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Suri Cruise tops Forbes.com list of Hottest Tots
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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The New Frugality Americans return to thriftiness
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Mammoth task Scientists map DNA of ancient beast
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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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Rebels No clashes in eastern Congo after pullback
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck visits refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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UN Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
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Ga. priest facing excommunication will appeal
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Global News Archive for August 2008:
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Gates marks anniversary of Microsoft research arm
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama visits Buddhist institute, pagoda
The Dalai Lama skirted controversy over Tibet at the start of his 12-day trip to France on Tuesday, blessing a Buddhist institute and a temple, and offering a message of goodwill to China as the host of the Olympic Games...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Displaced Filipinos can return to their homes soon
Muslim guerrillas have completely withdrawn from 15 predominantly Christian villages in the southern Philippines, and the tens of thousands of residents can return to their homes once they have been cleared of booby traps, the military said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kashmir protests spread to Indian cities
Riots erupted across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday as Muslims mourned 15 people killed in a day of bloody violence, as the protests spread to other parts of India...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgians in America watch the violence back home
Khatuna Baghaturia has spent countless hours in the last week on the phone with relatives in her native country and watching the bloodshed on TV. The sight of Russian troops laying waste to Georgia was all the more horrifying because her three children are there now _ on vacation...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Gunman kills Arkansas Democratic Party chairman
A gunman shot and killed the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party on Wednesday before being shot and killed after a 30-mile chase. Bill Gwatney, 49, died four hours after the shooting near the state Capitol. The suspect, identified only as a 51-year-old man, was shot dead after shooting at officers near Sheridan...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Gunman critically wounds Ark. Dem. Party chairman
A gunman barged into the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters Wednesday morning and shot the state party chairman three times, critically wounding him, authorities and party officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Documents detailing early spy network released
Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Sanchez sisters recount obstacles in House
The first sisters in Congress, Loretta and Linda Sanchez of California, say they had to fend off propositions and patronizing from men to get there and to stay...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Cast members returning for 30th Dallas reunion
J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other members of the Ewing clan are getting back together for a "Dallas" reunion party...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
BET starts a weekly news program
BET starts a weekly news program on Friday described as a cross between Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher with a black perspective...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Judge rules actors accused stalker competent
A judge says a woman accused of stalking John Cusack is competent to stand trial, but cannot represent herself...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Gunman fatally shoots Ark. Dem. Party chairman
A man barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and opened fire Wednesday, fatally shooting the state party chairman before speeding off in his pickup. Police later shot and killed the suspect after a 30-mile chase...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Cubs beat Braves 10-2 for 6th straight road win
The Chicago Cubs are winning on the road, too. Geovanny Soto and Jim Edmonds homered, Jason Marquis defeated his old team and the Cubs routed the Atlanta Braves 10-2 Wednesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Cubs beat Braves 10-2 for sixth straight road win
The Chicago Cubs are winning on the road, too.Geovanny Soto and Jim Edmonds homered, and the Cubs routed the Atlanta Braves 10-2 Wednesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Another 3-run shot for Young puts Twins past Yanks
Delmon Young hit a three-run homer for the second straight day, pushing the Minnesota Twins past the New York Yankees 4-2 on Wednesday afternoon...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Young hits another 3-run homer as Twins top Yanks
Delmon Young hit a three-run homer for the second straight day, pushing the Minnesota Twins past the New York Yankees 4-2 on Wednesday afternoon...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Youkilis, Red Sox win a wild one at Fenway Park
By the time Boston and Texas were through, there were 36 runs on the scoreboard and the Red Sox had rallied to win _ after blowing a 10-run lead...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Retail sales drop for first time in 5 months
The government says retail sales fell in July, the weakest performance in five months...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Edwards wife was in anguish after affair
Elizabeth Edwards found a return to "normalcy" when campaigning for her husband after he confessed to having an affair, while her diagnosis with a recurrence of cancer created a sense of urgency when deciding whether to leave him, her brother and a friend tell People magazine...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Home in Chicago, Obama can be regular guy, sort of
Even a guy running for president has to take his wife out on a date...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Colorado, Nevada and Conn. pick Nov. candidates
Voters in Colorado, Nevada and Connecticut have chosen candidates for the fall election, including a Republican hoping to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo and a Democrat who will face-off against Rep. Chris Shays...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Natalie Coughlin defends Olympic 100 back title
Natalie Coughlin of the United States has won the Olympic 100-meter backstroke, becoming the first woman to ever defend her title in the event...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kempthorne defends proposed changes to species law
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is defending proposed changes to the endangered species law, saying they will ensure the statute is not used as a "back door" to regulate the gases blamed for global warming...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Golden girls no more, China beats US in gymnastics
The Chinese crashed what was supposed to be a U.S. Olympic party...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Gunman wounds Arkansas Democratic party chairman
A gunman entered the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters Wednesday and shot the party chairman, who was hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Father, 8-year-old son hurt in Tenn. bear attack
An 8-year-old Florida boy and his father were treated and released from a hospital after battling a black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
India yearns for Pakistans Musharraf amid turmoil
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Attendant Osteens wife eyed cockpit after attack
A flight attendant suing the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen for 10 percent of her net worth told jurors Tuesday the woman attacked her without provocation...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgian conflict shows Russia calling the shots
Russia has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the world, a message other former Soviet bloc countries cannot ignore...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Israel clears troops in death of journalist
The Israeli army has closed an investigation into the death of a Reuters cameraman in the Gaza Strip last April, clearing the tank crew that killed the young journalist of any wrongdoing and saying the soldiers will not face disciplinary action...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama says world should be firm with China
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that the world should be firm with China on human rights and freedoms but must also try to bring it into the "mainstream of world democracy."...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Officials Missiles kill 9 in Pakistan
A missile strike in a Pakistani tribal region killed at least nine suspected insurgents including foreigners, officials said Wednesday, raising suspicion that the U.S. was again targeting militants in Pakistan...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bolivian opposition rejects Morales olive branch
Bolivian opposition governors rejected an olive branch offered by President Evo Morales after a bitter nationwide recall vote in which he was approved by a wide margin...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
EU wants to step up involvement in Georgia
European Union foreign ministers agreed to consider sending a mission to monitor a fragile peace deal between Russia and Georgia _ but were divided Wednesday over whether to punish Moscow for taking military action against its ex-Soviet neighbor...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian troops roll into key Georgian city
Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian troops roll into strategic Georgian city
Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
US plans aid to Georgia as Russia rolls into city
Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Adviser to Guantanamo trials faces more criticism
A Pentagon official who oversees the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals faced new internal criticism Wednesday as a prison commander accused him of bullying subordinates and trying to rush forward with trials...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgians left in South Ossetia pressured to flee
Vinera Chebataryeva, a 70-year-old retired teacher, is one of a dwindling number of people with ethnic Georgian background left in South Ossetia. She said Wednesday she feels under increasing pressure to leave...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Britain drops plan to bar size zero fashion models
London Fashion Week organizers have dropped plans that likely would have barred many size zero models from the catwalk, saying industry executives around the world felt they were not needed...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russia defies truce with Georgia US sending aid
Defying a cease-fire agreement, a Russian military convoy rolled through a strategically important Georgia city Wednesday and Georgian officials claimed there was looting and bombing by Russians and their allies...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
UN unveils plans to step up efforts in Iraq
Five years after bombings forced the United Nations to pull out of Iraq, the world body is back. It announced plans Wednesday to help Iraq rebuild and create jobs following complaints the government has been unable or unwilling to spend its oil riches...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Syria, Lebanon agree to establish diplomatic ties
Syria and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to establish full diplomatic relations for the first time in a step toward healing tensions that have fueled decades of turmoil in Lebanon...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
France to ask UN to cement Georgia-Russia plan
France plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to approve by the end of the week its six-point plan for ending hostilities between Georgia and Russia, diplomats said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Rebels say Sudan in new offensive in north Darfur
Sudanese government troops and warplanes have launched an offensive deep into rebel-held desert areas in northern Darfur, rebel leaders said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
'Slow' light to speed up the net
The same materials that may lead to cloaking devices could one day help to speed up the web...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Probe gets close up to Enceladus
The Cassini spacecraft returns some remarkable new close-up images of the Saturnian moon Enceladus...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Arkansas party leader shot dead
The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party dies after being shot by a gunman at party headquarters...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Dead Afghanistan aid worker named
A UK aid worker killed in Afghanistan is named as University of Ulster research fellow Dr Jacqueline Kirk...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Secure hospital escapees held
Two patients, including one who tried to stab a police officer, are arrested after absconding from a secure hospital in Devon...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
North south divide
Are north of England towns 'beyond revival'?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Liege hold Liverpool in stalemate
Liverpool escape with a draw after being dominated by Standard Liege in the first leg of their Champions League qualifier...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Girl, 5, dies after river plunge
A five-year-old girl from Devon dies in hospital after falling into a river in north Cornwall...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
The robot controlled by rat brain cells that could battle Alzheimer's
The robot controlled by rat brain cells that could battle Alzheimer's...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
A-level results expected to rise
More than 600,000 students are finding out if they made the grade in their A-level and AS-level exams...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Gates marks anniversary of Microsoft research arm
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday that the dramatic growth of the Internet would eventually spark a software-writing revolution...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgians in America watch the violence back home
Khatuna Baghaturia has spent countless hours in the last week on the phone with relatives in her native country and watching the bloodshed on TV. The sight of Russian troops laying waste to Georgia was all the more horrifying because her three children are there now _ on vacation...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama visits Buddhist institute, pagoda
The Dalai Lama skirted controversy over Tibet at the start of his 12-day trip to France on Tuesday, blessing a Buddhist institute and a temple, and offering a message of goodwill to China as the host of the Olympic Games...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Displaced Filipinos can return to their homes soon
Muslim guerrillas have completely withdrawn from 15 predominantly Christian villages in the southern Philippines, and the tens of thousands of residents can return to their homes once they have been cleared of booby traps, the military said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kashmir protests spread to Indian cities
Riots erupted across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday as Muslims mourned 15 people killed in a day of bloody violence, as the protests spread to other parts of India...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Ex-inmates accuse former sheriff of demanding sex
Former female inmates of the Custer County jail testified Wednesday that ex-Sheriff Mike Burgess demanded sex from them in exchange for his help in getting them into a drug court rehabilitation program...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Trial begins for man accused of killing Fla. teen
A convicted sex offender on trial in the slaying of a Tampa-area teen three years ago confessed to the killing in a jailhouse conversation with his mother, prosecutors said during opening arguments Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
What a ride woman, 82, inducted into Hall of Fame
Betty Skelton Erde is 82 and lives in a retirement community where many are content to putter about in golf carts. Not Erde: she drives a blazing red Corvette to match her red hair and really means it when she says, "I like fast cars."...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
George Furth, Sondheim collaborator, dies
George Furth, an actor and playwright who wrote the book for the innovative Stephen Sondheim musical "Company," died Monday. He was 75...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Baby boy born to Mexican actors Luna, Sodi
Mexican actors Diego Luna and Camila Sodi are first-time parents to a baby boy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Youkilis, Red Sox win a wild one at Fenway Park
By the time Boston and Texas were through, there were 36 runs on the scoreboard and the Red Sox had rallied to win _ after blowing a 10-run lead...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Ethiers hit gives Dodgers win over Phillies
Andre Ethier singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Crosby hits 2-run homer in As 2-1 win over Rays
Bobby Crosby hit a two-run home run and Gio Gonzalez got his first major league win, helping the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Retail sales drop for first time in 5 months
The government says retail sales fell in July, the weakest performance in five months...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Hagel as Obama veep draws concern from both sides
Talk of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as a potential running mate for Democratic candidate Barack Obama tends to confound partisans in both parties...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Golden girls no more, China beats US in gymnastics
The Chinese crashed what was supposed to be a U.S. Olympic party...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Father, 8-year-old son hurt in Tenn. bear attack
An 8-year-old Florida boy and his father were treated and released from a hospital after battling a black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
India yearns for Pakistans Musharraf amid turmoil
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kempthorne defends proposed changes to species law
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is defending proposed changes to the endangered species law, saying they will ensure the statute is not used as a "back door" to regulate the gases blamed for global warming...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgian conflict shows Russia calling the shots
Russia has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the world, a message other former Soviet bloc countries cannot ignore...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgia says Russian tanks violated truce
Georgian officials charged Wednesday that Russian tanks had rolled into a strategic city and seized a military base inside Georgia, violating a freshly brokered truce intended to end a conflict that had bloodied and battered the U.S. ally and uprooted an estimated 100,000 people...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama curious about Chinas path post-Games
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that he was disappointed by the latest round of talks aimed at easing tensions between his supporters and China and added that he wants to see what path Chinese authorities will chart once the Olympics are over...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bombs target city official, civilians in Iraq
A suicide truck bomber targeted the mayor of a town near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, while another car bomb struck civilians elsewhere in northern Iraq, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bomb on bus in northern Lebanese city kills 18
A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the Lebanese military during Wednesday morning rush hour in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 18 people and wounding 46, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
8 activists detained after Olympics protest
A British journalist, apparently mistaken by police for a protester, was wrestled to the ground and briefly detained Wednesday while trying to film a pro-Tibet demonstration by eight activists arrested near the main Olympics venue...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian convoy heads into Georgia, violating truce
A Russian military convoy thrust deep into Georgia on Wednesday and Georgian officials said Russian troops bombed and looted the crossroads city of Gori, violating a freshly brokered truce intended to end the conflict...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian military convoy heads deeper into Georgia
An Associated Press reporter has seen a convoy of several dozen Russian military trucks and armored vehicles heading out of a key city deeper into Georgia...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian troops roll deep into Georgia, break truce
Russian troops and paramilitaries thrust deep into Georgia on Wednesday, rolling into the strategic city of Gori and violating the truce designed to end the six-day war that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian tanks roll deep into Georgia, break truce
Russian tanks rolled into the crossroads city of Gori on Wednesday then pressed deeper into Georgian territory, violating the truce designed to end the six-day war that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Condition improves of American attacked in China
An American woman severely injured in a knife attack that killed her husband in China the day the Olympics began has recovered enough to speak with relatives, an official said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian troops roll into key city despite truce
Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the six-day conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Castro marks 82nd birthday away from spotlight
Ailing ex-president Fidel Castro marked his 82nd birthday in private on Wednesday, more than two years after he underwent emergency surgery and ceded power to his younger brother Raul...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian troops roll into key Georgian city
Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Israel clears troops in death of journalist
The Israeli army has closed an investigation into the death of a Reuters cameraman in the Gaza Strip last April, clearing the tank crew that killed the young journalist of any wrongdoing and saying the soldiers will not face disciplinary action...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama says world should be firm with China
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that the world should be firm with China on human rights and freedoms but must also try to bring it into the "mainstream of world democracy."...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
20 are killed in building collapse in Mumbai
At least 20 people were killed and 21 others injured when a portion of a five-story building collapsed after heavy monsoon rains in downtown Mumbai, police said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Roof falls in on European Parliament building
The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Abkhazian fighters plant flag inside Georgia
An AP reporter says a few dozen fighters from the separatist region of Abkhazia have moved into Georgian territory, planting their flag on a bridge over the Inguri River...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
EU wants to step up involvement in Georgia
European Union foreign ministers agreed to consider sending a mission to monitor a fragile peace deal between Russia and Georgia _ but were divided Wednesday over whether to punish Moscow for taking military action against its ex-Soviet neighbor...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Honduran executed in Texas buried in hometown
A Honduran migrant executed in Texas has been buried in his homeland...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
China attacks possibly linked to terror groups
China said Wednesday that some evidence suggests terrorist groups may have been involved in a series of attacks in the Muslim territory of Xinjiang, far from the Olympics in Beijing...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Poland, US ready for more missile defense talks
Polish and U.S. negotiators begin further talks Wednesday on a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a meeting where the fighting between Russia and Georgia was certain to loom large...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Officials Missiles kill 9 in Pakistan
A missile strike in a Pakistani tribal region killed at least nine suspected insurgents including foreigners, officials said Wednesday, raising suspicion that the U.S. was again targeting militants in Pakistan...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Pirates attack British ship off Yemens coast
Yemeni authorities say pirates have attacked and possibly hijacked a British-flagged commercial ship off the Gulf of Aden...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
O'Brien anger over Rocky remake
Rocky Horror Picture Show creator Richard O'Brien tells the BBC a new version of the film is being made without his blessing...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Rat-brain robot aids memory study
A robot controlled by rat brain cells could help the study of diseases such as Alzheimer's that wipe out memories...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Water's the limit for tall trees
Douglas firs are unlikely to surpass 138m because they are not be able to supply water any higher, a study suggests...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
HBOS to cut mortgage sector jobs
HBOS is to cut 325 jobs by the end of March next year as it closes one of its specialist mortgage brands...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Iraq contractors 'cost US $85bn'
The US has spent $85bn on contractors in Iraq and neighbouring countries since 2003, an offical report finds...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Lebanon chief mends ties in Syria
Lebanon's president arrives in Damascus for talks with Syria's leader, the first such trip after three years of turbulence...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Man arrested for hitting daughter
A Manchester man cautioned for slapping his 13-year-old daughter says he fears his years of working with children are now over...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Search for teenage diver halted
A 14-year-old, missing off the Devon coast while diving with his father, is from Wales police reveal...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
80-100 'active dissident members'
Dissident republicans are believed to have about 80-100 active members, including former PIRA members, according to the PSNI...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Deja vu
Joshua Nkomo's ghost haunts Zimbabwe talks...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Ad or arthouse
Would you see a film that started as a Eurostar short?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Inching closer
Taleban threats and attacks come to Kabul's doorstep...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Green mist
Are Prince Charles's trenchant views on GM crops justified?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
John Prescott receives award for boosting interest in croquet
John Prescott has been awarded a mallet by the British Croquet Association for boosting interest in the game...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Lampard agrees new Chelsea deal
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard signs a new five-year deal which will keep him at the club until 2013...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Girl, six, freed from armed siege
A six-year-girl who had been held hostage in an armed siege is freed by police and a man is arrested...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
'No money' for Wrapit customers
Customers of collapsed wedding gift list firm Wrapit are unlikely to get any money back from the business, say the administrators...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Tube workers to stage two strikes
London Underground maintenance workers vote to walk out in protest at pay and conditions...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Buckland to host Gardeners' World
Toby Buckland is to become the main presenter of Gardeners' World, replacing Monty Don who retired due to ill health...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
City report 'insane' says Cameron
David Cameron distances himself from a right-leaning think tank's claim that some northern English cities are beyond revival...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Honeymoon couple's private burial
Murdered newly-weds Ben and Catherine Mullany are buried in Wales in a private ceremony, their families say...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
US forces to deliver Georgia aid
US President Bush says military aircraft and naval forces will send humanitarian aid to Georgia, following its conflict with Russia...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Stagg reveals compensation
The man wrongly accused of murdering Rachel Nickell says his £706,000 compensation is "effectively a public apology"...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Fire burns building at Apple HQ in California
Firefighters have contained a blaze that has burned for about three hours at the headquarters of computer maker Apple...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Wildlife officials seek to raise Wash. hunting age
When Pamela Almli set out for a hike on a popular trail north of Seattle, she may not have been aware that bear hunting season had begun a few days earlier...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Baby boy born to Mexican actors Luna, Sodi
Mexican actors Diego Luna and Camila Sodi are first-time parents to a baby boy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Flight attendant says Victoria Osteen eyed cockpit
A flight attendant suing Victoria Osteen said the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen was eyeing the cockpit after throwing her against a bathroom door before a 2005 flight...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Ethiers hit gives Dodgers win over Phillies
Andre Ethier singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Crosby hits 2-run homer in As 2-1 win over Rays
Bobby Crosby hit a two-run home run and Gio Gonzalez got his first major league win, helping the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Guerrero, Rivera, Anderson homer in Angels win
Vladimir Guerrero, Garret Anderson and Juan Rivera homered to help the Los Angeles Angels rally for a 7-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
USDA raises corn estimates on ideal weather
Farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, which may lead to lower prices for the key grains, the government said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Hagel as Obama veep draws concern from both sides
Talk of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as a potential running mate for Democratic candidate Barack Obama tends to confound partisans in both parties...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Colorados Secretary of State wins on primary day
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman won his GOP congressional primary Tuesday and looked set to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Pelosi, Michelle Obama to kick off Dem Convention
Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the featured first-night speakers at the Democratic National Convention, which also will include a videotaped message from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Oil rises to near $114 as dollar weakens
Oil prices rose to near $114 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as the dollar fell against the euro and yen ahead of weekly U.S. crude inventory data...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Oil steady near $113 ahead of inventory data
Oil prices were steady near $113 a barrel Wednesday in Asia ahead of weekly oil and gasoline inventory data that may show further evidence of declining crude demand in the U.S...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kempthorne defends proposed changes to species law
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is defending proposed changes to the endangered species law, saying they will ensure the statute is not used as a "back door" to regulate the gases blamed for global warming...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Republicans seek nomination to succeed Tancredo
Four Republicans competed Tuesday for the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Warrior with AK-47 becomes cleric with pseudonym
Abu Ali has had enough of war. Nothing, he insists, can change his mind...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgian conflict shows Russia calling the shots
Russia has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the world, a message other former Soviet bloc countries cannot ignore...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
In France, Dalai Lama reaffirms Olympic support
The Dalai Lama sent China a message of good will for the Olympics and skirted the contentious issue of Tibet at the start of his 12-day visit to France on Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Iraqi governor escapes injury in suicide blast
A female suicide bomber blasted an Iraqi convoy north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by a woman in Diyala province in as many days...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Governor escapes injury in suicide blast
A female suicide bomber blasted an Iraqi convoy north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by a woman in Diyala province in as many days...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
India yearns for Pakistans Musharraf amid turmoil
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Taliban Open war in Pakistan as bomb kills 14
The Pakistani Taliban declared "open war" Tuesday in response to military offensives in the northwest, saying it staged a bombing that destroyed an air force truck and killed up to 14 people, including a child...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Heavy damage in Tskhinvali, mostly at govt center
Gutted and shrapnel-scarred buildings testify to fierce street battles and heavy rocket and bomb attacks in the separatist capital of South Ossetia. But there is little evidence civilians were specifically targeted by Georgian troops, as Russia claims...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Relief supplies arrive for Georgian, other victims
Relief agencies rushed aid Tuesday to thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in South Ossetia for neighboring Russia or other parts of Georgia, while those left behind cowered in rat-infested cellars or wandered nearly empty cities and villages...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgian village bombed as fighting neared an end
Living near a conflict zone has taught 70-year-old Vakhtang Chkhekvadze to sense danger...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Tijuana Police try to restore public trust
People have so little confidence in the police here that the army invited citizens to report crimes to soldiers instead. Officers are so mistrusted that federal authorities even took their guns away for a time last year...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Russian soldier recounts Georgian ambush
Nikolai Badry, one of the first Russian soldiers to invade the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali last week, said he watched fellow soldiers fall to their deaths when Georgian artillery bombarded his convoy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgia says Russian tanks violate truce
Georgian officials charged Wednesday that Russian tanks had rolled into a strategic city and seized a military base inside Georgia in violation of a freshly brokered truce intended to end a conflict that had bloodied and battered the U.S. ally and uprooted hundreds of thousands of people...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Displaced Filipinos can return to their homes soon
Muslim guerrillas have completely withdrawn from 15 predominantly Christian villages in the southern Philippines, and the tens of thousands of residents can return to their homes once they have been cleared of booby traps, the military said Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Kashmir protests spread to Indian cities
Riots erupted across Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday as Muslims mourned 15 people killed in a day of bloody violence, as the protests spread to other parts of India...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bomb in northern Lebanese city kills 18
Lebanese security officials say the toll from the morning rush hour bombing of a bus carrying civilians and members of the military in the northern city of Tripoli has risen to 18 killed and 40 wounded...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
NKorea allows SKorean ship return home after probe
North Korea allowed a South Korean cargo vessel to return home Wednesday after investigating its crew members over a ship collision that left two North Koreans dead, an official said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgia says Russian tanks violated truce
Georgian officials charged Wednesday that Russian tanks had rolled into a strategic city and seized a military base inside Georgia, violating a freshly brokered truce intended to end a conflict that had bloodied and battered the U.S. ally and uprooted an estimated 100,000 people...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama curious about Chinas path post-Games
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that he was disappointed by the latest round of talks aimed at easing tensions between his supporters and China and added that he wants to see what path Chinese authorities will chart once the Olympics are over...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bomb on bus in northern Lebanese city kills 18
A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the Lebanese military during Wednesday morning rush hour in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 18 people and wounding 46, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Bombs target city official, civilians in Iraq
A suicide truck bomber targeted the mayor of a town near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, while another car bomb struck civilians elsewhere in northern Iraq, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
China raises tax on big cars to cut pollution
China is raising its sales tax on big cars to as high as 40 percent, and drastically cutting taxes on small cars, in its latest attempt to combat emissions that contribute to heavy blankets of smog over most of its cities...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Officials 3 Western women killed in Afghan attack
Afghan officials say a militant ambush has killed three women from a U.S. aid organization _ an American, a Canadian and an Irish national...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Police ordered to shoot protesters in Kashmir
Indian police say they have issued orders to shoot protesters defying a curfew in Indian-controlled Kashmir...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Roof falls in on European Parliament building
The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Abkhazian fighters plant flag inside Georgia
An AP reporter says a few dozen fighters from the separatist region of Abkhazia have moved into Georgian territory, planting their flag on a bridge over the Inguri River...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Police say 11 killed in Mumbai building collapse
Police say at least 11 people have been killed and 30 others injured when a portion of a five-story building collapsed after heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Stroke killed singer Isaac Hayes
Soul icon Isaac Hayes, who died on Sunday aged 65, was killed by a stroke, authorities in the US have said...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Recession fears weigh on sterling
The pound sinks to 22-month lows against the dollar after a Bank of England report raises fears of a recession...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Russia warned over 'Soviet past'
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband warns Russia against hankering after a Soviet past in its border disputes...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
New inquiry into Japan abductees
Japan and North Korea agree to a new inquiry into the abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, reports say...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
German ice cream murders probed
German police launch a huge manhunt after three people are shot dead at an Italian ice cream parlour in a town near Frankfurt...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Aid women killed in Afghanistan
Three female international aid workers are shot dead alongside their Afghan driver near Kabul, officials say...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Board loses offender information
The Probation Board is investigating how information about an offender was found in Londonderry...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Mugabe rival 'needs to reflect'
Power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe adjourn to give opposition leader Mr Tsvangirai time to reflect, South Africa's leader says...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Khyra couple face murder charge
The mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old girl who allegedly starved to death are to be charged with her murder...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Heavy rain causes more flooding
Another night of torrential rain causes more flooding in Fife, with central areas among the worst affected by water...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Murder probe after woman's death
Police in Pembrokeshire say a man is being questioned about the murder of a 44-year-old woman...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Border trackers
Hi-tech and horses help guard the Canada-US border...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Coming good
Is British sport shaking off its underdog status?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Global squeeze
Readers tell us how the credit crunch has affected them...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Inventions quiz
Is this for reading, potholing or forehead-heating?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Can we speed up the web - by slowing some of it down?
Can we speed up the web - by slowing it down?...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Terry doubts Man Utd credentials
Chelsea captain John Terry believes Manchester United will struggle to match their achievements of winning the double last season...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Liege concern over Liverpool game
Standard Liege defender Oguchi Onyewu criticises the Belgian champions having to play Liverpool in a Champions League qualifier...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Lebanese city rocked by bus bomb
An explosion close to a bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli kills at least 11 people including off-duty soldiers...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Cheap drug hope for breast cancer
A combination of two inexpensive existing drugs may offer a new way to treat breast cancer, a study suggests...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Let's do the timewarp, again - Rocky Horror to be revived
Cult musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show is to be remade 33 years after it was first released, it is announced...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
MP MacDougall dies after illness
The Scottish Labour MP John MacDougall dies while battling the cancer-related condition, mesothelioma...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Jobless total up as economy slows
Unemployment rose by 60,000 to 1.67 million in the three months to June, taking the official UK rate to 5.4%, figures show...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Violence flares in Georgian town
There are reports of looting in the Georgian town of Gori, where Russian tanks are out on the streets despite a truce...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Bank warns of flat growth ahead
The Bank of England says it expects the UK economy will not grow at all over the next year, while inflation could hit 5%...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Phelps breaks Olympic gold record
US swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first Olympic athlete to win 10 gold medals, and then claims his 11th with relay glory...
BBC News - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dead animals found in pot, freezer in Vt. home
Responding to a report of animal cruelty, authorities found dozens of living and dead animals in a home infested with fleas, maggots and rotting carcasses. The owners _ a woman and her adult son _ were charged with animal cruelty...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Cooperative burglar gets 7 12-year prison term
A confessed burglar described by police as one of the most prolific thieves in Los Angeles history was resentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison after making a police training video showing how he stole about $16 million in property, including a Degas painting...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Baby boy born to Mexican actors Luna, Sodi
Mexican actors Diego Luna and Camila Sodi are first-time parents to a baby boy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Pelosi, Michelle Obama to kick off Dem Convention
Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the featured first-night speakers at the Democratic National Convention, which also will include a videotaped message from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Republicans seek nomination to succeed Tancredo
Four Republicans competed Tuesday for the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Fielders 3-run HR leads Brewers over Padres
Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer and Jeff Suppan pitched eight strong innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to their seventh straight victory, 5-2 over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
USDA raises corn estimates on ideal weather
Farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, which may lead to lower prices for the key grains, the government said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
TJXs 2Q profits triple as shoppers seek bargains
TJX Cos., which operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores, said Tuesday that its second-quarter profits more than tripled from a year ago when the discount fashion retailer digested a charge for a widely publicized security breach...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Guerrero, Rivera, Anderson homer in Angels win
Vladimir Guerrero, Garret Anderson and Juan Rivera homered to help the Los Angeles Angels rally for a 7-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Oil steady near $113 ahead of inventory data
Oil prices were steady near $113 a barrel Wednesday in Asia ahead of weekly oil and gasoline inventory data that may show further evidence of declining crude demand in the U.S...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Johnson strikes out 7 as Dbacks beat Rockies 4-2
Randy Johnson pitched six solid innings and singled in a run, Adam Dunn had a double in his Arizona debut and the Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Ethiers hit gives Dodgers win over Phillies
Andre Ethier singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Georgian conflict shows Russia calling the shots
Russia has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the world, a message other former Soviet bloc countries cannot ignore...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Unabomber objects to cabin display at Newseum
Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wrote a letter to a federal appeals court complaining about a museum exhibit of the tiny cabin where he plotted an 18-year bombing spree...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Crosby hits 2-run homer in As 2-1 win over Rays
Bobby Crosby hit a two-run home run and Gio Gonzalez got his first major league win, helping the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 on Tuesday night...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Carpenter to miss start with strained muscle
Chris Carpenter will miss his scheduled start Friday for the St. Louis Cardinals after an MRI exam showed a muscle strain in the back of his pitching shoulder...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
India security forces kill 13 Kashmiri protesters
Indian forces shot and killed at least 13 Muslim protesters on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people defied a blanket curfew in Indian Kashmir, the bloodiest day in nearly two months of unrest that has rocked this long-troubled Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Security forces kill 13 Kashmir protesters
Government forces fired at Muslim protesters for a second day Tuesday as demonstrators defied a curfew in Indian Kashmir, killing 13, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Taliban Open war in Pakistan as bomb kills 14
The Pakistani Taliban declared "open war" Tuesday in response to military offensives in the northwest, saying it staged a bombing that destroyed an air force truck and killed up to 14 people, including a child...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Warrior with AK-47 becomes cleric with pseudonym
Abu Ali has had enough of war. Nothing, he insists, can change his mind...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Dalai Lama visits Buddhist institute, pagoda
The Dalai Lama skirted controversy over Tibet at the start of his 12-day trip to France on Tuesday, blessing a Buddhist institute and a temple, and offering a message of goodwill to China as the host of the Olympic Games...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
Heavy damage in Tskhinvali, mostly at govt center
Gutted and shrapnel-scarred buildings testify to fierce street battles and heavy rocket and bomb attacks in the separatist capital of South Ossetia. But there is little evidence civilians were specifically targeted by Georgian troops, as Russia claims...
Southern Ledger - August 13, 2008
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