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Last Updated: Thursday, 30 December, 2004, 01:10 GMT
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The year in issues
The US elections, the insurgency in Iraq, Yasser Arafat's death, this year had its big news stories. But what else made a splash in 2004?

The BBC News website looks at some the issues that got the pundits pondering this year. Click on the links below to find out more.

Video terror

Hostage footage threw up difficult questions for the media

Obesity

Who should we blame for our apparently burgeoning bellies?

Religion

Faith, the public sphere and the growing transatlantic divide


Doping

Drugs in sport - cheating or just playing the game?

World War II
60th anniversaries said as much about the present as the past

Role of the blog

Did they go mainstream, and did it matter?




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