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Suicide Bombings Kill Eight

Dec 29, 2005 / 7:35 am

Separate suicide bomb attacks killed four people each in the West Bank and Baghdad and wounded many more. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a West Bank...

Fires Ravage Texas-Oklahoma

Dec 28, 2005 / 1:00 pm

At least 73 wildfires were racing across Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, leaving four people dead and forcing an entire town to evacuate, fire officials said....

Mass Grave In Iraq

Mass Grave In Iraq

Dec 27, 2005 / 9:00 am

Construction workers laying a water pipeline in the Iraqi city of Karbala Monday found a mass grave containing the remains of up to 20 people. The gruesome find...

Tsunami Victims Remembered

Dec 26, 2005 / 7:28 am

A wailing siren followed by a minute of silence marked the moment a year ago Monday when the Indian Ocean tsunami crashed ashore in Asia, sweeping away more...

Popes First Christmas Message

Pope""s First Christmas Message

Dec 25, 2005 / 10:54 am

URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI CHRISTMAS 2005 "I bring you good news of a great joy … for to you is born this day in the city of David...

Queens Christmas Message

Queen""s Christmas Message

Dec 25, 2005 / 9:46 am

In her Christmas Message to the Commonwealth in 2005, The Queen reflects on the humanitarian disasters of the year, and the achievements of communities in...

New Appeal For Release

New Appeal For Release

Dec 24, 2005 / 10:06 am

The families of four Western peace activists kidnapped in Iraq are taking out a series of radio and newspaper advertisements in Arabic appealing for their...

Fabricated Results Stem-Cell Research

Fabricated Results Stem-Cell Research

Dec 23, 2005 / 6:46 am

Researcher Hwang Woo-suk apologized Friday and resigned from a South Korean university after the school announced that he fabricated results in stem-cell...

Relief For NY Commuters

Relief For NY Commuters

Dec 22, 2005 / 11:25 am

Relief is in sight for millions of commuters in New York on Thursday with word that striking transit workers have agreed to return to work and resume contract...

Hussein: Bush Lied

Hussein: Bush Lied

Dec 22, 2005 / 7:16 am

In another courtroom outburst, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein said Thursday that the Bush administration lied when it claimed there were weapons of mass...

Alaskan Oil Drilling Blocked

Alaskan Oil Drilling Blocked

Dec 21, 2005 / 3:44 pm

The U.S. Senate has blocked a measure that would have allowed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration of U.S. President George...

Hussein Trial Has Restarted

Hussein Trial Has Restarted

Dec 21, 2005 / 7:34 am

After a two-week break, the Saddam Hussein trial -- proceedings that have been boisterous and unpredictable -- resumed Wednesday with Hussein in the courtroom...

Judge Fines Union 1M A Day

Judge Fines Union 1M A Day

Dec 20, 2005 / 1:42 pm

A judge has slapped a fine of $1 million US a day on New York's transit union after subway and bus workers went on strike Tuesday, stranding millions of...

New York In Gridlock

New York In Gridlock

Dec 20, 2005 / 7:18 am

Millions of New Yorkers were forced to make their way around the city by carpool, bicycle or on foot as a massive transit strike paralyzed the city, reducing...

Plane Crash Kills 12

Plane Crash Kills 12

Dec 19, 2005 / 1:04 pm

A propeller plane carrying at least 19 people crashed Monday off Miami Beach, and at least two people were killed, authorities said. The Chalk's Ocean Airways...

President Bush: Dont Despair

President Bush: Don""t Despair

Dec 19, 2005 / 6:56 am

President Bush, acknowledging deep divisions and difficult progress in Iraq, said U.S. forces are making "steady gains" in the nearly 3-year-old war and urged...

Ariel Sharon Suffers Stroke

Ariel Sharon Suffers Stroke

Dec 18, 2005 / 1:00 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suffered a minor stroke but his condition is improving, a hospital spokesman says. Sharon was taken to the hospital...

Canadaville Opens

Canadaville Opens

Dec 18, 2005 / 9:00 am

A controversial housing project built by Canadian business magnate Frank Stronach officially opened in the heart of Louisiana's bayou country on Saturday. Some...

Bush Admits To Spying

Bush Admits To Spying

Dec 17, 2005 / 9:14 am

President Bush acknowleged on Saturday that he authorized the National Security Agency "to intercept the international communications of people with known links...

Trial Set For Conrad Black

Trial Set For Conrad Black

Dec 16, 2005 / 2:30 pm

The trial of Conrad Black on charges of fraud, racketeering and obstruction of justice will not begin until March 5, 2007. Judge Amy St. Eve cited her own...

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