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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
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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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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Fireworks Explosion in Istanbul Kills 22
An explosion caused by fireworks killed 22 people and injured 68 on Thursday, Turkish officials said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
U.S. Accused of Overlooking Rights Violations
In a scathing report, Human Rights Watch blamed the U.S. and Europe for undermining human rights around the world by allowing autocrats to pretend they are democratic simply by holding rigged elections...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Support for Israeli Premier Amid Calls to Resign
Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert received crucial support from senior ministers in the wake of a formal inquiry that found ?grave failings? in the handling of the 2006 Lebanon War...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Kurds? Power Wanes as Arab Anger Rises
Once in a position of enormous strength, Iraqi Kurds are now pursuing policies that are antagonizing other factions and uniting most Sunnis and many Shiites...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Climate 'could devastate crops'
South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Gout surge blamed on sweet drinks
Sugary soft drinks and fruit juices increase the risk of gout in men, a study claims...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Ex-forces heads reject war votes
Four former chiefs of the defence staff attack plans give Parliament the final say on sending troops to war...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Tax ads man says tax too complex
The man who appears in adverts for HM Revenue and Customs says tax returns are too complicated...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Ferry runs aground at Blackpool
A roll-on roll-off ferry which ran into trouble in high winds in the Irish Sea runs aground at Blackpool...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Forecasters issue weather warning
Severe weather warnings are issued for much of Scotland as the country braces itself for further gales and blizzards...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Air rescue for ferry travellers
Passengers and crew are being airlifted from a ferry in the Irish Sea after sailing into bad weather...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Storms batter parts of Britain
A ferry is in trouble as high winds bring travel problems to parts of Britain, with at least one motorist killed...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Chinese Blizzards Reveal Rail Limits
Disrupted coal deliveries after winter blizzards have exposed the fragility of China?s transport networks...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill
A Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast at a mosque that killed a deputy governor and five other people...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Second Kenyan Opposition Legislator Killed
The killing set off riots in opposition strongholds and caused the postponement of talks led by Kofi Annan...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Pirate Bay hit with legal action
The men behind one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world are charged copyright offences...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Carbon emissions show slight fall
Britain's carbon emissions fell by 0.1% last year, according to government figures...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Neil Diamond to play Glastonbury
US singer Neil Diamond is to play Glastonbury in a Sunday slot, organiser Michael Eavis confirms...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
White working class boys failing
Government figures show only 15% of white working class boys in England got five good GCSEs last year...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Labour 'must spell out policies'
Ex-home secretary Charles Clarke says Labour is suffering from "debilitating" uncertainty about its policy direction...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Calls to lift child embryo ban
The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Part of base training bid dropped
Some of the training planned for an air base in south Wales will no longer go ahead, defence chiefs announce...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Maze escaper is arrested in Texas
An escapee from Northern Ireland's Maze prison is arrested at a border patrol in the US, officials say...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
'Removed patients' to be treated
Patients removed from a health board's waiting list will be treated after ministers intervene...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
New plan for HIV marriage tests
A committee in the Indian state of Maharashtra provisionally approves compulsory HIV tests before marriage...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Childminder guilty of killing boy
A childminder is found guilty of killing a 17-month-old boy in her care by throwing him against furniture...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Istanbul fireworks blast kills 20
Two explosions at an unlicensed fireworks factory in Istanbul kill at least 20 people and injure dozens...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Israel war report 'deeply flawed'
Amnesty criticises Israel's report on the 2006 Lebanon war for not tackling alleged war crimes by its troops...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Schwarzenegger backs McCain bid
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses John McCain as Republican candidate for US president...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Chad rebels 'heading for capital'
Chadian troops are sent to intercept rebels who are advancing on the capital after seizing a key town...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Transfer deadline day latest
Portsmouth and Spurs agree a fee for striker Jermain Defoe, with the transfer window just hours away from closing...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Beckham left out of England squad
David Beckham is left out of Fabio Capello's first England squad, dealing his hopes of a 100th cap a big blow, but Curtis Davies is included...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Tax deadline extended after crash
HM Revenue and Customs extends the self assessment deadline after problems with its online service...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Extradition over Securitas raid
A British man is extradited from Morocco to face questioning over the £53m Securitas raid in Kent...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Commons suspends MP Conway
MPs vote to suspend Tory MP Derek Conway for 10 days and order him to return £13,161 of payments made to his son...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Man trapped in collapse at school
A builder is freed by emergency crews after a floor collapsed at an old school building in Leicestershire...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Top al-Qaeda leader reported dead
A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western officials say...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
'Killer' policeman breached bail
A suspected murderer who is thought to have killed again stayed on bail despite breaching a condition...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official
A suicide bomber exploded a car next to an Afghan army bus, and authorities in the east said that they found the decapitated bodies of four construction workers...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Istanbul Firework Explosion Kills 19
An explosion caused by fireworks killed 19 people and injured 68 on Thursday, Turkish officials said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Newspaper columnist Kington dies
Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Fed cuts US interest rates
The US Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to 3%, its second cut in nine days, to ward off a recession...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Brown backs expenses transparency
Gordon Brown urges more transparency over MPs expenses as a Tory MP faces expulsion from the Commons...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
High winds cause travel problems
The Forth Road Bridge reopens after the removal of a lorry which was blown over by strong winds...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Low take-up of language services
Welsh language services run by business and public bodies can be little used, research by BBC Wales suggests...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Lorry driver dies in 70mph winds
Strong winds of up to 70mph bring travel chaos to the north-east of England and Cumbria...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Officer rescues woman from river
A woman is rescued after a police officer finds her clinging to a boat on the River Lagan in Belfast...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Gaza militant killed near Rafah
Israeli troops shoot dead an armed Palestinian in the southern Gaza Strip, near Israel's border fence...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Blast kills top Afghan official
The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Deadly blast in Istanbul suburb
An explosion kills at least 17 people and injures more than 40 in an industrial suburb of Istanbul...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Stop Kenya burning, says AU head
The AU chairman tells African leaders they cannot ignore the crisis triggered by disputed polls in Kenya...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Food warnings amid China freeze
China struggles to cope with its worst snowfall in years, as officials warn of catastrophic damage to crops...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Football: Beckham out of squad
David Beckham's hopes of a 100th cap are dealt a blow as he is left out of Fabio Capello's first England squad...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Tributes paid to TV star Beadle
TV and prankster Jeremy Beadle, who has died aged 59, is remembered by friends and colleagues...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Singer Spears taken to hospital
Britney Spears has been taken to hospital by ambulance from her home in Los Angeles, police say...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Tax site down on deadline day
HM Revenue and Customs confirms that its self assessment website is temporarily unavailable...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Obesity drug use rises eight-fold
More than 1m prescriptions are made for obesity drugs a year - eight times the number dispensed seven years ago...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Cumbria 'safest county to live'
Cumbria is the safest place to live in England and Wales after recording no killings over a year, according to figures...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Storms battering parts of Britain
High winds bring travel problems to parts of Britain and lead to the death of at least one motorist...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Mother to fight bid to take baby
A teenage mother who had her baby son returned to her in hospital by order of a judge will fight to keep him...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Shell sets new UK profits record
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reports record annual profits for a UK-listed company, making £13.9bn...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Win for disability rights woman
A woman wins the initial stages of a landmark legal case which could give new rights to millions of carers...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Thailand: Nose-Holding for the New Leader
Sign language interpreters in Thailand have run afoul of supporters among the governing party by holding their noses to refer to the new prime minister, Samak Sundaravej. Thai sign language interpreters often indicate prominent facial features as shorthand for dignitaries, and during a live broadcast of the parliamentary session on Monday that selected Mr. Samak, left, they held their noses between two fingers to refer to him. ?It is not meant as a nose joke,? said one interpreter, Kanittha Rattanasin. ?We have touched our noses for years to refer to Samak, but people noticed this time because we had to repeat the movement over 300 times.? Another interpreter, Juthamas Suthonwattanacharoen, said supporters of Mr. Samak, who is nicknamed Mr. Rose Apple Nose because many claim his nose resembles the long, Asian fruit, have called the National Association of the Deaf in Thailand to say the sign does not befit the country?s leader. For now, there are no plans to change it, she said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Rare Snowstorm
Snow brought Jerusalem and other cities around the Middle East to a grinding halt as icy weather conditions gripped the mainly desert region. Streets in Jerusalem were deserted during the morning rush hour, and classes were canceled. Snow blocked roads to the Jordanian capital, Amman, and schools, universities and banks in the kingdom were shut. Severe storms battered much of Lebanon, with torrential downpours and hailstorms hitting Beirut and heavy snow blocking roads in mountainous regions. In Syria, snow fell overnight on Damascus, and Syrian television reported the closing of secondary roads in the south...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Victim Can Sue ?Lotto Rapist?
A 78-year-old woman who was sexually assaulted in 1988 by Iorworth Hoare, a rapist who went on to win $14 million in the national lottery in 2004, is entitled to seek a share of his fortune, Britain?s highest court ruled. Courts had previously held that a claim for compensation in an assault case must be made within six years of the attack. Mr. Hoare, 53, spent 16 years in prison before buying the winning lottery ticket while on a day pass from prison. He was released in 2005 is said to live in a $1.4 million house near Newcastle...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Lessing Receives Nobel Prize in London
Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last year but was unable to attend the ceremony in Stockholm because of ill health, received her Nobel medal at a ceremony in London, where she lives. The frail-looking 88-year-old, wearing a long red velvet dress with her silver hair pulled back from her face, was typically irreverent at the Champagne reception in the main gallery of the Wallace Collection. ?There isn?t anywhere to go from here, is there ? unless, like some exemplars, recent ones, I could get a pat on the head from the pope,? she said in a short acceptance speech after being handed her prize by the Swedish ambassador. She did not say whom she was referring to, although Tony Blair, who she described in a recent interview as ?a disaster for Britain,? had talks with the Pope Benedict XVI last year before his conversion to Catholicism...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: ?Prepare for the Worst,? Suu Kyi Advises
The pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed a rare respite from house arrest to meet with members of her party, the National League for Democracy. A party spokesman reported that she had criticized the series of meetings she has held since October with Aung Kyi, a senior junta official ? they met for the fifth time after her meeting with party colleagues ? for failing to set a deadline to achieve any real political change. She also cautioned the nation to ?hope for the best but prepare for the worst,? the spokesman said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Macao: Ex-Minister Gets 27 Years for Bribery
Ao Man-long, the former transport and public works minister, became Macao?s highest-level official ever convicted of corruption and was sentenced to 27 years in prison. He was found guilty of takings tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks from developers in the casino resort construction boom that has allowed the former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region of China, to overtake Las Vegas in gambling revenues...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Road Workers Beheaded
Four Afghan road construction workers were discovered beheaded in Kamdesh, in northeastern Nuristan Province, the provincial governor said. The Interior Ministry confirmed the beheadings and said the men were kidnapped last week and a ransom had been demanded. It blamed the Taliban. The army recently mounted an operation in the Kamdesh area and killed a number of Taliban fighters, including a commander, the governor said, and he suggested that the beheadings were an act of revenge...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Top Judge Bars Executions in Public
The chief of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, has ordered a halt to public executions unless they have his approval, his spokesman said. While those convicted of crimes like murder, drug smuggling and rape would still be hanged behind prison walls, the move appeared intended to lower the public profile of an increasing number of hangings in Iran. Ayatollah Shahroudi also barred the news media from showing or publishing television scenes or pictures of executions...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Jimmy James, P.O.W. Plotter of Escapes, Is Dead at 92
Mr. James was a British flier in World War II obsessed with escape plots during his five years in German captivity, most prominently the breakout portrayed in the movie ?The Great Escape.?...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Zhang Hanzhi, Mao?s Tutor, Is Dead at 72
Ms. Hanzhi was a former Chinese diplomat who once served as Mao?s English tutor and who also interpreted for President Nixon during his historic trip to China in 1972...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
2 Communication Cables in the Mediterranean Are Cut
The damage to the cables knocked out Internet access to much of Egypt, disrupted the world?s back office in India and slowed down service for some Verizon customers...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Keeping an Eye on China?s Security
Concern over China?s use of surveillance technology, prompts new rules for U.S. exports...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Fidel and Raúl Castro Win, of Course, but Raúl Wins Bigger
Acting President Raúl Castro was the top vote-getter in Cuban parliamentary elections, winning by one percentage point over his older brother, Fidel...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Mutant Flu Virus Is Found That Resists Popular Drug
The World Health Organization said that a small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter is resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Baengnyeong Island Journal: One Eye on the Fish, the Other on North Korea
The islands in the long-disputed waters near the North Korean coast present an especially tough challenge for relations between North and South Korea...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
An Ex-President, a Mining Deal and a Big Donor
A Canadian financier who traveled to Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton and won a big mining deal later donated millions to Mr. Clinton?s charitable foundation...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Iraqi Troops Mass for Operation in Mosul
The unsettled situation in northern Iraq continued Wednesday as Iraqi troops gathered in Mosul to fight Sunni Arab extremists...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Tainted Drugs Linked to Maker of Abortion Pill
A state-owned Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Graduate vacancies up, says study
Vacancies with big employers of graduates are expected to be 16% higher than last year, a poll suggests...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Many over-50s 'run risk of STI'
More older people are risking sexually transmitted infections because they are not using condoms, research suggests...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Energy firms warned on complaints
Gas and electricity suppliers must take complaints more seriously, a consumer watchdog says...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Suspension looming for MP Conway
MP Derek Conway faces suspension from the Commons over paying his son for working as a researcher...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Thousands face home repossession
A housing charity warns that thousands of homeowners are struggling to repay their mortgages...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Woman stabbed in retail store
A 39-year-old woman is in hospital after being stabbed in a department store in Middlesbrough...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Web disruption 'hits India'
The internet is disrupted in the Middle East, Egypt and India following damage to two undersea cables...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Rio police crisis before carnival
Top police officers in Rio de Janeiro resign, only days before the Brazilian city's famous carnival...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
AU chief urges Kenya resolution
The crisis in Kenya is set to dominate an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
China 'set for more snow storms'
China's worst snow storms in decades will continue for at least three more days, a top forecaster says...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Criminal excuses 'unacceptable'
The National Audit Office says probation officers are allowing "unacceptable" excuses from criminals who miss meetings...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Disability rights ruling expected
Rights at work for those who care for relatives who are elderly or have disabilities, could be strengthened later...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Man charged over murder in park
A man is charged with the murder of a teenager who died after being attacked in a west London park...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Calls to lift child embryo ban
The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
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