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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 November 2005:
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Father and daughter drown in icy pond
A day of ice skating turned tragic Friday when a father and his 9-year-old daughter died after falling through the thin ice on a Wisconsin pond. The man's 6-year-old daughter witnessed the accident and ran for help...
CNN - November 25, 2005
Syria agrees to U.N. questioning
Syria has agreed to permit U.N. investigators probing the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to question five of its intelligence officers in Vienna, Austria. The U.N. Security Council has warned Syria of "further action" -- diplomatic language for sanctions -- if it fails to cooperate fully with the investigation...
CNN - November 25, 2005
George Best, 59, Soccer's First Pop Icon, Dies
George Best, an Irish soccer star who captivated the public with his flamboyant skill on the field and his playboy exploits off the field, died today...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Crowds Usher in Holiday Shopping Season
Millions of Americans mobbed discount stores, raced into suburban malls and swarmed downtown shopping districts in a retail ritual whose outlandishness seems to grow with every season...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
US shoppers rush to Black Friday
The post-Thanksgiving rush to US stores is underway, with more shoppers on the streets than last year, reports say...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Tributes paid to soccer star Best
The world of football pays tribute to George Best, whose flamboyant life took him from sporting success at Manchester United to the depths of alcoholism, who has died aged 59...
CNN - November 25, 2005
AIG ex-boss avoids criminal case
New York authorities drop their criminal charges against the former boss of scandal-hit insurance giant AIG...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
CNN to sell German news TV stake
US media company CNN is selling its 50% stake in German 24-hour news channel N-TV to partner RTL...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
In pictures: Miskito Indians
In pictures: Miskito Indians...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Nicaragua culture of home abuse
Domestic violence thrives in Nicaragua's machista society, the BBC World Service's Sheena McDonald reports...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
US firm to fight Somali pirates
A US company gets a licence to fight piracy off the Somalia coast - among the world's most dangerous waters...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Al-Jazeera seeks 'US bomb' talks
An al-Jazeera executive flies to the UK to demand talks over an alleged US plan to bomb the station...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Haiti poll postponed a third time
Haiti's long-awaited elections are postponed for a third time, until 8 January, say election officials...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Ex-Fema boss starts disaster firm
Michael Brown, sacked as head of the US response to Hurricane Katrina, starts a disaster consultancy...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Gaza crossing into Egypt to open
A main crossing from southern Gaza into Egypt, closed in September as Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza, was set to reopen following a United States-brokered deal between Israelis and Palestinians...
CNN - November 25, 2005
Oil firm sorry for toxic slick
China's largest oil company apologizes for an explosion that led to a toxic slick of benzene entering the Songhua River and the suspension of water to the northeastern city of Harbin...
CNN - November 25, 2005
U.S. troops mark Thanksgiving Day
U.S. troops around the world are far from home and worried about their fellow soldiers. Yet they still found a way to celebrate Thanksgiving -- even if that meant eating a turkey dinner while using the hood of a Humvee as a table...
CNN - November 25, 2005
Venezuela's new economic face
For the first time since Venezuela's left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, was elected, a multilateral bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, has approved a major package of loans totalling $767.7m...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Nicaragua culture of home abuse
Domestic violence thrives in Nicaragua's machista society, the BBC World Service's Sheena McDonald reports...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Crowe plays down hotel assault
Actor Russell Crowe says his telephone throwing incident was blown out of proportion by the media...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Colombian volcano erupts
One of Colombia's largest volcanoes erupts, spewing huge amounts of ash and sulphur fumes...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Canada outlines native cash deal
Ottawa is to unveil a C$4bn-dollar package to improve aboriginal living conditions at a special summit...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
El Salvador army to tackle gangs
More army patrols are to be deployed on the streets of El Salvador after the latest violence blamed on gangs...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
Oil firm apologizes for spill
China's biggest oil company apologizes for an explosion that polluted a northeastern river with benzene and prompted the government to cut off running water to 3.8 million people...
CNN - November 25, 2005
States' Coffers Swelling Again After Struggles
The windfall is leading to the restoration of school financing, investments in roads and bridges and debt reduction...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Lost Amid the Rising Tide of Detainees in Iraq
The influx of prisoners has overwhelmed the Iraqi authorities, and detention centers operate virtually unchecked...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Parade Balloon Hits Light Pole, Injuring Two
Two spectators were injured in a replay of an accident in 1997 that had prompted pledges of safety reforms...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
A Bayou Thanksgiving, With the Queen of Sheba
It was not a traditional Thanksgiving on Salt Bayou. But it was a celebration nonetheless for a band of survivors thrown together by Katrina...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Video Gaming Review: Microsoft Ups the Console Ante
The Bill Gates team has delivered a legitimately excellent gaming and home media system with the Xbox 360...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
While Others Reported Accident, NBC Stuck to Sunny Re-Broadcast of Last Year's M&M's
NBC did not interrupt its broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with the news that a balloon had crashed into a light pole, injuring two sisters...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
In China, Wholesale Urban Flight
Across China, dozens of reborn cities are sprouting up, relocating their town centers or creating entirely new ones...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
[TS] How to Botch a Share Sale, French Style
In the United States, employees celebrate when their companies sell shares to the public. In France, the workers stage protests...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Insider: One Regulator to Rule Them All?
ON Dec. 22, 2002, a swarm of securities regulators gathered on a stage to announce a pact with Wall Street firms to improve the quality of investment research. Representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, the New York attorney general's office, the North American Securities Administrators Association, and state regulators, were present. Only Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane of Hazzard County seemed to be missing...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
European Shares Fall in Tandem With World Markets
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Europe Softens Plan to Reduce Sugar Prices
The European Union's agriculture commissioner has scaled back a plan to reduce sugar prices after producers said that they faced job losses and lower earnings...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Savvis Chairman Resigns
Robert McCormick has resigned from Savvis Inc. after an investigation into charges he made on a company credit card at a New York City topless club in 2003...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Hawaii Finds New Exportable Resource: Ocean Water
For decades, tourists have paid thousands for the chance to surf, snorkel and splash in Hawaii's crystalline waters. Now they're paying $5.50 a bottle to drink it...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Profit Soars at Rosneft
The Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft yesterday reported a jump in profit of about 600 percent for the first half of 2005, reflecting its takeover last year of the largest production unit of the privately held Yukos...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Rate Rise Is Opposed in Europe
A survey of German businesses reported a larger-than-expected decline in confidence in November, suggesting that Europe's biggest economy, while growing, remains fragile...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
W.T.O. Chief Won't Count on Consensus
In the face of trade talks that have been deadlocked for years, Pascal Lamy intends to issue a broad outline of where the different sides stand on a range of issues...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
A Bank Rebuilds: A New Orleans Bank Faces Mold, Ruins and Tough Choices
The slow progress of New Orleans' largest black-owned bank in returning to full operations is the wider tale of a community still in stasis...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Advertising: Placing Ads in Some Surprising Spaces
Once-conservative mainstay marketers are looking to nontraditional media as they seek to reach bombarded consumers...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Risk Management, for the Highest Stakes
Bird flu fears spur Lehman Brothers to prepare for the possibility of a pandemic...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Canada Proposes Large Aid Package for Its Lumber Industry
The Canadian government outlined an aid package for its softwood lumber industry that may exacerbate Canada's long-running trade dispute with the United States...
New York Times - November 25, 2005
Broncos seal Thanksgiving victory
Denver snatch an overtime win over Dallas as Atlanta brush aside Detroit...
BBC News - November 25, 2005
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