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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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Japan Says Russian Bomber Violated Its Airspace
The foreign ministry of Japan immediately protested to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo and demanded an explanation...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Junta in Myanmar Calls for Elections in 2010
The military government of Myanmar on Saturday announced a timetable for what it calls its ?roadmap to democracy,? including elections in 2010, the first since 1990...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Transcript Reveals Details of French Trader?s Actions
Documents suggest that a trader at Société Générale was aware of Jérôme Kerviel?s surreptitious trading and that Mr. Kerviel understood the gravity of his actions...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Tensions Rise Between Local Iraqi Governments and U.S.-Backed Sunni Groups
The conflicts raise the prospect that the creation of the groups, formed to fight extremists and bring calm to the country, might instead add to the unrest in Diyala and Anbar provinces...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Global Finance Leaders Warn of Risk From U.S. Housing Woe
Finance leaders from the world?s wealthiest nations warned Saturday that global economic woes could get worse from the slump in the American housing market...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Joint Chiefs Chairman and Musharraf Discuss Terror Threat
A recent string of visits of senior American officials in Pakistan suggests increasing frustration in Washington with the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Atop Vietnamese Noodle Shop, War?s Course Shifted
A restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City bears the memory an important moment of the Vietnam War,the Tet offensive, launched 40 years ago...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Indian Discontent Fuels Malaysia?s Rising Tensions
For years, the segregation of Malaysians by ethnicity was promoted as the best formula for social harmony, particularly after ethnic riots in 1969, but ethnic tensions are now rising...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Bhutto?s Widower Rallies Party Before Election
The party of Benazir Bhutto hopes to sweep to power in Pakistan on her legacy and her martyrdom...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
NATO?s Leader Says the Alliance Remains Unified on Troops for Afghan Mission
Despite the Secretary General?s positive remarks, no NATO nations has come up with substantial new contributions for the Afghan mission except for the United States...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Turkey?s Parliament Lifts Scarf Ban
A vote in Parliament set the stage for a showdown with the secular elite over Islam?s place in Turkish society...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
In Spanish Case, Officials See Terror Threat Rising From Pakistan
The recent arrests of Pakistanis in connection to a terrorist bombing plot in Barcelona are indicative of the importance of the terror threat coming from that country, officials said...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Universities Rush to Set Up Outposts Abroad
The American system of higher education, long the envy of the world, is becoming an important export as more universities take their programs overseas...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
'Progress made' on Farc hostages
Venezuela says it has made progress on securing the release of three more Farc hostages in Colombia...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Poison cake kills Iraqi children
Two children die and other Iraqis are critically ill, after eating cake poisoned with thallium in Baghdad...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Carey weighs into Sharia law row
The Archbishop of Canterbury's comments about Sharia law have come under attack from his predecessor...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Blaze ravages London market area
Up to 100 firefighters are tackling a major blaze in the market area of Camden Town, north London...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Bhutto?s Party Disputes Scotland Yard Report on Her Death
The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party insisted that Benazir Bhutto had been killed by gunfire and continued to demand a United Nations investigation...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China
The U.S. Olympic Committee has tried to figure out how to avoid the danger of tainted food at the Summer Games...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
6 at Guantánamo Said to Face Trial in 9/11 Case
A sweeping case against suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks would bring new scrutiny to military commissions...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Turkey?s Parliament Votes to Lift Head Scarf Ban
The vote sets the stage for a showdown with the country?s secular elite over Islam?s place in Turkish society...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Bhutto?s Widower Rallies Party for Election in Pakistan
Asif Zardari opened his party?s election campaign with a huge rally in a bid to sweep to power on Benazir Bhutto?s legacy and martyrdom...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Spears' father 'can fire manager'
Singer Britney Spears' father has been given the power to fire her business manager, according to court papers...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Mountain rescuers discover body
A team of mountain rescuers looking for a missing ice climber in Wester Ross find a body...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Two more arrests in murder probe
Six men are being questioned about the murder of a man in Belfast, after police made two more arrests...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Thieves target centenarian sisters
Two sisters aged 100 and 106 are robbed by three people posing as water company officials...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Lebanon delays vote for 14th time
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament postpones the election of a new president for the 14th time...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Shuttle docks with Space Station
Space shuttle Atlantis arrives at the International Space Station to deliver Europe's Columbus science laboratory...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
UN envoy visits Kenyan hotspots
The UN emergency relief head John Holmes urges a peace deal after visiting Kenya violence flashpoints...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Japan accuses Russia of incursion
Japan accuses Russia of violating its airspace over the Pacific Izu islands and demands an explanation...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Football: Everton beat Reading
Phil Jagielka's second-half header gives Everton victory over Reading - and sends the Royals into the bottom three...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Tennis: Argentina end GB hopes
David Nalbandian and Jose Acasuso win the doubles to give Argentina victory over Great Britain in the Davis Cup...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Six Nations win for France over Ireland
Vincent Clerc's hat-trick of tries gives France enough daylight to beat Ireland despite the visitors' brave fightback...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Thieves crash hijacked beer lorry
Police search for two men who ran off after crashing a hijacked beer lorry in west London...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Writers' leaders hail strike deal
Leaders of striking US film and TV writers tell their members they have reached a "tentative deal" with studios...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Blast at Pakistan election rally
At least 18 people die in a blast at an opposition election rally in Pakistan's North West Frontier, reports say...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Hospital 'sorry' for baby mix-up
A hospital apologises to two mothers after their babies were accidentally swapped and one was breast-fed...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Burmese junta sets voting dates
Burma's military junta announces a constitutional referendum in May and a general election in 2010...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Call for prison bugging inquiry
Opposition politicians demand an inquiry into claims that hundreds of lawyers are bugged on prison visits...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Archbishop under pressure to quit
Dr Rowan Williams remains under pressure to resign despite efforts to clarify his Sharia law comments...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Sunnis Agree to Rejoin Government
Iraq?s main Sunni Arab bloc has agreed to rejoin Iraq?s Shi?ite-led government after key demands for returning were met, two officials from the bloc said...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Chinese Editor Released From Prison
The editor of a Chinese newspaper known for its aggressive reporting has been released early from prison after serving four years, a journalists? group said...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Japan Says Russian Plane Violated Space
Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, a Japanese foreign ministry official said...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Four held in machete murder probe
Four people are being questioned in connection with the murder of a man in Belfast on Thursday...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
UN envoy heads to Kenya hotspots
The UN emergency relief head, John Holmes, is to visit Kenya violence flashpoint areas...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
G7 issues global economy warning
Ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations pledge action over global economic turmoil, but warn it could get worse...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Cricket: NZ beat dismal England
England bat dismally in the first one-day international and lose by six wickets to New Zealand in Wellington...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
One dead in police pursuit crash
A passenger is killed and four other people are hurt when a car crashes after a police pursuit...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Sat-navs 'harm railway bridges'
Millions of pounds worth of damage is caused to the UK's railway infrastructure by drivers following sat-nav devices...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Anti-gay police complaints 'rise'
Complaints about homophobia within the police have risen by almost a quarter, according to the Gay Police Association...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
White House race polls resume
Four US states are to hold presidential campaign elections, the first polls since Super Tuesday...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Turkey eases ban on headscarves
Turkey's parliament votes to ease the ban on women wearing Islamic headscarves in universities...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Mbeki Addresses Power Crisis
President Thabo Mbeki apologized in his annual State of the Nation address for the electricity shortage that has caused widespread, crippling blackouts over the last month...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Austria: 11 Dead in Retirement Home Fire
A fire engulfed the building in the western town of Egg, and its cause is under investigation...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Everyone?s Nightmare
An inquest was opened into the death of an elderly man whose body lay on the sofa of his Bristol apartment for at least eight years while another elderly occupant continued to live there...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: France: Le Pen Guilty in Defending Nazis
The far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was given a three-month suspended prison sentence for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was ?not particularly inhuman? and that ?excesses? were inevitable...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Huge Weapons and Marijuana Seizure
Soldiers searching a house near Miguel Alemán, near the Texas border, on Thursday night discovered a huge cache of arms and nine tons of marijuana...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Serbia: Kosovo Set to Declare Independence, Serbia Says
The Serbian minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said his government had received ?relevant information? that the province?s Albanian leadership would declare independence on Feb. 17...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Overseas Funds Resist Calls for a Code of Conduct
The funds argue that a code is unnecessary because their investments are already strictly commercial in nature...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Andrew Bertie, Who Led the Knights of Malta, Is Dead at 78
Fra Andrew Bertie was the 78th grand master of the 900-year-old charitable order of laymen. He was elected to lead it in a secret conclave in 1988...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
U.N. Officials Tell of Impasse in Darfur Peacekeeping Task
The officials reported that deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces continued to be stalled and that rebel groups showed little willingness to enter peace talks...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Sarkozy Vows to Aid France?s Immigrant Suburbs
A new plan aims to move children out of underperforming, segregated schools, and to boost job-training...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Israel Reduces Gaza?s Electricity as Rocket Attacks Continue
The move, part of sanctions against continued rocket fire, prompted a warning from the United States not to ?worsen the humanitarian situation? of civilians in Gaza...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Pentagon Assesses Strain on Military
Long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the American military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, an assessment said...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Tactic Called Torture
Waterboarding, an interrogation technique that has been used by the United States, qualifies as torture, the United Nations human rights chief said Friday...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Mexican Leader to Visit U.S., Outside the Beltway
President Felipe Calderón?s visit comes at a time when the issue of immigration has ignited strong emotions on the campaign trail...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Panel Gains Right to See C.I.A. Tapes
It is unclear how the agency came to possess the recordings when officials have said that the tapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects were destroyed in 2005...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Book Fair?s Plans to Honor Israel Lead to Protests
The selection of Israel as guest of honor at this spring?s International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
As Most of China Celebrates New Year, a Scramble Continues in Coal Country
The recent snowstorms that left millions without power in Southern China underscored the country?s heavy dependence on coal and laid bare the glaring inadequacies of its production and distribution cycle...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
Wary of Food, U.S. Olympians Plan a Big Delivery to China
The United States Olympic Committee will ship 25,000 pounds of lean protein to Beijing to avoid tainted food...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
G.I. Tells of Ordering Execution of Unarmed Iraqi
A top Army sniper testified that he had ordered the execution of an unarmed Iraqi man and then planted a rifle near the body to support his false report about the killing...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
6 Guantánamo Detainees Are Said to Face Trial Over 9/11
A sweeping case against suspects in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, would bring new scrutiny to the system of military commissions...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
In Venezuela, Faith in Chávez Starts to Wane
Economic and social problems are so acute that President Hugo Chávez is facing criticism even from his supporters...
New York Times - February 9, 2008
'John Lewis' list kept from MPs
A list of guide prices for items commonly claimed by MPs on expenses is to remain secret, a tribunal has ruled...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
MPs urge action on gender pay gap
The government must "take more seriously" efforts to eliminate the UK's gender pay gap, MPs say...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Fresh search starts for climber
A full-scale search for an experienced ice climber missing in Wester Ross starts its third day at first light...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
US says Mullah Omar 'in Pakistan'
Taleban leader Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda commanders are living in Pakistan, says a senior US official...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Credit crunch to top Japan talks
Ministers from the Group of Seven leading economies meet to discuss the fallout from the global credit crunch...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Complaints against MPs increase
The Conway affair has led to a rise in complaints about MPs, the Commons standards committee head says...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Banks 'cancel good payers' cards'
Banks may be taking cards from reliable customers and giving them instead to riskier ones, an MP fears...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Man guilty of barrel wife murder
A British expatriate is found guilty of murdering his wife in Australia and hiding her body in a barrel for over 20 years...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Mourners say farewell to Ledger
Film stars, fans and friends join the family of Heath Ledger for a memorial service ahead of a private funeral...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Archbishop defends Sharia remarks
The Archbishop of Canterbury defends his comments on Muslim law, amid calls for him to quit...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
Turks set to ease headscarf ban
Turkey's parliament prepares to change the constitution to ease the ban on Islamic headscarves in universities...
BBC News - February 9, 2008
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