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- FBI: Death of the Georgian Prime Minister was an accident
- The Vatican: Pope suffers from congestive heart failure
- Witnesses saw truck "rev up and race" before Texas blast
- Zimbabwe election victory for Mugabe
- MS-13 gang threatens the Arizona "minutemen"
- Rural African school goes to Sweden for environment award
- Minutemen gather to patrol US-Mexican border in April
- Parents of Terri Schiavo to sell list of supporters to marketing firm
- Bus drivers to strike in Auckland
- Pope in medical crisis
- Iraq: Uneven voter turnout elects women who push sharia law while anti-woman violence rages
- Metal press crushes Illinois worker
- Harvard hosts conference on technological future of news media
- Google starts prefetching top search results for Mozilla and Firefox browsers
- US lowers bar in age discrimination suits
- EU, Canada impose duties on some US goods in retaliation for Byrd Amendment
- Gmail 1st Birthday; Storage capacity increased to 2GB
- Abbas orders more security reforms, hundreds of security officers to be forced to retire
- Inspectors close Chicago landmark Healthy Food restaurant after finding dead mouse in cooler
- Iraqi insurgents attack Abu Ghraib
- Pope John Paul II dies
- Google doubles Gmail storage, adds text formatting
- China releases 'Human rights report' on US
- Australian rescue helicopter crash in Indonesia: nine dead
- Australian Treasurer told to 'try harder on welfare'
- Vatican releases statement on health of Pope
- Australia, NATO enhance ties
- American comedian Mitch Hedberg dies on tour at 37
- Telescope takes first image of planet outside our solar system
- SBC teams with Scientific-Atlanta for cable TV rollout in 13 US states
- Flora springing into Spring in Mid-Atlantic coastal region, USA
- Fourth Lebanon bomb rocks shopping mall
- Ted Koppel to step down from Nightline
- Abbas fires security chiefs for failure to curb lawlessness
- Violence in Rio ends in 30 deaths
- Annual rich list shows Ireland now has six billionaires
- Web site claims Abu Ghraib attack for Al Quaida
- Speculation abounds on future pope
- Tartan Day festivities April 6 in New York
- World Bank to tighten security belt for Wolfowitz arrival
- Chinese protesters smash up Japanese market
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for African Pope
- Names of Australians killed in helicopter crash released
- Catholic Church prepares for papal election conclave
- Marketing blitz begins for final 'Star Wars' film
- United States helped Kyrgyz pro-democracy programs
- Time for North Americans to spring ahead one hour
- Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona's border with Mexico
- Losses almost double for 3, a mobile phone company
- Two Newcastle football players fight each other, both sent off
- Lebanese-Syrian meetings reach full withdrawal accord
- Al Gore-owned cable news channel to relaunch August 1 with viewer-created content
- Legendary Canadian football coach Frank Clair has died
- Royal wedding delayed as Prince plans for Pope's funeral
- Terri Schiavo cremated
- MPAA's Valenti signs Betamax tapes for EFF protesters as Grokster case continues in US Supreme Court
- India and China to discuss energy: cooperation or competition?
- Voyager space probes face shutdown
- Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike
- Desmond Tutu calls for election of African pope
- US blocks use of mapping technology in China
- Hunter S. Thompson obituary spawns "murder" theory
- 13 pilot whales returning to sea, off Western Australia
- HBO plans expansion of TV channels in Asia
- Venezuela buys more weapons, now from Spain
- NASA prepares to roll orbiter Discovery to launch pad
- Funeral of Pope John Paul II will be Friday 8 April at 10.00
- 2005 National Conference in the Norwegian Centre Party
- 2005 National Conference in the Norwegian Socialist Left Party
- Taiwan’s Blue Camp pays respects on the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Chiang Kai-shek
- Jeter saves the day for the Yankees
- China to sell warships to Pakistan
- Miles-long queue to view Pope John Paul one last time
- Talk-therapy can make a difference in early treatment of severe depression
- Owner of Wendy's chili finger still not found
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- UK Prime Minister sets 2005 General Election date
- Abu Ghraib prison camp struck by tractor bomb
- Triple limb-reattachment fails - boy loses foot
- India-China border talks resume
- Maiyo and Romanova triumph in Charleston's Cooper River Bridge Run
- China censors, arrests Catholics in wake of Pope's death
- Advocacy groups complain about 4parents.gov sex-ed website
- Nigerian Housing Minister fired in anti-corruption drive
- Study: cognitive therapy as good as medication, but lasts longer
- 16 dead after U.S. helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
- Businesses shy to adopt Windows XP SP2
- Swift mission measures distance to star explosions
- Militants attack Kashmir bus route safe house
- Canada presses Iran for an international investigation into Kazemi death
- Japan announces moon program
- Iraq elects Kurdish president, Saddam said to be shaken
- Space Shuttle Discovery resumes rollout to launch pad
- Prince Rainier III of Monaco has died
- Toronto transit union threatens strike for Monday
- Nigeria destroys illegal small arms
- North American citizens dealt passport requirement
- First female boxing death occurs in US sanctioned match
- Google Maps incorporates satellite images
- US Highway Administration releases interim report on Boston's Big Dig: press release claims tunnel safe, but report does not
- Dmitri Young hits three home runs in Tigers' opener
- 'Great' title for John Paul?
- Harvard University divests $4.4m of PetroChina stock
- ABC to move Internet news network back to U.S. TVs
- Bomb explodes on historic Kashmir bus route
- British journalists on trial in Zimbabwe
- ACLU: Gen. Sanchez possibly perjured himself at 2004 Senate inquiry
- 51 suspects named by UN for war crimes in Darfur
- Brazil organizes Summit of South American and Arab Countries
- NASA's Mars rovers exceed all expectations
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- Ethiopia plans to expand country's Internet access
- FDA mandates "black box" for Celebrex, pulls Bextra off market
- US House committee approves daylight saving time amendment
- At least four killed by bomb thrown from motorcycle in Cairo
- Space shuttle Discovery photographed from ISS
- Separatists fail to stop re-opening of Kashmir bus service
- Appeal launched for Australian citizen facing execution over marijuana charges
- ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings diagnosed with lung cancer
- Cricket: India beats Pakistan in Visakhapatnam ODI
- Hackers crack Sony PSP to allow Internet chat, web surfing
- FBI starts investigation of charges of shoddy work on new SF Bay bridge
- Bitmover ends free Bitkeeper, replacement sought for managing Linux kernel code
- Western Australia apologises to abused wards-of-state
- Italy urges pilgrims to avoid Rome city centre for Pope funeral
- U.S. Baseball: Delgado starts off well with Marlins
- University of North Carolina wins 2005 basketball tournament
- Tech heavyweights unite to offer $100 laptops to poor nations
- Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to avoid death sentence
- Spam mailer gets 9 year jail sentence
- Music promoter Mean Fiddler sold for almost £38m
- Cairo blast kills 3
- Brazilian cardinal criticizes President after inquired about Brazilian Pope
- Funeral of Pope John Paul II takes place
- Romanian PM and Siemens discuss Electroputere privatisation
- Romanian president meets with EU officials in Bucharest
- Bill Clinton to visit Romania
- Police search home of Las Vegas woman who found finger in her chili at Wendy's
- Sex, mental and physical exercise, fight dementia
- Iranian opposition group declares all acts of current government void
- Wikimedia announces Yahoo! support
- First Iraq Medal of Honor recipient receives memorial headstone at Arlington
- Gaza cease fire rocked by latest killing of youths
- Chinese rioters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing
- U.S. Postal rate increase proposed
- Time Warner/Comcast bid to snap up Adelphia cable service
- Toronto prepares for Monday transit strike
- Drug-resistant infections on the rise in American hospitals
- Bush EPA nominee abandons insecticide-on-children study after Senate hearing
- Hundreds arrested following pro-democratic rally in Nepal
- UN forced to cut food rations to a million Sudanese
- Future British monarch Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles
- Mozilla Foundation prepares third Firefox security update
- Who's the richest entertainer in Australia? The Wiggles of course!
- Angola: Marburg virus still spreading, 180 dead
- Pope's Brazilian cousins lament his death
- MSN Encarta introduces wiki-like enhancements
- Runners, fans prepare for 109th Boston Marathon
- FDA recalls "Mama's" brand smoked salmon
- Scientists proudly display oldest crystal on Earth
- Panic in Sumatra after new earthquake
- Anti-Japan protests spread to more Chinese cities
- Australia unemployment at 30-year low, but under-employed also at 5.1%
- Hard drive technology breaks storage density record
- Cambridge, Mass., city council recommends construction firm W. R. Grace remain under DEP supervision for asbestos contamination
- Maine, USA, Land Use Regulatory Commission approves reconstruction of camps on protected Allagash River
- Thousands march on Baghdad in anniversary protest
- Visiting students detained in Louisiana, USA, while photographing ExxonMobil chemical plant
- 'Sahara' goes blockbuster on first weekend
- NASA announces daily video feed for new Discovery mission
- German Wikipedia DVD on P2P networks
- German Wikipedia DVD sells out first 10,000-copy run
- Las Vegas 'chili finger' woman has history of lawsuits
- Arsenic and Thalidomide may be used to fight cancer
- South African former apartheid party dissolves
- Israeli president shakes hands with leaders of Syria, Iran at Pope's funeral
- Romanian investor kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is safe
- Romanian government to strengthen laws against tax evasion
- EU accession treaty for Romania published on the Internet
- US trade deficit soars to new high of US$61.04 billion
- Australian man arrested at U.S. Capitol building
- Eritrea plans to vaccinate 500,000 children
- Irish Enterprise Exchange Launched in Dublin
- Cloned cattle's milk and meat seem safe, according to new study
- New top level domain names created
- Tom DeLay raises Republican hackles as ethics charges dominate news
- KLM flight to Mexico sent back by U.S. Homeland Security, inquiry follows
- Australian Immigration denies issuing banned drug
- Child killed by family dog
- Conservative Party launches manifesto
- Police investigate new lead in 'Chili Finger' case; Ayala abandons lawsuit
- Torvalds codes temporary replacement for Bitkeeper
- New Zealand Cricket under pressure to stop Zimbabwe tour
- Tory candidate in election gaffe
- Blair launches third and final manifesto
- Unions ballot to "shut down the BBC"
- Microsoft releases low-cost Windows XP Starter Edition in Brazil
- Britons urged not to vote by post
- Sit-in at Washington University, St. Louis enters ninth day
- NASA rethinks abandoning Hubble
- Indiana businessman held hostage in Iraq
- Survey finds Spam tolerance growing
- European Parliament approves accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU
- Romania to adopt euro between 2012 and 2014
- TAROM cancels all Bucharest-Arad flights
- New industrial area to be created in Arad county, Romania
- Four Romanian ambassadors recalled
- IBM and National Geographic to launch DNA database project
- Death toll mounts in Nepal civil conflict
- Britney Spears announces she is pregnant
- NZ Prime Minister In Mid-Air Emergency
- China calls Japan's gas drilling plan 'a serious provocation'
- When the dog bites the hand of a stranger
- Killer virus sent worldwide
- U.S. Federal Agents arrest two Houston men in UN Oil for Food scandal
- Major 'Spiritual Life of College Students' study released by UCLA
- Lawsuits filed against students accused of illegally sharing files over the Internet2
- Israeli paratroopers stop 15 year old Palestinian from detonating himself
- Chinese authorities question genetically altered rice allegation
- German cannibal seeks review of manslaughter conviction
- Two astronauts blast off to their new home--International Space Station
- Lebanese Prime Minister steps down
- Last British volume car manufacturer closes down
- United States arrests 10,340 fugitives in first-of-kind nationwide sweep
- Australian police seize one tonne shipment of ecstacy
- British Airways launches three new weekly flights from Bucharest to London
- France Telecom significantly increases its share in Orange Romania
- U.S. Federal Judge overturns ephedra ban
- Romanian economy predicted to maintain steady growth until 2008
- "Levitra" ads pulled by FDA
- Over a quarter of a billion camera phones sold in 2004
- Freelance reporter fired from Boston Globe for adding fictitious details to story
- Senate unanimously confirms Michael Griffin as new NASA head
- Holland park introduces special trail for elderly and impaired
- NRA meets in Houston--Beleaguered Tom DeLay will speak
- Paris hotel fire kills 21
- Wendy's doubles reward for 'chili finger' info to US$100,000
- Second weekend of protests begins in China
- Hungary rebukes other EU members for their negative stance towards Croatia
- BBC launches the Creative Archive
- Utah Man pleads guilty in wife's death
- Deadly virus samples missing in Mexico/Lebanon
- AARP claims US prescription drug prices continue to rise
- New Zealand Cricket under pressure to stop Zimbabwe tour
- British National Fingerprint Database begins without parliamentary consultation
- Papal conclave attracting more bets than the Oscars
- Russian Soyuz docks with International Space Station for crew change
- Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle United
- ACLU, Minutemen trade accusations of misbehavior
- Unconfirmed: 20 dead, hundreds hurt after protest in Iranian city of Ahwaz
- Childhood exposure to TV linked to bullying
- Harvard University declines to discipline professor who plagiarized
- Freak wave rocks luxury liner--4 hurt
- Famed classical works rediscovered
- Croke Park opens to soccer and Rugby
- Internet censorship study group reports on China
- Littlewoods plans to axe 3,200 jobs
- Body of missing Florida girl found
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, releases study of local emissions
- Lebanese cabinet talks re-started by new PM
- Kenyan aviation union threatens government with strike
- Virgin billionaire suggests hybrids to save MG Rover
- Armstrong announces retirement from professional cycling
- Survivors gather to remember 1906 San Francisco quake
- Adobe to Purchase Macromedia for $3.4 Billion
- Five anti-hail centres to be set up in Romania
- Romanian government to sell 10 percent of its shares in Romgaz
- India, China to jointly construct Buddhist temple in Henan Province
- Movie industry looks toward bitTorrent as possible video distribution method
- North Korea shuts down its main nuclear reactor
- New mass grave discovered in Kosovo
- Barry Prime becomes Swim Ireland's new National Performance Director
- Associated Press changes online fee structure to meet Internet demands
- Afghan coalition forces repel Taliban ambush: 8 killed, 16 captured
- 109th Boston marathon takes place
- British retailer Littlewoods plans to axe 3,200 jobs
- German Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI
- Simon's Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with 'Imitation Game' experiment
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image: Adam Carr of Wikipedia
- Teen tram thief may yet work as tram driver
- Elwood Norris receives 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention
- MiniMax Discount to open inaugural stores in southern Romania
- Romanian Ministry of Communications and IT discusses future objectives
- Thermoelectric plants in Arad, Romania to be modernised
- Ukrainian president to visit Romania
- Angolan Marburg virus still threat
- Man arrested on charge of murdering Christa Worthington
- Iraqi President Talabani speaks on 50 dead found in Tigris River
- Norwegian whaling season starts with highest quota in a decade
- Infrared technology enables recovery of lost classical writings
- Australian blitz on fish poaching
- Google Maps, Google Local launches for Britain and Ireland
- U.S. federal communications agency revisits do-not-call registry
- New England Senators brawl over imported pharmaceuticals
- Breakthrough in talks between Philippine government, Muslim rebels
- Civil unrest forces out Ecuador's president
- Iran shuts down Al-Jazeera bureau
- Major US bankruptcy reform bill signed into law
- Partnership for a Drug-Free America study finds 1 in 5 teens abused prescription drugs
- Fatal dog mauling owner pleads “Not Guilty”
Image: Adam Carr of Wikipedia
- Melbourne's tram-driving teen faces more charges
- Advocate poll: GLAAD support not unanimous in U.S. gay commmunity
- France still a hot topic on college campuses
- Iraqi PM Allawi survives fifth attempted assassination
- Same-sex marriage bill passes in Spanish Congress of Deputies
- Creative Technology sees profits drop 72%, but sales soar
- Third concert date for U2 in Dublin
- Wendy’s finger pointer gets fingered for crime
- Motorola to launch iTunes mobile phone
- Irish National Pensions Reserve Fund gains 2.4% in first quarter
- Work begins on world's longest underwater pipeline
- NASA study: warming and snow melt chokes sea life 1000 miles distant
- Bodies of 12 young people found in Colombia
File photo: C. McCulloch
- Advertising contract scandal could bring down Canadian government
- Proposed bill could force federal weather data offline
- Koizumi offers apologies for Japan's past
- Radioactive soil from Maine reactor refused at landfill in Utah
- Last 10 days of online voting for Chatterbox Challenge
- Ecuador's ousted President granted asylum in Brazil
- Immigration and asylum turn voters off UK Tories
- Judges rule patrons may sue nude bars for lap-dance overcharges
- Widespread insurgencies in Iraq
- Sir John Mills dies at 97
- Dermot Mannion becomes new Aer Lingus CEO
- VoIP penetrates emergency calling infrastructure
- American who owns BenedictXVI.com wants "one of those hats"
- New rodent discovery leads to new mammal family
- Google translates Gmail to 12 languages, asks for volunteers to target 144 more
- Controversial Queensland Premier of 19 years dies at 94
- Romania will do everything possible to spare journalists kidnapped in Iraq
- Estonia to sign border treaty with Russia in a few weeks
- Texas Same-Sex Couples could be prohibited from fostering children
- Female sponge contraceptive re-approved for US market
- Elite Boston Marathon runner Emily Levan discusses life and running
- Woman arrested in Wendy's chili finger case and larcenous mobile home sale
- Moussaoui Pleads Guilty to 9/11 Attacks
- Boston Cyberarts Festival opens with Hotel@MIT gala
- Bush nomination to UN post faces bi-partisan problems
- Barry Prime changes mind about Swim Ireland
- British government considering new nuclear power stations
- 5-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed by Florida police
- Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq
- NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet
- Study: Children who socialise more, get cancer less
- Bulgarian and Romanian EU accession treaty is signed in Luxembourg
- BBC admits sending hecklers into Conservative campaign meeting
- Japanese commuter train derails, apartment building smashed
- Romanian PM says his country won't give in to terrorist demands
- Violence, allegations of fraud disrupt election in Togo
- Serb General Pavkovic to Surrender to Hague
- ISS Expedition 10 returns to Earth
- ANZAC's remembered ninety years after assault on Gallipoli
- LDS Church announces new library plans
- Molson beer buys into the craft market
- 150,000 street vendors in India shown how to avoid causing 'Delhi belly'
- Skydiver dies after legs severed in jump
- Iraqi insurgency continues unabated, new hopes for a cabinet
- New Government introduced to the Italian Parliament
- Indiana Pacers beat Boston Celtics by 3 in game 2 of US basketball playoffs
- Potential Goldsmith leak worries Labour, excites opposition
- UAL jet diverts in bomb scare
- British mother paralyzed in stabbing communicates with police
- Greenpeace protestors put solar panels on British Deputy Prime Minister's house
- US military investigation clears soldiers in shooting of Nicola Calipari
- Rescuers search for survivors of Japan rail disaster
- Argentinian workers preparing to defend control of factory
- India appoints new envoy to Bhutan
- President Bush and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah meet in Crawford ranch
- Thousands of Romanians rally for release of kidnapped journalists
- Historic summit, commemoration by Asian-African leaders in Bandung
- Putin’s state-of-the-nation speech addresses the economy
- TV show Firefly's "Serenity" movie trailer released, could spoil enjoyment for fans
- Wikipedia founder speaks at US law school
- Air alarm at White House, Bush moved to safety
- Boeing secures $11bn of aircraft deals
- New Italian goverment gets confidence from the House
- Lebanon government wins ‘vote of confidence’
- Dorothy's dress from Wizard of Oz sells for £140,000
- Bomb explosion kills two in Myanmar's second largest city
- Dutch mayors support legalisation of cannabis
- Children find human bones, develop interest in anatomy
- World's largest passenger airliner makes first flight
- Execution deadline for kidnapped journalists expires
- Syria: Lebanon pullout is "full and complete", UN to verify
- Indiana Pacers beat Boston Celtics again to lead series 2-1 in US basketball playoffs
- UK Party leaders questioned on BBC 'Question Time'
- UK govt concealed Attorney General's doubts over Iraq invasion
- General Pavkovic pleads not guilty
- Rare woodpecker discovered in Arkansas
- Berlusconi warns U.S. on agent's killing
- CIA gives up search and interrogation on Iraq WMDs
- European human rights body condemns U.S. "torture" at Guantanamo Bay
- Munch's "The Scream" might have been burned
- Hunter Tylo to rejoin the cast of "Bold and Beautiful"
- World's most expensive hotel-casino opens in Las Vegas
- Swedish packaging company transfers production lines to Romania
- Romanian mining industry to receive 115 million euro in state aid
- UK Party leaders questioned on BBC 'Question Time'
- U.S. EPA submits 2003 greenhouse gas inventory to U.N.
- Exploding toads confuse scientists
- New Italian goverment gets confidence from the Senate too
- Harvard University officials update Agassiz Neighborhood Council about local construction in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Latin America
- Ezer Weizman former Israeli president dies at the age of 81
- New drug from lizard's saliva
- Violent rioting, deaths follow disputed election in Togo
- Vindicated Thai GM activists face gaol all the same
- Pay-by-Plastic pumps up gas prices in U.S.
- Taiwan Kuomintang Party leader Lien Chan meets Hu Jintao in a historical visit to China
- First photo of a planet that orbits another sun
- Hindu mythological theme park planned for banks of Ganges
- Heavy rain washes away highway in Alba county, Romania
- Metro Cash and Carry to open new supermarket in Arad, Romania
- Orange Romania reaches 5.29 million subscribers in first quarter of 2005
- EU accession treaty ratified by Romanian government
- Partial local elections to be held in 26 Romanian towns
- INTOSAI meets in Paro, Bhutan
- Flood in Vojvodina worsens
- Romanian government asks kidnappers to release female journalist
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie in theaters
- Privatisation of Romanian power distributor completed