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May 2006 Java earthquake: The death toll in last Saturday's earthquake in Indonesia is officially raised to 5,427. [permanent dead link ] Former Daewoo boss Kim Woo-jung is sentenced to 10 years in prison for fraud. John W. Snow has resigned as United States Secretary of the Treasury.
This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some ...
From top left, clockwise: the 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy; Israel and Lebanon enter conflict; train bombings in Mumbai kill 209 people; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; the 2006 FIFA World Cup is held in Germany and is won by Italy; Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashes in the Amazon rainforest after a mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy 600 ...
The Lost tells of Mendelsohn's world-wide travels in search of details about the lives and fates of a maternal great-uncle, Samuel (Shmiel) Jäger, his wife, Ester, and their four daughters who lived in Bolechow and were killed during the Nazi occupation. According to the author, the book "is about trying to find out exactly, specifically, what ...
Initial reports of the attack moved on news wires at approximately 2:25 p.m. Eastern time. The first radio coverage (which, at the time, represented the earliest opportunity for ordinary people to learn of the attack) was on the CBS radio network's scheduled news program, World News Today , at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.
The World Health Organization is investigating several bird flu deaths for a possible person-to-person transmission chain. (Reuters) The ABC News claims that Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert is under investigation for corruption , but the Justice Department issues a denial.
The 2001 war film Black Hawk Down brought the deadly events of 1993’s Battle of Mogadishu to the big screen.. The Academy Award-winning film, which was directed by Ridley Scott and based on a ...
In Chad, opposition parties boycott the 2006 presidential election and voter turnout is "extremely low". Results are not due for another 10 days, but President Idriss Deby is expected to win. (BBC)