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al-Qaeda Leader Dead

Sep 27, 2005 / 7:45 am

The second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq is dead. U.S. forces confirmed on Tuesday that Abdullah Abu Azzam was shot during a raid in Baghdad. Abu Azzam was a...

IRA Gives Up Arsenal

IRA Gives Up Arsenal

Sep 26, 2005 / 3:30 pm

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has given up its entire arsenal of weapons after more than three decades of armed struggle against British rule, according to...

New Orleans Heading Home

New Orleans Heading Home

Sep 26, 2005 / 7:30 am

Residents of one New Orleans neighbourhood were told they can go home on Monday. Mayor Ray Nagin said that people living in Algiers could return to their homes...

Rita Cleanup Begins

Sep 25, 2005 / 8:00 am

Residents along the Texas and Louisiana coasts breathed a sigh of relief Saturday, and began to clean up after Hurricane Rita barrelled through their states....

Hurricane Rita Hit Texas-Louisiana

Hurricane Rita Hit Texas-Louisiana

Sep 24, 2005 / 6:57 am

With howling winds and driving rain, Hurricane Rita made landfall at 3:30 a.m. ET Saturday on the extreme southwest coast of Louisiana near Sabine Pass, Texas....

Rita Pours Through Levee

Rita Pours Through Levee

Sep 23, 2005 / 2:30 pm

Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighbourhoods in a...

Evacuees Bus Explodes

Evacuees Bus Explodes

Sep 23, 2005 / 7:35 am

A bus bound for Dallas exploded early Friday on Interstate 45 in Wilmer, killing at least 24 mostly elderly nursing home patients being evacuated from Houston...

1.3 Million Evacuate For Rita

1.3 Million Evacuate For Rita

Sep 22, 2005 / 6:55 am

Hospitals and nursing homes were evacuated and more than 1.3 million along the Gulf Coast were ordered out as hurricane Rita turned into a 280 km/h monster...

Rita Now Category 5

Rita Now Category 5

Sep 21, 2005 / 7:15 pm

Monster storm Hurricane Rita is blowing across the Gulf of Mexico for the Texas coast. The storm is now classified as the third most intense hurricane on...

Crippled Plane Lands Safely

Sep 21, 2005 / 6:25 pm

A safe but dramatic end to a long ordeal for passengers and crew. Jet Blue Flight 292 from Burbank to JFK New York turned around Wednesday to make a 'soft'...

Rita Now Category 4

Rita Now Category 4

Sep 21, 2005 / 7:10 am

Hurricane Rita is now a Category 4 storm packing winds reaching 217 km/h. It grew from a tropical storm to a powerful hurricane in less than 24 hours. And the...

Hurricane Rita Strengthens

Hurricane Rita Strengthens

Sep 20, 2005 / 1:30 pm

Hurricane Rita became stronger Tuesday as it blasted the Florida Keys with flooding rain and strong wind, threatening the low-lying island chain with a storm...

Wiesenthal - Nazi Hunter Dies

Wiesenthal - Nazi Hunter Dies

Sep 20, 2005 / 6:40 am

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following the Second World War, has died. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his...

Korea Promises No Nukes

Korea Promises No Nukes

Sep 19, 2005 / 7:52 am

North Korea promised Monday to end nuclear weapons development and rejoin international arms treaties. The breakthrough came during six-party talks between...

Mayor Defends Return Plan

Mayor Defends Return Plan

Sep 18, 2005 / 9:00 am

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city within a week and a half despite concerns about the short supply of...

Hijacked Plane Misses Tower

Sep 17, 2005 / 9:00 am

A man stole a light plane and threatened to crash it into the landmark Sky Tower in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, before plunging the craft into the sea...

New Orleans Will Be Rebuilt

New Orleans Will Be Rebuilt

Sep 16, 2005 / 6:30 am

U.S. President George W. Bush vowed that the federal government will pay most of the costs of rebuilding New Orleans and the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, which...

Victims Family To Intervene

Victim""s Family To Intervene

Sep 15, 2005 / 2:13 pm

A Quebec Superior Court judge will allow the parents of Leslie Mahaffey and Kristen French to intervene at Karla Homolka's appeal. The decision has delayed...

Phased Repopulation For Orleans

Phased Repopulation For Orleans

Sep 15, 2005 / 8:40 am

The mayor of New Orleans said he will announce a "phased repopulation" plan Thursday that will bring 180,000 evacuated residents back into the city in the next...

Bomber Attacks In Baghdad

Bomber Attacks In Baghdad

Sep 14, 2005 / 6:40 am

A man promising work lured a large crowd of Shia labourers to his minivan in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, and then blew it up. The van contained 225 kilograms...

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