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Big Issue Energy crisis hitting home
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Scientists Virginia sharks pup a virgin birth
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago 1 arrest
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Carter, peacemakers see Cyprus peace deal near
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Global News Archive for May 2008:
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Kissing the Cook
In Yan Lianke?s satirical novel, a fervent Maoist is seduced by the wife of his commanding officer...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Soccer Star?s Misadventure Leaves His Fans Smirking
The criticism faced by Brazil?s soccer star Ronaldo, questioned by the police after he invited three-male, cross-dressing prostitutes to his hotel, is a reflection of the manly culture of Brazilian soccer...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Endless War
For Israel, everything starts with the 1948 conflict...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Pen and Sickle
A look at Russia?s major artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in the 20th century...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Call of the Wild
Jiang Rong?s novel is set in the pristine grasslands of Inner Mongolia in the 1960s...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Miss Shanghai
Wang Anyi?s novel spans four decades in the life of a woman making her way in a rapidly changing China...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Born Again
The Chinese writer Mo Yan?s wildly visionary and creative new novel covers almost the entire span of his country?s revolutionary experience, from 1950 until 2000, while constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Ideas & Trends: Stopping Traffic in the People?s Republic
A blond man no longer stuns the Chinese, but mixed-race children do...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Ideas & Trends: A Psychedelic ?Problem Child? Comes Full Circle
Albert Hofmann, the chemist and father of LSD, lived just long enough to see his ?problem child? brought back into the lab...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Q.& A. | Dmitri Nabokov: His Father?s Siren, Still Singing
A last novel?s 30-year wait to be published is finally about to end...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Essay: China?s Pop Fiction
The most successful writer in China is Guo Jingming, a cross-dressing, image-obsessed pop idol whose tales of alienated urban adolescence appeal to the lonely children of China?s one-child generation...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Of Musical Import
Tan Dun has made a career of infusing Western music with Chinese traditions and myths. But on what vision of China does his success in the West depend?...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Zimbabwe Party Seeks to Verify Vote
The leaders of Zimbabwe?s opposition party were making a last-ditch diplomatic push on Saturday to persuade the African Union and a bloc of southern African nations to insist on a verifiable vote count...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
11 U.S. Diplomats Leave Belarus Amid Dispute
The reduction in embassy staff was the second Belarus had sought from the United States this year, the latest one caused by a dispute over human rights and sanctions...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Trying to Put a Name to the Face of Evil
Can the right celebrities raise concern for Myanmar?...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
17 Inmates Die in Honduran Prison Riot
This was the second deadly riot in the country?s overcrowded jail system in just over a week...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Missiles Strike Sadr City, Damaging Hospital
Missiles damaged a hospital and many of its ambulances in Baghdad. A group of children was also injured...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Hollyoaks scoops six soap awards
Hollyoaks captures six trophies at the British Soap Awards, while EastEnders is named best soap...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Win takes Man Utd closer to title
Man Utd are one win from the Premier League title after thrashing West Ham at Old Trafford...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Carter holds nerve to make snooker final
Ali Carter reaches his first World Championship final by sealing an epic 17-15 win over Joe Perry at The Crucible...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Henrythenavigator claims Guineas
Henrythenavigator gets up inside the final half-furlong to stun favourite New Approach and win the 2,000 Guineas...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Health tourist checks 'not done'
Around a third of hospitals in England and Wales are ignoring government advice to charge foreign visitors for NHS treatment...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Ofsted 'can deter would-be heads'
The pressures of the Ofsted inspection is deterring good candidates from becoming head teachers, research suggests...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Rice in Mid-East for fresh talks
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the Middle East for new Israel-Palestinian peace talks...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Industrial drum blast kills man
An investigation is under way after a man dies on Merseyside when a drum he is cutting open explodes...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
New fund supports war veterans
A Scottish Veterans' Fund is to be created to support ex-servicemen and women, it is revealed...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Attack on Shell plant in Nigeria
Militants blow up a Shell-owned oil flow station in the Niger Delta, the fifth such attack in recent weeks...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
The fear factor
Why British tourists remain wary a year after Madeleine...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Day of destiny
Championship season finale...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Talking music
Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am is a man in demand...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
'Pray like mad for our Madeleine'
Kate McCann asks churchgoers to pray for her daughter on the first anniversary of her disappearance...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Two children found dead in a car
Two boys are found dead in a parked car on the outskirts of Glasgow...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Vivaldi work revived 278 years on
A long-lost opera by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi is performed in Prague for the first time since 1730...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
A special birthday
Amy's mother survived a brain tumour to give birth...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Four British men on missing plane
British citizens were on board a small aircraft which has gone missing in Brazil, according to officials...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Cubans Permitted to Buy Computers
The island?s communist government put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time, ending a ban on PC sales...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Islam
A group of Turkish educators are offering an alternative approach to religious schools that could help reduce the influence of Islamic extremists...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Live - Premier League
Bolton take on Sunderland in the late Premier League game after wins for Man Utd, Fulham, Wigan, Blackburn, Boro and Tottenham...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Labour 'can win fourth election'
Labour can still win the next election despite being trounced in this week's polls, Jack Straw says...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Anti-academy fight ousts leader
A leader of a council is ousted in an anti-academy local election battle...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Winehouse's 'Bond theme' shelved
Work on a possible Bond theme is scrapped because Amy Winehouse is 'not ready', says producer Mark Ronson...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Rice heads for new Mid-East talks
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to the Middle East for new Israel-Palestinian peace talks...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Turkey 'kills 150 Kurdish rebels'
The Turkish army says it killed over 150 Kurdish guerrillas in air raids over northern Iraq this week...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Asian bank in food crisis warning
The Asian Development Bank warns rising food prices could reverse gains made in reducing poverty...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Rider is killed in motorbike race
A rider dies and three spectators are injured in a collision at the Tandragee 100 motorbike races...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Johnson wins mayoral race
Conservative Boris Johnson is the new mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Afghan mine blast soldier named
A British soldier killed when his patrol vehicle hit a mine in Afghanistan is named...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Cruise makes serious Oprah return
Actor Tom Cruise gives a sober interview to Oprah Winfrey, three years after his famous sofa-jumping antics...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Brush with death
Mark Urban escapes a suicide bomber in Kabul...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Mayor Johnson vows to cut crime
Boris Johnson signs the declaration of office at City Hall and vows to deal with youth crime and disorder...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Zimbabwe run-off remains in doubt
Zimbabwe's opposition says it has come to no decision yet on whether to take part in a presidential run-off...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Britons feared on missing plane
British citizens may have been on board a small aircraft which has gone missing in Brazil, according to officials...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Austria cellar probe 'oppressive'
Forensic work in the dungeon where an Austrian allegedly held and raped his daughter is "oppressive", police say...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
McCanns go to anniversary service
Kate and Gerry McCann attend a church service to mark a year since their daughter Madeleine disappeared...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
William Frankel, Who Edited Jewish Chronicle, Dies at 91
Mr. Frankel reinvigorated the London-based newspaper The Jewish Chronicle as its editor for two decades, broadening its coverage of world affairs...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
U.S. Forces Kill 8 Shiite Militants in Iraq, Military Says
U.S. soldiers killed eight suspected militants in Baghdad, the military said, as clashes continued in the embattled Sadr City slum and surrounding militia strongholds...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Yemeni Troops Clash With Rebels After Mosque Attack
A Yemeni government official says clashes between troops and Shiite rebels have resumed after a bombing near a mosque that killed 18 worshipers...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Man Utd v West Ham
Team news ahead of Saturday's Premier League match...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Good parents 'should be rewarded'
Parents should be rewarded for spending quality time with their children, head teachers say...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
China renews Dalai Lama criticism
Chinese state media renews its criticism of the Dalai Lama, as his envoys prepare to meet Chinese officials...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Labour 'must learn the lessons'
A Welsh ally of Gordon Brown says Labour has to listen to disillusioned voters who gave the party a "pounding"...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Woman critical after house fire
A 34-year-old woman is critically ill in hospital after being rescued from a burning house in County Antrim...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Four held after teenager murdered
Four teenagers are arrested after a 15-year-old is stabbed to death at a south London block of flats...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Murder probe after death in flat
A murder inquiry is launched following the death of a 38-year-old man after a disturbance in a tower block...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Afghan mine kills British soldier
A British soldier has died after a patrol vehicle hit a mine in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Mugabe rivals debate poll run-off
Zimbabwe's opposition is to decide over the weekend whether or not to take part in a presidential run-off...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: U.S. Serviceman Faces Sexual Assault Charge
The police in northern Japan arrested a 22-year-old United States serviceman and charged him with sexually assaulting a woman...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: 2 Convicted of Trying to Extort a Royal
A judge sentenced two men to five years in prison after they were convicted of demanding nearly $100,000 from a member of the royal family...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Saturday Profile: No Milosevic, He Says, but Serbia?s ?Undertaker? Worries the West
Tomislav Nikolic, the leader of Serbia?s far-right Radical Party, said that the problem with Slobodan Milosevic is that he never finished what he started...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Philipp von Boeselager Dies at 90
Mr. Boeselager is believed to have been the last surviving member of the inner circle of German Army officers who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Sudan: Officials Killed in Plane Crash
Southern Sudan?s minister of defense and a presidential adviser were among at least 23 people killed in a plane crash near the southern town of Rumbek...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Nepal: U.S. Envoy Meets With Maoist Leader
The American ambassador to Nepal, Nancy Powell, met with the leader of the country?s former Communist rebels...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Austria: Yard Searched for More Hidden Dungeons
Investigators plan to use sonar technology on the yard of a man who held his daughter captive for 24 years to ensure that no more underground dungeons exist on the property...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Police Question Olmert in Possible New Criminal Inquiry
Three other criminal investigations involving prime minister Ehud Olmert are under way relating to events before he became prime minister in 2006, but while he was serving in government...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Israel Clears Army in 5 Gaza Deaths
The Israeli military found on Friday that the deaths, which occurred during an army operation on Monday, was due to explosions caused by Palestinian ammunition...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Big Powers Agree on New Bid for Iranian Nuclear Freeze
The world?s major powers agreed in London on Friday to offer Iran modest new incentives to coax it to freeze important nuclear activities...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Agreement Will Restore Court Judges in Pakistan
The agreement enabled the governing coalition to soothe tensions and reopened the possibility of challenging President Pervez Musharraf?s continued rule...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Tory Beats Laborite to Become Mayor of London
Boris Johnson defeated Ken Livingstone, the incumbent, on a day full of losses for the Labor Party in local elections...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
At Least 12 Killed in Bombing at Yemeni Mosque
The bombing was in a region that has been the site of an intermittent rebellion since 2004...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Zimbabwe Announces Runoff; Opposition Objects
The election commission announced that the opposition candidate had not won by enough to avoid a runoff vote...
New York Times - May 3, 2008
Spam reaches 30-year anniversary
The first junk e-mail or spam message was sent across Arpanet 30 years ago this weekend...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Engine fault 'caused Sudan crash'
Engine failure is blamed for a plane crash in which South Sudan's defence minister died along with at least 22 others...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Fat fighting fits
Why a special diet offers hope for children like Ella...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Week in pictures
The most striking images from around the world...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Texan tries to cash $360bn cheque
A man in Texas is arrested for trying to cash a cheque for $360bn to start a record business...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
A year on
How the Madeleine case has affected Portuguese police...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
'Risk' from open prison criminals
Panorama investigates claims that unsuitable and dangerous convicts are being sent to open prisons to help solve the overcrowding crisis...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Cuba lifts ban on home computers
The first legalised home computers go on sale in Cuba, in the latest relaxation of restrictions on daily life...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Mugabe rivals reject poll result
Zimbabwe's opposition rejects presidential poll results that put it in the lead, but not by enough to avoid a run-off...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
Prayers mark McCann anniversary
Church services will be held in Portugal and Britain to mark a year since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann...
BBC News - May 3, 2008
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