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Global News Archive for November 2005:
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U.S. Envoy to Meet Darfur Rebels in Effort to Stem Violence
With the Bush administration's Sudan policy in disarray, the deputy secretary of state arrived in Kenya for a series of meetings...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
World Bank Creates $500 Million Loan Plan to Combat Bird Flu
The program is aimed at getting money to poor Southeast Asian countries struggling to combat an outbreak among birds...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
U.S. and Iraqi Forces Battle Insurgents at Border Town
Battle in the town of Husayba continued for a third day, and four U.S. soldiers were killed in a car bombing south of Baghdad...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Bush Endorses Widening of Panama Canal in Speech
The Panamanian president's friendly reception was in contrast to some of the hostility that Mr. Bush has encountered on a four-day trip to Latin America...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
House prices rise as sales fall
House prices rise over the past year despite the number of sales slipping, figures from the Land Registry show...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Man 'carried body in case on bus'
A man murdered a prostitute then caught a bus while carrying her torso in a suitcase, a court hears...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Seventh arrest over £26.5m raid
A seventh man is arrested by police investigating last December's £26.5m Northern Bank robbery...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Peru to seek Fujimori extradition
A Peruvian team goes to Chile for talks on the possible extradition to Peru of fugitive ex-leader Alberto Fujimori...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Cabinet setback for Ariel Sharon
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fails to gain parliamentary approval for two new cabinet posts...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Football: Bolton 1-0 Spurs
Bolton go third in the Premiership after beating Spurs thanks to a Kevin Nolan goal...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Man dies after N Ireland shooting
A man has died after being found with 'a number of gunshot wounds' in Armagh, say police...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
US troops accused of Iraq 'abuse'
Five US soldiers in Iraq have been charged with abusing detainees, the US military says...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Terror suspects held in Australia
Fifteen people are arrested in Australia in what police describe as an anti-terrorism operation...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Kyoto to 'reduce Europe's growth'
Meeting Kyoto targets on greenhouse gases will reduce Europe's economic growth significantly, a study finds...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Ministers firm on detention plan
The government sticks to plans to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days - but agrees to a review after a year...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
French plan curfews to stop riots
Local authorities in France are to get powers to impose curfews to curb the unrest, says the Prime Minister...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Monitors in Azerbaijan Say Election Did Not Meet Standards
Monitors reported cases of ballot stuffing and attempts to influence voters and the opposition called for demonstrations...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Hong Kong's Democracy Movement Seeks New Showdown
Roman Catholic and Protestant leaders today called for a protest on Dec. 4 against plans to expand the security legislature...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
First Death Is Reported in Paris Riots as Arson Increases
As urban unrest spread to Belgium, President Jacques Chirac called an emergency meeting of security officials...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Satellite's sea launch delayed
The Inmarsat-4 F2, one of the largest and most powerful communications satellites ever built, has its launch bumped to Tuesday...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Hudson takes action over pictures
Actress Kate Hudson starts legal action over images she says wrongly suggested she had an eating disorder...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
IOU thief spent £1m on race tips
A court hears of a financial consultant's high spending on gambling and race horses as he appears for sentencing for theft from clients and a bank...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Private school's academy plans
An independent girls' school is in negotiations over joining the state sector as a city academy...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Indian foreign minister removed
Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is stripped of his post after claims he benefited from the Iraq oil-for-food deal...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Second man charged over £26m raid
A second man appears in court charged in connection with the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Male cancer drug hits cost block
Men in Scotland with prostrate cancer will not receive a life-prolonging drug on the NHS because it is too expensive...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Football: Woodgate's injury blow
Real Madrid defender Jonathan Woodgate will be out for four weeks with a hamstring injury...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Liberia 'ready' for post-war poll
Officials say everything is in place for Liberia's presidential run-off on Tuesday - the first after the end of 14 years of war...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
'US does not torture,' Bush says
President George Bush defends the US treatment of detainees amid allegations the CIA ran secret prisons...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Observers condemn Azeri election
International observers say Azerbaijan's parliamentary election fell short of democratic standards...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Gloomy estimate of bird flu costs
A global bird flu pandemic could punch a vast hole in the world's economy, a high-level conference hears...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Clamping 'to cut court workload'
Lord Falconer says more wheel clamping "would be a good idea" to cut the number of low-level offences going to court...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Writer John Fowles dies aged 79
French Lieutenant's Woman author John Fowles dies aged 79 after battling a long illness...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Cricket: Vaughan could miss Test
England captain Michael Vaughan could find out on Tuesday if his knee injury will end his tour of Pakistan...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Fiance admits Valentine murder
A man pleads guilty to the murder of his fiancee Joanne Nelson, whom he reported missing on Valentine's Day...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Liner docks after pirate attack
A cruise liner attacked by pirates off Somalia docks in the Seychelles after a grenade is removed from a cabin...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Beef ban on older cattle lifted
A nine-year ban on the sale of beef for human consumption from cattle aged over 30 months is lifted...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Compromise offered on terror plan
Ministers are to compromise on the time terror suspects can be held without charge, to try to win MPs' approval...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
French violence hits fresh peak
Unrest across France reaches new levels, as hundreds are arrested and an apparent victim of the violence dies...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Surge in Violence in Sudan Erodes Hope
After nearly three years of violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, experts acknowledge that the international efforts to stanch the bloodshed cannot succeed...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Talking books' 70th anniversary
The RNIB's talking book service is marking 70 years of making books available to visually impaired people...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
World premiere for Potter movie
The stars of the fourth Harry Potter film, the Goblet of Fire, attend the film's world premiere in London...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Pipe bomb attack on family's home
A woman and her son and daughter escape injury in a pipe bomb attack on their County Antrim home...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Go-ahead for live liver donations
Scotland is set to become the first part of the UK to allow living liver donations to take place between adults...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
E.coli tests after four new cases
A south Wales school remains closed while tests are carried out to find the source of E.coli among pupils...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Brown 'must cut public spending'
The CBI warns the chancellor that he must cut back on public spending plans in order to fill a £10bn budget gap...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Davis woos 'wristband generation'
Tory leadership contender David Davis says he is targeting the "wristband generation" of younger voters...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
More hospitals offered 'freedom'
More hospitals are to get the chance to be freed from government control under the foundation trust scheme...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Burma confirms capital to move
Burma's military junta confirms it has begun moving parts of the government to a new jungle location...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Fujimori arrested on Chile visit
Chile arrests fugitive former Peruvian leader Alberto Fujimori just hours after he arrives for a surprise visit...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Syria mulls UN interview request
Syria says it is considering a UN request to question six officials in connection with the killing of Rafik Hariri...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
US-India protest draws thousands
Thousands of people demonstrate against a joint US-India air force exercise in eastern India...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Swept away boy's clothing found
Clothing belonging to one of two boys swept away by a wave off the Dorset coast has been found...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Film file-sharer sent to prison
A Hong Kong man is jailed in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Two million face 'work bullying'
Bullying at work has affected two million people in the past six months, a TUC survey suggests...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Britons praised at royal musical
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall hear Britons praised at a revamped version of a musical in San Francisco...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Cricket: Vaughan injury fear
England captain Michael Vaughan is taken to hospital for a scan after injuring his right knee against Pakistan A...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Football: Mourinho defiant
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho insists his side will win the Premiership title despite Sunday's defeat to Man Utd...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Protest strike at Ethiopia deaths
Ethiopia's opposition launch a week-long strike after the deaths of at least 46 people in last week's demonstrations...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Nazi war criminal dies in Britain
The only man to have been convicted in Britain of Nazi war crimes dies in Norwich prison, aged 84...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Tear gas fired at Kashmir border
Pakistani police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry Kashmiris as the de facto border opens for quake relief...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
NI police seek compensation
Thousands of police officers begin a civil action to seek compensation for the trauma of the Troubles...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Greenhouse gas 'to rise by 50%'
Global greenhouse gas emissions and energy demand will rise by 52% by 2030, the IEA warns...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
China mass cull tackles bird flu
Six million poultry are culled in a Chinese province hit by bird flu, as talks on tackling the virus' spread begin in Geneva...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
French violence hits fresh peak
Nearly 1,500 cars are burned and many police injured in France's worst night of violence since the unrest began...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Clarke 'to cut detentions limit'
Charles Clarke is to cut the length of time he proposes allowing police to hold terror suspects without trial...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Marine Killed in Ambush on Iraq-Syria Border
A marine was killed in an ambush during a sweep on the Iraqi-Syrian border. He was the first American to die in the operation...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
China Says Three Cases May Be Bird Flu
China announced that three people in which pneumonia was initially diagnosed, including a girl who died, are now suspected to have had bird flu...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities
Rioters fired shotguns at police just hours after President Jacques Chirac called a special meeting to confront the violence...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Bush, Replying to Chávez, Urges Latin Americans to Follow U.S.
President Bush delivered a tough speech aimed at Hugo Chavez, calling on Latin America to choose an American-supported "vision of hope."...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
No Evidence of Pressure on Iraq Data, Senator Says
The Republican leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that the panel's initial work had found no evidence of "political manipulation or pressure."...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Azerbaijan Votes, Amid Accusations of Fraud and Abuse
Voters in Azerbaijan cast their ballots for Parliament amid fresh allegations of fraud and government abuse...
New York Times - November 7, 2005
Patients 'to get two-GP option'
Patients will be allowed to register with two GPs under plans being discussed by ministers...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Schools study hints at selection
The economic backgrounds of pupils in many primary schools do not reflect their communities, a study says...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Flight improvements for Highlands
The first minister announces a £6m package for a new air travel hub serving the Highlands and Islands...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Magistrates' courts face shake-up
Thousands may be sentenced in their absence as the Lord Chancellor suggests altering the way magistrates' courts work...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Ethiopia PM regrets protest dead
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi express regrets over the death of at least 46 people in anti-government protests...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Six million birds culled in China
Six million poultry have been culled in a Chinese province hit by bird flu, as talks on the disease are due to begin in Geneva...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
French police shot by rioting mob
Some 30 police are injured by shots and stones near Paris, as President Chirac vows to end riots across France...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Labour seeks terror plan deal
The government is to meet the opposition and backbench critics to try to reach a deal on its anti-terror plans...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Gory burger ads target young
Images of burgers filled with bone and gristle are to appear across the UK in a campaign to improve children's diets...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Pension system reform demanded
The pension system must be made fairer to carers and people looking after children, say equal opportunities campaigners...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
Extra terror victim cash rejected
The home secretary rejects calls for victims of terror attacks to be given more compensation...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
US death row escapee recaptured
A double murderer facing the death penalty is recaptured in Louisiana after three days on the run...
BBC News - November 7, 2005
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