User:Dan100/My contributions/Jan-Jun 2005

Jan 9

• Severe storm hits United Kingdom in the early morning
• Voting underway for successor to Yasser Arafat
• Palestinian election ends, exit polls give Abbas lead
• Extraordinary feature found on Saturn's moon Iapetus

Jan 10

• UK New Year's Day murder suspect jumps from seventh floor window
• Abbas wins election, offers Israel 'hand of peace'

Jan 12

• Spanish trawler missing, three die in UK as storms hit northern Europe
• UK mounts rescue operation for Spanish trawler in distress in North Atlantic storm
• Iraqi violence may restrict elections

Jan 13

• US government stops looking for weapons of mass destruction
• Third in line to British throne dresses as Nazi
• Suicide attack at Karni crossing between Gaza Strip, Israel

Jan 15

• Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan, returns pictures
• Graner found guilty of mistreatment at Abu Ghraib

Jan 16

• Ariel Sharon gives 'free hand' to military for crack-down

Jan 17

• Woman aged 66 gives birth

Jan 19

• Research demonstrates GM crops can benefit wildlife
• UK soldiers go on trial for abusing Iraqi prisoners

Jan 20

• UN proposes world-wide natural disaster warning system

Jan 26

• Sharon to open discussion with Abbas
• Bush requests $80bn to pay for on-going military operations
• People killed as three trains crash in Los Angeles
• Distributed computing climate change model gives bleak results
• ESA's Smart-1 takes its first close-up images of the Moon
• Condoleezza Rice confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State by Senate vote

Jan 27

• Report: British serial killer murdered 250
• One hundred dead after air raid in Darfur, Sudan
• Driver who caused Los Angeles train crash charged with murder
• New York radio station apologises after 'humorous' tsunami song

Jan 29

• Annan invites Iraqis to exercise democratic rights
• US Navy chooses US-Europe US101 helicopter to be next Marine One
• Chinese airlines agree purchase of Boeing 787 Dreamliners worth US$7.2bn

Jan 31

• RAF Hercules crashes north of Baghdad killing ten
• Kofi Annan notes high turnout in 2005 Iraq elections

Feb 6

• Sports footwear companies progress towards eliminating sweatshops
• Coup in Togo after President dies

Feb 7

• Pirates killed 30 sailors in 2004

Feb 10

• Iranian President vows to maintain nuclear program

Feb 12

• Former Google employee says he was fired because of blog comments

Feb 14

• Madrid skyscraper devastated by fire
• Iran rejects EU nuclear reactor offer
• Large explosion in Beirut kills many including former prime minister

Feb 15

• Chinese mine blast kills over 200

Feb 17

• Second U.S. anti-missile defence system test fails
• Boeing unveils long-range 777
• China overtakes U.S. as world's largest consumer

Feb 20

• Plague kills scores in Democratic Republic of Congo

Feb 27

• Two-headed baby has second head removed
• Nine rescued from roof of blazing Taiwanese skyscraper

Mar 1

• Britain unveils flu pandemic preparedness plan, buys 14m courses of treatment drug

Mar 5

• World-wide measles deaths drop 40% over last five years
• Italian journalist wounded after release in Iraq, security officer dead

Mar 6

• Boeing allowed to bid for U.S. space launch contracts again

Mar 8

• Syria begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon

Mar 9

• Google releases Final version of Desktop Search

Mar 10

• Bulgarian government says U.S. killed Bulgarian soldier in 'friendly fire' incident (greatly expanded by Eloquence)

Mar 11

• US may not have known of Sgrena rescue operation

Mar 12

• British 13-year-old given life for rape of teacher

Mar 29

• Lorry drops thirteen tonnes of fish in British town

Mar 30

• British computer magazine discovers electricity cost of running computers
• Egyptians protest against President despite ban

Apr 1

• Parents of Terri Schiavo to sell list of supporters to marketing firm

Apr 4

• Talks held to avert Nigerian oil production strike

Apr 6

• Nigeria destroys illegal small arms
• Sixteen dead as US Chinook crashes in Afghanistan

Apr 9

• Mozilla Foundation prepares third Firefox security update

Apr 15

• Last British volume car manufacturer closes down

Apr 20

• Google Maps, Google Local launches for Britain and Ireland

Apr 24

• British government considering new nuclear power stations

Apr 26

• Greenpeace protestors put solar panels on British Deputy Prime Minister's house
• British mother paralyzed in stabbing communicates with police

Apr 27

• World's largest passenger airliner makes first flight
• Boeing secures $11bn of aircraft deals

May 1

• Firefox browser reaches fifty million downloads

May 2

• British Skylark rocket makes its final flight

May 6

• British Conservative leader Michael Howard to step down

May 10

• Major security flaws found in Mozilla Firefox browser

May 12

• Security flaws in Mozilla Firefox internet browser fixed

May 25

• London's Millennium Dome to become a concert arena

June 6

• England off to electric start in Women's Euro 2005 football championship

June 10

• British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur

June 11

• G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations

June 15

• Red and processed meats linked to bowel cancer

June 17

• British motorists showered with cash on motorway
• US trade deficit increases to record high in first quarter 2005
• Dell would be 'happy' to sell PCs running Mac OS X

June 19

• Michelin's tyre mistake sends US Formula One Grand Prix into farce

June 20

• Filmcrew working for Channel 4 arrested for soaking Tom Cruise in London

June 23

• Solar sail craft may have made orbit

June 24

• England and Wales see 60% increase in public injured by police vehicles
• President Mugabe bulldozes homes of 200,000 across Zimbabwe

June 25

• Nigeria's past rulers stole $400 billion in public money

June 27

• Israeli soldier convicted in killing of British activist in Gaza Strip

June 28

• France secures site for 10 billion euro nuclear fusion research project

June 29

• US helicopter with 17 on board believed to have been shot down in Afghanistan

June 30

• Bodies found at crash site of US helicopter in Afghanistan