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A-Rod in Mexico City on same weekend as Madonna
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Madonna, Alex Rodriguez in Mexico City
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle Endeavour lands in California
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle lands in Calif. after 16-day mission
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle Endeavour finishes 16-day mission
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Orphan of slain rabbi in Mumbai lands in Israel
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Raul Castro attends first beatification in Cuba
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Refugees from Bhutan settle in Pittsburgh
Southern Ledger - December 1, 2008
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Global News Archive for May 2005:
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'Fewer child protection doctors'
There are too few doctors choosing to go into child protection work, warn the profession's leaders...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Bathing network signals quality
A network of real-time electronic water quality signs is being launched at beaches across Scotland...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Singer Harvey 'crushed under car'
Singer Brian Harvey is in a critical condition in hospital after he fell under the wheels of his own car, police say...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Serbia lifts Milosevic wife warrant
Serbia cancels an international arrest warrant for the wife of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Iran 'tests new missile engine'
Iran's defence minister says it has successfully tested a new missile motor using solid-fuel technology...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Tennis: Federer, Nadal into semis
Roger Federer wins his last eight match at the French Open to set up a semi-final with Rafael Nadal...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
UN debates longer Haiti mission
The UN Security Council debates extending its peacekeeping mission in Haiti, as violence there continues...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Owen hat-trick as England triumph
Michael Owen's hat-trick helps England to victory against Colombia in New Jersey...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Rugby: Celtic League collapses
Scotland and Ireland say they will play in their own competition next year after a bitter row with the WRU...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Jeshma 'killed in random attack'
A 17-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a stranger as she walked home from school, police believe...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Watergate's Deep Throat revealed
The Washington Post confirms a former deputy chief of the FBI was the Watergate source "Deep Throat"...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
'I'm not Piano Man', says Czech
A theory the so-called Piano Man could be a musician from Prague is discounted by the Czech himself...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Chirac appeals for French unity
President Jacques Chirac urges France to unite after Sunday's "No" vote on the EU constitution...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
French Leader Fires Premier in Response to E.U. Rejection
Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin resigned and former Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin took his place...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
4 U.S. Airmen Are Killed as Iraqi Plane Crashes
Four American airmen were killed in the crash of an Iraqi single-engine plane north of Baghdad, the military announced today...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
Study calms fears over stem cells
Human embryonic stem cells appear to be much more stable than scientists had feared, research suggests...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Black boys 'becoming underclass'
Black boys' poor performance in school could turn them into a "permanent underclass", a race relations leader says...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Jackson trial mulls jury guidance
Lawyers in the Michael Jackson child abuse case are to discuss with the judge the instructions to be given to the jury...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
What will Live 8 achieve?
Bob Geldof will repeat 1985's Live Aid concert in July, this time to raise awareness not money. Will it achieve its aims?...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Papers seized in ex-UDA boss case
Former UDA chief Jim Gray is refused bail after a judge says he could not be certain he would not flee...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
'Skip school' Geldof tells pupils
Bob Geldof urges schoolchildren to play truant and adults to leave work and take part in a G8 anti-poverty "party" in Edinburgh...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Couple win £12.8m Lotto jackpot
A factory worker and supermarket cashier from Carmarthenshire celebrate winning Wales' biggest ever lottery jackpot...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Saddam trial 'within two months'
Iraq's president Jalal Talabani says he expects the trial of Saddam Hussein to open within two months...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Photo reveals coma fan's plight
The wife of a football fan seriously hurt in a fight hopes a photograph of him in his hospital bed will encourage witnesses to come forward...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Tennis: Sharapova dumped out
Justine Henin-Hardenne beats Maria Sharapova to earn a French Open semi-final against Nadia Petrova...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Al-Qaeda terror threat 'growing'
France's top anti-terrorism judge tells the BBC that al-Qaeda is more fragmented and a bigger threat than before...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Slater in sex harassment arrest
Christian Slater is arrested and charged following a complaint he sexually harassed a woman...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
'Watergate source' breaks cover
A former deputy chief of the FBI has admitted to being the Watergate source "Deep Throat", says Vanity Fair...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Britons held in £225m drugs raid
Three Britons are among 12 people held in a £225m cocaine bust in Spain...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Geldof unveils Live 8 show plans
Bob Geldof announces the line-up for a worldwide series of concerts in July aimed at highlighting global poverty...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Climate key to mega-beast demise
Climate change, and not human hunting, was the big factor in the extinction of Australia's ice age beasts, new studies claim...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Newspapers face up to new media
Newspapers are far from dead, despite the challenge from online news sites and blogs, media executives have been told...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Star Wars dominates US box office
The final Star Wars film retains its spot at the top of the box office chart in the US and Canada...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Quit-smoking services to increase
The government pledges to step up efforts to help people give up smoking as the UK marks World No Tobacco day...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Kelly hails school catering staff
School catering staff will be hailed as "unsung heroes" by education secretary Ruth Kelly...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Israeli firms 'ran vast spy ring'
At least 15 of Israel's major blue-chip firms are implicated in the country's worst industrial espionage scandal, police say...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Kinnock says EU treaty now 'dead'
Ex-European Commissioner Neil Kinnock says the EU constitution treaty is dead, after the French vote no...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Young patient returned after fire
A teenager detained by police after a fire at a Belfast hospital is returned to the care of health workers...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
MSPs 'not convinced' by BBC plans
MSPs express concerns over the impact of plans by BBC Scotland to shed nearly 200 jobs...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Illegal weekend rave breaks up
An illegal rave in Carmarthenshire leads to 36 arrests for offences including possession of drugs...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Abducted Iraq governor found dead
The kidnapped governor of Iraq's Anbar province is found dead with his suspected captors after a clash with US forces...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Riots after Karachi mosque attack
Six people die after an angry mob sets a fast food outlet ablaze in Karachi after an attack on a Shia mosque...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Rural council taxes 'are unjust'
England's most rural communities urge the government to end "injustice" in the council tax system...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
No progress in China-Japan talks
China and Japan fail to solve their escalating dispute over gas fields in the East China Sea, but agree to meet again...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Canada Red Cross used HIV blood
Canada's Red Cross admits distributing blood which infected thousands with HIV and hepatitis...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Flare-up in EU-US air trade row
The EU hits back at the US in an increasingly bitter clash over subsidies for the aircraft industry...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Cricket: England names squad
England name squads for the second Test against Bangladesh and the one-day NatWest Series...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Football: Strachan's Celtic joy
Gordon Strachan says managing Celtic was a job he "just couldn't turn down"...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Kenya moves to ban public smoking
Smoking in Kenya's public places is set to be banned to reduce tobacco-related deaths, the country's top health official says...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Hindujas acquitted in Bofors case
An Indian court acquits the billionaire Hinduja brothers in a high profile arms bribery case for lack of evidence...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
BT tackles rogue diallers
Thousands of people have downloaded free software to combat rogue diallers says BT...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Rio quizzed over party fracas
Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand is questioned after a disturbance at a stag party...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Yukos ex-chief jailed for 9 years
Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is jailed for nine years after being found guilty of six charges including tax evasion...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Court rejects tobacco test case
A woman whose husband died from lung cancer loses her landmark fight against a cigarette giant...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
De Villepin appointed French PM
Dominique de Villepin becomes France's new prime minister after his country rejects the EU constitution...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
French No Vote on European Constitution Rattles Continent
President Jacques Chirac will announce "decisions concerning the government" and make a declaration on French television...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights
Behind a cover of front companies and shell corporations, the C.I.A. has rapidly expanded its air operations as it has pursued and questioned terrorist suspects...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
In Political Step, Pope Confronts Law on Fertility
Pope Benedict XVI endorsed a call by Italian bishops for a boycott of a contentious referendum on medically assisted fertility...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
Voice on Tape Calls Zarqawi's Wounds Minor
In a message addressed to Osama bin Laden, a man claiming to be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said that his wounds were slight and that he was still in Iraq...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
Ballot in Beirut Is Swept by Son of Slain Leader
A heavily favored slate led by Saad Hariri, the son of the assassinated Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri, clinched all 19 of the capital's parliamentary seats...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
Rice to Discuss Antiproliferation Program
The secretary of state is expected to present details of efforts by the U.S. to join other nations in intercepting weapons bound for Iran, North Korea and Syria...
New York Times - May 31, 2005
Villa report 'to clear' McConnell
A report on the first minister's New Year trip to Kirsty Wark's Majorcan villa is to be handed to the Standards Committee...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Infancy 'determines cancer risk'
The earliest days of life could determine if risky genes will go on to trigger cancer, scientists claim...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Indonesia starts anti-polio blitz
Indonesia aims to vaccinate 6.4m children in two days, to stem its first polio outbreak for a decade...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Bolivians stage huge gas protest
Thousands converge on the Bolivian capital La Paz in an angry demonstration over gas reserves...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Medics await Libya court ruling
Libya's Supreme Court is to rule on an appeal by a group of medics sentenced to death over HIV infection...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
New drive to help smokers quit
Smokers are back in the spotlight with the first launch of World No Tobacco Day in the UK...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Unions consider BBC deal on cuts
Union officials meet to discuss whether to accept the BBC's latest offer on cuts or stage further strike action...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Living organ donor drive launched
A campaign is being launched to encourage more people to donate a kidney to a loved one...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Abigail police use tracker dogs
Tracker dogs that can detect weeks-old smells are to begin searching the area where Abigail Witchalls was stabbed...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
Geldof to announce Live 8 plans
Bob Geldof is to announce plans for a follow-up to 1985's Live Aid concerts, aimed at highlighting global poverty...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
France's EU vote heralds change
French President Chirac is set to reshuffle his government, as the Dutch prepare for their EU constitution vote...
BBC News - May 31, 2005
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