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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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Hezbollah Demands Inquiry Into Beirut Killings
Hezbollah, Lebanon?s most powerful faction, demanded to know who was behind shooting that killed six opposition supporters...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Ljubljana Journal: Oh, Yugoslavia! How They Long for Your Firm Embrace
Sociologists identify a trend across the Balkans they call Yugonostalgia, in which young and old yearn for the past as they struggle with a legacy of wars and economic hardship...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Estonia Bans Travel for Kremlin Youth Group
Estonia has put members of the the Kremlin-backed youth group, Nashi, on an immigration black list, preventing them from traveling to most of the European Union...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Kidney Thefts Shock India
Hundreds of Indians had their kidneys removed by a team of doctors running an illegal transplant operation, supplying kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, police officials say...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Would-Be Peacemaker Killed in Kenya
A freshman lawmaker who could have been one of the keys to unlocking Kenya?s crisis was shot dead...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Mother and young sons hit by car
A woman and her two young sons are in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a car as they crossed the road...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Schoolgirl 'finds blade in bag'
A 13-year-old discovers a cutting device in the lining of a new bag she had bought for her school books...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Budget passes despite opposition
Assembly members have voted to pass the executive's first budget, despite SDLP and Alliance Party opposition...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Murder charge over garden death
A man is charged with murder in connection with the death of a man who died in a south London garden...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Venezuelan hostage gang captured
An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Turkish MPs plan headscarf reform
Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Football: Black Cats earn vital win
Daryl Murphy and Rade Prica get the goals as Sunderland see off fellow strugglers Birmingham at the Stadium of Light...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Hundred feared dead in Congo lake
At least 100 passengers are feared dead as a boat sinks off the shore of the DR Congo on Lake Tanganyika...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Arsenal beat dismal Magpies to go top
Arsenal return to the top of the Premier League after an easy win against dismal Newcastle...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
EU leaders call for transparency
The leaders of Europe's biggest economies call on financial institutions to be more open...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Fayed 'exploded' over crash news
Mohamed al Fayed's immediate reaction to the news of Princess Diana's death was to blame the Duke of Edinburgh, her inquest hears...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Beckett heads security watchdog
Work of the UK's intelligence services is suffering because of the focus on counter-terrorism, a watchdog says...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Jails at crossroads says report
The Chief Inspector of Prisons says the system is at a crossroads with improvement under threat because of overcrowding...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
UK paying for 'migrant baby boom'
The cost to the NHS of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by £200m in a decade...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Iran Executes Bribery Convict
Iran?s judiciary has executed an airport customs contractor accused of bribe-taking and other corruption and has issued death sentences for three other airport employees...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Afghan Women Protest Aid Worker?s Kidnapping
Some 500 Afghan women gathered Tuesday in the southern city of Kandahar to protest the kidnapping of an American aid worker and her Afghan driver...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
On Iraq, Bush Shows a More Restrained Optimism
In his final State of the Union address, the president appeared to be preparing the country for a long stay in Iraq...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Bomb Explodes Near U.S. Patrol in Iraq
There were no American casualties in the latest attack, but one Iraqi was killed and 15 others were wounded, the military said...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
China Cracks Down on Dissent Ahead of Olympics
Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Opposition Politician Is Killed in Kenya
A freshman parliamentarian who could have been one of the keys to unlocking Kenya?s crisis was shot dead at his home...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Aboriginal archive offers new DRM
A user-centred digital rights management system has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
South Bank awards honour Rowling
JK Rowling, Arctic Monkeys and UK film This is England are among the winners at the South Bank Show awards...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Space weather science rues cuts
Science that safeguards satellites and aircraft against solar outbursts could be wiped out in the UK, scientists warn...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Detective fined for death crash
A police officer who caused the death of another driver in a road crash is given the maximum fine...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Causeway centre proposal rejected
An application for a privately funded visitors' centre at the Giant's Causeway is turned down...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Backpacker laid to rest on Orkney
Hundreds of mourners gather to say farewell to backpacker Karen Aim, who has been buried in Orkney...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Jury hears dead woman's words
Evidence from one of five women found murdered in Ipswich is heard at the trial of the man accused of killing them...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Gruesome find in Iraqi province
Nine bodies and 10 severed heads are discovered in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad, Iraqi police say...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Children die in S Lanka bus blast
Eleven children were among 18 people killed in a bomb attack on a bus in Sri Lanka, the Catholic church says...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Brown hosts EU economic meeting
Gordon Brown meets his French, German and Italian counterparts to discuss the global economic turmoil...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Football: Wise's powerful role
Dennis Wise will help Newcastle to sign players and develop their academy in his new role at the club...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Lottery winner's 'time bomb' fear
A £19m lottery winner says his jackpot joy is being overshadowed by a life-threatening medical condition...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Balshaw replaces Tait for England
Full-back Iain Balshaw ousts Mathew Tait, while Luke Narraway will make his debut for England in their Six Nations opener with Wales...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
MP quizzed on assault allegation
Shadow minister Nigel Waterson has been questioned by police after an allegation of assault...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Tory whip withdrawn from MP
David Cameron withdraws the whip from Tory MP Derek Conway over the employment of his son as his researcher...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
GCHQ 'disrupted' in floods
The UK's secret electronic intelligence agency, GCHQ, suffered "significant disruption" as a result of last summer's floods, it has been disclosed...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Five jailed for £53m cash robbery
Five men are jailed for between 10 and 15 years for their part in a £53m raid at a Securitas depot in Kent...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Annan leads Kenyan crisis talks
Kofi Annan opens new talks between Kenya's opposition and government, to try to end mounting violence...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Car Bomb Blast in Algeria Kills 2
A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least three people and wounding several others, security officials said...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Missile Strike Kills 12 Militants in Pakistan, Officials Say
A missile destroyed a suspected militant hideout in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, officials said. In other clashes in the area, militants killed a soldier and injured four more...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Suicide Car Bomb Kills 1 in Mosul a Day After Deadly Attack on Americans
A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least one Iraqi and wounding as many as 15, military and police officials said, a day after a roadside bomb killed five American soldiers in the increasingly lawless northern city...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Memo From Berlin: Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew
The 75th anniversary of the day Hitler took power has prompted yet a new round of soul-searching in Germany...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Quarter of US iPhones 'unlocked'
More than a quarter of US iPhones have been "unlocked" to work on rival networks, a study says...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Month abroad for trainee teachers
Trainee primary school language teachers are to spend a month's placement overseas...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Property prices continue to fall
House prices in England and Wales dropped 0.4% in December, according to the Land Registry...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Legal bid to force EU referendum
Millionaire Stuart Wheeler launches a court bid to force a referendum to be held on the EU reform treaty...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Replica guns found in school
Police confirm replica pistols and rifles were removed from a primary school in Easterhouse, Glasgow...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Council facing 'unpopular' cuts
Social services could bear the brunt of cutbacks as an under-fire council looks to put right its education service...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Tycoon denies Zimbabwe charges
Property mogul Nicholas van Hoogstraten denies violating Zimbabwean foreign currency exchange rules and pornography charges...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Man dies after traffic accident
A man dies in hospital following an early morning road traffic accident in County Londonderry...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Indian interest rates unchanged
India's central bank keeps interest rates on hold, saying inflation is still the main threat...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Syria arrests prominent dissident
A former MP and democracy campaigner Riad Seif is arrested in Syria, local human rights groups say...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
French bank 'had trader warning'
Societe Generale was warned about alleged rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last year, a prosecutor says...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Car bomb attack in Algerian town
At least two people are killed in a car bombing outside a police station in the Algerian town of Thenia, officials say...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Ex-mayor shot in Philippine court
A gunman shoots dead a former mayor at a court hearing in the Philippine capital, Manila...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Harbhajan cleared of racial abuse
Harbhajan Singh is cleared of racially abusing Australia's Andrew Symonds but fined for offensive behaviour...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Football row woman in court
A woman appears in court charged with wounding in connection with the death of a man found dead in a garden...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
BSkyB told to sell shares in ITV
The government rules that BSkyB must reduce its share holding in ITV from 17.9% to below 7.5%...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Republicans hold key Florida vote
Florida's Republicans vote for their choice in the presidential race, in a key test for ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Conway case 'reported to police'
A Lib Dem rival asks police to look into MP Derek Conway's employment of his son as his researcher...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
MP's killing sparks Kenyan unrest
Fresh violence breaks out on the streets of Kenya's capital and other towns after an opposition MP's murder...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Needy 'face social care struggle'
Elderly and disabled people in England are increasingly being denied social services, a report says...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Wife guilty of anti-freeze plot
A woman is found guilty of poisoning her husband by slipping anti-freeze into his wine...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Man admits plot to behead soldier
A 37-year-old Birmingham man pleads guilty to plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
A Quest for Glory and a Bonus Ends in Disgrace
The Société Générale worker who cost the French bank $7 billion in bad trades told investigators that all he wanted was to be respected, and to earn a big bonus...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
U.S. Markets Rally After Sell-Off Abroad
An early tumble gave way to a rally on Wall Street on Monday, as investors shrugged off heavy losses in the Asian markets...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Guyana: Police Vexed in Attack?s Wake
Security officials say they are not holding the woman whose disappearance may have prompted an attack on a coastal village...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Guerrilla Leader Is Sentenced
Ricardo Palmera, a top leader of the Marxist-inspired Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was sentenced by a federal court in Washington to 60 years in prison...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Robbery Gang Convicted
Five men were convicted in a court at the Old Bailey for their roles in the largest cash robbery ever in Britain...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Poland: Traffic Jam at Border
Truckers on Poland?s eastern border with Belarus are facing a 24-mile-long traffic jam amid a wage protest by customs officers...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Mideast: Israel: Sharon?s Son Headed to Prison
The eldest son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will go to prison next month for illegal fund-raising during his father?s 1999 primary campaign...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: Massacre of Sea Lions Investigated
Ecuadorean authorities are investigating the massacre of 53 sea lions that were found with crushed skulls in the Galápagos Islands...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Mideast: Syria: Dissident Arrested
Riad Seif, a former businessman and member of Parliament and a prominent pro-democracy advocate, was arrested at his Damascus home...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Aid Workers Killed in Blast
A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of the aid group Doctors Without Borders...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Hezbollah Demands Inquiry Into Beirut Killings
Hezbollah, Lebanon?s most powerful faction, demanded to know who was behind shooting that killed six opposition supporters...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
China Allows U.S. Port Call in Hong Kong
China on Monday allowed a United States warship to make a port call in Hong Kong, two months after it turned away an American aircraft carrier battle group...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Gorbachev, Rebuking Putin, Criticizes Russian Elections
The remarks were the most vocal criticism to date by a prominent Russian political figure and followed the Russian government?s rejection of the only serious opposition candidate in the March 2 presidential election...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Iran Reports Receiving Nuclear Fuel From Russia
Iran, which has denied American allegations that it is pursuing nuclear weapons, received the final shipment of fuel from Russia on Monday for its first nuclear plant...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Europe Offers Serbia Deal to Sway Vote
The E.U. signaled Serbia that its path to membership would be opened if it rejected a nationalist pro-Russian candidate in the presidential runoff next Sunday and apprehended war criminal suspects...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
In Turkey, a Step to Allow Head Scarves
The agreement to lift a ban on the wearing of head scarves by women attending universities is likely to enrage the country?s staunchly secular old guard...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
An American Builder?s Failures in Iraq Are Found to Have Been More Widespread
A federal oversight agency found weak contract oversight, unrealistic schedules, a failure to report problems in a timely fashion and poor supervision by the United States Army Corps of Engineers...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Vengeance Reignites Kenyan City
Kisumu, Kenya?s third largest city, erupted again on Monday as the police and military struggled to stop a wave of revenge killings...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
French Inquiry: Bank?s Inaction Grows as Issue
Société Générale?s management is under fresh scrutiny after Jérôme Kerviel said that his trading began in 2005...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
Gunmen Allowed to Flee After Hostage Standoff at Pakistan School
A mass hostage-taking ended peacefully when a group of armed men released more than 200 schoolchildren after holding them for several hours in northwestern Pakistan...
New York Times - January 29, 2008
School toilets 'bullying fears'
Schoolchildren are reluctant to use badly-maintained toilets in case of bullying, campaigners say...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Cells' internal clocks revealed
A person's preference for being a "lark" or a "night-owl" is largely determined by genes, a study suggests...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
MPs to begin Lisbon Treaty debate
MPs are set to begin a 12-day debate on whether to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, signed last month by EU leaders...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Scots 'can set climate example'
Scotland can become a "global leader" in the fight against climate change, environmental groups claim...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
India cricketer ban appeal begins
Harbhajan Singh's appeal against a three-match ban for racially abusing Andrew Symonds begins in Australia...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Transport chaos in snow-hit China
The heaviest snow in decades causes chaos across China, with half a million people stranded in one city...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
US jails Colombian rebel leader
A Colombian rebel leader is jailed for 60 years in the US over the kidnapping of three US intelligence operatives...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Asteroid to make close approach
A 250m-wide asteroid known as 2007 TU24 is set for a relatively close pass of Earth...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Anti-trafficking drive launched
A campaign urging people to be more aware of human trafficking is being formally launched...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Republicans set for Florida vote
Republicans in the US state of Florida prepare to choose their candidate for the presidential elections...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Sedentary life 'speeds up ageing'
Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
One charged over garden death
A woman is charged with grievous bodily harm with intent in connection with the death of a man in London...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Securitas robbers await sentence
Five men are due to be sentenced for their part in a £53m raid at a Securitas depot in Kent...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Social care rules 'inconsistent'
A report criticises the rules governing which elderly and disabled people are entitled to social care in England...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Gunmen kill Kenyan opposition MP
A Kenyan opposition MP is killed at his home in Nairobi as violence continues after disputed presidential polls...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
Bush addresses US economy fears
President Bush uses his last regular State of the Union address to try to shore up US economic confidence...
BBC News - January 29, 2008
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