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Russia officially recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
India becomes the fourth nation to reach the moon. November 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India, killing 195 people and injuring 290 more. This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years.
There are also concerns about another Ipswich prostitute, 19-year-old Tania Nicol, who went missing on 30 October. He is named as Tom Stephens, a 37-year-old Tesco supermarket worker. Almost 12 million viewers watch her exit and made it the most-watched show this Christmas.
The Freshfields report outlined a money trail linking Beckenbauer, former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus and Qatar, whose Mohammed bin Hammam has since been banned from football for life over corruption.
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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.
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. I think that in about 25 years almost all religions will have evolved into very different phenomena. With the worldwide spread of information technology not just the internet, but cell phones and portable radios and television , it is no longer feasible for guardians of religious traditions to protect their young from exposure to the kinds of facts and, yes, of course, misinformation and junk of every genre that gently, irresistibly undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism and intolerance.
Voters in democracy sometimes make good choices and avoid bad choices cf some recent elections in a major First World country.
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Tate, Ph. Louis, has been elected president-elect of the American Educational Research Association AERA , a professional society with approximately 25,000 members in the United States and abroad.
His term as president starts at the end of the Annual Meeting next April, after serving as president-elect for a year.
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Fijians faced more uncertain times after its military chief staged the fourth coup in 20 years to topple the democratically elected government of Laisenia Qarase. While preparing for possible evacuations of Australians from Fiji, a Black Hawk helicopter carrying a crew of 10 crashed into the sea after miscalculating the landing on HMAS Kanimbla. International air travel became more stringent after the Heathrow Airport shut down in London in August because of a suspected serious terrorist threat. It caused chaos and resulted in new restrictions to hand luggage on flights. The Bali nine lost their appeals against 20-year heroin-smuggling convictions, with some sentences increased to the death penalty. In May, an earthquake killed more than 4,600 and in July, a tsunami killed more than 650 on the island. A landslide buried an entire village in the Philippines in February, and tens of thousands were evacuated amid the erupting Mayon volcano in the Philippines in August. Back home, cyclone Larry smashed the far north Queensland coast in March, with its destructive core flattening Innisfail, south of Cairns. As the most bushfire prone place in the world , authorities feared the worst bushfire season yet for south-eastern Australia.
Firefighters have already tasted what may be in store for the tough bushfire season ahead , as they battled massive blazes in Victoria and Tasmania during December. Commissioner Terence Cole recommended a task force be established to look into possible charges against several former AWB executives. The Stern report on global warming released in the UK in October put the effect of climate change in economic terms, making governments around the world stand up and take notice. The nuclear energy debate intensified after a report by Dr Ziggy Switkowski recommended a rethink on uranium mining and alternative energy industries.
Now our work is even more important than ever. However much fun you had conceiving it, the end product is entirely new, entirely itself, and not always entirely happy. Jung Chang I had brought eight international writers together under the heading Migrations of the Mind to explore the challenges of taking stories between cultures. Each writer exemplified the problems of a world increasingly built out of small and mobile communities.
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.
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Есть платная подписка, но даже того объема, который доступен бесплатно, вполне достаточно для того, чтобы быть в курсе событий. Можно установить бесплатное приложение с приятным дополнением в виде еженедельной подборки увлекательных лонгридов. Основной контент — о том, что происходит в Великобритании, но также есть отделы международных новостей. Для доступа к статьям The Telegraph необходимо зарегистрироваться, но можно это сделать через соцсети. The Independent отличает легкий стиль изложения, увлекательный раздел LifeStyle и все материалы доступны бесплатно и без регистрации. Минус — статьи ориентированы на читателей, живущих в Великобритании. Обе газеты предлагают приложения, а The Independent даже два — ежедневное и еженедельное. The Daily Mail Популярные британские таблоиды еще называют чтивом домохозяек. Слоган одного из них — News, sport, celebrities and gossip — точно отражает суть таких газет. Не стоит искать там серьезных новостей, аналитики и статей об искусстве. Что там есть, так это легкий и живой язык с многочисленными фразеологизмами и даже сленгом, подробности скандалов из мира политики и шоу-бизнеса, слухи из жизни британской королевской семьи. Минусы — всплывающие периодически шокирующие снимки жертв преступлений, жутких болячек или людей-мутантов из индийских деревень. Плюсы — понятное изложение и полностью бесплатный контент, включая приложения. Есть даже раздел о России. Все статьи — довольно объемные и перенасыщены фотографиями, видео и виджетами соцсетей, но каждую предваряет анонс из списка коротких и понятных фраз, описывающих суть и самые эффектные факты материала. Euronews О событиях в странах Евросоюза можно почитать на сайте телеканала Euronews. Статьи и видеосюжеты рассортированы по традиционным новостным разделам Europe, World, Business, Sport, Culture. Под видеосюжетами есть расшифровки. У немецкой радиостанции Deuche Welle есть сайт на английском языке. В проект Locals входят 9 англоязычных сайтов, каждый из которых освещает события в соответствующей европейской стране. Если интересует конкретная страна, то можно пойти в Википедию, найти раздел СМИ страна и выбрать из списка газет и изданий то, которое больше понравится.
2006: The News Year That Was
Koch also praised German football legend Franz Beckenbauer for helping the inquiry. Beckenbauer, 70, captained and coached Germany to the 1974 and 1990 World Cup titles respectively and was head of the organising committee for the 2006 finals.
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To mark the 50th anniversary, hundreds of thousands of dalits hold a massive rally in mumbai. After spending 11 days in wilderness, james kim is found dead at oregon. Nasa provides "compelling evidence" that liquid water has flowed on mars recently. December 06, 2006: What were the stock market quotes and exchange rates that day?
All fourteen of the crew onboard are killed. A huge investigation is launched, which eventually leads to the conviction of Steve Wright. More from this Decade.
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| United States Drug Enforcement Administration | 7.1.2006Current EventsPaolo Perego and Paola Ronconi. |
| BBC - Promo World News 2006 - YouTube | 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. |
| United States Drug Enforcement Administration | 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. |
| December 06, 2006, What happened that day? | | 05 May 2006NEWS RELEASE New heritage advisory group for Minister The Minister for Planning and Envi. |
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How much do you remember about 2006? We take a look back at ten of the biggest news stories from the year. It's a good time to think about what went right and what went wrong in 2006. World Cup Final – 2006-10-03 News just in from Dave Peel at the World Cup Final. Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 2006. We are pleased to announce our English and Journalism Departmental Scholars for Spring 2006.
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The second and final installment of Pitchfork's The Year in News hearkens back to that hazy, distant latter half of 2006. Previous London, United Kingdom (2006). Specific economic statistics in 2006 are as disconcerting as the overall picture as we head into 2007. 2006, Iran removed UN seals on uranium enrichment equipment and in April announced it had successfully enriched uranium. Select a month of the year 2006. WSJ's digital archive of news articles and top headlines from November 2006.
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World Cup Final – 2006-10-03 News just in from Dave Peel at the World Cup Final. A News Bulletin. Thirty five vehicles were involved in a multiple collision on the M. 1 motorway this morning. 2006 – On July 11, bombs planted on the train system in Mumbai exploded, killing 209 people. No News: Directed by Hawkeye. Если не терпится поскорее начать читать новости на английском, а знаний не хватает, можно потренироваться в разделах News Review и Words in the News на BBC Learning English, где предлагаются короткие новостные заметки с несложными конструкциями и словарем. This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from August 2006.