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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Global News Archive for April 2008:
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Chelsea 2-0 Fenerbahce (3-2)
Michael Ballack and Frank Lampard goals earn Chelsea victory in their Champions League quarter-final against Fenerbahce...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Cyber risk 'equals 9/11 impact'
The US homeland security chief calls on Silicon Valley to help secure the cyber highway from attacks...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Clooney drops into Downing Street for pictures and talks on Darfur
Hollywood actor George Clooney visits Gordon Brown to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Darfur...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Liverpool edge out Arsenal in thriller
Liverpool set up a Champions League semi-final with Chelsea after a pulsating 4-2 win over Arsenal at Anfield...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Care not top priority - NHS staff
Less than half of NHS staff believe patient care is the top priority, an annual staff survey shows...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
S Korea voters enticed to polls
South Koreans goes to polls amid forecasts of the lowest turnout since the end of military rule 20 years ago...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Ryanair faces probe over adverts
Ryanair is referred to the Office for Fair Trading (OFT) after a string of complaints about its adverts...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Man injured in landfill accident
A man in his 50s is seriously ill in hospital after an accident at a landfill site in County Fermanagh...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
France calls off Colombia mission
France halts a medical mission seeking to help hostage Ingrid Betancourt, after Farc rebels deny access...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
'Internet sperm' founder jailed
A man who ran a website offering sperm to lesbians wanting children is jailed for fraud...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
'Not to blame'
Photographer who trailed Diana recalls the night she died...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Shannon mother in neglect charge
Detectives charge Karen Matthews, Shannon Matthews' mother, with child neglect and perverting the course of justice...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Al Fayed abandons Diana campaign
Mohamed Al Fayed abandons his 10-year campaign to prove that Princess Diana and his son Dodi were murdered...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
German restaurant replaces waiters with serving tracks
A restaurant in Nuremberg has replaced waiters with hi-tech tracks that whiz food down to the customers...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Man Utd given boost by Ferdinand
Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand may be fit to face Roma on Wednesday, despite concerns over a foot injury...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Tables 'affect university policy'
England's universities are "strongly influenced" by league tables despite concerns about them...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Innovators shortlisted for award
The creator of DNA fingerprinting
heads the shortlist for the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Singer Doherty is sent to prison
Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty is jailed for 14 weeks for violating the terms of his probation...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
EU warns Bulgaria after killings
The EU calls on Bulgaria to take "urgent action" to fight organised crime after two high-profile killings...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Good Samaritan stabbed by robbers
A woman stabbed by a man who claimed his car had broken down says she is too afraid to leave her house...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Violence as Kenya talks suspended
Opposition supporters in a Kenyan slum set up burning barricades after a power-sharing deal breaks down...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'
The IMF says the worldwide credit crunch could cost banks and others nearly $1 trillion in losses...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Police 'terror' swoop on BBC man
A BBC reporter is held to the ground by six anti-terrorist police after his transmitter kit is mistaken for a bomb...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Minister plans pilot badger cull
A targeted cull of badgers is to go ahead in Wales as part of plans to combat the spread of TB in cattle...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Richer not happier
30 years of growing affluence has not made us happier...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Burrell escapes perjury referral
The coroner in the Princess Diana inquest says he has no plans to refer butler Paul Burrell to the police for a perjury investigation...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Suspect 'planned bombs in diary'
The suspected leader of an alleged plot to blow up planes kept notes of his plans in his pocket diary, a court hears...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Family plea to missing presenter
The family of TV presenter Mark Speight, whose fiancee died after taking drugs, urges him to get in touch...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
McCanns asked to revisit Portugal
Portuguese police probing the Madeleine McCann case have asked her parents to take part in a reconstruction...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Shannon-McCann fund link probed
Police investigating Shannon Matthews' disappearance look into reports of contacts with the Madeleine McCann fund...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Security fears for torch's US leg
The Olympic flame relay arrives in California amid heightened security, as it faces further protests...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
'Huge violence' in Zimbabwe poll
Zimbabwe's opposition says its supporters have been attacked around the country since last month's poll...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Five guilty of Kodjo gang murder
Five youths are found guilty of killing 16-year-old schoolboy Kodjo Yenga in Hammersmith, west London...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Brown seeks to calm housing fears
Gordon Brown plays down talk of a 1990s-style property crash, saying recent price falls are "containable"...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
US 'must suspend' Iraq withdrawal
The top US military leader in Iraq calls for troop withdrawals to be suspended to protect improved security...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Search engines warned over data
Search engines should delete personal data on their users within six months, says a European advisory body...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Brazil makes 'rainforest' condoms from Amazon rubber
The Brazilian government begins producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
South Korea's first astronaut blasts off for mission
South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon blasts off for mission...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Wenger hunts double trophy glory
Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal can still win the Champions League and Premier League...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Grant eyes historic opportunity
Chelsea coach Avram Grant believes his side are closing in on both the Premier League title and the Champions League...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Campbell banned from BA flights
Supermodel Naomi Campbell is banned from flying with British Airways following a row over baggage...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Iran 'installing new centrifuges'
Iran's president says his country has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its nuclear plant in Natanz...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Nine jailed over Philippine plot
A court in the Philippines jails nine military officers for a failed coup attempt in July 2003...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Princes welcome Diana verdicts
Princes draw a line under their mother Diana, Princess of Wales' inquest and thank those involved...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
India pledges African investment
India PM Manmohan Singh says the country will invest heavily in development projects in Africa to bolster economies ties...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Mortgage lending hits 16-year low
Mortgage lending to home buyers falls to its lowest level since early 1992, with loans down a third in the past year...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Youths held after gang dawn raids
Police in East Ayrshire arrest a total of 16 youths in a series of dawn raids aimed at tackling gang violence...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Decision due on major badger cull
Britain's first major cull of badgers to combat tuberculosis in cattle could be announced later...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Hospital conditions 'appalling'
An inspection of the elderly ward at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry finds "appalling conditions"...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Zimbabwean activists 'beaten up'
Opposition supporters are reportedly assaulted, as a Zimbabwe judge agrees to hear an election case soon...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Silicon dreams
Intel boss answers your questions about the future...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Given the boot
From yob to youth worker, how Army Cadets saved me...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Cops on skates
Can you chase a criminal with a pair of these on?...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Hospital warning to cannabis gran
A woman who takes cannabis to relieve pain threatens to take it into hospital when she has an operation...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Severn Trent faces a £35.8m fine
Water firm Severn Trent faces a possible £35.8m fine after admitting providing false data to regulator Ofwat...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Fiancee death presenter missing
TV presenter Mark Speight, whose fiancee died in a bath after taking drugs, is reported missing...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Kylie says 'I was misdiagnosed'
Kylie Minogue reveals on US TV that the first doctor she saw failed to diagnose she had breast cancer...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Zimbabwe 'siege'
White farmer describes threats to leave her land...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
After 94 days...
What now for man who wrote 'Diana' on his forehead?...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
China vows to keep torch on track
Beijing says "no force" can stop the world relay of the Olympic flame as it faces new protests in California...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Immigration rule change 'illegal'
The government's change to immigration rules for highly skilled workers was illegal, the High Court rules...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
House prices 'see sharp decline'
House prices fell by 2.5% in March, the biggest monthly decline since September 1992, says the Halifax...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Extra time to quiz Shannon mother
Police are given an extra 24 hours to question the mother of Shannon Matthews about her daughter's disappearance...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Diana crash survivor welcomes verdict
The only survivor of the crash which killed Princess Diana says he agrees with the jury's verdict and hopes people can "move on"...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Bagpuss cat-egorical winner in favourite TV animals survey
Cult cloth cat Bagpuss is voted the favourite children's TV animal of all-time in an online poll of 1,100 people...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
'Wow' girl - South Korea's first astronaut set for blast off
South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, is set to blast off for a mission to the International Space Station...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
'Clearer' student access demanded
England's universities must have "transparent" admissions policies to show they are not biased, the government says...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Galileo legal process ticks over
EU ministers approve the legal instrument that releases the billions needed to build Europe's sat-nav system...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Landmark India-Africa meet begins
The first-ever summit aimed at strengthening trade and diplomatic ties between India and Africa begins in Delhi...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Online ads 'to beat TV' by 2009
Advertisers will spend more online than on TV adverts by 2009, the Internet Advertising Bureau says...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Depression linked to Alzheimer's
People who have had depression may be more prone to Alzheimer's disease, research suggests...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
UN expert stands by Nazi comments
The next UN investigator into alleged Israeli human rights abuses says he stands by a comparison with the Nazis...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
US and N Korea hold nuclear talks
Envoys from the US and North Korea meet in Singapore in a bid to break deadlock on the stalled nuclear deal...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Too diplomatic?
Thabo Mbeki's Zimbabwe strategy called into question...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
MacAskill dismisses custody plans
The Scottish Government dismisses suggestions that police custody services could be privatised...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
After the inquest
Will prosecutions follow the Diana and Dodi verdict?...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Green bandwagon
Everyone claims to be green but what does it mean?...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Red-faced
Jailbreak is setback to Morocco's anti-terror profile...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Hundreds leave Texan sect ranch
Texas removes more than 500 women and children from a polygamist compound as part of a child abuse inquiry...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Decision due on major badger cull
Britain's first major cull of badgers to combat tuberculosis in cattle could be announced later...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Sunbed use 'puts lives at risk'
Most people who use sunbeds signficantly increase their risk of life-threatening skin cancer, experts warn...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
America in Iraq
Congress hearing has added urgency in US election year...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
UK bank details 'for sale for £5'
So-called cyber-crime supermarkets are selling UK bank account details to fraudsters for as little as £5, a report says...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Congress to hear update on Iraq
Top US officials in Iraq are due to deliver a scheduled report to Congress as Shia unrest continues...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Zimbabwe poll officials detained
Zimbabwe olice arrest officials who allegedly undertallied votes for President Mugabe, as the opposition goes to court...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Shannon mother still in custody
The mother of Shannon Matthews continues to be questioned by police about her daughter's disappearance...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
China vows to keep torch on track
Beijing says no force can stop the world relay of the Olympic flame as it faces new protests on the Californian leg...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Princes welcome inquest verdicts
Princes William and Harry draw a line under their mother's inquest, saying they agree with its verdicts...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
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