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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 29, 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 29, 2008
Inundated towns along river ponder their futures
Once the Mississippi River starts to recede this week from another great flood, the tiny river towns that dot its banks in Missouri and Illinois will once again face the question: return and rebuild, or relocate?...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
West Point cadets practice by barking at civilians
Fresh-faced cadet candidates arrive Monday for buzz cuts, measurements for gray uniforms and a crash course in toeing the line, West Point style...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Commuter colleges go residential, gain enrollment
The neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Perry wins Buick Open at 19-under, shot ahead of 2
Kenny Perry joined a short list of multiple champions at the 50th Buick Open...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Perry wins Buick Open
Kenny Perry joined a short list of multiple champions at the 50th Buick Open...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Models death after NYC apartment fall was suicide
The death of a fashion model who plunged from the ninth floor of a Manhattan building has been ruled a suicide...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Winehouse strikes back at Glastonbury reveler
Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival. After taking the stage Saturday, the troubled singer climbed down into the pit and scuffled briefly with a reveler...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Heppner trying on Siegfried in Aix-en-Provence
When tenor Ben Heppner wanted to try the grueling role of Tristan for the first time back in 1997, he chose a spot that he described as "off the beaten path."...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
SAG leader calls strike talk a distraction
The leader of the Screen Actors Guild said Sunday the union remains committed to negotiating a new deal with Hollywood producers as contract expiration looms and is not calling for a strike...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Japanese game shows coming to America
A grown man wearing a diaper is spun around until he can barely stand, then is made to try an obstacle course carrying pitchers of milk without spilling any. Another man, dressed like an insect, flings himself onto a giant-sized "windshield" with a giant-sized "splat."...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 2008
Lackey, Angels beat Dodgers 1-0
John Lackey held the Dodgers to three hits for 8 2-3 innings, Francisco Rodriguez retired James Loney with the bases loaded for the final out and the Angels beat the Dodgers 1-0 Sunday...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Ichiro goes 5-for-5 in Mariners win
Ichiro Suzuki went 5-for-5 to tie his career-high, Adrian Beltre and Jeff Clement homered and the Seattle Mariners beat Jake Peavy and the punchless San Diego Padres 9-2 on Sunday for a three-game sweep...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Aurilia drives in 5 runs in Giants 11-1 rout
Rich Aurilia homered and matched his career-high with five RBIs to help the San Francisco Giants beat the Oakland Athletics 11-1 on Sunday for their first series win in the Bay Area rivalry in two years...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Reports Model dies in apparent suicide dive in NY
A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Newspapers, reeling from slumping ads, slash jobs
Even for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe retrenchments in recent memory last week...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Falling pound squeezes retired British expats
Margaret Ditchburn never used to mind the prices at her favorite French-style bistro in this sun-baked seaside resort popular with retired British expatriates...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Wall Street to begin July on shaky ground
The year is nearly halfway over, and Wall Street appears to be on even shakier ground than when it began 2008. And this shortened week ahead of the Fourth of July holiday is unlikely to bring the market enough proof that the economic climate is improving...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Obama gets in works out, hair cut, hoops
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a break from campaigning Sunday, but still had a busy day...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Pakistani forces take control of area in Khyber
Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Israeli Cabinet approves Hezbollah prisoner deal
A senior government official says the Israeli Cabinet has overwhelmingly agreed to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two captured soldiers...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israeli govt to decide soldiers-prisoner swap deal
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday declared two soldiers held by Lebanese militants to be dead and urged his Cabinet to vote for a deal to swap their bodies for a notorious Lebanese prisoner...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
G-8 protestors clash with police in Tokyo
Protesters clashed with police in Tokyo Sunday during demonstrations against an upcoming summit of leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israel reopens Gaza border crossings
Israel reopened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday to allow a trickle of goods into the territory, putting a rocky cease-fire back on course after Palestinian rocket attacks last week led to a closure of the passages...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Gay activists march in Indias gay pride parade
Men wore sparkling saris, women wore rainbow boas and hundreds of people chanted for gay rights in three Indian cities Sunday in the largest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country where homosexual acts are illegal...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Researchers recreate pre-Columbian sounds
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Pakistan presses on with offensive vs. militants
Pakistani paramilitary forces destroyed a handful of militant centers and uncovered alleged torture cells as they pressed ahead Sunday with an offensive against extremists near the Afghan border, officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
UN official Afghan civilian deaths up 60 percent
A senior U.N. official says the number of civilians killed in fighting in Afghanistan has soared by nearly two-thirds...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwes Mugabe sworn in after discredited vote
President Robert Mugabe has been sworn in for a sixth term, just hours after electoral officials said he won a discredited runoff...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwe officials Mugabe won in main cities
Zimbabwe electoral officials say President Robert Mugabe won in the main cities in an election that has been widely denounced...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Mens Paris fashions blur gender boundaries
The French menswear collections ended on Sunday in a sea of sequins, silk and all things pink, challenging the adage that boys will be boys...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
South Korea bans rallies against US beef imports
South Korean police refused Sunday to allow more candlelight protests against the resumption of American beef imports, just hours after thousands of demonstrators clashed with riot police in the streets of the capital...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Winehouse strikes back at Glastonbury fan
Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Shipping woes cut Chinese fireworks exports
Chen Tiezhong will likely spend the Fourth of July worrying about the future of his sprawling fireworks factory. China, where fireworks were invented, is running short of ports from which to ship the dangerous cargoes abroad...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwes Mugabe promises talks with opposition
President Robert Mugabe says he promises "serious talks" with the opposition...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
State TV Near-complete results show Mugabe won
Zimbabwean electoral officials say near-complete results give President Robert Mugabe victory in an election that has been widely denounced...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Truck bomb kills 7 people north of Baghdad
A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
40 policemen missing after rebel attack
Forty police officers were feared drowned in eastern India on Sunday after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat, capsizing it in a rushing river, a local official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Iraqi guards kill female suicide bomber
Iraqi guards opened fire on a female suicide bomber on Sunday and triggered her explosives belt before she reached their headquarters, foiling the latest of more than 20 suicide missions by women this year, military officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Correction Iraq-Inside the Walls story
In a June 27 story about security walls in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a military spokesman, Maj. Frank Garcia, cited the "significant effect" of a wall in the Baghdad district of Azamiyah. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Stover, says Garcia was referring to Amariyah, another mostly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad. Both neighborhoods have walls...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
16 adults, kids wounded at French shooting demo
French officials say 16 adults and children have been wounded at a military shooting demonstration when they were struck by real bullets instead of blanks...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
A look at Israeli-Lebanese prisoner swaps
A look at Israeli-Lebanese prisoner swaps:_ 2008: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares two soldiers captured by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in 2006 to be dead. Cabinet approves deal to exchange Lebanese prisoner for bodies of the two soldiers and information on missing Israeli airman...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Call to rethink child BMI testing
Using a child's body mass index (BMI) as a measure of the success of exercise targets may be misleading, say experts...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Zambian president ill in hospital
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is rushed to hospital with chest pains in the Egyptian resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Information act could be widened
Freedom of information laws could be extended to cover private prisons and housing associations, it is revealed...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
In pictures
The Euro 2008 final as it happened...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Iraq to sue oil-for-food suspects
The Iraqi government says it will sue firms and people suspected of corruption in the UN's oil-for-food programme...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Sex diseases 'double in over-45s'
Sexually-transmitted infections double in under a decade in older people, research suggests...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Spain win Euro 2008
Spain claim their first major title for 44 years after winning Euro 2008 with 1-0 triumph over Germany in Vienna...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
NHS overhaul plans to be laid out
Health minister Lord Darzi is set to announce his plans for the next 10 years of the NHS in England...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
French shooting show injures 16
A military shooting demonstration in France leaves 16 people wounded, after real bullets are used instead of blanks...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Observers denounce Zimbabwe vote
Southern African election observers say Zimbabwe's presidential poll did not reflect the will of the country's people...
BBC News - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages
Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Reports Model dies in apparent suicide dive in NY
A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
West Point cadets practice by barking at civilians
Fresh-faced cadet candidates arrive Monday for buzz cuts, measurements for gray uniforms and a crash course in toeing the line, West Point style...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Commuter colleges go residential, gain enrollment
The neighborhood around Georgia State University was for years a maze of boarded up storefronts, aging buildings and parking lots that emptied at the close of each day...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Fla. vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages
Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 2008
Silva breaks nine-game losing streak
Carlos Silva won for the first time in 13 starts spanning nearly 2 1/2 months and the Seattle Mariners beat former teammate Cha Seung Baek and the San Diego Padres 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Bays home run gives Pirates victory
Jason Bay homered with two outs in the 13th inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Reports Model dies in apparent NYC suicide dive
A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Hundreds injured in South Korea beef protests
Protesters fought riot police early Sunday at a rally opposing the resumption of American beef imports to South Korea, hours after the chief U.S. diplomat vouched for the health of U.S. cattle...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan
NATO says an explosion in southern Afghanistan has killed one of its soldiers...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Malaysias Anwar accused of sodomy
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 29, 2008
Guantanamos days numbered, tough choices ahead
This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks _ and it may soon become one again...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
G-8 protestors clash with police in Tokyo
Protesters clashed with police in Tokyo Sunday during demonstrations against an upcoming summit of leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israel reopens Gaza border crossings
Israel reopened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday to allow a trickle of goods into the territory, putting a rocky cease-fire back on course after Palestinian rocket attacks last week led to a closure of the passages...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Pakistani forces take control of area in Khyber
Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Pakistan presses on with offensive vs. militants
Pakistani paramilitary forces destroyed a handful of militant centers and uncovered alleged torture cells as they pressed ahead Sunday with an offensive against extremists near the Afghan border, officials said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
UN official Afghan civilian deaths up 60 percent
A senior U.N. official says the number of civilians killed in fighting in Afghanistan has soared by nearly two-thirds...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwes Mugabe sworn in after discredited vote
President Robert Mugabe has been sworn in for a sixth term, just hours after electoral officials said he won a discredited runoff...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwe officials Mugabe won in main cities
Zimbabwe electoral officials say President Robert Mugabe won in the main cities in an election that has been widely denounced...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israeli Cabinet approves Hezbollah prisoner deal
A senior government official says the Israeli Cabinet has overwhelmingly agreed to swap a notorious Lebanese prisoner for the bodies of two captured soldiers...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israeli govt to decide soldiers-prisoner swap deal
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday declared two soldiers held by Lebanese militants to be dead and urged his Cabinet to vote for a deal to swap their bodies for a notorious Lebanese prisoner...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
40 Indian police missing in rebel attack
A local official says 40 police officers are feared drowned in eastern India after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Olmert Captive Israeli soldiers in Lebanon dead
An Israeli official says Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told his Cabinet that two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas two years ago are dead...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Truck bomb kills 7 people north in Iraq
A truck bomb detonated by remote control killed seven people on Sunday, including six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who turned against the insurgents, police said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Shipping woes cut Chinese fireworks exports
Chen Tiezhong will likely spend the Fourth of July worrying about the future of his sprawling fireworks factory. China, where fireworks were invented, is running short of ports from which to ship the dangerous cargoes abroad...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Zimbabwes Mugabe promises talks with opposition
President Robert Mugabe says he promises "serious talks" with the opposition...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Gay activists march in Indias gay pride parade
Men wore sparkling saris, women wore rainbow boas and hundreds of people chanted for gay rights in three Indian cities Sunday in the largest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country where homosexual acts are illegal...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Researchers recreate pre-Columbian sounds
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
A look at Israeli-Lebanese prisoner swaps
A look at Israeli-Lebanese prisoner swaps:_ 2008: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares two soldiers captured by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in 2006 to be dead. Cabinet approves deal to exchange Lebanese prisoner for bodies of the two soldiers and information on missing Israeli airman...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
State TV Near-complete results show Mugabe won
Zimbabwean electoral officials say near-complete results give President Robert Mugabe victory in an election that has been widely denounced...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Truck bomb kills 7 people north of Baghdad
A truck bomb detonated by remote control north of Baghdad killed six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who have turned against the insurgents, police said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
40 policemen missing after rebel attack
Forty police officers were feared drowned in eastern India on Sunday after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat, capsizing it in a rushing river, a local official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israel opens Gaza crossing point
Israel reopens a key commercial crossing point to the Gaza Strip because of a lull in cross-border attacks...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Hindus will not get Kashmir land
The government of Indian-administered Kashmir revokes a decision to transfer land to Hindu pilgrims after protests by Muslims...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Jamieson mulls Labour leader role
Scottish Labour deputy leader Cathy Jamieson said she was considering running for the leadership vacancy...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Worries raised over GP shortages
Concern is again raised over who will replace a generation of family doctors in the south Wales Valleys...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Dissidents 'have little support'
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says dissident republicans have little or no support and should pursue peace...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Open secret
The best cafe for spotting a Balkan war-crimes suspect...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Rivals at war
Panorama follows young gun-toting gang members...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Bishop ordains his wife in cathedral service
The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, ordains his wife at Manchester Cathedral...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Germany and Spain prepare for Euro 2008 final
Less than two hours to go in Vienna and Germany captain Michael Ballack is set to start in the final of Euro 2008 against Spain...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Murray aims to break new ground
Britain's Andy Murray aims to reach his first Wimbledon quarter-final when he takes on eighth seed Richard Gasquet on Monday...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Missing terror suspect arrested
A 24-year-old suspected terrorist who breached his bail and went on the run three days ago is detained in London...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
No action over Winehouse 'punch'
Police say they have not received any complaints after Amy Winehouse appeared to lash out at a fan at Glastonbury...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Mugabe is sworn in for sixth term
Robert Mugabe is sworn in as Zimbabwe president after being declared the winner of a run-off vote in which he ran unopposed...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Labour donor says Brown must go
A leading businessman who has donated thousands of pounds to Labour tells the BBC the party is doomed under Gordon Brown...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Student stabbed to death in row
A school student dies hours after being stabbed in north London, the 17th teenager killed in the capital this year...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Israel approves prisoner exchange
Israel's cabinet backs a controversial prisoner swap with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah...
BBC News - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Vandals tag 60 cars with anti-Obama messages
Vandals have spray-painted 60 city vehicles in Orlando, Fla., some with messages against Sen. Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Chinese investor pays $2.1M to eat with Buffett
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
SF gay pride festivities inspire wedding march
Move over Dykes on Bikes. Here come the brides _ and grooms...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Pole-sitter Kanaan gets victory at Richmond
Pole-sitter Tony Kanaan took advantage of an out-of-sequence pit stop by front-running teammate Marco Andretti on Saturday night and ran away with the SunTrust Indy Challenge for his first victory of the season...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Reports Model dies in apparent suicide dive in NY
A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Silva breaks nine-game losing streak
Carlos Silva won for the first time in 13 starts spanning nearly 2 1/2 months and the Seattle Mariners beat former teammate Cha Seung Baek and the San Diego Padres 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Bays home run gives Pirates victory
Jason Bay homered with two outs in the 13th inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Lincecum outpitches Duchscherer to lead Giants
Tim Lincecum pitched the San Francisco Giants out of their funk against Oakland...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Bush praises faith-based groups for helping needy
President Bush said Saturday that religious charities, partly financed with federal money, have helped reduce homelessness, found jobs for former inmates and helped combat malaria and HIV/AIDS overseas...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Guantanamos days numbered, tough choices ahead
This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks _ and it may soon become one again...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Pakistani forces take control of area in Khyber
Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had been forced to abandon and Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants operating in a volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Hundreds injured in South Korea beef protests
Protesters fought riot police early Sunday at a rally opposing the resumption of American beef imports to South Korea, hours after the chief U.S. diplomat vouched for the health of U.S. cattle...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan
NATO says an explosion in southern Afghanistan has killed one of its soldiers...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Malaysias Anwar accused of sodomy
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 29, 2008
Truck bomb kills 7 in Iraq
Police say a truck bomb has killed seven people in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Military 43 killed in Sri Lanka clashes
New fighting in northern Sri Lanka has killed 41 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers, the military said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
G-8 protestors clash with police in Tokyo
Protesters clashed with police in Tokyo Sunday during demonstrations against an upcoming summit of leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israel reopens Gaza border crossings
Israel reopened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday to allow a trickle of goods into the territory, putting a rocky cease-fire back on course after Palestinian rocket attacks last week led to a closure of the passages...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
40 policemen missing after rebel attack
Forty police officers were feared drowned in eastern India on Sunday after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat, capsizing it in a rushing river, a local official said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
40 Indian police missing in rebel attack
A local official says 40 police officers are feared drowned in eastern India after a group of suspected communist rebels attacked a police boat...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Olmert Captive Israeli soldiers in Lebanon dead
An Israeli official says Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told his Cabinet that two soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas two years ago are dead...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Truck bomb kills 7 people north in Iraq
A truck bomb detonated by remote control killed seven people on Sunday, including six policemen and a member of a local group of Sunni volunteers who turned against the insurgents, police said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
11 killed in Philippine clashes
Communist guerrillas attacked a police station and burned a cellular phone transmission tower in the southern Philippines, sparking clashes with government forces that killed at least 11 people, an army official said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Israel to reopen Gaza crossings
Israel says it will reopen commercial crossing points to the Gaza Strip because of a lull in cross-border attacks...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Malaysia's Anwar seeks sanctuary
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks refuge in the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur, after receiving threats...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Fires at houses after power surge
Two people are injured after a power surge in Coatbridge is thought to have caused a number of small house fires...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Compensation demanded over drug
A widow wants compensation from the makers of a drug used by her husband but the firm say no UK case has been made...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Teen critical after road accident
An 18-year-old man is critically ill in hospital following a road accident near Dundrod in County Antrim...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Afghanistan crash victim named
A British soldier killed in Afghanistan when a patrol vehicle overturned on Friday is named by the Ministry of Defence...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Weird science
Can the excitement it used to spark be recaptured?...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Man sells his 'entire life' on eBay for £192,000
Man sells his 'entire life' on eBay for £192,000...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Anglican conservatives form group
Conservative Anglican leaders are to create a new global alliance to combat liberal trends in the Church...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Livingstone 'doesn't blame Brown'
Ken Livingstone refuses to blame Gordon Brown for losing London and tells of his fascination with new mayor Boris Johnson...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Rape investigation team name man
Police searching for a sex attacker who has struck twice in West Yorkshire name a man they want to question...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Drug approval for NHS to speed up
The government is to set out plans to speed up the approval of drugs for use in the NHS and end the so-called "postcode lottery"...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Soldier dies in Afghan mine blast
A British soldier is killed by stepping on a mine in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Youth killed in street stabbing
A teenager dies in hospital hours after being stabbed in central London, the Metropolitan Police say...
BBC News - June 29, 2008
Mugabe claims 'sweeping victory'
Robert Mugabe says he is heading for a "sweeping victory" in the unopposed run-off vote to choose Zimbabwe's president...
BBC News - June 29, 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 29, 2008
SC teen struck, killed by Six Flags coaster in Ga.
A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped a pair of fences and entered a restricted area Saturday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Silva breaks nine-game losing streak
Carlos Silva won for the first time in 13 starts spanning nearly 2 1/2 months and the Seattle Mariners beat former teammate Cha Seung Baek and the San Diego Padres 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Lincecum outpitches Duchscherer to lead Giants
Tim Lincecum pitched the San Francisco Giants out of their funk against Oakland...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Pole-sitter Kanaan gets victory at Richmond
Pole-sitter Tony Kanaan took advantage of an out-of-sequence pit stop by front-running teammate Marco Andretti on Saturday night and ran away with the SunTrust Indy Challenge for his first victory of the season...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Utley, Howard homer in Philly win at Texas
Chase Utley and Ryan Howard hit 400-foot homers in the third inning and the Philadelphia Phillies held on for an 8-6 victory over the Texas Rangers on a rainy Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Bays home run gives Pirates victory
Jason Bay homered with two outs in the 13th inning to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
Chinese investor pays $2.1M to eat with Buffett
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008
Rocket hits Israel, second violation of Gaza truce
Gaza militants fired a rocket into southern Israel on Thursday, causing no injuries but undermining a shaky, week-old truce meant to halt a violent cycle of attacks and harsh Israeli reprisals...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 2008
SF gay pride festivities inspire wedding march
Move over Dykes on Bikes. Here come the brides _ and grooms...
Southern Ledger - June 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 2008