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Global News Archive for December 2006:
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7 London Bar Workers Test Positive for Radiation
Questions about the radiation poisoning death of a former Russian agent moved in new directions today...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Israel Disputes Connection to Iraq Turmoil
The Iraq panel is wrong to see a linkage between the Israeli-Arab conflict and the problems in Iraq, Israel’s prime minister said today...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Bush Expresses Caution on Key Points in Iraq Panel’s Report
President Bush distanced himself today from the Iraq Study Group’s central recommendations: pulling back all combat brigades over the next 15 months and direct talks with Iran and Syria...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Infertility advice is 'lacking'
Fertility clinics are failing to provide enough information to potential patients, a regulator says...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Strike to hit Iceland deliveries
Festive deliveries to Iceland stores in London, the South East and East Anglia are to be hit by a series of strikes...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Jeweller held in hostage ordeal
A male jeweller who was taken hostage during an attempted robbery in Belfast is released unharmed...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Hezbollah leader urges defiance
Hezbollah's leader vows to continue mass protests in Beirut aimed at ousting Lebanon's government...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
HP pays $14.5m to end 'spy' probe
Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay $14.5m to settle a lawsuit over its much-criticised probe into a boardroom leak...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Rapist asylum seeker due pay-out
A failed asylum seeker convicted of rape is to be awarded damages after being unlawfully detained in prison...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Russia poisoning inquiry widens
Russia is to investigate the attempted poisoning of a contact of murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Russian Businessman Questioned in Ex-Spy’s Poisoning
British police also said they were treating Alexander V. Litvinenko’s death as a case of murder...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Son of Liberia’s Ex-Leader Charged in Miami Under Anti-Torture Law
The son of Charles G. Taylor was charged in Miami for a violent crime during interrogation of an opposition figure in Monrovia...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Mary J Blige leads Grammys list
R&B star Mary J Blige leads the nominations for the American music industry's Grammy Awards...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
'Spy hotel' workers test positive
Seven workers at a hotel where Alexander Litvinenko held a meeting test positive for radioactive polonium-210...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Partial recovery for Iraq marshes
Iraq's marshlands are about halfway restored to their 1970s condition, according to the United Nations...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Manhole error left OAP paraplegic
A drainage company is fined £16,000 after a pensioner was paralysed when he fell down an uncovered manhole...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Minister avoids migrant forecast
The UK's immigration minister says it would be "unwise" to predict migrant numbers from Bulgaria and Romania...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Loyalist was involved in murder
A leading member of the LVF is found guilty of involvement in the murder of a Portadown grandmother...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Family's death trio verdict fury
A jury returns a not proven dangerous driving verdict after three people die in a road crash...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Animal rights fire-bomber jailed
A man is jailed for conducting an arson campaign against people he thought had links with the vivisection industry...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'
Microscopic plastic debris could be poisoning the world's oceans, according to a British team of scientists...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Football: Boateng red scrapped
Middlesbrough midfielder George Boateng has his red card against Tottenham rescinded following an appeal...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Death boat 'inherently unstable'
Poor safety equipment and an unqualified crew contributed to the deaths of nine Britons when a boat capsized in Bahrain...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Six hurt as tornado hits London
Buildings are wrecked and people are hit by flying debris as a tornado sweeps through several streets...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Paris riot probe confirms chase
A French police report confirms police chased two boys whose deaths sparked riots last year, a lawyer says...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Diana pre-inquest hearing public
The coroner in charge of the Princess Diana inquest is to hold hearings in public next year...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Bush: No early Iran-Syria talks
US President George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair reject early talks with Iran and Syria over Iraq...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Litvinenko contact 'is in coma'
A Russian businessman who met ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is now in a coma, a Russian agency says...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Nintendo Wii debut for UK gamers
Nintendo's Wii videogames console goes on sale at midnight on Thursday to UK gamers...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Weather threat to shuttle launch
Possible rain and clouds threaten to delay Thursday's launch of space shuttle Discovery...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Eastwood win begins award season
The Oscars countdown starts as Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima wins a major US film prize...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
House price inflation 'picks up'
Annual house price inflation rose to 9.6% in November, according to the latest survey from the Halifax bank...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Threatened diplomat back at work
An Irish government official forced to move from Belfast after a loyalist death threat is back in Northern Ireland...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Fatal shooting inquiry continues
Detectives are expected to reveal more information about a fatal shooting near to a Glasgow primary school...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
'Several leads' in charity death
Police in India say they are examining several leads as part of their inquiry into the apparent murder of a charity worker from Swansea...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Violence 'eroding Afghan hopes'
Rising violence is eroding Afghan optimism, but a majority are hopeful for the future, an ABC/BBC poll finds...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Nurses threatened by 'armed man'
Two nurses and a doctor are threatened on a ward by a patient who was thought to be armed...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Colombia group ends peace process
Colombia's right-wing paramilitaries pull out of a peace deal over the prison transfer of jailed leaders...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Turkey 'will open up to Cyprus'
The EU says Turkey's offer to admit Cypriot traffic could be an "important step" in reviving its EU membership bid...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
UN urges freedoms for Arab women
Discrimination against women is stopping economic and social development in the Arab World, the UN reports...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Islamist warning for Somali force
The powerful Islamists in Somalia warn they will fight peacekeepers, after the UN backs a peace force...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Opposition mounts to Fijian coup
Powerful tribal and church leaders in Fiji express growing opposition to Tuesday's military coup...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Primary schools miss test targets
This year's league tables of England's primary schools confirm the government missed its targets for test results...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Cricket: Vaughan return ruled out
England coach Duncan Fletcher does not believe Michael Vaughan can get fully fit for this Ashes series...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Boxing: Harrison out of title fight
WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison withdraws from his title defence against Nicky Cook...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Seminole tribe in Hard Rock deal
Leisure company Rank Group agrees to sell its Hard Rock Cafe chain to the Seminole tribe of Florida for $965m...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Interest rates kept on hold at 5%
UK interest rates have been kept on hold at 5% following the latest meeting of the Bank of England...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Expert drug trial safety advice
A report into the drug trial which almost killed six men recommends how to avoid such mistakes again...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
MySpace to 'block sex offenders'
Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and block US sex offenders from its site...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Offenders breach half of Asbos
About half of anti-social behaviour orders have been breached in England and Wales, new figures suggest...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Iraq to dominate Bush-Blair talks
US President Bush and Tony Blair are due to meet at the White House, a day after a damning report on Iraq...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Israeli Official Discusses Iran and His Controversial Agenda
The portfolio for Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s new minister for strategic affairs, includes developing the country’s strategy on Iran...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Senate Confirms Gates as Secretary of Defense
The Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm Robert M. Gates as defense secretary in a 95-to-2 vote...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Military Analysis: Will It Work on the Battlefield?
The military recommendations issued by the Iraq Study Group run counter to assessments made by some of its own military advisers...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
News Analysis: A Blueprint for Iraq: Will It Work in the White House?
President Bush faces the question of whether he is ready to embrace the spirit of the Iraq Study Group report and produce a new approach of his own...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Panel Urges Basic Shift in U.S. Policy in Iraq
The blueprint for a different approach includes the pullback of all American combat brigades over the next 15 months...
New York Times - December 7, 2006
Musicians sign copyright advert
More than 4,500 recording artists sign a newspaper advert calling for an extension of sound recordings copyright...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Study backs Libya HIV case medics
Scientists have cast doubt on charges that six foreign medics deliberately infected Libyan children with HIV...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
US official due for nuclear talks
Top US official Nicholas Burns is due in India for talks on a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Corby 'tops' Asbo watchdog report
More than half of all anti-social behaviour orders issued in England have been breached, a report finds...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
UN backs peace force for Somalia
The UN Security Council authorises a regional force to support Somalia's weak transitional government...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
New Fiji PM defends coup action
Fiji's newly-installed prime minister says the Pacific island's recent coup was "illegal" but necessary...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Afghan optimism hit by violence
A poll in Afghanistan suggests optimism over the country's future has fallen sharply over the last year...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Knife amnesties 'have no effect'
Knife amnesties have no real impact on reducing knife crime, a Met Police report obtained by the BBC says...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
More than half of Asbos breached
About 55% of anti-social behaviour orders have been breached, a government spending watchdog says...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Nurse is held hostage at gunpoint
A nurse is held hostage at gunpoint by a man who walked onto a ward and demanded drugs...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Funeral for ex-KGB spy Litvinenko
The body of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is to be buried in a special air-tight coffin in London later...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
Bush ponders Iraq study response
US President George W Bush says he is evaluating the implications of a damning report on US policy in Iraq...
BBC News - December 7, 2006
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