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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 Octomber 2007:
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Afghans Pressed by U.S. on Plan to Spray Poppies
U.S. officials have found supporters within President Hamid Karzai?s government of their push to spray herbicide on opium poppies...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Myanmar Reaches Out to Dissident
The military junta in Myanmar said that it had named its deputy labor minister to act as a liaison with the opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Students in Iran Protest President
More than 100 prodemocracy students clashed with supporters of the president today at Tehran University...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Army Accused of Razing Darfur Town
A town in Darfur near the African Union peacekeeper base that was attacked last month has been razed to the ground and 7,000 residents have fled...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Britain to Cut Its Force in Iraq by Half
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the number of British troops would fall to 2,500 from about 5,000 by next spring...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
A Revolutionary Icon, and Now, a Bikini
Forty years after his death, Che Guevara is as much a marketing tool as he is an icon of socialist revolution...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Reforms 'improve teachers lives'
Classroom reforms have improved teachers' lives but schools lack evidence of better learning, Ofsted says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
EU treaty 'same as Constitution'
The EU treaty is "substantially equivalent" to the discarded constitution and the UK's opt-outs must be clear, MPs say...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Tax credits 'harsh and unfair'
The Parliamentary Ombudsman dubs the tax credit system "harsh and unfair" to the UK's poorest families...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Safety glass may have saved lives
The father of a teenager killed in the Ufton Nervet rail crash tells an inquest that safety glass could have saved her...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
84-year-old assaulted with hammer
An 84-year-old man is in hospital with a serious head injury after being assaulted with a hammer in County Armagh...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Pakistani border death toll rises
Forty-five Pakistani soldiers and 130 militants die in two days of fighting near the Afghan border, the army says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Football: Jones returns medals
Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones returns the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics after admitting taking a banned substance...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Pilot sacked after footballer visit
A pilot who let footballer Robbie Savage onto the flight deck is sacked for breaking anti-terror rules...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Plans to outlaw inciting gay hate
The government announces plans to make it a crime to incite hatred against gay people...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
£12.5m in aid pledged to farmers
The farming industry is to get £12.5m in aid to help deal with the fallout from the summer's disease outbreaks...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Talks over post strike break down
Talks aimed at ending strike action by postal workers break down, with both sides criticising each other...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Copter Escorting Musharraf Crashes
A spokesman ruled out an assassination attempt in the crash, which killed four people today...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Briton claims first gaming gold
Gamer Shaun Clark wins Britain's first gold medal at the World Cyber Games in Seattle...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Arctic Monkeys win major Q Award
Indie band Arctic Monkeys are named best act at the Q Awards, which also recognise Amy Winehouse and Muse...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Bees to make elephants 'buzz off'
African elephants' fear of bees could help keep them out of valuable crop fields, researchers suggest...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Princess Anne in helicopter scare
The Princess Royal and other passengers are evacuated from a helicopter when it develops an electrical fault...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
RBS secures takeover of ABN Amro
A consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland wins its battle to buy the Dutch bank ABN Amro...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Teenager 'killed by party drugs'
A 19-year-old girl from Ballykelly died of a heart attack after taking drugs at a party, it is claimed...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Fifty Pakistani troops 'missing'
Up to 50 Pakistani troops go missing amid fighting with militants near the Afghan border, the army says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Rail crash inquest hears of loss
A man whose partner and daughter were killed in a rail crash tells of the moment he knew they were on the train...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Iran president faces rare protest
A rare anti-government protest is held in Iran during a speech at a university by President Ahmadinejad...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Berlusconi faces new fraud charge
A Milan prosecutor lays a new charge of false accounting against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Sudanese army on Darfur offensive
The only Darfur rebel faction to sign a peace deal with the government is under attack from the army, it says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Burma junta in Suu Kyi move
Burma's military task an official with liaising with Aung San Suu Kyi in an apparent concession to UN pressure...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Football: AC Milan face inquiry
Uefa opens disciplinary proceedings against AC Milan and Dida after events at Celtic Park last week...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Football: Ajax let Chelsea talk
Ajax give Chelsea the green light to open talks with boss Henk ten Cate about adding the Dutchman to the coaching set-up at Stamford Bridge...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Anti-Iraq war protest goes ahead
Anti-war protesters have marched down Whitehall to Parliament Square, despite being told the protest was illegal...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Judge killed himself, says wife
The wife of a judge who died in a fireball in his shed was convinced he had killed himself, an inquest hears...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Menezes officer relives shooting
A police officer tells a court of the "shocking incident" of holding down Jean Charles de Menezes as he was shot dead...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Diana jury visits scene of crash
The jury hearing the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed sees the pillar the couple's car crashed into...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Jockey Fallon in 'race-fix scam'
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon and two other riders took part in a plot to make horses lose, prosecutors tell a jury...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
UK Iraq troops to be cut to 2,500
British troop numbers in Iraq will be reduced to 2,500 from next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown tells MPs...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Names of the Dead
The Department of Defense has identified 3,803 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday:...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Costa Rican President Says U.S. Trade Pact Passes
Costa Ricans voted Sunday in favor of joining the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., the president said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
For Young Jews, a Chance to Reconnect With Faith
About 145,000 young Jews from 52 countries have traveled to Israel as part of a program meant to strengthen meaningful religious connections...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Helicopter Escorting Musharraf Crashes, Killing 4
Officials said that one of three helicopters escorting Pakistan?s leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, crashed. An official said technical problems were to blame...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, a ?Soldier of Orange?, is Dead at 90
Mr. Hazelhoff Roelfzema was acclaimed as one of the Netherlands? greatest World War II heroes for leading missions against Nazi occupiers of his homeland...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Jerusalem Journal: As Farmers and Fields Rest, a Land Grows Restless
As Israel?s Jews start a new year, the country finds itself in the middle of a fierce dispute over a religious mandate that requires land to be left fallow every seven years...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Doherty suicide claims 'untrue'
Claims that singer Pete Doherty attempted suicide while in rehab are "totally untrue", his manager says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Review of grammar abolition polls
Ministers are to review the system by which parents can vote on the future of grammar schools in England...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Ice melt raises passage tension
In a sign of potential friction in a warming Arctic, Canada says it will step up patrols of the North West Passage...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Price change delays BAA financing
Airports owner BAA says a charging shake-up by competition watchdogs may delay its refinancing until next year...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Probe into Labour's 'robocalls'
Complaints about Labour's use of automated phone calls are being investigated by the Information Commissioner...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Man in coma after mosquito bite
A holidaymaker is left in a coma after becoming the first suspected European victim of a deadly virus...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Nobel prize for Cardiff professor
A professor at Cardiff University is awarded the Nobel prize for medicine for his stem cell work...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Victims' post to be readvertised
The victims' commissioner post is to be readvertised, the first minister and deputy first minister say...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Protesters raid coal power plant
More than 50 Greenpeace campaigners stage a protest at a coal-fired power station in north Kent...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Pakistan army vice-chief sworn in
The new deputy head of Pakistan's army is sworn in as fighting in Waziristan leaves scores dead...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Israel hints at Jerusalem talks
Jerusalem's status will be on the agenda at next month's Mid-East conference, Israel's vice premier hints...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
China reels after Typhoon Krosa
Some five million people are affected after Typhoon Krosa devastates China's south-eastern coast...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
UN heads into razed Darfur town
UN observers go back into the Darfur town that was burned and looted under Sudanese government control...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Football: Bruce fears Blues exit
Birmingham boss Steve Bruce says his six-year reign may come to an end when Carson Yeung takes over the club...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Rugby U: England fitness boost
Coach Brian Ashton should have a fully fit squad available for Saturday's World Cup semi-final with France...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Gene work scoops Nobel Prize
Groundbreaking work in gene technology wins three scientists a share of the Nobel Prize for medicine...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Public had 'false' hope for Basra
The public had "false and inflated expectations" of what British troops could achieve in Iraq, the head of the armed forces says...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Boy killed in phone row
A teenager is stabbed to death in east London following a row over a mobile phone...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Doctor training 'overhaul needed'
An independent inquiry calls for changes to doctor training reforms in the wake of this year's recruitment furore...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Prosecute security firm, Iraq says
Iraq calls for guards from US security firm Blackwater to be prosecuted for the shooting of 17 civilians last month...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Interpol in rare sex abuse appeal
A global appeal is launched to identify a man shown sexually abusing children in images posted on the web...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Brown denies polls changed mind
Gordon Brown rejects suggestions he changed his mind on holding a snap election because of poor polls...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Democracy Rally in Hong Kong
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Hong Kong took part in a democracy march and a world-record breaking attempt using umbrellas, calling for a faster pace of democratic reforms and direct elections in 2012...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Typhoon Kills 4 on Taiwan, Weakens and Heads for Mainland
A typhoon lashed Taiwan with intense winds and rains on Saturday, cutting power to thousands of homes and leaving at least two men missing in the capital...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Syrian Plane Crashes Near Damascus, Killing 3
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A small plane crashed in an empty field south of Damascus on Sunday, killing the three-member crew on board, Syria's state-run news agency and witnesses said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Kurdish Rebels Kill 13 Soldiers on Turkish Border With Iraq
Kurdish rebels shot and killed 13 Turkish soldiers on Sunday, in an attack that is likely to put more pressure on the government to authorize a cross-border strike against Kurdish bases in Iraq...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Scores Killed in Pakistani Tribal Areas
At least 58 people, including 16 soldiers, were killed Sunday in two battles between militants and troops in North Waziristan...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Myanmar Junta Renews Pressure on Monks
The government announced dozens of new arrests, and said that weapons had been seized from monasteries as it stepped up pressure on monks that led pro-democracy rallies...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Vandal Punches Hole in a Monet in Paris
Intruders left a tear close to four inches long in the painting ?The Argenteuil Bridge,? at the Orsay Museum...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Gaza Rocket Is Said to Have Longer Range
Palestinian militants fired a Katyusha rocket in a rare instance of the use of a more sophisticated missile than the usual crude, Gaza-made Qassams...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
British Prime Minister Opts Not to Have Elections in November
Prime Minister Gordon Brown?s decision was apparently prompted by the success of the Conservative Party?s annual conference...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Killer of Russian Journalist Is Known, Editor Says
Russian prosecutors know the identity of the man who killed a journalist in a contract-style killing, her newspaper is reporting...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Blackwater Shootings ?Murder,? Iraq Says
The Iraqi prime minister?s office said Sunday that an inquiry found that Blackwater guards who shot Iraqi civilians three weeks ago were unprovoked...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
U.S. Renews Bid to Destroy Opium Poppies in Afghanistan
American officials have found some supporters within President Hamid Karzai?s administration of their push to spray herbicide on opium poppies, officials said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Immigration, Black Sheep and Swiss Rage
An extreme right-wing party has taken a hard line on foreigners and helped turn Switzerland?s election campaign in to a debate over the place of immigrants...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Farmland yields to major wetland
One of Europe's largest coastal wetland habitats is to be created on farmland at Wallasea Island in Essex...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Costa Rica supports US trade deal
The president of Costa Rica says the country has given its backing to a free trade deal with the United States...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
World troubles affect parenthood
One in seven adults is reluctant to have children because of world troubles, a survey finds...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Diana inquest jury on Paris visit
The jury hearing the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed will spend the day in Paris...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Post workers resume strike action
Postal workers have gone on strike again, following their first 48-hour stoppage last week...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Gunman kills six in US Midwest
Six young people are dead after a mass shooting in the Midwestern US state of Wisconsin...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
PM to hit back at no election critics
Gordon Brown will hit back at criticism of his decision not to hold an election when he faces the press and MPs...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
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