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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 January 2005:
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Iraq Insurgents Execute Captive Candidate as Election Day Nears
The execution of the candidate was one of the most personal strikes yet against Prime Minister Ayad Allawi...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Israeli Premier and Palestinian Leader in Cordial Exchange
The Israeli prime minister said today that there was an opportunity for a “historic breakthrough” with the Palestinians...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Brazilian President Defends Record on Helping the Poor
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jan. 27 - Between cheers and jeers, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended his record today before thousands of skeptical antiglobalization activists, saying that his government was painstakingly laying the foundation to eradicate Brazil's gaping social disparities...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Record number of calls to hotline
More women than ever are reporting instances of domestic abuse to a special Scottish Executive helpline...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
UK works for climate adaptation
The UK is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just to try to avert it...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Football: Anelka set for Turkey
Man City accept Fenerbahce's offer of around £7m for Nicolas Anelka...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Cricket: England secure success
Kevin Pietersen hits 97 and Ian Bell makes 87 not out as England beat South Africa A by six wickets in Kimberley...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Monitors investigate Darfur raid
African Union observers in Sudan's Darfur region look into reports of a government raid in violation of the truce...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Attacks mar Iraqi vote build-up
A dozen people are killed in another day of violence across Iraq, as the country prepares for Sunday's poll...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Leaders Gather to Mark Liberation of Auschwitz
World leaders spoke about the need to keep awareness of the Holocaust alive after its aging survivors have died...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
World Leaders Gather for Auschwitz Ceremony
The commemoration Thursday, the largest ever, marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Jan. 27, 1945...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Blair launches appeal for Africa
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids must top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Journal sorry for Prozac article
A medical journal has apologised to a drugs firm after reporting confidential papers on anti-depressant drug Prozac went missing during a murder case...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
South Bank Awards honour hit soap
Coronation Street becomes the first soap to triumph at the highbrow South Bank Show Awards...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Murder charges over LA rail crash
Los Angeles authorities charge a man with mass murder over Wednesday's rail crash which left 11 people dead...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
EU 'too slow' on economic reforms
Most EU countries are failing to put in place policies aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive economy, a report says...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Sharon praises Palestinian leader
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he is "very pleased" with Palestinian efforts to curb the militants...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Balochi anger over garrison plan
Tribal leaders in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province react angrily to army plans for a new garrison...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
BAE Systems to cut 1,396 UK jobs
UK firm BAE Systems plans to cut 1,396 jobs in the UK, citing a shortage of orders...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Bank raid van may be from Wales
Police are investigating the possibility that the van used in the Northern Bank raid may have been stolen in Wales...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Stabbing man 'could strike again'
Police issue a warning after five men are injured in what appears to have been a random series of attacks...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Marine's killer jailed for life
A man is jailed for life for stabbing a Royal Marine to death in a Cardiff street attack...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
BBC 'must improve EU coverage'
The BBC's coverage of Europe must be "more demonstrably impartial", an inquiry commissioned by its governors says...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Tennis: Safin stuns Federer
Marat Safin beats Roger Federer in five sets to reach the Australian Open final...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Football: Edu set for Valencia
Arsenal midfielder Edu hopes to sort out a move to Valencia by the weekend...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Hundred killed in Darfur air raid
Some 100 people die in an air raid in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, say military observers who fear a major upsurge in violence...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
UK sends 220 more troops to Iraq
The Ministry of Defence announces that an extra 220 British troops are to be sent to Iraq...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Soldier 'took photos for mother'
A British soldier took photographs of the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees to show his mother, a court martial hears...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Ballot boxes dispatched in Iraq
Iraq begins sending ballot boxes to the provinces for Sunday's election, as new violence kills at least 12...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Net regulation 'still possible'
The blurring of boundaries between TV and the internet raises questions of regulation, says watchdog Ofcom...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Bid to show Jackson documentary
Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson case ask for Martin Bashir's documentary to be shown to jurors...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Have we learnt the lessons of Auschwitz?
The 60th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp Auschwitz is marked today. Have we learnt the lessons from history?...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
German bidder outlines LSE offer
German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse sets out its proposed 530p-a-share bid for the London Stock Exchange...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Many more new EU students in UK
The number of students from new EU countries coming to UK universities more than doubled this year...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Taxi petrol bombed outside house
A taxi is petrol bombed and police recover more than 30 bombs during searches in north Belfast...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Five stabbed in 'random attacks'
Five men are injured in what appears to have been a random series of knife attacks in Paisley and Renfrew...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Armed police surround city house
Police investigating a late-night shooting in Swansea surround a house in a neighbouring part of the city...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Afghan soldier on shooting spree
An Afghan soldier kills five fellow troops in an unexplained attack at a coalition base in southern Helmand province...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Burnt body killer's sentence cut
The Court of Appeal reduces the term love killer Emma Last must serve from 20 to 17 years...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Russians battle gunmen in Nalchik
Russian forces storm a North Caucasus apartment block where militants were said to be holed up...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Hamas stands before Gaza voters
Gaza Strip residents take part in local elections in which Hamas militants are standing, amid renewed peace hopes...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Sudan 'bombing Darfur villages'
The Sudanese air force violated a ceasefire by bombing villages in Darfur, aid agencies say...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Date set for Zhao Ziyang funeral
The funeral of China's purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is set to be held on Saturday, it is announced...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
'Suicide bid' caused rail crash
Police in California say they believe a suicidal man caused a train crash that killed at least 11 people...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Football: Sir Alex backs Howard
Sir Alex Ferguson condemns Man Utd's defence and not Tim Howard for Chelsea's Carling Cup winner...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Leaders at Davos focus on Africa
Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Rugby: England squad named
Mathew Tait is selected for England's 30-man squad to face Wales...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Iraq soldier 'told to be tough'
A British soldier tells a court martial into the alleged abuse of Iraqis that he was told to "beast" looters...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Pupil murder 'unpreventable'
An official report into the death of a teenager at a Lincolnshire school reveals a 'culture of fighting'...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Blair defends 'grave' terror plan
Tony Blair defends controversial plans to place UK citizens suspected of terrorism under house arrest...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Shipman 'killed early in career'
Serial killer Harold Shipman killed up to 15 patients while a junior doctor, taking the total deaths to 250, a report finds...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
World marks Auschwitz liberation
World leaders and Holocaust survivors gather at Auschwitz, 60 years after the death camp was liberated...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Rice Is Sworn In as Secretary After Senate Vote of 85 to 13
Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to become secretary of state, took the oath of office in a private ceremony at the White House...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Senior Official Behind Many of the Pentagon's Most Contentious Policies Is Stepping Down
Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon's top policy official, became a lightning rod for issues including intelligence on Iraq...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
31 Americans Die as Marine Copter Goes Down in Iraq
Six other soldiers died in combat, marking the single deadliest day for U.S. servicemen since they invaded Iraq 22 months ago...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Bush Portrays Iraq Vote as Step in a Global March to Freedom
President Bush said Wednesday that the elections this weekend in Iraq would be "a grand moment in Iraqi history."...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
Across Baghdad, Security Is Only an Ideal
Starkly put, Baghdad is not under control, either by the Iraqi interim government or the American military...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
2 Sides in Mideast Resume Public Meetings
Israelis and Palestinians resumed public meetings and Israel agreed to suspend the pinpoint killings of Palestinian militants...
New York Times - January 27, 2005
UK students visit Nazi death camp
UK sixth formers are visiting Auschwitz to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Prince joins Auschwitz ceremony
Prince Edward and Jack Straw will visit Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Measures against BSE 'working'
Current safety precautions are enough to protect us against mad cow disease, according to BSE experts...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
'Excellence centres' given £315m
Universities and colleges across England given money to create 74 new "centres of excellence"...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Final Shipman inquiry report due
The final report into the UK's worst serial killer will reveal if the GP murdered patients in his early career...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Bush urges Iraqis to defy rebels
President Bush calls on Iraqis to vote in Sunday's poll, as US troops suffer their biggest daily losses in the country...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Make history compulsory - Tories
The Conservatives say the lack of history knowledge among teenagers is an "outright scandal"...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Tennis: Williams stuns Sharapova
Serena Williams saves three match points before beating Maria Sharapova to reach the Australian Open final...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
China announces funeral for Zhao
China announces the funeral of purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is to be held on Saturday...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Freed Guantanamo four 'a threat'
The four Britons freed by police after returning from Guantanamo Bay are still a threat, the US says...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Auschwitz's liberation marked
World leaders gather in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Clarke set for terror plan fight
Charles Clarke prepares for a political battle over plans to put terrorist suspects under house arrest...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
Kennedy calls for Iraq exit plans
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy is to call on Tony Blair to set out a proper exit strategy from Iraq...
BBC News - January 27, 2005
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