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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 January 2008:
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Spain Says 2 Confessed to 2006 Airport Bombing
Two men accused of being members of a militant Basque separatist group have confessed to carrying out the December 2006 bomb attack on Madrid?s airport that killed two...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
U.N. Official Warns of Darfur Failure
The United Nations? top peacekeeping official told the Security Council Wednesday that the freshly deployed force in Darfur was in danger of failure...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
From Palestinians, Harsh View of Bush
As President Bush arrives in the region, many ordinary Palestinians say his support for Israel is at their expense...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Difficulties Confront Bush as He Arrives in Israel
President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel have in two short years forged the sort of empathetic relationship that Mr. Bush had with Ariel Sharon...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Artists 'must benefit from touts'
Artists and sports bodies should share profits from tickets resold on internet auction sites, MPs say...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Freed death row Scot arrives home
Kenny Richey says "it feels great" to be back in Scotland after spending 20 years on death row in the US...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Drink-drive officer back on beat
A police officer edited out of a road safety advert after being caught drink-driving is back at work...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
'Farc agrees to hostage release'
Colombia agrees to a new Venezuelan mission to secure the release of two hostages held by Farc rebels...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Killing sparks protests in China
The beating to death of a man in China who filmed a row between officials and villagers prompts a nationwide outcry...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Football: Shearer rules out job
Alan Shearer is extremely unlikely to be the next Newcastle manager, the BBC understands...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham
Theo Walcott equalises as Arsenal draw with Spurs in the first leg of their Carling Cup semi-final...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Rate decision 'on a knife-edge'
UK interest rates will most likely be kept on hold on Thursday, but analysts say it will be a very close decision...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Six US troops die in Iraq blast
Six US soldiers die in at blast at an explosives-rigged house in Iraq's Diyala province, the US military says...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
UK troops in blood disease checks
Eighteen British troops are being tested amid fears they may have been given contaminated blood...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Iran Accuses U.S. of Faking Persian Gulf Video
An unnamed official disputed the authenticity of a video showing Iranian speedboats near an American convoy...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Bush Begins Week in Middle East
President Bush arrived in Israel on a trip intended to overcome deep skepticism by Israelis and Palestinians about the prospects of a negotiated peace...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Blasphemy law 'may be abolished'
Ministers signal they may seek to repeal the law of blasphemy in a move to head off a rebellion by Labour MPs...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Fine over rats at food warehouse
A huge rat infestation at a food warehouse supplying schools and care homes was "outrageous" says a judge...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Gale-force winds cause disruption
High winds leave 7,000 homes across Scotland without power and cause travel chaos as bridges close...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Hit-and-run victim denied payout
A girl badly injured by a hit-and-run motorcyclist is denied compensation due to a legal loophole...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Government 'told of scald danger'
Faults in a type of boiler which exploded killing a baby girl were not passed on by the government, an inquest hears...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
South Asia hit by food shortages
People across South Asia struggle to cope with severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Kosovo gets pro-independence PM
Kosovo MPs back a coalition government led by Hashim Thaci, who is pushing for independence...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
CIA whistle-blower dies in Cuba
A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
China arrests over beating death
At least 24 people are questioned in China following the death of a man who filmed a local dispute...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Taylor aide alleges rebel links
A former bodyguard of ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor tells of secret radio links with a Sierra Leone warlord...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Football: Savage moves to Derby
Robbie Savage reveals he snubbed a move to Sunderland and took a pay cut to move from Blackburn to Derby...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Allardyce reign ends at Newcastle
Newcastle part company with manager Sam Allardyce after just eight months...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Diana calls 'bugged by GCHQ'
Princess Diana's conversations were recorded by the intelligence services, an inquest hears...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Freed death row Scot back home
Kenny Richey is back in Scotland after spending 20 years on death row in a US prison...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Retailers suffer after M&S slump
UK retail shares slump after poor Christmas sales from Marks & Spencer, sparking fears of a cooling economy...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
RSPCA staff find 31 dead horses
A huge rescue operation is taking place after animal welfare officers find scores of dead and neglected horses...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Bush presses for Mid-East peace
US President Bush says he is ready to pressure Middle East peace negotiators, as he makes his first visit to Israel...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Primary comebacks ignite US race
New Hampshire primary wins by John McCain and Hillary Clinton leave the race for the White House wide open...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Sacked Bill star out of hospital
The Bill actor Jeff Stewart, who plays PC Reg Hollis, is treated in hospital after "an incident" on set...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Flesh wound reveals dino secrets
A fossil unearthed in China gives scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like "in the flesh"...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Exploding laptop hits LG shares
Shares in LG Electronics and LG Chem fall on reports of an exploding laptop, which had an LG Chem battery...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Labour advertises for party chief
The Labour Party advertises for a General Secretary to succeed Peter Watt, who quit over proxy donations...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Woman and girls die in accident
A woman and two children have been killed where their car was involved in an accident...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Welshman in NZ cave rescue drama
A Welshman is at the centre of a rescue after becoming trapped in a "dangerous" cave in New Zealand...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Three men face child sex charges
Three men held in an international child porn inquiry are charged with making and possessing indecent images...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
No warnings over baby-scald tank
Health and safety officials issued no alert about a faulty water tank system which killed a baby girl, an inquest hears...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Iran says US video 'fabricated'
Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the US faked evidence that its ships were harassed by Iranian speedboats...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Tight security for Sri Lankan MPs
Sri Lanka increases security for members of parliament a day after a minister is assassinated...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Spain captures 'Madrid bombers'
Spain says it is holding two men suspected of carrying out the deadly 2006 Madrid airport bombing...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Stolen Picasso found in Sao Paulo
A Picasso is among two paintings recovered by police in Sao Paulo after being stolen in December...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Malaysia visa policy 'tightened'
Malaysia says there is no ban on workers from India, but officials say a more stringent policy is in place...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
New effort to solve Kenya crisis
Ghana's President John Kufuor holds separate talks with both sides in Kenya's crisis over disputed elections...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Football: Grant hopeful on Anelka
Chelsea boss Avram Grant hopes to complete the signing of Nicolas Anelka by the weekend...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Apple to cut UK download prices
Apple is to cut the price it charges in the UK for music downloads from iTunes within six months...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Rugby: England squad named
Gloucester's Tongan wing Lesley Vainikolo is named in England's Six Nations squad while Josh Lewsey and Andy Farrell are omitted...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Clegg faces first Commons clash
New Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg makes his debut at Prime Minister's question time with Gordon Brown...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Stormy weather batters Scotland
Gale force winds leave 20,000 homes across the country without power and close three major road bridges...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Cancer patient loses visa battle
A Ghanaian woman who came to the UK to study is told she must return to Africa despite being terminally ill...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Bush launches key Mid-East tour
US President Bush arrives in Israel on a landmark visit to the region to try to advance Israeli-Palestinian talks...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
M&S hit by poor Christmas sales
Marks and Spencer sees a 2.2% drop in Christmas sales, adding to signs of slower consumer spending...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Killer drivers could avoid jail
Motorists found guilty of causing death by careless driving may avoid jail under new proposals...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Speight not a murder suspect
Children's TV presenter Mark Speight is no longer being treated as a murder suspect over the death of his fiancee...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: China: Crackdown on Plastic Bags
The State Council, China?s cabinet, banned the production of thin plastic bags and will forbid China?s supermarkets to offer them free beginning June 1, saying they cause pollution and waste resources. The council said shoppers should return to using cloth bags. The Chinese use up to three billion plastic bags a day and the country has to refine 37 million barrels of crude oil every year to make plastics used for packaging, according to a report on the Web site of China Trade News...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Prodi Intervenes in Naples Trash Crisis
Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced emergency measures to deal with Naples? mounting garbage crisis, including three new incinerators, a special garbage czar, and an attempt to get other regions to volunteer to take the trash. The northern Valle d?Aosta offered to help, reports said...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
World Briefing | Asia: Maldives: Quick, a Merit Badge
A 15-year-old Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, grabbing a man?s knife as he leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader, a government spokesman said. The president was unhurt, although the knife ripped his shirt. No motive was given. The boy, in his scout uniform for the event on the northern island of Hoarafushi, suffered a hand injury...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Bhutto?s Son Critical of U.S.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan?s assassinated opposition leader, said at a news conference in London that the United States would have to stop ?supporting dictators? in Pakistan for Islamic extremism to be defeated there. Returning to Britain from Pakistan two weeks after his mother?s death to resume his first-year studies at Oxford, he gave a battery of feisty answers to reporters who questioned the Pakistan Peoples Party?s decision to pick him as his mother?s successor as party chairman. To a reporter who suggested he had been appointed to the post ?like a piece of family furniture,? he said he had not sought it, but added, ?It was recognized at this moment in crisis the party needed a close association with my mother through the bloodline.? Asked if he feared for his life, he replied: ?How many Bhuttos can you kill? From every house a Bhutto will come.? Noting that the party had selected his father, Asif Ali Zardari, as the party?s co-chairman until he finishes his university degree, he said he would step ?gradually and carefully? into politics. He renewed the family?s demands for a United Nations inquiry into his mother?s death and spoke out against American support for the generals who have ruled Pakistan for more than half its 60-year existence. ?The problem is that dictatorships breed extremism, and once the U.S. stops supporting dictators, we can successfully tackle extremists,? he said...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Prison for Would-Be Jihad Fighter
Sohail Qureshi, a London dental technician who was arrested at Heathrow Airport in 2006 boarding a flight to Pakistan, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in the first conviction under a new law against planning terrorism. The prosecutor said Mr. Qureshi, originally from Pakistan, planned a ?two- to three-week operation? either in Pakistan or Afghanistan, possibly against Western troops. He was carrying nearly $18,000, a telescopic night sight and a computer hard drive loaded with militant Islamic tracts, the court was told. Prosecutors said that he had trained with jihadist groups in Pakistan linked to Al Qaeda and that his skills included encrypting e-mail messages. The court was also told of e-mail exchanges he had with Samina Malik, known as the ?lyrical terrorist,? who received a suspended sentence in November for keeping a library of terrorist material. Ms. Malik, a clerk at a Heathrow newsstand who wrote poetry limning her passion for Islamic militancy, received an e-mail message from Mr. Qureshi asking about security arrangements at Heathrow. According to the prosecution, she replied, ?The airport security is as tight as ever.?...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Jean-Claude Vrinat, Owner of Famed Paris Restaurant, Is Dead at 71
For more than three decades, Mr. Vrinat was the owner of the Taillevent restaurant in Paris, which is regarded by many as the pinnacle of elegance in French cuisine...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Sri Lankan Blast Kills an Official
The government blamed Tamil rebels for the assassination, the first of a top Sri Lankan official in 19 months...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Sudanese Soldiers Fire on U.N. Peacekeepers in Darfur
The attack was the latest challenge for the United Nations force, which has been heralded as having the ability to quell the violence in Darfur...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Nice Journal: A Cathedral Resists the Label ?Property of Russia?
In France and other parts of Europe, some Orthodox church groups refuse to return to a union with the church leadership in Moscow...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Afghan Civilians Were Killed Needlessly, Ex-Marine Testifies
Nathaniel Travers, who operated last year in Afghanistan, said Tuesday that his comrades appeared to have needlessly killed civilians after their convoy was attacked by a suicide car bomb...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
3 Americans Arrested in Gang Battle With Mexican Police
Three Americans were part of a well-armed gang that waged a gun battle with soldiers and police officers in Rio Bravo on Monday, Mexican authorities said...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Bush Castigates Iran, Calling Naval Confrontation ?Provocative Act?
The Pentagon also released video showing Iranian speedboats maneuvering around the American convoy...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Kenya Crisis Worsens as Opposition Cools to Talks
The move came after the president unilaterally appointed key cabinet positions, which also set off riots across the country...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
U.S. Attack in Iraq Is No Surprise to Many Insurgents
American commanders believe it is essential to hobble the extremists in order to sustain recent security gains and ultimately pacify Iraq...
New York Times - January 9, 2008
Fix will give Hubble major boost
The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
A little alcohol 'can be healthy'
Moderate drinking and a healthy active lifestyle may be the best recipe for a longer life, research suggests...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Inquiry after girl's blast death
Investigators try to find the cause of a house explosion that left a girl, aged nine, dead and four people injured...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Bush embarks on Middle East visit
US President Bush heads to the Middle East as Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree to talks on "core issues"...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Bolivian leaders agree on unity
Bolivian President Evo Morales and opposition governors agree to draw up a pact of national unity in crisis talks...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Australian ship seeks out whalers
An Australian customs vessel heads south to Antarctica to monitor activities of the Japanese whaling fleet...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Intel 'undermined' laptop project
Intel repeatedly tried to derail a scheme to bring PCs to the developing world, the head of the project says...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Third of adults 'always dieting'
One in three adults in the UK try to lose weight at some point every month, a survey suggests...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Watchdog criticises credit advert
A leaflet offering credit services to young women has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Police DNA data review launched
Ministers fund an inquiry into the way the national police DNA database is used to fight crime...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
School reports going electronic
Parents in England are to be promised online "real-time reporting" on their children's progress at school...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Hospital bug measures set out
Ministers say they are getting to grips with hospital bugs as they set out measures in the fight against them...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
Clinton wins Democratic primary
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain both make comebacks to win their New Hampshire primaries...
BBC News - January 9, 2008
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