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- Tsunami deaths mount to more than 120,000 Indonesia stops counting, confirmed counts continue to rise.
- Republicans seek to reduce ethics rules
- DirecTV tunes out Trio, network in limbo Loss of its largest carrier may spell doom for struggling cable channel.
- Australian National Archives release Loans Affair documents Scathing attack by Australian Treasury over loans in 1974.
- Aid pledges rise; Japan promises 500,000,000 USD Nearly 2 billion USD promised, U.N. warns of logistic bottlenecks.
- Idi Amin offered to act as peacemaker in NI Release of British Government documents reveals surprising peace initiative.
- Billionaire Mark Cuban asks President Bush to cancel inauguration parties Entrepreneur critical of U.S. aid to Tsunami victims.
- Pinochet arrested after Supreme Court ruling Former Chilean dictator faces murder, kidnapping charges.
- Heavy Lift Delta IV Rocket Launches
- 'Noise' takes on 'Fockers' in weekend box office race New Michael Keaton horror film is panned by critics.
- Discovery of the most powerful explosion in the Universe
- Heavy lift Delta IV rocket launch problems
- US Navy Los Angeles-class attack submarine runs aground near Guam
- Tsunami aid donations in 2005 deductible for 2004 in the U.S.
- First unvaccinated survivor of rabies discharged from hospital
- Extraordinary feature found on Saturn's moon Iapetus
- Key HIV gene discovered
- Palestinian election ends, exit polls give Abbas lead
- Peace agreement signed in Sudan
- One dies in submarine accident
- Voting underway for successor to Yasser Arafat
- Severe storm hits United Kingdom in the early morning Northern England and parts of Wales affected.
- NASA schedules launch date for comet-chasing probe Spacecraft to impact comet on July 4.
- Torture and mass arrests of Christians in Vietnam
- News Briefs: January 9, 2005: US Military; Sudan; Newsweek.
- Wells Fargo and Barclay's rumoured to be in merger talks
- Radiobras Brazilian news agency moved to Free Software
- CBS fires four in fake Bush story fallout
- Abbas wins election, offers Israel 'hand of peace'
- Guatemala nominates Rigoberta Menchú for OAS Secretary General
- UK New Year's Day murder suspect jumps from seventh floor window
- Life discovered in extreme environment
- News Briefs: January 10, 2005: Palestinian election result, Tsunami relief, ringing planet, Israeli government.
- Mamdouh Habib to be released from Guantanamo Bay without charge AU government will not prosecute Habib upon his return. New Australian anti-terrorism laws not retroactive.
- Third case of BSE reported in Canada
- Bush nominates Chertoff for new Secretary of Homeland Security Federal judge seen as safe cabinet pick.
- Jobs unveils new products after cloud of secrecy and lawsuits "Mac mini", small form-factor version of a Macintosh; "iPod shuffle", flash-based music player.
- News Briefs: January 11, 2005: Italy smoking ban; Ukraine troops; Pope concerned; News Corp
- UK mounts rescue operation for Spanish trawler in distress in North Atlantic storm
- Spanish trawler missing, three die in UK as storms hit northern Europe
- Brazilian President son's photoblog causes polemic
- Iraqi violence may restrict elections
- United States trade deficit reaches all time high
- Nine die in bush-fires in South Australia Soaring temperatures keep fire burning out of control
- Amrish Puri no more
- News Briefs: January 12, 2005: Nortel, Joseph Estrada, Iraqi elections
- Thatcher Pleads Guilty in Coup Plot
- Brazilian deputies meet Ramallah Abbas
- Honduras deploys 8,000 troops to ensure peaceful elections
- Huygens moon probe to land on Titan. Scientists ready for landing on Saturn's largest moon
- Suicide attack at Karni crossing between Gaza Strip, Israel
- Third in line to British throne dresses as Nazi
- US government stops looking for weapons of mass destruction
- Mexican candidate confident of winning OAS leadership race
- Bush pressured Israel to seize Chinese aircraft
- Jefferson Airplane drummer dies at 66
- News Briefs: January 13, 2005: Mad cow fallout, UK Nazi flap, WMD hunt ends, odd rock on Mars
- Beijing plans $242B freeway link to Taiwan
- Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan, returns pictures
- Beijing plans $242B freeway link to Taiwan
- Prado Dam area evacuated Southern California recovers from mudslides.
- Long Island-sized iceberg to ram Antarctic coast Penguin breeding grounds, glacier threatened.
- El Salvador presents Flores as OAS candidate
- 'Electra'-fying competition faces 'Fockers' Three North American film debuts may break Fockers' box office hold.
- Australia to deport asylum seekers to Tsunami Zone
- Bush pressured Israel to seize Chinese aircraft
- Viacom delays launch of gay cable channel New channel now plans to debut in U.S. June 30.
- News Briefs: January 14, 2005. Radio signal from Titan, $242B bridge to taiwan.
- Capture of FARC member creates crisis between Venezuela and Colombia The imprisonment of the Marxist Rodrigo Granda, member of the FARC, by Colombian authorities raised a severe crisis between Venezuela and Colombia.
- Graner found guilty of mistreatment at Abu Ghraib Jury sentences him to ten years in prison.
- Finland, Canada named among world's most-fit nations Countries make strides in shedding "couch potato" image.
- IBM Releases 500 patents to open source community Cheers and jeers
- Man is waiting for 139 days in front of theater for "Star Wars" movie
- News Briefs: January 15, 2005. Preaching ban, rising sea levels, wikibirthday.
- U.S. reported to mount covert operations in Iran
- Japan plans defense against Chinese invasion
- Ariel Sharon gives 'free hand' to military for crack-down
- Mars lander website opens
- Hong Kong Makes First File-Sharing Arrest A Hong Kong man has been arrested for sharing 3 MPAA movies by BitTorrent
- Colombia releases official notice in response to Venezuela "Colombia does not accept that representatives of terrorist organizations be admitted in a political event sponsored by official Venezuelan institutions" says the document.
- Purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang dies at 85 Placed under house arrest in 1989 for supporting Tiananmen protesters
- Woman aged 66 gives birth Considered oldest woman to give birth
- News Briefs: January 17, 2005 Catholic archbishop kidnapped, Chinese bank swindle, Bosnian genocide conviction
- News Briefs: January 18, 2005: Chinese abducted in Iraq, Oldest mom, Rice in Congress, Muslim hajj.
- Swedish doctor prosecuted for refusal to hand over patient data
- Airbus launches world's largest passenger plane The new aircraft king beats the Boeing 747
- Archbishop kidnapped in Iraq released unharmed
- New tsunami could hit soon British government minister gives dark warning
- Deadliest year ever for journalists? 129 media workers killed during 2004
- White rhinos fly to safety Last hope for threatened animals.
- First ever corruption conviction of public official in Honduras
- Chile's candidate convinced of enough votes to become OAS chief
- Romanians raise 395,000 euro for tsunami victims The Romanian public has raised € 395,000 for tsunami victims
- Romania plans to send more troops to Iraq Romania has pledged 100 more troops to Iraq in time for its elections
- Romanian president to visit United Kingdom
- Actress Virginia Mayo dies
- Latham quits as Australian Labor leader
- 500 policemen seek drug dealers in Rio
- UK soldiers go on trial for abusing Iraqi prisoners
- Research demonstrates GM crops can benefit wildlife
- Yahoo triples its quarterly profit on strong advertising revenue. Company exceeds analyst expectations
- Marxist intellectuals support arrested FARC leader
- Annual Islamic pilgrimage takes place
- Bucharest to host its first ever CowParade. The world's largest public art event is coming to the Romanian capital
- Romanian economy booms in 2004. Romania achieves a record-high GDP growth of 8.3% in 2004
- Pacific Northwest soaked with "Tropical Punch": Severe weather on the northwestern coast of North America.
- Heart attack kills brother of Brazilian president
- Washington state lawmaker looks to outlaw handheld cell phones while driving
- JP Morgan apologizes for slavery
- China Plans Next Manned Space Mission. Shenzhou VI spaceship will bring two Chinese astronauts to space in Autumn
- UN proposes world-wide natural disaster warning system. A global initiative to fight with Mother Nature
- Bush inaugurated for second term As Bush vows to expand freedom "in all the world"
- Rover finds meteorite on Mars
- Swedish pastor appeals hate-crime conviction for antigay sermon. Hate crime legislation vs freedom of religion
- Condoleezza Rice confirmed as next U.S. Secretary of State, pending full Senate vote. Democrats want more time to consider nomination
- Romanian artists auction off their works for tsunami victims. Romanian artists and celebrities auction off artworks and personal belongings
- Bucharest Metro operator to purchase more modern trainsets. Bucharest Metro to acquire a second series of state-of-the-art trains from Bombardier
- Russian diplomats operated string of brothels in Finland
- Video details tortures by Saddam’s soldiers
- Brazilian President meets President of Colombia. Lula da Silva travelled to the Colombian city of Leticia, where he met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. They discussed the crisis between Colombia and Venezuela.
- Music Video with More Than 100 Children's TV Characters Attacked by Anti-Gay Activists
- Civil Unrest in Belize
- Conference discusses the credibility of blogs Jimmy Wales speaks at a conference on the credibility of journalism, blogs, and wikis. May contain original research.
- Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Dies. Famous Polish WW II hero dies in Warsaw, aged 91.
- NASA's Swift detects possible birth of black hole
- Bob Jones III to retire. Chairman of eponymous Christian university to be succeeded by son
- Romanian president warns of high-level corruption
- Romanian band to hold concert for tsunami victims. Sarmelele Reci will hold a concert in Bucharest to raise funds for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Romanians to pay power bills via SMS. Romanians will soon have the opportunity to pay for electricity bills via SMS.
- Beazley may face challengers for leadership. Others vie for Australia Labor Party's top job.
- Methane Rain in Titan's Rivers
- News Briefs: January 21, 2005: Deadly attack in Baghdad, Palestinian forces in Gaza, Putin's congratulations.
- Chinese Hostages Freed in Iraq
- Mars Rover’s Basketball-Shaped Discovery Stirs Controversy
- Spanish government to hold ISPs responsible for web content
- Brazilian kidnapped in Iraq
- TeliaSonera Sweden introduces major improvements. Swedish telecommunications company launches EDGE technology and increases land coverage to 90% of Sweden.
- Palestinians Fighting Terrorism
- Security Measures Increasing In Iraq
- FBI Probes Into Boston Terror Suspect Case
- 15,000 attended memorial for Zhao Ziyang
- Romanian nuclear plant reports record-high production
- Online purchases boom in Romania. Internet commerce through the Visa network has increased substantially in Romania in 2004.
- Labrador's Inuit sign land claims agreement
- Militants of Palestine Deny Recent Ceasefire Claim
- Yushchenko Sworn In
- Report: The Pentagon's new powers
- China Hands Stiff Sentences to 27 Farmers Over Land Seizure Protest
- Google plans free Internet phone service. The search king is planning its next big move into the VoIP market.
- Taiwan's cabinet resigns
- Venezuela-Colombia crisis continues
- Lithuania plans to adopt euro in 2007
- Romanian Social Democrats criticise flat tax. Romania's opposition party has criticised the government's new liberal fiscal policy of a 16% flat tax rate.
- Woman appointed as Bucharest prefect
- Romanian PM visits Brussels. Romanian PM Călin Popescu Tăriceanu visits Brussels to discuss the Government's strategies for EU accession.
- Relativity turns 100
- Northeast US blizzards create havoc
- Top Zarqawi ally captured
- Militant group declares war on Iraq poll
- FBI places limitation on public viewing of files
- Don Brash at Orewa: 'Whatever happened to personal responsibility?'
- Frank Hsieh named new Taiwanese premier
- City of São Paulo celebrates 451 years of existence
- Rumsfeld Skips Munich Security Conference
- Academy Award Nominees Announced
- Google launches Video Search. Finding your favorite TV show will just be a few clicks away.
- Mars Rover tracks viewed from orbit
- Lab creates petrified wood
- Zhao Ziyang's funeral scheduled for Saturday
- China commutes Tibetan monk's death sentence
- Condoleezza Rice confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State by Senate vote
- ESA's Smart-1 takes its first close-up images of the Moon
- Distributed computing climate change model gives bleak results
- Iraq: Marines killed in helicopter crash
- People killed as three trains crash in Los Angeles
- White House cuts Hubble from budget
- Expedition 10 completes first spacewalk
- Bush requests $80bn to pay for on-going military operations
- Sharon to open discussion with Abbas
- The British referendum question is published today
- MST creates Marxist school in Brazil
- News Briefs: January 26, 2005
- Rice new Secretary of State
- Sun donates Solaris operating system, 1,600 patents to community
- China detains and beats mourners for Zhao Ziyang
- 28 alleged Putin insulters freed from police custody
- The first day of the World Social Forum wraps up
- Palestinian Authority bans citizens from carrying weapons
- New York radio station apologises after 'humorous' tsunami song
- Row intensifies between Sinn Féin & the Irish Government
- Saskatchewan town asks for return of "accidental" tsunami donation
- One hundred dead after air raid in Darfur, Sudan
- Report: British serial killer murdered 250
- Driver who caused Los Angeles train crash charged with murder
- The World Social Forum kicks off in Porto Alegre
- News Briefs: January 27, 2005
- Hamas takes victory in Gaza elections
- Man convicted of murdering wife 28 years ago
- Honduras' Head of Congress illegally standing for President
- Telekom Austria could take-over Romanian mobile telephony giant. The Austrian communications company could take over Romania's Mobifon, which operates under the Connex brand.
- CNN founder Ted Turner calls Fox News Bush's propaganda machine
- P&G to acquire Gillette for US$57 billion
- News Briefs: January 28, 2005
- Chinese airlines agree purchase of Boeing 787 Dreamliners worth US$7.2bn
- Official figures didn't show 60% of dead Iraqi civilians were killed by coalition forces, says BBC
- Iraqi elections kept low-key, but secure, in Paris
- US Navy chooses US-Europe US101 helicopter to be next Marine One
- Taiwan-China flights begin
- Annan invites Iraqis to exercise democratic rights
- 2005 World Social Forum-Brazil coverage
- 2005 World Social Forum-Brazil coverage
- Zapatero builds left axis in South America
- Habib back in Australia, thankful to supporters
- French goat is found to have BSE
- First free Iraqi election begins; insurgents strike
- Ex UK Minister Chris Smith was HIV Positive for 17 years
- Ephraim Kishon dies at 80
- MetLife to acquire Travelers Life and Annuity from Citigroup
- Kofi Annan notes high turnout in 2005 Iraq elections
- RAF Hercules crashes north of Baghdad killing ten
- Virgin of Suyapa visits Honduran suburb devastated by massacre
- Vandals deface Australia's Myall Creek memorial
- Slovak escapes from avalanche using urine
- Report into 2003/2004 New South Wales (Australia) hospital safety released
- Protests at New York's Hamilton College over controversial professor
- 2005 World Social Forum-Brazil coverage
- Survey reveals US student apathy for freedom of speech