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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Scissors, screwdrivers accepted on US flights beginning December 22
- Blogger attacks Amazon "One-Click" patent
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Passenger claims to have bomb, killed by air marshals at Miami International Airport
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- US President Bush says 30,000 civilians killed in Iraq war
- Guantanamo detainee David Hicks seeks UK passport
- Opposition leader jailed in Venezuela
- 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
- 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
- Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks gets British citizenship
- Jury convicts Murdoch of outback murder
- 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
- Violence cuts short visit of Dominican Republic president
- 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
- Sydney's newest motorway to open today
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Opposition claims Australian Treasurer misled parliament
- 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
- Couples thrashed for sitting in a park in Meerut, India
- Former Australian defence chief's son to be discharged from the Army
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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