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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 February 2006:
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IAEA: Iran works to enrich uranium
Iran has begun enriching uranium on a very limited scale and is slowly building up its enrichment activities, according to a confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report obtained by CNN...
CNN - February 27, 2006
GOP governors worried
Republican governors are openly worrying that the Bush administration's latest stumbles -- from the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina to those of its own making on prescription drugs and ports security -- are taking an election-year toll on the party back home...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Europeans agree to Palestinian funding
The European Union said Monday that it will give the Palestinian Authority $143 million in emergency aid before the newly elected Hamas leadership forms a Palestinian government. An EU official said the money will not go directly to the Palestinian Authority...
CNN - February 27, 2006
High Court to Take Up Pressing Issues This Week
The Supreme Court this week will hear cases concerning the role of money, the role of race and the role of partisanship...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
S.E.C. Chief Rebukes Enforcement Unit for Subpoena
The chairman criticized the agency's enforcement division for issuing a subpoena earlier this month to two journalists...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
US rejects UN rights council plan
The US rejects a proposal for a new UN human rights council to replace the much criticised commission...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Colombia rebels kill councillors
Suspected left-wing rebels open fire on a town councillors' meeting in Colombia, killing seven people...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Enron 'raided reserve accounts'
Enron boosted its earnings by dipping into reserve accounts, a former chief accountant at a unit of the scandal-hit energy company testifies in court...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
U.S. journalist Carroll 'is alive'
Iraqi officials believe kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and they are working towards her release, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq says...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Ports buyer requests review
After an outcry from U.S. lawmakers over possible security risks, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates has said it has asked for further review of its deal to buy management rights to terminals at major U.S. ports...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Iraqi Sunni Bloc to Rejoin Talks on Government
The threat of civil war appears to have helped drive Sunnis back to moderation, after they angrily withdrew from talks...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace
The online version of Dungeons & Dragons may be a tough sell to pen-and-paper die-hards...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Long Island Power Company Agrees to Be Sold to British Utility
KeySpan, which provides power to 1.1 million customers on Long Island, said today it had agreed to be sold to National Grid, a British utility, for about $7.3 billion in cash...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Home Sales Data Shows Housing Boom Slowing
Sales of new homes fell to their lowest level in a year last month and the inventory of unsold homes on the market increased, the government reported today...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
US sees decline in housing sales
New home sales in the US drop for the second time in three months, as rising mortgage rates bite...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Venezuela delays US airline cuts
Venezuela postpones plans to cut flights by US airlines into the country so talks can be held...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Colombia seals trade deal with US
Colombia clinches a free trade deal with the United States after nearly two years of talks, US officials confirm...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Yemen executes US hospital killer
A man convicted of killing three US missionaries in southern Yemen in 2002 is executed by firing squad...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
High Court asked to stop P&O bid
A US firm urges the English High Court to block the controversial £3.9bn takeover of shipping giant P&O...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Saudi shootout kills 5 in Riyadh
Saudi security forces kill five suspected militants in a two-hour gun battle in a suburb of the capital Riyadh, officials say. The shootout comes three days after an attempted suicide car bombing on a major oil processing facility was thwarted...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Curfews lifted in violence-torn Iraq
Curfews in Iraq were lifted Monday a day after at least 25 people were killed in a string of attacks that rocked the country despite calls from Iraqi and U.S. leaders to end sectarian bloodshed...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Growing Old Together, in New Kind of Commune
Opting for old age on their terms, 12 friends in California created the country's first self-planned development for the elderly...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Marrakesh Journal: Keeping a Moroccan Tradition Alive, One Tale at a Time
Storytellers still perform publicly in southern Morocco, but most fear that their generation may be the last in a line that is as old as Marrakesh...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Did an Exposé Help Sink Harvard's President?
An article on Harvard's effort to help Russia privatize its economy in the 1990's may have played a part in forcing the ouster of Lawrence Summers...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
British firm buys US gas company
UK utility group National Grid agrees to buy US gas distributor Keyspan for $7.3bn (£4.1bn)...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
Hong Kong bans French poultry
Hong Kong has barred poultry imports from France over bird flu fears, while authorities in eastern China scramble to contain an outbreak of the virus that has left two people critically ill...
CNN - February 27, 2006
Critic's Notebook: In the Music of New Orleans, Katrina Leaves Angry Edge
There's a changed spirit in the old songs: the tenacity of holding together bands whose members have scattered, and determination to maintain the New Orleans style...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Advertising: Huge Audience or Not, Oscars Stand Apart
This year’s crop of nominations has some advertisers worried about the Oscar-night audience...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Protecting Yourself From Keylogging Thieves
The network security firm Sophos estimates that an unprotected computer has a 40 percent chance of being infected by a malicious worm within 10 minutes of being connected to the Internet. After an hour, the odds rise to 94 percent...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
David Carr: The Big Man Still Reigns in Hollywood
If you drill down into this year’s best picture nominees, you will find that they are guerrilla insurgencies backed by superpowers...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
CBS Intends to Ring In With Breaking News for a Subscription Fee
The CBS Corporation is expected to announce today the first subscription services that send news and entertainment alerts that include video clips to mobile phones...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
News Corporation to Tap Not Just Its Film Vaults, but Art From the Street
The News Corporation is looking to develop cellphone entertainment in much the same way that 20th Century Fox creates movies and television...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
The Politics: How a Business Deal Became a Big Liability for Republicans in Congress
Fueled by a backlash on talk radio and taunting by blogs and comedy shows, the outcry about Dubai Ports World became a bipartisan chorus leaders could not ignore...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Labor Leaders to Convene, Faced With Uphill Battles
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. is emphasizing positives at its gathering this week, even though real wages have fallen, recruitment is difficult, and the federation suffered a split last year...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Grappling in China With the Legal Sale of Music Online
Record labels have tended to see mainland China as a vast, lawless frontier, where more bootleg CD's than legitimate ones are sold...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Port Security: Dubai Deal Will Undergo Deeper Inquiry
The company's request for a 45-day review puts President Bush in the position of having to approve or disapprove its port takeover...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Venezuela Cautions U.S. It May Curtail Oil Exports
In blunt comments published in a Caracas newspaper, Venezuela's oil minister warned that the country could steer oil exports away from the U.S. and toward other markets...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Danish Companies Endure Snub by Muslim Consumers
The fallout from the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has presented Danish companies with a public relations nightmare on a large scale...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Want a Prize? Just Watch This Commercial, Please
Advertisers discovered that the digital video recorder, which allows users to skip commercials, is not a friend. Now some marketers are offering viewers incentives to watch...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Cooking Magazine Puts Its Recipes to Taste Test
Cooking Light, a magazine devoted to healthy and low-fat gourmet food, is opening a kiosk restaurant that features food prepared solely from the recipes in the magazine...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
A Newspaper Insert Made of Hard Plastic
In the age of new media, when many newspapers are focusing on Web sites, The Dallas Morning News is offering an insert on a CD-ROM disc...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Drilling Down: Words of Love More Sought Than Roses
In the week before Valentine's Day, people were more likely to search online for the keywords "love poems" than for "flowers," "lingerie" or "e-cards."...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Top Executive Is Leaving Universal to Run DreamWorks
Stacey Snider, chairwoman of Universal Pictures, will leave the studio to take a new job running DreamWorks, now a division of Paramount Pictures...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television
A new study taps into a trove of data from the 1960's to argue that when it comes to academic test scores, parents can let children watch TV without fear of future harm...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Did an Exposé Help Sink Harvard's President?
An article on Harvard’s effort to help Russia privatize its economy in the 1990’s may have played a part in forcing the ouster of Lawrence Summers...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Wal-Mart Chief Makes Plea to States on Health Care Costs
With Wal-Mart under pressure to spend more on employee health insurance, H. Lee Scott Jr. urged governors not to pass legislation that would burden the giant retailer...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
He Helped Build the iPod; Now He Has Built a Rival
When Samsung decided to mount a challenge to the Apple iPod, it turned to a team of programmers led by Paul Mercer, a veteran Apple Macintosh software designer...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
E-Commerce Report: Pick Up the Phone, Your Search Term Is Calling
Google, whose empire is based on its ability to connect people and businesses through computers, is now connecting them the old-fashioned way — over the phone...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Is Microsoft Dropping Cryptic Hints About a New Gadget?
A cryptic Web site that was set up by Microsoft appears to hint that the company will reveal information about a new consumer product on Thursday...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Cyberthieves Silently Copy as You Type
Software that copies users' keystrokes and sends the information to crooks may be the next big trend in cybercrime...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Another White House Briefing, Another Day of Mutual Mistrust
The relationship between the White House and the press has deteriorated markedly, exacerbated by live briefings...
New York Times - February 27, 2006
Bush visit to urge Kashmir peace
US President Bush says he will call for a resolution over Kashmir on visits to India and Pakistan this week...
BBC News - February 27, 2006
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