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Words in the News - Archive - 2006
- hanging - Dec 30 - Saddam Hussein executed by hanging
- ice shelf - Dec 29 - Ice shelf breaks free in Canadian Arctic
- overshoot - Dec 27 - Blair flight overshoots runway
- explosion - Dec 26 - Gasoline pipeline explosion in Nigeria kills hundreds
- GPA - Dec 23 - Republican aide fired for trying to hire hackers to raise his GPA
- chaos - Dec 22 - Travel chaos as fog descends on United Kingdom
- Harry Potter - Dec 21 - JK Rowling announces seventh Harry Potter title
- e-passport - Dec 18 - E-Passport cloned in five minutes
- prostitute - Dec 15 - Five prostitutes found dead in U.K. brings fears of "Ipswich Ripper"
- dictator - Dec 11 - Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91
- water - Dec 8 - NASA: Signs of liquid water found on surface of Mars
- chaos - Dec 6 - Iraq Study Group Report: Iraq could be on a slide towards chaos
- heart attack - Dec 3 - Former Chilean President Pinochet suffers heart attack
- polonium-210 - Nov 29 - Polonium 210 traces found on three British Airways aircraft
- radiation - Nov 25 - Traces of radiation found where Litvinenko ate
- nuclear deterrent - Nov 22 - Cabinet to discuss UK nuclear deterrent for the first time tomorrow
- disaster - Nov 18 - Blair agrees Iraq is a disaster
- economist - Nov 16 - Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94
- Al Jazeera - Nov 14 - Al Jazeera English news channel to go live today
- radicalisation - Nov 10 - MI5 Chief: surprised and alarmed by speed of radicalisation of Muslims in UK
- Secretary of Defense - Nov 8 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns
- midterm election - Nov 7 - Midterm election polls open in United States
- boarding pass - Nov 5 - FBI raids creator of fake boarding pass generator
- yellow pages - Nov 4 - Telecom New Zealand to sell Yellow Page Group
- military tribunal - Nov 3 - U.S. military tribunal law faces first court challenge
- mirror image - Nov 1 - Elephants recognize mirror image of themselves
- Brownian motion - Oct 28 - Physicists test 'forgotten' Brownian motion theory
- wildfire - Oct 27 - California wildfire kills four firefighters seriously injures one
- STEREO - Oct 26 - NASA launches STEREO spacecraft
- Firefox - Oct 24 - New version of Firefox browser released
- population - Oct 21 - US population reaches 300 million
- dirty bomb - Oct 19 - American city officials warned about dirty bomb threat
- buffer zone - Oct 17 - Eritrea moves troops into UN buffer zone
- unwelcome - Oct 13 - British top General says troops are unwelcome in Iraq
- dark matter - Oct 11 - Dark matter lacks extra gravitational force
- PM - Oct 9 - Controversy follows after Canadian PM skips vote for hockey game
- turbine - Oct 7 - Bratsk hydroelectric plant gets new turbine
- limbo - Oct 6 - Vatican considering abolishing limbo
- pumpkin - Oct 5 - Halloween faces pumpkin shortage
- Amish - Oct 3 - Fatal shooting at school in Pennsylvania, USA
- lockdown - Oct 2 - Las Vegas schools on lockdown
- second in command - Sep 30 - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri appears in new videotape
- trans fat - Sep 28 - New York City considers stricter regulations on trans fat
- hostage - Sep 27 - Gunman holding hostages in US high school in Bailey, Colorado killed
- hitjob - Sep 25 Clinton calls Fox interview "conservative hitjob"
- junta - Sep 24 - Thai junta vows retaliation against foreign media
- penis transplant - Sep 22 - First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
- food chain - Sep 20 - Study reveals mercury contamination throughout US food chain
- bra chain - Sep 19 - Wanaka, New Zealand attempts bra chain record
- ethane - Sep 18 - Ethane clouds found on Titan
- cruciferous - Sep 17 - Study: chemicals from cruciferous veggies kill cancer cells
- thought-controlled - Sep 15 - Thought-controlled cybernetic arms demonstrated
- icecap - Sep 14 - NASA: Arctic Sea's icecap is melting
- shooting spree - Sep 13 - 20 injured in Montreal college shooting spree
- TADA - Sep 12 - TADA court begins pronouncing '93 Mumbai blasts verdict
- His Majesty - Sep 11 - King of Tonga dies
- Grand Prix - Sep 10 - Michael Schumacher wins Italian Grand Prix, announces plans to retire
- sink hole - Sep 9 - Truck crashes through downtown Toronto sink hole
- defence accord - Sep 7 - Germany, India sign defence accord
- princess - Sep 6 - Princess Kiko gives birth to imperial baby boy
- apartheid - Sep 4 - Former South African apartheid regime's police minister repents
- winning streak - Sep 2 - South Africa end All Blacks' 15-game winning streak
- gene therapy - Sep 1 - Gene therapy trial for skin cancer cures two terminal patients.
- hard shoulder - Aug 31 - Hard shoulder gets the soft treatment on British motorways
- subservience - Aug 30 - Jimmy Carter blasts Blair for "subservience" to Bush
- water level - Aug 29 - Water level of Great Lakes is falling
- heavy water - Aug 26 - Iran inaugurates heavy-water production plant
- UNIFIL - Aug 25 - Italy to take command of UNIFIL
- forest fire - Aug 23 - Forest fire in Chalkidiki peninsula causes political tension in Greece
- Thurston's geometrization conjecture - Aug 22 - Russian mathematician refuses Fields Medal
- dark matter - Aug 21 - NASA discovers new evidence of dark matter
- lay to rest - Aug 18 - Canadian soldier killed in accidental shooting laid to rest
- liquid bomb - Aug 17 - US Airport evacuated in 'liquid bomb' scare
- planet - Aug 16 - http://www.iau.org/
- foreign policy - Aug 12 - British Muslims warn Prime Minister Tony Blair over foreign policy
- plot - Aug 10 - Police in Britain uncovered a suspected terrorist plot
- resolution - Aug 8 - Talks continue over UN resolution on Lebanon war
- Domesday Book - Aug 4 - From the eleventh century to the Digital Age, the Domesday Book is now online
- civilian - July 30 - Israel strike kills more than 50 civilians in Qana
- testosterone - July 27 - Landis tests positive for high levels of testosterone; could lose Tour title
- Red Cross - July 26 - Red Cross ambulances hit by Israeli strike
- intellect - July 22 - After Bush leaves Russia, Voice of Russia commentary questions President's intellect
- simulcast - July 20 - CBC's new show The One sparked some controversy over simulcast
- heatwave - July 18 - Heatwave sweeps USA, many struggling to keep cool
- war - July 14 - Israel-Hezbollah war continues for a third day
- blockade - July 13 - Israeli vessels enter Lebanese waters to enforce blockade
- headbutt - July 9 - Italy and France draw 1-1; Italy wins FIFA World Cup on penalties
- scion - July 9 - Indian royal family disinherits gay scion
- trade secret - July 6 - Coca-Cola trade secrets attempted to be sold to Pepsi
- Yellowikis - July 5 - Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis
- STS - July 4 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches for mission STS-121
- cricketer - July 1 - English cricketer Fred Trueman dies, aged 75
- military tribunal - June 30 - U.S. military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay lack Congressional authorization, violate U.S. law and Geneva Conventions
- flag-burning - June 28 - Failure for constitutional ban on flag-burning in U.S. Senate
- penalty shootout - June 26 - Ukraine win penalty shootout; beat Switzerland for quarter-final spot
- Nix/Hydra - June 23 - Pluto's moons named
- tortoise - June 23 - Darwin's tortoise dies in Australia at 176 years old.
- Home Secretary - June 19 - United Kingdom Home Secretary proposes paedophile law
- step down - June 15 - Bill Gates to step down from daily roles by July 2008
- spiritual leader - June 14 - Alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah freed from prison
- suicide pact - June 11 - Three inmates die in "suicide pact" at Guantanamo
- tropical depression - June 10 - First Tropical Depression of 2006 Forms
- airstrike - June 8 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike
- stagflation - June 6 - Federal Reserve chief's stagflation scare
- beating-heart transplant - June 5 - U.K. doctors successfully transplant a beating heart
- sex slave - June 4 - Sex slave auctions held at British airports
- counter-terrorism - June 3 17 arrested in Canadian counter-terrorism operation
- lifeform - May 31 - Scientists discover prehistoric cave with unknown lifeforms
- roadside bomb - May 29 - Iraq roadside bomb kills four, including two journalists
- Grand Prix - May 28 - Fernando Alonso wins Monaco Grand Prix
- vulnerability - May 26 - Symantec AntiVirus vulnerability found
- mountaineer - May 24 - Sir Edmund Hillary angry with mountaineers who left British climber to die
- enrichment - May 21 - Iran stands defiant on Uranium enrichment
- mammoth - May 20 - China completes "mammoth" Three Gorges Dam hydro-electicity project
- cholera - May 18 - Cholera outbreak hits Angola
- invasive species - May 17 - Hawaii to spend $4.9M on coqui frog eradication
- diplomatic relations - May 16 - U.S. restores full diplomatic relations with Libya
- call history - May 12 - USA Today reports, NSA obtained call histories from communications companies
- extradition - May 10 - UK hacker faces extradition to US
- peacekeeper - May 7 - Sudan will welcome UN Peacekeepers in Darfur
- reshuffle - May 5 - Charles Clarke loses Home Secretary position in Cabinet reshuffle, UK
- impeachment - May 2 - Legislators in US states call for the impeachment of President Bush
- planetarium - May 1 - London Planetarium closes to make way for celebrity-themed show
- lampoon - Apr 30 - Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner
- impasse - Apr 28 - Iran nuclear impasse continues
- Maoist - Apr 27 - Maoists in Nepal declare three month ceasefire
- ANZAC Day - Apr 25 - ANZAC Day marked throughout NZ, AU
- heckling - Apr 22 - Woman arrested for heckling Chinese President Hu at White House
- death toll - Apr 18 - Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated
- cockpit recorder - Apr 15 - Flight 93 cockpit recorder played in Moussaoui trial
- bioweapon - Apr 15 - U.S. claims of Iraqi bioweapons labs contradicted in classified Pentagon report filed on 27 May 2003
- concede - Apr 11 - Prodi claims victory in Italian election; Berlusconi refuses to concede
- Semapedia - Apr 7 - Semapedia introduced to Africa: Powered by "Made in Ghana" technology
- NIE - Apr 7 - Libby says Bush authorized NIE leaks
- PM - Apr 5 - Guinea's PM fired by President
- twister - Apr 3 - 18 dead after multiple twisters strike US Midwest
- mass grave - Apr 2 - British report says the U.K. is preparing 'mass graves' for humans if Bird Flu mutates
- capsizing - Apr 1 - Death toll of Bahrain tourist boat capsizing rises to 57
- undocumented immigrant - Mar 28 - 7000 rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants' rights
- flying coffin - Mar 22 - EU bans 92 airlines, buries "flying coffins"
- take to the streets - Mar 19 - 100s of thousands take to the streets across France
- war criminal - Mar 16 - Condoleezza Rice labelled "war criminal" by Australian demonstrators
- flag-bearer - Mar 15 - New Zealand Commonwealth Games flag-bearer announced
- Scientology - Mar 14 - Isaac Hayes quits South Park over Scientology episode
- sudoku - Mar 12 - Czech woman wins the first Sudoku world championship
- vending machine - Mar 9 - UK vending machines begin selling sex toys
- telecommuter - Mar 8 - Study reveals 10% of telecommuters work nude
- likelihood - Mar 6 - BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
- photo essay - Mar 1 - Photoessay: Fat Tuesday Easy in DC
- asylum seeker - Feb 27 - Australian Prime Minister blames asylum seekers for "Children Overboard" scandal
- motherboard - Feb 21 - Microsoft changes OEM license, forcing new purchases after motherboard upgrade
- whistleblowing - Feb 17 - McGovern calls for whistleblowing before alleged US attack on Iran
- anti-semitic - Feb 14 - Israeli group announces anti-semitic cartoons contest
- Olympic Winter Games - Feb 13 - Day 2 Results - Olympic Winter Games
- tomb - Feb 10 - Tomb discovered in Valley of the Kings
- insurgency - Feb 8 - Insurgency targeting of teachers causes south Thailand school closures
- bleaching - Feb 1 - Scientists shocked at Great Barrier Reef bleaching
- improvised explosive device - Jan 29 - Bob Woodruff injured by improvised explosive device in Iraq
- mixed blessing - Jan 27 - Storms a mixed blessing for Victorian firefighters
- kidney stone - Jan 22 - William Shatner sells kidney stone
- asylum seeker - Jan 18 - 40 Asylum seekers missing off Torres Strait
- hyperspace drive - Jan 8 - "Hyperspace drive" paper gains interest, AIAA award
- aspartame - Jan 2 - British MP calls for ban on aspartame