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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for January 2006:
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39 dead in Montenegro train crash
A passenger train has derailed and plunged down an embankment outside Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, killing at least 39 aboard and leaving another 135 injured, a government spokesman has said...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Ailing Kuwait emir agrees to abdicate
Kuwait's ailing emir, Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, has abdicated following an agreement within the ruling family, a lawmaker says. The move allows prime minister and longtime de facto ruler, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, to become the new emir...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Abortion Opponents Rally, Saying the End of Roe Is Near
As they have every year since 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade, abortion opponents flooded the capital today with an energetic rally...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Spitzer Asks State Senator From Harlem to Join Ticket
The N.Y. attorney general's selection of David A. Paterson as lieutenant governor was unusually early...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
White House Begins New Effort to Defend Surveillance Program
President Bush today opened what amounts to a media blitz against criticism of the N.S.A. eavesdropping program...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Justices Ask Court to Reconsider Campaign Finance Case
The Supreme Court signaled a willingness today to revisit its landmark 2003 decision on the use of money in political campaigns...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
PBS Names Its New President, A Well-Seasoned Fundraiser
Paula Kerger will replace Pat Mitchell, president since 2000, at a time when PBS faces significant financial and ratings challenges...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Ford to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs and 14 Plants in Next 6 Years
The cutbacks represent 20 percent to 25 percent of Ford's North American work force of 122,000 people...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Mobile chips fuel Texas profits
US giant Texas Instruments reports a 34% increase in quarterly profits...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Anger mounts on QM2
There is growing anger among passengers on the Queen Mary 2 cruise liner amid a row over missed ports-of-call...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Bolivian president forms cabinet
Bolivian President Evo Morales names his cabinet, with ministers from a range of different interests groups...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Ford slashes jobs, plants
Ford says it plans to close 14 manufacturing plants and cut between 25,000 to 30,000 jobs in the coming years as tries to stem its losses in North America. The automaker announced the first five plant closures today, with two more to be determined this year and another seven by 2012...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Many trapped in Nairobi collapse
Rescuers are desperately trying to dig out construction workers trapped under the rubble of a five-story collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed at least four people and injured 60 others...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Bush officials: NSA wiretaps targeted and legal
The Bush administration on Monday intensified its defense of a domestic surveillance program that supporters say protects against terrorism and critics say threatens civil liberties. Deputy intelligence director Gen. Michael Hayden, who previously headed the NSA, said the agency was committed to protecting privacy...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Spitzer Asks State Senator to Be Running Mate
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the leading Democratic candidate for governor this year, has asked state Senator David A. Paterson of Manhattan to be his running mate, and Mr. Paterson has agreed, according to Democrats close to Mr. Spitzer...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Intelligence Deputy Defends Surveillance Program
Gen. Michael Hayden's comments came as the Bush administration kicked off a new effort to win support for the program...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Albertsons Nears Deal, Yet Again, to Sell Itself
The new pact involves a group of companies and investment firms for about $9.7 billion in cash and stock...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Ford to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs and 14 Plants by 2012
The cuts represent 20 percent to 25 percent of Ford's North American work force of 122,000 people...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Japanese Prosecutors Arrest Livedoor Chief
Takafumi Horie was arrested on suspicion of involvement in spreading false financial information to deceive investors...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Guatemalans killed in DR Congo
Eight Guatemalan peacekeepers are killed in clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Boardroom clash claims Nike boss
The chief executive of US sportswear group Nike resigns following "differences" with the firm's founder...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Russia TV: UK used 'rock' to spy
British officials say they are "concerned and surprised" at allegations by a Russian state TV program that UK diplomats used a transmitter embedded in a fake rock as part of a high-tech spying operation in Moscow, news agencies report...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Reports: Livedoor CEO arrested
Takafumi Horie, chief executive of Japanese Internet firm Livedoor Co., has been arrested on financial fraud charges, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reports said...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Roe anniversary marked
Thousands of abortion opponents shouldering signs with slogans such as "Peace Begins in the Womb" marched in protest of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, while abortion rights supporters along the march route waved clothes hangers and shouted "Bigots go home."...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S.
Six former detainees are back in New York to give depositions in a lawsuit against government officials and detention guards...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Letter From Nigeria: A Country and a Continent, Hanging in the Balance
Violence and a political crisis are tearing at the delicate threads that hold together the ethnic and religious crazy quilt of vast, populous Nigeria...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
How the South won civil war
Once a bastion of segregation the American South is transforming, but the Democratic Party which helped sow the roots for this new-found prosperity did so to its own cost, says historian David Cannadine in his weekly column...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
BNFL to sell US power plant arm
Bosses at British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) are meeting this Thursday to agree the sale of US subsidiary Westinghouse, which builds nuclear power stations...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
NBA: Bryant nets 81 points
Kobe Bryant scores 81 points in LA Lakers' 122-104 win over Toronto - the second highest total in NBA history...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Tennis: Kiefer halts Chela run
Australian Open dark horse Nicolas Kiefer crushes Juan Ignacio Chela to reach the quarter-finals...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Rio gunmen target UK tourist bus
Gunmen storm onto a bus of elderly British tourists who had just arrived in Rio de Janeiro and rob them of valuables...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Brokeback wins producer prize
Brokeback Mountain wins the Producers Guild of America's top award, a prize that often indicates Oscar success...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Ford set to unveil reform plans
Ford is due to unveil a restructuring plan aimed at reviving the fortunes of its troubled US business...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
Plant closings, job cuts loom at Ford
Monday will be "painful," says the chairman of Ford Motor Co. After states scrambled to rescue their facilities, the automaker is expected to close plants and cut thousands of jobs in North America as part of a restructuring program...
CNN - January 23, 2006
Kerry assails 'incompetent' White House
Sen. John Kerry took up top GOP political strategist Karl Rove's call to make national security a central issue in the 2006 midterm elections, vowing Sunday, "I want to have that debate every single day."...
CNN - January 23, 2006
On Engine 22, It's Women Who Answer the Bell
Engine 22, Division A in San Diego is one of the few fire fighting crews in the nation made up entirely of women...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Lakers 122, Raptors 104: Kobe Channels Wilt, Goes for 81 Points
Kobe Bryant scored a staggering 81 points - the second-highest total in NBA history - and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
In a Stronghold, Fatah Fights to Beat Back a Rising Hamas
Fatah, the mainstay of the Palestinian Authority, is in trouble in Nablus, one of the West Bank's largest and toughest cities...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
News Analysis: Delicate Dance for Bush in Depicting Spy Program as Asset
Whether the White House can succeed in depicting the program as an asset depends very much on how the issue is presented...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Potent Mexican Meth Floods In as States Curb Domestic Variety
The drop in home-cooked drugs has been met by a flood of crystal methamphetamine, a purer drug coming largely from Mexico...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Advertising: Advertising Is Obsolete. Everyone Says So.
A conference sought to teach participants how to tap into the power of word of mouth as a marketing tool...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
News Analysis: The Jobs Factor Complicates the Media Universe
The calculus of the Walt Disney Company buying Pixar Animation Studios is, on its face, simple: big media conglomerate plus vaunted computer animation studio plus closer ties with Steven P. Jobs, the maverick Pixar founder, equals potential powerhouse...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Missed It in the Theater Today? See It on DVD Tonight
IFC Entertainment unveiled a plan to release 24 films in theaters and on cable at the same time this year...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
For Education-Obsessed Parents, a New Disney Magazine
The Walt Disney Company will join the crowded but profitable parenting magazine category next month with Wondertime, the company's first new magazine since 1991...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Drilling Down: The Finger on the Keyboard Wears a Ring
Married women are about a third more likely than single women to use the Internet at least occasionally...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
A Liberal Beacon Burns Out
The New Leader, which is either the most influential of the little-known magazines or the least well known of the influential ones, is closing after 82 years of publication...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
David Carr: Soothe the Blog and Reap the Whirlwind
As shown by an onslaught of negative comments on the Web site of The Washington Post, when people can say anything on blogs, they frequently do...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
'X-Files' Are Closed; a Lawsuit Opens
The final episode of "The X-Files" was broadcast almost four years ago. Now the show's creator is searching for more money...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Explosions in Southern Russia Sever Gas Lines to Georgia
Explosions in Russia severed the country's natural gas pipelines to neighboring Georgia, plunging it into heat and electricity shortages...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Fee Talks at Standstill for Lifetime Network
Lifetime Entertainment said that talks with the Dish Network over fees to broadcast Lifetime had broken down again...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
E-Commerce Report: This Site Knows a Cold Isn't a Rock Band
Hypochondriacs of the world, rejoice: a new Web site, Healthline.com, could make it easier to identify whatever doesn't ail you...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Turkish Novelist's Case Sent Back to Court
The Turkish Justice Ministry declined to rule on whether a criminal trial of the novelist Orhan Pamuk should proceed. The action sends the case back to court...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Toshiba May Buy Westinghouse for $5 Billion
After weeks of a fierce bidding war, the Toshiba Corporation of Japan is near a deal to buy Westinghouse Electric, a builder of nuclear power plants, for about $5 billion...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
A Conglomerate With Ambition Buys Into the U.S.
The $4.65 billion purchase of the lottery giant Gtech Holdings by Lottomatica of Italy earlier this month shook up the gaming industry and surprised investors...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
In Canada, a Real Boy Joins Those on the Bus
Canadian viewers have been treated to a weekly interview by an 8-year-old boy with each of the three party leaders running national campaigns...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
NBC Ending 'The West Wing' and 'Will & Grace'
NBC will end two of its most successful series of recent years, "The West Wing" and "Will & Grace," at the conclusion of the current season...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Link by Link: Before the Fame, a Million Little Skeptics
Some Internet readers, many with substance abuse histories of their own, sensed something was wrong with James Frey's memoir long before the exposé on the Smoking Gun Web site...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Albertsons Nears Deal, Yet Again, to Sell Itself
The giant supermarket chain was close to reaching an agreement to be acquired by a group of companies and investment firms for about $9.7 billion in cash and stock...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
At Disney, a Dealmaker in the Grip of Technological Change
The aggressive pursuit of a deal with Pixar by Disney’s chief executive speaks volumes about his own ambitions and how he perceives his company’s future...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.)
For consumers, a recommendation system can either represent a vaguely annoying invasion of privacy or a big help in bringing order to a sea of choices...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Disney May Be Near Deal to Sell ABC Radio Unit
The Walt Disney Company is near a deal to sell its ABC Radio unit to Citadel Broadcasting, the nation's fifth-largest radio broadcaster, for nearly $3 billion...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too.
The radio industry, like broadcast television before it, is switching to digital technology...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
As Profits Soar, Companies Pay U.S. Less for Gas Rights
As a result of pro-industry regulations, the nation's taxpayers have missed much of the recent energy bonanza...
New York Times - January 23, 2006
NFL: Pittsburgh to face Seattle
Pittsburgh and Seattle will meet in Super Bowl XL after comfortably winning their title play-offs...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
US Havana messages outrage Castro
Cuba's president condemns the US for broadcasting illuminated messages on its building in Havana...
BBC News - January 23, 2006
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