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23rd December
Is Christmas too commercial?
16th December
US Hands back Panama Canal
9th December
Russian military responds to international criticism
2nd December
World Trade Organisation
25th November
Detention of army officers in Paraguay
18th November
Abortion of female fetuses in India
11th November
Downfall of a sporting superpower
4th November
The relief operation in India after October's devastating cyclone
28th October
End of hereditary peers
21st October
Mayor of London
14th October
Nuclear Power
7th October
Monsanto Terminator Gene Technology
23rd September
The death of Raisa Gorbachev
16th September
Bomb attacks in Moscow
9th September
Cambodian Women’s Conference
2nd September
Swiss spy scandal

26th August
Turkish earthquake: the aftermath
19th August
Turkish earthquake
12th August
Downing of Pakistan aircraft by India
5th August
Weather - monsoons and typhoons in Asia
29th July
Talking chimpanzees
22th July
The moon landing 30 years on
15th July
Violent teenagers in US detention centres
8th July
Gold sell-off and falling prices
1st July
Swiss banks - compensation for Holocaust victims
24th June
Cloning the giant panda
17th June
Kosovo peace deal
10th June
Jonathan Aitken
3rd June
Mir space station
27th May
US/China - Espionage Report
20th May
The election of Ehud Barak
13th May
Anti-American sentiment in Asia
6th May
The discovery of George Mallory's body on Mount Everest

29th April
The Chernobyl computer virus
22th April
The opening of the Cairo meto
15th April
Malaysia: the trial of Anwar Ibrahim
8th April
The handover of the Lockerbie bombing suspects
1st April
A trial in America about tobacco damages
25th March
Global water shortages
18th March
The resignation of the European Commission
11th March
The death of Stanley Kubrick
4th March
Kidnap and killings in Uganda
25th February
Anti drink-driving law in New York
18th February
Genetically modified food
11th February
Testing an AIDS vaccine in Thailand
4th February
Football and Buddhism
28th January
Earthquake in Columbia
21st January
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall's divorce
14th January
Ted Hughes posthumous popularity
7th January
Industrial action by Cathay Pacific Staff