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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 December 2005:
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U.N. Rejects Sunni Demand for New Vote in Iraq
A United Nations official today stated publicly for the first time that the results of the Iraqi parliamentary election were valid...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Fatah Rivals Join to Endorse Candidates for Parliament
Two factions in the Palestinian leader's party resolved enough of their differences today to submit a single list of candidates...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Joint Chiefs Chairman Tours Mideast to Praise Troops
Gen. Peter Pace, opening a week-long tour of six countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, praised American troops at an airbase today...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Iran Hints at Warmer Reception to Russian Nuclear Proposal
An official said Iran would study a proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock in efforts to block Iran's nuclear development...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Inquiry Criticizes Official Handling of Russian School Raid
The head of a parliamentary commission said the siege could have been prevented if the local police had done their jobs...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Many suffer 'home alone' deaths
Thousands of people die miserable deaths alone, uncared for and in poverty, figures suggest...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Stay-on cash for 380,000 students
Maintenance payments have been given to some 380,000 students over 16, it is announced...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Madrassas refuse to expel pupils
Pakistan's religious schools refuse to meet the president's 31 December deadline to expel foreign students...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Football: Liverpool win derby
Liverpool cruise to their ninth successive Premiership win at nine-man Everton...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
'Lawyers denied' in Ethiopia case
Opposition leaders on trial in Ethiopia complain that they have not been allowed access to their lawyers...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Enron's Causey agrees guilty plea
The former accountant of US energy giant Enron makes a plea bargain ahead of trial in January...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Turkey insult law 'may be dumped'
Turkey's foreign minister indicates that a law being used to prosecute people for insulting the state could be scrapped...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Kennedy warns of poverty gap
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy warns of a "continuing widening of the gap between rich and poor"...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Top Jewish group 'terror' apology
Britain's top Jewish body apologies to an Islamic charity for branding it a "terrorist organisation"...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Israel Strikes Northern Gaza and Lebanon With Planes
The Israeli military renewed its threat to form a buffer zone in northern Gaza and struck Lebanon in response to rocket fire...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Rule by Law | No Verdict: When Chinese Sue the State, Cases Are Often Smothered
Courts often refuse to issue any verdict at all - or even acknowledge that some legal complaints exist...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Letter From Rome: Limbo, an Afterlife Tradition, May Be Doomed by the Vatican
While belief in God may not change, the things people believe about him most certainly do...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Opera staff vote for pay strike
Staff at the English National Opera vote to strike over a pay row...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Man's arrest after quarry rescue
A man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man and two girls were rescued from a quarry...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
US consumer confidence on the up
US consumer confidence jumps to its highest level since Hurricane Katrina, helped by petrol price falls...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Rwanda honours gorilla campaigner
Rwandans commemorate the 20th anniversary of the murder of gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Israel bombards Gaza no-go zone
Israel shells a newly declared no-go zone for Palestinians along Gaza's northern border...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Professor dies in Indian gun raid
A professor is killed by a gunman who opens fire on a science conference in Bangalore, police say...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Couple's wait over newborn mix-up
A couple wait for a DNA test to check they have the right baby after hospital staff said their newborn girl was a boy...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Mother and son attacked in house
A teenage boy and his mother are injured after being attacked in their home in Carrickfergus...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Councils warn of £400m black hole
Councils and the Scottish Executive clash over predicted council tax levels for next year...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Football: Weather hits fixtures
Premiership matches at Blackburn and Bolton are called off, with 12 other games hit by the bad weather...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Olympics: Voting mistake denied
A Greek IOC member denies he made an error during the vote for the 2012 Games...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
German diplomat missing in Yemen
A high-ranking German diplomat and his family are missing, feared kidnapped, in eastern Yemen...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Club 'horse' drug to be outlawed
An anaesthetic used by vets as a horse tranquiliser but becoming common on the UK's dance scene is to be made illegal...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Girl, 6, abducted from bathroom
A six-year-old girl found in a Tyneside street is believed to have been abducted while having a bath at home...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Snow disrupts roads and railways
Snow brings disruption to the south-east of England and eastern Scotland, with forecasts of worse to come...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Geldof defends Tory adviser role
Bob Geldof promises to stay politically "non-partisan" after agreeing to advise the Tories on global poverty...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Three Britons kidnapped in Gaza
Three British citizens have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in southern Gaza, police say...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Classroom monitoring 'punitive'
Many teachers feel they are being exposed to excessive monitoring of their lessons, a union says...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Criminals target viruses for cash
The last 12 months have seen big changes in the nature of computer crime...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Broadway shows boast record year
Broadway enjoys a successful 2005 with revenue and ticket sales showing a marked increase...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
No ambulance for injured people
It has emerged that no ambulance was available to take five injuared people to hospital in Londonderry...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Tories attack elections 'rigging'
Welsh Tory leader Nick Bourne says planned reform of the assembly polls works against the minority parties...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Rebel MPs oppose probation plans
Scores of Labour MPs urge the government to drop plans to reorganise the probation service, union says...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Muslim burial for Malaysian hero
A Malaysian court clears the way for a mountaineering hero to be buried as a Muslim, against his wife's wishes...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
No end to Brazil hostage crisis
More than 200 hostages have spent a third night in the hands of prisoners who seized control of a jail in Brazil...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Saudis 'kill militant fugitive'
Saudi police say they have killed a militant suspect who fled after shooting incidents that left five officers dead...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Probe into 'Gujarat riot' remains
Indian detectives are to investigate claims that remains found in Gujarat are those of victims of 2002 riots...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
More snow as freeze continues
Motorists are warned not to set out after heavy snow and predictions of worse weather to come...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Cricket: Australia in charge
Australia lead South Africa by 154 runs after reaching 110-2 at the end of day three in the Melbourne Test...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Football: Premiership picks
Mark Lawrenson gives his verdict on Wednesday's Premiership games...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Sudan 'too aggressive' to lead AU
Chad's leader calls for next month's AU summit be moved from Sudan due to its neighbour's "aggression"...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Glitter 'pays money to accusers'
Former singer Gary Glitter paid his alleged victims' families "for co-operation", his Vietnamese lawyer says...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Vitamin D 'can lower cancer risk'
High doses of vitamin D can reduce the risk of developing some common cancers by as much as 50%, scientists say...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Festive sales up for John Lewis
John Lewis reports a 11.7% rise in pre-Christmas sales, the first retailer to issue its figures for the festive season...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Beslan rescue 'full of failures'
Police failed to follow orders that could have prevented the Beslan school siege that left 331 dead, a report finds...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Gun battle erupts at Gaza office
Palestinian police trade fire with gunmen at an election office in Gaza ahead of the January poll...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Inmates die in Iraq jail shooting
At least eight people are killed during unrest in an Iraqi prison at a military base in Baghdad, police say...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Scandals Shake Mexico's Confidence in Elite Drug Police
Recent disclosures about corrupt federal agents have undermined the creation of an honest force to fight drug dealers in Mexico...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Israel Strikes Northern Gaza With Planes and Artillery
Israel's military also renewed its threat to form a buffer zone in northern Gaza, where Palestinian militants have been launching rockets aimed at Israel...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
No Posters From Islamists in U.S. Mission
The American Consulate in Cairo opened its doors to dispel reports that it employed Islamists who kept posters of the militant group Hamas on the walls...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Iraqi Parties Try to Lay Foundation for Broad Coalition
Political leaders began negotiations to form a "national unity" government made up of Iraq's main sectarian and ethnic groups...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Outspoken Putin Aide Quits, Scolding Kremlin
Andrei N. Illarionov abruptly resigned, warning that Russia's nascent political freedoms have been lost...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
Toll on Rise in Sri Lanka's 'Shadow War'
Recent violence in Sri Lanka between the government and ethnic separatists has raised fears of a resumption of a civil war...
New York Times - December 28, 2005
UK bid to host skills competition
The UK is seeking to replicate London's Olympics success with a bid to host the World Skills event in 2011...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Council efficiency savings boost
Scotland's finance minister welcomes a report which shows councils made £122m savings in the last year...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
New scan could save babies' lives
Scientists are developing a portable brain scanner for premature and newborn babies...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Abbas urges end to Israel attacks
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas appeals for rocket attacks on Israel to end, ahead of next month's polls...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Rebel MPs oppose probation plans
Scores of Labour MPs urge the government to drop plans to reorganise the probation service, union says...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Charge after Christmas stabbing
A man is charged after a stabbing incident that left another man with life-threatening injuries on Christmas Day...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
'Absurd' ban on Letterman lifted
A contact ban on talk show host David Letterman sought by a woman who said he sent her messages by TV is lifted...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Europe launches Galileo satellite
The first test spacecraft for Europe's satellite-navigation system is launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Unions to 'step up' pension fight
The defence of pension schemes must be strengthened in the coming year, says the TUC leader...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Gun killing suspect questioned
Detectives question a man about the fatal shooting of a woman at a house...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
Israeli planes attack in Lebanon
Israel bombs what it says is a Palestinian militant base in Lebanon hours after rocket attacks on its towns...
BBC News - December 28, 2005
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