Two Natural Disasters
1.Progress made in Pakistan on reinstating judges dismissed by President Musharraf
*Colombia's most wanted drug kingpin Victor Mejia Munera shot dead
*World's largest sea bridge inaugurated in the Yangtze River Delta in China.
2.Sacked judges of Pakistan to be reinstated
*Georgia-Russia tensions are hotting up
*No outright winner of Zimbabwe's March 29 election, with Tsvangirai getting 47.9% and Mugabe 43.2%.
3.Ken Livingstone is replaced by Boris Johnson as London mayor
*Maoists win one-third of the seats awarded under the proportionate Representation system
*Nelson Mandela still figures on the US terrorist watch list.
4.Microsoft out of Yahoo bid
*Cyclone Nargis wreaks havoc in Myanmar.
5.Death toll from cyclone in Myanmar put at 10,000, with another 300 missing.
6.China says Dalai Lama must show sincerity in his actions.
7.Dmitry Medvedev is the new Russian President and Vladimir Putin the Prime Minister olMF approves sale of 403.3 tonnes for gold reserves
*Sri Lanka President prorogues Parliament
*Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahem resigns, Brian Cowen succeeds him
*Death toll in cyclone Nargis in Myanmar may reach 50,000, it is feared; One million homeless
*Obama takes a step towards Democratic Party nomination.
8.Pakistan testfires Haft-VIII
*Crude price $126 a barrel
*Lebanese militant group takes over most of Beirut.
10.Myanmar junta holds a referendum on a new constitution
*Afghanistan is hit by a plague of locusts.
11.President Bush's daughter Jenna weds Henry Hager
*Serbs vote in parliamentary election
*UN puts number of persons missing in Myanmar cyclone Nargis at 2,20,000.
12.Relief materials for cyclone-hit Myanmar pour in from many countries
*Pakistan is readmitted to the Commonwealth
*Southwest China is hit by a major earthquake (7.8), killing thousands, and leaving 900 students buried
*Indonesians protest government's plan to raise fuel prices
*Nawaz Sharif's party (PML-N) to quit Pak cabinet.
13.China earthquake toll surpasses 12,000
*Maoists ask King Gyanendra to leave the Narayanhiti Palace before May 27.
14. Justine Henin retires-Maria Sharapova to be No.1 in women's tennis.
16.PCC withdraws defamation suit against Shoaib Akhtar, after a public apology by the bowler
*100 killed in pipeline fire in Nigeria
*Pillayan, leader of the breakaway LTTE faction, is CM of the newly constituted Eastern Provincial Council.
17. Quake toll in China rises to 28,881
*UN report says about 3 b. people are food insecure; 18,000 children die daily
*Taliban releases Pak ambassador to Kabul Tariq Azizuddin, three months and five days after he was abducted
*Kuwaitis vote for a new Parliament
*President Bush in Egypt for peace deal.
18.Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh indicted by a special court in a second graft case
*Double amputee runner Oscar Pistorius regains the right to participate in Olympics at Beijing.
19.Mahathir Mohammad quits ruling party in Malaysia to press for leadership change
*Osama bin Laden lashes out at Arab governments that side with the West
*Anti-foreigner riots in South Africa, 22 killed
*3-day mourning in Myanmar for victims of cyclone that has left 1,30,000 people dead or missing
*3 minutes' silence observed in China and overseas in memory of the earthquake victims.
20. Oil is $129 a barrel.
21.Brigadier Balraj, a key commander of the LTTE, is dead
*Georqia elects a new Parliament.
22. Appa Sherpa of Nepal climbs Everest for the '18th'" time
*Olympic torch relay resumes in China
*Violcnce erupts in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
*Pakistan signs a peace accord with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley.
23. King Gyanendra of Nepal leaves the Narayanhity royal palace
*Beatification of Pope john Paul II next year
*Ricky Ponting surpasses Gavaskar's record by winning his 35th test century against West Indies
*China and Russia vow joint efforts to maintain global energy security
*Myanrnar opens up to global aid
*850 Malawians affected by the violence against foreigners in South Africa, which has claimed 42 lives
*Somalian pirates free the hijacked ship MV Victoria
*Oil is $135 a barrel.
24. Death toll from earthquake in China is over 60,000
*ppp leader Zardari says judges sacked by President Musharrafwill be reinstated
*Prachanda invited to form government in Nepals
*Thousands march in jo'burg against xenophobia
*NASA gears to land the Phoenix space craft on Mars' frigid north pole
*Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe says Mugabe wants to decimate MDC structures.
25. Min Bahadur Sherchan, 75, of Nepal becomes the oldest person to climb the Everest
*Arrmy Chief Gen. Michel Sieiman is elected President of Lebanon.
26.Palme d'Or (Cannes) goes to 'Entre les Murs' ('The Class')
*Phoenix sends first pictures from Mars
*Sri Lanka train blast kills seven.
27.Detention of Aung San Suu Kyi extended by one year
*Gorbachev given lifetime achievement award at the Energy Cable Awards in Brussels
*Nepal's King Gyanendra's last day on the throne
*Xenophobes attack South Asians in Rome
*France to promote nuclear energy as an .j alternative to tackle climate change.
28.Nepal becomes a Federal Democratic Republic;King Gyanendra to vacate the palace in 15 days
*Assets of four LeT leaders frozen by USA
*Experts say the leaning tower of Pisa has been stabilised and is out of danger for at least 300 years
*James Bond is back in Sebatian Faulks' novel 'Devil May Care', marking the centenary of lan Fleming's birth
*China's earthquake toll rises to 68,109
*A corruption scandal puts pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign
*Indonesia a net oil importer, to quit OPEC.
29. Agreement reached on destroying cluster bomb stock piles in eight years, at a meeting of diplomats from over 100 nations in Dublin.
30.Actor Sharon Stone banned by Shanghai Film Festival for suggesting that the earthquakes in Sichuan were Karmic retribution for the treatment of Tibet
*Earthquake hits Iceland
*China to evacuate 1.3 rn. people in Sichuan for fear of a major 'quake lake' burst
*A.O.Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, says he had not meant a word of his earlier admission of selling nuclear energy
*WHO calls member countries to ban tobacco advertisement.
31.France to help Jordan develop its nuclear energy
*Shane Warne says he is ready to be spin bowling guru in India.
1.Progress made in Pakistan on reinstating judges dismissed by President Musharraf
*Colombia's most wanted drug kingpin Victor Mejia Munera shot dead
*World's largest sea bridge inaugurated in the Yangtze River Delta in China.
2.Sacked judges of Pakistan to be reinstated
*Georgia-Russia tensions are hotting up
*No outright winner of Zimbabwe's March 29 election, with Tsvangirai getting 47.9% and Mugabe 43.2%.
3.Ken Livingstone is replaced by Boris Johnson as London mayor
*Maoists win one-third of the seats awarded under the proportionate Representation system
*Nelson Mandela still figures on the US terrorist watch list.
4.Microsoft out of Yahoo bid
*Cyclone Nargis wreaks havoc in Myanmar.
5.Death toll from cyclone in Myanmar put at 10,000, with another 300 missing.
6.China says Dalai Lama must show sincerity in his actions.
7.Dmitry Medvedev is the new Russian President and Vladimir Putin the Prime Minister olMF approves sale of 403.3 tonnes for gold reserves
*Sri Lanka President prorogues Parliament
*Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahem resigns, Brian Cowen succeeds him
*Death toll in cyclone Nargis in Myanmar may reach 50,000, it is feared; One million homeless
*Obama takes a step towards Democratic Party nomination.
8.Pakistan testfires Haft-VIII
*Crude price $126 a barrel
*Lebanese militant group takes over most of Beirut.
10.Myanmar junta holds a referendum on a new constitution
*Afghanistan is hit by a plague of locusts.
11.President Bush's daughter Jenna weds Henry Hager
*Serbs vote in parliamentary election
*UN puts number of persons missing in Myanmar cyclone Nargis at 2,20,000.
12.Relief materials for cyclone-hit Myanmar pour in from many countries
*Pakistan is readmitted to the Commonwealth
*Southwest China is hit by a major earthquake (7.8), killing thousands, and leaving 900 students buried
*Indonesians protest government's plan to raise fuel prices
*Nawaz Sharif's party (PML-N) to quit Pak cabinet.
13.China earthquake toll surpasses 12,000
*Maoists ask King Gyanendra to leave the Narayanhiti Palace before May 27.
14. Justine Henin retires-Maria Sharapova to be No.1 in women's tennis.
16.PCC withdraws defamation suit against Shoaib Akhtar, after a public apology by the bowler
*100 killed in pipeline fire in Nigeria
*Pillayan, leader of the breakaway LTTE faction, is CM of the newly constituted Eastern Provincial Council.
17. Quake toll in China rises to 28,881
*UN report says about 3 b. people are food insecure; 18,000 children die daily
*Taliban releases Pak ambassador to Kabul Tariq Azizuddin, three months and five days after he was abducted
*Kuwaitis vote for a new Parliament
*President Bush in Egypt for peace deal.
18.Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh indicted by a special court in a second graft case
*Double amputee runner Oscar Pistorius regains the right to participate in Olympics at Beijing.
19.Mahathir Mohammad quits ruling party in Malaysia to press for leadership change
*Osama bin Laden lashes out at Arab governments that side with the West
*Anti-foreigner riots in South Africa, 22 killed
*3-day mourning in Myanmar for victims of cyclone that has left 1,30,000 people dead or missing
*3 minutes' silence observed in China and overseas in memory of the earthquake victims.
20. Oil is $129 a barrel.
21.Brigadier Balraj, a key commander of the LTTE, is dead
*Georqia elects a new Parliament.
22. Appa Sherpa of Nepal climbs Everest for the '18th'" time
*Olympic torch relay resumes in China
*Violcnce erupts in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
*Pakistan signs a peace accord with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley.
23. King Gyanendra of Nepal leaves the Narayanhity royal palace
*Beatification of Pope john Paul II next year
*Ricky Ponting surpasses Gavaskar's record by winning his 35th test century against West Indies
*China and Russia vow joint efforts to maintain global energy security
*Myanrnar opens up to global aid
*850 Malawians affected by the violence against foreigners in South Africa, which has claimed 42 lives
*Somalian pirates free the hijacked ship MV Victoria
*Oil is $135 a barrel.
24. Death toll from earthquake in China is over 60,000
*ppp leader Zardari says judges sacked by President Musharrafwill be reinstated
*Prachanda invited to form government in Nepals
*Thousands march in jo'burg against xenophobia
*NASA gears to land the Phoenix space craft on Mars' frigid north pole
*Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe says Mugabe wants to decimate MDC structures.
25. Min Bahadur Sherchan, 75, of Nepal becomes the oldest person to climb the Everest
*Arrmy Chief Gen. Michel Sieiman is elected President of Lebanon.
26.Palme d'Or (Cannes) goes to 'Entre les Murs' ('The Class')
*Phoenix sends first pictures from Mars
*Sri Lanka train blast kills seven.
27.Detention of Aung San Suu Kyi extended by one year
*Gorbachev given lifetime achievement award at the Energy Cable Awards in Brussels
*Nepal's King Gyanendra's last day on the throne
*Xenophobes attack South Asians in Rome
*France to promote nuclear energy as an .j alternative to tackle climate change.
28.Nepal becomes a Federal Democratic Republic;King Gyanendra to vacate the palace in 15 days
*Assets of four LeT leaders frozen by USA
*Experts say the leaning tower of Pisa has been stabilised and is out of danger for at least 300 years
*James Bond is back in Sebatian Faulks' novel 'Devil May Care', marking the centenary of lan Fleming's birth
*China's earthquake toll rises to 68,109
*A corruption scandal puts pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign
*Indonesia a net oil importer, to quit OPEC.
29. Agreement reached on destroying cluster bomb stock piles in eight years, at a meeting of diplomats from over 100 nations in Dublin.
30.Actor Sharon Stone banned by Shanghai Film Festival for suggesting that the earthquakes in Sichuan were Karmic retribution for the treatment of Tibet
*Earthquake hits Iceland
*China to evacuate 1.3 rn. people in Sichuan for fear of a major 'quake lake' burst
*A.O.Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, says he had not meant a word of his earlier admission of selling nuclear energy
*WHO calls member countries to ban tobacco advertisement.
31.France to help Jordan develop its nuclear energy
*Shane Warne says he is ready to be spin bowling guru in India.
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