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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
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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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for March 2008:
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Russian Vodka With a Feminine Kick
As the economy continues its skyward race, marketers are taking note of Russian women and the discretionary income they represent...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The War on Error
Charles Ferguson analyzes America?s missteps in Iraq...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Guess Who?s Coming to Power
China and the European Union have joined the United States as global players, says a young foreign-policy scholar...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Death in the Pacific
Max Hastings shows how Japanese madness met American ruthlessness in the final year of World War II...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Despite Infighting, Meeting of Arab Leaders Gets Under Way in Damascus
Some Syrian officials suggested that it was a victory for the annual Arab summit meeting to take place at all, given the Saudi and American campaign against it...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
News Analysis: In This Shiite Battle, a Marked Shift From the Past
Among the differences between the ongoing Shiite battle in Iraq and the wave of Shiite attacks of 2004, one is that the Shiite rebels are fighting Iraqi soldiers, not Americans...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
At Least 10 Killed as Somali Troops Shell a Market Used as an Insurgent Base
According to witnesses, the fighting started when insurgents fired mortars at Villa Somalia, the presidential palace and seat of the transitional government...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The World: The Drug Scare That Exposed a World of Hurt
Following the heparin scandal, weak oversight of a global market for medicines gets new attention...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Bad Dreams: Alley Fighters
The Mahdi Army militiamen may look ragtag, but they know their way around the slums in which they fight...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Changing the Rules of the Games
How did a handful of activists manage to shake up Beijing with ?Genocide Olympics? T-shirts?...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Lives: Karachi?s Winter Days
Trouble in the streets, an afternoon by the sea...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids
Militias openly controlled many areas of the city as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Zimbabweans Vote, Desperate for Change
Lines at polling stations were long, but Zimbabweans have little hope that President Robert Mugabe might be ousted...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Files From Colombians Point to Venezuelan Bid to Arm Rebels
If verified, the files would offer rare insight into Latin America?s longest-running guerrilla conflict...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Diplomats Visit Tibet Amid Anxiety Over Unrest
The tour was China?s latest effort to quiet talk about the possibility of a boycott of this summer?s Olympic Games...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives
Such factors as the rising social status of Korean women and a surplus of bachelors resulting from a preference for sons ? is forcing many Korean men to seek brides in other Asian countries...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Space freighter's approach and go
Europe's "Jules Verne" freighter demonstrates its navigation capabilities in front of the space station...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Wise cleared over assault claim
Former Leeds United boss Dennis wise will not face criminal charges after allegedly grabbing a stone-throwing youth...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Alexander says 'fightback begins'
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander tells party workers that the fightback has begun against the SNP...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Fatal shelling at Somali market
At least 10 people die and many are hurt as Ethiopian forces shell a Mogadishu market, witnesses say...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Youths rescued in Tors warm-up
Eighteen people are airlifted from Dartmoor as bad weather strikes a Ten Tors training event...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Oxford crew win 154th Boat Race
Oxford beat Cambridge to win the 154th university boat race...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Villa crushed by leaders Man Utd
Man Utd stretch their Premier League lead to six points by thrashing Aston Villa...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Zimbabwean voters elect president
Voting ends in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe faces a strong challenge from the opposition...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Baghdad curfew to be extended
A curfew is extended until further nortice in Baghdad, as security forces clash with militias in Basra for a fifth day...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
E Guinea seeks Thatcher's arrest
Equatorial Guinea issues an arrest warrant for Sir Mark Thatcher over his alleged role in a 2004 failed coup...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
T5 cancellations set to continue
Flight cancellations at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 are to continue into next week, admits British Airways...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Stalemate in Kenya Over Top Posts
Kenya?s president and the top opposition leader are deadlocked over a new government...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Third day of flight misery at T5
Heathrow's Terminal 5 faces continued disruption with one-fifth of Saturday's flights cancelled...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Football boss sent bullet in post
A police investigation is under way after a bullet is sent in the post to Cliftonville football club manager Eddie Patterson...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Alexander says 'fight back is on'
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander tells party workers that the fight back has begun against the SNP...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
'Groping' civil servant resigns
A senior civil servant who sexually harassed a Welsh Assembly Government colleague has quit...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Turkey hits rebel targets in Iraq
Turkey uses shelling and air raids to target rebel positions in Iraq, killing at least 15, the Turkish military says...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Iraqi militia defy call to disarm
The radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr defies a call for his powerful Mehdi Army militia to disarm as fighting goes on...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Hoy extends GB gold haul to nine
Chris Hoy wins the men's keirin race at the Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester to extend the GB medal count to nine golds...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Live - Premier League
Manchester United host Aston Villa in the Premier League after Derby are relegated and Arsenal win a dramatic game at Bolton...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Dozens missing in Tanzania mines
About 75 miners are feared dead after heavy rainfall triggers the collapse of gem mines in Tanzania...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Teen accused of boy's murder
A 16-year-old youth is to appear in court accused of murdering 14-year-old Amro Elbadawi in west London...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
15,000 bags stranded at Heathrow
Thousands of bags are stranded at Heathrow after a third day of cancellations at Terminal 5...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
British Army joins Basra fighting
British forces join the fighting in Basra between Iraqi government forces and members of the Mehdi Army...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
South Korea Plays Down Missile Test by the North
Experts said Pyongyang was seeking to boost its bargaining leverage by escalating tensions at a time when negotiations over its nuclear program are not proceeding in its favor...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Gay men risk of HIV 'still high'
The number of new cases of HIV among gay men in the UK remains stubbornly high, figures for 2007 show...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Town vigil for dead man's family
About 300 people take part in a prayer vigil in Dugannon to show support for the family of Shaun Fitzpatrick...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Plaid's council shake-up warning
Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones will warn councils to "shake themselves up" as he looks for election gains...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Deadly blast in south Afghanistan
A bomb explosion near a power plant in the Afghanistan kills two employees, police say...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Man in court over pensioner rape
A man has appeared in court accused of raping an 87-year-old
grandmother at her Norfolk home...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Hope for end to Russia cave siege
Seven cult members end a cave siege in Russia and talks are under way to persuade 28 more to emerge...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Boat Race braced for bad weather
Oxford and Cambridge are braced for rough conditions in the 154th Boat Race, with Oxford considered the favourites to win...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Newlove killer lodges appeal bid
One of the gang who kicked to death father-of-three Garry Newlove is to appeal against his conviction...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Pakistani PM vows to fight terror
Pakistan's new prime minister tells MPs his government's top priority will be the fight against terrorism...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Boycott clouds Arab summit
The annual Arab summit opens in Damascus but key leaders are staying away amid signs of a regional rift...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Zimbabwean voters elect president
Voting is under way in Zimbabwe, as President Robert Mugabe faces a strong challenge from the opposition...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Further flights cancelled at T5
Heathrow's troubled Terminal 5 faces continued disruption with dozens of Saturday flights cancelled...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Colombia: Uribe Offers to Release Rebels for Hostage?s Freedom
The government offered cash and reduced jail terms to leftist guerrillas in exchange for releasing the politician Ingrid Betancourt after years of captivity in jungle camps. Ms. Betancourt, left, 46, was kidnapped during her 2002 presidential campaign by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and is suffering from malnutrition and hepatitis B, according to Colombia?s human rights ombudsman. President Álvaro Uribe said his government would maintain a $100 million fund to pay rewards to guerrillas who free any of the hundreds of kidnapping victims held by the FARC. On Thursday he signed a decree allowing for a mass release of guerrillas from jail if Ms. Betancourt was freed...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Cheese Move Earns Approval
Some 25 brands of buffalo mozzarella with elevated levels of the carcinogen dioxin were pulled from stores as the nation worked to reassure foreign buyers that none of the contaminated cheese had left the country. After the recall, European Union health officials declared themselves satisfied that Italy was confronting the problem...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: More Chaos at Heathrow
For the second successive day, British Airways canceled dozens of flights at Heathrow Airport?s glittery new Terminal 5 as its staff struggled with state-of-the-art technology supposed to hasten check-in and baggage-handling procedures. The hitches since the terminal opened on Thursday were ?definitely not British Airways? finest hour,? the airline?s chief executive, Willie Walsh, told reporters. Some passengers slept overnight inside the steel-and-glass terminal, reviving precisely those images of delay and decline in British aviation that British Airways said Terminal 5 would banish...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
World Briefing | United Nations: Report Says Lebanese Leader Killed by ?criminal Network?
A ?criminal network? was behind the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and is ?linked to? some of the 20 additional killings of anti-Syrian officials in Lebanon, the head of the United Nations inquiry into the deaths, David Bellemare of Canada, said in his first report since taking the post in November...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Dalai Lama Warns China on Its News Reports
The Dalai Lama criticized China?s state-controlled media, saying its coverage of the unrest in Tibet was biased and could eventually ?sow the seeds of racial tension? there...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Trying to Get the Swiss to Talk
A tax-evasion scandal in Germany has sparked a debate in Switzerland about the country?s banking secrecy...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Doha Trade Deal Still Possible, Bush Says
The United States is willing to make agricultural concessions to reach a new world trade deal if other countries open their markets to more American exports, President Bush said Friday...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Cellphones for Anyone
The government announced that it would permit the general public to buy cellphones, which until now were set aside mainly for the Communist Party elite. The move was seen as a sign of liberalization by the new president, Raúl Castro. But most Cubans, who earn only about $20 monthly in state salaries, will find it hard to afford the phones without help from relatives off the island...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Saturday Profile: Japanese Author Guides Women to ?Dignity,? but Others See Dullness
Mariko Bando?s book, ?The Dignity of a Woman,? has become one of Japan?s biggest best sellers in decades, but critics say it reinforces the view that women should be subservient...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Tibetan Students Enter U.N. Compound
Tibetan high school children scaled a brick wall surrounding the United Nations compound in Katmandu. They were served dumplings on the other side...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Corporate Sponsors Nervous as Tibet Protest Groups Shadow Olympic Torch?s Run
The disruption of a Chinese official?s address in Greece was just the beginning of a string of protests planned to coincide with the torch?s trip around the globe...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
U.S. Airstrikes Aid Iraqi Army in Basra Siege
Iraqi forces, which have no air support of their own, have so far failed to subdue Shiite militias in Basra and have asked the Americans and British for help...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest
The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world?s population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Case Against U.S. Marine Is Dismissed
All charges were dismissed Friday against one of two remaining enlisted marines involved in a combat action that killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Somalia?s Government Teeters on Collapse
Many of the same elements that lined up in the 1990s to create a famine are lining up again ? war, drought, displacement and skyrocketing food prices...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Growing Gulf Divides China and Dalai Lama
A gap between Western and Chinese leaders on perceptions of the Dalai Lama is breeding pessimism that China will take a new approach to Tibet...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Cardinal to meet embryo experts
A senior Catholic opposed to a controversial embryo research bill says he will discuss the issue with scientists...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Imams, soldiers, schools and the NUT
Mike Baker takes a look behind the headlines on issues of Army recruitment and faith in schools...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Alexander to go on SNP offensive
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander is expected to attack the SNP in her first conference speech as leader...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Rugby U: Sale sink leaders Bath
Sale put in a strong display to beat Premiership leaders Bath as Charlie Hodgson scores 17 points...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Two charged over toddler's death
Police confirm they have charged a man and woman in relation to the alleged neglect of a toddler who died...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Memorial service for Carol Barnes
A memorial service for former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes, who died this month, is due to take place in Brighton...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Speaker's residence bill revealed
More than £700,000 has been spent on the Commons Speaker's official residence since 2001, figures show...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Browne backs talking to Taleban
The UK should talk to those in the Taleban who can be persuaded to change sides, the defence secretary says...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Foreign diplomats on Tibet visit
China takes a group of foreign diplomats to Tibet, following criticism of Beijing over its response to protests...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Zimbabweans vote in key election
Voting starts in Zimbabwe, as President Robert Mugabe faces a strong challenge from opposition candidates...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Disruption at T5 enters third day
Passengers at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 face continued disruption with dozens more flights due to be cancelled...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Hospital deep clean target missed
The NHS is likely to narrowly miss its target to deep clean all the hospitals in England by the end of March...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
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