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[edit] March 1
- Duke upset by FSU
- Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003
- English Wikipedia reaches one million articles
- Saddam Hussein admits to requesting trials
- Thaksin denies rumours of resignation
- Possible first case of mad cow disease in Sweden
- Sydney woman charged in Perth heroin seizure
- Brisbane woman charged with Sizzler poisoning
- Random driver drug testing to become permanent in Victoria
- Sizzler salad bars shut after rat poison found in food
[edit] March 2
- Australian Greens senator Bob Brown marks 10 years in Parliament
- Taipei mayor Ma hopes local HIV midway home "patients out only"
- Bush's Katrina statement contradicted by emerging evidence
- Amateur sex video stirs controversy on Internet
- Google.cn to move search records out of China
- Harry Browne, former US presidential candidate and best selling author, dead at age 72
- Mayor Ken Livingstone's suspension frozen pending appeal
- Costa Rica falls to Iran in football friendly
- Colombia's National Liberation Army declares ceasefire for elections
- Five dead in attack in Pakistan
- Officials in Mexico claim leaked Dirty War report isn't final copy
- South Africa to meet with Hamas representatives
- Natural gas discovered in Chile according to President Ricardo Lagos
- Kenyan TV and newspaper raided by masked police
- Uruguay turns down Argentina’s request to halt construction of pulp mills
- Bus crash outside Cusco kills at least 13
- Comedian Linda Smith dies at 48
- City Planning Board postpones decision on Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Interview with Usenet search sites targeted by the MPAA
- Photoessay: Fat Tuesday Easy in DC
- Australia's Prime Minister Howard marks 10 years in power
- Corruption blamed for Papuan rainforest destruction
[edit] March 3
- 2006 "Stolenwealth" Games to confront Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
- Ayya Vaikunda Avataram declared as a holiday for Tirunelveli district
- 2006 New Zealand Maori Electoral Option
- Emergency at JDS Uniphase in San Jose, CA
- Authorities impose vehicle ban on Baghdad
- Band sticker causes bomb scare at Ohio University
- Ian Thorpe starts to recover from chest pains
- Australia will not export uranium to India
[edit] March 4
- Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrated by 450,000 people
- Iranian refugee child granted $400,000 in compensation for "psychological harm"
- Coca growth up in Bolivia, Peru, claims U.S. State Department
- Diebold "whistleblower" faces criminal charges in California
- No hotel previously on site of proposed Buffalo, N.Y. hotel location
- Black Box Voting finds anomalies in electronic voting logs of 2004 U.S. election
[edit] March 5
- Deported Australian granted visa after two years in Serbian limbo
- Howard's 10 year party gatecrashed
- H5N1 bird flu virus reaches Poland
- South Dakota governor signs abortion ban into law
- Minnesota GOP's CD raises privacy concerns
- Ayman al-Zawahri releases new video tape
[edit] March 6
- Pakistan government blocks bloggers ahead of Bush visit
- Transit strike affects 100,000 in Helsinki
- AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billion
- Thaksin rebuffs resignation calls while elite call for appointed PM
- 2006 Oscars handed out at Kodak Theatre
- Australian Prime Minister visits India
- New Zealand online auction web site bought for NZ$700 million
- BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
- Dvdrs.net closes - "can not recover from recent events"
[edit] March 7
- Australians need bigger toilets
- Big 12 names players, coach of the year
- New Zealand's 2006 Census is held tonight
- U.S. Pentagon releases Guantanamo detainees' names
- House approves renewal of the Patriot Act
- Three explosions in Varanasi, India
- Multiple vehicles crash in West Palm Beach, FL
- Chávez accuses US of plotting separation of oil rich state
- Ontario college teachers begin strike
- Hall of Fame baseball player Kirby Puckett dies of stroke
- Dana Reeve, 44, wife of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer
- Ukraine does not allow Transnistrian goods transit without Moldovan customs stamps
- Australian Senator Bob Brown calls for ban on junk food ads
- Book review controversy over Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell'
- Porn star promotes Italian wine
[edit] March 8
- Eighteen found dead in a bus in Iraq
- Largest mass extinction in 65 million years underway, scientists say
- Witness convicted of perjury in Best Bakery trial sentenced to one year
- Buffalo, NY magazine to publish Prophet Muhammad cartoons
- North Korea fires missiles during training exercise
- Gordon Parks, African American filmmaker, dies at 93
- Study reveals 10% of telecommuters work nude
- Bonobo chimp threatened in Congo
- Police release photographs of those of interest in connection with Cronulla riots
- Events cancelled at Humber due to college strike
- Sault professor sides with students during college strike
- Australian emergency services personnel exposed to asbestos
- Small plane crashes on median of Interstate 75 in Michigan
[edit] March 9
- Bangkok blast injures two tourists
- Former teacher in France surrenders after holding 22 hostage in school
- NFL owners agree to CBA extension, 30-2
- Toronto to have socialized city-wide wi-fi access
- UK vending machines begin selling sex toys
- Agriculture's impact on human evolution clarified
- Wikinews interviews Gary Fung from isoHunt
[edit] March 10
- Gale Norton resigns as U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- Global measles deaths plunge by 48% over past six years
- Japanese Buddhist priest arrested for child prostitution
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal delayed further
- American hostage Tom Fox found dead in Iraq
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Martian orbit
- USA leaving Abu Ghraib
- Czech pub food eating experiment resulted in lost weight, lower cholesterol
- Daisuke Enomoto will be the fourth space tourist at the ISS
- Wikipedia's Wales is considering a "stable" version
- Three charged following release of Cronulla riot wanted photographs
[edit] March 11
- Agriculture Department investigating possible U.S. case of mad cow disease
- Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell
- 12000 Commonwealth Games tickets remain unsold
[edit] March 12
- United Kingdom hit by snow storms
- Swedish olympic snowboarder dies during practice run
- 2006 Formula 1 season starts with GP of Bahrain
- Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia
- Arrests for kite flying in Pakistan spring festival
- Man takes baby and woman hostage in hospital
- Czech woman wins the first Sudoku world championship
- NASA spacecraft enters Mars orbit
[edit] March 13
- 186,000 cases of chikungunya in Réunion
- Chicago requires blind students to take driver's education
- U.S. Senate debates raising national debt ceiling
- 18 Motorcyclists killed during Bike Week
- Mad Cow disease confirmed in U.S.
- 800 British troops being pulled out of Iraq
- Thousands of Thai protesters prepare to march on Government House
- Chinese government approved Nanjing purchase of MG Rover
- U.S. found in violation of Native Americans rights
- Google launches Google Mars
- "Massive" oil spill in Alaska
- Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Australia for 15th visit
- Manuel Zelaya sworn in as President of Honduras
[edit] March 14
- Israelis storm Palestinian jail
- Isaac Hayes quits South Park over Scientology episode
- Coldest month of March in Stockholm since 1942
- Chinese Wikimania 2006 to be held in Hong Kong
- PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat captured by Israeli forces
- Geysers of water on one of Saturn's moons
- More arrests from Cronulla riots
- Warmest Canadian winter on record
- Wikipedia class action site vanishes, backers revealed
[edit] March 15
- Australian troops to provide front-line combat support in Iraq
- Tony Blair's education bill passes with support from opposition parties
- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary called attention to Winny
- Photoessay: The Idiotarod: When Good Shopping Carts Go Bad
- Hawaiian dam bursts
- Afghan opium plantings expected to be up 40% from 2005
- 2006 Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne
- Shin Corporation defamation suit fails
- Car explodes in Paris, at least 1 person killed
- China and Russia object to the Security Council statement on Iran
- New Zealand Commonwealth Games flag-bearer announced
[edit] March 16
- Demonstrators protest Condoleezza Rice's trip to Australia
- United Nations General Assembly votes to establish UN Human Rights Council
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal threatened by possible lawsuit
- Australians may choose to change head of state beyond Queen Elizabeth II: Howard
[edit] March 17
- Chinese bloggers pressure leads to kitten killer giveup
- New Zealand Department of Conservation leaves Raoul Island, minus one
- New Zealand boarding school closed due to gastro-enteritis outbreak
- Remote New Zealand island evacuated as volcano erupts
- First Gold for NZ: Commonwealth Games
- Civilians killed in U.S. raid near Balad
[edit] March 18
- Macasana, India priest killed
- Minority mars Paris CPE protest
- Six Nations Cup
- Train kills seven on TV show
- Thousands in San Francisco protest US wars
- Prosecution to proceed with alternate witnesses in Moussaoui trial
- Putin promises to continue energy production increases
- China enters the low-cost laptop competition
- No charges over election spending for New Zealand Labour party
- Australian DFAT director knew of trucking company involved in alleged Iraqi kickbacks
- Second Gold for NZ: Commonwealth Games
[edit] March 19
- 100s of thousands take to the streets across France
- Personal relationship between Bush and McCallum questioned
- Polling data on President Bush's approval rating indicates recent decline
- PlayStation 3 delayed until November
- Queensland braces for category 5 cyclone
- Report Specifies 'Black Room' of Abuse in Iraq
- Avian flu cause of Egyptian woman's death
- Second oil disaster in Estonia within two months
- More medals for NZ: Commonwealth Games
- Labor claims victory in two Australian state elections
[edit] March 20
- Landmine kills two in India
- Alfonso Soriano refuses to play
- French National assembly to approve copyright bill
- Federer wins Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells
- Maria Menounos will present the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest
- Utah father accused of using shock-collars to punish his children
- Looted, possibly contaminated body parts transplanted into USA, Canadian patients
- Citizens protest Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Scotland wins Gold, Silver in 400m IM
- Crowe, Holmes succeed in takeover of Rabbitohs
- Keisha Castle-Hughes playing Virgin Mary
- Cuba and Japan to play in WBC final
- Lukashenko wins disputed Belarus elections
[edit] March 21
- Queensland mops up after Cyclone Larry's billion dollar devastation
- UN inaugurates rapid-response fund for future disasters
- Small airplane crashes in Colombia
- Protesters mark 3rd anniversary of Iraq invasion
- Demonstrator in coma - serious allegations against the French police
- Yellow Sheep River develops €123 Linux based computer
- Japan wins World Baseball Classic, 10-6
- Ohio man kills teen who walked on his lawn
- UN creates rapid-response fund for disasters
- New Zealand Attorney-General resigns
[edit] March 22
- Windows Vista delayed until January 2007
- H.E. Suzanne Mubarak and H.R.H. Prince Charles open the British University in Egypt
- Two explosions in La Paz kill 2, injure 6
- BC Queen of the North ferry sinks
- EU bans 92 airlines, buries "flying coffins"
- President Bush calls on Helen Thomas during press conference; question stirs debate
- Time: 15 Iraqi civilians dead; U.S. Marines under investigation
- Duckworth wins contentious Democratic primary in IL-06
- ETA declares permanent cease-fire
- Canada bans "Where the Bloody Hell are you?" ad
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal approved by Common Council
[edit] March 23
- Information from prisoner leads to freedom for 3 hostages
- Representative accuses Bush of signing bill not passed by Congress
- Pandermalis announces 2007 Acropolis Museum opening
- New book links Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield to BALCO
- Police arrest hostage taker in Greek mental clinic
- PAD petitions election commission for Thaksin's disqualification
[edit] March 24
- 42 West Papuan asylum seekers get temporary Australian visas
- Bush declares immunity from Patriot Act oversight
- U.S. court adds limit to police searches
- Mishap destroys SpaceX Falcon 1 after maiden launch
- Violence, arrests end Minsk, Belarus protests
- Benedict XVI Elevates 15 to Cardinal
- University suspends lecturer accused of racism
- Over five hundred hispanic students protest immigration laws in Los Angeles
- Journal Nature study 'fatally flawed', says Britannica
- Lawsuit accuses Chicago priest of molesting 13-year-old boy
- Explosion in French college
- BNP lose council seat in Keighley
- Virologists discover why H5N1 doesn't spread easily between humans
- Correspondence of late Greek Orthodox leader of Americas to be published
[edit] March 25
- Riots greet French government's labor reform
- Cape Town charges Frontline Fellowship pastor with Halloween paintball assault
- Norman Kember returns home safely
- Riot police arrest Belarusian opposition leader Kozulin
- Buck Owens, country music icon, dies at 76
- Tens of thousands rally against Thailand's Prime Minister
- Greece, Greeks celebrate Independence day
- Council pres. removes Easter bunny from St. Paul, MN city hall
- Hyshot tests hypersonic "scramjet" in Australia
- Police arrest roof-climbing graduate of high school in Hopkinton, Massachusetts
- FCC head Kevin Martin endorses telcos' tiered Internet plan
[edit] March 26
- European Union demands release of Belarusian opposition leader
- Australia's new controversial workplace regulations come into effect this week
- Shiites claim coalition forces killed men in a mosque
- Canadian Idol comes to Ottawa
- Georgia mother loses child custody over humorous religion
- Candace Parker double dunks, makes basketball history
- Canadian Press speculates on special forces role in Iraq
- XVIII Commonwealth Games competition ends
- Protesters rally for a second time against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal
- Pentagon: Russia provided information to Iraq
[edit] March 27
- Bomb blast near Mosul, Iraq kills at least 40
- Airbus A380 safety test injures 33
- Sweden names Jan Eliasson new Foreign Minister
- UK PM addresses joint sitting of Australian Parliament
- Prince closes XVIII Commonwealth Games
- Seattle shooting leaves seven dead
- Greek court rules worship of ancient Greek deities is legal
- Western Australia braces for another cyclone
- Creekstone Farms sues USDA for refusing to allow mad cow testing
- Crash kills Indy driver Paul Dana
- George Mason University upsets UConn, advances to Final Four
[edit] March 28
- Australia grants temporary asylum to 12 Commonwealth Games athletes
- Thousands rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants' rights
- Thousands strike in UK over pensions
- 5.5 magnitude earthquake shakes Tokyo
- Rivers flood in central Europe
- Beatles' Apple Corps sues Apple Computer
- Turn up and don't vote, urge anti-Thaksin activists
- Thai police forward anti-Thaksin PAD accusations to Corruption Commission
- Exit polls suggest Kadima victory in Israeli elections
- UK petrol prices rise to five-month high
- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card resigns
- Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger dies at 88
- Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal gets final approval by city Planning Board
- Long Beach, CA Redevelopment Agency ends talks for church
- Australian artist Pro Hart dies
[edit] March 29
- US Federal Reserve raises interest rates - energy prices could affect inflation
- U.S.A. researchers report plagiarism in Putin's dissertation
- New Zealand declares 2007 switch of energy efficiency strategy
- UN Security Council calls on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment
- Darfur declares Swedish Foreign Minister unwelcome
- Jian Seng ghost ship affair brings criticism of Australian government
- Search for body fails on New Zealand's Raoul island
- Blair challenges New Zealand to fight against global warming
- UK public sector workers strike over pension rights
- Australian House of Representatives acknowledges Cyclone Larry efforts
- Cyclone Glenda intensifies to category 5 storm
[edit] March 30
- Australian MPs exchange fighting words over healthcare rebate
- First Brazilian astronaut accompanies ISS replacements
- Luxembourg, India spar over Arcelor takeover bid
- U.S. actor Charlie Sheen questions 9/11 theories
- Tourist ferry sinks off Bahrain coast; at least 44 dead
- Court rules rubber-stamping Thai election ballots not required
- EU warns Microsoft: forthcoming Vista risks antitrust breach
- Optus B1 outage leaves all New Zealand Sky TV digital subscribers without service
- Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and officer tangle on the Hill
- Captors release American journalist Jill Carroll
- Son charged with eye-gouging attack on mother dies
- Australian Federal Police raid home over unauthorised access to pay TV services
- Nigeria arrests Charles Taylor for war crimes trial
- Cyclone Glenda closes in on Western Australia
[edit] March 31
- Condoleezza Rice visits the United Kingdom
- Canada Freezes Aid To Palestine
- Auto parts maker Delphi plans to cut 8,500 jobs; union contracts
- Sewage spill fouls Waikiki Beach
- Lethal earthquakes rock western Iran, 70 or more die
- Judge sentences Ali to 30 years for Bush assassination plot
- Faust seeks Murphy disqualification in PA Congressional primary
- Rainy weather in Hawaii enters sixth week
