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| 2005 |
| | | The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Tony Blair wins the Labour party an unprecedented third successive term, but with a majority reduced from 167 to 66 | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Two years after its first appearance, the World Health Organization announces that the deadly disease SARS has been 'eradicated' | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The French people become the first to reject, in a referendum, the proposed European Constitution | |
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| 2005 |
| | | After a long trial US singer Michael Jackson is declared in a California court not guilty on ten charges of child molestation | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour | |
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| 2005 |
| | | A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist | |
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| 2005 |
| | | US cyclist Lance Armstrong retires from competition after winning a seventh successive victory in the Tour de France | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Israel uses force to remove settlers who refuse to leave Gaza in accordance with Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and chaos to New Orleans and other coastal areas, causing more than 1500 deaths | |
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| 2005 |
| | | In the New Zealand election Helen Clark wins a third term as prime minister | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad are published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta | |
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| 2005 |
| | | An earthquake kills more than 70,000 people in inaccessible regions near Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan part of Kashmir | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad causes international outrage by describing Israel as a blot that should be 'wiped off the map' | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, resigns from his party (Likud) with the intention of forming a new one (Kadima) | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, replaces Gerhard Schröder and becomes Germany's first woman chancellor | |
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| 2005 |
| | | French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens carry out the first human face transplant | |
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| 2005 |
| | | David Cameron wins the Tory leadership election, succeeding Michael Howard as the Leader of the Opposition in Britain | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The first general election is held in Iraq, for 275 members of a permanent Iraqi General Assembly | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon suffers a massive stroke which leaves him in a coma | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party, wins the federal election in Canada and forms a minority government | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Hamas, defined in many countries as a terrorist organization, wins the majority of seats in elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council | |
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| 2006 |
| | | More than £53 million is stolen in a raid on the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent – the UK's largest robbery | |
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| 2006 |
| | | British actress Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (for which she later wins an Oscar) | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Slobodan Milosevic dies of a heart attack in gaol in the Hague, with his trial for war crimes in Yugoslavia still incomplete | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The terrorist organization ETA declares what it says will be a permanent ceasefire in its campaign for Basque independence | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Kadima, the party founded by Ariel Sharon, wins the most seats in the Israeli elections | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The Scottish National Party lays a charge that peerages are being 'sold' in Britain, provoking a police enquiry and a 'cash for honours' crisis | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Romano Prodi becomes Italy's prime minister after narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi in a general election | |
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| 2006 |
| | | Ehud Olmert, Sharon's successor as leader of Kadima, becomes Israel's prime minister at the head of a coalition government | |
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