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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 January 2008:
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European Election Monitors May Boycott Russia Vote
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Russia would only allow them into the country days before the presidential election on March 2...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Israeli Court Rejects Appeal to Ease Restrictions on Gaza
Human rights groups had petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to block Israel from sharply reducing supplies of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Ahmadinejad Sees Nuclear Energy in Iran by 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said that his country would produce nuclear energy by next year and lashed out at Israel as a ?filthy entity? that would soon collapse...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Official Sees Kenyan Ethnic Cleansing
The top American diplomat for Africa said that some of the violence that has swept across Kenya in the past month was ethnic cleansing...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Italian Leader Calls for Temporary Government
Seeking to head off snap elections, Italy?s president, Giorgio Napolitano, asked the Senate president, Franco Marini, to try to form a temporary government and fix a flawed election law...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Israeli Inquiry Finds ?Grave Failings? in ?06 War
The report was less scathing about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert than expected, and he is likely to keep his post...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Pakistani Justice Breaks Silence
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the former chief justice of Pakistan, lambasted President Pervez Musharraf for squashing Pakistan?s independent judiciary...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Power Failures Outrage South Africa
Electricity shortages, now expected to be a fact of life for the next five years, are threatening economic growth...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Mercury's volcanic past revealed
A flyby by a Nasa unmanned space probe has revealed evidence of "widespread" volcanism on the planet Mercury...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Gladiators to make Sky comeback
Sky One is to resurrect 1990s Saturday night action game show Gladiators, it announces...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Fans make Liverpool takeover move
Liverpool supporters launch an ambitious plan to buy the football club from its current American owners...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
No concern over 'IRA volunteer'
Victims' Commission members had no concerns over the term "IRA volunteer", a commissioner says...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Starbucks reduces US plans
Starbucks will open fewer US stores as Americans hit by the economic slowdown cut back on expensive coffee...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Attenboroughs win for Atonement
British film Atonement wins four out of six categories in the newly named Richard Attenborough Film Awards...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Man Utd beat Pompey to go top
Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning double is the highlight as Manchester United return to the top of the Premier League table...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Severed cables disrupt internet
Internet services are disrupted in the Middle East, Egypt and India following damage to two undersea cables...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Court orders return of new baby
A teenage mother is to seek damages after a judge orders the return of her new-born baby which was taken without a court order...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Second US interest rate cut
The US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the second time in nine days to ward off a recession...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Jeremy Beadle dies aged 59
Television presenter and prankster Jeremy Beadle has died of pneumonia after years of poor health...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Giuliani quits White House race
Rudy Giuliani withdraws his Republican candidacy, on same day as Democrat John Edwards also quits...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
China Steps Up Weather Relief Efforts
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao continued his tour of areas that have been heavily afflicted by the severe winter weather...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
At White House, a Second Look at Iraq Troop Cuts
President Bush is sending signals that the troop reductions in Iraq may not continue past this summer...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Israeli Inquiry Finds ?Grave Failings? in ?06 War
A government-appointed inquiry criticized Israel?s political and military leaders during the war in Lebanon...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
MySpace opens door to developers
MySpace will allow third-party software developers to create applications for the site from next week...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Family jobs ban for MPs suggested
Standards watchdog Sir Christopher Kelly says banning MPs employing relatives "could be the right thing to do"...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Brothel manager escapes jail term
A woman who ran brothels is spared a jail term after a judge said "no-one was harmed" by her trade...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
£2m lifeboat's rescue called off
Efforts to free a £2m lifeboat, stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, are called off for the day...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Care call after son kills father
A mother claims the death of her husband at the hands of their son could have been avoided with the right care...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Ex-judge lambasts Musharraf
The deposed chief justice of Pakistan says President Musharraf is an "extremist general" for sacking him...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Israel probe finds war 'failure'
Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon was a "large and serious" failure, an official inquiry finds...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Italy moves towards interim rule
President Giorgio Napolitano backs the formation of an interim government after the fall of Romano Prodi's administration...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Football: Hutton transfer complete
Tottenham complete the transfer of defender Alan Hutton for about £9m from Rangers...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
US denounces Kenya 'cleansing'
The US envoy to Africa says the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley after December's election was ethnic cleansing...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Pearce given coaching job
England manager Fabio Capello names Stuart Pearce as part of his coaching set-up for the senior team...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Web disrupted 'across Mid-East'
Internet services are disrupted in parts of the Middle East following damage to an undersea cable, reports say...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Rogue trader began year in profit
The French trader that incurred massive losses for Societe Generale was in profit at the start of 2008...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Diana driver 'had drink problem'
Princess Diana's driver Henri Paul had a drink problem, according to scientists hired by Mohamed Al Fayed, her inquest hears...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
New stop and search laws push
The government and the Tories unveil plans to give police more freedom to stop and search suspects...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Conway to step down at election
MP Derek Conway, who was reprimanded for over-paying his son as a researcher, will not contest the next election...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
US growth drops sharply
US economic growth drops to a weaker-than-expected annual rate of 0.6% in the final quarter of 2007...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Pilot 'breakdown' diverts flight
An Air Canada flight is diverted to Ireland after a pilot apparently suffers a mental breakdown...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Edwards to quit White House race
Democrat John Edwards is to leave the White House race after failing to win a contest, his aides say...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Bombs Explode Ahead of Rally in Nepal
A series of explosions rocked a southern Nepalese city where the nation?s main political parties planned to hold a mass election rally, officials said...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Snow Strands Millions in Chinese Holiday Havoc
Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages and millions more were stranded by snow ahead of what for some is the only holiday of the year...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Missile Strike Kills 12 in Pakistan
Three suspected militants allegedly planning suicide attacks died when a bomb detonated early, police said...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Australia to Apologize to Aborigines
The new Australian government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for past mistreatment of the country?s Aboriginal minority...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Jury is out in Snipes tax trial
The jury in actor Wesley Snipes' tax fraud and conspiracy trial in Florida has retired to consider its verdict...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
UK iPhone users get better deals
Improved tariffs for UK iPhone users are launched less than three months after the mobile hit British stores...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Hawaii hosts Bush climate talks
Experts from 16 of the largest economies are in Hawaii for the second in the series of President Bush's climate talks...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
'No plans' for migrant birth rate
More should have been done to help NHS maternity services cope with a rise in foreign mothers, the Tories say...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Secret bank rescues to be allowed
Chancellor Alistair Darling proposes that failing banks should be allowed to be rescued in secret...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Cameron says search law must go
David Cameron says he would scrap "out of date" stop and search laws if the Tories win the next election...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Children's hospital cash agreed
The £40m Children's Hospital for Wales looks set finally to be completed under a new funding arrangement...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Woman killed after car hits tree
A woman in her 30s is killed after her car hits a tree in an early morning accident outside Londonderry...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
MSPs support single survey plans
A new single survey system for house sales will come into effect in December after MSPs gave their support...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Lords win for Lotto rapist victim
A victim of Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare wins a 19-year fight for the right to claim damages from him...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Egyptians host Gaza rivals talks
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals hold separate talks in Cairo over Gaza's border breach...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Afghan MPs back blasphemy death
The upper house of the Afghan parliament supports a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Societe board begins crisis talks
Directors at scandal-hit Societe Generale begin talks to decide the fate of the bank's head, Daniel Bouton...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Canada isotope plant 'was unsafe'
Canada re-opened a nuclear reactor despite safety risks, the nuclear watchdog's former head tells parliament...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Football: Butcher backs Scotland
Former England captain Terry Butcher says he would want Scotland to beat his country should the two nations ever play each other...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Wise reports to me insists Keegan
Kevin Keegan says new executive director Dennis Wise will be under his command at Newcastle...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Mortgage approvals drop further
The number of mortgage approvals for home buying fell again in December, the Bank of England says...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Ryanair schoolgirl ad criticised
Ryanair is told by the advertising watchdog to withdraw an advert showing a young model in school uniform...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Go ahead for secret bank rescues
The chancellor is to allow banks to be rescued in secret as part of his new banking legislation, the BBC learns...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Suffolk victim 'was asphyxiated'
A pathologist tells the trial of a man accused of killing five women that one victim may have been suffocated...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Kenya parties to begin mediation
Kenya's government and opposition are due to begin full negotiations to try to end the country's political crisis...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
King reappointed Bank governor
The Treasury announces that Mervyn King has been reappointed as governor of the Bank of England...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Future of 'Titan' jails in doubt
Jack Straw hints that plans to build huge new prisons may not go ahead after the chief inspector criticises them...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
'Muddle' on rural school closures
Ministers tell councils in England they should not be closing rural schools - but that surplus places must go...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Lords issue landmark abuse ruling
Victims of sex attacks and abuse may be able to sue years later, after a key ruling in the "lotto rapist" case...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: France: Mitterrand Items Auctioned
A famous black felt hat and other personal objects worn by the former French president, François Mitterrand, were sold at a Paris auction. The sale fetched about $192,000, money that will be donated to a charity run by Mr. Mitterrand?s widow, Danielle. More than 300 items went under the gavel, including official gifts, like a miniature ceramic house from Barbara Bush and a crocodile-skin briefcase from Fidel Castro. The auction was the third organized by Mrs. Mitterrand since her husband?s death 12 years ago...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
World Briefing | United Nations: Stalemate Scuttles Gaza Statement
The Security Council abandoned efforts to adopt a statement on the crisis in Gaza after Libya and the United States were unable to agree on the wording. The 15-nation Council began talks on a nonbinding statement a week ago after Israel sealed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip, complicating delivery of aid to Gaza?s 1.5 million people in what Israel said was a response to Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza. Diplomats said the deadlock was a result of irreconcilable Libyan and American demands on the statement?s content and phrasing...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Austria: Death Camp Case Reopened
Prosecutors reopened the case of Erna Wallisch, 85, who ranks seventh on the Simon Wiesenthal Center?s list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals, after new evidence suggested that the woman might have taken part in the mass murder of inmates in the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. ?We are trying to establish whether statements from Polish witnesses are sufficient to identify Mrs. Wallisch,? said Gerhard Jarosch, spokesman for the state prosecutors in Vienna, in a telephone interview. ?Obviously this is very difficult more than six decades later.? The woman, who served as a guard in the death camp, is living in a small apartment in Vienna...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Shuttering of Oldest Bar Protested
Hundreds of former patrons protested the closing of Mexico?s oldest cantina, El Nivel, in Mexico City...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Guilty Plea in Plot to Behead Soldier
A 37-year-old man from Birmingham, in the English midlands, has pleaded guilty to plotting to behead a British soldier. Parviz Khan, who described himself to investigators as a Muslim charity worker, was heard in covert recordings made by Britain?s security services outlining a plan to kidnap a soldier from Birmingham?s nightclub district and have him beheaded, the court in Leicester was told. Nigel Rumfitt, the prosecutor, said Mr. Khan?s plan was to videotape the killing and release the tape ?to cause panic and fear within the British armed forces and wider public.? Three other men, all Muslims, have admitted offenses in the case, one of them a Gambian citizen tasked by Mr. Khan to identify a Muslim West African soldier serving in the British Army as the victim for the beheading plot, according to the prosecution. Mr. Khan was said to have shown the other men videos of terrorist beheadings in Iraq and Afghanistan...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Venezuela Gunmen Captured After Standoff
Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
White House Criticizes Envoy Over Iran
White House officials expressed anger about how the United States ambassador to the United Nations sat beside the Iranian foreign minister at a panel of the World Economic Forum on Saturday...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Henry Froehlich, Pioneer in Japanese Camera Imports, Is Dead at 85
Mr. Froehlich was one of the first distributors of high-tech Japanese cameras in the United States...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
U.S. Failed to Oversee Corps on Iraq Work, Agency Says
A federal report says that the Army Corps of Engineers charged the government hundreds of millions of dollars for supervising projects in Iraq that have failed or fallen behind...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
News Analysis: For Many Turks, Head Scarf?s Return Aids Religion and Democracy
A majority of Turks see the government?s decision to lift its ban on women wearing head scarves in universities as good for both Islam and the nation...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
White House Shows Signs of Rethinking Cut in Troops
Four months after announcing troop cuts in Iraq, President Bush is now sending signals that the reductions may not continue past this summer...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
Dissident?s Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
Human rights advocates say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is an example of a broadening crackdown...
New York Times - January 30, 2008
MRSA row as NHS closes on target
The government is close to hitting its MRSA target, but is accused of manipulating the data...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Afghanistan risks 'failed state'
Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
UN fails to agree Gaza statement
Disagreement on wording forces the UN Security Council to abandon efforts for a statement on Gaza...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Burma 'acting on child soldiers'
Burma punishes 43 officials for recruiting child soldiers, state media say, as the UN urges sanctions on the issue...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Warning on rural school closures
Ministers are telling councils in England that, by law, they should not be closing rural schools...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Nuclear clean-up costs "rising"
The cost of decommissioning ageing nuclear reactors has risen by £12bn in the past few years, according to an official report...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Chinese troops to aid snow relief
The Chinese government deploys almost half a million troops to help people hit by the worst snow in decades...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
Stop and search changes planned
Both the government and the Tories want to cut the red tape that hinders police stop and search powers...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
McCain wins key Florida election
John McCain wins a close victory in Florida over Mitt Romney in the Republican battle to run for US president...
BBC News - January 30, 2008
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