Carl Levin need to ''come to their senses.''...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Friends of crash dad raise funds
Collections for the mother of a man who was seriously injured in a car crash in Swaziland, Africa, are being made...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Nasdaq 'approached' for LSE stake
A number of bidders approach US exchange Nasdaq to buy its stake in the London Stock Exchange, say reports...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Maliki returns fire at US critics
Iraq's PM hits back at US senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin, who have called for him to be removed...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
New Thames barrier plan mooted
A new £20bn Thames barrier could be built to prevent potentially disastrous flooding in London, it emerges...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Storms leave troubles for Midwest
Floods from a week of storms in the US Midwest swamp thousands of homes and cause power blackouts...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Floods strand Romania villagers
At least 1,400 villagers are stranded in northern Romania as heavy rains cause rivers to overflow killing one...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
AU envoy urges Darfur peace push
African Union envoy Salim Ahmed Salim is in the Sudanese region of Darfur for talks with tribal leaders...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Man Utd grab vital first win
Nani's first goal for Manchester United hands the champions a first win of the season to frustrate a brave Spurs display...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
F1: Massa wins Turkish GP
Felipe Massa leads a Ferrari one-two in the Turkish Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton finishes fifth following a puncture...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
'Blasphemous' balls hurt Afghans
Afghans accuse US troops of insulting Islam after footballs bearing the name of Allah are handed out...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
BBC Three 'safe' in budget cuts
The BBC rejects calls to close BBC Three in order to solve the corporation's financial problems...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Troops withdraw from Basra base
Saddam Hussein's palace is the only British base in Basra after troops withdraw from police headquarters...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Gun crackdown feeble, say Tories
The Tories criticise government plans for "drop-off zones" where guns can be handed in anonymously...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Rhys's brother visits his shrine
The brother of murder victim Rhys Jones visits the floral shrine created where Rhys was killed...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Murder charges over gang attack
A man and two teenagers are charged with murder after a gang attacks a man with learning difficulties...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Father's anger at 'friendly fire' death
The father of a UK soldier killed by US "friendly fire" says he cannot understand how somebody "got it so wrong"...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Huge crowds enjoy carnival party
Thousands of people gather on the streets of west London for the opening day of the Notting Hill Carnival...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Camilla pulls out of Diana event
The Duchess of Cornwall pulls out of a memorial marking 10 years since Diana's death, to avoid "diverting attention"...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Fires reach ancient Olympic city
Forest fires are burning the hills overlooking ancient Olympia but have not entered the site, Greek officials say...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Shiite Pilgrims Converge on Karbala
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Waves of Shiite pilgrims descended on Karbala Sunday for a festival marking the birth of the 9th century Hidden Imam. A woman making the 50-mile trek from Baghdad was shot to death by men in a passing car in the southwest of the capital...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
6 Killed Before Wedding
A pickup truck plowed through a crowd leaving a pre-wedding celebration in western Canada, killing six people and injuring 19, the police said Saturday...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
ITV axes 'insensitive' docu-drama
ITV drops a controversial docu-drama about the 1989 Marchioness boat disaster, in which 51 people died...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
New right to post-GCSE education
School leavers are to be entitled to post-GCSE places, but there are fears too few know of the right...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
New Tajik-Afghan bridge opens
Afghan and Tajik leaders open a new bridge built by the US to link the two countries across River Panj...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Five quizzed over fatal gang attack
Five people are questioned over the death of a man with learning difficulties who was "brutally beaten" by a gang...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Loyalist groups in prison fight
Rival Ulster Defence Association prisoners are separated after a disturbance in a County Antrim jail...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Football: Wenger deal confidence
Arsenal managing director Keith Edelman is confident manager Arsene Wenger will sign a new deal with the club...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Football: Owen wants to stay
Michael Owen is not eyeing a move away from Newcastle before the close of the transfer window...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Thousands gather for carnival fun
Thousands of people are making their way to the streets of west London for the Notting Hill Carnival...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Dive to film Titanic rescue ship
Divers are preparing to film and collect artefacts from the wreck of RMS Carpathia, which rescued 705 people from the Titanic...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Live - World Championships
Britons Kelly Sotherton and Jessica Ennis continue their heptathlon fight while the men's 100m reaches its conclusion...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Police hunt for India bomb clues
Police hunt for clues to who carried out bomb attacks that killed at least 42 people in the Indian city of Hyderabad...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Australia unveils immigrant tests
Australia is to introduce a citizenship test, based on "mateship" and including language and culture issues...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Gun plans dismissed as 'feeble'
The Conservatives have criticised government plans for "drop-off zones" where people can hand in guns anonymously...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Prayers for shot boy's family
Prayers are said in churches across Liverpool for 11-year-old Rhys Jones who was shot dead in Merseyside...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Greek fires threaten ancient city
Fires that have killed about 50 people and devastated much of Greece near the ancient ruins of Olympia...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Germans Ease Curbs on Skilled Labor From Eastern Europe
Germany is hoping to overcome labor shortages in vital economic sectors by easing restrictions imposed in 2004, when many Eastern European countries joined the European Union...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Camp Reunion: ?We All Live in a Red Submarine ...?
Russian friends return to the unlikely haunt of their Soviet youth ? Beatles camp...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
All in the Family
The story of India since 1947 is in large part the history of Nehru?s descendants...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
The World: Moving Clocks Ahead, Reaching Back in Time
Crazy like a fox, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela has strange ways and a purpose, too...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Photographer's Journal: History, Change, at Once
Kyrgyzstan, teetering between democracy and authoritarianism since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, is caught between the rising economies of the east and its own nomadic heritage...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Historic Polish Shipyard Struggles in a New Age
The Gdansk shipyard was the epicenter of Poland?s Solidarity movement in the 1980s. Today it is facing an uncertain future as it struggles with potential bankruptcy and a changing industrial landscape...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
The World: This War Is Not Like the Others ? or Is It?
The problem with using historical analogies to make foreign policy...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
For African Migrants, Europe Becomes Further Away
Various European officials are trumpeting a substantial drop in the number of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Taliban Raise Poppy Production to a Record Again
A record crop in Afghanistan is likely to renew debate on the United States? troubled counternarcotics program...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Hear a General, Hug a Sheik: Congress Visits Iraq
Roughly 50 lawmakers have been to Iraq this summer, and their impressions are influencing the policy debate...
New York Times - August 26, 2007
Pollution 'may boost asthma risk'
Traffic pollution may increase the risk of children developing asthma if they already have a genetic vulnerability...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Anonymous gun tip-offs proposed
People could be encouraged to tip-off police anonymously about illegal guns, under government proposals...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Powers sought over firearms laws
The Scottish Executive takes steps to seek powers from Westminster over firearms legislation...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Burma protest leader is arrested
A dissident leader of fuel price protests in Burma a week ago has been arrested, following a police operation...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Mystery deaths hit Saudi camels
Nearly 2,000 camels have died this month in Saudi Arabia due to suspected poisoned animal feed...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Thousands expected for carnival
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in the streets of west London for the Notting Hill Carnival...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
New Thames barrier could be built
A study into the feasibility of a £20bn new Thames barrier is to report within weeks, it emerges...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Princes to read at Diana service
Princes William and Harry will read at a memorial service on the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
Rhys gun killing suspect bailed
One of seven young people arrested over the gun killing of 11-year-old Rhys Jones is released on bail...
BBC News - August 26, 2007
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