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Madonna, Ritchie to begin divorce in London Friday
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Palestinian leader appeals to Israelis in peace ad
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ethnic Turk wins political prominence in Germany
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Salvador archbishop nixes probe of killed Jesuits
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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US News Archive for July 2005:
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Bush Arrives in Europe Ahead of G-8 Talks
President Bush has arrived in Denmark, his first stop on a four-day trip that even before it began seemed sure to show the U.S. at odds with many of the other big industrial nations...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Clinton's Celebrity Status Creates Buzz for New York's Olympic Bid
No one knows how Wednesday's vote will go, but the perception in Singapore is that Hillary Clinton has given a lift to New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Games...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Prosecutor Urges Judge to Jail Reporters Who Refused to Testify
The demand that two reporters reveal sources tied to a C.I.A. leak continued despite Time's release of documents...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
US Afghan tactics 'need rethink'
The Afghan government calls for a rethink in the US-led fight against the Taleban after recent civilian deaths...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
US moves to end cotton subsidies
Washington vows to end US cotton subsidies which have fuelled a long-running trade dispute with poor countries...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Brazilian party aide steps down
A second senior member of Brazil's ruling party steps aside in as many days as an alleged bribery scandal deepens...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
O'Connor Leap Moved Women Up the Bench
A look at the courts shows the breadth of change across the 25 years bookmarked by her nomination and retirement...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
New York Olympics Bid Unleashes the Power of Celebrities
The last day before the voting brought a new level of buzz, with New York welcoming Senator Hillary Clinton to the delegation...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Mohawk to Buy Belgian Floor Products Firm
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Factory Orders Rise Again on Transportation Demand
New factory orders surged 2.9 percent on orders for airplanes and other transportation equipment, but orders in other sectors dipped by 0.1 percent in May...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
The sacked reporter and the killer
A fired journalist details his curious and intense relationship with killer Christian Longo in a new book set to be a film...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Cycling: Armstrong leads Tour
Lance Armstrong takes the overall lead after stage four of the Tour de France...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Olympics: Ali backing NY bid
Muhammad Ali arrives in Singapore as part of the New York team for the 2012 Olympics vote...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
US murder suspect's blog appeals
A US man found with a girl weeks after her family was murdered said in his blog he wanted to "harm society"...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
US urged to give bases deadline
A regional alliance asks the US military to set a timetable for ending its use of military bases in Central Asia...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
US Church backs same-sex marriage
The United Church of Christ becomes the first major US Christian denomination to support gay marriage...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Instant Skyline Added to Brooklyn Arena Plan
The massive building plan surrounding a new Nets arena east of Downtown Brooklyn will include a half-dozen skyscrapers...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Gunmen Storm Disputed Religious Site in India
Five assailants were killed at Ayodhya during a firefight and the country went on high alert in anticipation of potential communal clashes...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Spacecraft Hits Passing Comet, Just as Planned
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft slammed into its target and sent a huge bright spray of debris into space...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Presidents, Picking Justices, Can Have Backfires
Presidents don't always get what they bargain for when they grant even seemingly close allies a place on the Supreme Court...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Private Spy and Public Spouse Live at Center of Leak Case
As the investigation into the leak of her name has unfolded clamorously, Valerie E. Wilson has kept her silence...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Iranian Women's Dress Code Is Modest but Golf Friendly
With changes in dress regulations and new urging from the official sports federation, women are returning to the fairways in Iran...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror
The Pentagon's most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Hole in the Housing Bubble
Some experts think the end of the Australian housing boom could signal the end of a housing bubble, not just in Australia, but also in the U.S...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users
Google, Yahoo and others are peddling advertising options for R.S.S., a way of having a computer automatically retrieve information from the Internet...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
In India, Economic Prosperity Is Spreading Slowly
While the impact of India's efforts to help the poor will not show for another few years, the economy's expansion has been putting money in the hands of millions of Indians...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
In Germany, the Jobless Work to Keep Their Benefits
Across Germany, 106,000 people are doing mostly menial jobs as part of the government's program to compel work from the jobless to reduce the nation's unemployed...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Conference Halls in Motion
An increasing number of companies are casting around for exotic alternatives to hotels and resorts for meetings, booking cruise ships or private trains instead...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Cheap Fares to Europe? Don't Get Him Started
RICHARD BRANSON is a very jolly fellow to have lunch with. For one thing, he listens to other people's opinions. For another, he answers questions directly, even the tough ones...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
A Bolt From the Blue (the Bad Kind)
AFTER a daylong planning meeting with the heads of our cable channels, I chartered a small boat for a private cruise of New York Harbor. While we sipped our drinks at Chelsea Piers, I noticed that the skies were darkening. "Is everything O.K.?" I asked the captain of the vessel, the Pearl Necklace, just before our group of nine boarded...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
A Penny Saved
A PENNY SAVED Song, the low-fare subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, started new nonstop transcontinental service yesterday between Kennedy International Airport in New York and San Francisco International Airport. The fare, based on purchase yesterday afternoon of a round-trip ticket leaving New York Tuesday and returning Thursday, was listed on the Song Web site at $554.90. On the Delta Web site, the fare for a Delta flight - using the same dates and itinerary and same purchase conditions - was one penny more...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Airlines Get Boost by Flying to Europe
Battered by fare competition and ever-higher oil prices, major airlines have found an antidote: carrying passengers overseas...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Energy-Rich Nations Are Raising Price of Foreign Admittance
Bolivia is just the latest of several oil-and-gas-rich countries in Latin America and beyond that are squeezing energy companies like never before...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
A Dilemma for T-Mobile: Invest Heavily or Cash Out
Deutsche Telekom is once again at the center of hot rumors that it is thinking of selling its thriving American cellphone service, T-Mobile USA...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Dollar Rises Against Euro, Lifted by Economic Data
The dollar hit its highest level against the euro in more than 13 months Monday after economic data painted a rosy picture of the United States economy...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Allied Domecq Shareholders Approve Deal
Shareholders of Allied Domecq voted to accept an offer from Pernod Ricard, paving the way for one of the biggest deals in the world's liquor industry...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
In Seeking Unocal, Chevron Ruffles an Asian Partner
China National Offshore Oil Corporation's bid for Unocal has forced Chevron into a takeover battle against its largest trading partner in China...
New York Times - July 5, 2005
Venezuela's 'citizen militias'
The training of citizen-soldiers is part of an increasingly militaristic emphasis in the 'Revolution for the Poor' headed by President Chavez...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
NFL: Ex Chiefs coach Stram dies
Coach Hank Stram, who took the Kansas City Chiefs to two Super Bowls, dies at the age of 82...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Brazil party chief steps aside
A senior member of Brazil's ruling party steps aside as an investigation examines an alleged bribery scandal...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
Footprints of 'first Americans'
Humans settled in the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists contend...
BBC News - July 5, 2005
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