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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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India Debates Protocol for French Pair
Should a motorcade be allocated to Carla Bruni, the girlfriend and possible fiancée of the French president?...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Doctors Try to Stabilize Suharto
Doctors struggled to stabilize the health of the former president Suharto after a setback in which there were new signs of internal bleeding and fluid in his lungs...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Citing Persecution, Spanish Abortion Clinics Go on Strike
Private clinics in Spain, which perform most of the country?s abortions, began a five-day strike on Tuesday to protest what they said was persecution by anti-choice activists and government inspectors...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bush Assails Iran for Naval Confrontation
President Bush sharply criticized Iran for fomenting ?a dangerous situation? in an incident over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Mideast Leaders Agree to Core Talks
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders authorized the start of negotiations on the sensitive core issues of the conflict...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Life on Alert in an Israeli Town
Sderot, Israel, a working-class town less than two miles from Gaza, has been repeatedly hit with rockets...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Freed Richey reunited with family
Death row Scot Kenny Richey spends his first day of freedom being reunited with family in the US...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Girl dies as dress catches fire
A three-year-old County Fermanagh girl dies from serious burns after her dress caught fire...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US releases Iran stand-off video
The US releases video of a US-Iranian stand-off in the Gulf, condemned by President Bush as "provocative"...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Football: Late win for Chelsea
Joleon Lescott scores an injury-time own goal to hand Chelsea the advantage after the first leg of their Carling Cup semi final...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Rock shareholder warns Treasury
Northern Rock shareholder SRM warns the Treasury not to nationalise Northern Rock for less than a fair price...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Man charged over fatal stabbing
Detectives charge a 32-year-old man with the murder of an 18-year-old, who was fatally stabbed during an attack...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
New move by McCann detectives
Portuguese prosecutors begin moves to reinterview witnesses in the Madeleine McCann case...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Killer drivers could escape jail
Motorists found guilty of causing death by careless driving may escape jail under new proposals...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
The Lede Blog: Successor to Bhutto Debuts in London
The son of Benazir Bhutto -- leading political figure in Pakistan, callow college student in Britain -- holds a news conference...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Sarkozy Suggests Wedding Is Near
The romance between President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Italian singer Carla Bruni has intrigued France...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Suharto Suffers More Setbacks
Doctors struggled to stabilize the health of the former president Suharto after a setback in which there were new signs of internal bleeding and fluid in his lungs...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Rockets Fired From Lebanon Hit Israel
Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed in northern Israel early Tuesday, causing some property damage but no injuries, Israeli military officials said...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Former Premier?s Wife Arrested on Return to Thailand
The wife of the ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned from exile Tuesday to face charges of corruption...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Kenya Opposition Leader Rejects Talks
Intensifying diplomatic pressure from the United States, Barack Obama phoned the opposition leader '?to express grave concern over the election outcome.?'...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
'No clear trend' in forest loss
The notion that forests are declining across the tropics is not proven, a study argues, because data is unclear...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Copying CDs could be made legal
Copying music from a CD to a home computer could be made legal under proposals from the UK government...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Bogus college check catches 124
Almost half the colleges checked on an official list of providers for overseas students are struck off...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Shot father 'was raided before'
A British father-of-five shot dead in South Africa in front of his family had suffered a spate of raids, it emerges...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Pensioner killer gets life term
A County Tyrone man is sentenced to life imprisonment for the manslaughter of a 76-year-old neighbour...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Three guilty of front door murder
Three men are found guilty of murdering a man shot through the front door of his home in an Essex village...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
'Trash tsar' to clear Naples dirt
Italy's PM names a former police chief to tackle a waste disposal crisis in Naples and promises incinerators...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Confusion over Malaysia jobs ban
Reports that Malaysia had banned Indian migrant workers are denied by a cabinet minister...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Peacekeepers attacked in Darfur
The new joint AU-UN peacekeeping force comes under attack for the first time in Sudan's Darfur region...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Cricket: India tour to resume
India will play on in Australia but could pull out if Harbhajan Singh's ban is not overturned...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
48,000 expats 'get fuel benefit'
Nearly 48,000 Britons living abroad are receiving at least £9.6m in winter fuel payments, the government reveals...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Canoe couple face more charges
Missing canoeist John Darwin and his wife have been charged with further offences, police reveal...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Kenyan leader names ministers
President Kibaki names 17 new Kenyan ministers, as Ghana's leader arrives to mediate in the election crisis...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Breast screening 'really works'
UK researchers say they now have proof that breast cancer screening really does reduce mortality...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Brown outlines pay deal plan
Gordon Brown's plans for three-year public sector pay deals meet with a cautious response from unions...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
High turnout in crucial US vote
US voters stream to the polls in the New Hampshire primary, a key early contest in the race for the presidency...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Man jailed over terrorism charges
A man becomes the first person convicted under laws against planning terrorist acts after he pleads guilty...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Canadian Emissions Market Recommended
A government panel recommended that prices be set for greenhouse gas emissions...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Canadian Bank Executives Ousted After Subprime Losses
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce fired two executives at its CIBC World Markets unit as it grapples with a $9.8 billion exposure to subprime debt...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Arrests Ordered in Suspect?s Death in Argentina
A former coast guard officer found dead last month in before an expected verdict in his trial for torture may have been killed to keep him silent, a judge concluded Monday...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Police Say Rocket From Lebanon Hit Israel
A rocket fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel overnight, police said. There was no claim of responsibility...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
South African Candidate Confirmed
The ruling African National Congress said party president Jacob Zuma would be its candidate for national elections in 2009, despite his pending trial...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Maldives Leader Survives Attack
The Maldives president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, survived an assassination attempt when a boy grabbed the knife of an attacker who jumped out of a crowd...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Sarkozy Calls Relationship ?Serious?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his relationship with model-turned-singer Carla Bruni is serious, and he suggested that wedding plans were in the works...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Bomb Kills Sri Lankan Minister
A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Golden Globes ceremony scrapped
Hollywood's Golden Globes ceremony, due to take place on Sunday, is cancelled because of the writers' strike...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Grass biofuels 'cut CO2 by 94%'
Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass emits up to 94% less carbon dioxide than petrol, a US study finds...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Clegg hires Thatcher campaign man
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg appoints the man who helped run Lady Thatcher's 1987 election ad campaign...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Return to UK for death row Scot
Kenny Richey is due to return to the UK after reaching a plea deal which secured his release from death row...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
A&E's 15-minute ambulance target
Hospitals are given a 15 minute target to get emergency patients out of ambulances more quickly...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Search for missing crew continues
Hopes are fading for four sailors missing after a French fishing vessel sank off Cornwall...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Counsellors at school after death
Children and staff at an Armagh school where a six-year-old boy died on Monday are being offered counselling...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Row umpire dropped for Test
Umpire Steve Bucknor is replaced for the next Test amid acrimony between India and Australia...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Starbucks sacks chief executive
Starbucks replaces its chief executive with its chairman and decides to slow new store openings...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Violence flares up at Naples dump
Italian protesters clash with police at a Naples landfill site as piles of rubbish clog the city's streets...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Malaysia bans South Asia recruitment
Malaysia suspends the recruitment of workers from India amid growing domestic tensions...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Rugby U: Corry quits England role
Former England captain Martin Corry quits international rugby in a bid to prolong his domestic career...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Throat surgery silences DJ Bacon
BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Richard Bacon is to have a throat operation to treat a growth on his vocal chord...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Missing girl's father 'surprised'
The father of a teenage girl found dead in a river tells an inquest he was surprised when she went missing...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Budget airline fees 'are unfair'
Budget airline passengers are paying more than the price advertised because of extra fees, Which? says...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Sri Lankan minister dies in blast
A Sri Lankan minister is killed in a powerful roadside bomb blast near the capital, Colombo, doctors say...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Bhutto's son seeks media privacy
Bilawal Bhutto, son of murdered Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, urges the media to respect his privacy...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
House prices up 1.3% last month
House price inflation fell sharply at the end of last year, according to mortgage lender the Halifax...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Tories plan 'work for benefits'
The long-term unemployed would be forced to do community work for their benefits under Tory plans...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Girl, nine, dies in house blast
A nine-year-old girl dies and four people are injured in an explosion at a house in Plymouth, Devon...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Voting begins for key US primary
US voters cast ballots in the New Hampshire primary, with John McCain and Barack Obama leading opinion polls...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Public sector pay overhaul planned
Public sector workers could have salaries set for three years under new government plans to be announced...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Warehouse Fire Kills 40
Fire tore through a refrigeration warehouse under construction in Ichon, south of Seoul, killing 40 workers. A local fire official said all the dead were found in the basement. More than 500 firefighters fought the blaze. The cause was undetermined, although the workers were injecting urethane foam into basement walls at the time. Among the dead were 13 ethnic Koreans from China, the Yonhap news agency reported. China has a sizable ethnic Korean minority and in recent years some have migrated to South Korea to seek employment. Like other foreign migrants, they often end up doing difficult and low-paying work...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: The Netherlands: Not Reaching New Heights
The Dutch, thought to be the world?s tallest people, appear to have stopped growing, the Central Bureau for Statistics reported. It said growth rates for men and women had increased scarcely or not at all since 2001. The average Dutch man is 5 feet 11 inches tall. The average woman is 5-foot-6...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: China to Launch 17 Satellites This Year
China said it would launch 15 rockets, 17 satellites and its third mission with astronauts in 2008. Huang Qiang, secretary-general of the Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense, made the announcement at a news conference, the Xinhua news agency said...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Army Called in to Clear Naples Trash
The government sent troops to Naples to start clearing festering piles of rubbish from the streets, many blocking entry to the city?s schools, which reopened Monday after the Christmas break. Mountains of trash, too much for garbage collectors to cope with, built up after municipal dumps overflowed Dec. 21. Residents of Naples have taken to burning their own refuse, creating blazes that in some cases have had to be put out by firefighters. The city?s effort to move the garbage to a previously closed dump brought a revolt by residents, who blocked garbage trucks? access to the area. Naples has faced periodic trash emergencies for the past 14 years...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Plan to Exhume Popular Saint Opposed
Plans to exhume the body of Padre Pio, left, Italy?s favorite saint, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death have been met with fierce opposition from followers. The priest is said to have borne the bleeding wounds of the crucified Christ on his hands, feet and side for 50 years. Over the weekend, Archbishop Domenico Umberto D?Ambrosio announced his intention to lift the saint from his crypt in southern San Giovanni Rotondo and put the body on display for several months for pilgrims to venerate, starting in April. But other Roman Catholics, among them Francesco Traversi, who heads an association of Padre Pio devotees, are threatening to block the exhumation in court. The popularity of Padre Pio, who was also credited with thousands of miraculous cures during his life, is hard to overestimate. A Catholic magazine found that more Italian Catholics pray to him than any other icon of the faith, including the Virgin Mary or Jesus. Pope John Paul II made him a saint in 2002, four years after his death at 81, at a ceremony that drew one of the biggest Vatican crowds ever...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: Morocco: Western Sahara Talks Resuming
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, appealed for ?substantive? results from deadlocked talks brokered by the United Nations between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front over the future of the resource-rich Western Sahara annexed by Morocco in 1975 after the colonial power Spain withdrew. A closed-door round of negotiations, the third in seven months, begin on Tuesday in Manhasset, N.Y., amid fear that failure to settle the dispute in the region, already victimized by violence linked to Al Qaeda, could lead to the resumption of a guerrilla war that lasted until 1991, when the United Nations sent peacekeepers...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: Appeal in Serial Killer Case
Prosecutors in British Columbia asked an appeals court to set aside six second-degree murder convictions against Robert Pickton, and order a new trial on 26 charges of first-degree murder. Relatives and friends of many of the victims were disappointed that Mr. Pickton, a pig farmer arrested in 2002, was found guilty by a jury last month only of second-degree murder, which does not require proof of premeditation. The prosecutors said the judge made errors, including his decision to split the case and put Mr. Pickton on trial on 6 counts of first-degree murder last year, with a trial on the remaining 20 counts to be held this year. Even if the government appeal is successful and Mr. Pickton is convicted on all 26 counts of first-degree murder, it will not change his sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years. The remains of the victims, mostly prostitutes, were found buried on his farm in a Vancouver suburb...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
North Korea Given Time to Send Data
North Korea?s failure to meet a deadline to declare its nuclear activities should be confronted with patience and perseverance, a senior American envoy said on Monday...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Israeli Troops Kill 3 Armed Palestinians
Israeli soldiers shot dead three armed Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, including a woman, an army spokeswoman said. The armed woman, 23, identified by Islamic Jihad as one of its members, and a man approached the border fence near the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza at noon, the spokeswoman said, and opened fire on soldiers nearby before being shot. In a village near the West Bank city of Jenin, soldiers fired at armed men who approached a checkpoint, the army spokeswoman said, killing one. Palestinian officials identified the dead man as a member of Islamic Jihad...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease
The search for new treatments can be tricky when the disease is fearsome but nearly forgotten because its victims are poor and obscure...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
2 Arrests Ordered in Suspect?s Death
A former coast guard officer found dead last month before an expected verdict in his trial for torture may have been killed to keep him silent, a judge concluded Monday...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Chief of U.N. Nuclear Agency to Meet With Iran?s Leaders
The trip comes at a time of renewed efforts by the United States to keep the pressure on Iran on the nuclear issue...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Memo From Tehran: A President?s Defender Keeps His Distance
A rift is emerging between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran?s supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
P. K. Sethi, Inventor of the Low-Tech Limb, Is Dead at 80
Dr. P. K. Sethi invented the affordable prosthesis called the Jaipur foot, which has helped millions of amputees in developing countries to lead normal lives...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Key Sunni Leader
At least 14 people were killed in the latest attack on nationalist Sunnis who have allied themselves with American troops...
New York Times - January 8, 2008
Golden Globes ceremony scrapped
The Golden Globes film and television awards are reduced to a press conference amid a writers' strike...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Blu-ray supporters scent victory
The backers of Blu-ray discs predict victory in the format wars with HD DVD after Warner Bros backed them...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Festive sales 'at three-year low'
UK retailers had their worst Christmas since 2004, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC)...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Tories protest at student funding
There are calls from the Conservatives to stop the removal of student funding for second degree courses...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Smear test call for young women
Cervical screening should be reinstated in England for women in their early 20s, researchers say...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US opens Afghan deaths tribunal
The US Marine Corps launches a special tribunal into the deaths of Afghan civilians, allegedly killed by US fire...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Leaders prepare for key Bush tour
Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to meet to try to ease peace problems ahead of the US president's key tour...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Thaksin's wife back in Thailand
Ousted Thai PM Thaksin's wife returns to fight corruption charges, as his allies try to form a government...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Cricket: Row umpire dropped
Umpire Steve Bucknor is replaced for the third Australia v India Test at Perth...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Intel predicts the personal net
Mobile devices will deliver a more personal net within five years, the head of Intel says...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
MoD to announce Deepcut closure
The Deepcut army barracks, where four young recruits died between 1995 and 2002, is to be sold off...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Actress Nicole Kidman 'pregnant'
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman is expecting a baby with husband Keith Urban, publicists say...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Hain 'sorry' for donation errors
Peter Hain apologises for failing to register some donations to his Labour deputy leadership campaign...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Healthy living 'can add 14 years'
Making changes in four key areas could add 14 years to your life, according to a major health study...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
US rivals head for crucial poll
US presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain are buoyed ahead of key New Hampshire primary...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Kenya diplomatic moves intensify
The chairman of the African Union is due to arrive in Kenya to try to end the country's political crisis...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
Public sector pay overhaul planned
Public sector workers could have salaries set for three years under new government plans to be announced...
BBC News - January 8, 2008
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