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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 November 2007:
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Pope Stresses Hope in Latest Teaching
In his second encyclical, the highest papal teaching, Pope Benedict XVI weaves a complex but elegant argument for the necessity of hope...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Saudi Rape Case Spurs Calls for Reform
The case of a rape victim who was sentenced to be lashed has provoked a rare public debate in Saudi Arabia...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Iran Offers No Concessions in Nuclear Talks
The session today had been billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade Iran to compromise ahead of a meeting to discuss further sanctions...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
In Nigeria, the Quest for a ?Humane Shariah?
The Islamic revolution that seemed so destined to transform northern Nigeria in recent years appears to have come and gone ? or at least gone in a direction few would have expected...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Child mental health care warning
Inequalities in specialist child mental health services have worsened in the last seven years, a survey shows...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Greens vote to have single leader
The Greens in England and Wales vote to change the party's policy so it only has one leader...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Bono's Red raises $50m for Aids
Product Red, the brand co-founded by U2 frontman Bono, has raised $50m to fight Aids in Africa...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
SNP considers working with Tories
The SNP's long-running ban on working with the Conservatives could be overturned at local government level...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Football: Redknapp arrest woe
Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp says his arrest has ended any chance he had of being the next England manager...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
BBC award shortlist revealed
Ten contenders are in the running for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on 9 December...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Actor Biggins crowned jungle king
Panto star Christopher Biggins is voted the winner of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Death details go to 7/7 families
Graphic details of injuries suffered by the victims of the 7 July 2005 bombings have been sent to their relatives...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
US daredevil Evel Knievel dies
Legendary US daredevil Evel Knievel, famous for his death-defying motorcycle stunts, dies aged 69...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Online holiday sales may hit £4bn
UK shoppers are set to spend £200m a day online in the run up to Christmas, or £4bn in total, a survey suggests...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Hopes for Sudan teacher release
A Muslim Labour peer is travelling to Sudan hoping to secure the release of British teacher Gillian Gibbons...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Brown will 'assist' donors probe
Prime Minister Gordon Brown promises police he will back the "fullest possible" inquiry into Labour funding...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Clinton office hostage drama ends
Police arrest a man suspected of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office, ending a lengthy siege...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Mexican Court Finds No Violation of Rights in Jailing of Journalist
In a setback for journalistic freedom in Mexico, the judges ruled 6 to 4 against the journalist, Lydia Cacho, despite claims that public officials conspired to harass her...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
None Survive Turkish Plane Crash
A Turkish passenger jet crashed in the mountains of western Turkey, killing all 56 people on board...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Colombia Seizes Videos of Hostages
The videos contained proof that more than 15 captives are alive, including three American military contractors and Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Philippine Authorities Hunt for Revolt Leaders
The Philippine authorities searched today for some of the military officers who took over a luxury Manila hotel on Thursday in an attempt to stage a revolt...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Calls in Sudan for Execution of British Teacher
Protesters reacted angrily today after the sentencing of a Briton whose class named a teddy bear Muhammad...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Brook quits Strictly Come Dancing
Kelly Brook pulls out of Strictly Come Dancing following the death of her father on Monday...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
England's pupils feel less safe
Children in England feel less safe at school than in many other countries, according to an international survey...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Brown denies war over donations
Downing Street plays down reports of a Cabinet rift over donations to the Labour Party via proxies...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Motorola boss Zander to quit job
Motorola announces that chief executive Ed Zander will step down as chief executive on 1 January...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Rally stopped after fans injured
Police say two spectators injured at the Wales Rally GB could have been hit by "flying debris"...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Council in urgent Trump meeting
A special meeting of Aberdeenshire Council is announced after Donald Trump's golf bid is rejected...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Shoukri jailed for bar extortion
Loyalist Andre Shoukri is jailed for nine years for trying to extort thousands of pounds from a pub owner...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Bhutto unveils manifesto pledges
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto launches her manifesto for January's elections...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Iraq MP's son held over bomb find
The son of a Sunni politician in Iraq and up to 50 others are held after explosives are found near the MP's office...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Hunt for clues in Turkish crash
Investigators of a deadly air crash in Turkey study the plane's flight recorders for clues about the cause...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Football: Ronaldo on Fifa shortlist
Man Utd's Cristiano Ronaldo joins Kaka and Lionel Messi on the shortlist for Fifa's world player of the year award...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Protests force Facebook change
A protest by Facebook users has led the social networking site to change a controversial advertising system...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Payout for Halloween attack boy
A man who punched an eight-year-old trick-or-treater is given a suspended prison sentence and told to pay compensation...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Hundreds attend Vicky's funeral
The funeral of murdered teenager Vicky Hamilton takes place at Redding Parish Church, near Falkirk...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Meredith suspects to stay in jail
Two suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy are told they must stay in jail...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Iran talks 'disappoint' envoy
EU official Javier Solana expresses disappointment with talks on Iran's nuclear plans, as he prepares a UN report...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Brown will 'assist' honours probe
Prime Minister Gordon Brown promises police he will back the "fullest possible" inquiry into Labour funding...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Sudan demo over jailed UK teacher
Crowds march in Sudan to call for a tougher sentence for a UK teacher convicted of insulting religion...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Iran Vows Never to Stop Pursuing Atomic Plans
Iran pledged to pursue its disputed atomic program as Europe?s top diplomat met Tehran?s main nuclear negotiator in a last effort to avert tougher sanctions...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Colombia Releases Video of Hostages
Colombian officials released seized videotapes of rebel-held hostages, among them three U.S. defense contractors and a former presidential candidate...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
None Survive Turkish Plane Crash
An Atlasjet plane crashed shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey, killing all 56 people on board...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
PlayStation speeds password probe
The PS3 console has been turned into a password cracker by a computer security researcher...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Radiohead miss out on Brit Awards
Radiohead and Prince will both miss out on Brit Award nominations next year due to eligibility rules...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
EU ministers approve sat-nav deal
EU transport ministers approve a deal to salvage the Galileo sat-nav project before an end-of-year deadline...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
UK schools slip down in science
The UK is above average in an international league table on school science - but it loses its top-four place...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Skin ageing 'reversed' in mice
Scientists have reversed the effects of ageing on the skin by blocking the action of a specific protein...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Lenders plead for rate cut help
Mortgage lenders have made a plea for the Bank of England to cut interest rates to shore up their finances...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
NHS 'treats patients as illness'
A health watchdog says some NHS trusts in Wales treat patients as "an illness, not as a human being"...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Mourners gather for Vicky funeral
The funeral of murdered teenager Vicky Hamilton is taking place at Redding Parish Church, near Falkirk...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Pensioners' homes burgled
Two separate burglaries at the homes of two elderly women in Armagh may be linked, police believe...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Parish priest 'hate mail' probed
Police are investigating a series of hate letters to a parish priest and a suspected arson attack at her home...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Lebanon presidency vote delayed
Lebanese MPs again delay electing a president, giving rival groups more time to agree a compromise figure...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
EU and Iran in key nuclear talks
EU and Iranian envoys meet ahead of a key report to the UN on Tehran's nuclear programme...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Colombia airs rebel hostage tapes
Colombia shows images of rebel-held hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, in the first sign of life since 2003...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Cricket: India on top
Wasim Jaffer hits an unbeaten 192 as India reach 352-3 on the opening day of the second Test...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Chad rebels declare war on France
Rebels in Chad say they are at war with French forces, due to lead a European Union peacekeeping force...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Business call for plan on climate
Firms such as Nike, Tesco and Nokia call for a legally binding international deal on climate change...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Football: FA to scour globe
Football Association chief Brian Barwick will consult a host of top names in his search for a "world-class" manager...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Boys of 12 abusing steroids
Experts warn of the growing trend of teenage boys using dangerous bodybuilding drugs in a bid to impress girls...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Conrad Black protests innocence
Conrad Black, the tycoon convicted of fraud, protests his innocence as he awaits sentencing by a US court...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Funeral of warehouse firefighter
Hundreds of firefighters line the streets of a village for the funeral of a colleague killed in a warehouse blaze...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Meredith suspects fight detention
Two suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy appeal against their detention...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Arrests made in botnet crackdown
New Zealand police arrest a teenager as part of a global crackdown on hi-tech criminals...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Harman rejects Brown damage claim
Harriet Harman denies harming Gordon Brown's reputation after her aides accepted £5,000 from a proxy donor...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Vatican City: Invitation to Muslim Scholars
Pope Benedict XVI has thanked 138 Muslim scholars for an October letter to Christian leaders in which they urged better relations between the faiths and he has invited them for meetings in Vatican City, the Vatican said...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Governor Off the Hook in Press Case
The Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Mario Marin of Puebla State did not violate the rights of a journalist, Lydia Cacho, when he had her briefly jailed on slander charges that were later dropped...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Europeans Endorse Stricter Gun Control
The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed a set of stricter gun-control rules that would limit gun ownership across the 27-member European Union...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Berezovsky Sentenced in Absentia
A Moscow court convicted the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in absentia of embezzling millions of dollars from the national airline, Aeroflot...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: U.S. Navy Snub Not a ?Misunderstanding?
The Foreign Ministry said China withdrew permission for the United States aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk to visit Hong Kong last week because of the Bush administration?s proposal to sell antimissile upgrades to Taiwan, and not as a result of a ?misunderstanding,? as the White House characterized it earlier...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Ecuador Congress Is Dissolved in Vote
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New York Times - November 30, 2007
Plane With 56 Crashes in Turkey
An Atlasjet plane carrying 56 people crashed just before landing in central Turkey early Friday, and a police helicopter detected the wreckage, officials said...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Turkey Takes Publisher to Task Over Book Questioning God
After a young reader complained, Turkish prosecutors questioned the Turkish publisher of the book ?The God Delusion,? by a British author, Richard Dawkins...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Bush Renews Call for Congress to Pass Iraq Financing Bill With No Strings
President Bush said the American people do not want the government to create needless uncertainty for troops in Iraq and urged lawmakers to pass the bill...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Bombs Found Near Home of Politician in Baghdad
The house of the prominent Sunni, Adnan al-Dulaimi, a leader of the Iraqi Consensus Front, is in Adel, an affluent Sunni-majority neighborhood in Baghdad...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Musharraf Sets Date for End of Emergency Rule
Pervez Musharraf made the announcement after being sworn into a second term as president of Pakistan today...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
In Slovakia, Three Are Held in a Uranium Smuggling Case
Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian were arrested Wednesday after trying to sell highly enriched uranium. The quantity was far too small to make a crude warhead...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Diplomatic Memo: A Payoff for Syrians: Seats at the Table, at Least
For almost three years, Syria has been in the diplomatic doghouse. But after the Annapolis peace summit the door may have cracked open to allow Syria back in the house...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Lebanese Opposition Leader Backs Army Chief for President
The new agreement over the candidacy of Gen. Michel Suleiman is the first major turning point in two years of political clashes...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
On Nuclear Seesaw, the Balance Seems to Shift to Iran
Nine months after new sanctions were imposed on Iran, it has steadily increased its enrichment of uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or fuel bombs...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Iraq Lacks Plan on the Return of Refugees, Military Says
American military officials said the Iraqi government had yet to develop a plan to absorb an influx of refugees returning to Baghdad and prevent it from setting off a new round of violence...
New York Times - November 30, 2007
Boozy patients drink NHS hand rub
Hospitals may have to lock up their hand rub to stop patients drinking it for its alcohol content, say doctors...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Greens await vote on dual leaders
The Green Party in England and Wales is to say how its members voted in a ballot on leadership changes...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Mourners set to gather for Vicky
The funeral of Vicky Hamilton is set to take place at Redding Parish Church, near Falkirk...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
First warehouse blaze funeral
Family and friends of one of the four firefighters who died in a warehouse fire are to gather for his funeral...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Sarkozy vows to boost confidence
French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledges to rebuild public trust after riots in the suburbs of Paris and strikes...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Rapid chlamydia check developed
UK researchers have developed a new 30-minute test for sexually transmitted infection chlamydia...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Iraq pledge by Australia PM-elect
Australian troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by mid-2008, the country's prime minister-elect says...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Cameron's Bush talks 'positive'
Tory leader David Cameron says he "got on very well" with President George W Bush when they met in Washington...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
US hails Pakistan leader's pledge
The White House welcomes a vow by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to lift emergency rule...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
'None survive' Turkey plane crash
A Turkish plane carrying 56 people crashes in south-western Turkey killing all on board, the airline says...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
NZ police swoop on teen hacker
An 18-year-old said to be the leader of a global cyber crime network is arrested in New Zealand...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
Police to launch donations probe
Police are expected to begin examining evidence about secret donations to the Labour party...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
UK seeks release of teddy row teacher
The Foreign Office is seeking the release of a UK teacher jailed for 15 days in Sudan for naming a teddy Muhammad...
BBC News - November 30, 2007
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