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Global News Archive for November 2007:
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500 Iraqis Freed From Crowded U.S. Detention Center
American detention centers have become increasingly overcrowded since the military surge began in February...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Beleaguered Georgian President Sets Elections
The surprise announcement appeared to be an effort to bring a swift end to domestic unrest in the capital...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Musharraf Pledges Elections by Feb. 15
Gen. Pervez Musharraf also said today that he would give up his army post before starting a new term as president of Pakistan...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Clue to cosmic rays discovered
Giant black holes are the most likely source of the high-energy cosmic rays that bombard the Earth, say scientists...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Textile factory jobs under threat
About 70 jobs are under threat at a textile company in Newtownards, County Down, a union claims...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
North Sea surge brings flood risk
A storm in the North Sea puts Britain and the Netherlands on high alert for flooding, the highest level in decades...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Chavez meets Colombia Farc rebels
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez holds talks with high level representatives of Colombia's Farc rebel group...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Football: Bolton earn Munich draw
Kevin Davies' late goal seals a historic European result for struggling Bolton and new manager Gary Megson...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Apple iPhone fever begins to grow
Eager customers begin queuing outside London's Apple Store for an iPhone, which goes on sale on Friday...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Samaritans founder dies aged 95
Tributes are paid to Dr Chad Varah, the founder of Samaritans, who has died at the age of 95...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Field of Remembrance opens
Britain's war dead are honoured at the opening of a record-sized Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Bonfire murder police charge boy
Merseyside Police charge a boy of 13 with murdering a man whose body was found in the embers of a bonfire...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
E.U. Offers Serbia a Deal Towards Eventual Membership
The deal, which must now be agreed upon by E.U. member states, stipulates that Serbia must arrest and turn over four war crime suspects indicted in the Hague...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Gates Urges More Japanese Action on Global Security
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates pressed pacifist Japan today to play a more significant role in international security...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
The Lede Blog: A Call for Eyewitness Photos, Video and Text From Pakistan
NYTimes.com is asking readers in Pakistan to help us report on events in the country...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Opposition Leader to Work With Myanmar Junta
The junta also said today that it would allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with leaders of her political party...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Beset Georgian President Sets Elections
The surprise announcement by the president of the republic of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, appeared to be an effort to bring a swift end to domestic unrest...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Musharraf Says He?ll Give Up Army Post and Hold Elections
Gen. Pervez Musharraf said today that parliamentary elections would be held before Feb. 15 and that he would give up his military uniform before starting his new term as president...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Funds freed up for UK innovation
Pioneers of research into new materials and green energy will share a £100m government fund...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Treasury releases death tax dates
The dates when ministers considered inheritance tax changes are released - after claims they stole a Tory idea...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Woods murder police 'held séance'
Officers investigating the Templeton Woods murder case visited a medium, a court is told...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Jail term cut for 'feral' killers
Two boys have their life sentences cut for beating a man to death and dumping him in a river...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Racing driver given driving ban
A racing car driver who left a man paralysed after his car hit an oncoming vehicle is banned from driving...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Sacked judge in Pakistan appeal
Pakistanis must unite and stand up for the constitution, sacked chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry tells the BBC...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Israel minister: Sack ElBaradei
A senior Israeli minister calls for the sacking of Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the UN nuclear watchdog...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Georgia to hold early elections
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili calls a snap election, after a week of anti-government protests...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Bernanke says US economy to slow
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warns the US economy will slow in the last three months of 2007...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Bodies dragged through Mogadishu
Ethiopian casualties are dragged through the streets of the Somali capital after heavy battles with insurgents...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Suu Kyi ready to talk to generals
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is ready to co-operate with Burma's military government...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
F1: Renault face McLaren charge
The Renault Formula One team could face heavy punishment after being charged with possessing secret McLaren information...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Extradition ordered for preacher
A UK court orders the extradition of a Kenyan preacher who says prayer led to "miracle babies"...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Monk jailed for schoolboys abuse
An 80-year-old monk is jailed for sexually abusing boys at a Roman Catholic school in Devon more than 30 years ago...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Tories launch 'co-op movement'
David Cameron launches the Conservative Co-operative Movement - to help people run services like schools...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Finland suicide note found
Police in Finland find a suicide note written by an 18-year-old student shortly before he shot dead eight people at his school...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Judge ruling on Meredith suspects
A Italian magistrate is to rule whether three suspects in the murder of a UK student can still be held in custody...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Bridge collapses in Dubai marina
A bridge under construction collapses in Dubai, killing seven workers and injuring 15, police say...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Flooding 'may put lives at risk'
A tidal surge along England's east coast prompts severe flood warnings and fears that lives could be at risk...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Musharraf vows polls in February
Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February, President Pervez Musharraf says after pressure from the US...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Police censured over Menezes case
Police made serious and avoidable errors in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a watchdog says...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Mills media outburst 'cathartic'
Heather Mills says she is "happy" at the public support she has received since her outburst against the media...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
NHS waiting target may be refined
The government says it may amend its waiting time target for NHS treatment to allow for clinically justified delays...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Rio Tinto snubs BHP bid approach
Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto rejects a takeover offer from BHP Billiton, saying it is too low...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Some doctors 'fail to wash hands'
Patients are urged to challenge hygiene standards as some doctors are criticised for not washing their hands during hospital rounds...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Rise in use of anti-depressants
Prescriptions of anti-depressants rise more than four-fold in Scotland, a report reveals...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Officer shot outside city school
An off-duty police officer is injured in a shooting after he leaves his child at school in Londonderry...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Afghanistan holds funeral for MPs
Funerals are held in Kabul for five Afghan MPs killed in a bombing on Tuesday in northern Baghlan province...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
White deer killed and decapitated
An elusive white deer in the Forest of Dean is knocked down by a motorist, before having its head cut off...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Irish arrest 'ex-IRA boss' Murphy
Detectives arrest alleged former IRA chief of staff Thomas "Slab" Murphy on tax-related charges...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Gambari 'meets Burma's Suu Kyi'
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari meets Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to reports...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
South Africa court blow for Zuma
South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma could face new corruption charges after a court ruling...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Rugby U: Boks name squad
World champions South Africa name a powerful squad for their tour of Britain, despite notable absences...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Football: Ferguson eyes top spot
Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson wants to top their Champions League group after reaching the knockout stage by beating Dynamo Kiev...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Halifax sees house prices slowing
The UK's biggest mortgage lender, the Halifax, says house prices fell by 0.5% in October...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
UK rates unchanged at 5.75%
The Bank of England keeps UK interest rates unchanged at 5.75% for the fourth month in a row in a widely expected move...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
State of emergency in Georgia
Troops and police enforce a state of emergency in Georgia's capital after clashes with opposition protesters...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Finland mourns shooting victims
A national day of mourning is being held in Finland after a student shoots dead seven fellow pupils and a teacher...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
More forces cash demanded
Britain's armed forces are under-funded and over-stretched, say former military chiefs and senior politicians...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Woman guilty of terror offence
A student found guilty of keeping terrorist manuals is the first UK woman convicted under the Terrorism Act...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Musharraf 'in February poll vow'
Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February, state television quotes President Pervez Musharraf as saying...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Menezes report urges shooting debate
A public debate on shooting suspected suicide bombers is needed after the Menezes case, a police watchdog says...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Names of the Dead
The Department of Defense has identified 3,846 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this week:...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Poland: Walesa to Have Heart Transplant
Lech Walesa, Poland?s first president after Communism, said he would have a heart transplant in Houston...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Dubai: Court Hears French Boy?s Rape Testimony
A 15-year-old French boy testified for two and a half hours in the trial of two Emirati men accused of raping him at knife point in July...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Heavy Fighting
Fighting intensified in the war-wracked north as the government asked Parliament for a 20 percent increase in military spending...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Parliament Suspends Arms Treaty Compliance
Parliament?s lower house to suspend participation in a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Nigeria: Charges Against American Dropped
Prosecutors dropped charges against an American activist arrested in September while doing research for a documentary film about the troubled, oil-rich Niger Delta...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
U.N. Objects to Expulsion of Aid Official From Darfur
The official, Wael Al-Haj Ibrahim, was ordered out by the governor of South Darfur state but allowed to stay in Sudan...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Thailand Race Begins
Official campaigning for Thailand?s first general elections since last year?s military coup began Wednesday as 18 parties registered for the Dec. 23 balloting...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Radioactive Dumping Is Reported in Congo
Officials in Congo are investigating reports that 18 tons of highly radioactive minerals were dumped into a river in Katanga Province, in southeastern Congo...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Wanted in Germany, Terrorism Suspect Arrested in Turkey
Turkish police have arrested a suspect in what the German authorities said was a plot to conduct a series of deadly bombings against German and American targets...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Villahermosa Journal: Mexican Floods Push Families to Last Islands of Home
There are thousands of people living on the roofs and the top floors of their houses in Villahermosa, much of which is underwater after the gulf state of Tabasco flooded last week...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Student Kills 8, and Himself, at Finnish High School
Seven children and a principal were killed Wednesday when an 18-year-old student opened fire at a school, hours after he posted a video on YouTube foreshadowing the massacre...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
North Korea Still a Threat, South Korean Tells Gates
A senior State Department expert on Korea said that he had confirmation that work had begun to disable North Korea?s nuclear facilities at the main Yongbyon complex...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Gunmen Attack Opponents of Chávez?s Bid to Extend Power
Masked gunmen shot into a group of students returning from a march protesting changes to the Constitution on Wednesday at Venezuela?s most prestigious university...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Romanian Premier Tries to Calm Italy After a Killing
Italy?s national debate on immigration and crime continued as the Romanian prime minister and his Italian counterpart discuss the integration of Romanians to Italy...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Congress Warms to France?s New President
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France was greeted with cheers and standing ovations from lawmakers on Wednesday...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says
American forces have routed Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from every neighborhood of Baghdad, a top general said...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Iraq Plans to Confront Security Firms on Guns
Iraq?s interior minister said he would authorize raids on Western security firms to ensure they were complying with stricter licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
U.S. Prods Musharraf to End Emergency Rule
The Bush administration is contacting army generals in Pakistan and encouraging back-channel negotiations...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
Georgian Leader Imposes a State of Emergency
Riot police employed extensive force Wednesday in the face of protests against the country?s pro-Western government...
New York Times - November 8, 2007
UK universities rise up rankings
Britain's performance in a league table of universities has improved, but the US still dominates...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Ice expedition tests 'successful'
The first tests on hi-tech equipment that will be used to provide data on the current state of Arctic ice are successful...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Brown ally critical of tax reform
A close ally of Gordon Brown joins criticism of plans to reform capital gains tax unveiled by Alistair Darling...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Vitamin D 'may help slow ageing'
A vitamin made when sunlight hits the skin could help slow down the ageing of cells and tissues, say researchers...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Talks held on council tax freeze
The Scottish Government is to hold fresh talks about freezing council tax with local authority representatives...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Zia aide arrested in Bangladesh
A top aide of Bangladesh's ex-PM Khaleda Zia is arrested for trying to lead a street protest, police say...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Football: Arsenal reach next stage
Arsenal qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League after drawing against Slavia Prague...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Football: Barcelona sink Rangers
Barcelona go three points clear at the top of Champions League Group E after cruising to victory over Rangers...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Ditched asylum centre cost £28m
The government's spending watchdog has attacked the Home Office for spending £28m on an asylum detention centre that it never built...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Tories unveil 'co-op school' plan
David Cameron is to help set up "co-operatives" - and unveil proposals to let them run schools in England...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Group calls for defence increase
Three former chiefs of the defence staff form a group to call for an increased defence budget...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Support for child chickenpox jabs
Researchers say vaccinating all children against chickenpox is the only way to stop deaths from the illness...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Judge to consider Meredith case
An Italian judge is deciding if three people can be kept in custody over the death of Briton Meredith Kercher...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Bush urges Musharraf on election
US President George W Bush tells Pakistan's leader by phone to step down as army chief and hold elections soon...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
Watchdog releasing Menezes report
The Independent Police Complaints Commission report on the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting is due out...
BBC News - November 8, 2007
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