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Global News Archive for November 2006:
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Israelis to Pursue Offensive in Gaza Strip
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Israeli military would not halt its offensive until Palestinian rocket fire was significantly reduced...
New York Times - November 5, 2006
Africa focus for climate summit
The latest round of UN climate talks starting in Nairobi will focus on measures to "climate-proof" poor countries...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
£1m asked for Tolkien's home
A three-bedroom bungalow that used to belong to JRR Tolkien has gone on sale with an asking price of £1 million...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Youngsters trapped on fair ride
Rescue teams work to free children trapped on a fairground ride at Strathclyde Country Park near Glasgow...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Somali Islamists back peace talks
Somalia's Islamist leaders agree to hold new peace talks with the interim government to avert all-out war...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Turkish ex-PM Bulent Ecevit dies
Five-times Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit, a key figure who ordered troops into Cyprus in 1974, dies aged 81...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Six die in four separate crashes
Police confirm that six people have been killed in four separate accidents on Scotland's roads...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Iraqi PM hails Saddam's sentence
The Iraqi prime minister says the sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death is "a verdict on a whole dark era"...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Jolie tours refugee camp in India
Actress Angelina Jolie takes a break from filming in India to meet refugees from Afghanistan and Burma...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Political backing for Mark's Law
The mother of a boy killed by a sex offender wins backing for families to be told about paedophiles in their area...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Ladbrokes in 888 takeover talks
Gambling group Ladbrokes confirms it is in takeover talks with online gaming firm 888 Holdings...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Bomb explosions kill 15 in Assam
At least 15 people are killed in bomb blasts in India's north-eastern state of Assam blamed on separatist rebels...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Man killed by bonfire explosion
A man is killed when an object, thought to be a gas cannister, explodes in a bonfire...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
NI lawyer criticises Saddam trial
A NI solicitor who advised Saddam Hussein's legal team criticises the court that sentenced him to death...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Taiwan's Chen denies graft charge
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian rejects corruption allegations and refuses to quit despite mounting pressure...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Nicaragua votes for new president
Nicaraguans are voting to decide whether ex-Marxist leader Daniel Ortega should be the next president...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Deaths mount in Gazan offensive
Three Palestinians are killed in Gaza as Israel vows to pursue its continuing offensive in the territory...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Mogadishu talks to avert conflict
The speaker of Somalia's parliament is in Mogadishu for talks with Islamists to try to avert an all-out war...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Armistice Day silence 'relevant'
The traditional two-minute silence held to mark Armistice Day remains relevant to 85% of Britons, a survey finds...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Three die in six-vehicle pile-up
Police confirm that three people are killed and four seriously injured in a six vehicle pile-up on the A75 west of Dumfries...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Reid denies 'surrender' to Brown
John Reid rejects media talk of a "war" with Gordon Brown, saying they are focused on "the people's priorities"...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
US pastor admits sex 'immorality'
Disgraced US evangelist Rev Ted Haggard confesses that he is guilty of "sexual immorality"...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Bid to overhaul Europe power grid
Italy's prime minister calls for a central power authority to prevent the cuts which blacked out West Europe...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Man held over 1975 child murder
A man is arrested over the murder of a 11-year-old girl on Yorkshire moorland more than 30 years ago...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death
An Iraqi special tribunal found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity for the brutal repression of a Shiite town in the 1980s and sentenced him to death by hanging. In spite of an intense security clampdown, public celebration broke out around Iraq...
New York Times - November 5, 2006
Guatemalan Adoption System Under Scrutiny
Critics of Guatemala’s adoption system say it has turned a country of 12 million people into a virtual baby farm...
New York Times - November 5, 2006
South Korea pushes mobile speeds
BBC Click reports on the advances being made in South Korea to deliver blisteringly fast wireless broadband...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Kylie prepares for tour comeback
Kylie Minogue returns to Australia to resume her world tour, 18 months after being diagnosed with breast cancer...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Ladbrokes 'in 888 takeover talks'
Gambling group Ladbrokes are in talks to buy troubled online gaming firm 888 Holdings, a report says...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Government hails Saddam verdict
The government welcomes the conviction of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by a Baghdad court...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Man held over 1975 moors murder
An Oldham man is arrested over the murder of a 10-year-old girl on Yorkshire moorland more than 30 years ago...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Woman is killed in car accident
A 21-year-old woman dies following a car accident near Ballymoney in County Antrim, police say...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Flat body murder inquiry launched
Detectives launch a murder investigation following the discovery of a man's body at a block of flats in Cardiff...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Cranes unload giant ship's cargo
Six giant cranes unload 3,000 containers of Christmas goods from a ship said to be the world's largest container vessel...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Impact of verdict
A defining moment or more chaos for Iraq?...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Saddam's last show
The ex-leader's courtroom performance...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Courtroom clashes
Excerpts from some of the trial highlights...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Saddam Hussein sentenced to death
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
U.S. Backs Hot Line in Iraq to Solicit Tips About Trouble
Many Iraqis say they cannot get through to Iraq’s widely publicized 24-hour terrorism hot line or have seen no response to their tips...
New York Times - November 5, 2006
Goldsmith may have honours say
The attorney general is not ruling out having the final say on possible charges in the cash-for-honours inquiry...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Teenager dead after street fight
A teenage boy is dead and three others are in hospital after a fight between youths, police say...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Lottery plan for Bosnian weapons
Lottery prizes are on offer for Bosnians who hand in illegal weapons in a month-long UN scheme getting under way...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Golf: Scott takes PGA lead
Australia's Adam Scott takes a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA Tour Championship...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Pupils put off science, peers say
Pupils in England find science A-levels too difficult and other subjects more "funky", a House of Lords report says...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Plan for school drug-test trials
The government is asking schools to join a pupil drug-testing pilot scheme - despite concerns by its own advisers...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Power cuts strike western Europe
A surge in demand due to cold weather knocks out electricity across several countries, leaving millions without power...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Benn calls for cluster bomb ban
International development secretary Hilary Benn is calling for a worldwide ban on the use of cluster bombs...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Tense Iraq awaits Saddam verdict
Saddam Hussein is to learn if he is guilty of crimes against humanity and if so, whether he should be executed...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
Bishop attacks 'Muslim hypocrisy'
A senior Church of England bishop says many Muslims are guilty of double standards in their view of the world...
BBC News - November 5, 2006
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