World
Britons freed by hostage-takers
Published: 31 December 2005
Sudanese refugees killed as Egyptian police storm protest camp in Cairo park
Published: 31 December 2005
At least 20 Sudanese refugees and asylum-seekers, including three children, have been killed and dozens injured after authorities cleared a protest camp in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Boy, 16, made lone trip to Iraq for school project
Published: 31 December 2005
When Farris Hassan returns to Florida this weekend from a solo trip to Baghdad over Christmas, one thing is for sure - his parents will ground him.
Sierra Leone bids farewell to UN troops
Published: 31 December 2005
The people of Sierra Leone are preparing themselves for life without peacekeepers after the final contingent of United Nations soldiers leaves the country today, in what is being hailed as an African success story.
2006: What we already know
Published: 31 December 2005
Aid agencies predicted winter disaster - now it is reality for people of Kashmir
Published: 30 December 2005
Peace in wake of tsunami as last troops leave Aceh
Published: 30 December 2005
The people of Aceh witnessed a sight yesterday that would have seemed unthinkable a year ago: the departure of the last of the troops sent to the remote Indonesian province to suppress an insurgency that raged for nearly three decades.
No clues to fate of family kidnapped in Gaza
Published: 30 December 2005
The kidnapping of a British human rights worker and her parents by gunmen remains a mystery, with no claims of responsibility and no leads as to the family's whereabouts
Sony attacked over 'graffiti' campaign in the city of murals
Published: 30 December 2005
The murals that cover the walls and buildings of Philadelphia are famous across the country. There are images of Frank Sinatra and Dr J; a painting of the baseball great Jackie Robinson sliding into the home plate. And there was - until the building from which it looked out was recently demolished - a splendid mural of Harriet Tubman, the black anti-slavery activist.
Envoy's suicide raises tension between China and Japan
Published: 30 December 2005
China and Japan are locked in a bitter war of words after the Japanese government accused spies from China of being responsible for the suicide of one of its diplomats.
Review of the year: Robert Fisk on war without end
Published: 30 December 2005
Review of the year: Iraq
Published: 30 December 2005
Review of the year: Deep-space explorers make contact
Published: 30 December 2005
Titan is the largest of Saturn's many moons, and the year began as it was visited by a spacecraft from Earth that landed a small probe on its frozen surface. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft took seven years to travel the two billion miles to its final destination.
Review of the year: The Bush Administration
Published: 30 December 2005
Terrorism cases in US may be reopened after scandal
Published: 29 December 2005
Defence lawyers in several terrorism cases in the United States are planning to appeal against the convictions of their clients on the ground that evidence may have been garnered from illegal wiretapping
British worker seized with her parents in Gaza
Published: 29 December 2005
A British human rights worker and her parents have been kidnapped close to the Gaza border with Egypt in the latest of a series of seizures by militants of foreigners in the Strip
Landslide kills at least 20 people in Yemen
Published: 29 December 2005
A landslide has crushed about 30 homes at the foot of a north Yemeni mountain, killing at least 20 villagers, Interior Ministry and medical officials said today.
US chat show host who sent 'coded messages' has restraining order lifted
Published: 29 December 2005
David Letterman, the doyen of American late-night chat show hosts, has had his share of fans with unhealthy fixations, but this one probably beats them all: a New Mexico woman who claims he has been sending her secret coded messages over the airwaves so incessantly that it constitutes "mental harassment and hammering".
Bush's holiday reading hints at thoughts of life after White House
Published: 29 December 2005
Is President George Bush already thinking of life after the White House? While he still has a full three years of his term left, his spokesman has revealed his holiday reading list contains a biography of Theodore Roosevelt's life after leaving office.
Five dead after fires in Oklahoma and Texas
Published: 29 December 2005
By the time the smoke cleared today, more than 100 homes across wildfire-stricken Texas and Oklahoma lay in ruins and at least five people were dead, including two elderly women trapped in their homes by the flames.
Fatah unifies for poll while Israel bombs Gaza zone
Published: 29 December 2005
The popular jailed activist Marwan Barghouti is to head a unified list of Fatah candidates in a move designed to strengthen the faction's chances of defeating Hamas in parliamentary elections next month.
'Leaseback plan' for settlements
Published: 29 December 2005
The biggest Jewish settlement blocks in the West Bank could be "leased" from the Palestinians under a new formula being discussed within the Israeli Labour Party to overcome one of the most difficult obstacles to a lasting peace.
Revealed: the pill that prevents cancer
Published: 28 December 2005
A daily dose of vitamin D could cut the risk of cancers of the breast, colon and ovary by up to a half, a 40-year review of research has found
