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Tests reveal that Viktor Yushchenko, opposition candidate in Ukraine's presidential election, has been poisoned with dyoxin
Armed robbers, suspected of links with the IRA, steal more than £25 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast
A massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that kills nearly 200,000 people
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko easily wins the re-run of the rigged presidential election in the Ukraine
Daniele Benati publishes Cani dell'inferno ("Hounds of Hell"), in which deported Italian dissidents drift with nothing to do in a mysterious American city, an image of hell
After months of protests demanding regime change and often violent unrest, the army in Thailand seizes control and declaries martial law
Patriarch Christodoulos attends the funeral in Rome of Pope John Paul II
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile
The Swedish author Stieg Larsson publishes his phenomenally successful novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of the three volumes in his Millennium series
Mahmoud Abbas is elected president of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat
Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri is killed when a massive bomb is detonated as his car passes in Beirut
A student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota kills five fellow students and two staff members before committing suicide
John Paul II, dying after 26 years on the papal throne, is the third longest-serving pope in history
After leaving the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPO) Jöorg Haider, the party's leader since 1986, forms another far-right group, the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZO)
The Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles, subsequently to be known as the Duchess of Cornwall
Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI
Following local and international pressure after the death of Rafik Hariri, Syria withdraws the last of its troops from Lebanon
The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse
Tony Blair wins the Labour party an unprecedented third successive term, but with a majority reduced from 167 to 66
Two years after its first appearance, the World Health Organization announces that the deadly disease SARS has been 'eradicated'
The film series of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia is launched with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The French people become the first to reject, in a referendum, the proposed European Constitution
After a long trial US singer Michael Jackson is declared in a California court not guilty on ten charges of child molestation
Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran
Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour
