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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 August 2007:
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Quake Kills at Least 2 in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) -- A strong quake hit Thursday near Sakhalin island in Russia's Far East, killing two people in a fishing village and generating small tsunami waves that hit northern Japan...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Microsoft tries free office suite
Free versions of Microsoft's Works package of programs will be available soon, says the software firm...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Mel B in bid to confirm paternity
Spice Girl Mel B files legal papers in a bid to establish actor Eddie Murphy as the father of her baby...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Orangutans use 'charades' to talk
Researchers show orangutans intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
PM 'advised to hold early poll'
Gordon Brown was advised by a Labour strategist to hold an early election after his "honeymoon" as PM...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
House prices rise again in July
House prices went up by 0.7% across the UK last month, says the latest survey from the Halifax bank...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
10-mile tailback after M4 crash
Traffic queues of up to 10 miles are reported on the M4 eastbound after a fatal accident near Newport...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Coastguards resign in leader row
An entire volunteer coastguard unit walks out in protest at the sacking of the man who helped form it...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Shots fired during town trouble
Six people are struck with baton rounds after police come under fire during rioting in Bangor...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
South Asia struggles with floods
Millions are displaced as South Asia faces some of its worst floods in recent years...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Officers hurt in fatal van blast
A driver is killed and five police officers are injured when a van explodes as it is being followed by police...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
US in $80m Palestinian aid deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a deal granting the Palestinians $80m to reform their security services...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Rwandan anger at suspect release
The decision to free two Rwandan men in France may be politically motivated, a Rwandan official says...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
China lightning kills record 141
Lightning killed 141 people in China last month, the highest number since records began, officials say...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
F1: Letter reignites spy row
The F1 spying row takes a new twist as McLaren accuse Ferrari of winning this year's Australian Grand Prix with an illegal car...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Football: Fans near takeover
A website reaches a member milestone to buy a football club...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Water supplies back in all homes
Homes which lost mains water during the Gloucestershire floods are reconnected to supplies, Severn Trent says...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Russian subs reach Arctic floor
Two Russian mini-submarines reach the polar seabed on a mission to further Arctic claims, reports say...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Barton charge over ground attack
Footballer Joey Barton is charged with assault after an alleged training ground bust-up with a former team-mate...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
UK interest rates kept on hold
The Bank of England's rate-setters decide to keep the cost of borrowing unchanged at 5.75%...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Anti-terror chief 'misled' public
A top anti-terror officer misled the public after the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, a report finds...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Bridge collapses into Mississippi
At least seven die after a bridge in Minneapolis over the Mississippi river collapses, hurling cars into the water...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Panel Queries Rumsfeld on Tillman Battle Death
Despite verbal provocations from committee members, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stuck to prepared answers regarding the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Obama Calls for Military Shift in U.S. Focus on Terrorism
Senator Barack Obama said that the United States should shift its military focus away from the Iraq war to a broader fight against Islamic extremism...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Polls Indicate Public Wants Abe to Go
More Japanese want Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign than support his decision not to quit after his governing Liberal Democratic Party?s drubbing in Sunday?s election in the upper house of Parliament, according to polls conducted Monday and Tuesday by three major news organizations. In polls in the nation?s two largest newspapers, Yomiuri and Asahi, 45 percent and 47 percent, respectively, said Mr. Abe should step down; 44 percent and 40 percent said he should remain. In a poll by Kyodo, the largest news service, 50 percent said Mr. Abe should resign, while 44 percent backed him. Yomiuri said its poll was a telephone survey of 1,725 eligible voters. Asahi?s, also a telephone survey, included 1,094 voters. Kyodo did not state its sample size...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Happy Ending for Miners
Sixty-nine coal miners trapped underground for more than three days emerged blindfolded, to protect their eyes against the light, and soaked to the skin, but safe. They became trapped Sunday morning when a flash flood from heavy rain surged through an old shaft at their mine in Henan Province. More than 500 colleagues worked around the clock to pump out water and remove mud and rocks blocking the passage between the trapped men and the pit entrance. A ventilation pipe and telephone line survived the accident, and rescuers sent down milk via a hose. China?s coal mining industry is the deadliest in the world, and this was ?the most successful rescue effort in major mining accidents in our country in recent years,? the Henan governor, Li Chengyu, told the crowd at the scene through a loudspeaker, ?one most worthy of celebration.?...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Australia: Loudspeakers in Case of Terrorist Attack
Sydney, Australia?s largest city, has installed dozens of loudspeakers to tell residents what to do in a terrorist attack, said the state police minister for New South Wales, David Campbell. He said that 40 speakers should be operational in time for next month?s meeting of 21 world leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. ?If there were a terrorist event and there were people in the streets, this is a way of giving them information,? he said...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: West Bank: Israel Starts Razing Wall Near Hebron
Israel began dismantling a low concrete barrier that ran for 25 miles along roads south of Hebron. Israel had claimed that the barrier, though just 32 inches high, was intended to provide additional security for Jewish settlers, but in February 2006 the High Court accepted the contention of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that the wall violated the rights of Palestinian residents in 21 rural communities and prevented farmers from crossing the roads with their herds of livestock. The court gave Israel six months to remove the barrier. When it failed to do so, the civil rights group sought to have the state held in contempt of court. Last week, the court ordered the wall?s destruction within two weeks...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Gaza: Israeli Troops Kill 2 in Raid
Israeli forces killed two armed Palestinians and wounded several others during an army incursion into northern Gaza. The dead men belonged to the military wings of Hamas and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, according to statements from the groups. An army spokeswoman said a rocket-propelled grenade had been fired at soldiers but caused no casualties. Palestinian witnesses said that army bulldozers had razed large areas of farmland in the operation...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Report on Deadly Haitian Capsizing
The authorities in Turks and Caicos, a British territory in the West Indies, were ill equipped to handle the capsizing of a boat in May in which 61 Haitian migrants died, British maritime investigators said in a report. But they said it could not be determined if the territory?s marine police had caused the boat to capsize. Several survivors had accused a patrol boat of ramming their boat. The investigators concluded that the Haitian sloop, overloaded with at least 150 migrants, was nearing the territory?s coast when the patrol intercepted it and tried to tow it to shore. ?It would appear that the sloop capsized while under tow, when the number of passengers on deck reached a critical number and stability was lost,? their report said. ?However, the exact trigger for the capsize remains unknown.? It added that neither vessel showed signs of collision damage...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | The North Pole: Russia Set to Plant Flag on Arctic Seabed
The Russian research ship Akademik Fyodorov, escorted by a nuclear icebreaker, has reached the North Pole on a mission to send two small piloted submarines to plant a Russian flag on the seabed of the Arctic Ocean, directly under the pole, the Interfax news agency reported. The Mir submarines will dive 15,400 feet, possibly tomorrow, and a member of Parliament will accompany the crew to the bottom. The mission is intended to support Russia?s claim that the Artic Ocean, including the North Pole, lies within Moscow?s exclusive economic zone. Russia maintains that a geological feature called the Lomonosov Ridge, directly under the pole, forms part of the Siberian continental shelf and thus belong to Russia. At issue are scientific projections that the ice cap will recede because of global warming, opening the Artic Ocean to offshore oil drilling. Canada and Denmark also claim the Lomonosov Ridge...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Briefing | Australia: $450,000 for ?Stolen? Aborigine
Bruce Trevorrow, an Aborigine removed from his family as a 13-month-old baby in 1957 and handed over to a white family, was awarded $450,000 in Australia?s first successful ?Stolen Generation? court claim. The term refers to the legal and forcible removal of indigenous children from their families by government agencies and church missions in order to assimilate them. Mr. Trevorrow argued in South Australian Supreme Court that the state?s action had brought him a life marked by loss of identity, depression, alcoholism and erratic employment. His two brothers and two sisters stayed with their parents and led successful lives, he said...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Patriarch Teoctist, 92, Romanian Who Held Out Hand to John Paul II, Dies
As head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Teoctist helped begin healing the thousand-year schism between Christianity?s Eastern and Western churches...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Priest?s Death in Kenya a Homicide, Court Says
The death of an American priest who openly criticized the Kenyan government was homicide, not suicide as an earlier investigation had found, a Kenyan court ruled on Wednesday...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
World Bank Agency Finds Its Africa Projects Are Lagging
An internal evaluation of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group?s private-sector arm, found that projects in Africa had performed below average...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Doctor Recounts Imprisonment in Libya
Ashraf al-Hazouz on Tuesday recounted his years of imprisonment and torture in Libya and aired his grievances...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Commission Hears Details of Plane Crash in São Paolo
The details suggest that mechanical failure or pilot error contributed to the accident last month where a jetliner skidded off a runway and exploded as it slammed into a building...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Sudan Agrees to U.N. Peacekeepers to Complement African Union Force
Sudan?s foreign minister said that the government supported the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
In Mexico, Rebel Politician Courts the Law-and-Order Vote
The colorful former mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, stands an even chance of being elected governor of the state of Baja California, despite allegations against him...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Bosnia Plans to Expel Arabs Who Fought in Its War
The Bosnian government, encouraged by Western governments, is concerned that the country should not be seen as a haven for Islamic militants...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Bodies of 4 Kidnapped Afghan Judges Are Found
The bodies of four Afghan judges, kidnapped 10 days ago, were found Wednesday in the province where 21 South Korean hostages are being held...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Russia Threatens Cut in Belarus Gas Supply
The natural gas monopoly Gazprom warned Wednesday that it would reduce supplies to Belarus on Friday unless the former Soviet state pays an outstanding gas bill of $456 million...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Memo From Dubai: A Familiar Set Helps to Create a New Cultural Market
The cultural rise of the Persian Gulf is analogous to that of the American South in recent decades, as country singers and Southern ways have become part of pop culture...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Saudi Arabia Says It May Meet Israel
If Saudi officials sit down with Israel, it will be the first time that both countries have attended public talks about Israeli-Palestinian peace since 1991...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Iran Hangs 9 Convicts, 7 Publicly, in a Crackdown on ?Thugs?
Seven of the men were convicted of rape and hanged in public, while two others, convicted of armed smuggling of narcotics, were hanged in a prison...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans? Misery
One month after the government of Zimbabwe moved to counter crippling hyperinflation, the country?s economy is at a halt and essentials are in short supply...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
News Analysis: Iraq Snapshots Give 2 Views
In Iraq the news emerging from the American counterinsurgency campaign can seem contradictory...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Sunni Faction Quits Iraqi Cabinet; Blasts Kill 76 in Capital
Iraq?s largest Sunni political faction resigned from the cabinet as a wave of bombings in Baghdad killed at least 76 people...
New York Times - August 2, 2007
Britain 'failing' net speed tests
A Which? survey finds a big gap between advertised and actual broadband speeds in the UK...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Skills scheme restrictive - MPs
MPs criticise a government scheme to encourage employers to take more responsibility for staff training...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Boys charged with woman's murder
Two boys, aged 13 and 16, are charged with murdering a woman who was found dumped in a river in Essex...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
'Bomber' killed in Pakistan city
Police in Pakistan say they have killed a suicide bomber after the man failed to detonate his explosives...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Chinese-made toys recalled in US
Fisher Price recalls nearly one million Chinese-made toys over fears their paint may contain too much lead...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
R League: Wigan bids on table
Wigan owner Dave Whelan reveals there are two firm offers on the table for the club, with a third party interested...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Football: Dyer to talk to Hammers
Kieron Dyer has been given permission by Newcastle to speak with West Ham about a move to Upton Park...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
No change expected for UK rates
The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates on hold at 5.75% in a Thursday announcement...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Halt e-voting, says election body
Web and phone voting pilots should halt until elections are modernised, the Electoral Commission says...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Watchdog reports on Menezes case
A report into police actions after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is due to be published...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Prague 'tourist trouble hotspot'
British stag and hen parties make the Czech Republic a consular-assistance hotspot, government figures show...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
Seven dead as US bridge collapses
Seven people die after a bridge in Minneapolis over the Mississippi river collapses, hurling cars into the water...
BBC News - August 2, 2007
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