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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Global News Archive for January 2008:
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New markets spur Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
New market demand spurs Honda to record quarter
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
N.M. researchers hope to cultivate calming herb
The plant has been described by local residents as magical, its qualities almost mythical...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Analysis Bushs policy shifts affect Obama
Barack Obama wants to sound like the voice of reason on U.S. foreign policy _ the guy who would abandon Bush administration policies he sees as shortsighted, self-defeating or just plain wrong. Problem is, George Bush keeps beating him to it...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Honda reports record 1Q profit
Honda Motor Co. reported record profit for a fiscal first quarter Friday as sales growth in new markets offset the damage from a stronger yen and soaring material costs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued
T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report War crimes figure Karadzic seen in Vienna
An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police 1 killed in India blasts
Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran to increase cooperation with IAEA
A senior envoy said Friday that Iran wants to expand its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but said the IAEA should not be cast as a "U.N. watchdog" looking for signs of secret nuclear weapons programs...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report Karadzic seen in Vienna in 2006
An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cambodia UN help if border talks fail
Cambodia will pursue U.N. intervention to avoid a military confrontation with Thailand if talks between the two countries fail to produce a breakthrough, the Cambodian foreign minister said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Olympian PR bout under way in Washington
In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests in Tibet...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
The rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have agreed to start negotiations on Sept. 3 to reunify the ethnically divided island...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
8 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
An explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four more, Greek authorities said Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to British leader Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a stunning setback when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
SKorea struggles to probe tourist death in NKorea
South Korea said Friday it cannot determine whether the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a resort in North Korea was accidental...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
5 killed, 4 injured in Greek shipyard blast
Greek authorities say an explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed at least five people and injured four more...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Afghan officials 3 Taliban killed in clashes
Afghan officials say three Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with police in southern Afghanistan...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Scottish voters deal blow to UKs Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered new political humiliation when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Police Lebanon fighting leaves 1 civilian dead
Lebanese police say sectarian fighting in the northern city of Tripoli has killed one person and wounded 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Primary 'free school meals' call
The government is being urged to scrap means testing and to give free school meals to all primary pupils in England...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Rare fossils in India threatened
Nature protected rare fossils for millions of years, but humans are now destroying them, says the BBC's Salman Ravi in eastern India...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host MTV Awards
Comedian Russell Brand is to present this year's MTV Video Music Awards show, which will be held in Los Angeles in September...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boom times ahead for mobile web
Unprecedented demand will see mobile web-using devices proliferate over the next four years, predicts Intel...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
'Serial bombs' hit India's IT hub
Seven bombs hit the southern Indian city of Bangalore in a span of 15 minutes killing one person, police say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scrabble's owners sue Scrabulous
Hasbro, the company that owns the North American rights to Scrabble, sues the founders of Scrabulous...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Cameron issues election challenge
Conservative leader David Cameron urges Gordon Brown to call a general election after Labour's defeat in Glasgow East...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Bombings hit Gaza Strip targets
A bombing outside a cafe in Gaza City kills one person, while a second attack appears to target the home of a Hamas official...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Seoul irked as inquiry hits wall
South Korea says it cannot resolve questions over the killing of a tourist without access to the scene in North Korea...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Cyprus sets date for peace talks
Leaders from both sides of the divided island of Cyprus agree to launch reunification talks in early September, the UN says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Holiday accidents claim two lives
A six-year-old boy and a teenager die in separate accidents while on holiday in Spain and Portugal...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
DR Congo boat accident 'kills 42'
At least 42 people die after their boat sinks on a remote river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Game On
How LittleBigPlanet turns PS3 players into creators...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Missing climber 'warned off peak'
A missing climber was warned not to attempt a solo attempt on a 20,000ft (6,096m) summit in northern Pakistan, his sister says...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Witchdoctor fury
BBC reporter tells of threats for taking on albino killers...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Unsung star
India's top boxer takes a shot at Beijing...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
7 days quiz
How many zeros are there in a quadrillion?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Having fat friends may raise your own risk of obesity
People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them, researchers suggest...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Twenty20 winners to face England
England will warm up for their $20m (£10m) showdown with the Stanford Super Stars later this year by playing the winners of this weekend's Twenty20 Cup...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boycott may hit Champions Trophy
Player associations around the world warn members over travelling to the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan on security grounds...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Scrum for last Olympic tickets
Thousands of people descend on ticket booths in Beijing, to get their hands on the last batch of Olympic tickets...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fears for wedding gift list firm
Wedding gift firm Wrapit says it is having financial problems, amid fears that brides and grooms will not get their presents...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Boy, 10, slashes woman over cigarette
Police are looking for a 10-year-old boy who slashed a woman's arm after she refused to him a cigarette...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Oyster travel card system fails
The Oyster card system used on London's transport system breaks down during morning rush hour...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Hole forces Qantas plane to land
A Qantas 747 makes an emergency landing in Manila as a hole in its belly causes it to lose cabin pressure, officials say...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
EDF customers face higher bills
EDF Energy has announced it is putting up gas prices by 22% and electricity prices by 17% for domestic customers...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
British soldier killed in Helmand
A British Army dog handler has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
UK economic growth slows sharply
The UK economy has grown at its lowest quarterly rate for three years, as the credit crunch takes its toll...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown seeks to lift Labour mood
Gordon Brown is seeking to rally Labour activists and union representatives after the party's Glasgow by-election defeat...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Another courtroom victory for religious colleges
A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Lawmakers NJ legislator focus of child porn probe
Two New Jersey state lawmakers say a veteran Democratic colleague with whom they share legislative office space is being investigated for possibly possessing child pornography on his office computer...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Herrera earns 1st majors win, Bucs rip Padres 9-1
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Yoslan Herrera earns first career win for Pirates
Yoslan Herrera pitched six shutout innings for his first major league win, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got back-to-back homers from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady in a 9-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Russell Brand to host the MTV Video Music Awards
MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Wallace & Gromit to become episodic video game
"Wallace & Gromit" are going on a new adventure...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
Republican John McCain chose to go to a German restaurant as rival Barack Obama toured Berlin...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Cubs snap losing streak to Marlins with 6-3 win
Carlos Zambrano pitched seven solid innings and the Chicago Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Florida Marlins with a 6-3 victory Thursday night...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Aftershocks kill 1, injure 10 in China
Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Samsungs second-quarter net profit surges
Samsung Electronics said Friday that second-quarter net profit surged 51 percent from the same period last year, amid strong performance in flat panels, televisions and mobile phones...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Bleeding cash, Ford looks to Europe for help
Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
50 Cent sues Taco Bell over ad campaign
50 Cent has sued Taco Bell, claiming the fast-food restaurant chain is using his name without permission in advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Ohio man gets 8 years in $8M armored-car co. heist
A man received eight years in prison Thursday for masterminding an $8 million armored-car heist, a crime he said was born of financial desperation...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Texas levees hold but waters rise in Dollys rains
Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama in Europe aims to raise European profile
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama arrives in Berlin and meets with Merkel
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Sudans president vows to work for Darfur peace
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charged with genocide and war crimes in Darfur, vowed Thursday to work for peace in the war-wracked desert region and the return of hundreds of thousands of people forced by attacks to flee their homes...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Read More...
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Pentagon to recommend more troops for Afghanistan
A senior Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that top military leaders are expected soon to recommend to Defense Secretary Robert Gates which additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan over the next month or so...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
FBI agents testify at Guantanamo war crimes trial
A captured driver for Osama bin Laden did not fully cooperate with efforts to find the terrorist leader, FBI agents said Thursday, countering defense claims that he provided valuable assistance...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
China marshals Olympic spirit to rebuild
The streets here are alive with the sounds _ rumbling backhoes, roaring jackhammers, clanging pickaxes _ of a town being brought back from the dead...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe
Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Obama urges Germans to work with US to stop terror
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stood before an enormous crowd in Berlin on Thursday and summoned Europeans and Americans to work together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it."...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Concerns in Europe despite Obamas warm welcome
The warm welcome that washed over Barack Obama during his Berlin appearance Thursday made it abundantly clear that Europeans have a strong desire to heal the trans-Atlantic rift and the Democratic president candidate is a good choice for the job...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Suicide bomber kills 8 US-allied Sunnis in Iraq
A female suicide bomber blew herself up near U.S.-allied Sunni Arab fighters walking in a crowded area of Baqouba, killing at least eight of the guards and wounding 24 other people Thursday evening, police said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks that claimed a total of nine lives in the disputed Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
7 SKoreans killed in house fire
A fire ripped through a boardinghouse in South Korea early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, an official said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Gunmen kill prison director in Mexico
A Mexican police official says gunmen have killed a state prison director in the border city of Ciudad Juarez...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
Report 8 die in northwest China mosque collapse
A mosque under construction collapsed in northwest China, killing eight people and injuring 23 others, state media reported Friday...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
7 South Koreans killed in house fire
A fire ripped through a boardinghouse in South Korea early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, an official said...
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
'Wrong bras' can damage breasts
Women who wear the wrong kind of bra could be damaging their breasts, researchers warn...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Trainee teachers 'degrees better'
People seeking to become teachers in England are better qualified than they were a decade ago, analysis shows...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Chavez set to meet Spanish king
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he may hug Spain's King Juan Carlos - who famously told him to shut up last year...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fuel poor tariffs 'must be cheap'
Regulator Ofgem tells energy companies the tariffs offered to their poorest customers must match their cheapest deals...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Fire crews tackle warehouse blaze
Firefighters are damping down a large fire which broke out at a warehouse in Melton Mowbray...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Shark spotting
Volunteers wanted to identify basking sharks off Cornwall...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
High note
'Extreme cellists' scale England's tallest mountain...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Home front
Has Obama's trip been a hit with US voters?...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Leaving Beijing
Migrants asked to go before Olympics comes to town...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
UK troops receive bravery awards
Dozens of soldiers and marines serving with UK forces in Afghanistan and Iraq receive bravery awards...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Painter fined for smoking in van
A painter and decorator says he is fuming after being handed an on-the-spot fine for smoking in his own private van...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
SNP stuns Labour in Glasgow East
The SNP pulls off a stunning victory, winning one of Labour's safest seats by just a few hundred votes...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
Brown set for union policy summit
MPs, party members and trade union activists gather in Warwick for Labour's National Policy Forum...
BBC News - July 25, 2008
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