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Global News Archive for May 2008:
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Austria?s Dungeon Man: ?I Must Have Been Crazy?
The 73-year-old Austrian man who imprisoned and raped his daughter for nearly a quarter century, admitted a lifetime of abuse and depraved domesticity...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Iran Says April 12 Blast at Shiraz Mosque Was Terrorism
Iranian officials told reporters that six people involved in the attack had been arrested and their links with the United States and Britain had been confirmed...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
U.N. Aid Official Criticizes Junta
The United Nations relief began arriving after an excruciating delay during which the junta resisted offers of large-scale help...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
American Rancher at Odds With Bolivian Government
Ronald Larsen has found himself in the middle of a battle between President Evo Morales, who plans to break up large rural estates, and the wealthy light-skinned elite in eastern Bolivia...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Rijkaard to leave Barcelona post
Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard will step down at the end of the season and be replaced by Josep Guardiola...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Promises made over NHS overhaul
Ministers have sought to allay fears over the forthcoming overhaul of the NHS in England...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Classical Brit for Lloyd Webber
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is honoured with the outstanding achievement prize at the Classical Brits awards...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Take down peace walls, NY Mayor
A plea for the demolition of Belfast's more than 40 peace-lines comes from the Mayor of New York...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Top policeman shot dead in Mexico
The Mexican policeman in charge of co-ordinating operations against drugs traffickers is shot dead in Mexico City...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Olmert faces new corruption probe
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is suspected of illicitly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars before becoming PM...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Museum Scotland's top attraction
New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Great tits cope well with warming
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Soaring spirits
The first distillery in Wales for more than 100 years...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
7 days quiz
Which style queen committed a grave fashion crime?...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
'Respect atheists', says Cardinal
Christians should treat atheists and agnostics with 'deep esteem', says the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Gunman 'deeply committed' to wife
The wife of a barrister who died in a five-hour armed siege in south-west London says they were "deeply committed to each other"...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Five killed in Beirut gun battles
At least five people are killed in armed clashes as Hezbollah accuses Lebanon's government of a "declaration of war"...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Al-Qaeda Iraq leader 'arrested'
The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been captured, say reports citing the defence ministry...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Bail for Islamic preacher Qatada
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, whom the UK had hoped to deport to Jordan, is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
The Lede: A Place to Read and Comment on Times Articles in Arabic
As part of Generation Faithful, our ongoing series examining the lives of young people across the Muslim world, The New York Times has established an Arabic-language blog...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Bruce vows Wigan will give 100%
Steve Bruce insists his Wigan side will give their all in Sunday's decisive Premier League game against Manchester United...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Eriksson holds Benfica job talks
Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson meets with Benfica about a third spell in charge...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Afghanistan battle caught by US parents' answering machine
A US couple checking their answering machine hear a frightening recording of their son fighting in Afghanistan...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Carphone in £1.1bn US partnership
Carphone Warehouse is selling a half share in its retailing business to US firm Best Buy for £1.1bn...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Tributes paid to MP Dunwoody
Leading political figures attend the funeral of long-serving Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
'No bias' against UK astronauts
UK government opposition to human spaceflight will be no bar to its citizens becoming astronauts, Esa says...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Fierce clashes resume in Beirut
Armed clashes erupt as the leader of Hezbollah accuses the Lebanese government of a "declaration of war"...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Berlusconi is sworn into office
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his 21-member cabinet are officially sworn into office...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Man jailed for baby shake death
A father is jailed for four-and-a-half-years after he admits shaking his 10-week-old baby daughter to death...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Alexander: 'I'm not the problem'
Alex Salmond and Wendy Alexander clash over the independence referendum at Holyrood...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Men are guilty of student killing
A jury finds two men guilty of manslaughter after a student died following an assault during a night out...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
PMs arrive for investment event
The British and Irish PMs arrive in Belfast in a bid to drive forward foreign investment in Northern Ireland...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Farm-workers flee Zimbabwe homes
Some 40,000 farm workers and their families have fled their homes in Zimbabwe poll violence, a union says...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Apprentice test
It saw a boardroom ruckus - what IS a kosher chicken?...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Jaffa stories
Residents of Israel's mixed city on coexistence...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Future farming
Why organic, outdoor 'natural' farming can be bad...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Austria father confesses to 'addiction'
Josef Fritzl, the man who held his daughter captive for 24 years, blames an addiction that "got out of control"...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Boy wins bouncy castle injury claim
A teenager left brain damaged after being kicked on a bouncy castle wins his damages claim...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Militants warn Lebanon of 'war'
The Hezbollah leader accuses Lebanon's pro-Western government of declaring war against the militant group...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Damning criticism
ITV facing censure for its failures over viewers' phone-ins...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
UN 'disappointed' at Burma access
The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Islamic preacher Qatada is bailed
Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew by an immigration appeals commission...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Rockets fired at UK's Basra base
Up to 20 rockets are fired at the British base at Basra airport, say police in the southern Iraqi city...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Malaysia Woman Scores Rare Legal Win to Quit Islam
A Malaysian religious court granted a woman?s wish to formally renounce Islam, a decision described by her lawyer as a landmark case...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Tibetan Holds Olympic Flame on Everest
A Tibetan took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest, realizing ?a dream of all Chinese people,? but groups criticized Beijing for politicizing the games...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Bomb Kills Three in Philippines
A homemade bomb exploded near a passenger van in the southern Philippines, police say...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Burundi Army Says It Killed 50 Rebels in Clashes
Burundi?s army said it had killed 50 fighters from the country?s last active guerrilla group in renewed clashes outside the capital...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Barry 'undervalued' by Liverpool
Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill insists skipper is worth more than Liverpool's £10m valuation for the player...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Madonna's tour to kick off in UK
Pop legend Madonna announces the first leg of her 27-date world tour will kick off in Cardiff on 23 August...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Fake media file snares PC users
A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Flowers 'wave' at passing insects to gain attention
Flowers "wave" at passing insects to get their attention and increase chances of pollination, scientists find...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Fewer letters widen Mail's losses
A slump in the number of stamped letters sees Royal Mail's losses widen to £279m in the year to March...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Harass young thugs, police urged
The home secretary is urging police to turn the tables on youths who ignore warnings about anti-social behaviour...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Move to bolster school governors
The scale of governor shortage is revealed as ministers try to strengthen the management of schools...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Tension high during Beirut strike
The Lebanese capital is paralysed for the second day running by opposition supporters...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
China hosted 'frank' Tibet talks
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama says talks with Chinese officials last week were "open and frank"...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Putin confirmed as new Russian PM
Russia's parliament overwhelmingly approves Vladimir Putin as PM, a day after he stood down as president...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Nepal lifts ban on Everest summit
Nepal reopens Mount Everest to climbers on its side after a Chinese team carries the Olympic flame to the summit...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Longbridge to see new cars built
The owners of the Longbridge car factory reveal plans to produce up to four new models at the plant...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Call to lance 'independence boil'
The row over an independence vote is set to dominate questions at the Scottish Parliament...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
New language rule for 57 bodies
The heritage minister is to bring 57 bodies including the Bank of England under the Welsh Language Act's remit...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Bush voices invest event support
US President George Bush sends a message of support to delegates at the investment conference in Belfast...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Zimbabwe 'too violent for poll'
There is too much violence in Zimbabwe to hold a presidential run-off, a South African observer says...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Sounding off
Why are the hard of hearing so irked by noisy ads?...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Washington diary
Only a miracle will save Hillary Clinton, says Matt Frei...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Israeli journey
The complex life of an Arab, Palestinian citizen of Israel...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Work to start on Olympic stadium
Building work on London's Olympic stadium will begin in two weeks' time...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Explosion death could be 'murder'
Police investigating the death of a man who died during an explosion in north-west London say he could have been murdered...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Four charged over 'Tigers' support
Four men are charged with conspiring to support the banned Tamil Tigers terrorist organisation, police confirm...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Blacklisted staff
How bad workers could end up on a national database...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
ITV fined £5.68m over phone-ins
ITV has been given a £5.68m fine by media regulator Ofcom for misleading viewers with its premium phone lines...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Interest rates unchanged at 5%
UK interest rates are held at 5% by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, as inflation concerns persist...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Level of breached Asbos increases
The proportion of people breaching Asbos in England and Wales goes up, but the overlal number issued falls...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Food waste on 'staggering' scale
People are needlessly throwing away 3.6m tonnes of food each year in England and Wales, research suggests...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Confusion over US aid for Burma
The US says it has no permission for aid flights to cyclone-hit Burma - despite earlier reports of eased access...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
World Business Briefing: Britain: Last Call on the London Tube
London?s new mayor said that he was banning alcohol on the city?s public transportation system, effective next month, in an effort to ?end the problem of drunken and intimidating behavior on the Tube.?...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Rushing to Track Children?s Disease
Health officials in China, responding to the continued spread of hand, foot and mouth disease, issued new regulations requiring all health care providers to report new cases of the disease...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Yemen: Japanese Tourists Briefly Taken Hostage
Armed men kidnapped two female Japanese tourists near the town of Marib in Yemen, but released them hours later, local officials said...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Syria: Atomic Agency Seeks Answers
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Syria had an obligation to tell his agency whether the site Israeli warplanes bombed there in September was an undeclared nuclear reactor...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam?s Face
A new wave of young American Muslim performers and filmmakers is trying to change the public face of their religion...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Acquittal in Nun?s Killing Provokes Outcry in Brazil
Human rights advocates and the Brazilian government criticized the acquittal of a man accused of being behind the murder of an American Roman Catholic nun in the Brazilian Amazon forest...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Argentina: Ash Cloud Grounds Flights as It Spreads
Major Argentine airlines suspended flights to some cities in Patagonia as the huge ash cloud from the Chaitén volcano in Chile blew east into Argentina...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: 2 Groups Banned for Neo-Nazism
The German government shut down two groups, accusing them of spreading anti-Semitic propaganda and glorifying the Nazis...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Berlusconi Chooses Cabinet, Reuniting a Familiar Cast
Silvio Berlusconi, who is preparing to become Italy?s prime minister for the third time, is hoping to overcome an immobile economy and years of political paralysis...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Survivors in Myanmar Make Way to High Land
Myanmar?s rice trading town of Labutta has become a beacon of hope for tens of thousands who lived through the fury of last weekend?s cyclone...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Four Players Who Came Out of Africa Return to Help
Four African football players made a charity mission to Nigeria in March, and now there is talk of recruiting more professional athletes with money and connections to the continent...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Giuliani Weighs In on Distant Mayoral Race
Who would have guessed that the next chapter in Rudolph W. Giuliani?s life would involve political consulting for an election in Eastern Europe?...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Moscow Journal: A Treasure Is Restored, With Culture Its Bounty
For two decades after the Soviet collapse, Pashkov House was a crumbling eyesore. Now it?s is one of the few restoration projects lauded by preservationists...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
At 60, Israel Redefines Roles for Itself and for Jews Elsewhere
On Israel?s 60th anniversary, the nation is planning a conference on some of the biggest challenges facing humankind ? and especially the Jews...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Former Guantánamo Detainee Tied to Attack
A former Kuwaiti detainee at the United States prison camp was one of the bombers in a string of suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last month...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Cowen Elected Prime Minister of Ireland
Brian Cowen was elected Ireland?s new prime minister by an 88-to-76 vote in the parliament on Wednesday, and he announced a major cabinet shuffle...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Medvedev Takes Oath in Russia
Yet it remains to be seen what the inauguration of Dmitri A. Medvedev will mean for the direction of Russia...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
News Analysis: A Reclusive Government, Forced to Ask for Help
In opening its doors to international relief, Myanmar?s military government is breaching a wall of isolation it has built around itself over nearly half a century...
New York Times - May 8, 2008
Platypus genetic code unravelled
The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Olympic torch team climbs to top of Everest
Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame reach the summit of Mount Everest, shown live on Chinese TV...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Paediatrician to face GMC again
The General Medical Council will begin a new investigation into the work of controversial paediatrician David Southall...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
PMs to address business leaders
Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen are due at Stormont during a major investment conference...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Israel marks its 60th anniversary
Israel begins events to mark 60 years since its creation in 1948, a date the Palestinians remember as 'the Catastrophe'...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Japan tourists 'freed in Yemen'
Two female Japanese tourists are released in Yemen hours after they were seized by gunmen, officials say...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
City Salute
Thousands attend tribute to injured forces personnel...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Dead barrister's test results due
Results of a post-mortem examination on the body of a barrister killed in a shoot-out are due to be released...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
'Better' prison planning needed
Ministers are urged to produce "clear plans" for coping with Scotland's growing prison population...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
No cash flow
Flood-hit areas get less EU support than they expected...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Band of brothers
A major prepares to serve with his three sons in Iraq...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Adults with autism to be audited
For the first time the government is to calculate the number of adults with autism in England...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Fears rise over Burma aid delays
Concerns grow over Burma's reluctance to accept foreign help, with vital food aid unable to enter the country...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Man dies in suspected gas blast
A man is killed and two others are injured after an explosion rips through three homes in north-west London...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Handling of junior medics 'inept'
The handling of the junior doctors recruitment chaos last year by the government was inept, MPs say...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
Airport staff avoid crime checks
Newsnight reports that foreign workers at UK airports are employed without mandatory criminal records checks...
BBC News - May 8, 2008
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