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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 March 2007:
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Iran Takes Harder Line in Dispute Over Britons
Iran insisted that Britain admit fault before any of the 15 captured British sailors and marines are released...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Many planets may have double suns
Planets with double suns may be common in the galaxy, according to data from the Spitzer Space Telescope...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
New science qualification planned
The government may introduce another new secondary school science qualification in England...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Iran concerns push oil above $66
Oil prices break through the $66 a barrel mark on lingering fears of a clash between Western forces and Iran...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Man facing 105 burglary charges
A Belfast man is remanded in custody on 105 charges relating to break-ins across Northern Ireland...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Fury at Angelika priest sex claim
Claims that a priest had sex with a student whose body was found at his church are branded "outrageous"...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Multiple bombs target Iraqi Shia
More than 100 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in a Shia area of Baghdad and in a town to the north...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
US justice head 'knew of firings'
A former aide to the US attorney general says he falsely denied involvement in sacking eight prosecutors...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Cricket: Kiwis ease past W Indies
Scott Styris builds on a fine Kiwi fielding display to take New Zealand to victory over West Indies in their Super 8 match...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Trio land $48bn US telecoms deal
Telecom firms AT&T, Qwest and Verizon win a $48bn contract to supply US government telecom services...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Banking hitch delays workers' pay
Up to 400,000 people will not be paid on Friday as a result of a technical problem, an industry body warns...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
TK Maxx owner hit by card breach
TK Maxx owner TJX says hackers have stolen information from 45 million credit and debit cards used by customers...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
UN voices 'concern' at UK sailors' capture
The UN adopts a statement expressing "grave concern" over the capture of 15 Royal Navy personnel by Iran...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Gates urges closure of Guantanamo
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says Congress should look for ways to close the Guantanamo Bay military jail...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Senate Passes War-Spending Bill With Iraq Deadline
The 51-to-47 vote, with most Democrats in favor and most Republicans against, endorsed a $122 billion spending package...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Britain to Take Iran Issue to U.N.
A Iranian threat to delay the release of a female sailor did not dissuade Britain?s announcement...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Net phone service rules announced
Net phone service providers must be upfront about limitations of their services, regulator Ofcom says...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Fewer teens using drink and drugs
The number of teenagers drinking alcohol and taking drugs in England is falling, a national survey has found...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Seized sailor's release in doubt
Iran may delay the planned release of the only woman among 15 captured Royal Navy crew, an official says...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Anger at attack on crash police
Sinn Fein condemns an attack on police at the scene of a crash in which a child is knocked down...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Victim's sister 'quizzed accused'
The trial of a man accused of murdering Angelika Kluk hears how her sister quizzed him over the woman's disappearance...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Baghdad suicide attack kills 60
A suicide bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 60 people, hours after triple bombings hit a Shia town to the north...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Pakistan 'brothel woman' released
Religious students in Pakistan free a women accused of running a brothel and two of her relatives...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Ankara restores Armenian church
In a rare move Armenian officials visit eastern Turkey for the reopening of a 10th-Century church...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Thai PM sets post-coup vote date
Thai PM Surayud Chulanont announces that elections to restore democracy will be held in late December...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Prisoners held in record numbers
Record numbers of prisoners are being held in prisons and police cells in England and Wales, the BBC has learnt...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Bono given honorary knighthood
U2 singer and humanitarian campaigner Bono accepts an honorary knighthood at a ceremony in Dublin...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Football: FA backs McClaren
Football Association chief executive Brian Barwick defends beleaguered England coach Steve McClaren...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Hospital fined over shower death
A hospital were a man died from Legionnaires' disease is fined £80,000 for ignoring safety guidelines...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
UK Guantanamo man 'to be freed'
A British resident is to be released from the US detention camp in Cuba after five years, it is announced...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Middleton makes press complaint
Prince William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton, makes a formal complaint of press harassment...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Iraq withdrawal date backed
The US Senate backs a March 2008 date to withdraw troops from Iraq, defying a presidential veto threat...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
UK presses UN over Iran sailors
The UK asks the UN to support a statement expressing grave concern over Iran's capture of 15 navy personnel...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Amritsar Journal: Young Sikh Men Get Haircuts, Annoying Their Elders
Spiritual leaders expressed dismay at the rapidity with which a new generation of young men in India are trimming their hair and abandoning the turban...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Star Wars stamps unveiled in US
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker will be featured on a set of US stamps marking 30 years of the Star Wars films...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
School truancy worse than thought
Truancy in England's secondary schools is 18% higher than thought, a new way of collecting data shows...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Web retailer to create 1,200 jobs
Two job announcements by online retailer Amazon and a sports car company are bringing 1,400 jobs to south west Wales...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Weather boost for insurer Lloyd's
An absence of major natural disasters helps insurance market Lloyd's of London record a £3.6bn profit...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
UDA expels pair from organisation
Two key UDA figures are expelled, a week after the loyalist group got more than £1m to end criminal activity...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Scots marine among Iran captives
The MoD confirms a Scot is among the 15 Royal Navy personnel being held in Iran after being captured...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Court blocks Indian quota plans
India's Supreme Court puts on hold controversial plans to boost college places for the low-castes...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Girl remanded over sister's death
A 14-year-old girl appears in court charged with the murder of her older sister at their home in Halifax...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Armenian church reopens in Turkey
In a rare move Armenian officials visit eastern Turkey for the reopening of a restored 10th-Century church...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal
The Saudi monarch criticises the US presence in Iraq as an "illegal foreign occupation" and appeals for Arab unity...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Castro hits out at US biofuel use
Cuban leader Fidel Castro condemns the use of biofuels by the US, in his first article since surgery last year...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Helicopters fire on Somali market
Ethiopia helicopters fire on a market as an operation against insurgents begins in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Australia fund to protect forests
Australia launches a fund to protect the world's forests, in a bid to tackle illegal logging and global warming...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Football: NI's Healy targets finals
David Healy is hoping to make the Euro 2008 finals after his brace gave Northern Ireland a 2-1 win over Sweden at Windsor Park on Wednesday night...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Joss Stone storms into US chart
Joss Stone enters the US album chart at number two - reportedly the highest ever new entry by a British female...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Football: McClaren England plea
Steve McClaren asks the England fans to back the players after constant booing during the win over Andorra...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Bank charges inquiry launched
A formal investigation into the level of bank charges is being launched by the Office of Fair Trading...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Maradona admitted to hospital
Former Argentine football star Diego Maradona is taken to hospital in Buenos Aries for an undisclosed reason...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Teacher was strangled, say police
A British teacher found buried in a bath of sand in Japan was strangled to death, police say...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
UK greenhouse emissions rise
UK carbon emissions rose last year, the government says, but Britain is still on course for its Kyoto Protocol target...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Casinos plans 'very much alive'
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell insists plans for 17 new casinos are "still very much alive" despite a Lords defeat...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Zimbabwean Leaders Are Accused in Abductions
Hundreds of political and civic advocates have been abducted and severely beaten in recent days by unidentified assailants, government critics said...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
U.S. Iraq Role Is Called Illegal by Saudi King
King Abdullah?s speech at a meeting of Arab leaders underscored growing differences between Saudi Arabia and the Bush administration...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
70 Killed in Wave of Revenge in Northern Iraq
In the city of Tal Afar, gunmen, some of them apparently police officers, participated in the killings of scores of Sunnis in the aftermath of a huge double suicide bombing in a Shiite area...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Dispute Over Britons Held by Iran Escalates
Britain froze all ?bilateral business? with Iran and the Iranians displayed some of the prisoners on television. Iran indicated one sailor could be released soon...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
Bush Rules Out Bid by Congress for Iraq Pullout
The president and Democrats in Congress each prepared to blame the other for delays in providing money for the war...
New York Times - March 29, 2007
'Gorilla kingdom' opens in London
A new enclosure is set to open at London Zoo, where keepers hope gorillas will begin to breed...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Beckett attacked on farm payments
Margaret Beckett must be held accountable for delayed EU payments for farmers, say MPs...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Care fear over hospital discharge
Poor and late hospital discharge information is putting patients at risk, GPs say...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Lloyds TSB workers get windfall
More than 62,000 Lloyds TSB employees are to share in a £252m share and bonus windfall payout...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Iran TV shows female sailor
Iranian TV broadcasts an interview with Faye Turney, the captured British sailor from Shrewsbury...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Sri Lanka clash 'kills 15 rebels'
Sri Lankan navy troops sink three Tamil Tiger boats, killing at least 15 rebels, the military says...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Judge fired amid Ecuador deadlock
A Ecuadorean judge reinstates 57 sacked legislators only to be removed himself amid political deadlock...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Thai insult man gets 10-year term
A Swiss man who pleaded guilty to insulting the Thai king is sentenced to 10 years in jail...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Smoking ban 'could close clubs'
Many working men's clubs will close once a smoking ban is introduced in England and Wales, a BBC survey suggests...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Maradona is admitted to hospital
Former football star Diego Maradona is taken to hospital in Argentina, suffering from "an imbalance"...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
New schools 'not fit for future'
Plans to rebuild England's schools must create classrooms fit for lessons of the future, a report warns...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Russia 'abused returned suspects'
Seven Russians detained at Guantanamo Bay suffered torture or abuse after repatriation, say campaigners...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
African leaders in Zimbabwe talks
Leaders from southern Africa are meeting in Tanzania for emergency talks on the crisis in Zimbabwe...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
Iran offers UK access to captured sailors
Iran says British officials can visit the 15 Royal Navy personnel who were captured in the Gulf...
BBC News - March 29, 2007
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