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December 1

• Rebels launch assault in Ramadi
• First face transplant performed on French woman
• Bush speaks of goals for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, decries calls for timetable
• Hostage standoff in North Reading, Massachusetts ends in tragedy
• First quantum byte created
• Australian drug trafficker to be executed in Singapore tomorrow
• Former UK Law Lord urges de-proscription of Iranian opposition group MEK
• No final embrace for condemned man
• Iraqi rebels seize control of Ramadi's inner city
• Orrin Hatch accidentally compares Iraq to Vietnam
• US Gross Domestic Product grew during third quarter of 2005
• Co-creator of Berenstain Bears dies at 82

December 2

• Arias leads opinion polls in Costa Rica
• Best's body arrives in Northern Ireland
• Australian Senate sits for extra day, passes industrial relations legislation
• Court finds random bag searches in NYC subway constitutional
• Joseph De Veuster voted greatest Belgian
• Search continues for missing plane of George F. Baker III off coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Man charged with Huxley attack
• Federal Opposition hounds Treasurer over appointment to RBA board, Gerard resigns
• Australian Van Nguyen executed in Singapore

December 3

• Thousands demand climate change action
• Compensation funding agreement reached for Australian asbestos victims
• Judge allows student to sue school for revealing sexuality
• Military admits planting news in Iraq
• New prince is born in Norway
• East Timor - Australia problematic billion-dollar gas and oil accord
• Tennessee town mulls 'stop work order' as construction of controversial grain tanks begins

December 4

• Scissors, screwdrivers accepted on US flights beginning December 22
• Blogger attacks Amazon "One-Click" patent
• Business Briefs for December 4, 2005
• World Squash Titles for Shabana and David
• South Dakota tower demolition botched
• Top al-Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan
• Bush's Iraq 'Strategy' seen as public relations exercise

December 5

• H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV visits Pakistan
• New bird flu outbreaks reported in Europe
• UN accuses US of wholesale rights violations in Iraq
• Business Briefs for December 5, 2005

December 6

• Stevie Wonder to perform pre-game show for Superbowl XL
• Lawsuit filed against CIA for the use of torture
• US passes 1000 executions in 30 years
• Kansas Professor assaulted by angry intelligent design supporters
• Witnesses testify in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's trial
• Military plane crash in Iran, at least 100 dead
• Ford pulls ads from gay media facing AFA boycott
• Australian Government passes new terror laws
• Both sides of Kenya's constitution dispute are negotiating
• Former South African official Jacob Zuma charged with rape
• David Cameron elected new UK Conservative Leader

December 7

• Passenger claims to have bomb, killed by air marshals at Miami International Airport
• Business Brief for December 7, 2005
• British schoolgirl told to return home for wearing crucifix
• Microsoft sued due to case of Xbox 360s overheating
• Asylum seeker hunger strike enters seventh week
• South Korean regulators fine Microsoft $32 million
• RepuTex announces Australia and New Zealand's most socially responsible corporations
• Legal Sony graffiti advertising backlash
• US Secretary Rice responds to European enquiries on alleged CIA prisons
• Australian researchers confirm stress makes you sick

December 8

• Haitian Supreme Court rules Simeus eligible
• Southwest Airlines flight skids off runway at Chicago's Midway
• The 2006 Winter Olympics torch reaches Rome
• Council of Europe planning to use satellite images in prisons probe
• Baseball: Nationals get Soriano from Rangers for Wilkerson, Sledge, prospect
• Schwarzenegger heads back to work after feeling ill, being hospitalized
• USA under pressure at climate talks
• Australian government paves way for nuclear waste dump in Northern Territory
• Business Brief for December 8, 2005
• Voluntary student unionism bill passes Australian House of Representatives, enters Senate
• Opposition motions in Australian House of Representatives attempts to bring Government to account on last sitting day of year

December 9

• South Carolina says final goodbyes to former Governor Campbell
• Australian Senate agrees ban on tertiary-sector mandatory student unions
• Virginia dangerous dog law bill ready for Assembly debate
• Iranian president says move Israel to Europe

December 10

• Football: World Cup Draw for 2006
• Interview with Jimbo Wales
• Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65
• Turkish islamic militant claims interrogation and torture by CIA agents
• Pakistan bans kite flying
• Former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy dies
• Mozilla to fix Firefox security hole in patch
• Airplane crashes in Nigeria
• Confidence building reported between Iranian and Israeli citizens
• Muslim youth to guard Christian churches in Indonesia
• Bush threatens U.N. over Clinton climate speech
• Australian activists break into Pine Gap spy facility
• Business Brief for December 10, 2005

December 11

• René Préval leading Haitian election according to opinion poll
• Bus explosion in Pakistan kills at least 40
• Major explosions at UK oil depot
• Author of Wikipedia character assassination takes responsibility
• Xbox 360 not a hit in Japan
• Car entrapped by ice in Halifax
• NYC's transit workers approve strike authorization
• US, UK persuade Russia and China of laptop authenticity
• Hundreds attend "International Peace Conference"

December 12

• Violence at Cronulla Beach as 5000 people gather
• Strong earthquake strikes Afghanistan, no immediate report of damage
• Protesting Chinese villagers killed in confrontation with police
• Californian Governor denies clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams
• Missed field goal gives Dallas important victory
• Tramlink fan site closes news section
• Internet company offers organs from executed Chinese prisoners
• French police detain 20 terror suspects in dawn raid
• Gorillaz Nominated for 5 Grammy Awards
• Indianapolis remains undefeated with win in Jacksonville
• Demonstration in Hong Kong denounces WTO
• Business Brief for December 12, 2005

December 13

• US President Bush says 30,000 civilians killed in Iraq war
• Guantanamo detainee David Hicks seeks UK passport
• Opposition leader jailed in Venezuela
• Business Brief for December 13, 2005
• Fires out at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal
• Mass graves found in Lebanon
• Journalist Gebran Tueni murdered
• New Jersey apartment building collapses after explosion
• Council of Europe rapporteur says CIA abduction claim "credible"
• Haitian provisional government dismisses Supreme Court justices
• Shots fired at Sydney church
• No reprieve for Stanley Williams, Crips street gang founder
• Sydney racial violence continues

December 14

• Racially motivated text messages surface in other states
• US House honors Representative John Dingell
• Wikipedia and Britannica about as accurate in science entries, reports Nature
• Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney not seeking second term
• Siméus responds to the dismissal of Haitian justices
• Israel preparing for attack on alleged Iranian nuclear sites
• Uniting Church at Auburn destroyed by fire
• ALP appoints SLW Group for 2007 election campaign
• CPJ names and shames countries who jail journalists
• Police investigates PAF in Finland
• Technology Brief for December 14, 2005
• Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks gets British citizenship
• Business Brief for December 14, 2005
• Jury convicts Murdoch of outback murder

December 15

• Peru-Chile rivalry erupts into Cyberspace
• British scientists claim 2005 warmest yet in Northern Hemisphere
• Constitutional challenge to secret trials in Australian courts
• White supremacist New Zealanders provoked by Sydney riots
• Mozilla, Internet Explorer adopt universal RSS symbol
• NYC transit strike looming
• Business Brief for December 15, 2005
• Violence cuts short visit of Dominican Republic president

December 16

• President Bush of the United States authorized NSA surveillance of citizens, bypassing court warrants
• West Wing star John Spencer dies from heart attack
• NYC transit deadline past, no strike or talks
• Senate rejects short-term extension of the USA PATRIOT Act
• Flooding in Nakhon Sri Thammarat
• Police warn Sydneysiders to stay away from Eastern beaches
• Imprisoned Haitian priest may need US doctors
• California class commemorates Holocaust
• US offers to eliminate duties on Cotton, Africa says it's not enough
• Business Brief for December 16, 2005
• Sydney's newest motorway to open today

December 17

• Cold cases in West Australia examined for Murdoch link
• Imitation gun pointed at Australia swimmers during training
• U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security visit Dartmouth student over library book
• English edition of Wikipedia is now larger than the Spanish Encyclopedia ESPASA
• Sinn Fein expels Denis Donaldson for spying
• EU reaches budget deal

December 18

• San Diego ends Colts' bid for perfect season
• Dick Cheney makes surprise Iraq visit
• Kwaśniewski to end his term within 5 days
• Israeli PM Sharon suffers 'mild stroke'
• German hostage freed in Iraq
• Approval down for President Pacheco
• London bomb survivors launch campaign for public inquiry
• Australia's Howard calls for nativity scenes
• President Alvaro Uribe asks Washington to stop meddling

December 19

• 40 alleged drunken Santas accused of running amok
• Spacex cancels Falcon 1 launch until 2006
• Bank of Italy governor, Antonio Fazio, presents resignation today
• China has extensive plans for space exploration
• New Jersey Devils coach Robinson resigns
• Anti-racism rally in Sydney
• Evo Morales wins presidential elections in Bolivia
• Black vulture population targeted for reduction at Virginia boat launch
• President Bush defends NSA domestic intercepts
• Public services shutting down in New South Wales, Australia due to lack of money

December 20

• Two trains collide near Rome
• Mayor under investigation in San Jose, CA, USA for spending without consent
• Early returns in Iraqi elections
• Poll shows Préval with clear lead, but ineligible candidate Siméus could have presented a challenge
• NYC Transit on strike
• Poll predicts another Liberal Party minority government in Canada
• Security increased at Delta plants due to extortion threat
• Business Brief for December 20, 2005
• Opposition claims Australian Treasurer misled parliament

December 21

• U.S. Rep. Conyers raises Bush censure issue
• San Jose, CA, USA, city manager resigns amid Norcal investigation
• Cuban talk show accuses U.S. diplomat of helping anti-government groups
• NRMA stands by "unsafe" smash repair system
• Australian on death row in Vietnam for smuggling heroin
• Security is important for potential presidents in Haiti
• Truth comes out about Suprnova closure
• Work Choices Fair Pay Chief heavily criticised
• Travel warnings issued for Sydney
• Australia to continue burning Indonesian boats
• Posted deadlines for Christmas delivery
• Business Brief for December 21, 2005

December 22

• Couples thrashed for sitting in a park in Meerut, India
• Former Australian defence chief's son to be discharged from the Army
• Technology Brief for December 22, 2005
• First charges laid over riot text messages
• Australian woman wins right to have dead husband's baby
• Australian States to launch high court battle against IR reforms
• Calpine declares bankruptcy, cites natural gas prices
• Striking NYC transit workers will return to jobs
• Station staff on the London tube to take industrial action over staffing levels
• HIV vaccine trial ready to roll in Thailand
• Australian academic study supports nuclear power
• US Senate blocks Alaska refuge drilling
• Destroyed Kelso High School to be rebuilt
• Bird flu resistant to anti-viral drug
• Japanese whaling ship to dock in Hobart
• Greenpeace activists clash with Japanese whaling fleet in Southern Ocean

December 23

• Azeri passenger plane crashes
• U.S. soldier may be charged in shooting of Italian agent
• Canadian Conservatives vow to defend Arctic sovereignty
• Kaczyński takes the office of Polish president
• Two Australians charged after burning flag during riot
• Evo Morales hoaxed by a Spanish Church-owned radio station
• EU threatens to fine Microsoft for failing to open Windows Server
• Drug website surveys LSD users and culture
• New South Wales road safety campaign begins

December 24

• Allegations of three candidates' drug ties resurface in Haitian presidential race
• US Student reveals book visit a hoax
• Chad declares border with Sudan a "military operations zone"
• New South Wales ALP loses support first time under premier Iemma
• Tolls may be needed for NSW Pacific Highway upgrade
• U.S. taskforce encourages vote to decide Puerto Rico status
• Bomb explodes in crowded São Paulo street
• Haiti might have to postpone elections again
• Bolivian President Evo Morales convinces EU to pay for study of coca
• Egypt court sentences opposition leader

December 25

• United States 2003 National Adult Literacy Survey released
• Taxi driver stabbed to death in Nova Scotia
• War between top lawyers in Greece
• Cheney-Rumsfeld "Cabal" alleged in the USA
• Apaches accuse Prescott Bush of robbing Geronimo's grave
• Australian wheat to lose out in Iraqi market grab
• Armenian Journalists Facing Prison Sentences in Turkey
• Fiesta Season begins in Colombia
• Australian troops receive Christmas show in Iraq

December 26

• Indian Ocean tsunami, one year after
• Falwell called for boycott of stores using 'Happy Holidays' in place of 'Merry Christmas'
• Four Russian stores hit with gas attacks
• Bombmaking materials found near farm of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
• Olympics organisers insist London win in 2012 ballot was fair
• Iranian Baha'i dies in jail
• New Zealand Tsunami heroes to receive Special Service Medal
• Queensland Premier aims for a move to Australian federal politics

December 27

• Greek newspaper reports British spy involved in torturing 28 Pakistani citizens
• Timekeeping will pause into the New Year with a 'Leap Second'
• Fire destroys a Social Security building in Brasilia
• New Zealand Christmas road toll is at ten
• Data Retention Directive passed by EU Parliament
• Japan's population declines
• Actor Vincent Schiavelli dies in Sicily at age 57
• Record companies subpoenaed over digital music pricing
• Australia's richest man dies aged 68

December 28

• Battle of Adre extends Darfur Conflict
• Jose Maria Aznar wants NATO to take in Australia and Israel
• Five U.S. defense contractor lobbying groups block ban on forced prostitution and labor
• Study says poor African American women less likely to receive pap smears
• Rebellion in Brazilian State Prison is over
• Argentina to pay off IMF debt
• Shooting at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• Colombian soldiers killed by rebel group
• Former German deputy foreign minister and family abducted in Yemen
• NYC Transit asks members to ratify new contracts
• Australian copyright laws to be overhauled in 2006

December 29

• New text message encryption method developed
• Former Chilean president Augusto Pinochet fingerprinted
• Melbourne Victory held to draw by Perth Glory
• South Korea begins sending indictments via SMS
• Man buys his stolen camera on eBay
• 69-year-old Australian mother and son on drugs charges
• US consumer confidence up

December 30

• United States Justice Department opens investigation into White House leaks
• Colorado College Tigers win 41st annual Great Lakes Invitational tournament
• Uproar over sexual EU spoof posters in Austria
• Teenager in Florida, United States skips school, goes to Iraq
• Distributed computing discovers largest known prime number
• Bolivia's new president-elect brands Bush 'the only terrorist'
• Al-Qaeda releases video of Sudanese hostages
• Million Dollar Homepage is close to achieving million-dollar goal
• Mario Draghi succeeds Antonio Fazio as Bank of Italy governor
• Australian refugee contractor accused of breaching its duty of care

December 31

• Rapper Obie Trice shot on Detroit freeway
• Abducted German family freed in Yemen