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[edit] October 1
- Santa Ana Volcano Erupts in El Salvador
- Lethal explosions hit Bali
- Connecticut becomes third U.S. state to allow same-sex civil unions
- Apple agrees to replace iPod nanos with cracked screens
- Google formally submits bid to provide free WiFi in San Francisco
- Minimum wage in United Kingdom increases to £5.05
- Junk food to be banned in English schools
- Researchers: Wild gorillas seen using tools
- New Zealand airlines relax knife regulations
[edit] October 2
- German Christian Democrats win by-election in Dresden
- Tropical Storm Stan forms over Yucatan Peninsula
- Hundreds of lawsuits filed against music sharers in US
- Tigers win NRL Grand Final
- One killed in University of Oklahoma explosion
[edit] October 3
- US rejects EU proposal to give Internet control to the UN
- Los Angeles hospital lies, discriminates for Saudi liver transplant patient
- Bush nominates Harriet Ellan Miers for U.S. Supreme Court
- Ulcer researchers awarded '05 Nobel Prize
- Fatal blasts rock Bangladesh
[edit] October 4
- Bush may deploy military if bird flu breaks out
- British comedian Ronnie Barker dies
- Apple plans another special event
- Iraqi insurgents guilty of war crimes, says Human Rights Watch
- High tides sweep west Galveston Bay
- Energy companies to raise consumer rates
- European court upholds asset freeze in terrorist case
- Physics Nobel Prize awarded for insights into light
- Microsoft Office 12 will support PDFs
- "Junk" foods may affect aggressive behaviour and school performance
[edit] October 5
- Broadcasters push for new layer of intellectual monopoly at WIPO
- Seabrook city councilman takes heat for words
- Wings over Houston Airshow comes to town
- Open source game Wesnoth reaches version 1.0
- Python pops after eating gator
- Scientists recreating the 1918 flu virus say 'it came from birds'
- Jefferson to face forward on new nickel
- U.S. Government ordered to release more images related to Abu Ghraib case
- Cool front to bring lasting relief for Texas
- Dock worker killed by snapped cable
- UK cable TV operator NTL acquires Telewest
- Tom DeLay faces two new indictments for money laundering
- F. Scott Fitzgerald house struck by lightning
[edit] October 6
- Sri Lanka blast injures one
- Five soldiers killed in Southern Thailand
- Romanian president to hold referendum on unicameral parliament
- Fujimori intends to run for Peruvian presidency
- US Senate approves rules regulating detainee treatment
- IRA assets worth 30 million pounds investigated
- Explosion at Point Comfort plastics plant
- Threat on New York City subway system heightens security alert level
- Democrat staffers obtained Maryland lt. governor's credit report illegally
- Australia's High Court rules mod-chips are legal
- French parliamentarian questions Jacques Chirac's Elysée budget
- Twenty killed in Lake George USA boating accident
- Romania to host Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006
[edit] October 7
- Washington Monument evacuated due to false bomb threat
- Internet backbone hosts feud, disconnecting users
- U.S. force-feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers
- First Trojan horse to affect handheld gaming console found
- White House denies that God told Bush to invade Iraq
- Google, Sun Microsystems to collaborate on software development
- U.S. watchdog group lists "most corrupt members of Congress"
- President of Peruvian Truth Commission reports death threats, anti-semitic hatemail
- Film about Travis County DA's investigation of Texas election of 2002
- Red tide affects South Padre Island, Mexico
- Premium gas discounted for a few hours
- Fall sweeps through Texas
- Autodesk to buy Alias
- IAEA and its director ElBaradei are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Unexploded WW2 Bomb discovered at Schiphol Airport
- Australian Immigration department removal of citizen was unlawful
- British Columbia teachers dropping the chalk and walking out
[edit] October 8
- Google launches online RSS reader
- British police arrest ten due to terrorism suspicions
- President Bush may veto amendment that bans detainee mistreatment
- Robotic cars successfully complete 132-mile DARPA Grand Challenge race
- GAO ruled parts of Education Department contracts illegal
- Nations begin to offer aid to regions afflicted by Indian subcontinent earthquake
- Iraq on verge of civil war, head of Arab league fears
- Five arrested in Italian art smuggling
- Strong earthquake hits Pakistan, north India, Afghanistan
[edit] October 9
- Ottawa plans tax windfall to deal with budget surplus
- Hurricane Vince on track for Europe
- VeriSign acquires Weblogs.com
- Weekend violence in Darfur complicates peace talks
- More troops for southern Thailand troubles
- California bans sale of violent video games to minors
- Oracle buys Innobase
[edit] October 10
- Saudi Arabia blocks access to Blogger, Flickr, LiveJournal
- Chinese activist severely beaten by "mob"
- CBC service returns to normal tomorrow
- Wallace and Gromit sets destroyed by fire
- Schröder gives up German chancellorship ambitions, makes way for Merkel
[edit] October 11
- Moderate earthquake hits Indonesia
- Warrants issued for 28 in Iraqi corruption scandal
- Former SA Deputy President Appears In Court
- U.S. poll numbers sink on Iraq
[edit] October 12
- Singapore Exam Board sets mathematically impossible question
- Constitution changes do not convince most Sunni parties
- China successfully launches Shenzhou VI manned rocket
- US Homeland Security Department doubts credibility of New York subway threat
- Microsoft and Yahoo team up to make IM clients compatible
- Syrian Interior Minister dead from apparent suicide
- Heating bills, oil price rise predicted
- Bad weather makes life tougher for quake survivors
- EBay buys VeriSign payment service division
- Bali nine lawyer challenges police on legality of drug case
- Yahoo launches new Podcast Search
- Thai PM sues newspaper for 500 million baht
- Australian senator Barnaby Joyce crosses floor
- African Union hostages freed by Darfur rebels
[edit] October 13
- US extradition request blocked by Dutch court
- Gunmen, police clash in south Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
- Google hires lead developer for open source instant messenger, Gaim
- Apple introduces new iPod with video playback capabilities
- Trial of Saddam Hussein to be televised
[edit] October 14
- Bush has a rehearsed tele-conference with US troops in Iraq
- South African government issues first seizure order on farm
- UK's highest court to rule on use of information extracted under torture
- Virginia crime commission endorses tougher dog law legislation
- Daniel Craig to be new James Bond
- Girl's flu case found to be drug-resistant
- Tornado jet crashes in Scotland
- Anti-terror raid in The Hague
- Astros defeat Cardinals in second game of NLC
- Australian Senate inquiry to new anti-terrorism laws to take place in one day
- Snakehead fish appear in large numbers near Potomac River
- Neolithic noodles found in Qinghai, China
- Ubuntu releases third version of popular Linux distribution
[edit] October 15
- UK Christian group plans to highlight concerns about new law by using it to ban the Qur'an
- Explosion outside Trinidad nightclub wounds more than 10
- Welsh swimming squad named for 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Dog flu spreads across the US
- Deceased Indonesian man had suspected case of bird flu
- Malawi appeals for further humanitarian aid
- Crown Princess Mary of Denmark gives birth to male child
- Grenade set off outside Tajik ministry
- Joachim to attempt breaking record for static cycling
- Study finds marijuana use leads to brain development in rats
- Iraq to hold constitution vote today
- Australian Minister 'leaks' draft of anti-terror bill
[edit] October 16
- Riots break out at Neo-Nazi rally in Toledo, Ohio
- New national museum opens in Kyushu, Japan
- Spanish police reportedly closing in on fugitive Nazi doctor
- Insurgents kill monk and burn temple in south Thailand
[edit] October 17
- Chicago White Sox win 2005 American League baseball pennant
- Iraq counting ballots
- 5 killed in return bus trip from marching band competition
- Jens Stoltenberg reveals the next Norwegian cabinet
- 5.1 earthquake hits north of Tokyo
- Iraqis say U.S. bombing killed 39 civilians
- Persistent rain storm in Northeast USA comes to an end
- New York Times reporter Judith Miller breaks silence on Plame leak investigation
- Tropical Storm Wilma forms, ties record for busiest hurricane season
- Chinese astronauts in Shenzhou VI return safely
[edit] October 18
- Armed conflicts in the world down by 40% since early 1990s
- Major rallies escalate teacher strike in BC
- Phone threat closes tunnels, snarls traffic in Baltimore, Maryland
- Next political election in Italy will be on April 9, 2006
- Iraq ballots to be audited due to voting "anomalies"
- Russian sabre rattling in the Barents Sea
[edit] October 19
- U.S. isolated in opposition to cultural diversity treaty
- Colombian Constitutional Court passes presidential re-election
- Hurricane Wilma still a Category 5 Threat
- China and Europe face new avian flu outbreaks
- Hurricane Wilma becomes stronger on its path toward Florida
- Irish Guardian journalist reported missing in Iraq
- Google changes Gmail to Google Mail in the UK
- Australian "terror laws" face backlash
[edit] October 20
- Irish Government sends team of officials in hunt for Journalist
- Spain issues arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers accused of killing two journalists in 2003
- Publishers seek injunction against Google Print
- OpenOffice.org office suite version 2.0 has been released
- Newspaper editor shot dead in Iraq
- UN appeals for more aid for devastated Pakistan region
- RAF officer refusing to serve in Iraq
- Iran bans Hollywood movies
- Endon Mahmood, wife of Malaysian PM, dies
- Premiers take on Australian PM on Shoot To Kill Laws
- Hussein enters "not guilty" plea at trial
- American soldiers accused of desecrating enemy bodies
- Australian opposition minister gives speech on poverty
- Houston Astros win 2005 National League baseball pennant
- Arrest warrant issued for Tom DeLay
[edit] October 21
- Avian flu found within UK
- Amazon rainforest being destroyed faster than previously believed
- France protests treatment of government minister by US authorities; US government admits mistake
- South Thailand insurgents blamed for five bombs
- Syrian officials and Lebanese President accused by U.N. report
- Possible end to strike, fines for BC teachers
- Norway takes action to prevent a possible bird flu epidemic
- Major ISP Level 3 experiences downtime
- Swedish couple names baby boy "Google"
- High School shooting in Michigan, USA injures one
- Wikimedia Foundation and Answers.com announce partnership
- Journalist freed from Baghdad captors
[edit] October 22
- Hundreds of SUNY New Paltz students demonstrate, storm administration building
- Tropical Storm Alpha forms, breaks Atlantic storm record
- Taiwan to violate Tamiflu patent due to vaccine shortage
- Former Irish politician Liam Lawlor dies in car crash
[edit] October 23
- Emigration perspective in the eyes of young Poles
- Florida Governor Jeb Bush gives speech on Hurricane Wilma
- Leaked poll finds 45% of Iraqis support suicide bombers who attack allied forces
- Iraqi vote remains in doubt
- FEMA official in New Orleans blasts agency's response
- Kaczynski elected as the new president of Poland, according to polls
- Russian fighter crash in Lithuania: investigation concludes
[edit] October 24
- Airliner crashes in Nigeria
- 22.2% of secondary school students in Ireland drop out before the Leaving Cert
- Australian Government to introduce IR reforms next week
- Grand Jury investigation of Plame leak nears end
[edit] October 25
- Unicef: African children orphaned by AIDS could top 18 million
- Rosa Parks dies at 92
- Iraqis accept constitution
- France protests treatment of government minister by US authorities; US government admits mistake
- Sunni leader claims Iraq vote was a "farce"
- José Azcona, former president of Honduras, dies at 74
- Pentagon announces 2,000th U.S. military death
- Australian PM says proposed Anti-Terror Laws are Constitutional
- South African spies suspended
- Anniversary of Tak Bai incident marked with lawsuits
[edit] October 26
- Suicide bomber strikes Israeli coastal town
- Italian university legislation sparks protests from students and staff
- Japan likely to change law to allow female heirs to the throne
- France banning Skype from universities
- Google announces new database service on blog
[edit] October 27
- Thai PM promises action on suspected militants
- First beta of Windows API 'Wine' released
- Australian video journalist denies bodies burned in disrespect
- Iranian president calls Israel ‘disgraceful blot’
- Fact-finder confirms that Arar was tortured
- Several dozen protesters arrested outside White House for permit violations
- Harriet Miers withdraws from Supreme Court nomination
- Chicago White Sox win 2005 World Series baseball championship
- Australian anti-terror laws will be delayed
[edit] October 28
- Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicted on five charges
- Body of Rosa Parks to lie in honor at U.S. Capitol
- Japanese riot police deployed around consulates
- Japan-Korea premiers' meeting in doubt over shrine visit
[edit] October 29
- Syrian residents claim U.S. bombing, shooting into Syria
- Tom Cruise parody site defiant in face of Scientology threats, demands its day in court
- Major train wreck in Southern India
- Romania switches to Winter Time
- Lance Armstrong shares criticisms of Tour de France director
[edit] October 30
- Russian peacekeepers will not leave Transdniestria, official says
- Moldova State University student to represent Moldova at world cyber games in Singapore
- World Bank continues its support of Moldovan private sector development
- Opposing a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory
- Cuban funds tied to Lula campaign, Brazilian magazine alleges
- Explosions rock New Delhi marketplace
[edit] October 31
- IBM partners with Google to produce a corporate desktop search program
- Kansas School Board has copyright withheld over teaching Intelligent Design
- Canadian Immigration Minister outlines plan for application backlog, job vacancies
- UN calls for further Syrian cooperation
- Hurricane Beta makes landfall in Nicaragua
- Bush nominates Alito to U.S. Supreme Court
- Bush narrows choice to Supreme Court
