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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 Octomber 2005:
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Palestinian Faction to Stop Firing Rockets Into Israel
The group Islamic Jihad said its pledge depended on a halt in Israeli airstrikes and other military operations against the Palestinian factions...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Two U.S. Soldiers Charged With Assaulting Detainees
Two American soldiers have been charged with assaulting two Afghan detainees and could face court-martial in Afghanistan...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Group Claims Responsibility for New Delhi Blasts
A little-known militant outfit in the disputed Kashmir province took responsibility for the string of bombs that killed 59 people...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
U.S. Inquiry Cites Missteps in Iraqi Reconstruction
As money runs out for Iraq's reconstruction, there is no clear source for the additional funds needed to operate finished projects...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Burglary at 'attic babies' house
Burglars raid a south Wales house where a mother had hidden the bodies of two of her stillborn babies...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Gates gives £28m to malaria team
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is donating £28m to a UK university as part of worldwide malaria research...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Bush urged to revamp White House
Republicans urge President Bush to shake up his team in the wake of a traumatic political week...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Defiant Gbagbo pledges to stay on
Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo says he will stay in power until elections, despite opposition protests...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Sat-phone fraud in Iraq probed
The foreign office launches an investigation into the misuse of a British Embassy phone in Baghdad...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
George Best taken off ventilator
Soccer legend George Best has opened his eyes and started to breathe
without the help of a ventilator...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
LVF units ordered to stand down
The LVF leadership orders all its so-called military units to stand down, a statement to the BBC confirms...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Transport drinking ban attacked
Opposition parties say the idea of banning passengers drinking alcohol on public transport is 'over the top'...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Palestinians 'killed in shootout'
Israeli soldiers kill two Islamic Jihad militants in a shootout in the West Bank, Palestinian sources say...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
No 10 backs Blunkett over job
Downing Street has defended David Blunkett in a row over his directorship of a DNA testing firm...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Fire destroys top research centre
An investigation is launched after a large fire destroys a electronics research laboratory on a university campus...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
North Korean Leader Pledges to Move Forward With Nuclear Talks
Kim Jong Il told President Hu Jintao of China that he is committed to ending the country's nuclear weapons program...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Fewer boys managed the 'three Rs'
The proportion of 11-year-old boys able to read, write and count as expected fell this year, figures reveal...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Newsreader Ford retiring from BBC
Anna Ford, one of the BBC's longest serving newsreaders, is to retire after 29 years at the corporation...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Violent criminals warrant concern
Strathclyde Police fail to execute warrants against almost 100 people wanted for violent crimes...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
P&O 'preliminary' takeover talks
UK ports and ferries operator P&O says it has received approaches from a potential buyer, reported to be a Gulf-based firm...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Death crash teens 'were drinking'
Some of the five teenagers killed when a stolen car crashed were drinking beforehand, friends say...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Murder inquiry after body found
Police in north Belfast begin a murder inquiry after the body of a woman in her 60s is found at a house...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Football: Owen scores twice
Michael Owen scores twice as Newcastle made it four wins in six Premiership games...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Shots fired at Gbagbo protesters
Riot police fire warning shots and use tear gas against militants threatening Ivory Coast's President Gbagbo...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Storm strikes Nicaragua
Hurricane Beta weakens before making landfall in Nicaragua where thousands have been evacuated...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
UK 'may add to Afghanistan force'
The Defence Secretary John Reid says more UK troops may be sent to Afghanistan...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Dresden church re-consecrated
A German church destroyed by the Allies in World War II is re-consecrated after painstaking reconstruction...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Golf: Monty wins European crown
Colin Montgomerie wins his eighth European Order of Merit title while Paul McGinley wins the Volvo Masters...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Palestinians issue rockets pledge
A leading Palestinian militant in Gaza says rocket attacks on Israel will stop if Israel ceases its attacks...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
George Best 'starting to wake up'
The football legend's agent says doctors are pleased with his progress and he is starting to come round in intensive care...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Gunmen target top Iraqi officials
Attacks in Baghdad kill a senior Iraqi government adviser and wound the deputy trade minister...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Delhi bombs probe 'makes headway'
Police say they are making progress in investigations into Saturday's bomb blasts in Delhi that killed 59 people...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Kashmir Border to Be Opened for Quake Aid
Rivals India and Pakistan agreed to open the border dividing Kashmir to allow earthquake survivors and relief supplies to cross...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Amid U.N. Inquiry Into Killing, Leading Syrian Leaves Country
During an investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon, a first cousin of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria left the country...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
100 Dead in Derailment in India
A passenger train plunged into a river in southern India on Saturday, killing at least 77 people and trapping dozens more inside the derailed cars...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
U.S. Quietly Issues Estimate of Iraqi Civilian Casualties
The military has released rough figures for Iraqis who have been killed or wounded by insurgents since Jan. 1 last year...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Blasts Kill 55 in New Delhi; Scores Injured
An apparently coordinated succession of explosions tore through two crowded markets and a public bus on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
U.S. and Japan Agree to Strengthen Military Ties
Plans include the reduction by 7,000 of the number of marines on Okinawa and building a new generation of radar equipment in Japan as part of a missile defense system...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Batman movie leads fans' awards
Batman Begins is named 2005's favourite film, according to the Total Film Readers' Awards...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Wales put on flood and gale alert
Flood alerts are issued for many rivers in south Wales, while the west is warned of gales, gusting up to 70mph...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
IMF-World Bank in WTO talks plea
The chiefs of the IMF and World Bank call for a "flexible" approach in the run-up to the new WTO trade talks in Hong Kong in December...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Red Planet comes close to Earth
Mars had a close encounter with Earth early on Sunday, approaching to within 69.4 million km of our planet...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
China's Hu concludes N Korea trip
President Hu Jintao ends a rare visit to North Korea, his first to the secretive communist state since 2001...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Nicaragua braced for storm
Nicaragua orders the evacuation of a coastal city as Hurricane Beta becomes a Category Three storm...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Paris suburb hit by more rioting
Nine youths are being held by French police following a third night of sporadic unrest in a Paris suburb...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Indian minister denies oil claims
Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh denies claims he was a beneficiary of the UN Iraq oil-for-food programme...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Death crash teenagers identified
The names of five young teenagers killed when a stolen car crashed into a wall, have been revealed...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Arrest in musician murder probe
Police investigating the murder of a Londonderry musician last month arrest a second man...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Stricter rules for herbal drugs
Firms which make herbal medicines face stricter regulation under an EU law introduced on Sunday...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Dresden consecrates church
A German church destroyed by the Allies in World War II is being re-consecrated after painstaking reconstruction...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Football: Fergie anger at loss
Furious Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson brands the 4-1 loss to Middlesbrough an "embarrassment"...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Football: Campbell denies elbow
Sol Campbell says there was no malicious intent in his challenge on Teemu Tainio...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Public transport drink ban plan
A ban on passengers drinking alcohol on public transport is being considered by the government...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Divers lead Indian crash rescue
Indian army divers search for people in submerged cars of a train that derailed on Saturday, killing 110...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
PM pessimistic on climate treaty
The Kyoto protocol on climate change cannot work in its current form, Prime Minister Tony Blair says...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Kashmir Border to Be Opened for Quake Aid
Rivals India and Pakistan agreed to open the border dividing Kashmir to allow earthquake survivors and relief supplies to cross...
New York Times - October 30, 2005
Historic new rights for walkers
The roll out of historic right to roam laws across England will be completed on Monday...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Football: Man Utd woeful at Boro
Man Utd lose more ground on Chelsea at the top of the table after a woeful first-half display at The Riverside...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Zanzibar voters head to the polls
Voters in Zanzibar are going to the polls to elect a new president and parliament...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Delhi on high alert after blasts
Security is tightened in the Indian capital Delhi after three explosions on Saturday which killed at least 55 people...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
Public transport 'drink ban plan'
A ban on drinking alcohol on all forms of public transport is reportedly being considered by the government...
BBC News - October 30, 2005
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