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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 Octomber 2007:
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Economic View: To Know Contractors, Know Government
If war is out of control, contractors? incentives may lead to errors...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Rebels in India Kill 17 at Game
Maoist rebels fired on a crowd at a festival in a remote village in eastern India, killing 17, the police and witnesses said Saturday...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Clans Complicate Philippine Conflict
Clan violence has aggravated the conflict between government forces and Islamic separatists in the southern Philippines, making the decade-long search for peace there even harder, a new study says...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Indonesia Seeks Allies for Pay-for-Forests Plan
The Indonesian government spent much of the past week recruiting countries to join it in pressing richer nations to provide incentives to reduce carbon emissions...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Bill in Spanish Parliament Aims to End ?Amnesia? About Civil War Victims
On Wednesday, Spain?s Parliament will debate a law aimed at honoring victims of the civil war and of the repressive rule of Franco?s repressive rule...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
In Argentina, a Campaign Promising Change Offers More of the Same
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner could risk losing the support of Argentina?s lower classes if she does not move to stem rising inflation and prevent a looming energy crisis...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
The Special Relationship Tries to Swim the Channel
In recent weeks, it has seemed as if a mirror has inverted the two sides of the English Channel: France has cast itself as America?s new best friend while Britain behaves like an embarrassed relation...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Looking for Their Children?s Birth Mothers
Adoptive parents are increasingly trying to pry open international adoptions by searching for the biological mothers of their children. But finding them can turn out to be the easy part...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
The World: A Tale of Tragic Love Cracks Calcutta?s Mirror
A Muslim takes a rich Hindu bride and ends up mysteriously dead...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Warming Revives Flora and Fauna in Greenland
As the climate warms, Greenlandic farmers are experimenting with vegetables that have previously never been grown in the country...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
A War on Every Screen
New films pegged to Iraq and other flash points are awash in ambiguity...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Sudan Declares Cease-Fire at Darfur Peace Talks
The Sudanese government declared a unilateral cease-fire at peace talks on Darfur, but because rebels boycotted the talks, it was not clear if this was a breakthrough moment...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Kazakh Web Sites Blocked in Leader?s Family Feud
Opposition Web sites in Kazakhstan were temporarily shut down this week, organizers said, for publishing documents relating to the public battle between the country?s authoritarian leader and his estranged former son-inlaw...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Afghan Ex-Militia Leaders Hoard Illegal Arms
Former militia leaders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been stockpiling weapons in violation of disarmament laws...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Weary of Highway Bribery, Russians Take on the Police
The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motorists? rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Iraq Hampers U.S. Bid to Widen Sunni Police Role
Efforts to recruit Sunni policemen have been met with halfhearted support and outright resistance from the Shiite-dominated national government...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Man killed crossing M25 motorway
The death of a man on the M25 is referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
USS Cole plotter freed by Yemen
A key figure in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 is freed by Yemen after swearing loyalty to the president...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
US threat over Iraq embassy staff
The US may order diplomats to work in Iraq to fill nearly 50 vacancies at the Baghdad embassy, officials say...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
R League: GB beat New Zealand
Debut tries from Maurie Fa'asavalu and Sam Burgess help Great Britain to a solid victory over New Zealand in the first Test in Huddersfield...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Tottenham make Ramos head coach
Juande Ramos signs a four-year deal to become the new Tottenham Hotspur boss, replacing Martin Jol...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Drugs warning after four collapse
Police have issued a public warning after four men collapsed after apparently taking recreational drugs...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Pollution warning over US fires
Residents hit by deadly California wildfires are warned of pollution levels three times higher than normal...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Doubts cast over Saints takeover
Three major Southampton FC shareholders say they will not back a proposed takeover deal in its current form...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Pipe bomb victim attacked again
A County Armagh man is attacked just hours after a pipe bomb is discovered at his home in a loyalist estate...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Police hunt after schoolgirl rape
Detectives are hunting a man who raped a 14-year-old girl in a city street on Friday night...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Spanish plane crew held in Chad
Chad authorities detain seven Spanish crew members of a plane chartered to fly more than 100 children to France...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Heavy fighting in Somali capital
Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Tennis: Murray makes final
Britain's Andy Murray beats Russia's Mikhail Youzhny to reach the final of the St Petersburg Open...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Rampant Chelsea destroy Man City
Didier Drogba scores twice as Chelsea thump Manchester City to claim a third league win in a row...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Lib Dem rivals pitch for top job
Lib Dem rivals Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne set out their pitches in the first hustings of the leadership campaign...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Sudan calls Darfur truce at talks
Sudan calls a unilateral ceasefire in Darfur to coincide with talks in Libya to try to end a four-year war...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Man killed running across M25
The death of a man on the M25 motorway is referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Bhutto Arrives at Her Ancestral Home
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto paid homage at her father?s tomb, her first trip outside Karachi since an assassination attempt against her earlier this month...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Maoist Rebels Fire on Crowd in India
Maoist rebels fired on a crowd of spectators watching a football match and cultural show in a remote village in eastern India, killing 17 people...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Base Entrance Bombed in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, killing three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan civilian, a U.S. official said...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Take That singer injured on tour
Take That singer Howard Donald is in hospital after receiving a chest injury during the group's tour of Europe...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Stuck cargo vessel is refloated
A 25,000-tonne cargo vessel which was stranded on a sandbank for almost 12 hours is refloated...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Warning after boy's Snowdon death
Police warn mountain visitors to learn navigational skills after an 11-year-old boy dies in a fall on Snowdon...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Police urge end to M56 tributes
People are risking their lives to pay tribute to two boys killed on a motorway by placing flowers where they died...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Pipe bomb found under trampoline
A number of houses had to be evacuated in Lurgan overnight following the discovery of a pipe bomb...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Many dead in India Maoist attack
An attack by Maoist rebels at a cultural festival in eastern India has killed at least 17 people, reports say...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Turkey anger at Europe over PKK
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticises EU nations for not doing more to tackle Kurdish PKK rebels...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
China to clean up polluted lake
China announces plans to clean up a badly-polluted major lake after an algae bloom cut off water supplies...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Cricket: Fletcher criticises Flintoff
Former England coach Duncan Fletcher believes Andrew Flintoff "let him down" with his World Cup drinking antics...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Football: Premiership preview
Mark Lawrenson's predictions for this weekend's Premier League games...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Death call for US womb murderer
A US jury recommends the death penalty for a woman who killed an expectant mother and cut out her baby...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Bhutto visits ancestral village
Pakistan's ex-PM Benazir Bhutto visits her family village amid tight security, after last week's assasination attempt...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
'Vote at 16' move backed by SNP
Proposals to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 are unanimously endorsed at the SNP conference...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Embassy helps UK Japan teachers
The British Embassy in Tokyo says it will help hundreds of teachers after a language school chain in Japan went bust...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Pedestrian killed on motorway
A man dies after being hit by a vehicle on a section of the M25 motorway near the Dartford Tunnel...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Growing Underground Is Making Noise in China
Down a short alley in the sprawling, tourist-mobbed 798 art district in Beijing is a tiny shop that serves as one of the centers of China?s small but thriving experimental music scene...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
In England, the Giants Score Lots of Points
Having flown across the ocean to play the N.F.L.?s first regular-season contest outside North America, the Giants made an immediate impact at touch down...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Top Court Upholds Berlusconi Acquittal
Italy?s top court, the Cassation Court, upheld a verdict acquitting Silvio Berlusconi, a media tycoon and former prime minister who is now the opposition leader, of charges that that he sought to bribe judges, a case that dates to the 1980s. The verdict is definitive...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Putin Meets With Europeans
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia attended a one-day summit meeting with European Union leaders in Portugal overshadowed by disagreements on human rights, trade, the Iran nuclear standoff and Kosovo independence...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Senegal: Spanish Ship Returns Migrant Boat Survivor
The lone survivor from a voyage of African migrants in which around 50 died after three weeks lost at sea trying to get to Spain?s Canary Islands was put ashore in Dakar by a Spanish hospital ship...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Chile: Court Drops Charges Against Pinochet Family
The 85-year-old widow of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and four of their middle-aged children were cleared by an appeals court of misappropriating millions of dollars of public funds during his dictatorship from 1973 to 1990...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: 2 NATO Soldiers Killed
Insurgents ambushed NATO-led forces in the mountainous Korangal Valley in eastern Kunar Province late Thursday...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Spain: U.S. Extradition for Arms Dealer
The National Court approved the extradition of Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian arms dealer, to the United States on charges that he conspired to supply weapons...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Bhutto Readies Homecoming Amid Security Fears
Benazir Bhutto, preparing to return to her family?s country home on Saturday, is rapidly rethinking how to run an election campaign in rural areas, where the base of her support lies...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
U.S. Criticizes Fugitive?s Release
The White House sharply criticized Yemen on Friday for releasing one of Al Qaeda?s masterminds of the bombing of the destroyer Cole in 2000...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Israelis and Palestinians Pledge to Follow ?Road Map?
It was unclear whether the pledge by Israeli and Palestinian leaders would result in any concrete moves toward peace...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
State Dept. to Order 250 to Iraq Posts
Facing staff shortages in Iraq, the State Department announced Friday that diplomats would have no choice but to accept one-year postings in the hostile environment or face losing their jobs...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
The Saturday Profile: The Defender of a Lesser-Known Guarantee in Russia
Ivan Y. Pavlov leads a quiet but dangerous campaign in Russia: legal battles for what he calls, simply, ?the right to know.?...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Dozens of Species of Primates Are Under Threat, Study Finds
A third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Yet Another Photo of Site in Syria, Yet More Questions
The mystery surrounding the construction of what might have been a nuclear reactor in Syria deepened Friday, when a company released a satellite photo from September 2003...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Chad Holds French Citizens Who Took 103 Darfur Children
The president of Chad warned nine French citizens who had been arrested for trying to fly 103 children from Darfur to France, saying they faced punishment for their ?horrible act.?...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Empty Seats Add to Worry on Eve of Darfur Talks
United Nations and African Union officials on Friday expressed disappointment that several rebel leaders had not showed up, but they said talks had to begin anyway...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Iraq Plan to Add U.S. Troops at Kurdish Border Is Rejected by Turkey
Turkey?s prime minister on Friday rejected an Iraqi proposal that included a military role for the U.S. in resolving a standoff over raids by Kurdish guerrillas...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Out From Behind a Camera at a Khmer Torture House
Nhem En, who was a photographer at the most notorious torture house of the Khmer Rouge regime, was called to be a witness at a coming trial of Khmer Rouge leaders...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
Execution Case Tests Iraq?s Bid to Ease Divide
The fate of Iraq?s former minister of defense will turn on the ability of Iraq?s fractious sects and political alliances to work together...
New York Times - October 27, 2007
New room added to space station
Two astronauts complete a spacewalk to fix a new laboratory on the International Space Station...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Diplomas: what was that all about?
Mike Baker ponders the latest announcement about new Diplomas and the A-level review...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Pre-cancer lesions 'remain risk'
Women treated for early signs of cervical cancer have a high risk of the disease decades later, say researchers...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Extra protection for health staff
Scottish ministers will unveil plans to give health workers more protection against attacks in communities...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Man jailed for urinating on dying woman
A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying in a street is sentenced to three years in prison...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Dozens killed in DR Congo floods
At least 30 people die in flooding in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Wind lull calms California fires
Southern California firefighters take advantage of lower winds to contain the remaining major wildfires...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Abortion law anniversary marked
Pro-life activists mark the 40th year of the Abortion Act with a rally and march in Westminster...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Firework black market fears
Chief fire officers say they are increasingly worried about illegal trading in dangerous fireworks...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Nurses to decide on resuscitation
New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses as well as doctors to decide on resuscitating patients...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Darfur talks hit by rebel snub
Peace talks aimed at ending Sudan's Darfur conflict are set to open in Libya, but key rebel groups will not be there...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
Troops assessed for brain injury
UK soldiers who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan are surveyed after the US says 20% of its troops suffer brain injuries...
BBC News - October 27, 2007
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