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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 September 2006:
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Colombian Drug Cartel Leaders Plead Guilty
Officials heralded the 30-year sentences for the two brothers as the end of the notorious Cali drug cartel...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Israel Says Its Troops to Leave Lebanon by Sunday
Israel had delayed leaving until now, saying that the United Nations forces were not up to strength...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Thai Junta to Stay After Appointing Premier
The junta’s leader said today that it would remain in an advisory role after naming a civilian prime minister...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
'Free up curriculum' teachers say
Almost 90% of school staff in England want to tailor the curriculum to suit pupils' needs, a survey suggests...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Children 'order alcohol on phone'
Children as young as 12 buy alcohol by ordering it over the phone with takeaways, a government adviser says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
UK still borrows most in Europe
UK consumers are still borrowing more money than citizens of any other European country, a report says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Boy seriously hurt in dog attack
A 14-month-old boy suffers bites to his face and body when he is bitten by a Rottweiler dog...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
UN says Gaza crisis 'intolerable'
Standards of human rights in the Palestinian territories fall to intolerable new levels, the UN hears...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Romania and Bulgaria hail EU deal
Romania and Bulgaria welcome the announcement that they will be admitted to the EU in January 2007...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Colombian drug lords jailed in US
Two brothers who led Colombia's infamous Cali drug cartel are each sentenced to 30 years in US jails...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Football: Saha nets Man Utd win
Louis Saha's second-half goal gives Man Utd a crucial Champions League win against Benfica in Lisbon...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Irish PM admits receiving loans
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern says he received loans from friends when he was finance minister in the 1990s...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Two die as crane falls onto flats
Two people are killed when a crane collapses onto a residential block in south London...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Iraq war fuels terror - US report
The Iraq conflict was "cause celebre" for Muslim jihadists, a declassified US intelligence report confirms...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Striking NHS staff still hopeful
Striking health workers aim for Labour support in their bid to block the sell-off of the NHS supply agency...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Qaeda Operative Is Killed in Iraq
Omar al-Faruq engineered a brazen escape from a high-security U.S. prison in Afghanistan last year...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
World 'warmest for 12,000 years'
The world is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years because of recent rapid warming, a study suggests...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Owen thriller tops UK box office
Children of Men, starring Clive Owen, tops the UK and Ireland box office chart on its first weekend on release...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Enron's Fastow gets six-year term
Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow is sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the fraud at the firm...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Pledge over pupils' college days
A scheme enabling school pupils to do vocational courses in colleges is not at risk, it is promised...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Life term for 'sordid' sex attack
A man who carried out a sexual assault in Dumfries just hours after being freed by police is jailed for life...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Afghanistan suicide bomb kills 18
A blast kills 18 people near a governor's office in south Afghanistan, while a Nato patrol is attacked near Kabul...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Huntsman guilty of monitor attack
A Devon huntsman is found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was filming a hunting event...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Sex motive probed in murder hunt
Police say a sexual motive is one of their main lines of inquiry in the murder of a woman in County Antrim...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
US to release leaked Iraq report
US President George W Bush pledges to declassify parts of an intelligence report said to criticise the Iraq war...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Football: Cole agent suspended
Agent Jonathan Barnett is suspended for 18 months and fined for his role in the Ashley Cole tapping-up affair...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Church removes Zambia archbishop
The Pope excommunicates a Zambian archbishop for trying to install four married men as bishops...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
'Million bomblets' in S Lebanon
Up to a million Israeli cluster bomblets remain unexploded in southern Lebanon, the United Nations says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Man admits fertiliser bomb link
A suspect in an alleged UK-wide terror plot tells a court he bought fertiliser knowing it would be used for bombs...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
UK troops 'beat Iraqi hotelier'
An Iraqi hotel owner tells a court martial that British troops beat and robbed him during a raid in Basra in 2003...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Life sentence for banned driver
A banned driver who did not call 999 when his girlfriend was badly hurt in a crash is given a life sentence...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Bulgaria, Romania get EU go-ahead
Bulgaria and Romania get the green light to join the European Union, but under tough conditions...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
It's hard to let go, admits Blair
Tony Blair says it is hard to let go as PM as he delivers an emotional farewell speech to Labour's conference...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Rival soaps tie on awards night
EastEnders and Coronation Street tie for prizes at the Inside Soap Awards, where EastEnders wins best soap...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Concern over pandemic flu plans
Doctors have expressed concerns about the government's plans for a flu pandemic...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Enron's Fastow awaits sentencing
Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow, who pleaded guilty to fraud, will be sentenced on Tuesday...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Ambulance chief's 999 call reform
The Welsh Ambulance Service needs £140m investment over 10 years to tackle shortcomings, its new chief says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Raids in money laundering inquiry
A Northern Ireland man is believed to be the target of a cross-border investigation into money laundering...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Misbah ordered to stay in Lahore
A court in Lahore has ordered that schoolgirl Misbah Rana should not leave its jurisdiction before the next hearing...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Hardy's cottage to be rented out
Plans to turn the birthplace of Thomas Hardy into a holiday cottage anger fans of the Dorset author...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Marines charged over Iraq killing
Three US marines will face a military tribunal for murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdaniya, the US military says...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Afghan suicide bomber 'kills 18'
A blast near the governor's office in south Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province kills at least 18 people, police say...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Russia soldier jailed for abuse
A Russian soldier is jailed for four years for abusing a soldier so badly he needed his legs and genitals amputated...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Somali Islamists in war warning
The Islamist group that has seized much of Somalia says Ethiopia has declared war by sending its troops...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Thai military leader defends coup
One of Thailand's new military rulers pleads for international understanding of the reasons behind the coup...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Football: Ferguson backs stars
Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson says Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo will come good against Benfica...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Tennis: Bogdanovic progresses
Alex Bogdanovic beats Yeu-Tzuoo Wang in the Thailand Open to set up a clash with Andy Murray or Tim Henman...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Saddam thrown out for third time
The judge in Saddam Hussein's trial throws Saddam Hussein out of court for the third time in a week...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Newcastle end Bond contract
Newcastle terminate the contract of assistant manager Kevin Bond...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Second youth held over shooting
A second teenager is arrested in connection with the killing of Peter Woodhams, who was shot in London last month...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Mandelson admits Labour 'fissure'
Gordon Brown has never reconciled himself to Tony Blair leading Labour instead of him, says Peter Mandelson...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Planets have scientists buzzing
A UK-led sky survey known as SuperWasp discovers two new planets orbiting far-distant stars...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Trial Begins for Wealthy Kenyan Accused of Killing Black Man
The scion of one of Kenya’s richest and most fabled white families is charged with killing a poacher on his family’s vast estate...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Israeli Premier and Saudi Said to Hold Secret Meeting
If a meeting did take place, it would indicate a significant development for two countries that have never had diplomatic ties...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Gunmen Kill Afghan Official Who Backed Women’s Rights
Safia Amajan, 65, a senior Afghan official specializing in women’s rights, was gunned down by suspected Taliban gunmen...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Demonstrations Become Clashes After Islamists Take Somali City
After Kismayo, Somalia, fell to Islamic forces without a shot, demonstrators hurled stones and Islamist troops opened fire...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Blair Rival Makes Pitch to Lead Labor Party
Gordon Brown on Monday opened what could be the final chapter of his campaign to replace Tony Blair as Britain’s prime minister...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Qaeda Operative, an Escapee in ’05, Is Killed in Iraq
Omar al-Faruq, who engineered a brazen escape from a high-security American prison in Afghanistan last year, was killed Monday...
New York Times - September 26, 2006
Mobile web shake-up gets started
The general public can now register website names ending .mobi as part of a shake-up of the mobile web...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Universities in languages drive
A campaign to encourage more people to study languages at university is being launched in England...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Computers 'aid cancer detection'
Using computers to read mammograms can significantly speed up the detection of breast cancer, according to UK research...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Boy found after extensive search
A seven-year-old boy, who disappeared from his Glasgow home sparking an air and ground search, is found...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Musharraf memoirs launched in US
President Pervez Musharraf launches his memoirs in the US a day after rumours of a coup gripped Pakistan...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Cricket: Ramprakash honoured
Mark Ramprakash is crowned PCA Player of the Year at a gala dinner in London...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Islamists will 'defend' Somalia
Somalia's Islamic Courts militia says it will defend the country against what it calls Ethiopian violations of its territory...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
MSPs to hear Taser gun concerns
Human rights campaigners are to urge Scottish police to stop using stun guns, claiming they can be a lethal weapon...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
New Orleans' Superdome reopens
New Orleans' Superdome stadium hosts its first game since Hurricane Katrina victims found refuge there last year...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Abe elected as new Japan PM
Japan's parliament elects Shinzo Abe as the country's new prime minister, replacing Junichiro Koizumi...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Teenager charged over gun death
Police charge an 18-year-old with murder after a young father was shot dead near his home...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
EU to approve Balkan candidates
Bulgaria and Romania are set to get the green light to join the EU in 2007, but under tough conditions...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Man on Leicester murder charge
A 26-year-old is due in court accused of attacking a man whose granddaughter was fatally mauled by two dogs...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Negroponte denies terror claims
US intelligence chief John Negroponte rejects claims that the terror threat has increased since the Iraq invasion...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
Blair to plea for election focus
Tony Blair is to urge Labour to focus on a fourth election victory, in his final party conference speech as leader...
BBC News - September 26, 2006
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