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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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The Jarring Road to a South African Driver?s License
To secure a driver?s license, South Africans must navigate a bureaucratic process so daunting that it set off riots this year and then pass the K53 test, which is not simple at all...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Russian Killer Gets Life Sentence
Aleksandr Y. Pichushkin was convicted last week of murdering 48 people and trying to kill three others. The Russian news media had dubbed him the Chessboard Killer...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Israel?s Olmert Has Prostate Cancer
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the early stage cancer was not life-threatening and would not distract from his work...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Kylie receives top music honour
Pop star Kylie Minogue is honoured with a prestigious music industry award in London...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Uruguay buys first $100 laptops
Uruguay becomes the first country to place an order for the low-cost children's laptops...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Ridings School to be shut down
The Ridings School, once labelled the worst in the country, is to close after a decade of rescue attempts...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Fire station downgrade approved
Plans to downgrade Pontardawe fire station - halving the number of firefighters and ending 24-hour cover - are approved...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Israel's Gaza fuel cuts alarm UN
Israeli fuel sanctions punish Gaza's entire population and are unacceptable, the UN chief says...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Caribbean storm kills 13 people
At least 13 people are killed by flooding in the Dominican Republic after it is lashed by a tropical storm...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Russell Watson 'progressing well'
Singer Russell Watson is out of intensive care and is "progressing well" after emergency brain surgery...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Hain sorry for 'wrong' migration figures
Peter Hain apologises after ministers admit 300,000 more immigrants were working in the UK than first thought...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Russian Killer Gets Life Sentence
The ?Chessboard Killer,? who had hoped to become the most prolific murderer in post-Soviet Russian history, was convicted last week of murdering 48 people...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Israeli Prime Minister Has Prostate Cancer
Ehud Olmert said that the early stage cancer was not life-threatening and would not distract from his work...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Suicide Blast Kills 28 Iraqi Policemen
A bomber on a bicycle also wounded 20 other people, including seven policemen who were severely injured and a woman and her baby, the authorities said...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Argentina?s First Lady Elected President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentina?s history...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
£100m artworks left to galleries
A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to £100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Frog killer fungus 'breakthrough'
Scientists find what appears to be a cure for the disease that is wiping out many of the world's frog species...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Organic produce 'better for you'
Organic produce is better for you than ordinary food, a major European Union-funded study says...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Third of teenagers 'home alone'
Many young people spend long hours unsupervised after school - with little involvement from parents...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Exxon can appeal $2.5bn oil fine
Exxon Mobil wins the right to appeal against $2.5bn in damages relating to a 1989 Alaskan oil spill...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Murder trial told of taxi caution
A nursery nurse got into a car she had mistaken for a taxi three months before she was killed, a court hears...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Night fire call-out plan backed
Unions claim a plan for firefighters to answer calls from home at night will 'downgrade' a Swansea Valley station...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
More than 900 computer jobs to go
Seagate Technology's base in Limavady, Londonderry, is to close with the loss of hundreds of jobs...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Pensioner drives wrong way up M6
An 82-year-old woman is questioned after driving the wrong way along an unlit section of the M6 at night...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Demands of Indian landless 'met'
The Indian government says it will set up a panel on land reform to meet the demands of landless farmers and indigenous people...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Israel confirms fuel cuts to Gaza
Israel confirms that it has started cutting fuel supplies to Gaza, an attempt to stop the firing of militants' rockets...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Japan minister in al-Qaeda claim
A Japanese cabinet minister says he knows of an al-Qaeda member who entered the country on fake passports...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Football: Spurs pick Poyet
Tottenham name Leeds number two Gus Poyet as one of two first-team coaches to work under new boss Juande Ramos...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Football: Fifa drops rotation policy
Fifa drops its World Cup rotation policy, opening the way for an England bid for the 2018 tournament...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Hamilton decides to leave Britain
F1 superstar Lewis Hamilton tells the BBC he is to move to Switzerland to escape public and media attention in Britain...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Tragic ending for Street's Vera
Coronation Street character Vera Duckworth is to be killed off early next year, the soap's producers reveal...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Race expert condemns Fallon ride
An expert tells the race-fixing trial that jockey Kieren Fallon's ride during the races in question was "quite extraordinary"...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Menezes police 'are accountable'
Jurors at a trial over events leading to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes are told the police are not "above the law"...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Ferry officer 'ignored yachtsmen'
Three sailors may have survived if a P&O officer had not ignored the possibility their yacht had been sunk, a court hears...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Cameron calls for population plan
David Cameron says a long term population plan is needed if a Conservative government is to "deliver its vision"...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Diana driver 'taunted paparazzi'
Princess Diana's driver Henri Paul taunted photographers on the night she died, an inquest jury hears...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
US hands over Karbala to Iraqis
Control of the Shia province of Karbala is passed to the Iraqis, as 27 die in a suicide bombing in Baquba...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Minister praises UK-Saudi links
A UK minister says Britain and Saudi Arabia are working to tackle terrorism, despite criticism from King Abdullah...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Somali Pirates Hijack Japanese Tanker
Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese-owned ship in the latest such seizure in the Horn of Africa nation?s notoriously lawless waters, a maritime official said...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Mandalay Journal: Myanmar Magic: Tell a Joke, and You Disappear
The Mustache Brothers, a comedy troupe in Myanmar, has not been untouched by the junta?s crackdown on dissent...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Cease-Fire Is Reached in Pakistan
Pro-Taliban militants and security forces reached a cease-fire in a troubled district of Pakistan after the deaths of another 35 rebel fighters and 16 troops, officials said...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Afghan Battle Leaves Taliban Dead
A six-hour battle in Afghanistan left over 50 Taliban fighters dead or wounded, while a bomber targeting a police patrol killed three civilians, officials said...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
28 Killed at Iraqi Police Base
A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed 27 policemen at a base north of Baghdad, police said, in one of the worst attacks on Iraq?s security forces in months...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Somali Prime Minister Resigns
Somalia?s prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, resigned after a long feud with the president that frustrated Western backers and split the government...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Argentine First Lady Claims Victory
First lady Cristina Fernandez claimed victory in Argentina?s presidential election Sunday, with early results and exit polls suggesting she had avoided a runoff...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Olmert Says He Has Prostate Cancer
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he had prostate cancer but said that the disease was not life-threatening...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
3 launches new Skype mobile phone
Mobile phone provider 3 launches a pre-paid handset that will allow users to make free calls using Skype...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Massive rise in Europe GM crops
The area planted with genetically modified crops in Europe has grown by 77% since last year, figures show...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Palmer making EastEnders comeback
Actress Patsy Palmer is to return to her role of Bianca Jackson in EastEnders, the BBC announces...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
New twist in insurance bid battle
Resolution drops its support for a £4.9bn offer from Standard Life after rival Pearl buys a quarter of its shares...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
David Miliband adopts second son
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has adopted a second child from the US, his office announces...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Benefit claim town 'needs funds'
A plea for public money is made to help Merthyr Tydfil, which has the highest number of benefit claimants in the UK...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Fusilier death inquest under way
The inquest into a soldier's death which prompted a row over alleged MoD failings in Iraq begins...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Technology firm's jobs threatened
Seagate Technology's base in Limavady may be about to close with the loss of hundreds of jobs...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Indian landless marchers halted
Police in Delhi prevent thousands of landless farmers and indigenous people from marching to parliament...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Motorway victim 'ran from police'
Investigators try to establish why a young man killed on the M25 ran from police moments before he was hit by a van...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Dubai construction workers strike
Foreign construction workers in the Gulf state of Dubai go on strike over pay and conditions...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Prison 'likely' in Chad child row
A Chadian minister says six French aid workers are likely to go to jail after trying to fly 100 children out of Chad...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Japan PM urges military discipline
Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls for greater discipline from defence officials following a series of scandals...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Football: Wenger eyes league title
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says for the first time his team will be title contenders after their draw at Liverpool...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Somali prime minister steps down
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Ghedi resigns after a long-running feud with President Abdullahi Yusuf...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Tennis: Murray upbeat on Cup bid
Andy Murray says the pressure is off as he tries to secure a Masters Cup place with a good run at the Paris Masters...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Triple injury blow hits Liverpool
Liverpool's Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano face a spell on the sidelines after suffering injuries in the 1-1 draw against Arsenal...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Minister detained at US airport
Britain's first Muslim minister, Shahid Malik, says he is "deeply disappointed" after being detained by airport officials in America...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Paparazzi evidence to Diana jury
A paparazzi member is to give evidence at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Life term for 'chessboard' killer
Russian killer Alexander Pichushkin is jailed for life for 48 murders which he noted on a chessboard...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Iraq suicide bomber kills dozens
At least 27 Iraqis die in a suicide bomb at police HQ in Baquba, as a central region passes to Iraqi control...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Argentina's first lady wins poll
Cristina Kirchner, wife of Argentina's outgoing president, heads for victory in the race to succeed him...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Israel's PM has prostate cancer
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is to have surgery for prostate cancer, but he insists he will remain in office...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Mortgage lending slows, Bank says
The number of new mortgages being issued falls by 20% in the past year, according to the Bank of England...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Saudi king chides UK on terrorism
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah accuses Britain of doing too little to fight international terrorism...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
British Fans Aren?t Fair Weather
The variety of jerseys on hand at Wembley Stadium gave the afternoon the feel of an international convention, not an intense contest between two particular teams...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
New York City Marathon: After Walking Hundreds of Miles for Survival, a Refugee Turns to Running
Runner Macharia Yuot is one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, the 25,000 or so youngsters who, over a span of years, walked from Sudan to Ethiopia to Kenya to escape death...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Sarkozy Walks Out on ?60 Minutes?
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was clearly upset about a question posed by the correspondent Lesley Stahl about his marriage...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Thousands Flee Strife in Northern Pakistan
Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant movement...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Petraeus Says U.S. Seeking Calm in North
The American military?s commander in Iraq indicated that behind-the-scenes efforts were under way to calm the situation on the border between Iraq and Turkey...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Turkey Attacks Kurdish Rebel Positions
Special forces troops, supported by helicopter gunships, assaulted the rebel positions in the southeastern province of Tunceli...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Rebels Split at Talks on Darfur
At peace talks in Libya, some Darfur rebels stressed unity with the rest of Sudan while others threatened to split off and create their own country...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
India?s Peasants Protest for Land Rights
Thousands of peasants marched more than 200 miles to New Delhi demanding land reform...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
President?s Wife Leading for Argentina Presidency
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was leading in early official results. She will need to win 45 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Soften the Talk on Iran, ElBaradei Urges U.S.
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the Bush administration should nonetheless maintain diplomatic pressure to halt nuclear enrichment...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Israel Restricts Gaza Crossing as Firing Persists
The action is in line with a recent government decision to respond with sanctions to continued rocket fire from the Hamas-run territory...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Backing an Iraqi Leader Again, This Time for a Fee
Robert D. Blackwill, formerly President Bush?s deputy national security adviser, has built a business lobbying for foreign governments, officials and companies...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
In the Rugged North of Iraq, Kurdish Rebels Flout Turkey
In a remote corner of northern Iraq, Kurdish militants fighting Turkey thrive, protected by mountains and a complex web of relationships...
New York Times - October 29, 2007
Africa waiting for net revolution
More than a third of Africans should have access to broadband internet by 2012, a conference will hear...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Smoking 'raises psoriasis risk'
Smoking increases the risk of psoriasis and makes the condition worse in those who have it, a study suggests...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
University policy input examined
The contribution of Scottish universities to public policy comes under the spotlight at an event in Stirling...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Blaze at Alton Towers theme park
Firefighters tackle a blaze in a cable car station at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Holocaust museum opens at Belsen
Germany inaugurates a Holocaust museum at Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi camp where Anne Frank died...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Chad 'kidnapping' angers Sarkozy
France's president condemns charity workers caught trying to take 100 children out of the Chad-Darfur region...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Kirchner claims Argentine victory
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner claims victory in Argentina's presidential poll based on early official results...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Child poverty unit plan unveiled
Ministers unveil plans for a Child Poverty Unit aimed at meeting their target of halving child poverty by 2010...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Out-of-hours NHS care 'failing'
The NHS is failing to offer sufficient out-of-hours GP care for severely ill patients, experts say...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
Gentle death inquest to be held
The inquest into a soldier's death which prompted a row over alleged MoD failings in Iraq is due to begin...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
MPs in call for new climate body
A powerful new body must drive climate change policy after a decade of failure by the government, MPs warn...
BBC News - October 29, 2007
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