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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 2005:
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British Court Sides With Girl on Religious Dress
The British Court of Appeal ruled today that a Muslim teenager's rights had been violated by a school's refusal to allow her to wear a body-concealing Muslim gown...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Bush Says World Demands That Syria Pull Out of Lebanon
The president raised the pressure on Syria today, saying the world was "speaking with one voice" in demanding that Damascus pull its troops from Lebanon...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Hong Kong Leader's Likely Exit Is Mixed Blessing for Opposition
The likely resignation of Hong Kong's chief executive follows two years of dismal public opinion, but it is far from a victory for democracy, experts said today...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Suicide Bombers Kill 13 Iraqi Army Soldiers
The attacks were the latest incidents in a recent surge of violence aimed at Iraq's beleaguered security forces...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Local food 'greener than organic'
Local food is more environmentally friendly than organic food, according to a report published in Food Policy...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Consultants' ultimatum over pay
NHS consultants issue an ultimatum to the Welsh assembly government in a row over payments for overtime...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
US crude prices surge above $53
US crude oil prices breach the $53 a barrel mark as petrol prices reach a record high amid refinery problems...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Nepal curbs reporting on rebels
Nepal bans independent media coverage of the Maoist insurgency, tightening censorship imposed in the emergency...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Two-year-old boy shot by air gun
A toddler is taken to hospital after being struck by a pellet in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Football: Spurs crush Forest
Tottenham ease past Nottingham Forest to set up an FA Cup quarter-final at Newcastle...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Indonesia cleric verdict expected
Indonesian judges are due to deliver their verdict on Thursday in the trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Ukraine 'solves' editor's murder
Ukrainian authorities say they have identified who ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Lebanon MPs seek Syria pullout
Opposition leaders call for the withdrawal of Syrian forces as a condition for talks to form a new government...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
'No link between MMR and autism'
Scientists say they have strong evidence that the MMR vaccination is not linked to a rise in autism...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Jackson film 'absolute disaster'
A PR expert tells the Michael Jackson trial she "crisis-managed" the fallout from a controversial documentary...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
U.S. Accuses Iran of Deceiving U.N. Inspectors
The United States accused Iran today of "cynically" deceiving inspectors in its pursuit of nuclear weapons...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Car Bombs Kill at Least 12, a Day After Hussein Judge Is Slain
Today's attacks in Baghdad followed the killing of a judge and a lawyer working on the Hussein trial...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Howard and Blair clash over NHS
Tony Blair and Michael Howard clash over the numbers of cancelled operations during a stormy Commons session...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Call for national English centre
Ofsted chief David Bell calls for a national English centre to improve standards in the subject...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Looks and music to drive mobiles
Mobile phones are still enjoying a boom time in sales, according to research from technology analysts Gartner...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Star Trek campaign 'raises $3m'
A campaign to save Star Trek: Enterprise says it has received a $3m donation from figures in the space industry...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Traditional dress ruling: Your reaction
Judges have ruled that a 15-year-old girl was unlawfully excluded from school for wearing a traditional Muslim dress instead of school uniform. Send us your comments...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Beirut opposition plans next move
Lebanese opposition leaders are considering whether to take part in talks to form a new government...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Andaman tsunami recovery delayed
Reconstruction will be delayed in some of the worst-hit islands in India's Andamans, authorities say...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Father 'found kneeling over body'
A woman tells a court she found her husband kneeling over the body of their terminally-ill son...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Mumps outbreak 'worst recorded'
A mumps outbreak in Northern Ireland is the worst since records began, the Health Department says...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Detention for fire attack youths
Two teenagers who burned down a £300,000 house in an upmarket suburb are locked up for 18 months each...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Tears as matron denies killing
A nursing home matron accused of killing an elderly man breaks down as she gives evidence in court...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Ryanair misled customers on price
Budget airline Ryanair is found guilty of misleading customers over flight prices...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Fossett plane bid in fuel worry
Steve Fossett's attempt to fly solo, non-stop around the globe without re-fuelling is in trouble...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Football: Prutton in 10-match ban
Southampton's David Prutton is banned for 10 matches and fined £6,000 following his dismissal against Arsenal...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Rugby: Robinson out of 6 Nations
Injury forces England captain Jason Robinson out of the rest of the Six Nations...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Uruguay signs deal with Venezuela
Uruguay's new left-wing president signs an energy deal with Venezuela and restores ties with Cuba...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Arrest over Sheraton bomb attack
Pakistani police arrest an alleged militant found guilty of involvement in the 2002 Karachi Sheraton bomb attack...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Iran nuclear plans under pressure
Tehran is told it must be more transparent about its nuclear programme in a united call by the US, Europe and UN...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Jackson's PR takes witness stand
The Michael Jackson trial hears from a PR manager who handled the fallout from the film that sparked the case...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Blair rejects Tory terror offer
Tony Blair says he will not back a Tory plan to put a time limit on a bill allowing house arrest for terror suspects...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
British man 'ran terror websites'
A man accused of urging Muslims to wage a holy war returns to court to fight extradition to the US...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
BBC governors set to be scrapped
The BBC's governors are set to be scrapped but the licence fee will be kept, under government plans...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Army called in to deal with snow
The Army helps motorists in Kent as eastern parts of the UK are hit by heavy snow, closing schools and roads...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Protest over US biodefence boom
Over 700 top US scientists have protested at the massive funds being ploughed into studying the handful of organisms considered bioterror threats...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Singer Collins has brain surgery
Former Orange Juice frontman and 1990s solo star Edwyn Collins undergoes an emergency brain operation...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Brown ally rejects Budget spree
Chancellor Gordon Brown's closest ally, Ed Balls, denies there will be a pre-election giveaway...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Passive smoking killing thousands
Passive smoking kills more than 11,000 a year in the UK - much higher than previously thought, a study shows...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
England children's tsar appointed
A Great Ormond Street Hospital professor is named the first children's commissioner for England...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Minister meets prison protesters
Prisons minister Paul Goggins visits Wales as the row over the transfer of sex offenders to an open jail is stepped up...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
HBOS makes £4.5bn as costs fall
The UK's fourth-largest bank HBOS says a tighter control on costs helped pre-tax profits rise by 22% to £4.5bn in 2004...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Search for fleeing Maoist rebels
A search operation for Maoist rebels is launched in western Nepal following a major battle with government troops...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
SF reject McCartney police motion
Sinn Fein is condemned for not backing a motion urging witnesses to a Belfast murder to go to the police...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Class discipline still a concern
Scotland's top schools inspector warns that too much low-level indiscipline is stopping pupils from learning...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
French killer faces more claims
The wife of self-confessed killer Michel Fourniret accuses him of murdering three more girls at their Belgian home...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Europeans join US in rapping Iran
The US, UK, France and Germany all express new concerns about Iran's nuclear programme...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Football: Woodgate out for season
Real Madrid confirm Jonathan Woodgate is likely to be sidelined for the rest of the season...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
UN troops strike back in DR Congo
UN forces in DR Congo kill at least 50 members of a militia accused of killing Bangladeshi peacekeepers...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Hong Kong leader 'to step down'
Local media say Hong Kong's unpopular leader Tung Chee-hwa is to quit, citing ill health, but officials stay silent...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Muslim police stops 'more likely'
UK Muslims should accept that people who look Islamic are more likely to be stopped by police, a minister says...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
1861 census data published online
Information from the 1861 census is made available online for the first time on a pay-per-view basis...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Golf: Woosnam is Ryder captain
Ian Woosnam is named captain of Europe's 2006 Ryder Cup team with Nick Faldo taking over in 2008...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Defence fury at Jackson witness
The Jackson trial considers whether Martin Bashir is in contempt of court for not answering questions...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Saddam judge gunned down
A judge on Iraq's tribunal set up to try former regime members is killed, just after the court ends its first probe...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Immigrant abuse claims probed
The Home Office asks to see BBC evidence of alleged abuse by staff at a firm dealing with immigration detainees...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Clarke holds fire on terror plans
The home secretary is looking at a Tory amendment to his anti-terrorism bill which would see laws expire in November...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Schoolgirl wins Muslim gown case
A girl was unlawfully excluded from school for wearing a traditional Muslim gown, Appeal Court judges rule...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Saudi Shiites, Long Kept Down, Look to Iraq and Assert Rights
The Shiite Muslim minority in Saudi Arabia has taken hope from local elections and Iraq's example...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
U.S. Lawmakers Warn Europe on Arms Sales to China
Senior members of Congress said Tuesday that if Europe lifts its ban on arms sales to China, the United States might retaliate with restrictions on technology sales to European companies...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Nuclear Agency Says Iran Has Blocked Investigation
The International Atomic Energy Agency indicated that it had not been able to get information to help it resolve questions about Iran's nuclear program...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Top Hong Kong Official Is Said to Be Close to Resigning Post
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s chief executive, has come under heavy criticism from Beijing and local residents alike...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
2 Members of Hussein Tribunal Are Assassinated in Baghdad
It was the first time that members of the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein were known to have been assassinated...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
U.S. and France Join to Urge Syria to Pull Out of Lebanon
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said sending peacekeepers to take the place of Syrian forces was under consideration...
New York Times - March 2, 2005
Man held in McCartney probe freed
A 29-year-old man held over the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney is released without charge...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
NHS 'convincing smokers to quit'
The NHS is winning the battle to convince people to stop smoking, health officials say...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
MPs criticise child access system
Divorced parents seeking access to their children are often disadvantaged by the legal system, MPs say...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Arsenal boss hails young guns
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger praises his young side after they beat Sheffield United on penalties in the FA Cup...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Golf: Woosnam 'set for captaincy'
Ian Woosnam is expected to be named captain of Europe's team for the 2006 Ryder Cup...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Clarke ponders terror law offer
The home secretary is looking at a Tory amendment to his anti-terrorism bill which would see laws expire in November...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Hong Kong head 'stepping down'
Hong Kong's chief executive Tung Chee-hwa is about to resign, say media reports, but officials remain silent...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Illegal dumping 'costs millions'
Illegal dumping of rubbish takes place every 35 seconds and is costing councils millions to clear up, figures show...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Rice turns up the heat on Syria
The US secretary of state says Syria's involvement in its neighbours' affairs is blocking change in the Middle East...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
Minister unveiling plans for BBC
A government Green Paper is expected to say the BBC's charter should be renewed and the licence fee extended...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
UN warning to Britain on heroin
The UK had the largest rate of heroin seizures in Europe in 2004, the UN's drug watchdog says...
BBC News - March 2, 2005
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