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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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Sharif to Participate in Elections in Pakistan
The move by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif?s party may encourage other opposition groups to take part...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Letitia waltzes off dancing show
Former EastEnders actress Letitia Dean's waltz is not enough to save her on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Warning on anti-drinking adverts
Some anti-drinking advertising campaigns may backfire by inadvertently glamorising the habit, say researchers...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Sharif's party 'to contest polls'
The party of Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif says it will contest general elections in January...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Olympic tickets on sale illegally
Black market tickets for next year's Olympic Games in China are already being sold illegally on the internet...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Calzaghe wins Sports Personality
Boxing world champion Joe Calzaghe is named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Ricky Hatton...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Festive hits fly back into chart
The UK singles chart takes on a Christmas theme as eight classic festive hits go into the top 40...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Elderly to get personal care cash
Elderly people in England are to be given cash to fund their own social care, the health secretary reveals...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Patients hit by matrons shortfall
The government has missed a target to recruit 2,500 community matrons to care for chronically-ill people...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
UK security policy 'out of date'
Britain's national security framework remains "incoherent" and "outdated", a think tank warns...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Canada farmer is guilty of murder
A pig farmer accused of being Canada's most prolific serial killer is found guilty of second-degree murder...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Army release dead soldier's name
The soldier killed during an assault on a Taleban stronghold in Afghanistan is named as Sgt Lee Johnson...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Iraq to be given control of Basra
Gordon Brown announces that the Iraqi province of Basra will be handed over to Iraqi control within two weeks...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Europe and Africa Work to Smooth Divisions
Leaders from Africa and Europe struggled to find common ground for a new strategic partnership at a summit marred by disagreements over future trade ties...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Britain Arrests Wife of Man Accused of Faking His Death
A woman whose husband is accused of faking his own death in an insurance scam was arrested Sunday upon her return to Britain on suspicion of fraud, the police said...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Bomb Kills an Iraqi Police Chief
A roadside bomb blew up a convoy carrying the police chief of a predominantly Shiite province south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing the chief and two of his bodyguards...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Sharif?s Party to Contest Elections
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's opposition party decided Sunday to run in next month's parliamentary elections, a move could clear the way for other members of Pakistan's largest opposition coalition to participate...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
South Korea Cleans Up Big Oil Spill
The environmental disaster has blackened once-scenic beaches, coated birds and oysters in sludge and driven away tourists with its stomach-churning stench...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
As Iraqis Vie for Kirkuk?s Oil, Kurds Are Pawns
Some 2,200 squatters have turned the Kirkuk soccer stadium into a refugee city as they wait to vote on Kurdish regional rule...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Inquiry Begins Into Destruction of Tapes
The Justice Department and the C.I.A. opened an inquiry into the spy agency?s destruction of interrogation tapes...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Lucky fans pick up Led Zep passes
Passes to the Led Zeppelin reunion concert are handed out amid tight security and long queues in London...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Cable: Lib Dem race 'very close'
The race to be the next Lib Dem leader is too close to call as it enters its final week, says Vince Cable...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Salmond's Trump golf team meeting
Alex Salmond met Donald Trump's representatives the day before ministers called in his golf resort plans...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Sharif's party to contest polls
The party of Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif will contest January elections, officials say...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Pc rescues Thames bridge jumper
A Pc who dived into a river to save a man who jumped off a bridge is commended as "extremely brave"...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Bosnian Serbs vote for president
Bosnian Serbs are voting for a new president to succeed Milan Jelic, who died of a heart attack in September...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Iraqi police chief dies in attack
The police chief of a mainly Shia region of Iraq is killed in a roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad, police say...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Bolivians approve draft charter
A majority in Bolivia's constituent assembly approves a draft constitution, despite an opposition boycott...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Live - BBC Sports Personality
Ten stars are in contention for the 2007 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award at the NEC in Birmingham...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Arsenal shocked by inspired Boro
A lacklustre Arsenal suffer their first Premier League loss of the season against an inspired Middlesbrough...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Shuttle launch delayed until 2008
Nasa delays the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until January after a fuel tank sensor appears not to work...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Huge expansion for wind turbines
There could be as many as two offshore wind turbines per mile of UK coastline under plans from ministers...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Four Dead in Bangladesh Building Collapse
At least four workers were killed and about 50 others were injured when the roof of a 22-story building collapsed...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
2 Iraqi Troops Die in Suicide Explosion
Iraqi soldiers fired on a suicide car bomber as he sped toward their checkpoint in a northern oil hub, and two of the troops died when the vehicle exploded, police said...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Koreans Struggle to Clean Up Oil Spill
Thousands of people used shovels and buckets to clean up a devastating oil spill at a scenic beach on South Korea?s western coast, some battling headaches and nausea...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Iran Studying Talks With U.S. on Iraq
Iran is studying a proposal from Iraqi officials to hold security talks with the United States in January, the Foreign Ministry said...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a police checkpost in the restive Swat valley in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, the military said...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
U.S. ?Not Ready? to Commit at Bali
The United States will come up with its own plan to cut global-warming gases by mid-2008 and won?t commit to mandatory caps at the U.N. climate conference...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Mother 'sends public plea to Amy'
Amy Winehouse's mum writes an open letter in a newspaper saying she is "concerned" about her daughter...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Minister backs boxing in schools
Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe wants to increase the number of schools offering boxing to their pupils...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Doubts cast on Northern Rock sale
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable says plans to sell Northern Rock to a private buyer "will not work"...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Care home evacuated due to blaze
Almost 30 elderly residents of an Aberdeenshire care home are led to safety after a fire breaks out...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Two killed, three hurt in crash
Two people are killed and three are injured after a road collision in the early hours of Sunday...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Arrests over night bus murder
Two men are questioned over a row on a night bus in which a passenger was stabbed to death...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Six targeted in house gun attack
Six people, including two young children, are targeted in a gun attack at a house in west Belfast...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Six dead in Swat suicide attack
A suicide bomber kills six people at a police post in Pakistan's north-west Swat valley, officials say...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
S Korea declares slick 'disaster'
South Korea declares a "state of disaster" along an area of coast hit by the country's worst-ever oil spill...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Cricket: Malinga checks England
Lasith Malinga takes two late wickets as England close day one of the second Test against Sri Lanka at 258-5...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Storms continue to batter Wales
Heavy rain and high winds continue across Wales after flooding problems and homes being evacuated...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Robson wins BBC achievement award
Former England football manager Sir Bobby Robson will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Archbishop in dog-collar protest
Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, cuts his dog collar in a protest against the Zimbabwean government...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Fighting rages for Taleban town
Afghan and Nato forces try to retake an Afghan town in a fierce battle which has already killed a British soldier...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Primary teaching to be reviewed
A "root and branch" review of the English primary school curriculum is to be launched, schools minister Ed Balls says...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Free Iraq hostages, says Brown
Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls for the release of five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq in May...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Hatton vows to carry on fighting
Ricky Hatton insists his career is not over after failing to take the world welterweight title from Floyd Mayweather...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Canoeist wife arrested back in UK
The wife of the canoeist who turned up after being presumed dead is arrested as she flies back to Britain...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
British 'Missing Man' Charged With Fraud
A British man who was declared dead after disappearing at sea five years ago masterminded an elaborate life insurance fraud to pay off family debts and also lied to get a false passport, police said Saturday...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
How to Keep an Ex-Terrorist Talking
Transcripts of videotaped talks between a former payroll manager for Osama bin Laden and federal authorities reveal how differently the government has treated terrorists who volunteer information and those who don?t...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Mugabe?s Presence Hijacks European-African Meeting
The meeting was dominated by divisions between the two continents over trade and criticism from European leaders of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe...
New York Times - December 9, 2007
Radio has picture perfect future
Digital radio stations try broadcasting sound with pictures in a bid to make radio a visual experience...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Murder victim driven to hospital
A man is beaten and stabbed during a row in the street - and then driven to hospital in his own car...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Pensioners evacuated during blaze
Nearly 30 elderly residents of an Aberdeenshire care home are led to safety after a fire breaks out...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Al-Qaeda suspects in Iraq killed
The US military in Iraq says it has killed 12 suspected al-Qaeda operatives and detained 13 others in raids...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Live - Sri Lanka v England
Michael Vaughan hits fifty as England start well after opting to bat against Sri Lanka in the second Test in Colombo...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Firework plant blast in Australia
An explosion rips through one of the biggest firework factories in Australia, damaging nearby houses...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Khan victorious on 21st birthday
Amir Khan celebrates his 21st birthday by demolishing Graham Earl in round one to retain his Commonwealth lightweight title...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Warning over jail inmates' phones
Prison officers are calling on the government to install more mobile phone blocking equipment in jails...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Police await canoeist wife move
Police wait to see if the wife of canoeist John Darwin will return to the UK to face questioning as her husband prepares to face court...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
EU-African leaders to seal pact
EU and African leaders are to sign an agreement promoting democracy at the end of a two-day summit...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
No legal aid for Hercules inquest
Families of UK personnel killed when a Hercules aircraft was shot down in Iraq will not get legal aid for their inquest...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Ricky Hatton suffers first defeat
Floyd Mayweather stops Ricky Hatton in the 10th round of their WBC welterwight title fight in Las Vegas...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
Adverts impact on children probed
A major inquiry into the possible harmful effects of advertising on children will be launched by the government...
BBC News - December 9, 2007
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