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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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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
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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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for August 2004:
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Knicks close Crawford deal
The Knicks get Jamal Crawford in a six-player trade with Chicago - plus other news...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Countdown to Big Brother TV final
The winner of Channel 4 reality series Big Brother is due to be revealed in the live final episode on Friday night...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Should murder laws be reformed?
Murder laws in England and Wales are "a mess" and need to change according to the Law Commission. Do you think they require reform? Send us your views...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Nasa powers up with supercomputer
US space agency Nasa gets the world's biggest Linux-based supercomputer to aid research and missions...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Fewer UK students study in Europe
More British students are studying abroad, but they are shunning Europe for English-speaking countries, researchers say...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
HSBC moves in on mainland China
UK-based HSBC becomes the leading Western financial services firm in China after buying a stake in Bank of Communications...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Skipper 'went berserk' on yacht
A Scottish captain is in hospital in Spain after allegedly trying to sink a boat in the Atlantic...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
£20m lotto jackpot claimed
It is believed a 50-year-old woman from Belfast is the winner of the biggest single lottery jackpot...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Football: Rooney set for deal
Wayne Rooney will stay at Everton but have an escape clause in his contract, say reports...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Button attacked over F1 switch
BAR boss Dave Richards criticises Jenson Button after he decides to join Williams...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Football: FA starts inquiry
The FA launches an inquiry into its "deficiencies" after Sven-Goran Eriksson stays on as coach...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Yahoo sued over board abuse
A California lawyer sues Yahoo over personal attacks made against him on message boards...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Barclays soars on bid speculation
Shares in Barclays, the UK's third biggest bank, rise sharply amid talk of a possible takeover bid from US banking giant Citigroup...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Bride murder police find shotgun
Police hunting the killer of a newly-wed woman discover a shotgun in the house where she died...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Yahoo sued over anonymous abuse
A California lawyer sues Yahoo over personal attacks made against him on message boards...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Reds rout Giants
Sean Casey has four hits four runs as Cincinnati hammer San Francisco 12-3 - plus an MLB round-up...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Cowboys cut Carter
Dallas replace quarterback Quincy Carter with 40-year-old Vinny Testaverde...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
B&B warns of house price slowdown
Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley warns the UK property market is slowing down as it posts a 5% rise in pre-tax profits...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Officers escape injury in attack
Police escape injury in Londonderry after they are attacked with petrol bombs for the second time in a week...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Opening night for sell-out Tattoo
The 55th Edinburgh Tattoo is set to open in the capital on the first night of a record-breaking three-week run...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Welsh workers 'lack training'
A survey shows many Welsh workers feel they are missing out on the training they need to do their jobs properly...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Missing Briton's parents appeal
The family of a Briton missing for eight days in Australia say they are devastated by his disappearance...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Football: Van Nistelrooy injury
Man Utd's Ruud van Nistelrooy will miss the start of the season because of a hernia...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Guantanamo tribunals go public
Two Afghan inmates deny being enemy fighters as the US allows reporters in to its Guantanamo hearings...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
London detainee wanted in US
A British man wanted by the US in connection with terrorist offences is due before a London court...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Arrests reveal terror's international links
Recent arrests have uncovered an intricate web of al Qaeda contacts in which the terror network's operational information flowed among three key points -- Pakistan, Britain and the United States. The arrests include a computer wizard in Pakistan, a man in Britain believed to be a key operative who was in New York in 2001 conducting reconnaissance, and a British suspect who allegedly sought to use U.S.-based Web sites for terrorist fundraising...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Man held in plot to bomb US court
A convicted counterfeiter is arrested in Chicago for plotting to blow up a courthouse, prosecutors say...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Asylum policy sparks HIV concern
Doctors are concerned that the UK policy of dispersing asylum seekers may lead to increased HIV transmission...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Two charged with minder's murder
Police charge two men with murder in connection with the killing of a man with an AK47 assault rifle...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
U.S. wants British suspect extradited
The United States is seeking the extradition from Britain of a suspect arrested Thursday, who U.S. authorities allege tried to use U.S.-based Web sites to raise funding for "acts of terrorism in Chechnya and Afghanistan." And U.S. officials tell CNN another man in British custody is a "major player who moved operational information between key components" of al Qaeda...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Bank lifts interest rate to 4.75%
The Bank of England raises its base rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.75%, the fifth such increase since November...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Green Party appoints a new leader
The Green Party appoints a city councillor to join Caroline Lucas MEP as one of its leaders...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Bullets sent to DPP members
Bullets are sent to three nationalist councillors who are members of district policing partnerships in County Down...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Tennis: Robredo halts Rusedski
Greg Rusdeski loses in straight sets to Tommy Robredo at the Cincinnati Masters...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Tennis: Henman falls to Hewitt
Tim Henman loses in straight sets to Leyton Hewitt at the Cincinnati Masters...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
GP out-of-hours funding warning
The cost of funding evening and weekend GP care could be much higher than the NHS expects, MPs have warned...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Call to reform murder law 'mess'
The Law Commission says murder laws in England and Wales are 'a mess' and should be overhauled...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Fire bosses 'face growing revolt'
The Fire Brigades' Union claims the bosses are 'in crisis' as fire authorities revolt over failure to end a pay dispute...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Experts warn of wider vCJD threat
More people could become infected with the human form of mad cow disease than was previously thought...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Two seized in missile buying sting
The imam and the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, are being held after an FBI sting operation in which the suspects tried to help an undercover agent posing as a terrorist, federal law enforcement sources said today. The two men allegedly agreed to launder the money from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile, the criminal complaint says...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Vietnam service revisited
A veterans group that has been sharply critical of Sen. John Kerry launched an ad Thursday that accuses the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his Vietnam war record. The Kerry campaign sharply disputed the ad...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Amazon gas pipeline to open
Peru's President Alejandro Toledo inaugurates the country's most ambitious and controversial gas project...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
US Muslims held in missile sting
FBI agents arrest two Muslim religious leaders in New York for allegedly aiding a plot to buy a shoulder-launched missile...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
MCI slips to $71m quarterly loss
MCI, which as Worldcom became the world's largest corporate bankruptcy, loses money as it finds itself in an ongoing price war...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Record oil prices threaten growth
Rising oil prices threaten world economic growth warns the International Energy Agency, as US stocks slide on the back of new highs...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
'Al-Qaeda suspect' arrested
A suspected al-Qaeda operative is alleged to be among 12 terror suspects arrested in the UK...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
FA clears Eriksson
Sven-Goran Eriksson stays as England coach after the FA says he has no case to answer over a sex scandal...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Peer attacks 'language fascists'
The assembly's presiding officer calls some Welsh-only campaigners 'language fascists' amid an eisteddfod walkout...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Family faced by armed robber, 12
A 12-year-old armed robber from West Bromwich threatens shop staff with a gun, a court hears...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Adams: Remove IRA as 'excuse'
Republicans must prepare to remove the IRA as an excuse for unionists to block political progress, Gerry Adams says...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
FA yet to deliver verdict
FA officials are still discussing the recent crisis and Sven-Goran Eriksson's future in their board meeting...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Second team goes for space prize
A Canadian team joins the race to win the Ansari X-Prize by making the first privately-funded manned space flight...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
2 held in missile sting operation
The imam and the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, are being held after an FBI sting operation in which the suspects tried to help an undercover agent posing as a terrorist, federal law enforcement sources said today. The FBI approached the suspects, Yasin Aref, the imam at the Masjid As-Salam mosque, and the mosque's founder, Mohammed Hoosain, with the idea of laundering money, sources said...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Two held in missile sting
The imam and the founder of a mosque in Albany, New York, are being held after an FBI sting operation in which the suspects tried to help an undercover agent posing as a terrorist, federal law enforcement sources said Thursday...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Teresa on the trail
Forget polite sensibilities. Many women along the Democratic campaign trail are telling Teresa Heinz Kerry to keep speaking her mind...
CNN - August 5, 2004
Cyber cops to patrol Vietnam net
Vietnam is setting up a special police unit to combat online crime and prevent the spread of banned materials...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Oil price threat to global growth
World economic growth is being threatened by the continuing high price of oil, the International Energy Agency warns...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Eisteddfod walkout in language row
A public meeting at the National Eisteddfod is disrupted by booing and a walkout as a contributor speaks English...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Ruling due on contentious march
The Parades Commission is expected to give a ruling on a contentious loyal order parade in Belfast...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Ministers target holiday home tax
The council tax discounts received by holiday home owners in Scotland are set to be slashed...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Eriksson under scrutiny
FA officials meet to discuss Sven-Goran Eriksson's future as England coach...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
GMC to rule on Clark case doctor
The doctor who accused a father of killing his sons after seeing a TV interview abused his position, the GMC rules...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Boy guilty of park attack
A 16-year-old boy is found guilty of attacking a woman jogger in a north London park last year...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Organ scandal babies are buried
The funerals of 50 unidentified babies whose bodies were secretly stored at Alder Hey Hospital take place...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Fire employers' chairwoman sacked
The head negotiator on the employers' side in the long-running fire dispute has been dismissed...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Twins 'joined at head' separated
Two-year-old twins born with the tips of their heads fused are successfully separated, doctors say...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Interest rate rise: Your reaction
UK interest rates are going up for the fifth time since November by a quarter percentage point to 4.75%. How will the rise affect you?...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Viagra spam forces legal action
Viagra maker Pfizer is suing spammers and websites that it says are selling illegal versions of its drug...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Shot bride murder suspect 'seen'
Police investigate several alleged sightings of the father of a woman shot dead in her own home...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Youths 'jail' food policy slammed
A unit for young offenders is slammed for giving inmates small amounts of food, shouting at them and making them slop out...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Football: Vieira deadline passes
Real Madrid miss out on signing Arsenal's Patrick Vieira in time for the Champions League qualifier...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
Interest rates rise to 4.75%
The Bank of England increases interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.75%, the fifth rise since November...
BBC News - August 5, 2004
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