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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for April 2008:
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What impact have EU migrants made to the UK?
East Europeans are more widely spread in the UK than previous migrants, according to a new report. How has it affected your area?...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'
The case for nuclear power as an alternative, low carbon source of energy is challenged in a new report...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Chelsea beat Liverpool in dramatic semi
Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard strike as Chelsea beat Liverpool 4-3 on aggregate to reach their first Champions League final...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
We deserve to be in final - Terry
Chelsea skipper John Terry says his side deserve their place in the Champions League final after three semi-final defeats...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Pakistan judges talks to continue
The leaders of Pakistan's new ruling coalition are set to resume crucial talks in Dubai about sacked judges...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Supermarket powers tackled
New measures will improve consumer choice and protect suppliers, the Competition Commission says...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Al-Qaeda 'greatest threat' to US
Al-Qaeda remains the greatest terrorist threat to the US, according to a US state department report...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Beijing is to impose smoking ban
Officials in China's capital are set to impose a ban smoking in most public buildings in the run-up to the Olympics...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Kampusch speaks out on abuse case
Former Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch speaks to the BBC about the Fritzl family case...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Artwork brings Scots record price
A decorated panel set a world record for the sale of a Scottish art work when it was sold for £1.7m...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Police raids lead to 400 arrests
Almost 400 people are held as police target drugs, gangs and car crime during a two-day operation...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Civil servants 'paid too much'
Public sector wages are too high, according to a report on the competitiveness of NI's economy...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
TB outbreak hits 30 schoolgirls
An outbreak of tuberculosis is affecting 30 pupils at a Birmingham school, the BBC learns...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
£100bn exposure for British banks
The Bank of England warns of increased risks to the financial system, with £100bn in potential exposure...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Five die in Sydney harbour crash
Five people have died in a collision between a fishing trawler and a smaller boat in Sydney Harbour...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Zimbabwe police accuse opposition
Zimbabwe's opposition is behind electoral fraud and violence, the influential police chief says...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Further cut in US interest rates
The Federal Reserve reduces US interest rates from 2.25% to 2.0% as it attempts to avoid a possible recession...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Grozny Journal: Chechnya?s Capital Rises From the Ashes, Atop Hidden Horrors
There are 57 known but unopened mass graves in the republic of Chechnya, where construction has taken over in what used to be a war zone...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Knut, His 15 Minutes Long Past, Has Issues
The polar bear was a sensation one year ago, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair with Leonardo DiCaprio. But lately, the formerly adorable ball of white fluff has been Germany?s problem cub...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Surrender in East Timor
The suspected gunman in an assassination attempt on President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor wept on Tuesday after surrendering with 11 other mutinous soldiers and handing over their automatic weapons...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
World Briefing | Austria: DNA Tests Proves Austrian Fathered Daughter?s Children
Investigators continued their inquiries into Josef Fritzl, but the head of the criminal investigations unit in Lower Austria, Franz Polzer, called the DNA tests ?decisive evidence.?...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Georgia-Russia Tensions Rise
Tensions flared again between Russia and Georgia, its southern neighbor, after both sides accused each other of an improper military buildup related to a disputed border area...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
World Briefing | the Americas: Mexico: Government Accepts Talks With Guerrillas Who Bombed Pipelines
The government said it was willing to negotiate with a guerrilla group that blew up several oil and gas pipelines last year, a day after the guerrillas offered to suspend attacks...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Serbia: The European Union Cracks the Door in Advance of Vote
The European Union signed a pre-membership pact with Serbia as a way to help pro-Western forces avoid defeat by nationalists at the polls on May 11...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
For 100 Iraqi Doctors, a Return to Normal
A cardiology conference in Baghdad, the first since 2003, was a triumph, even as two-thirds of the medical specialists has fled the country and the health care systems is in shreds...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Trial of Chief of Milosevic?s Secret Police Begins
Jovica Stanisic, a key strategist of campaigns that terrorized and killed many civilians, was once considered the second most powerful official in Serbia...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102
Mr. Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Philippines Bans Kidney Transplants for Foreigners
The government says it is cracking on a growing but illicit trade in human organs bought from the poor...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Bush Says Syria Nuclear Disclosure Intended to Prod North Korea and Iran
The president said the disclosure was intended to warn North Korea and Iran about the dangers of spreading nuclear weapons...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Soaring Food Prices Imperil Meals for Poor in Cambodia
The rice stocks at several hundred schools across Cambodia will run out within 30 days because of soaring food prices...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Lawyer Urges Canada to Try a Citizen Held by U.S. Forces
The lawyer of Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was arrested by American forces in Afghanistan, said his client would not receive a fair hearing from a U.S. military commission...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Explosion Occurs Near Italian Embassy in Yemen
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- Two mortar shells fired Wednesday in Yemen's capital exploded outside the customs authority and near the Italian embassy, an Interior Ministry official said...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Security Council Voices Reluctance to Act on Zimbabwe
Western calls to launch an investigation into the issue of Zimbabwe?s elections met opposition on grounds of the matter not being a threat to international peace and security...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
China Acknowledges Tibetan Death in Unrest
A gun battle in a rural area of northwest China earlier this week left a policeman and Tibetan insurgent dead, according to state-run media...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Pakistan?s Planned Accord With Militants Alarms U.S.
With cross-border attacks into Afghanistan on the rise, Washington faces the fact that its options are now even more limited, in part because of the change of leadership in Pakistan...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Afghan Raid on Suspected Assassins
A house occupied by suspected plotters of the foiled assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai was attacked early Wednesday by Afghanistan security forces...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
Pakistan Partners in Talks over Restoring Judges
Leaders of Pakistan?s governing coalition are holding talks over whether and how to restore the high court judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf in November...
New York Times - April 30, 2008
What's the most important issue in the London Mayoral election?
On Thursday 1 May, Londoners will go to the polls to elect the next Mayor of London. What issues will influence your vote?...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
UB40 singer replaced by brother
Duncan Campbell replaces his brother Ali as UB40's singer, while reggae star Maxi Priest will tour with the band...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Angry Drogba hits back at Benitez
Chelsea's Didier Drogba hits back at suggestions he is a diver ahead of the Champions League semi-final, second leg with Liverpool...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Live - Champions League build-up
Chelsea and Liverpool prepare to battle it out for the right to face Man Utd in the Champions League final...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Silverjet wins $25m investment
Loss-making business class airline Silverjet says an investor is to inject cash into the firm to help it keep flying...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Cameron attacks over terror plans
David Cameron urges the PM to make his plans to extend the terror detention limit a vote of confidence...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Foreign doctor block 'unlawful'
Junior doctors face tougher competition this year after a bid to give UK-trained medics priority in applying for jobs fails...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Schools could monitor well-being
Schools in England could be asked to keep track of pupils' drug use and obesity under plans being considered...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Chinese police find child slaves
Chinese police rescue more than 100 children sold to work as slave labourers in Guangdong...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Belarus expulsions 'unjustified'
The US says a decision by Belarus to order the expulsion of 10 of its diplomats in Minsk is "unwarranted"...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Pakistan parties seek judges deal
The leaders of Pakistan's new government hold crucial talks about sacked judges, in the coalition's first real test...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Eight-year-olds 'abuse alcohol'
Children as young as eight have been treated in hospital for alcohol-related health problems, a study shows...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Drugs raids lead to 250 arrests
Police target drugs, gangs and car crime during a two-day operation bringing more than 250 arrests...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Smoking ban 'has closed 100 pubs'
More than 100 bars in Northern Ireland close their doors in the year following the smoking ban, it is claimed...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Future gazing
Can the web solve all the problems of our planet?...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Austrian questions
Soul-searching begins after horrific dungeon discovery...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Pastor trouble
Matt Frei on Barack Obama and his former pastor...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Brown seeks to keep sharks at bay
BBC political correspondent Ben Wright watches as Gordon Brown and David Cameron clash in the Commons...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Russia warned over Georgia move
Nato says Russia's troop build-up in Georgia's two breakaway regions risks escalating tension in the area...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, dies at the age of 102...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
David Blaine breaks record by holding breath for 17 mins 4 secs
Magician David Blaine breaks record by holding breath for 17 mins 4 secs...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Digital revolution
How a US man was able to grow back his finger...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
US growth ahead of expectations
The US economy grew at an annual pace of 0.6% in the first quarter of 2008, slightly stronger than expected...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
More drivers caught using phones
The number of drivers caught using mobile phones at the wheel has increased by nearly a third...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Cellar father refuses to explain
The Austrian man accused of keeping his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, refuses to explain his acts...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Chelsea have the edge - Gerrard
Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard admits the odds are against his side progressing from their Champions League semi-final...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Fans await Russian visa details
Champions League organiser Uefa is arranging plans to help English supporters with final tickets in Moscow to get "express" Russian visas...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Private schools net more pupils
More pupils are attending private schools, despite a sharp increase in fees, a report shows...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Radiohead album stunt 'a one-off'
Radiohead say they will not repeat the pay-what-you-want offer used to launch current album In Rainbows...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Ferguson heaps praise on Scholes
Sir Alex Ferguson promises Paul Scholes he will start the Champions League final after the midfielder's goal seals Man Utd's victory over Barcelona...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Crisis talks over Pakistan judges
The leaders of Pakistan's new government hold urgent talks about sacked judges, in the coalition's first real test...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
US Fed ready to cut interest rate
The US central bank is likely to cut rates to 2% later, but inflation risks mean this may be the last cut for a while...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Election campaign hits final day
Political parties in England and Wales are on their final day of campaigning ahead of local elections...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
NI house prices face £75,000 drop
The average NI house price will have slumped by £75,000 from its peak by December, an economist says...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Kenya cabinet cash shortfall
Kenya may use funds intended to resettle the displaced to help find some $300m to pay for the new coalition cabinet...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Baghdad clashes 'leave 400 dead'
More than 400 people have been killed in fighting in Baghdad in April, say officials at hospitals in Iraq's capital...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Mother to collect Scarlett organs
The mother of murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling is to collect her daughter's missing organs in India...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Call to examine 50s killer case
The state of a notorious serial killer's mental health may have been suppressed to ensure he was hanged, an expert claims...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Bid for powers over bus services
A plan for London-style powers over bus services in Wales is getting all-party support...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Giant Pink Floyd blow-up pig is lost in the Californian desert
A reward is offered for a giant Pink Floyd blow-up pig which has been lost in the Californian desert...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Web luminaries
Gurus talk about their hopes for the future of the web...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Art of innuendo
Almost anything can sound really quite filthy...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Iraq kidnap
A British journalist recalls how Iraqi militia snatched him...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Terror charge student on remand
Teenager Andrew Ibrahim, who is accused of planning acts of terrorism, is remanded in custody...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Colossal squid's big eye revealed
The world's largest squid possesses the biggest animal eye, say scientists dissecting a rare specimen...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
UK house prices see annual fall
House prices in the UK have recorded their first year-on-year fall for 12 years, says the UK's biggest building society...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Report tackles supermarket powers
The Competition Commission recommends measures to improve competition between stores and protect suppliers...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Cellar father faces medical tests
A lawyer for the Austrian man who held his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, says he needs psychiatric tests...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Brown admits 'mistakes' over tax
Gordon Brown admits making mistakes over 10p tax but says he is "listening and learning" as prime minister...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Specialist nurses 'fear for jobs'
Some of the most experienced and highly-skilled nurses in the NHS fear for their jobs despite the large surplus in the health service...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Digital inclusion strategy for UK
A strategy to get the last third of unconnected Britons online is being drawn up, says a UK minister...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Turkey reforms controversial law
Turkey's parliament approves the softening of a law criticised by the EU for limiting free speech, reports say...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
MPs criticise rising 2012 costs
MPs accuse London 2012 organisers of spending "money like water", as costs for the event soar...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
China marks 100 days to Olympics
With 100 days left before the Olympic Games gets underway, China prepares to mark the milestone...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Deal could end refinery dispute
Union leaders and managers at the Grangemouth oil refinery continue to consider a possible agreement...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Getting hooked
The year's top 10 most complained about adverts...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Bed hopping
We're addicted to sex, some men say. Are they really?...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Conflicting stories
Contrasting views on what migration means for the UK...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Science cuts 'hit UK reputation'
An MPs' review of science funding concludes the UK looks like an "incompetent" partner for international projects...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee
The world wide web is "still in its infancy", the web's inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee tells BBC News...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
EU migrants 'settling across UK'
Eastern Europeans have settled more widely in the UK than people in earlier waves of migration, a study says...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Planned prison pay rise abandoned
A planned pay rise for inmates in England and Wales is ditched the day before it was due to come into force...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Vigil in Austria for cellar family
Hundreds of people hold a candlelit vigil in Amstetten, where Josef Fritzl locked his daughter in a cellar...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
Terror-charge student faces court
A teenager from Bristol is due to appear before magistrates charged with intending to commit terrorism...
BBC News - April 30, 2008
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