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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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Olmert Questioned in Corruption Case
Israel?s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, was questioned for five hours by police on Tuesday, as part of a criminal investigation into actions when he was acting finance minister in 2005...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Report Traces Twisting Routes to Power in Nigeria
A new report on Nigeria released on Tuesday by Human Rights Watch says that election-related violence that killed at least 300 people this year was financed by wealthy political godfathers...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Sarkozy and Putin Meet in Russia
Talks between President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are expected to focus on Iran and Kosovo...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Bickering Belgians Find a Point of Unity: Toughening Border
Belgium?s squabbling linguistic communities managed to agree on the one issue that increasingly unites them: fear of immigrants...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
2 Iraqi Women Killed in Shooting by Security Convoy
A convoy opened fire on a sedan carrying four people in Baghdad, witnesses and police officials said...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
In Africa, Prosperity From Seeds Falls Short
New seeds have spread to a fraction of the land where they could help millions of farmers escape poverty...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Police put knife warning in cells
Cells in a Strathclyde Police office are to be decorated with a warning highlighting the penalties of knife carrying...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Security guards fire on Iraqi car
A foreign security firm confirms one if its teams fired on a car in Baghdad in which two Iraqi women were killed...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Rugby: Wilkinson worries Laporte
France coach Bernard Laporte believes his side must stop Jonny Wilkinson to defeat England in their World Cup semi-final...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
McClaren dismisses Owen row talk
England boss Steve McClaren rejects reports of a row with Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce over striker Michael Owen...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
More post strikes are on the way
Postal staff will return to work at 0300 but a fresh set of 24 hour walkouts is threatened for next week...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Turkey threatens Iraq border raid
Turkey's government seeks parliamentary approval for a possible operation in Iraq against Kurdish separatists...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Public 'misled' on exercise needs
"Misleading" government guidelines mean many Britons now believe moderate exercise is as good as vigorous, a study alleges...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Pair held over phone row stabbing
Two teenagers are arrested in connection with the murder of a boy who was killed over a mobile phone...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
MPs question new passport costs
MPs are asking why British citizens will have to pay out for both an identity card and an ePassport...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
'Half of children' theft victims
Half of all children have had property stolen from them at school, a Howard League for Penal Reform survey suggests...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
China Promotes Taiwan-Focused Military Officers
China has promoted senior military officers with experience in planning for war over Taiwan ahead of a key political meeting next week...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Separatists Blamed in Basque Bombing
A car bomb exploded in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao on Tuesday, wounding one man in what appeared to be the most serious attack by Basque militants this year...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Supreme Court Won?t Hear Torture Appeal
A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the C.I.A. and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Turkey Says Its Troops Can Cross Iraq Border
Turkey?s move toward cross-border military action in Iraq comes in the face of strong opposition by the United States...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Iraq Says Security Firm Kills 2 Women
Private security guards escorting a convoy through Baghdad killed two women today, Iraqi officials said...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Heavy Fighting Reported in Pakistan
Jets bombed villages in Pakistan?s northwestern tribal areas for the third day today as the authorities battled pro-Taliban militants...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
£250m more for targeted learning
The chancellor has promised an extra £250m for personalised learning education in England...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Osborne criticises Budget 'panic'
Shadow chancellor George Osborne accuses the government of "scrabbling around in a panic"...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Growth in health spending slows
The rate of growth in NHS spending in England will slow over the next three years to 4% a year over the rate of inflation...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Darling signals UK slowdown
Chancellor Alistair Darling signals that the UK economy will slow down next year because of the credit crunch...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Teenage death crash jury go home
The jury in the trial of an 18-year-old accused of killing four girls in a crash is sent home for the night...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Pensioner rapist back in custody
A man who raped a 91-year-old woman is remanded in custody hours after being released from jail...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Pakistan jets pound 'rebel bases'
Pakistani planes attack alleged militant positions in fighting that has left scores dead in tribal areas...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Guards linked to new Iraq deaths
Foreign security guards are accused of killing two women in Baghdad a day after a damning report about a US firm...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Basque city car bomb injures man
A car bomb injures a man in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao days after police arrest separatist suspects...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
US court rejects CIA kidnap case
The US Supreme Court throws out an appeal by a German who accuses the CIA of kidnapping and torturing him...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Burma party rejects junta's terms
Burma's opposition NLD rejects the conditions set by the military for talks with Aung San Suu Kyi...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Clashes between allies in Darfur
Fighting erupts between the Sudanese army and the Darfur rebel group that signed a peace deal last year...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Football: England injury worries
England defensive duo Wes Brown and Sol Campbell both miss training ahead of the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Estonia and Russia...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Jockey 'lost huge lead' in race
Jockey Kieren Fallon came second in a race he should have won by a large margin, a court is told...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
New police chief for McCann case
A new Portuguese police chief is appointed to lead the Madeleine McCann investigation...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Starving lambs to be slaughtered
Ministers announce plans to slaughter a quarter of a million lambs caught up in the foot-and-mouth crisis...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Diana jurors visit Paris Ritz
Jurors in the Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed inquest spend a second day retracing the pair's last movements...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Rail crash car 'prone to stalling'
A car hit by a train at a level crossing in a crash that killed seven people was prone to stalling, an inquest hears...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Inheritance taxes cut for couples
Chancellor Alistair Darling doubles the inheritance tax threshold for couples as he delivers his pre-Budget report...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Israeli, Italian Survive 8 Days on Raft
An Israeli woman and an Italian man survived on a life raft for eight days in the Arabian Sea after their yacht sank in a storm, the Indian coast guard said...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Executions Break Afghan Moratorium
Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three foreign journalists during the U.S.-led invasion, the prisons chief announced...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Car Bombs Kill 22 in Iraq
Two suicide car bombs killed at least 22 people in northern Iraq in attacks targeting a police chief and a Sunni Arab tribal leader, police said...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Britain to Halve Its Force in Iraq
The move suggests that the alliance on Iraq forged between former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Washington is unraveling...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Rock legends back Radiohead plan
Ian Brown and Johnny Marr speak in support of Radiohead's radical payment plan for their new album...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Disk technology takes Nobel Prize
French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany win the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Jail shortage 'disaster' warning
A top criminal justice official warns it will be a "disaster" for north Wales if a regional prison is not built for inmates...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Man, 84, hurt in hammer rampage
A man with a hammer beats an 84-year-old man and smashes several cars at a petrol station in Armagh...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Child's hit-and-run killer jailed
A man who caused the death of a four-year-old girl in a hit-and-run in Edinburgh is jailed for 13 years...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
India stock market hits new high
India's main stock index continues its astonishing rise, crossing the 18,000 mark to reach a new high...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Man dragged under bus for a mile
A man is killed when he is dragged under the wheels of a bus for a mile in east London...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Iraq tells US to ditch Blackwater
The Iraqi government says the US must end its association with security firm Blackwater within six months...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
US company settles pollution case
American Electric Power (AEP) settles a pollution case, which will see it spend $1.6bn on upgrading its coal plants...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Uefa: Bolton to meet Bayern
Bolton are drawn with German giants Bayern Munich in the Uefa Cup group stage, while Spurs' face a 1984 final re-match with Anderlecht...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Cricket: Hair drops ICC case
Umpire Darrell Hair drops his employment tribunal case against the International Cricket Council...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Suspended jail term for radio DJ
BBC Radio DJ Andy Kershaw receives a suspended jail term after admitting harassing his former partner...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
600 jobs go at Tyneside factory
More than 600 jobs are to go on Tyneside, with the closure of an American-owned microchip plant...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Bedfordshire police 'rated worst'
Home Office figures suggest Bedfordshire police are the worst performing force in England and Wales...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Met chief warns over terror plots
The number of terror plots in the UK is "mounting", the Metropolitan Police commissioner tells MPs...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Burma diplomat quits over monks
A Burmese diplomat resigns over the violence against monks at anti-government protests, the BBC learns...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Chancellor to signal tax changes
Alistair Darling is expected to focus on inheritance tax and private equity bosses in his pre-Budget report...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Advocate Said to Be Tortured
Yang Chunlin, a land rights activist who was detained in July after obtaining more than 10,000 signatures on a petition that proclaimed human rights more important than playing host to the Olympics, has been chained for days in fixed position and forced to clean the wastes of other inmates, according to the group China Human Rights Defenders. Mr. Yang is awaiting trial in Heilongjiang Province on charges of subverting state power. According to relatives, he has been denied access to a lawyer...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: 15 Prisoners Executed
Ending a three-year moratorium on the death penalty, Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners in Kabul by gunfire for crimes including murder, kidnapping and armed robbery. Officials said no fighters for the Taliban or Al Qaeda were among them. The deaths could complicate relationships between the government and some NATO countries with military forces that hand captured militants over to the Afghan government, raising the question of whether countries that do not use the death penalty might stop surrendering prisoners. The Dutch Foreign Ministry expressed distress, saying, ?Abolition of the death penalty is one of our priorities in terms of international human rights policy.?...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: Costa Rica : Trade Pact Appears to Pass
Voters in Costa Rica, Central America?s second biggest economy, backed a free trade agreement with the United States in a referendum Sunday. With 96.3 percent of the vote counted, 51.6 percent of voters backed the agreement, the independent Supreme Electoral Tribunal said on its Web site. President Óscar Arias, above, the winner of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize, has staked much of his political agenda on passage of the agreement. A rejection would have been the first time a free trade deal with the United States was refused by any country. Before the voting began, the White House warned that the United States would not renegotiate the accord if it was voted down...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Americas: U.N. Draws Honduras-Nicaragua Sea Border
The International Court of Justice in the Hague, the United Nations? highest court, granted Honduras sovereignty over four Caribbean islands in its decades-old dispute with Nicaragua, and carved up rich fishing grounds and offshore exploration concessions for oil and gas. The decision by the court is binding and without appeal. Both countries found elements to like in the judgment: Honduras got the islands, while Nicaragua could argue that the court gave it more than it had sought...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Ex-Minister in Televised About-Face
Irakli Okruashvili, a prominent former government official, recanted on national television his claims that President Mikheil Saakashvili was corrupt and had committed grave crimes and cover-ups, including ordering the assassination of an Georgian oligarch. Mr. Okruashvili had held top posts in Mr. Saakashvili?s government, including defense minister, before declaring his opposition to the president. After making allegations against Mr. Saakashvili last month, Mr. Okruashvili was promptly arrested and charged with corruption. His turnabout on television was not immediately explained. His lawyer later said that she had not been allowed to attend the videotaped confession, raising questions about the confession?s credibility. Politicians loyal to Mr. Saakashvili suggested that Mr. Okruashvili had been plotting a coup, and that more arrests would be made...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Interpol in Appeal to Find Pedophile Suspect
The police in Europe have unscrambled digitally manipulated images found on the Internet to reveal the face of a man shown abusing boys in Vietnam and Cambodia. Interpol released four reconstructed photos in a public appeal for help, hoping that someone will recognize the man whose identity and nationality remain a mystery and who, it said, apparently travels the world sexually abusing boys. The pictures had been manipulated to disguise the face with a twirling pattern. Computer specialists in Germany?s federal police force worked with Interpol to reverse the blurring effect. The resulting photos show a man with slightly receding dark hair, 35 to 40 years old. Interpol asked people who recognize him or who have other information to contact the police or the Interpol bureau in their country...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Suspect in Private School Case
The police said they had arrested a man on suspicion of behaving indecently toward three teenage girls at Aiglon College in Chesières, one of the most exclusive preparatory schools in the world. Shortly after the episode, Prince Andrew of Britain announced that his eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice, fifth in line to the throne, would not attend Aiglon as planned...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Romania: Law to Slow Exodus of Doctors
The health minister announced plans to limit the right of young doctors to work abroad as a survey showed that almost 50 percent of them were ready to seek better-paid jobs elsewhere. The new legislation would include a requirement for young doctors to practice at home for twice as many years as they spent in training before they could obtain a certificate allowing them to work abroad. A medical intern earns about $210 a month, while a specialist working in a hospital earns about $700, according to official figures...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Distribution of Nets Splits Malaria Fighters
Mosquito nets have the potential to save lives in malaria-plagued countries. But what is the best way to get them to those who need them most?...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Diana Jury Sees Crash Scene
The jurors in the British inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 10 years ago traveled to Paris to retrace her final moments. They went by bus to the traffic tunnel where the car Diana and her companion, Emad Mohamed al-Fayed, known as Dodi, were riding in crashed into a pillar. The police stopped traffic there for about 20 minutes to allow the group to inspect the tunnel on foot...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Images of Masked Gunmen in Kosovo Unsettle a Region Scarred by Ethnic Conflict
Television images of about a dozen masked men were broadcast by Kosovo?s main public television channel last Wednesday...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Painkillers in Short Supply in Poor Countries
Many medical specialists in Africa, Asia and Latin America have limited supplies of painkillers and almost no training in pain relief...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Mail Workers Resume Strike in Britain
Seeking more pay and pension and job security, Royal Mail carriers and sorters began their second strike in less than a week on Monday...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Bombs Kill at Least 24 in Attacks Across Iraq
In the deadliest of a series of blasts Monday, a suicide bomber drove his truck into a police station north of Baghdad...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
American Faces Espionage Charge in Nigeria
An aid worker arrested last month was in possession of information that could jeopardize national security, a prosecutor at a Nigerian High Court said Monday...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
In India?s Coalition Math, Marxists? Power Is Magnified
The Communist Party of India has seized on the country?s deepening friendship with the United States to emerge as an oppositional force against the coalition government...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Russia on Its Mind, Georgia Flexes Its Muscle in Iraq
At a time when other countries are pulling soldiers out, Georgia has more than doubled its troop levels in Iraq. The reason: a bid to become part of NATO...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Politicus: America?s Misplaced Hopes on Russia
Moscow is blocking U.S. diplomacy on everything from Iranian sanctions to Kosovo...
New York Times - October 9, 2007
Games violence study is launched
The government is to ask for evidence of the effect of violent computer games on children as a review is launched...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
UK firms 'raise CO2 transparency'
More UK companies are being transparent about the size of their carbon footprint, a report suggests...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Row erupts over spending review
Scotland's political parties clash over the Chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Man questioned over hammer attack
A man is questioned about a hammer attack on an 84-year-old man at a petrol station in County Armagh...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Youth charged in gun death case
A teenager held by police investigating a woman's gun death faces an attempted murder charge...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Sarkozy to meet Putin in Moscow
French President Nicolas Sarkozy travels to Moscow for his first bilateral summit with Vladimir Putin...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
New South American bank planned
Seven South American countries agree to set up a new development bank, based in Venezuela...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Japan extends N Korea sanctions
Japan extends sanctions against North Korea, citing a lack of progress on the abduction issue...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Nigeria denies US aid worker bail
A Nigerian court denies bail to an American aid worker and a Nigerian who were arrested last week for espionage...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Organ donation a 'Christian duty'
The Church of England has declared organ donation to be a Christian duty, in a Parliamentary consultation...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Work cancers 'underestimated'
A new study claims the Government is underestimating the extent of work related cancer...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Ritz Hotel focus for Diana jurors
The jurors in the Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed inquest are set to visit the Ritz Hotel in Paris...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Maternity shortages 'risk lives'
More midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists are needed if childbirth is to be made safer, a report urges...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
Heirs and tycoons await tax news
The chancellor is expected to focus on inheritance tax and private equity bosses in his pre-Budget report...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
UK warns Darfur rebels on boycott
The UK warns Darfur rebels they could be excluded from the Sudan peace process if they boycott talks in Libya...
BBC News - October 9, 2007
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