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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 August 2007:
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Sunbathers 'know risks'
Many hardcore sunbathers are prepared to take the risk of skin cancer in order to get a deep tan, research shows...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Cadet, 14, dies as boat overturns
A 14-year-old girl dies after a boat carrying a party of army cadets overturns in a sea loch in the Western Isles...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Afghans 'wounded in air strike'
About 50 Afghan civilians are wounded in an airstrike by US-led forces on Taleban leaders in Helmand...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Metal claw crushes man to death
A 24-year-old man is crushed to death by a mechanical claw while in a van at a Hampshire scrapyard...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Foot-and-mouth fears shut ports
NI ports are shut to livestock imports following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth on a farm in Surrey...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Sarkozy backs arms deal inquiry
France's president says he is willing to back an inquiry into a controversial arms deal with Libya...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Leeds hit with 15-point penalty
Leeds are given permission to start the forthcoming League One season but only with a 15-point penalty...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Athletics: Gay claims 100m win
American Tyson Gay wins the 100m at the London Grand Prix with Britain's Marlon Devenish third...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Big US slump ends volatile week
US stock markets fall heavily after a volatile week, prompted by uncertainty over the economy...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Teenage boy shot dead on street
A teenage boy is shot and killed close to a south London underground station...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Darfur rebels begin peace talks
Dozens of Darfur rebel leaders begin talks to find common ground for negotiations with Sudan's government...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Businesses 'obeying smoking law'
Most businesses were complying with the English workplace smoking ban a fortnight after its start, say officials...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Farm hit by foot-and-mouth disease
Britain bans the movement of cattle, sheep and pigs as foot-and-mouth disease is found on a Surrey farm...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Israel to Revise Plan for Stipend for Holocaust Survivors
Trying to forestall an embarrassing protest march by aged Holocaust survivors, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed today to rethink the widely criticized plan...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Queen star hands in science PhD
Guitarist Brian May submits the astronomy PhD thesis he abandoned in 1971 when he joined Queen...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Private schools seek academy cash
Independent schools could seek academy status as a way of securing their future financially, it is claimed...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Girl dies after boat turns over
A police investigation is launched after a girl dies when a boat overturns in a sea loch...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Stepmother guilty of baby torture
A stepmother is convicted of causing a baby's death because she felt he came between her and her lover...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
10-day op wait for neck break man
A man who broke his neck in a fall is still waiting for an operation in a Belfast hospital after 10 days...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Glasgow Airport attack man dies
A badly burned man detained after the suspected terror attack at Glasgow Airport dies in a Glasgow hospital...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Iraqi progress 'disappoints' US
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates expresses disappointment at the lack of political progress in Iraq...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Bush calls climate change talks
US President George Bush invites leading countries to a climate change conference in Washington in September...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
'Scores drowned' on S Leone boat
At least 65 people are missing after a boat capsizes in rough seas off the Sierra Leone coast...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Cricket: Giles in Twenty20 call
Ashley Giles wants England to be bold when they name their final squad for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Football: Ghaly move collapses
Birmingham's attempts to sign midfielder Hossam Ghaly from Tottenham falls through...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Fresh bid to rescue whale
A fresh attempt to rescue a minke whale stranded in Fraserburgh Harbour will be made...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Tevez cleared to sign for Man Utd
Carlos Tevez is cleared to leave West Ham and has passed a medical at Man Utd...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Airport man's post-mortem due
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on the body of a man involved in the terror attack in Glasgow...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Delays after Channel Tunnel fault
Lorries are being parked on the M20 in Kent after huge delays hit Channel Tunnel traffic...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Girl, 15, held in murder inquiry
Police arrest a third person - a 15-year-old girl - on suspicion of stabbing a teenage mother to death...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Marine sentenced over murder
A US marine is sentenced to time served - 448 days - and demoted for conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Firms withdraw BNP Facebook ads
Six firms withdraw adverts from the networking website Facebook after they appear near BNP content...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: New Allegations of Corrupt Police for Tijuana?s Ex-Mayor
Jorge Hank Rhon, the fabulously wealthy former mayor of Tijuana, faced new accusations of corruption in his city?s police force, just four days before voters are to decide whether he will be the new governor of Baja California. The newspaper Reforma reported that federal authorities had issued arrest warrants for two of Mr. Hank?s former police commanders, alleging the cover-up of a murder by police officers in 2005 and the killing of another police commander in 2006. Mr. Hank, 51, who operates a network of betting parlors, has been running on a promise to clean up crime in the drug-plagued state, while his political opponents have accused him of being involved in crimes ranging from money-laundering to murder. He denies any wrongdoing and has never been charged with a crime...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Sierra Leone: Court Convicts 2 More of War Crimes in Civil War
Sierra Leone?s United Nations-backed court convicted two former leaders of a pro-government militia, Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa, of war crimes, including murder, cruel treatment, pillage and issuing collective punishment. They led a militia called the Civil Defense Forces, accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during the 1991-2002 war. Mr. Kondewa was also convicted of conscripting child soldiers. The head of the militia, Sam Hinga Norman, had also been named in the indictment, but died earlier this year. No date was set for sentencing. The first sentences were handed down two weeks ago in Sierra Leone?s long-running push to hold to account those bearing the ?greatest responsibility? for atrocities that included the chopping off of limbs. The first convicted were members of a ruling junta who were sentenced to 45- to 50-year prison terms...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: 2 More Public Hangings
Two men convicted of shooting a judge to death in his car two years ago were publicly hanged from cranes on two pickup trucks in Tehran. The hangings were in front of the courthouse where the judge, Hassan Moghaddass, was killed. The executions took place a day after nine hangings in other parts of Iran...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: $32.5. Million for Undersea Cable to Link 21 Countries
The East African Submarine Cable System is to link sub-Saharan Africa to Internet and telecommunications services, giving development a boost...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Belarus Says It Will Pay Russian Gas Debt
Belarus said it would pay $460 million it owes Russia for natural gas supplies within days, signaling a possible end to another conflict that has threatened gas deliveries to Europe. Belarus accepted gas rate increases that went into effect in January and it has paid 55 percent of the bill. A Russian threat to cut off gas for Belarus today raised fears that Belarus would siphon gas and that shortages in Europe would result. Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the Belarussian president, ordered the government to pay, although it was not immediately clear where it would find the money. Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, said that there was time for a settlement, although one had not yet been reached yesterday...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Building Starts on Plant to Convert Plutonium
AIKEN, S.C., Aug. 1 ? Construction began here this week on a factory to turn plutonium recycled from nuclear weapons into fuel for civilian power reactors, a swords-to-plowshares concept first seriously proposed more than a decade ago...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
French President Chooses U.S. for His Summer Vacation
Nicolas Sarkozy plans to spend his summer vacation on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Bush Sends Warning Meant for Syria: Don?t Meddle in Lebanon
President Bush said Thursday that the United States would freeze the property and assets of anyone trying to undermine Lebanon?s democratically elected government...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian Accused in Plot to Kill a Pope, Is Dead
Mr. Antonov was arrested in 1982 for his so-called connection in the plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, but was acquitted on all charges for lack of evidence...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
House Votes to Ensure Leave for Forces in Iraq
House Democrats voted on Thursday to limit how quickly American troops can be sent back to Iraq after serving a rotation there...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Marine Is Guilty of Unpremeditated Murder of an Iraqi Man
Under military law, unpremeditated murder allows the jury to impose any punishment except the death penalty...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Anger Is Tempering Sympathy for South Korean Hostages
Sympathy in South Korea for the 21 people remaining in captivity in Afghanistan has been offset by anger over their decision to travel to such a dangerous region...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Evacuees Return After Vast Fires in Canary Islands
Most of the 13,000 people evacuated from their homes on Tenerife and Gran Canaria had returned by Thursday...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Pakistan Court Orders Musharraf Critic Released
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on Friday the release of a firebrand opposition leader sentenced to life in jail for defaming the army, in another setback to embattled President General Pervez Musharraf...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
London Police Misled Public, Report Says
The London police misinformed the British public about an innocent man shot dead by the police at a subway station in 2005, an investigation concluded...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Driver in Glasgow Airport Attack Dies From His Burns
Kafeel Ahmed, who the British authorities say drove a burning vehicle into an airport terminal in a botched terrorism attack in June, was not expected to survive...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Madrid Journal: In Cultural Haven, Cubans Need Not Choose Sides
Free from the censorship of Havana and the fervent politics of Miami, Cuban exiles are finding an outlet for cultural expressions in Spain...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
News Analysis: Zimbabwe?s Chaos: The Powerful Thrive
As millions in Zimbabwe descend into destitution, a tiny slice of the population is becoming more powerful and wealthy at their expense...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Rice Backs Appointed Palestinian Premier and Mideast Democracy
The secretary of state said that the U.S. still supported democracy in the Middle East but defended the American refusal to recognize the earlier Hamas-led government...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Passenger Train Derails in Congo, Killing 100 and Trapping Others
Most of Congo?s railroads were built more than 100 years ago, when the country was a Belgian colony, and are now seriously dilapidated...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Gates Offers Blunt Review of Progress in Iraq
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq?s sectarian factions...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Russians Plant Flag on the Arctic Seabed
It was a symbolic move to enhance the government?s disputed claim to nearly half of the floor of the Arctic Ocean and potential oil or other resources there...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
At Hussein Grave, Legend Lives as Fury Simmers
Saddam Hussein?s burial place, in his native village, offers mixed messages as his legend lives on...
New York Times - August 3, 2007
Google sidesteps mobile reports
Google refuses to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Fflam rock festival is cancelled
A Swansea rock festival is called off, weeks after promoters blamed bad weather for postponing it...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Nasa to launch Mars polar probe
Nasa prepares to launch a spacecraft to Mars, where it will search for signs of past or present life...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Schools urged to raise their game
Children's secretary Ed Balls calls on schools to raise their game and boost standards...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
'Stress risk' for British troops
Long periods of deployment are putting the forces at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study suggests...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Lib Dems plan air tax to aid rail
The Lib Dems want to put an extra £10 tax per ticket on internal flights to help fund railway improvements...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
BA profits better than expected
British Airways reports better- than-expected three month profits despite flat revenues but warns of rising fuel costs...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
E.coli guilty plea 'long overdue'
A mother whose son died in an E.coli outbreak welcomes guilty pleas from a butcher who supplied meat to his school...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Life for man who murdered mother
A man who murdered his mother with an axe as she lay in her bed is jailed for a minimum of 11 years...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Investigation into track tragedy
Safety is being reviewed at a railway crossing where a farmer was killed in an accident on Thursday...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Force cleared over stab killing
A police force acted correctly in ordering officers to wait for armed back-up during a fatal knife attack, an inquiry says...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
India-US nuclear details released
India and the US release details of how they intend to share civilian nuclear technology...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
France and Libya sign arms deal
Libya signs its first arms deal with a Western country since 2004, buying missiles and radio equipment from France...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Gazprom delays Belarus gas threat
Russia delays its threat to halve gas supplies to Belarus after a first instalment of its debt is paid...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Chinese officials admit to graft
Almost 1,800 officials confessed to corruption in June, a Chinese Communist Party watchdog says...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Senate passes child health bill
The US Senate approves a bill expanding a children's health insurance plan amid a veto threat by President Bush...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
S Leone boat tragedy 'kills 50'
At least 50 people reportedly died after a boat capsized in rough seas off the Sierra Leone coast...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Cricket: Giles in Twenty20 call
Ashley Giles wants England to be bold when they name their final squad for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Football: Smith joins Magpies
Newcastle sign Man Utd striker Alan Smith in a £6m deal...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
British clubs get tough Euro draw
Liverpool, Arsenal, Celtic and Rangers are all handed hard tasks in the qualifying round of the Champions League...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Saturn's ring mystery is solved
Scientists discover the secrets of an unusual hoop of ice and dust in Saturn's ring system...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Tougher carbon targets law urged
The government's proposals to tackle climate change need to be tougher, say MPs and peers...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Teenage mother dies in stabbing
Police make two arrests after an 18-year-old woman is stabbed to death in a late night disturbance...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Madeleine 'sighting' investigated
Police in Belgium say they are taking seriously a possible sighting of a girl fitting the description of missing Madeleine McCann...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
US bridge safety review ordered
US officials order a nationwide bridge review two days after a Minnesota bridge collapsed, killing at least four people...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Glasgow Airport attack man dies
A badly burned man detained after the suspected terror attack at Glasgow Airport dies in hospital...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Boat carrying children 'capsizes'
A search is under way on a loch following reports that a vessel carrying children has overturned...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Repossessions 'on increase'
The number of people whose homes are repossessed surges by 30%, Council of Mortgage Lenders figures show...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
Devastating floods hit South Asia
Almost 20 million people are displaced as some of the worst floods in years hit parts of South Asia...
BBC News - August 3, 2007
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