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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
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Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain spokeswoman Stevens woes linked to pork
Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain distanced himself from Sen. Ted Stevens Wednesday, a day after his longtime rival was indicted on charges of lying about more than $250,000 in gifts he got from an oil services company...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Amber Alerts issued in Mass., NY for 4 children
Police in two states issued Amber Alerts on Wednesday for four children taken with their mother from an apartment near Boston where another woman was found fatally stabbed...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Details sometimes fall away as McCain campaigns
Details can bedevil any presidential candidate...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Guillens sacrifice fly lifts Royals past As
Jose Guillen drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Athletics 4-3 on Wednesday to complete their first three-game sweep in Oakland in 20 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Carlos Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers as Yankees rout Orioles 13-3
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Abreu hits 2 homers, Yankees finally beat Orioles
Bobby Abreu hit a pair of homers while getting a day off from the field, Alex Rodriguez also went deep and the New York Yankees pounded the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Pena homers to help Rays beat Blue Jays 3-2
Carlos Pena homered, Edwin Jackson won back-to-back starts for the first time since April and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Office supply retailers struggle in North America
Office supply retailers felt no relief from the pinch of weaker spending by consumers and small businesses, with both Office Depot and OfficeMax citing the struggling economy as they reported losses for the second quarter...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Political Play Obama claims link to the Wild West
Barack Obama is claiming a link to the Wild West _ Wild Bill Hickok, to be precise...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
FDA finds salmonella strain at second Mexican farm
Federal health officials say the salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and a serrano pepper at a Mexican farm...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysts blame easy credit for restaurant woes
Restaurant companies may have depended too much on easy-to-borrow money to back aggressive expansion plans, industry experts say _ a move that may lead to more bankrupt chains and fewer new eateries opening in the months to come...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Shoppers to face higher prices on holiday goods
Christmas in July? Maybe not a bad idea this year...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Israeli prime minister to resign in September
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to resign in Sept.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Top UK court allows extradition of hacker to US
Some call it the biggest hack of military computers; perhaps it was just a big embarrassment...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Major Vancouver Olympic road blocked by rock slide
A massive rock slide has severed the only direct highway between Vancouver and the famed resort town of Whistler, both venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Iraqi parliament deadlocks over Kirkuk
Iraqi lawmakers on Wednesday scheduled an emergency weekend meeting during summer recess to resolve disagreements that have blocked a provincial elections law and threaten a new wave of bloodshed in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Israeli PM to resign, wont run in party primary
Facing burgeoning corruption allegations and plummeting popularity, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing Israel into political turmoil and raising doubts about prospects for peace with the Palestinians and Syria...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Mexicans working in US sending less money home
Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Zimbabwe drops 10 zeros from inflated currency
Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it is knocking 10 zeros off its hyper-inflated currency _ a move that turns 10 billion dollars into one...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
2,100-year-old gadget tracked Olympics
An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Mexico federal police to escort migrant transfers
Mexican federal police will guard all government vehicles transporting detained migrants after gunmen hijacked a bus carrying 33 Cubans, the government said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bin Ladens driver denies making loyalty oath
A former driver for Osama bin Laden denied Wednesday that he had sworn a loyalty oath to the al-Qaida leader, contradicting potentially damaging testimony of a Defense Department interrogator...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Official Palestinian boy killed by live round
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,125
As of Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at least 4,125 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
2 guards sentenced in Mexican drug lords escape
Mexican authorities say two prison guards have been sentenced to eight and 19 years in jail, respectively, for helping suspected drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escape in 2001...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Bin Ladens former driver denies loyalty oath
A former driver for Osama Bin Laden says he never told a Defense Department agent he swore an oath of loyalty to the terrorist leader...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Highlights of Ehud Olmerts political career
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday that he will resign in September. Here are highlights of his political career:...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Hacker vows to fight extradition
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret US military computers vows to fight extradition after losing a Law Lords appeal...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Brazil musician leaves government
Singer and composer Gilberto Gil steps down after five years as Brazil's culture minister to concentrate on his music...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Iraqis squeeze rebel stronghold
Iraqi forces backed by US troops press ahead with a major offensive in Diyala province north of Baghdad...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Kosovo issues its first passports
Kosovo has issued its first passport, five months after declaring independence from Serbia...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Woman's appeal after rape attack
A 31-year-old woman who was raped outside a bar makes an appeal to help police find the attacker...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Victoria's secret: huge royal knickers sell for record price
A pair of Queen Victoria's bloomers that have a 50in waist are sold at an auction in Derby for £4,500...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Was this 2,100-year-old "computer" an Olympic calendar?
A 2,100-year-old "computer" found in a Roman shipwreck may have acted as a calendar for the Olympic Games...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Tottenham complete Bentley switch
Tottenham bolster their ranks with the signing of midfielder David Bentley from Blackburn Rovers...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
England toil as South Africa dominate
South Africa take total control of the third Test after dismissing England for 231 on day one at Edgbaston...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Reward offered for honeymoon killer
A hefty reward is offered after the murder of a doctor on her Caribbean honeymoon, as her husband remains critically ill...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Restaurant tipping law to change
Employers are to be banned from using tips to 'top up' pay to minimum wage levels, under government plans...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Bush approves $48bn to fight Aids
President Bush triples the US budget for fighting Aids and other diseases in Africa and the Caribbean...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Zimbabwe to resume crisis talks
After meeting Robert Mugabe, Thabo Mbeki says talks to solve Zimbabwe's political crisis will resume on Sunday...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Israeli PM to quit within months
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will quit within months, pointing to the pressure on his family from a corruption inquiry...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
An agreement to end a tense border standoff between Cambodian and Thai troops near an ancient temple stalled Tuesday as both sides waited for the other to make the first move and redeploy their forces...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Suspect in NC soldiers death was babys father
Police say the Fort Bragg soldier charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn child but married to someone else...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
GOP stalwart, ex-ambassador Anne Armstrong dies
Anne Armstrong, a longtime powerful Republican who served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday, her office said. She was 80...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Minn. officers shoot bear with jar stuck on head
Minnesota wildlife officials tried for six days to capture a bear that had a plastic jar stuck over its head, but ended up killing the animal after it wandered into a city during a festival...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
House panel votes to cite Rove for contempt
A House panel Wednesday voted to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress as its Senate counterpart publicly pursued possible punishments for an array of alleged past and present Bush administration misdeeds...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cheech and Chong reunite as feud goes up in smoke
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NY gov. seeks hiring freeze, spending cuts
Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday he wants to freeze hiring and cut state spending by an additional 7 percent to shore up a state economy that his budget director said is officially in recession...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysis McCain tries to soothe tax-hike fears
Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Obama says hell order review of executive orders
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Buck, Aviles homer in Royals 5-2 over Athletics
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit home runs, Gil Meche allowed five hits over seven innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth consecutive road game, beating the fading Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Oil jumps $3 after report says gas supplies fell
Oil prices shot up Wednesday, jumping more than $3 a barrel after the government reported a surprise drop in U.S. gasoline supplies. But analysts said the market, despite the big advance, is still concerned that high prices are choking off demand...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Nations grapple with WTO talks failure
The United States, Europe and other commercial powers grappled Wednesday with the magnitude of their failure to reach a new global trade pact, and traded blame for the collapse of seven years of talks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Sen. Inhofe sweeps into November re-election race
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe looks strong in his bid for a third term. The Democratic nominee, on the other hand, has a lot of work to do if he wants to pull off an election upset in November...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
John McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Weather better but 75 await rescue from N.M. flood
More than 75 people stranded by massive flooding in and around this mountain resort town still awaited rescue Tuesday, but spirits rose as missing people were accounted for and the region made it through a day without rain, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Earthquake shakes buildings in Southern California
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Davis, 2 others combine on 2-hitter for Arizona
Doug Davis gave up a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up his bid for a perfect game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
US-Iraq forces begin new offensive in Diyala
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops sealed off Baqouba and staged house-to-house searches Tuesday as they began a new offensive in Diyala province in the latest bid to clear al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major belt near the capital...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Plane believed to be carrying Karadzic lands
AP Television News footage shows a plane believed to be carrying former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic landing in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Serbia Karadzic being sent to war crimes court
Authorities began extraditing ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the war crimes tribunal to face genocide charges early Wednesday, officials said, despite an earlier violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Radovan Karadzic extradited to The Hague
Authorities extradited ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Netherlands to face genocide charges before the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, hours after a violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters in downtown Belgrade...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Karadzic extradited to The Hague
Authorities extradited ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Netherlands to face genocide charges before the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, hours after a violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters in downtown Belgrade...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader in UN custody in The Hague
A U.N. spokesman says ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is in the custody of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Karadzic in UN custody in Netherlands
A U.N. spokesman says ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is in the custody of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Palestinian boy killed by live round official
Israeli troops trying to repel rock-throwing Palestinians did not have permission to use live rounds, Israeli officials said Wednesday, but a Palestinian autopsy showed that a 10-year-old boy killed in the clash was shot by an assualt rifle...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UN tribunal in The Hague takes custody of Karadzic
The U.N. war-crimes tribunal at The Hague finally took custody of Radovan Karadzic on Wednesday _ 13 years after the former Bosnian Serb leader went on the run _ putting him in a jail where he was free to mingle with dozens of former allies and enemies...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
50,000 Iraqi troops in Diyala operation
Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UK hacker loses appeal against US extradition
A British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the U.S...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UN ends Eritrea-Ethiopia peacekeeping mission
The United Nations Security Council voted Wednesday to end its 8-year-long peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia, a failure the U.N. chief has warned could lead to a new war between the Horn of Africa neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Syria, Israel to hold more indirect talks
Syrian and Israeli officials, ending a fourth round of indirect talks Wednesday, agreed to press ahead with negotiations aiming to forge peace between the two enemies, a Turkish official said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UN to end Eritrea-Ethiopia peacekeeping mission
The United Nations Security Council is ending its failed peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Guyana increases rates on log exports to US, Asia
Guyana is increasing tax rates on some log exports to encourage domestic production of wood products like furniture...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
US warns travelers to East Africa of terror risk
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda says Americans in East Africa may be at an increased risk of attack from terrorists as the 10th anniversary of a double bombing approaches...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UK student visa must be sponsored
New rules mean people coming to the UK will need points and bona fide sponsors to get student visas...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Rush to meet tax credit deadline
A last minute rush by people trying to renew their tax credit claims has made it hard to get through on the HMRC hotline...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Schizophrenia genes discovered
Genetic flaws are linked to schizophrenia - but experts warn a complete analysis is likely to remain elusive...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Bodies dumped in Istanbul field
Police launch an investigation after 13 bodies of suspected illegal immigrants are found in a field on the outskirts of Istanbul...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Big reward after honeymoon murder
A £60,000-plus reward is offered after the murder of a doctor on her Caribbean honeymoon as her husband remains critically ill...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
'Slab' Murphy bids to halt trial
Prominent republican Thomas 'Slab' Murphy gets a High Court hearing in a bid to prevent his trial for alleged revenue offences...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
UN ends African Horn peace force
The UN Security Council votes to end its peace mission to the Horn of Africa, amid divisions over Darfur's force...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Far from Belgrade
Where anxious Serbs run into the new Kosovo...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Mayor's aide advice on Met chief
City Hall gets legal advice to see if the mayor can suspend the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, it is revealed...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Parents condemn murder sentence
The parents of a murdered teenager attack the 13-year minimum jail term imposed on his killer...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Your ears only
Test your knowledge of the Bond themes...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Careful tricks
How I hid not being able to read or write for 40 years...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Villa call off Barry move to Reds
Aston Villa say that Gareth Barry will be staying at the club and not moving to Premier League rivals Liverpool...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Northern Rock to cut 1,300 jobs
Northern Rock says it expects to make about 1,300 staff redundant as part of its plan to restructure the troubled bank...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Bug feast saves Outback pest man
A former pest-control officer found himself eating insects to survive after he lost his bearings in the Australian Outback...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Miliband denies 'leadership' bid
Foreign Secretary David Miliband insists he is not "campaigning" for the Labour leadership and says "Gordon will lead us forward"...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Karadzic to face war crimes court
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is to appear before the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague on Thursday...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Turkey's ruling party escapes ban
Turkey's Constitutional Court decides not to ban the ruling AK Party, but imposes financial sanctions against it...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Record rise for British Gas bills
The UK's biggest domestic energy supplier raises gas prices by 35% and electricity prices by 9%, with immediate effect...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Israeli PM to quit in two months
Embattled Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will stand down two months from now when his party picks a new leader...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Indonesia Asian militants sought al-Qaida funds
Two alleged Indonesian terror leaders were headed to Iraq to seek help from al-Qaida, according to a seized laptop that indicates regional militants are cash-strapped but determined to rebuild international links, security officials say...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Cambodian, Thai wait for other to redeploy first
An agreement to end a tense border standoff between Cambodian and Thai troops near an ancient temple stalled Tuesday as both sides waited for the other to make the first move and redeploy their forces...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Authorities LaBeouf not at fault for wreck
Shia LaBeouf was not to blame for an early-morning car wreck in Los Angeles, authorities said Tuesday, pinning fault on the other driver for apparently running a red light...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fire near Yosemite park hurts tourist business
Vendors along one of the main roads leading to Yosemite National Park this summer were finally seeing business turn around following a rock slide that kept tour buses away for the previous two years...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Analysis McCain tries to soothe tax-hike fears
Republican Ronald Reagan raised taxes and survived to serve another presidential term. His successor, George H.W. Bush, raised taxes and did not...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Obama says hell order review of executive orders
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Buck, Aviles homer in Royals 5-2 over Athletics
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit home runs, Gil Meche allowed five hits over seven innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth consecutive road game, beating the fading Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Boeing executive Oil prices demand jet efficiency
Soaring oil prices are likely to crimp the need for regional jets and force bigger aircraft to grow more fuel-efficient, a senior Boeing executive said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Sen. Inhofe sweeps into November re-election race
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe looks strong in his bid for a third term. The Democratic nominee, on the other hand, has a lot of work to do if he wants to pull off an election upset in November...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
John McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Earthquake shakes buildings in Southern California
The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Davis, 2 others combine on 2-hitter for Arizona
Doug Davis gave up a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up his bid for a perfect game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Moderate Calif. quake a drill for the Big One
Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing people to vow to step up their emergency preparations...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Air Force officer in Alaska dies in likely suicide
The officer who commands an air force wing in Alaska has died of a gunshot wound that likely was self-inflicted, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Vazquez makes up for 3 errors with winning double
Ramon Vazquez atoned for three errors with a two-run double in the ninth inning to give the Texas Rangers to an 11-10 victory over the Seattle Mariners...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
US-Iraq forces begin new offensive in Diyala
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops sealed off Baqouba and staged house-to-house searches Tuesday as they began a new offensive in Diyala province in the latest bid to clear al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major belt near the capital...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Olympic panel ends ban, says Iraq can go to games
The International Olympic Committee ruled Tuesday that Iraq could participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after the government pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
IOC reverses ban, says Iraq can go to Olympics
The International Olympic Committee says Iraq can take part in Beijing Games, lifting previous ban...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Medic Boy killed by Israeli fire in West Bank
Israeli gunfire killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy Tuesday during a confrontation between troops and stone-throwers in a West Bank village, medics and witnesses said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Plane believed to be carrying Karadzic lands
AP Television News footage shows a plane believed to be carrying former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic landing in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Serbia Karadzic being sent to war crimes court
Authorities began extraditing ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the war crimes tribunal to face genocide charges early Wednesday, officials said, despite an earlier violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Radovan Karadzic extradited to The Hague
Authorities extradited ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Netherlands to face genocide charges before the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, hours after a violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters in downtown Belgrade...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Karadzic extradited to The Hague
Authorities extradited ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Netherlands to face genocide charges before the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, hours after a violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters in downtown Belgrade...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ex-Bosnian Serb leader in UN custody in The Hague
A U.N. spokesman says ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is in the custody of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Karadzic in UN custody in Netherlands
A U.N. spokesman says ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is in the custody of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse another bomb in western India
Police defused another explosive device Wednesday in western India, bringing the total number of unexploded bombs found there in the last two days to 19...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
50,000 Iraqi troops in Diyala operation
Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UK hacker loses appeal against US extradition
A British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers has lost his appeal against extradition to the U.S...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Aborigines win landmark ruling on control of coast
Aborigines won traditional ownership rights over a large stretch of coastline in northern Australia on Wednesday, in a landmark ruling lawyers said could set a precedent in other parts of the country...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India reports shooting on Kashmir frontier
Pakistani soldiers violated the cease-fire in Kashmir on Wednesday, shooting across the heavily fortified frontier in the Himalayan region for the second time in three days, the Indian army said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
UK team take top pro-gaming prize
Pro-gaming team Birmingham Salvo take home $500,000 prize money for winning the 2008 Championship Gaming Series...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Licences to curb bogus colleges
New rules mean people coming to the UK will need points and sponsors to get student visas...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Robots aid nuclear clean-up
A small army of machines and ROVs is aiding in the demolition and clean-up of a Scottish nuclear plant...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
'Tank exploded' on Qantas jet
An exploding oxygen cylinder was the probable cause of a hole in an Australian passenger plane, a safety official confirms...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Italian troops to patrol cities
Thousands of troops will be deployed in Italian cities next week to help police fight crime, in a controversial pilot scheme...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Pakistan army 'kills militants'
The Pakistani military says it has killed at least 25 pro-Taleban militants in the troubled north-western district of Swat...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Cash boost for community schemes
Community based restorative justice schemes get a cash injection from the criminal justice minister...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Zimbabwe introduces new currency
Zimbabwe's central bank is to introduce a new currency on 1 August to fight the effects of hyperinflation...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Family loses witness murder case
The family of man murdered by a former employee loses its claim that police failed to protect him...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Murder inquiry over man's death
Police launch a murder investigation in Aberdeen following the death of a man in the Tillydrone area of the city...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Cyclist, 10, dies after collision
North Wales Police say a 10-year-old boy who was involved with a collision while riding a bike has died...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Kate revealed
The singer 'makes a lovely ham salad sandwich'...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Health crunch
Could the economic downturn make us feel ill?...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Bentley closes in on Spurs switch
Blackburn winger David Bentley has a medical at Tottenham ahead of his proposed transfer...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Mystery smog
How a weird weather pattern can choke a city...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
The race to space
Nasa's 50-year history in pictures and sound...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Keys and White record Bond theme
R&B singer Alicia Keys and rock star Jack White team up on the theme tune for the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Live text - England v South Africa
England's openers put on a 50-run partnership in the first day of the third Test against South Africa at Edgbaston...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
A large chunk of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Labour 'in flux', says Mandelson
Peter Mandelson wades in to speculation over Gordon Brown's future, after David Miliband raises the spectre of a leadership bid...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Shot husband feared 'brain dead'
Unconfirmed reports from Antigua say that a man shot in a suspected robbery while on honeymoon is unlikely to recover...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Hacker loses extradition appeal
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret US military computers loses a Law Lords appeal against being extradited for trial...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Lords overturn Saudi probe ruling
The House of Lords rules the Serious Fraud Office was lawful when it halted a probe into a £43bn Saudi arms deal...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Record fine over BBC's phone-ins
The BBC is fined £400,000 by watchdog Ofcom for misleading viewers by "faking" contests on TV and radio shows...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Web curbs for Olympic journalists
Journalists covering the Beijing Olympics will not have completely uncensored internet access, Chinese officials admit...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Monkey from Mars a Ga. crime labs museum oddity
Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Prosecutor Ill. woman drowns newborn, burns home
Prosecutors say a woman drowned her newborn boy, hid the body in a wooded area near her home, then later burned down the residence...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
NM rescuers building bridge to reach 70 stranded
Rescuers cleared debris and worked on building a temporary bridge Tuesday to get closer to about 70 people stranded for a third day by massive flooding...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Arrest made in slaying of pregnant N.C. soldier
A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub more than a month ago, police said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Fisherman survives cold night stuck in Utah creek
Dean Ririe had a fish on the line, then made one wrong step that led to a terrifying night trapped up to his waist in a frigid mountain stream...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Buck, Aviles homer in Royals win
John Buck and Mike Aviles hit home runs, Gil Meche allowed five hits over seven innings and the Kansas City Royals won their fourth consecutive road game, beating the fading Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Vazquez makes up for 3 errors with winning double
Ramon Vazquez atoned for three errors with a two-run double in the ninth inning to give the Texas Rangers to an 11-10 victory over the Seattle Mariners...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Authorities LaBeouf not at fault for wreck
Shia LaBeouf was not to blame for an early-morning car wreck in Los Angeles, authorities said Tuesday, pinning fault on the other driver for apparently running a red light...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain says he wont raise taxes
After upsetting some conservatives by signaling an openness to higher payroll taxes for Social Security, Republican John McCain gave the simplest of answers Tuesday when asked if he would raise taxes as president...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Obama says hell order review of executive orders
Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
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Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
McCain, Obama focus on finding running mates
As speculation swirls, Barack Obama and John McCain are knuckling down to the work of choosing running mates with their nominating conventions just weeks away...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Davis, 2 others combine on 2-hitter for Arizona
Doug Davis gave up a single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up his bid for a perfect game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Trade talks failure deals blow to global economy
After coming tantalizingly close to a historic trade deal, World Trade Organization talks collapsed Tuesday in a dismaying blow to seven years of efforts to open up the global economy...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
SEC extends restrictions on short-selling
Federal regulators on Tuesday extended through mid-August a temporary order banning a certain kind of short-selling of the stocks of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 17 large investment banks...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ron Artest to be traded to Rockets
The Houston Rockets are close to an agreement to acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Jason Johnson pitches Dodgers past Giants 2-0
Jason Johnson pitched six sharp innings in his first big league start in nearly two years, James Loney singled in the go-ahead run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-0 Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
India, Pakistan continue trading fire at Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Indonesia Asian militants sought al-Qaida funds
Two alleged Indonesian terror leaders were headed to Iraq to seek help from al-Qaida, according to a seized laptop that indicates regional militants are cash-strapped but determined to rebuild international links, security officials say...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Beijing air improves with wind and rain
Environmental officials say their efforts are starting to clear the haze above Beijing, while strong wind and some rain have also raised hopes of blue skies when the Olympic Games start in just over a week...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Police defuse 18 bombs near another Indian market
Police defused 18 bombs found Tuesday near the main diamond markets in the city of Surat and issued a sketch of a young man believed to be linked to one of two explosives-filled cars discovered there...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
7 Bosnian Serbs guilty of genocide in Srebrenica
A court has convicted seven Bosnian Serbs of genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995. Another four were acquitted...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Olympic panel ends ban, says Iraq can go to games
The International Olympic Committee ruled Tuesday that Iraq could participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after the government pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
IOC reverses ban, says Iraq can go to Olympics
The International Olympic Committee says Iraq can take part in Beijing Games, lifting previous ban...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Medic Boy killed by Israeli fire in West Bank
Israeli gunfire killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy Tuesday during a confrontation between troops and stone-throwers in a West Bank village, medics and witnesses said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Internet sites still blocked for Olympic reporters
Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Plane believed to be carrying Karadzic lands
AP Television News footage shows a plane believed to be carrying former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic landing in the Netherlands...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Serbia Karadzic being sent to war crimes court
Authorities began extraditing ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the war crimes tribunal to face genocide charges early Wednesday, officials said, despite an earlier violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
US-Iraq forces begin new offensive in Diyala
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops sealed off Baqouba and staged house-to-house searches Tuesday as they began a new offensive in Diyala province in the latest bid to clear al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major belt near the capital...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Soldier dies after convoy attacked in Afghanistan
NATO says one of its soldier died after being wounded when militants attacked his convoy in southern Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Blast rocks Hamas training camp in Gaza, 5 hurt
A huge blast rocked a training base run by the Islamic militant Hamas in southern Gaza late Tuesday, injuring at least five members of the group, witnesses and a health official said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Ex-official of Cuban group killed in Puerto Rico
Authorities say a former official with a Cuban-American group that was once the foremost voice representing the exile cause in Washington was shot dead in a Puerto Rican suburb...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Court convicts Austrian right-wing party leader
A court ruled Tuesday that a right-wing party leader lied in testimony about a pub brawl between his ex-bodyguard and the former spokesman of a party defector...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Blast rockets Hamas training camp in Gaza, 5 hurt
A huge blast rocked a training base run by the Islamic militant Hamas in southern Gaza late Tuesday, injuring at least five members of the group, witnesses and a health official said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
Mexico sees decline in migrant remittances
Half-year figures are expected to show the first sustained decline on record in remittances sent home by Mexicans working abroad, officials said...
Southern Ledger - July 30, 2008
'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead
A plane equipped with a powerful laser has moved a step closer to becoming a viable weapon to shoot down missiles...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Scrabulous halted on Facebook
The developers of popular Facebook application Scrabulous suspend the game for some users following legal action...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Golden gloves
The story of one of China's Olympic boxers...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Lethal intent
The rise of the female Iraqi suicide bomber...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Witness murder case ruling due
Law Lords are to decide if the human rights of a witness shot dead before a trial were breached by police...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Island fears
Shooting highlights dangers to Antigua tourists...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
A will and a way
How to challenge a relative's decision on their final legacy...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Swiss diss
Bank failings prompt anger in Switzerland...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
A police sting? Studying bees may help in the hunt for serial killers
Studying the way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down criminals, scientists believe...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Teacher recruitment advert banned
An advert suggesting teachers could earn £34,000 as a starting salary has been banned by the advertising watchdog...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Body of ballooning priest found
DNA tests confirm a body found off Brazil's coast is that of a priest who went missing trying to set a flight record, officials say...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Not a 'stupid boy' - why TV boss changed Dad's Army opening titles
A row between BBC bosses prompted a complete change to the opening titles of Dad's Army, archive letters reveal...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Karadzic extradited to The Hague
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is flown from Serbia to The Hague to face war-crimes charges...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Innocents' DNA 'should be erased'
The DNA of innocent people should be deleted from the national database, a government-funded inquiry has found...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Military staff shortages warning
The armed forces' capability is threatened by missed recruitment and staff retention targets, an MPs' report has warned...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Dismay at collapse of trade talks
International negotiators express disappointment at the failure of trade talks in Geneva, but some vow to fight on...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
Drugs swoops 'have little impact'
Increased seizures of drugs in the UK have had little impact on supply on the streets, research suggests...
BBC News - July 30, 2008
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