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Obama, McCain pledge to work together for reform
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Suri Cruise tops Forbes.com list of Hottest Tots
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The New Frugality Americans return to thriftiness
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Archaeologists New evidence for Herods tomb site
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Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake
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Mammoth task Scientists map DNA of ancient beast
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
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Malkovich to film documentary about migrants
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Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
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Kashmiri Muslims protest over Hindu shrine plans
Thousands of Muslims angry over plans to expand a Hindu shrine clashed with police in Kashmir on Friday in some of the largest protests in two decades against Indian rule...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
First American named to head Vatican high court
An archbishop who tussled with singer Sheryl Crow, college basketball coach Rick Majerus, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry over their support for abortion rights has been named as the first American to lead the Vatican supreme court...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Smoky skies threaten health in fiery California
Hundreds of lightning-sparked wildfires have turned the air of Northern California into an unhealthy stew of smoke and ash, forcing the cancellation of athletic events and other outdoor activities...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
As river rushes into Mo. town, residents file out
A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant but ultimately doomed battle against the surging river...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
High court death penalty rulings wont end suits
For decades, the Supreme Court has declined to rule on execution methods and whether that punishment applies to child rapists. In its term ending Friday, the high court issued decisions on both, but neither solves the bitter fight over capital punishment...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Lewis takes the lead in her first pro event
Stacy Lewis is making her professional debut one to remember...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Venus Williams, Nadal gain 4th round at Wimbledon
No slow start for Venus Williams this time.After struggling in tight first sets in her opening two matches, the defending champion dispatched Spanish qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-1, 7-5 Saturday to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Washburn beats Pads for first win in 8 starts
Jarrod Washburn won for the first time in eight starts and the Seattle Mariners beat Randy Wolf and the San Diego Padres 5-2 Friday night despite stranding a franchise-record 18 baserunners...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Award-winning pianist Leonard Pennario dies at 83
Leonard Pennario, a Grammy-winning pianist and best-selling classical recording artist, has died. He was 83...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Newcomers revive mens fashion in Paris
A trio of newcomers breathed new life into Paris menswear on Friday, with displays that ran the gamut from sober minimalism to Gothic excess...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Troyer sex tape shut down, for now
Verne Troyer successfully shut down the distribution of a sex tape featuring the "Austin Powers" actor and a former girlfriend _ for now...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Statler Brothers Country Hall of Fame honor tops
Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCain, Obama court Hispanic voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday vied for the support of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship with a pivotal voting constituency...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rivals McCain and Obama court Hispanic voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama on Saturday sought the love of Hispanics, beginning a four-month courtship with a pivotal swing-voting constituency...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rivals McCain and Obama court Hispanics voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama seek the love of Hispanic voters, beginning a courtship with a pivotal constituency that will span the next four months...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCain, Obama court Hispanics voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama seek the love of Hispanic voters, beginning a courtship with a pivotal constituency that will span the next four months...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Quentin hits homer to give White Sox win
Carlos Quentin hit a tiebreaking homer leading off the bottom of the seventh Saturday, closer Bobby Jenks escaped a ninth-inning jam and the White Sox made it two straight over the Cubs with a 6-5 victory...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Chopra birdies 18th to take 2-shot lead at Buick
Daniel Chopra took advantage of an opportunity to build a cushion in the Buick Open...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stimulus payments send after-tax incomes soaring
Millions of economic stimulus payments sent after-tax incomes surging in May by the largest amount since a similar recession-fighting effort by Gerald Ford 33 years ago...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Who are those oil speculators, anyway? Maybe you
All those speculators getting the blame for driving up the price of oil these days _ just who are they? For part of the answer, look in the mirror...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wall Street extends losses in volatile week
Wall Street has suffered another big loss, with the Dow Jones industrials falling more than 100 points amid worries about high oil prices and further fallout from the credit crisis...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Verne Troyer sues over sex tape
Verne Troyer has sued TMZ and a pornography distributor, seeking the return of a sex tape he says was stolen and more than $20 million in damages...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal for Democratic unity in N.H.
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a display of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak
As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak _ or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Storms kill 2, halt Olympic hopefuls practice
Superstar swimmer Michael Phelps and his Club Wolverine teammates were headed for an afternoon practice for the U.S. Olympic trials when the tornado sirens sounded...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Blast kills 1, wounds 28 in N. Lebanon
Lebanese security officials say at least one person was killed and 28 others wounded when an explosion ripped through an apartment building in the northern city of Tripoli...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Reports Siemens to cut 17,200 jobs
Conglomerate Siemens AG, wracked by a wide-ranging corruption scandal, will cut up to 4 percent of its work force worldwide, or about 17,200 jobs, a pair of newspapers reported Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kashmir paralyzed by anti-Hindu protests
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Sri Lanka New fighting kills 43
Government troops captured a Tamil Tiger rebel-held village in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka on Saturday while infantry clashes across the region killed 40 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Foreign observer says Zimbabweans voted in fear
Many Zimbabweans deliberately defaced their ballots in a discredited presidential runoff with President Robert Mugabe as the sole candidate, and voted only out of fear, the head of a foreign observer mission said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Bomb kills 1, wounds 28 in northern Lebanon
At least one person was killed and 28 others wounded early Saturday when a bomb ripped through an apartment building in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
18 dead recovered from Indonesia plane
Rescuers recovered all 18 bodies Saturday from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, a military official said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Protests over shrine continue in Kashmir
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Iran opposition group US terror listing unjust
Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Paris...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Bush calls for more penalties against Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe came under threat of further sanctions on Saturday as President Bush said the U.S. was working on new ways to punish longtime leader Robert Mugabe and his allies following the widely denounced presidential runoff election...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Scientists Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Chavez says Venezuela will not raise gas prices
President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela has no plans to raise state-subsidized gasoline prices anytime soon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Aid group South Africa deported Zimbabweans
An international aid group says South Africa has deported some 450 Zimbabweans who had fled instability and violence...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Plane crash in southern Sudan kills 7, 1 survivor
The Sudanese civil authority says a small plane has crashed in southern Sudan, killing seven people on board. There was one survivor...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Macho man is going out of fashion
As world financial markets wobble and bonuses shrink, the macho male is going out of fashion...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Officials Israel to renew food deliveries to Gaza
Israel will allow the resumption of food shipments into the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a four-day halt in response to Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli defense officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Malaysias Anwar accused of sodomy denies charge
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was accused Saturday of sodomizing a man, police said, sparking speculation that he might be arrested on the same charge that led to his imprisonment a decade ago...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Militants, police slain in Russias volatile south
Russian officials say five militants and four police have been killed and four more people wounded in the violence-plagued south...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Iran exiles back armed opposition
Thousands of supporters of Iran's outlawed opposition rally in France to end international bans on its armed wing...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Clashes in Seoul over US beef row
South Korean police use water cannon to disperse a big protest in Seoul against the resumption of US beef imports...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Still a threat
The risk of a new deadly flu has not gone away...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Woman charged with boy's murder
A 40-year-old woman from Great Yarmouth is charged with the murder of missing Norfolk teenager Simon Everitt...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Germany fret over Ballack fitness
Germany captain Michael Ballack is a doubt for Sunday's Euro 2008 final against Spain because of a calf injury...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
NHS drug approval to 'speed up'
The government is to set out plans to speed up the approval of drugs for use in the NHS...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Senior Tory in Zimbabwe share row
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve defends his decision not to give up shares in firms operating in Zimbabwe...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
US rivals clash over immigration
US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain spar over immigration as they court Hispanic voters...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Zimbabwe election results delay
Election officials in Zimbabwe say final results from a one-candidate presidential election have been delayed...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Amy Winehouse 'lashes out' at fan
Amy Winehouse appears to throw a punch at a fan during her set at the Glastonbury Festival...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Kashmiri Muslims protest over Hindu shrine plans
Thousands of Muslims angry over plans to expand a Hindu shrine clashed with police in Kashmir on Friday in some of the largest protests in two decades against Indian rule...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
First American named to head Vatican high court
An archbishop who tussled with singer Sheryl Crow, college basketball coach Rick Majerus, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry over their support for abortion rights has been named as the first American to lead the Vatican supreme court...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Statler Brothers Country Hall of Fame honor tops
Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Report Uma Thurman engaged to financier
Uma Thurman is apparently engaged.The "Kill Bill" and "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" actress will marry financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, according to a report Friday in the New York Daily News. Stephen Huvane, the publicist for Thurman, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages from The Associated Press on Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Long quiet, justices end their term with a growl
For most of the term, Supreme Court justices showed remarkable restraint. They displayed broad agreement even in some volatile areas and refrained from angry dissents...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Calif fire deals big blow to Big Sur tourism
Many of the rustic inns, restaurants and art galleries that dot the rugged Central Coast are nearly deserted this weekend at the height of the tourist season as a huge wildfire threatens Big Sur...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
California fire deals big blow to Big Sur tourism
Many of the rustic inns, restaurants and art galleries that dot the rugged Central Coast are nearly deserted this weekend at the height of the tourist season as a huge wildfire threatens Big Sur...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Berkeley tree-sitters hanging on, 18 months in
In December 2006, protesters angry about campus expansion plans clambered into the branches of a threatened oak grove at the University of California, Berkeley...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
VWilliams hits record 127-mph serve at Wimbledon
No slow start for Venus Williams this time.After struggling in tight first sets in her opening two matches, the defending champion moved quickly Saturday game to defeat Spanish qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-1, 7-5 and advance to the fourth round at Wimbledon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Venus Williams advances to 4th round at Wimbledon
Defending champion Venus Williams has advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kerr gathering momentum for US Open defense
It looks as if Cristie Kerr has Angela Park right where she wants her...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Newcomers revive mens fashion in Paris
A trio of newcomers breathed new life into Paris menswear on Friday, with displays that ran the gamut from sober minimalism to Gothic excess...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Troyer sex tape shut down, for now
Verne Troyer successfully shut down the distribution of a sex tape featuring the "Austin Powers" actor and a former girlfriend _ for now...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Who are those oil speculators, anyway? Maybe you
All those speculators getting the blame for driving up the price of oil these days _ just who are they? For part of the answer, look in the mirror...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wall Street extends losses in volatile week
Wall Street has suffered another big loss, with the Dow Jones industrials falling more than 100 points amid worries about high oil prices and further fallout from the credit crisis...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rivals McCain and Obama court Hispanics voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama seek the love of Hispanic voters, beginning a courtship with a pivotal constituency that will span the next four months...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCain, Obama court Hispanics voters
Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama seek the love of Hispanic voters, beginning a courtship with a pivotal constituency that will span the next four months...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama quietly visits wounded vets at Walter Reed
Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Venus hits record 127-mph serve at Wimbledon
No slow start for Venus Williams this time.After struggling in tight first sets in her opening two matches, the defending champion moved quickly to defeat Spanish qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-1, 7-5 Saturday and advance to the fourth round at Wimbledon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Verne Troyer sues over sex tape
Verne Troyer has sued TMZ and a pornography distributor, seeking the return of a sex tape he says was stolen and more than $20 million in damages...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stimulus payments send after-tax incomes soaring
Millions of economic stimulus payments sent after-tax incomes surging in May by the largest amount since a similar recession-fighting effort by Gerald Ford 33 years ago...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Storms kill 2, halt Olympic hopefuls practice
Superstar swimmer Michael Phelps and his Club Wolverine teammates were headed for an afternoon practice for the U.S. Olympic trials when the tornado sirens sounded...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal for Democratic unity in N.H.
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a display of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US reports pressure on al-Qaida in Iraqs north
American and Iraqi soldiers killed three Sunni militants Saturday and detained a dozen suspects in operations in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak
As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak _ or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kashmir paralyzed by anti-Hindu protests
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Sri Lanka New fighting kills 43
Government troops captured a Tamil Tiger rebel-held village in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka on Saturday while infantry clashes across the region killed 40 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Protests over shrine continue in Kashmir
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Blast kills 1, wounds 28 in N. Lebanon
Lebanese security officials say at least one person was killed and 28 others wounded when an explosion ripped through an apartment building in the northern city of Tripoli...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Reports Siemens to cut 17,200 jobs
Conglomerate Siemens AG, wracked by a wide-ranging corruption scandal, will cut up to 4 percent of its work force worldwide, or about 17,200 jobs, a pair of newspapers reported Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Scientists Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Chavez says Venezuela will not raise gas prices
President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela has no plans to raise state-subsidized gasoline prices anytime soon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Foreign observer says Zimbabweans voted in fear
Many Zimbabweans deliberately defaced their ballots in a discredited presidential runoff with President Robert Mugabe as the sole candidate, and voted only out of fear, the head of a foreign observer mission said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Bomb kills 1, wounds 28 in northern Lebanon
At least one person was killed and 28 others wounded early Saturday when a bomb ripped through an apartment building in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
18 dead recovered from Indonesia plane
Rescuers recovered all 18 bodies Saturday from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, a military official said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Plane crash in southern Sudan kills 7, 1 survivor
The Sudanese civil authority says a small plane has crashed in southern Sudan, killing seven people on board. There was one survivor...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Aid group South Africa deported Zimbabweans
An international aid group says South Africa has deported some 450 Zimbabweans who had fled instability and violence...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Uma Thurman gets engaged
Actress Uma Thurman announces she is to marry financier Arpad Busson with an advert in a British newspaper...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Kosovo Serbs launch new assembly
An assembly set up by Kosovo Serbs holds its first session in defiance of the majority ethnic Albanian government...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Fresh clashes in India's Kashmir
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir fire bullets to quell big Muslim rallies against the transfer of land to a Hindu trust...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
New by-election after MP resigns
The Labour MP David Marshall is to step down because of ill health triggering a by-election in Glasgow East...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Police gun is stolen in burglary
A gun is stolen from the house of a police officer during a burglary near Templepatrick in County Antrim...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
UN aid workers freed in Somalia
Somali gunmen free two UN aid workers from Denmark and Sweden - just hours after seizing them, officials say...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Bikers stage fuel prices protest
Hundreds of motorcyclists stage a protest against the rising cost of fuel with a mass ride into Edinburgh...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Russian revival
On and off the pitch, Russians are feeling good again...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Final whistle
Motson's last major TV showpiece...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Anglican rift
Interpretation of the Bible at root of dispute...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Murray powers into fourth round
Andy Murray produces a fine display to beat Tommy Haas in straight sets and reach the last 16 at Wimbledon...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Reporter's log
Ian Youngs with the latest news from Glastonbury...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Police quiz BB 'spit' housemate
Dennis McHugh, removed from Big Brother for allegedly spitting at a fellow housemate, is questioned by police...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
All aboard - record turnout for Isle of Wight yacht race
A record number of competitors in nearly 1,800 boats sail around the Isle of Wight in one of the world's largest yacht races...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Mugabe 'preparing to be sworn in'
Robert Mugabe is expected to be sworn in as Zimbabwe's president on Sunday after a landslide poll win, official sources say...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
First American named to head Vatican high court
An archbishop who tussled with singer Sheryl Crow, college basketball coach Rick Majerus, and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry over their support for abortion rights has been named as the first American to lead the Vatican supreme court...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Troyer sex tape shut down, for now
Verne Troyer successfully shut down the distribution of a sex tape featuring the "Austin Powers" actor and a former girlfriend _ for now...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Statler Brothers Country Hall of Fame honor tops
Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Report Uma Thurman engaged to financier
Uma Thurman is apparently engaged.The "Kill Bill" and "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" actress will marry financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, according to a report Friday in the New York Daily News. Stephen Huvane, the publicist for Thurman, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages from The Associated Press on Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Supreme Court, long quiet, ends term with a growl
For most of the term, Supreme Court justices showed remarkable restraint. They displayed broad agreement even in some volatile areas and refrained from angry dissents...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Court, long quiet, ends term with a growl
For most of the term, Supreme Court justices showed remarkable restraint. They displayed broad agreement even in some volatile areas and refrained from angry dissents...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kerr gathering momentum for US Open defense
It looks as if Cristie Kerr has Angela Park right where she wants her...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Park, Dodgers beat Angels 6-0
Chan Ho Park shut out the Angels over his six innings, Andre Ethier hit a three-run homer and the Dodgers beat the Angels 6-3 on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Washburn beats Pads for first win in 8 starts
Jarrod Washburn won for the first time in eight starts and the Seattle Mariners beat Randy Wolf and the San Diego Padres 5-2 Friday night despite stranding a franchise-record 18 baserunners...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rookie Carpentier wins pole at New Hampshire
Rookie Patrick Carpentier grabbed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup pole Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Newcomers revive mens fashion in Paris
A trio of newcomers breathed new life into Paris menswear on Friday, with displays that ran the gamut from sober minimalism to Gothic excess...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Who are those oil speculators, anyway? Maybe you
All those speculators getting the blame for driving up the price of oil these days _ just who are they? For part of the answer, look in the mirror...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wall Street extends losses in volatile week
Wall Street has suffered another big loss, with the Dow Jones industrials falling more than 100 points amid worries about high oil prices and further fallout from the credit crisis...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCain talks trade, innovation with auto workers
Republican John McCain on Friday told autoworkers in an economically depressed area of Ohio that he supports free-trade agreements many of them feel cost jobs, but also government investment to help produce the electric cars of the future...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal together for Dem unity
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a show of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
10 years later, Williams looks forward
Ricky Williams needed just 11 yards for the record book when he ran for 60, taking a handoff, bouncing off a defender and bolting to the end zone...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stocks mostly lower again after big drop
Stocks slid again Friday after their sharp dive in the previous session, with investors anxious about a new oil price record and dubious that personal income and spending will remain resilient...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Hanoi Hilton jailer says hed vote for McCain
John McCain has an unusual endorsement _ from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stimulus payments send after-tax incomes soaring
Millions of economic stimulus payments sent after-tax incomes surging in May by the largest amount since a similar recession-fighting effort by Gerald Ford 33 years ago...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears
On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook as a farewell present...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Storms kill 2, halt Olympic hopefuls practice
Superstar swimmer Michael Phelps and his Club Wolverine teammates were headed for an afternoon practice for the U.S. Olympic trials when the tornado sirens sounded...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal for Democratic unity in N.H.
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a display of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Tropical storm Fengshen kills 9 in China
The Chinese government says Tropical Storm Fengshen has killed at least nine people in southern China...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Regional bank announces $10 billion fund
A new regional development bank for South America announced an initial capital fund of US$10 billion, with the possibility of climbing as high as US$20 billion, after a meeting of the seven member states on Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US checks if tomatoes caused Salmonella outbreak
As salmonella cases continue to climb, the government is checking if tainted tomatoes really are to blame for the record outbreak _ or if the problem is with another ingredient, or a warehouse that is contaminating newly harvested tomatoes...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US reports pressure on al-Qaida in Iraqs north
American and Iraqi soldiers killed three Sunni militants Saturday and detained a dozen suspects in operations in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
15 killed in Indonesian plane crash
Fifteen bodies were pulled from the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain, a military official said Saturday. The fate of three others on board remained unknown...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Sri Lanka fighting kills 43
Government troops captured a Tamil Tiger rebel-held town in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka while infantry clashes across the region killed 40 rebels and three soldiers, the military said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kashmir paralyzed by anti-Hindu protests
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Sri Lanka New fighting kills 43
Government troops captured a Tamil Tiger rebel-held village in war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka on Saturday while infantry clashes across the region killed 40 rebels and three soldiers, the military said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Mexico welcomes approval of US drug aid
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday welcomed U.S. congressional approval of a US$400 million anti-drug aid package that drops restrictive conditions he had opposed...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Murder charge for brother whose sister shed scarf
The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described as a family dispute over a Muslim head scarf was charged with murder, becoming the second family member accused in her death, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Protests over shrine continue in Kashmir
Tens of thousands of demonstrators paralyzed cities in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday with protests against what they charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements to change the religious balance in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Blast kills 1, wounds 28 in N. Lebanon
Lebanese security officials say at least one person was killed and 28 others wounded when an explosion ripped through an apartment building in the northern city of Tripoli...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Reports Siemens to cut 17,200 jobs
Conglomerate Siemens AG, wracked by a wide-ranging corruption scandal, will cut up to 4 percent of its work force worldwide, or about 17,200 jobs, a pair of newspapers reported Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen
Israeli soldiers shot dead a West Bank teenager who threw Molotov cocktails at an army patrol, the army and Palestinian officials said Saturday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Israeli troops kill teenage militant in West Bank
The Israeli army and Palestinian security officials say troops in the West Bank shot dead a teenager who threw Molotov cocktails at an army patrol...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Glastonbury awaits Amy and Jay-Z
All eyes will be on US rapper Jay-Z and Amy Winehouse when they play the most hotly anticipated sets at Glastonbury Festival...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Pakistan army attacks militants
Pakistan's military launches an offensive against militants near the main north-western city of Peshawar, say officials...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
US doubts over NK nuclear plans
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says there are still unanswered questions over North Korea's nuclear programme...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Body found in search for teenager
A body is found by police searching for a 17-year-old boy, believed to have been abducted and killed...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Child rail danger hotspots named
Network Rail names 10 places in Wales where children are most likely to risk their lives on the line...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Murder victim's funeral under way
The funeral of the 22-year-old man shot dead in Londonderry on Tuesday is taking place at St Eugene's Cathedral...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
In pictures
Stars turn out for Mandela birthday concert...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Murray ready for clash with Haas
British number one Andy Murray seeks a place in the second week of Wimbledon as he takes on German Tommy Haas on Saturday...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
All together now
Two former democratic rivals seek unity in Unity...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Beijing Olympic Bird's Nest ready
The main venue for Beijing's Olympic Games - the "Bird's Nest" stadium - is complete and fully operational, say officials...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Live - England v New Zealand
England restrict New Zealand to 55-2 after 15 overs in the final one-day international at Lord's...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan after his patrol vehicle rolled over, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Zimbabwe poll new low, says Brown
Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the decision to go ahead with the presidential election in Zimbabwe is a "new low"...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Inquiry after child's pub death
Council officials launch an inquiry after a child died of malnutrition and in squalor at a South Yorkshire pub...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Alexander quits as Labour leader
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander stands down after breaking parliament rules on donations...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Vatican paper Pope Benedict XVI doesnt wear Prada
The devil may wear Prada _ but the pope does not...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Plains storms kill 2, disrupt Olympic hopefuls
Severe storms with strong winds swept through the Plains on Friday, forcing swimmers practicing for U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha to flee pools and run for cover, killing two people in Iowa, and knocking out power to thousands...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Calif. man gets prison for burning Burning Man
A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy of the counterculture Burning Man festival...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Bush gets bill to end blocks to Mandela
Congress sent President Bush a bill on Friday that once signed into law will allow Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
NY policeman charged after woman body-slammed
A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
NRA sues to overturn S.F. gun ban in city housing
The National Rifle Association is suing the city of San Francisco to overturn its handgun ban in public housing...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rangers hold on to beat slumping Phillies, 8-7
Milton Bradley hit the tiebreaking home run, Chris Davis homered in his first major league start and the Texas Rangers beat the slumping Philadelphia Phillies 8-7 on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Newcomers revive mens fashion in Paris
A trio of newcomers breathed new life into Paris menswear on Friday, with displays that ran the gamut from sober minimalism to Gothic excess...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Statler Brothers Country Hall of Fame honor tops
Brothers Harold and Don Reid of the country and gospel group the Statler Brothers are coming clean about which career award meant the most...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Report Uma Thurman engaged to financier
Uma Thurman is apparently engaged.The "Kill Bill" and "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" actress will marry financier Arpad "Arki" Busson, according to a report Friday in the New York Daily News. Stephen Huvane, the publicist for Thurman, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages from The Associated Press on Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Steven Tyler tells AP Rehab was for meds
Steven Tyler sought the "safe environment" of rehab last month to recover from more than just surgery _ the Aerosmith frontman now says was fighting a dependency on pain and sleep medication...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal for Democratic unity in N.H.
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a display of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCain talks trade, innovation with auto workers
Republican John McCain on Friday told autoworkers in an economically depressed area of Ohio that he supports free-trade agreements many of them feel cost jobs, but also government investment to help produce the electric cars of the future...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal together for Dem unity
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a show of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Obama, Clinton appeal together for party unity
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton made a show of unity Friday in a hamlet named for it, their first joint public appearance since the divisive Democratic primary race ended...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Park, Dodgers beat Angels 6-0
Chan Ho Park shut out the Angels over his six innings, Andre Ethier hit a three-run homer and the Dodgers beat the Angels 6-3 on Friday night...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Washburn beats Pads for first win in 8 starts
Jarrod Washburn won for the first time in eight starts and the Seattle Mariners beat Randy Wolf and the San Diego Padres 5-2 Friday night despite stranding a franchise-record 18 baserunners...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Judge halts release of Verne Troyer sex tape
A 25-second snippet of video showing Verne Troyer and a former girlfriend having sex that was available online over the past couple of days is all the world will see of the tape _ for now...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Verne Troyer sues over sex tape
Verne Troyer has sued TMZ and a pornography distributor, seeking the return of a sex tape he says was stolen and more than $20 million in damages...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stimulus payments send after-tax incomes soaring
Millions of economic stimulus payments sent after-tax incomes surging in May by the largest amount since a similar recession-fighting effort by Gerald Ford 33 years ago...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Who are those oil speculators, anyway? Maybe you
All those speculators getting the blame for driving up the price of oil these days _ just who are they? For part of the answer, look in the mirror...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wall Street pares losses in volatile trading
Wall Street pared its losses late Friday as the approaching end of the quarter had investors picking up stocks to close out their portfolios _ the practice widely known as window dressing...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wall Street extends losses on oil, credit worries
Wall Street pared its losses late Friday as the approaching end of the quarter had investors picking up stocks to close out their portfolios _ the practice widely known as window dressing...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Stocks mostly lower again after big drop
Stocks slid again Friday after their sharp dive in the previous session, with investors anxious about a new oil price record and dubious that personal income and spending will remain resilient...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Rookie Carpentier wins pole at New Hampshire
Rookie Patrick Carpentier grabbed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup pole Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Troyer sex tape shut down, for now
Verne Troyer successfully shut down the distribution of a sex tape featuring the "Austin Powers" actor and a former girlfriend _ for now...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Palestinian militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, threatening to unravel a cease-fire days after it began, and Israel responded by closing vital border crossings into Gaza...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Hundreds of homes in the scenic community of Big Sur were threatened by a wildfire that already had burned 16 residences and was just 3 percent contained Wednesday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Big Sur under threat as Calif. fire edges closer
Flames from a huge wildfire burning through a national forest inched toward the scenic tourist town of Big Sur, where firefighters rushed Thursday to protect historic structures and hundreds of homes...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
UN conference wont ban toxic waste exports
Delegates at a U.N. conference decided against banning toxic waste exports, instead encouraging countries Friday to take their own action to address the steady stream of dangerous chemicals and old electronics that litter the landfills of poor nations...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Voters led to polls in Zimbabwe 1-candidate runoff
Marshals led voters to polling stations and bands of government supporters harassed people in the street Friday as Zimbabwe held an internationally discredited, one-candidate presidential runoff marked by intimidation...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
North Korea welcomes US lifting of sanctions
North Korea says it welcomes U.S. moves to lift sanctions...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Analysis Obama, Clinton begin unity campaign
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stood side by side in this tiny New England outpost to provide the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Colombian president Uribe seeks election redo
President Alvaro Uribe has thrown Colombia into political turmoil after a Supreme Court decision questioned the legitimacy of his 2006 re-election, asking that voters have an opportunity to redo the vote...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Crowd sees Pakistan militants kill 2 alleged spies
A gang of Pakistani militants executed two alleged U.S. spies in front of thousands of cheering supporters Friday as a top U.N. official expressed fears that Pakistani government peace deals with the gunmen were sparking a wave of human rights abuses...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Tens of thousands burn flags to protest in Kashmir
Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators filled the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, burning flags and effigies of Indian leaders on the fifth day of protests against the transfer of land to a Hindu shrine in the Muslim-majority region...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Indonesian air force plane crashes with 18 onboard
Rescuers spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian military plane that crashed into a jungle-clad mountain with 18 people on board, including three foreigners, but were unable to reach the site Friday, the deputy chief of the air force said...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Wiesenthal Center scolds Germans over Nazi hunt
The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized German judicial authorities in Baden-Baden on Friday, accusing them of obstructing the hunt for former Nazi SS doctor Aribert Heim...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Widespread intimidation seen in Zimbabwe vote
Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election Friday in which President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate, ensuring he will remain in power despite international condemnation of the balloting as a sham...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Mexico cheers US aid against drug war
Victor de la Paz was riding back from school on a January evening with a friend, just three blocks from home, when uniformed men emerged from the darkness and motioned for them to stop...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Hanoi Hilton jailer says hed vote for McCain
John McCain has an unusual endorsement _ from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Kashmiri Muslims protest over Hindu shrine plans
Thousands of Muslims angry over plans to expand a Hindu shrine clashed with police in Kashmir on Friday in some of the largest protests in two decades against Indian rule...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Crowd watches Pakistan militants kill 2 Afghans
A gang of Pakistani militants executed two Afghan prisoners in front of thousands of cheering supporters Friday, beheading one man and shooting the other after accusing them of aiding a U.S. missile strike...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
US Arrest made following attack in Karmah, Iraq
A member of an extremist cell believed to be behind a suicide attack that killed more than 20 people including three U.S. Marines has been arrested, the U.S. military said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Guantanamo detainees made to feel like nomads
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into "nomads" to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
At least 17 killed as Niger troops, rebels clash
Government troops clashed with ethnic Tuareg rebels in the northwest African nation of Niger Friday, leaving at least 17 people dead, according to statements by both sides...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Mexicans protest border fence with trees
The first of 400,000 trees are being planted to form a "green wall" in protest of the fence the U.S. is building along the border with Mexico...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Mexico welcomes approval of US drug aid
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday welcomed U.S. congressional approval of a US$400 million anti-drug aid package that drops restrictive conditions he had opposed...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Regional bank announces $10 billion fund
A new regional development bank for South America announced an initial capital fund of US$10 billion, with the possibility of climbing as high as US$20 billion, after a meeting of the seven member states on Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Murder charge for brother whose sister shed scarf
The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described as a family dispute over a Muslim head scarf was charged with murder, becoming the second family member accused in her death, police said Friday...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Venezuela will not raise gas prices
President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela has no plans to raise state-subsidized gasoline prices anytime soon...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Strong 6.1 quake sways Tonga no damage
Officials say a strong earthquake in the South Pacific has shaken homes and other buildings in Tonga, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
Correction Picasso show in Abu Dhabi
In a May 27 story on a Picasso retrospective opening in Abu Dhabi, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the organizer. It was the Picasso Museum in Paris, not the Reina Sofia art museum. The story also erroneously reported that local sponsors contributed some works. The Picasso Museum contributed all the works that appeared in the show...
Southern Ledger - June 28, 2008
McCartney sisters in justice vow
The sisters of murder victim Robert McCartney say their fight for justice will go on after a man is acquitted of the killing...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Tourism turn-off?
China readies for Olympics but tourist numbers drop...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
Fuelling anger
Petrol congress faces Spanish eco-protests...
BBC News - June 28, 2008
How to p-p-p-pick out a penguin from thousands of others
The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical penguins has been solved, scientists report...
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