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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2005:
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Indian Politics Roiled as Powerful Opposition Leader Departs
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced his retirement from politics, ushering in an era of uncertainty within the country's main opposition party...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Fuel Crisis Deepens in Iraq With Lines Forming at Pumps
The oil minister was suspended for objecting to steep government-imposed gasoline and cooking fuel price increases...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Egyptian Police Kill at Least 23 Unarmed Sudanese Migrants
The migrants refused to leave a public park they had occupied for three months hoping to pressure U.N. officials to relocate them...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Worries of a Winter Gas Shortage in Ukraine Intensify
Gazprom renewed its threat to cut supply lines to Ukraine on Sunday morning if the country did not accept a nearly fivefold increase in price...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Tom Jones leads New Year Honours
Tom Jones is made a knight in the New Year's Honours list, leading a host of entertainment stars...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Capital prepares for street party
Tens of thousands of revellers are gearing up for Edinburgh's world-famous street party on Saturday night...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Football: Vidic set for Man Utd
Defender Nemanja Vidic passes a medical and agrees personal terms on his proposed move to Man Utd...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Hariri 'threatened by Syria head'
A top Syrian official says President Assad threatened ex- Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri months before his death...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
UN 'shocked' by violence in Cairo
The UN expresses shock as up to 20 Sudanese migrants die when their Cairo camp is stormed by Egyptian police...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Kidnapped Britons 'freed in Gaza'
UK officials say three Britons kidnapped in Gaza have not been handed over, despite reports they have been freed...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Honours tribute to 7 July teams
Emergency and transport workers who dealt with the 7 July bomb attacks lead the New Year Honours...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Journalists Strike After China Fires Paper's Editor
About 100 journalists from one of China's most aggressive daily newspapers held a rare protest against official media crackdown...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
France Fielding Extra Police to Guard Against New Year's Unrest
Thousands of extra police officers will guard against a potential wave of car burning after the civil unrest last month...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Praise for girl's fire rescuers
A fire officer praises the "team effort" which saved the life of a 12-year-old girl trapped in a burning house...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Buoyant year for UK stock market
The UK's leading shares rise 16% in value in 2005, fuelled by strong demand for oil firms and more takeover activity...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
High protein diet 'under attack'
The latest high-protein diet has come under fire in a leading medical journal...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Vajpayee retirement stuns party
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's decision to retire takes BJP party colleagues by surprise...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Pensioner robbery 'was planned'
A man aged in his 70s is left badly shaken after he is tied up and robbed at his home in County Antrim...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Missing man's family make appeal
Relatives of a man who has been missing since before Christmas make a
plea for information...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Football: Chelsea chase Maniche
Chelsea look set to sign Dynamo Moscow's midfielder Maniche, possibly on a short-term loan deal...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Spain blow to E Guinea dissident
Spain withdraws political asylum from Equatorial Guinea opposition leader Severo Moto...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
New Bolivian leader visits Cuba
Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales is warmly welcomed in Cuba as he starts his first tour abroad since his election...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Gaza border reopens after protest
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopens after a protest by Palestinian police forced it to close...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
20 die as Cairo camp cleared
Egypt now says 20 Sudanese migrants have died after riot police broke up a makeshift protest camp in Cairo...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Force sued over fatal terror raid
A police force is to be sued by its own officers after an anti-terror raid in which an officer was murdered...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Privacy slip on official US sites
The White House and NSA sites trip up on official US guidelines that prohibit the tracking of web users...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Football: Cisse Reds pledge
Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse strongly denies reports he is going to sign for Marseille in the January transfer window...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Man found abducted girl screaming
A man who found a little girl naked and screaming after she was abducted from her bath, is left devastated...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
End of freezing weather in sight
Forecasters say the end of the cold snap that has frozen the country for four days is finally in sight...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Kennedy hits back over quit call
Charles Kennedy hits back at claims 3,300 Lib Dems have signed a petition urging him to quit as leader...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Minister goes in Iraq oil crisis
The Iraqi oil minister is temporarily released from his post amid a growing oil supply crisis...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
US investigates Bush spying leak
An inquiry begins into the leaking of information about George Bush's secret spying programme, officials say...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Muslim groups seek Gaza release
A UK Muslim representative is to fly to the Middle East to try to secure the release of three kidnapped Britons...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Teachers' new allowances come in
Management allowances for teachers in England's schools are replaced at the end of the year...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Fantasy fuels games with finances
Economics in online fantasy worlds can be just as brutal as the cut and thrust of sword play...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Arrests made in J-Lo video case
Two men are arrested for attempting to sell back Jennifer Lopez's wedding video for $1m (£580,000)...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Call for drink-drive limit review
Calls have been made for the drink-drive limit to be reviewed in an effort to tackle young drink-drivers...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Clubs' rugby ticket tout hearing
The WRU calls a meeting on ticket touting as 10 rugby clubs and organisations are told they will face no action...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Intel launches marketing makeover
Computer chip giant Intel launches a new corporate slogan and logo as part of a major brand overhaul...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Hain makes 'devolution challenge'
Unionists need to know republicans are serious about commitments to lawful means, the NI secretary says...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Police storm Gaza crossing point
Palestinian police, angry at growing lawlessness in Gaza, storm the border crossing at Rafah, officials say...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Fresh security alert in Bangalore
Police in the Indian city of Bangalore step up security as fresh threats follow Wednesday's college shooting...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
New Year's Eve Tube strike looms
A strike threatens New Year celebrations for hundreds of thousands of Londoners, after talks break down...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Four escape death in house blaze
Three men and a woman have escaped from a fire that caused extensive damage to a house in Londonderry...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Football: Earnshaw bid snubbed
West Brom reject a second transfer request from striker Robert Earnshaw...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
World Bank warns Chad on oil law
The World Bank warns Chad that it may take action over the African nation's move to reallocate oil revenues...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Walkout protest hits China paper
About 100 journalists from China's progressive Beijing News walk out to protest against their editor's sacking...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Russia says gas cut won't hit EU
Russian energy giant Gazprom renews a threat to cut off Ukraine's gas - but says it will not hit supplies to the EU...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
House market sees higher growth
The Nationwide says house prices rose 0.5% in December but annual growth is well down on 2004...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Stones 'smash concert record'
The Rolling Stones' 2005 US tour is named the most successful of all time in a poll, beating U2 and Celine Dion...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Sony to settle anti-piracy CD row
Sony BMG has reached a tentative deal to settle lawsuits over controversial anti-piracy CD software...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Police vow to free kidnap Britons
A Palestinian police chief vows to find three kidnapped Britons and says he will use force if necessary...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
200 drivers trapped in snow
Two hundred drivers are caught in a snowdrift as the cold snap affecting the UK continues...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Ten die as Cairo camp cleared
At least 10 Sudanese migrants, including children, are killed as police break up a protest camp in Cairo...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Indonesia Admits 'Support' by U.S. Gold Company to the Military
Indonesia's military acknowledged for the first time that an American gold company had been providing direct "support" to army units accused of human rights abuses...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
G.I.'s to Increase U.S. Supervision of Iraqi Police
The increase in army advisers aims in part to curtail abuse that Iraqi units are suspected of inflicting on Sunni Arabs...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
3 Killed by Suicide Bomber at Checkpoint in the West Bank
Two Palestinian civilians and an Israeli Army officer were killed when a bomber blew himself up near Tulkarm...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
New Berlusconi Investigation Is Called Politicking
Prosecutors allege that Italy's prime minister ordered the payment of at least $600,000 in 1997 to a British lawyer to lie on his behalf in two trials...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
In Swiss Court, Russian Avoids Extradition to the U.S.
Russia's former nuclear energy minister, accused of stealing millions of dollars from U.S. programs intended to improve Russia's nuclear security, will be sent back to Russia...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
South Korea's New Economic Plan Starts With a Laugh
In a country where smiling has traditionally been frowned upon, some people now consider laughter an increasingly necessary business skill...
New York Times - December 30, 2005
Guantanamo hunger strike rise
The number of detainees taking part in a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased sharply, the US says...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
US threatens N Korea food aid cut
The US says it will stop food aid to North Korea unless foreign aid agencies can oversee its distribution...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Call for cap on expanding schools
Plans to allow popular schools to expand and take in more pupils should be dropped, a teachers' union says...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Cricket: Australia take series lead
Australia ease to a 184-run win over South Africa in the second Test in Melbourne...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Travellers urged to plan for snow
Travellers are urged to re-route or postpone their journeys as parts of Britain are set for more heavy snow...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Offenders to face abduction quiz
Police investigating the abduction of a six-year-old girl from her home are to round-up known paedophiles...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Iraq and tsunami top BBC poll
The Iraq war and the Asian tsunami were the most significant global events of 2005, suggests a BBC poll...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
Unmarried free to adopt as couple
Support groups welcome laws giving unmarried couples in England and Wales the right to adopt together...
BBC News - December 30, 2005
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