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Obama, McCain pledge to work together for reform
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Suri Cruise tops Forbes.com list of Hottest Tots
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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The New Frugality Americans return to thriftiness
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Archaeologists New evidence for Herods tomb site
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Mammoth task Scientists map DNA of ancient beast
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Malkovich to film documentary about migrants
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork
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Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight
When Pamela Brown got married, the two bride figurines atop her wedding cake celebrated her newfound right in California to marry another woman. But one of the figurines had a tiny sign over its head with something more to say: "Vote No on 8."...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Anthrax suspect obsessed with sorority
The top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Officials Sorority obsession seen in anthrax case
Authorities say the top suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks was obsessed with a sorority that sat less than 100 yards away from a New Jersey mailbox where the toxin-laced letters were sent...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
The gangs back Werewolves, vampires and all
"Breaking Dawn" (Little, Brown and Company, 754 pages, $22.99) by Stephanie Meyer: The heartbreakingly beautiful vampires, loyal werewolves and emotionally torn humans are back for one last round in "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and last installment in the fanatically loved "Twilight Saga" series...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Morgan Freeman seriously injured in car crash
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition Monday after the car he was driving left a rural road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
7 more Philly workers suspended in teens death
Seven city human resources administrators were suspended Monday, exactly two years after the emaciated, maggot-infested body of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was found in the squalid home of her mother, who has been charged with murder...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs limited drilling, tapping oil reserve
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Michelle Obama describes duty as mother-in-chief
Forget the pearls. Michelle Obama says her best accessory is her husband...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama backs some drilling, tapping oil stockpile
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles
Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers kill 16 police at Chinese border post
Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, killing 16 officers in a restive Chinese province bordering Central Asia, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers
Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton I never made a racist comment
Former President Clinton concedes some lingering bitterness over the Democratic presidential campaign while asserting he "never made a racist comment" about Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
China will start to monitor new pollutants
China will begin monitoring additional air pollutants after the Olympic Games, a state news agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Afghan, NATO forces kill 17 Taliban in south
Afghan and NATO troops targeted a group of Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 militants and wounding six others, the Defense Ministry said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Italy soldiers deployed to fight street crime
The Defense Ministry says hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bush to face protesters during South Korea visit
President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Iraq violence kills 11, including 2 US soldiers
Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers and at least nine Iraqis Monday in Baghdad and surrounding areas, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Solzhenitsyn death leaves complex legacy in Russia
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Putin could have seemed like natural enemies _ a writer plagued by the secret police and a president who started his career with the KGB...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Gaza clansmen exiled as Hamas grabs Fatah bastion
Hamas claimed Monday to have "uprooted" the last major pocket of armed resistance to its 14-month rule in the Gaza Strip, saying it seized mortars, grenade launchers and other weapons from a once powerful clan allied with the rival Fatah movement...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Huge new US embassy reflects growing US-China ties
A massive new U.S. Embassy, the second-largest in the world after the heavily fortified compound in Baghdad, formally opens in the Chinese capital this week, a testament to the depth and breadth of the ties binding the trading partners and sometimes rivals...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Iran tests new weapon for use at sea
Iran announced Monday that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Alleged Greek cleaver killer in critical condition
A 31-year-old Greek man accused of beheading his girlfriend with a cleaver is in critical condition after being shot by police, Health Ministry officials said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Dutch survivor of K2 avalanche describes ordeal
Blinded by the glare off the snow and ice, attempting a perilous descent down K2 to save his life, the Dutch mountaineer came upon three Korean climbers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Roadside bomb kills 2 US soldiers in Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
At least 10 dead in violent Honduran land dispute
Hundreds of Honduran squatters angry over a long-standing land dispute attacked the home of a local police official, killing 10 members of his family, authorities said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Putin calls for restoring position in Cuba
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for Russia to regain its influential position in former Cold War ally Cuba, Russian news reports said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clampdown plan on rogue employers
The government launches a helpline to report mistreatment of workers or illegal pay rates as it clamps down on rogue employers...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Clinton addresses Aids conference
Former US President Bill Clinton warns that the battle against HIV/Aids is far from over, in a speech to Mexico conference...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Man held over Sinn Fein assault
A 21-year-old man is arrested in connection with an assault on two Sinn Fein members in Ballymena...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Alert as snake escapes from home
People are urged to keep their doors and windows shut after a boa constrictor escaped from a home...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Divine reflections
Four Anglicans review the Lambeth Conference...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Titanic metaphor
Prescott comes to support of the prime minister...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Day in pictures
The most striking images from around the world...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Van Nistelrooy quits Dutch set-up
Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy announces his retirement from international football at the age of 32...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
German police fight back with 'bullet-proof bras'
Germany introduces a "bullet-proof" bra to protect thousands of women police officers across the country...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Spy plane intelligence 'lacking'
Military drones are not being used effectively because of a lack of skilled personnel, MPs have warned...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Disputed test results coming out
The primary Sats test results for England are to be published - with 460 schools still waiting for their marks...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
McCann DNA sample 'inconclusive'
The DNA sample cited by Portuguese police as grounds for suspecting the McCanns in the disappearance of Madeleine was 'not unique to her'...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Northern Rock makes a £500m loss
Northern Rock is set to announce a loss of £500m but is paying off the government faster-than expected...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Bin Laden driver trial jury out
A military jury retires to consider its verdict on Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver, in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Dad charged in girl abduction going back to Mass.
A father accused of abducting his 7-year-old daughter agreed Monday to be taken back to Massachusetts to face charges there following his weekend arrest in Maryland, where authorities believe he fled to start a new life...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wis. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisc. ambush suspect maybe freaked out, mom says
When he learned police were looking for him, Scott Johnson tried to assure his mother that he would take care of the situation...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Actor Morgan Freeman is injured in car accident
Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a Memphis hospital...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Consumer spending after inflation drops in June
The government says consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wall Street heads for slightly lower open
Wall Street headed for a moderately lower open Monday as investors awaited key government readings on personal income and spending as well as a report on factory orders...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
McCain visiting motorcycle rally, nuke power plant
Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains with a visit to a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fowles keys late run as US women beat Latvia 84-74
Sylvia Fowles scored eight of her 13 points during a late fourth-quarter run to lead the Americans to a 84-74 victory over pesky Latvia on Sunday night in the FIBA Diamond Ball tournament _ a tuneup for the Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Car leasings fall means cost climb for consumers
Just when motorists were starting to adjust to exorbitant gas prices, they face the prospect of much higher costs, fewer choices and a dearth of financing options if they want to lease their next car...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Motorola names Sanjay Jha head of handset division
Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, the chief operating officer of Qualcomm, to head its handset division. The unit is being prepared for a spin-off as a separate public company...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast
Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rising prices beat down consumer spending in June
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Wisconsin shooting suspect was regular at hangout
Scott J. Johnson was a regular at the swimming hangout where he is accused of ambushing a group of young revelers, even showing up a few days before the killings to help people off a rope swing over the Menominee River, teens who knew him said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate
A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV cheered at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton in Africa says nutrition key to AIDS fight
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bill Clinton in Africa looks at fight against AIDS
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Olympic torch arrives in earthquake disaster zone
The Olympic flame will be carried Monday around the track of a stadium that just weeks ago housed thousands of Chinese earthquake victims, as muted celebrations begin in one of the final stages of the global torch relay...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fatah activists from Gaza to be sent to West Bank
Israel says it is sending dozens of Fatah fighters to the West Bank after they fled the Gaza Strip, because the Palestinian fighters face danger if they go back...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV applauded at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton I never made a racist comment
Former President Clinton concedes some lingering bitterness over the Democratic presidential campaign while asserting he "never made a racist comment" about Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
China will start to monitor new pollutants
China will begin monitoring additional air pollutants after the Olympic Games, a state news agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Afghan, NATO forces kill 17 Taliban in south
Afghan and NATO troops targeted a group of Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 militants and wounding six others, the Defense Ministry said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Italy soldiers deployed to fight street crime
The Defense Ministry says hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers kill 16 police at Chinese border post
Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, killing 16 officers in a restive Chinese province bordering Central Asia, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Funerals begin after North India temple stampede
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives _ including his wife and daughter _ were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Iraq violence kills 11, including 2 US soldiers
Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers and at least nine Iraqis Monday in Baghdad and surrounding areas, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Philippine court blocks autonomy deal for Muslims
The Philippine Supreme Court, acting on a petition by Christian politicians, on Monday blocked the signing of a key accord granting an expanded southern homeland to minority Muslims as part of a deal to end decades of bloody Islamic rebellion...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers in western China kill 16 border officers
Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Alleged Greek cleaver killer in critical condition
A 31-year-old Greek man accused of beheading his girlfriend with a cleaver is in critical condition after being shot by police, Health Ministry officials said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Police kill 2 Hindu protesters in Indian Kashmir
Police in Indian Kashmir opened fire Monday at hundreds of stone-throwing Hindu protesters angry over a government decision to not transfer land to a Hindu shrine, killing two people, an official said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Armed robbery surges amid Zimbabwes economic woes
Armed robberies have surged to a record high in the Zimbabwe capital, state radio reported Monday, saying the spike was due to an amnesty that freed dozens of convicted criminals to make space for political prisoners...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Iran tests new weapon for use at sea
Iran announced Monday that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Pupils poised to get exam results
Education correspondent Seonag MacKinnon looks ahead to the exam results which will be issued on Tuesday...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Ancient shark had colossal bite
The great white shark may have awesome jaws but they are nothing compared with those of megalodon, its gigantic, whale-eating ancestor...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Helicopters continue rescue on K2
Helicopters airlift two climbers stranded on the world's second-highest mountain, K2, in north Pakistan...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
'Rogue trader' assistant charged
The assistant to Jerome Kerviel, who Societe Generale blames for losing millions of euros, is charged with complicity...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Child weight letters obesity row
Parents in England will be sent data on their child's weight - but critics say the scheme is "namby pamby" and flawed...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Obama goes on attack over US oil
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama accuses rival John McCain of being a tool of big oil firms, as he sets out a new energy policy...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Hamas 'releases Fatah official'
Hamas says it has released the top representative of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party in Gaza...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Smog obscures Beijing's stadium
Heavy smog shrouds Beijing's main Olympic Stadium, just four days before the Games are due to begin...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Tributes to writer Solzhenitsyn
Tributes are paid to the life of Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Warning sign call over sand death
Rescuers call for warning signs at dunes where a teenager died after a sand tunnel collapsed around him...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Eight more deaths linked to bug
The Clostridium Difficile bug is linked to eight more deaths in hospitals in the Northern Trust area...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Uphill struggle
Poll suggests China has much to do to win over the world...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Police and eco-protesters clash
Officers in riot gear and protestors clash at the Climate Camp near Kingsnorth power station in Kent...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Shape up Gordon
Why a fitter PM may improve his performance...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Boys DO cry
10 things that make the male tear duct well up...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Pietersen named England captain
Kevin Pietersen succeeds Michael Vaughan as England captain...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Bopara replaces Vaughan in England squad
Ravi Bopara is drafted into the England squad for the fourth Test against South Africa, replacing former captain Michael Vaughan...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Jail for 'millionaire shoplifter'
A man who funded his extravagant lifestyle by illegally obtaining refunds, is jailed for more than two years...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
NI parties closer to policing deal
The DUP and Sinn Fein signal they are moving towards a deal on the devolution of policing and justice powers for NI...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
No duck on menu at event marking cricketer's centenary
An unusual lunch is held in Sydney as part of the celebrations marking the centenary Australian cricketer Donald Bradman's birth...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Police review Dando murder case
Police review the unsolved murder of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando after Barry George's acquittal...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Wrapit gift firm ceases trading
Wedding present firm Wrapit ceases trading and goes into administration after rescue attempts fail...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Fritzl could face slavery charge
Slavery may be added to the charges against the Austrian man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Chinese border assault kills 16
Sixteen Chinese policemen are killed in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media say...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Freeman injured in car accident
US actor Morgan Freeman is in a serious condition in hospital after being injured in a car accident in Mississippi...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Man who killed wife banned from pub
A judge tells an OAP that stopping him going to the pub is a "more meaningful" sentence than prison for killing his wife...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Fed likely to hold rates steady amid crosscurrents
An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the country and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the economy...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard gaining speed over Gulf
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another round of tropical weather for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Christina Applegate treated for breast cancer
Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy
The rich are sharing your financial pain _ and contributing to it...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moving toward Texas coast
Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another strong storm for the second time in less than a month...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jobless rate climbs as 51,000 jobs vanish
Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Cusack calls Shanghai unique opportunity
Known for alternating between mainstream Hollywood and independent films, John Cusack says his latest movie "Shanghai" is a rare middle ground between the two genres...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Lightning hits 91 spectators at racetrack
A lightning bolt struck 91 auto racing fans at a racetrack in Norway Sunday, and 45 people were taken to hospital with minor burns, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Abbas denies asylum to supporters from Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday refused to grant West Bank asylum to forces who fled weekend faction fighting in Hamas-ruled Gaza, despite fears for their safety...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
No deal on election bill, bomb kills 12 in Baghdad
Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi leaders failed Sunday to resolve differences over how to govern the oil-rich city of Kirkuk _ a dispute that is blocking provincial elections and stoking tension in the volatile north...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Grass-roots effort in Egypt fights cutting girls
In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton in Africa says nutrition key to AIDS fight
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bill Clinton in Africa looks at fight against AIDS
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Kin search among dead from Indian temple stampede
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Olympic torch arrives in earthquake disaster zone
The Olympic flame will be carried Monday around the track of a stadium that just weeks ago housed thousands of Chinese earthquake victims, as muted celebrations begin in one of the final stages of the global torch relay...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fatah activists from Gaza to be sent to West Bank
Israel says it is sending dozens of Fatah fighters to the West Bank after they fled the Gaza Strip, because the Palestinian fighters face danger if they go back...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV applauded at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV cheered at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
China will start to monitor new pollutants
China will begin monitoring additional air pollutants after the Olympic Games, a state news agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Afghan, NATO forces kill 17 Taliban in south
Afghan and NATO troops targeted a group of Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 militants and wounding six others, the Defense Ministry said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Attackers kill 16 police at Chinese border post
Two men rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then tossed grenades into their barracks Monday, killing 16 officers in a restive Chinese province bordering Central Asia, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Heavy rains batter North Korea, damage crops
Heavy rains that battered North Korea in recent weeks have heavily damaged crops, state media said Monday, dealing a further blow to the impoverished country as it struggles to avert a food crisis...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Sri Lankan fighting kills 40 combatants
Sri Lankan troops repulsed an attempt by Tamil rebels to retake a recently captured guerrilla stronghold in heavy fighting that killed 21 rebels and three soldiers, the military said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
2 US soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad
The U.S. military said two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Monday, while Iraqi officials reported that at least nine Iraqis died in a separate series of bombings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Italy soldiers deployed to fight street crime
The Defense Ministry says hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Heavy rains hit North Korea
Heavy rains that battered North Korea in recent weeks have heavily damaged crops, state media said Monday, dealing a further blow to the impoverished country as it struggles to avert a food crisis...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Film censor defends Batman rating
The BBFC justifies giving The Dark Knight a family-friendly certificate after cinema-goers complain about its disturbing content...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Rescue operations continue on K2
Helicopters begin airlifting climbers stranded on the world's second-highest mountain, K2, in north Pakistan, reports say...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
UK manufacturers fearing slowdown
UK manufacturers face rising costs and expect output to fall in the coming months, research from the CBI suggests...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Tories attack school poverty gap
The Conservatives say that the school system in England is failing to close the gap between rich and poorer pupils...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Parents to get child weight data
Children's weight measurements taken at schools in England are set to be sent automatically to their parents...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Court blocks Philippine land deal
The Supreme Court blocks a territorial deal between the Philippine government and Muslim separatists in the south...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Stalin's prison system, dies at the age of 89...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Funeral plan for honeymoon couple
Arrangements are being made for the funerals of a newlywed couple shot during their honeymoon in Antigua...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Man killed in two-car collision
A 20-year-old man dies following a car accident involving two cars near Manorcunningham in County Donegal...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Kenya manhunt for al-Qaeda wanted
A manhunt is under way in Kenya for an al-Qaeda operative wanted for the US embassies attacks after he escaped a police raid...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
The flat-earthers
Is this photo fake? Meet the people who say it is...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Police move 'Climate Camp' vehicles
Police concerned about the lack of safe access at a camp built by climate campaigners remove vehicles...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Dam flood fear sparks evacuation
Residents at several farms in Renfrewshire are evacuated after heavy weekend rain put huge strain on the walls of a reservoir...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Solzhenitsyn's life
Soldier, exile, and one of the greatest Russian writers...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
10 to watch
Britain's top Olympic stars...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
HIV challenge
It's not just big cities that need services...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Israeli airport staff find four-year-old forgotten by her parents
Staff at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel find a small girl alone after her parents accidentally take a plane without her...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
England set to name new captain
Selectors will reveal the new England captain on Monday, with Kevin Pietersen tipped to land both the Test and one-day roles...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Radcliffe confident for marathon
Paula Radcliffe says she will race unless her "leg breaks down" as her battle to run the Olympic marathon continues...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Drug restriction 'hits patients'
Patients claim they have been left in pain following a decision to make it harder to get the drug coproxamol...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Cabinet 'may go to West Midlands'
Gordon Brown will hold his first cabinet meeting after the summer break outside London - most likely in the West Midlands...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson apologises for poison plant error
Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson apologises after recommending use of a poisonous plant in recipes...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Supporters rally for ANC leader
Thousands rally in support of the head of South Africa's ruling ANC, Jacob Zuma, as he tries to get graft charges dropped...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Details have emerged of the software that could take over after Windows has been retired...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Warning as HSBC profits fall 28%
HSBC warns that conditions in financial markets are at their toughest "for decades" after seeing half-year profits fall 28%...
BBC News - August 4, 2008
Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in "grave peril" without a moratorium...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Pope sends greetings to China before Olympics
Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to China on Sunday before the Olympics and said he hoped the Games would offer an example of coexistence among people from different countries...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy
The rich are sharing your financial pain _ and contributing to it...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Chinese boat festival subs for Olympics in NYC
Beijing may have the 2008 Summer Olympics, but New York has the 18th annual dragon boat festival...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jonas Brothers, Gossip Girl score teen awards
"Gossip Girl" has six more reasons to say OMG. And so do the Jonas Brothers...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Christina Applegate treated for breast cancer
Christina Applegate is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, but the disease was caught early and the actress is expected to fully recover, her publicist said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Cusack calls Shanghai unique opportunity
Known for alternating between mainstream Hollywood and independent films, John Cusack says his latest movie "Shanghai" is a rare middle ground between the two genres...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fed likely to hold rates steady amid crosscurrents
An ugly brew of rising unemployment, spiking foreclosures and gyrating energy prices is plaguing the country and making life difficult for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he tries to right the economy...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Tropical Storm Edouard moves toward Texas
The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for the coast of western Louisiana and eastern Texas...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Laird homers twice to power Rangers past Blue Jays
Gerald Laird homered twice and drove in four runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-4 on Sunday night. Laird had his third career multihomer game, second this season, with two-run shots in the fourth and fifth innings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Jobless rate climbs as 51,000 jobs vanish
Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate in four years and adding to the evidence an economic recovery remains far off...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Big Oils biggest quarter ever $51.5B in all
Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Campaigns spar over drilling as leadership issue
The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Braves put Hudson, Jones on DL demote Reyes
Braves right-hander Tim Hudson had an MRI on Monday that showed ligament damage in his pitching elbow, sending the ace to the disabled list and leaving the rest of his season in doubt...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Suicide car bomb kills 3 Iraqi policemen
A suicide car bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the wall of a police station near the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding four, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Netanyahu calls for early Israeli elections
A day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would depart political life, top rival Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel should get rid of its current governing coalition and go straight to early elections...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bobcats, Okafor agree on 6-year deal worth $72M
The Charlotte Bobcats ended a year of uncertainty with top rebounder and shot blocker Emeka Okafor on Tuesday by coming to terms on a six-year, $72 million deal with the restricted free agent...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Chinese grumble about the Olympics, but quietly
From the desktop computer at the foot of his bed, Zhang Heng dares to complain about the Beijing Olympics...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Afghan mothers keep their kids with them in prison
Three-year-old Wahid nervously clutched a dirty blue stuffed bunny, as the other children in the prison huddled around...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Poll McCains attack strategy paying dividends
Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Abbas denies asylum to supporters from Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday refused to grant West Bank asylum to forces who fled weekend faction fighting in Hamas-ruled Gaza, despite fears for their safety...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
No deal on election bill, bomb kills 12 in Baghdad
Despite intense U.S. pressure, Iraqi leaders failed Sunday to resolve differences over how to govern the oil-rich city of Kirkuk _ a dispute that is blocking provincial elections and stoking tension in the volatile north...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Grass-roots effort in Egypt fights cutting girls
In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Stampede kills 145 at remote Hindu temple in India
Police say the death toll in the deadly stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India has risen to 145...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Korean War pilot Were not lily-white
As young pilots they plunged into the smoke and fury of the Korean War in slow, unarmed observer planes, pinpointing targets for the big boys with the bombs. Today, old men, they share their misgivings...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
AP IMPACT Seoul probes civilian massacres by US
South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
New Paraguay leaders first challenge land reform
Just outside the rickety wire fence that guards the rich, red soil of this vast hacienda, dozens of peasants have camped for weeks under a patchwork of thatched shelters and tarpaulin-covered tents...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Al-Qaida Explosives expert wanted by US killed
Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Lightning hits 91 spectators at racetrack
A lightning bolt struck 91 auto racing fans at a racetrack in Norway Sunday, and 45 people were taken to hospital with minor burns, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV applauded at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
12-year-old with HIV cheered at AIDS conference
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus _ and so did she...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Clinton in Africa says nutrition key to AIDS fight
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Bill Clinton in Africa looks at fight against AIDS
Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
5 dead in plane crash on Vancouver Island
A small plane crashed Sunday on northern Vancouver Island, killing five people, but two survivors were rescued after one of them sent a friend text messages giving their location...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Police 40 killed in India as bus goes into river
At least 40 farm laborers were killed and dozens more wounded after the overcrowded truck they were traveling in plunged into a river in northern India, police said Sunday...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,129
As of Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, at least 4,129 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
Fatah activists from Gaza to be sent to West Bank
Israel says it is sending dozens of Fatah fighters to the West Bank after they fled the Gaza Strip, because the Palestinian fighters face danger if they go back...
Southern Ledger - August 4, 2008
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