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28th December
Pink flamingos arrive in Kenya
21st December
Embryo research in Great Britain
14th December
President Clinton in Ireland
7th December
Turkish economic crisis
30th November
Chinese concert against music piracy
23rd November
World Climate Conference warning
16th November
HIV genetic risk
9th November
Dome diamond raid
2nd November
English v French language in Quebec
26th October
Flood education in Vietnam
19th October
Disarray in Middle east
12th October
Difficult way ahead for Yugoslavia
4th October
John Lennon's killer to stay in jail
28th September
Rush to buy Hong Kong rail shares
21st September
UK gives Enigma machine to Poland
14th September
Gulf oil cash bonus
7th September
The fate of Burma's Aung Sun Suu Kyi

31st August
Food scares
24th August
Singapore's baby shortage
17th August
Mobile phone technology
10th August
Financial crisis at the International Atomic Energy Agency
3rd August
Concorde, one week on.
27th July
Seabirds: back from the edge of extinction
20th July
Changes in global market economy
13th July
Return to Srebrenica
6th July
Oil production
29th June
Mapping the human Genome
22nd June
Easing of trade sanctions of North Korea
15th June
Death of President Assad of Syria
8th June
Illegal diamond trade
1st June
Martial law in Fiji
25th May
Israel withdraws from South Lebanon
18th May
Japanese PM criticised for describing Japan as a divine country
11th May
Genetic mapping of the Down's syndrome chromosome
4th May
Return of Kohinoor diamond demanded

27th April
Security breach at the US State Department
20th April
Compromise reached on ivory trading
13th April
Proposed Korean Summit
6th April
Famine in Ethiopia
30th March
Controversial new theory on how speech began
23rd March
Russian Elections
16th March
Flooding in Mozambique
9th March
Combating piracy in the South Pacific
2nd March
Many dead in Nigeria after violent clashes
24th February
Mayon volcano
17th February
Malaria vaccine intitiative
10th February
Race riots in Spain
27th January
Stockholm hosts Holocaust Forum
20th January
Merger creates the world's largest drugs company.
13th January
Capital punishment in the US
6th January
What does this millennium hold?