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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 February 2008:
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Turks Protest Plan to End Scarf Ban
Secularists fear that lifting the ban would lead to heavy pressure on uncovered women to wear the Muslim garment...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Blunt Critic of Musharraf Is Held Again
Authorities on Saturday re-arrested a lawyer, Aitzaz Ahsan, a member of Parliament and a cabinet minister under Benazir Buttho, the former prime minister who was assassinated last December...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Statesman Without Borders
Can Bernard Kouchner, a 60-something, high-energy, danger-loving doctor turned foreign minister, make France a global player again?...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
The World: Argentina Rises, Minus Its Swagger
Argentines, still struggling under a faltering economy, look for some new economic lessons from Brazil...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Lives: My Servant
In Delhi, a man becomes a father, and a child becomes a man...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Reporter Finds Drama in Iraqis? Heartbreak
?Betrayed,? a new play by George Packer, features translators who believe in the U.S. mission in Iraq and wind up paying for it...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
The World: Seeking a Path in Democracy?s Dead End
The Bush administration has quietly come to terms with the police states in Central Asia...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
No Body Left Untoned Preparing for Carnival
More than ever, it is survival of the fittest at Rio?s renowned Carnival celebration ? a full-tilt sport in high heels...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Swiss Sausage Fans Fret Over How to Save Their Skin
The casing of the cervelas, the national sausage, is made of a component banned by the European Union...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Sunnis Say Law to Aid Ex-Baathists May Backfire
Top Sunni politicians, including Iraq?s vice president, say they are trying to stop final approval for legislation that they believe would actually hurt Sunnis? chances of retaining government jobs...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Hamas and Egypt to Work on Sealing Gaza Border
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have crossed in and out of Egypt through its breached border since Jan. 23, to stock up on supplies and other merchandise...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
French President and Ex-Model Wed, Quietly
Three months after their meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, a singer and former model...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Frail Economy Raises Pressure on Iran?s Rulers
From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Gun Battles in Chad?s Capital as Rebels Storm In
A rebel army swarmed Ndjamena in an attack that raised the specter of deeper chaos in the fragile region...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Games help 'could lead to skills'
Volunteering at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could lead to qualifications, organisers claim...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Serbia voters to pick president
Serbia to hold presidential poll seen as key to the country's future, with the two candidates neck-and-neck...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Football: England squad latest
Uncapped Gabriel Agbonlahor is in Fabio Capello's 23-man England squad but Emile Heskey and Ledley King are out because of injury...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Five killed in US shopping centre
Five women are shot dead in a shopping centre in a suburb of the US city of Chicago, police say...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
'I'm no crook,' says suspended MP
MP Derek Conway - at the centre of a Commons row over payments to his son - says: "I am not a crook."...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
18 Killed in Sri Lanka Bus Blast
A bomb tore through a bus packed with mostly elderly Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing 18 people and wounding 51 others, the military said...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on plastic ones...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
French President Weds Former Model
Only three months after their first meeting, the super-model-turned-pop-singer Carla Bruni married the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Chad Shuts Down Capital as 1,000 Rebels March In
Rebels forced the city to close its airport. The fighting is spillover from the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Hamas to Cooperate on Border Closing
Hamas said that it would cooperate with Egypt to close the breached border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Taxi driver set alight by thieves
A taxi driver suffers mild burns to his head and face after being set on fire by two would-be thieves...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Ferry sheds biscuit cargo
Thousands of packets of chocolate biscuits are washed up on the Lancashire shore from a stricken ferry...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Man killed in vehicle collision
A man dies and a woman is injured after two cars collide in an early morning road traffic accident...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Turks protest over headscarf plan
Thousands rally in Ankara to protest against a plan to allow women to wear the Islamic headscarf in universities...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Liberia in record cocaine seizure
About 2.5 tonnes of cocaine - Liberia's largest ever haul - is seized from a ship off the Atlantic coast...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Woman struck by mobility scooter
A mobility scooter driver leaves an elderly woman with a broken leg and wrist after a hit-and-run accident...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Welsh comeback crushes England
Wales claim their first win at Twickenham for 20 years as they stage an astounding second-half comeback to defeat England...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Plane makes emergency landing
A passenger jet carrying 100 passengers makes an emergency landing at Leeds Bradford Airport...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Violence after Kenya peace plan
More than 20 people die in fresh violence in western Kenya, despite a peace deal to end the bloodshed...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
British woman killed in NZ crash
A 62-year-old British woman is killed after a tour bus rolls down a bank in South Island, New Zealand...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
McCann suspect move 'too hasty'
A top policeman says the decision to make Madeleine McCann's parents suspects may have been "hasty"...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Battle for control of Chad palace
Government forces beat back rebels who had advanced on Chad's presidential palace, the French military says...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Ship ordeal for honeymoon couple
A newly-wed couple are among those rescued from a ship which was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Sarkozy and Bruni marry in Paris
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy marries his girlfriend, ex-model Carla Bruni, an official statement says...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Egg customers protest credit move
The decision by internet bank Egg to withdraw credit cards from 161,000 customers has triggered an angry backlash...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Chadian Rebels Fight Around Presidential Palace
Chadian rebels seeking to overthrow President Idriss Deby battled their way into the capital, N?Djamena...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Blair confident of Mid-East deal
Tony Blair gives an optimistic assessment that a peace agreement in the Middle East is within reach...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
China fire body to be flown home
Arrangements are underway to fly the body of a student who died in a fire in a Chinese city back to Wales...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Denomination has health 'factor'
Religious denomination can be a factor in a person's health, researchers in Northern Ireland say...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Carriageway opens after snowfalls
The A66 in County Durham reopens after heavy snow stranded around 200 people in their cars...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Taiwan set to hold UN referendums
Taiwan will hold two referendums next month on joining the UN, the island's election commission says...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
China warns of more bad weather
China's authorities warn that the bad weather which has crippled parts of the country could last several more days...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Forced adoption claims dismissed
Children's Minister Kevin Brennan denies that councils are taking babies into care in order to meet adoption targets...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Iraq market bombs toll nears 100
The toll from Baghdad market bombs, carried by mentally disabled women, rises to nearly 100, say officials...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Chad rebels fight inside capital
Rebels fight their way into Chad's capital N'Djamena and head for the presidential palace, reports say...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Injured captain winched off ship
A cargo ship captain, seriously injured in a force 10 gale off the Isles of Scilly, is taken to hospital in Cornwall...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Alcoa and Chinese Rival Buy 12% Stake in Rio Tinto
The move underscored the strategic significance of mining in a resource-stretched age as well as China?s formidable and still largely untapped economic might...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Lone Star Executive Sentenced
A South Korean court found the private equity fund and one of its executives guilty of manipulating stock prices. The executive, Paul Yoo, was sentenced to five years...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Bolivia: Plane Crash-Lands; All Survive
A Boeing 727 flown by Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano and carrying 155 passengers crash-landed in a forest clearing near the eastern city of Trinidad...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Bank Chief May Face Questions
A senior prosecutor recommended that Daniel Bouton be questioned by judges in connection with accusations he has made about a rogue trader?s role in Société Générale?s loss of billions of euros...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Best Birthrate in a Quarter Century
The country?s birthrate for 2007 was highest since 1991, the government said...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Equatorial Guinea: Coup Suspect Handed Over
Simon Mann, the British soldier of fortune accused of masterminding a botched 2004 coup attempt against the authoritarian president of Equatorial Guinea, was sent there from prison in Zimbabwe to face charges...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Chadian Army Battles Rebels
The rebels are seeking to force the country?s president, Idriss Déby, to share power or step down...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Arabs Protest
Israeli Arabs staged big protest strikes after a government decision last weekend to drop an inquiry into a 2000 police shooting that killed 13 people as the police were trying to put down riots in favor of the intifada...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out
The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders said it had withdrawn its 87 foreign employees from Somalia...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | South Pacific: New Zealand: ?No Tears? Onions
A New Zealand concern called Crop and Food Research said on its Web site that it had created a tearless onion...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Drug Boss Killed in Venezuela
Wilber Alirio Varela, a leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel in Colombia, has been found shot to death in a hotel in Mérida, in Venezuela?s Andean region...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Bomb Kills 20 on Bus
The explosion was blamed in the Tamil Tiger rebels...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Divisive Serbian Vote Offers Stark Choice of East and West
Tomislav Nikolic, a 55 year-old former cemetery worker known as the Undertaker, edged past the pro-Western incumbent in the first round of elections last week...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Severe Winter Storms Persist in China; Fuel and Food Are Short
More than 160 counties and cities in central China suffered blackouts and water shortages because of continued bad weather that has caused a humanitarian crisis...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Canadian Inquiry Blames Israelis for Deaths in 2006
While Israel does not deny that it killed the four United Nations observers in Lebanon, it says the episode was unintentional...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
With Irish Tax, Plastic Bags Go the Way of the Snakes
The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry their groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on each plastic bag grabbed at the register...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
The Saturday Profile: ?Minister of Ideas? Tries to Put Brazil?s Future in Focus
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a Harvard law professor, serves as the country?s minister for strategic affairs...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Shooters Are Sought in Israeli Embassy Attack in Mauritania
Mauritanian officials claimed that the target of the shooting against the embassy was actually a nearby nightclub...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
U.S. and Poland Agree in Principle on Missile Defense
The terms of the agreement were not announced but officials have suggested that the U.S. would help with Polish air defenses...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Berlusconi?s Long Shadow Casts a Chill Over Italian Politics
Polls show that nearly two years after he was voted out of the prime minister?s office, Silvio Berlusconi would probably win it back...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Two Bombings Wreak Carnage in Iraqi Capital
Two women strapped with explosives killed dozens of people in the deadliest day in Baghdad in months...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
'Last wave' for wild golden frog
A BBC film crew captures footage of a rare frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Spice Girls cut short world tour
The Spice Girls ditch four shows from their world tour, blaming "family and personal commitments"...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Test confusion 'risk to patients'
Many junior doctors do not understand many common hospital laboratory tests, and are putting patients at risk as a result, claim biochemists...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Island fears over 'trawler rats'
Concerns are raised that the trawler which ran aground on St Kilda could carry rats, posing a threat to sea birds...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Football: Hunt signs Royals deal
Midfielder Stephen Hunt signs a new deal to keep him at the Madejski Stadium until the summer of 2011...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Briton jailed over HIV infections
A British man is jailed for 14 years in Sweden after infecting two under-age girls with HIV...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Russia launches race for Kremlin
Russia's presidential election campaign is set to begin, with Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev the clear favourite...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Deadly blast hits Sri Lanka bus
At least 20 people die as an explosion hits a civilian bus in the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Cloning consent change planned
Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Egg acts over 'risky' customers
Egg is to withdraw credit cards from 161,000 customers it considers pose "unacceptably high risks"...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
2m 'wrongly getting benefit'
Fewer than a third of those receiving incapacity benefit are legitimate claimants, a government adviser says...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Problems persist after heavy snow
Thousands remain without power and some roads are still blocked after high winds and heavy snow hit the UK...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
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