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In the Middle East, Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia fought a month-long war during the summer. More than nine hundred people were killed. Much of southern Lebanon was severely damaged. Robert Gates was approved as the new defense secretary.
In August, officials in Britain said they prevented a terrorist plot to bomb several passenger airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean. This led to new restrictions on what passengers can carry on planes. Fighting between rebels and government forces has killed more than two hundred thousand people.
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BBC Reuters Fifteen local employees of the French charity organisation Action Against Hunger are found dead in a town in northeastern Sri Lanka at the center of heavy fighting between Tamil rebels and government forces. Both sides have denied involvement in the killings. Chad had recognized the Republic of China Taiwan from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift. Bloomberg 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict : Lebanon rejects a draft U.
My optimism lies in the hope that the decline of force over the centuries is a real phenomenon, that it is the product of systematic forces that will continue to operate, and that we can identify those forces and perhaps concentrate and bottle them. Simon Baron-Cohen Director of the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge I remain optimistic that for a good proportion of them [people with autism], it has never been a better time to have autism. Because there is a remarkably good fit between the autistic mind and the digital age. For this new generation of children with autism, I anticipate that many of them will find ways to blossom, using their skills with digital technology to find employment, to find friends, and in some cases to innovate. Daniel Dennett Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, author of Breaking the Spell I expect to live to see the evaporation of the powerful mystique of religion.
However, Quest later issued the following statement: "Further to the key findings from the final Quest report published on 15 June 2007 by the Premier League, Quest would like to emphasise that, in that report, it was clear that no evidence of irregular payments was found in the transfers in the inquiry period which involved the agent Willie McKay. Quest would also like to thank Mr McKay for his cooperation with the inquiry. However, as mentioned above, the enquiry issued a further statement saying that no evidence of irregular payments had been found in the transfers in the inquiry period which involved McKay and thanking McKay for his co-operation. Redknapp told the inquiry that it was possible that he did own the horse but insisted that he had not made any money out of it because the horse was a failure and never won a race. The first charge was that payments were made to them by a third company, unrelated to the club and not by the club itself. All six had denied the charge and, eventually, after seven months of "investigation," the charge was dropped. Denos, Manasseh and Berry have admitted the charge but Andrew, Curtis and Mills denied it and requested personal hearings. BBC News. Retrieved 20 September 2006. Retrieved 19 September 2006. The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2006.
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Then Portsmouth first-team coach Kevin Bond , first team coach of Newcastle United when the programme was aired, is secretly recorded admitting he would consider discussing receiving payments from a proposed new agency involving agent Peter Harrison. Bond was suspended and then sacked by Newcastle as a result of the allegations. Both of these allegations are illegal under FA rules. Officials from Liverpool and Newcastle United were also implicated in attempts to sign Porritt.
That three different Bolton transfer signings involved secret payments from agents to Craig Allardyce, some when he was contractually banned from doing any Bolton deals. Collymore also represents England cricketer Simon Jones. The programme also claimed to have set up a sting involving handing a cash payment to an unnamed Premiership manager, but the alleged manager did not turn up at the rendezvous.
When the Israeli international moved to England, agent Jamie Hart — the official middle man — was paid a fee by Bolton. But he has now confirmed that unlicensed agent David Abu also received a cut of the fee for the role he played in the deal. On 20 September, The Football Association asked the BBC to provide all of the collected evidence and announced that it would investigate these allegations.
I have therefore instructed my lawyers to prepare my case against the BBC. Kevin Bond: said that he intended to sue the BBC for libel. In response, Bond issued a statement claiming that Newcastle had sacked him without investigating properly.
Yet as soon as they were put together on stage at the ICA, most of the participants fiercely refused to define themselves either culturally or nationally. Whether Chinese or Turkish, Moroccan or Northern Irish, they saw themselves purely as writers, compelled to tell certain stories not because they were representatives of their communities, but because they were compelled to write, full stop. One by one they queued up to challenge the premise of my event — but in doing so they brought out a quite different, and far more interesting problem.
When pressed to say where her roots are, she recalled the image in the Koran of a tree that has its roots not in the earth but in the air. With an unprecedentedly mobile world population, writers are everywhere on the frontline of cultural exchange, putting into words the experiences of millions whose own identities are contested and denied. Yet writers themselves hate to be categorised: there is something about being a writer that is all about putting your roots in the air.
О наших коллегах - репортаж Олега Шишкина. О России сегодня - каждый час и каждую минуту. Между выпусками новостей - интервью в прямом эфире, спортивные и биржевые сводки.
Идея англоязычного российского телевизионного канала появилась, когда стало ясно, что зарубежный зритель или вообще ничего не знает о событиях в современной России, или знает очень мало. Новости из России и о России. Из сегодняшнего выпуска новостей зарубежные телезрители могли узнать о переговорах между Газпромом и Минском о цене на газ, о том, погода в декабре выдалась необычно теплой и как москвичи собираются встречать Новый год.
Беспристрастно и объективно - но это не значит холодно и отстраненно, говорят на канале. Russia today - это пристальный взгляд на развитие современной России, в которой успехи чередуются с проблемами. Играть на одном информационном поле с такими признанными лидерами, как CNN и BBC - задача трудная, но, как оказалось, выполнимая.
У англоязычного российского телеканала получилось самое трудное - стать своим среди чужих.
The competition is eventually won by Italy, following a penalty shoot-out against France in the final. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel two days later. Liquids and gels are banned from hand luggage and airports are plunged into chaos due to lengthy security checks. All fourteen of the crew onboard are killed.
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Some of the steel bars from the load were flung by the impact across the central reserve into the southbound carriageway, which was restricted to single-lane working because of repairs and resurfacing, causing several minor accidents. With both carriageways blocked, police closed the motorway for a time, and diversion signs were posted at the nearest slip roads. Breakdown vehicles and ambulances had considerable difficulty in reaching the scene of the accident because of fog. This was dense in places, and the flashing amber light signals had been switched on for most of the night. So far there are no reports of anyone seriously injured in the accident. This accident, the fourth involving a multiple pile-up of vehicles in the last month, comes just as the first National Conference on Motorway Use is getting under way. At the opening meeting in London last night, Sir John Stone, the Metropolitan Area Traffic Adviser, criticised the standard of motorway driving in this country. He said that there was evidence that many of the basic disciplines of motorway use had yet to be learned by British drivers. Lane discipline was much worse in this country than in America; and the habits of drivers when overtaking were particularly bad. One saw far too much dangerous pulling-out without an adequate signal having been given, and there was a similarly dangerous tendency for drivers to cut in after overtaking.
Perhaps the commonest form of misuse however, was the reluctance of drivers of private cars to move into the inside lane whenever it was possible to do so. Sir John said that far too many were determined to stay in the middle or even the outside lanes, regardless of traffic conditions, with the result that drivers wishing to overtake became impatient and tried to follow too closely behind the vehicle in front, thus making accidents more likely. The conference is continuing.
The first female space tourist was Iranian Anousheh Ansari.
In 2006 they fell on hard times and were absorbed into a larger company. On Domino Day, November 13, 2009 , a total of 4,491,863 dominos were toppled — the record as of this writing… In October 2000, Heinz introduced colored ketchup products called EZ Squirt, which eventually included green 2000 , purple 2001 , mystery pink, orange, or teal, 2002 , and blue 2003. The products were discontinued in 2006. Tests conducted in 2006 revealed that they came not from Joan of Arc, but an Egyptian mummy.
Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in his bathtub at the Tuileries Palace. An American hotelier in Louisiana bought the tub in 2006 and put it in a hotel in New Orleans for guests to bathe in. Dick Cheney accidentally shot his now ex?
This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years. The 6-minute suborbital flight was the only flight of the Constellation program that was supposed to replace the Space Shuttle fleet in the next decade. Investigations into the accident are still ongoing. As of late February 2010, the death toll is expected to rise.
The nuclear energy debate intensified after a report by Dr Ziggy Switkowski recommended a rethink on uranium mining and alternative energy industries. Scientists rejoiced as Federal Parliament passed a controversial Bill lifting the ban on stem cell research. New industrial relations laws took hold in March, as unions joined the Federal Opposition and state governments in a vow to fight implementing the legislation. As Prime Minister John Howard celebrated 10 years in office in March, he disappointed Treasurer Peter Costello who said the Prime Minister promised him 12 years ago to hand over the leadership crown to him before two terms were up. Business In the second-biggest share offer in Australian history behind the T2 sale seven years ago, the Federal Government finally gave the green light for the third sell-off of Telstra shares. T3 shares began trading on the Australian Stock Exchange in November. The Government parked the remaining 17 per cent of Telstra stock into the Future Fund to sell down over time. Many Australians felt the pinch of three interest rate rises during this year, with the final Reserve Bank decision for 2006 setting the financial climate at 6. Farewells Australia reeled with shock as it lost two icons in the same week in September - conservationist and self-proclaimed "wildlife warrior" Steve Irwin and motor racing legend "king of the mountain" Peter Brock. Celebrities, friends and family mourned the death of actress Belinda Emmett , wife of entertainer Rove McManus, who lost her long battle against cancer in November. Courage Australians marvelled at the incredible survival of two miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, trapped for 14 days in May in a steel cage after a mine collapse in Beaconsfield in northern Tasmania. But the rescue was tinged with sadness by the death of third miner, Larry Knight. The story took another tragic and ironic turn as television journalist Richard Carleton died at the scene covering the event for the 60 Minutes program.
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Greenpeace activists board the ship. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
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This made them the second most successful World Cup team ever. England has one of the worst record for penalty shoot-outs in international football competitions - could purposeful practise end this? Explore with our article Can you train for penalty shootouts? YouTube now has 1 billion unique users using the service every month. Starting from 2010 Alexa a commercial web traffic data and analytics service ranked YouTube as the third most visited website on the Internet after Google and Facebook - this still continues today.
This led to many wildlife areas being cordoned off and the population questioning if they could still eat chicken and wondering if their budgie would survive the outbreak. Take a look at the flu virus, infection, replication, mutation, immune responses, pathology, surveillance, diagnosis and treatment in our free course Influenza: A case study. Check out some of our listicles below to enjoy even more free learning! Explore more "10" listicles OpenLearn was born in 2006 but unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view some things ended this same year. We look back as part of our ten year anniversary celebrations. Read now to access more details of 10 things that ended in 2006 when OpenLearn was born Article.
When Steve Irwin died from a stingray attack in 2006, it was only the second recorded stingray-related death in Australia since 1945. Russ listened to the song consecutively for 24 hours, reaching 324 listens. Just days after the campaign, the painting was found by the Norwegian Police. Skiing is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on land. Skiers can ski faster than a car and this was proven by Simone Origone in 2006 that set a world speed skiing record at 156. The song Year 3000 was originally released in 2003 by the English pop-punk band Busted, and was covered by the Jonas Brothers in 2006 for their first album. The first Youtuber was Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006. On his channel, he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system.
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The earth moved, winds blew, fires burned and rains failed as climate change fears, worsening drought and raging bushfires scorched Australia during 2006. We write news in three different levels of English. We want to help you understand English more. Now all students can enjoy reading and listening to news. USA TODAY delivers current national and local news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, and videos. 7:57 PM Большой английский. William Shatner sold one of his kidney stones for $25,000 in 2006.
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The earth moved, winds blew, fires burned and rains failed as climate change fears, worsening drought and raging bushfires scorched Australia during 2006. WSJ's digital archive of news articles and top headlines from November 2006. In 2006 we said goodbye to:Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd, the godfather of soul James Brown, comedian Charlie Drake, the most prolific TV producer of all time Aaron Spelling, US crime writer Mickey Spillane, cartoonist Joseph Barbera, and US director Robert Altman. 7:57 PM Большой английский. For 2006 newspaper headlines that shocked, saddened and excited the nation, an historic newspaper is a thoughtful an interesting gift.
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7.1.2006Current EventsPaolo Perego and Paola Ronconi. English passed the milestones of 1 million and later 1,5 million articles in 2006, fortifying the position of the English Wikipedia as the greatest one-language encyclopedia that ever existed. BBC News; Regional News; Weather. Previous London, United Kingdom (2006). Eriksson, 57, has been in charge of the England team for five years and, as a Swede, is the first non-English manager of the England team.[1]. Berlin (AFP) – The German FA’s (DFB) inquiry into the 2006 World Cup scandal is set to cost around 3.5 million euros ($3.83m), interim.
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European countries attacked Kosovo and killed ten thousand civilians. Ten thousand! And none of these countries had to suffer before that from a single rocket. The death toll is at least three in Haifa and 12 for Northern Israel as a whole. Ynet News , AP Reuters has pulled a photograph of Beirut , Lebanon , admitting that it was altered by the photographer, Adnan Hajj , saying "photo editing software was improperly used on this image.
Supporters of rights for immigrants held several demonstrations. Also in Washington, several congressmen from the Republican Party were involved in cases of wrongdoing. One was former House majority leader Tom DeLay who resigned after being charged with campaign finance crimes.
Another was former representative Mark Foley. He resigned after he was found to have sent sexual messages to male students working for Congress. He was sentenced to death by hanging.
In the Middle East, Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia fought a month-long war during the summer. More than nine hundred people were killed.
One year ago, 3 had more than 10,000 articles, 2 more than 1,000 and 1 more than 100. The total article count was 63,235.
South East Asia, including 5 states in Indochina and 6 states in the Indonesian-Philipine archipelago, also grew into a major Wikipedia area. These include 9 state language Wikipedias with 83,328 articles, up from 39,690 one year ago. Of these, 5 major Wikipedias are Indonesian with 47,748 articles, Thai with 17,853, Malay with 16,592, Vietnamese with 13,027 and Tagalog with 5,856. They are Tetum , Khmer , Burmese and Lao.
One year ago, the total article count was 46,996. The 4 biggest Wikipedias are Georgian , with 13,494 articles, Uzbek with 5,305, Azeri with 4,213 and Tajik with 4,018. One passed 10,000 articles for the first time this year. One year ago, no Wikipedia from these countries had more than 5,000 articles.
The total article count was 7,064. Indian subcontinent Wikipedias took great strides forwards in 2006: 22 Indian subcontinent Wikipedias of the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have 78,890 articles and 8,528 registered users. The 3 biggest Wikipedias are Telugu , with 26,114 articles, Bengali with 12,790 and Bishnupriya Manipuri with 11,760. During 2006 those two Wikipedias grew rapidly to Hindi 4,616 articles and Urdu 3,934.
One year ago the article counts were 1,092 and 638. In addition to the 3 that passed 10,000 articles, 7 have passed 1,000 and 8 passed 100. One year ago, no Wikipedia from the subcontinent had more than 2,300 articles. The total article count was 10,507.
American language Wikipedias advance in 2006: 16 American language Wikipedias for the first time together passed 10,000 articles. Today they have 11,234 articles and 1,839 registered users. This includes 3 American languages of European origin with 8,271 articles and 373 registered users. The greatest American language Wikipedia is Haitian with 7,038 articles.
Other european origin languages are Pennsylvania German with 1,185 articles and Papiamentu. Native American language Wikipedias include 10 in American Indian languages with 2,835 articles and 1,139 registered users, and 3 in Inuit languages with 128 articles and 327 users. The 3 Inuit languages are Inuktitut , Greenlandic and Inupiak. In addition to the 4 that have passed 1,000 articles, 2 have passed 100.
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Find latest news from every corner of the globe at , your online source for breaking international news coverage. In 2006, Facebook became open to any over age 13 and was launched. Following news of yet another reboot in the works, Annabel Nugent delves into the behind-the-scenes story of the 1999 cult classic – and how its ingenious and brazen marketing campaign could never happen today. Following news of yet another reboot in the works, Annabel Nugent delves into the behind-the-scenes story of the 1999 cult classic – and how its ingenious and brazen marketing campaign could never happen today. 2006, Iran removed UN seals on uranium enrichment equipment and in April announced it had successfully enriched uranium. Geraldo Rivera celebrates 80th birthday just DAYS after he resigns from Fox News following The Five sacking Special day.