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Global News Archive for November 2007:
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Federal Judge Calls Rendition Process ?Outsourcing?
A federal judge in New York sharply questioned government lawyers today at a hearing involving a Syrian-born Canadian detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002 and sent to Syria...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Afghan Bombing Tally Rises to 72
The death toll in Tuesday?s attack was increased after new reports that 59 schoolchildren had died...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Placenta 'fools body's defences'
The placenta acts like a parasite to avoid attack by a mother's immune system, researchers discover...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Private schools' market share up
Private schools account for a growing proportion of secondary education in England, statistics show...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Barclays denies bad debt rumour
Barclays denies rumours it is about to reveal a $10bn (£4.8bn) exposure to US mortgage bad debt...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Court to study BAE fraud decision
Two pressure groups win a judicial review of the SFO's decision to end a probe into BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
MPs' call for Brunstrom to quit
Two MPs back a family's call for a police chief to quit after a report criticises his use of pictures of a dead biker...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Stab victim's condition critical
One of the two men stabbed Belfast remains in a critical condition in hospital while the other is stable...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Mortars fired from UN Gaza school
The UN chief orders an investigation into an incident in which militants fired mortars from a UN school in Gaza...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Argentina-Uruguay row hits summit
A row between Argentina and Uruguay over a paper mill erupts anew at a 22-nation summit in Chile...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Racing: Battle on for Flat title
Seb Sanders is one ahead of jockeys' title rival Jamie Spencer going into the last day of the Flat racing season...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Football: Leeds held at Hereford
League Two side Hereford earn an FA Cup first-round replay against Leeds following an entertaining draw at Edgar Street...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Beckham's 100-cap bid backed by Gullit
New LA Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit tells BBC Sport he will not try to prevent David Beckham continuing his England career...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Sunni chiefs killed in Iraq blast
A suicide bomber in Iraq's Diyala province kills five Sunni tribal leaders opposed to al-Qaeda, police say...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Overseas doctors win NHS ruling
A ruling means overseas doctors can now compete for NHS training posts on the same footing as their home grown counterparts...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
California oil spill 'emergency'
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency to fight an oil spill...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Sainsbury's recalls tuna products
Customers are being asked to return certain tuna products over fears they could make consumers ill...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
China Urges Iran to ?Respond Positively? on Arms
China asked Iran on Thursday to ?respond positively? to international pressures to limit its nuclear program, a possible sign that China is responding to American demands...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
China Juggles Tombs, Dragon Boats and Marx
A Chinese government panel announced plans today to revamp the country?s holiday schedule to re-emphasize traditional festivals at the expense of the Marxist May Day celebration...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Myanmar Dissident Meets With Party
Myanmar?s pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with members of her party for the first time in three years amid signs that a political deadlock may be easing...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
U.S. Releases 9 Iranians in Iraq
Two of the freed men were among five Iranians arrested in January during a raid on an Iranian government office in the northern city of Erbil...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Georgian Parliament Confirms State of Emergency
The vote confirmed an order issued by President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday night after a police crackdown on an opposition demonstration...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Thousands of Police Block Pakistan Rally
Police blanketed the protest site and barricaded the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, in her house in Islamabad today...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Schwarzenegger aims to end strike
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he is trying to help end the Hollywood writers' strike...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
School clubs 'lost in poor areas'
After school clubs in deprived areas are being closed down because parents cannot afford to pay...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Skynet military launch is delayed
The launch of the latest satellite in the UK's £3.6bn Skynet project is postponed because of a fault on its rocket...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Vioxx settlement to total $4.85bn
The maker of Vioxx agrees to pay $4.85bn to settle claims the drug caused strokes and heart failure in many users...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Remploy jobs 'still under threat'
Up to 2,000 jobs could still be at risk at Remploy, the government firm for disabled workers, the BBC learns...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
UK bank shares hit by credit fear
Shares in UK financial firm slump on concern that the rumbling credit crisis is yet to claim more victims...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Road open after landslide cleared
A section of the A83 in Argyll, damaged by a major landslide last month, is partially reopened...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Baby 'gun' attack robber jailed
A robber who held a fake gun to a baby's head and then threw her to the floor is jailed for nine years...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
EU far-right bloc faces collapse
The European parliament's far-right bloc faces collapse as Romanian MEPs deplore "xenophobic" remarks...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Ex-NY police chief denies charges
Former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik pleads not guilty to corruption and tax charges...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Dozens die in Mogadishu reprisals
Somalia's capital witnesses deadly reprisal attacks after Ethiopian bodies were dragged through the streets...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Football: Strachan ban quashed
Gordon Strachan wins his appeal to the Scottish FA against a touchline ban imposed after he was sent to the stand against Hearts last season...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Football: Rooney out for month
Man Utd's Wayne Rooney will miss England's Euro 2008 qualifier with Croatia after injuring an ankle in training...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Blue Peter plays down 'fake' row
Blue Peter plays down reports that two "viewers" chosen to appear on the show were supplied by a drama group...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Apple iPhone debuts in UK stores
Eager customers get their hands on Apple's much hyped iPhone after queing to get into stores...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Man admits 21 July bomb charge
Manfo Kwaku Asiedu admits conspiracy to cause explosions as part of the failed 21 July attacks...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Bhutto house arrest order lifted
Pakistan officials lift a house arrest order on opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, hours after it is imposed...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Glasgow wins race for 2014 Games
Glasgow celebrates after beating the Nigerian capital Abuja in the race to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Thousands go home after tide fear
Thousands who left their houses on the East Anglian coast are allowed to return home after tides peak...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
New safety fears for RAF Nimrods
A new incident of a fuel leak on an RAF spy plane prompts fears the aircraft may be too old to be flown safely...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Myanmar Leader Meets With Party
Myanmar?s pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with members of her party for the first time in three years amid signs that a political deadlock may be easing...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Georgia Leader Calls Early Election to Decide His Fate
The surprise announcement appeared to be an effort to alleviate the domestic unrest and international concern after police action in Tbilisi...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Police Stop Bhutto From Attending Rally
Lines of police officers placed concrete barriers and barbed wire at the entrance road to the opposition leader?s house in Islamabad...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Police raid on Winehouse's home
Singer Amy Winehouse's home is raided after police arrest four men...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Toads are 'open-minded' about sex
Scientists find that some toads are happy to bend evolutionary rules when it comes to choosing mates...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
School made to fund own expansion
An infant school must fund its own expansion despite government promises to help good schools grow...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Oil back above $96 after respite
Oil prices rebound above $96 amid concerns that global crude supplies will not be able to meet strong demand...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Dukes give sheep farmers lifeline
Two major landowners agree to defer rents for tenant sheep farmers in recognition of financial problems...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Brunstrom criticised over photos
A police watchdog says a chief constable who showed pictures of a decapitated biker left the family 'deeply distressed'...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Family angry at cremation mix-up
The family of a man who was cremated after his body was mistaken for someone else's speak of their upset...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Teenager in court on rape charge
An 18-year-old man appears in court charged with the rape of an American student in Londonderry...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Bomb targets Pakistani minister
A suicide attack at the house of a Pakistani government minister kills at least two people, police say...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
North Sea flood tide fears recede
Fears of floods caused by tidal surges along the North Sea coasts of the UK and the Netherlands subside...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
US releases nine Iranians in Iraq
The US military in Iraq releases nine of the 20 Iranians held there on suspicion of aiding insurgents...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Suu Kyi meets her political party
Aung San Suu Kyi is said to be optimistic about Burma's future after the first meeting with her party in three years...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Uganda rebel deputy 'is not dead'
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony tells mediators that despite rumours his deputy Vincent Otti is alive...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Football: Beckham recalled
David Beckham is in Steve McClaren's England squad to face Austria and Croatia, but injured John Terry is out...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Women drinkers burst bladders
Women binge drinkers are putting themselves at risk of a burst bladder after a night on the town, say doctors...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Youth in court over bonfire death
A 13-year-old boy appears in court charged with the murder of a man whose body was found in the embers of a bonfire...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Go-ahead for BAE challenge
Two pressure group win their challenge to the SFO's decision to end a probe into BAE and Saudi Arabia...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Scotland awaits Games result
Commonwealth countries are due to decide whether Scotland or Nigeria should host the 2014 Games...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Meredith accused held on remand
A judge in Italy says three people accused of UK student Meredith Kercher's murder can be remanded for up to a year...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Tide fears recede as surge passes
Fears of widespread flooding in East Anglia diminish while surge tides move towards the Kent coast...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Barbara Dainton, 96, Among Last From Titanic, Is Dead
Ms. Dainton, born in southern England, in 1911, was too young to remember the night when the huge liner hit an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic on April 14 and 15...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Decks Are Stacked in War Crimes Cases, Lawyers Say
Defense lawyers say that the tactics used by military prosecutors in Guantánamo show that the cases are unfairly stacked against detainees...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Bodies Dragged Through Mogadishu
Insurgents dragged the bodies of dead Ethiopian soldiers through the streets of the capital Mogadishu after another flare-up of fighting that killed at least 21 people and sent thousands fleeing the volatile city...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China: Blair?s $500,000 Speech Is Panned
Tony Blair was paid $500,000 for a 20-minute speech during a three-hour trip to a luxury housing development in southern Dongguan on Tuesday, Chinese newspapers reported...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: U.S. Black Hawk Crashes; 5 Dead
Five American soldiers were killed and seven wounded after an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed outside Treviso, Italy...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Air Controller?s Killer Freed
Switzerland?s highest court ordered the immediate release of a Russian imprisoned since 2004 for killing an air-traffic controller he blamed for the deaths of his wife and two children in a midair collision over Germany in 2002...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: France: Métro Workers to Strike Next Week
Paris Métro workers announced that they would join strikes on Wednesday protesting President Nicolas Sarkozy?s plans to cut special retirement benefits for some state workers...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: ?Lyrical Terrorist? Found Guilty
Samina Malik, a 23-year-old British-born woman who prosecutors said posted her poems on Web sites under the screen name Lyrical Terrorist, became the first woman to be convicted under the Terrorism Act...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Poland: Ex-Official Charged in Sex Scandal
Prosecutors charged Andrzej Lepper, a former deputy premier, with soliciting sex from two women in exchange for political jobs...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
U.S. Says South Africa Impedes U.N. Motion to Condemn Rape as a Tactic
The Bush administration has cited accusations that rape was employed by soldiers and militia members as a tactic for intimidation and warfare, notably in Sudan and Myanmar...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Military Jury Acquits Army Sniper of Premeditated Murder in Killings of 3 Iraqis
Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley was found guilty of wrongfully placing an AK-47 rifle with the remains of one of the three men and of showing disrespect for a superior officer...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Syria to Let U.S. In to Screen Iraqis Seeking Resettlement
The agreement with Syria, which is home to 1.2 million to 1.4 million Iraqi refugees, cleared a major obstacle to the Bush administration?s resettlement program...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Democrats Tie Iraq Spending Bill to a Pullout Goal
Congressional Democrats offered $50 billion in interim spending for combat operations coupled to a goal of pulling out most troops from Iraq within a year...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Anger at Decree Runs Deep in Pakistanis
In interviews on the streets of Islamabad, rich and poor, professionals and laborers, are overwhelmingly opposed to the president?s emergency decree...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Fiery Speech by Serbian Leader at Trial
On the second day of his war crimes trial, Vojislav Seselj, a radical nationalist, lectured the court on Serbian linguistics and told his judges they were paid not to think...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Athens Journal: Running Out of Space to Park, and Places to Walk
With an estimated two million vehicles in the city, Athens has the E.U.?s highest per capita car ownership. Pedestrians are demanding their rights be recognized...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Bush Loyalist Now Sees a White House Dangerously Soft on Iran and North Korea
John R. Bolton, long viewed by liberal critics as a villain on the Bush team, has since emerged as the administration?s most outspoken critic from the right...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Israel Urges Egypt to Act Against Hamas
A senior Israeli legislator is lobbying the U.S. Senate to freeze $200 million in military aid to Egypt unless it does more to stop the smuggling of arms into the Gaza Strip...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Gangs Terrorize Nigeria?s Vital Oil Region
Battles have erupted with terrifying frequency in the pothole-riddled streets of Port Harcourt. The origins of the violence lie principally in the rivalry among gangs...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Musharraf Vows Election Early Next Year
Despite the lone concession, the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was determined to go ahead with protests...
New York Times - November 9, 2007
Pill's cancer risk 'reversible'
The increased risk of cervical cancer associated with the pill is reversible, an international study says...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Many teachers 'keen to be heads'
Nearly one in three teachers in England is keen to become a head teacher one day, research suggests...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Refugee child rights action urged
Campaigners call for the UK Government to increase protection for refugee and asylum seeking children...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
School pupil is sent strippergram
An investigation is launched after a stripper paraded in front of pupils at a Nottingham school...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Sudan defends expulsion of UN man
The Sudanese government defends the expulsion of the head of the UN humanitarian operation in South Darfur...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
New US attorney general confirmed
Michael Mukasey becomes the new US attorney general despite controversy over his views on interrogation...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Scotland awaits 2014 Games result
Voters are due to decide whether Glasgow or Abuja should host the 2014 Commonwealth Games...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Men targeted for chlamydia tests
A new strategy aimed at increasing the number of men screened for chlamydia is launched in England...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
BAE inquiry decision challenged
A pressure group is due to challenge the SFO's decision to end a probe into BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
UK set for military space launch
The £3.6bn Skynet project - Britain's single biggest space venture - will launch its second satellite later...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
House revival scheme 'high risk'
A government programme to revive rundown housing is "radical but high risk", a report says...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Rising speed penalties pondered
The Department for Transport is to consider proposals to increase the penalties for speeding drivers...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Thousands evacuated in flood zone
Thousands of people in East Anglia are advised to evacuate their homes amid fears of severe flooding...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
Police surround Bhutto house
Police cordon off the house of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, ahead of a planned rally...
BBC News - November 9, 2007
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