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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 June 2005:
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Canada's Supreme Court Chips Away at National Health Care
Legal experts said a ruling today would open the door to a wave of lawsuits challenging the health care system in other provinces...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Protests Swirl Around Deadlocked Talks on New Bolivian Leader
Bolivia's armed forces announced that it could intervene to ensure that the process of anointing a leader is respected amid paralyzing protests...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Palestinian Leader Urges Factions to Maintain Calm
The militants said they reserved the right to retaliate for any Israeli attacks...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Fungus 'may help malaria fight'
A fungus could be the newest weapon in the fight against malaria, researchers have suggested...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Italy hostage released in Kabul
Italian aid worker Clementina Cantoni is freed nearly a month after being taken hostage in Afghanistan...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Firm defends itself over escape
A security firm which was guarding a prisoner who escaped from an NI court says it regrets the incident...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Union lobbied over exams system
Scotland's largest teaching union will be asked to safeguard the future of the Standard Grades exam system...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Best released after assault claim
George Best is released by police investigating an alleged assault outside his former girlfriend's home...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Tennis: Murray falls to Johansson
Andy Murray loses to Thomas Johansson at Queen's - but Tim Henman goes through...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Abigail fails to pick out suspect
Stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls fails to identify suspect Richard Cazaly in a photographic identity parade...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Unrest halts Bolivian Congress
Bolivia's parliament suspends talks on the president's fate, after a protester is reported killed in clashes with police...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
6 Senators Urge Reassessment of Ties With Uzbekistan Ruler
The senators said close association with a nation whose troops fired on demonstrators risked undermining U.S. security...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
NATO Ministers Agree to Contribute to Iraq Training Facility
When fully operational, it will train 1,000 Iraqi officers each year, NATO officials said...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Saudi Reformers: Seeking Rights, Paying a Price
The first of a series on the prospects for democracy in the Middle East focuses on lonely voices in the Saudi kingdom...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Leaders of Iraq Back Militias, Widening Rift With Sunnis
Iraq's leaders came out in support of ethnic and sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against them...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Bigger golden hellos for teachers
The government announces a rise in money paid to attract graduates into teaching certain subjects...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Shuttle on home-stretch to launch
A top-level oversight board says it sees no major obstacles standing in the way of Nasa's plan to finally launch shuttle Discovery next month...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
$1 amnesty for pirated software
Microsoft gives Indonesia an amnesty over pirated software used in government departments...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Longer jail term for spa killer
A former soldier who murdered his ex-wife and her new boyfriend is told he must serve at least 20 years in jail...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Worries of missing teen's mother
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who went missing in Gwynedd says not knowing what happened is 'awful'...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Fresh attack on UK's human rights
The UK's record on human rights is attacked for the second day running in a report on the treatment of terror suspects...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Driver admits police manslaughter
A motorist facing a retrial pleads guilty to the manslaughter of two police officers during a pursuit...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Man guilty of loyalist's murder
A man from County Armagh is sentenced to life for the murder of loyalist drug dealer Jim Johnston...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Abbas wins fresh truce commitment
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas meets militant groups in Gaza to prevent the collapse of a fragile truce with Israel...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Desertions blow hits Afghan army
Hundreds of soldiers have deserted the Afghan army's front line corps, the US military says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Pope vows to improve Jewish ties
Pope Benedict XVI tells Jewish leaders he wants to continue improving Catholic-Jewish relations...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Best arrested over assault claim
George Best is arrested by police investigating an alleged assault outside his former girlfriend's home...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Football: Mourinho appeal fails
The FA rejects Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho's appeal against a charge of improper conduct...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Ethiopians seek missing relatives
Relatives seek news of loved ones in hospitals in Ethiopia's capital, after 26 deaths on Wednesday's protests...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Climbie parents back worker
The parents of murdered Victoria Climbie welcome the overturning of a ban on her social worker working with children...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Lineker's Kewell claim 'rubbish'
Harry Kewell's personal manager says he was scape-goated in the controversy over the player's Leeds-Liverpool transfer...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Mugabe defends crackdown
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe defends demolitions which have left tens of thousands homeless...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Mladic 'will soon be in custody'
The US is to resume aid to Serbia, amid hopes that war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic will soon be arrested...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Blair rejects French rebate call
Tony Blair rejects President Chirac's call to give up the UK EU rebate as a "gesture of solidarity"...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
New effort to ban religious hate
A controversial bill to outlaw incitement to religious hatred is unveiled as critics claim it will curb free speech...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Car charge trials 'in five years'
Pay-as-you go charges could be trialled on UK roads within five years, the transport secretary announces...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Leaders of Iraq Back Militias, Widening Rift With Sunnis
Iraq's leaders came out in support of ethnic and sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against them...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
No. 1 Quits in Bolivia, and Protesters Scorn Nos. 2 and 3
Congress prepared to anoint President Carlos Mesa's successor, the Senate president, whom protest leaders reject...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
U.S. Rebuffs Germans on Security Council Bid
The Bush administration has again rebuffed Germany's effort to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Rumsfeld Says Guantánamo Isn't Being Considered for Closing
The defense secretary also defended the treatment of prisoners by their American military guards and interrogators as humane...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Bush Team Appears to End Effort to Oust Atomic Chief
Administration officials have been acknowledging that they have been unable to convince any of their major allies that Mohamed ElBaradei should be ousted...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
22 Killed as Ethiopian Forces Open Fire at Protest Over Vote Count
The government said the demonstrations were illegal and that organizers would be dealt with sternly...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Actor critical after heart attack
Actor and campaigner Corin Redgrave is critical in hospital after collapsing at a meeting about a travellers' site...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Is aid the answer for Africa?
US President George Bush has said he is working with PM Tony Blair to eliminate debt in African countries that are committed to reform...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
HIV and Ebola lung disease 'cure'
Cystic fibrosis could be treated using elements of two potentially fatal viruses - HIV and Ebola - research suggests...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Pupils sit 'flab-fighting' exam
Teenagers are to sit exams on exercise and healthy eating in an effort to reduce the level of childhood obesity...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
UK backs hazard warning system
Tony Blair backs a recommendation that an international panel be set up to reduce the impact of natural hazards...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Toshiba raises stakes in DVD wars
A Toshiba-led group says it has developed a way to mass produce single-recording, high-def DVDs...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
G8 protesters await march verdict
Campaigners are set to learn if they will be allowed to stage a demonstration near the summit at Gleneagles...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Hundreds of miles for GP's shifts
A 'flying doctor' travels from Germany to cover out-of-hours GP shifts for patients in north Wales...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Insurance firms in £1.8bn merger
Two large insurance companies, Britannic and Resolution Life, are to merge, creating a £1.8bn business...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Straw and Solana visiting Baghdad
The UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw holds talks in Baghdad as part of a European Union visit to Iraq...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Kashmir separatists shift stance
A top Kashmiri separatist says they are ready to move on from insisting on a UN referendum on its status...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Driver admits police manslaughter
A motorist facing a re-trial pleads guilty to the manslaughter of two police officers during a pursuit...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Man held over pellet gun attack
A man is arrested over a pellet gun attack on a Londonderry bar in which two people are injured...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Abbas visits Gaza to rescue truce
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Gaza to urge militants to abide by a truce, after clashes with Israel...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
N Korea 'is building more bombs'
North Korea is boosting its arsenal of nuclear weapons, says a Pyongyang official, as talks remain stalled...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Bolivia on edge for crucial vote
Bolivian legislators are to decide whether to name a new president on Thursday, after violent protests...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Acquittal of 9/11 suspect upheld
A German appeals court upholds the acquittal of Abdelghani Mzoudi, a Moroccan 9/11 terror suspect...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Rugby: Lions bulk up for Maoris
The Lions select a jumbo pack for their heavyweight clash with the NZ Maori...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Tennis: Murray set for Johansson
Andy Murray, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski are all in action at Queen's on Thursday...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Ethiopia 'in danger' after deaths
European election observers warn of the dangerous situation in Ethiopia after 22 protesters are shot dead on Wednesday...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Mars probe 'was doomed' say MPs
The ill-fated Beagle 2 project was over-ambitious and should never have got the go-ahead, an influential committee of MPs says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Crowe sorry for hotel 'assault'
Actor Russell Crowe apologises for throwing a phone at a hotel porter in a fit of rage that led to his arrest...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Climbie worker's ban overturned
A tribunal allows a social worker sacked over the Victoria Climbie case to work with children again...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Jesus 'may have died from clot'
Jesus may have died from a blood clot in his lungs, Israeli doctors believe...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Paedophile victim forced to move
The family of a girl forced to live yards from her a neighbour who sexually attacked her, move house after he returns home from prison...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Bank maintains UK rates at 4.75%
The Bank of England keeps interest rates on hold at 4.75% for the tenth month in a row...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Zimbabwe clampdown over strike
Zimbabwe's two-day general strike gets off to a slow start, with most businesses open in the capital, reports say...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Religious hatred bill is unveiled
A controversial bill making incitement to religious hatred illegal is being unveiled by ministers...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Road charge plans to be outlined
The transport secretary says pay-as-you-go charges will cut congestion and prove cheaper for many motorists...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
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