Hillary & Fischer are No More
1.Malta and Cyprus join the Euro Currency zone, bringing euro countries to 15
*UNP leader T. Maheswaran shot dead in Colombo -Germany and France ban smoking in public places.
2.Oil is $100 a barrel
*Post-poll violence in Kenya.
3.World gold at $868 an ounce
*Scotland Yard to help in Butto assassination probe
*Sri Lanka scraps its ceasefire agreement with LTTE, signed in 2002.
4.300 dead and 73,500 flee tribal violence in Kenya following the disputed re-election of President Kibati; Opposition leader Odinga wants fresh election.
6.LTTE intelligence chief 'Col. Charles' killed
*French President Sarkozy to marry girl friend Carla Bruni.
8. Sri Lanka Minister D.M. Dasanayaka dies in blast
*Maldives President Gayoom escapes bid on his life.
9.President Bush embarks on an 8 day visit to West Asia
*27 LTTE cadres killed.
10.Lahore suicide bombing kills 22 people, mostly policemen
*Iraq death toll put at 1 .5 lakh
*Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary, 88, passes away.
11.FBI describes LTTE as one of the most deadly extremists in the world
*China to limit the use of plastic bags from [une
*China's forex reserves top $1.5 trillion.
12.American Olympian Marion jones fined for six months for lying about steroid use and involvement in a drug fraud case
*Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima says PPP need not be led by a member of the Bhutto family
*Gold tops $900 on fears over US interest rate cut.
14.University of Minnesota researchers create a beating rat heart in a laboratory
*President Musharraf rules out national government.
15.Australia's new government not to sell uranium to India
*India and China raise trade target by 50% to $60 b. by 2010.
16.Bus blast in Sri Lanka kills 26, as six-year-old ceasefire comes to an end
*Pope Benedict XVI cancels visit to Rome's La Sapienza 'varsity after protests
*Apple comes out with the world's tiniest laptop
*Two protesters shot dead in Kenya
*Paddy Ashdown is appointed UN envoy in Afghanistan.
17.Bhutan to hold first ever general election on March 24
*US researchers create the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9% of light
*Chess legend Bobby Fischer dies, at 64.
18.Bomb threat to World Bank offices
*Britain wants to take relationship with China to a higher level
*Pakistan denies report on its stand on jinnah Home.
19.Terror network busted in Spain
*Teenager arrested for Benazir killing.
20.Hindu festival of Thai pusan declared a national holiday in Malaysia
*Serial blasts rock Bhutan
*30 cadres of LTTE killed in clashes in Sri Lanka
*Kenya's john Kelai wins Mumbai Marathon.
22.Federal Reserve cuts interest rate by 75 basis points
*UNICEF report says India accounts for 2.1 m of the global total of 9.7 m. children dying before they reach the age of 5
*Stock markets tumble across the world; Bush's package fails to reassure US economy
*State funeral held in Auckland for Everest hero Hillary.
23.US Fed rate cut stabilises Asian markets
*Iraq's parliament adopts a new flag
*Sri Lanka claims to have bombed an LTTE hub frequented by V. Prabhakaran
*NASA pictures of Mars have one of a mystery female figure walking down a hill.
24. Israel to halt fuel shipment to Gaza.
26.Maria Sharapova wins Australian Open final.
27.Novak Djokovic, 20, becomes the first Serb to win a Grand Slam, at Australian Open
*Barrack Obama sweeps South Carolina
*Former Indonesian President Suharto is dead
*Bird flu situation in Bangladesh reported alarming
*The five-day World Economic Forum at Davos ends.
28. Samak Sundaravej (PPP) elected Prime Minister in Thailand
*China hav- ing one of its coldest and snowiest winters
*Prince Charles to boycott Beijing Olympics over rights abuse in Tibet.
31.Climate summit opens in Honolulu
*Argentinian footballer apologies for infamous 'hand of God' goal against England in 1986 World Cup.
1.Malta and Cyprus join the Euro Currency zone, bringing euro countries to 15
*UNP leader T. Maheswaran shot dead in Colombo -Germany and France ban smoking in public places.
2.Oil is $100 a barrel
*Post-poll violence in Kenya.
3.World gold at $868 an ounce
*Scotland Yard to help in Butto assassination probe
*Sri Lanka scraps its ceasefire agreement with LTTE, signed in 2002.
4.300 dead and 73,500 flee tribal violence in Kenya following the disputed re-election of President Kibati; Opposition leader Odinga wants fresh election.
6.LTTE intelligence chief 'Col. Charles' killed
*French President Sarkozy to marry girl friend Carla Bruni.
8. Sri Lanka Minister D.M. Dasanayaka dies in blast
*Maldives President Gayoom escapes bid on his life.
9.President Bush embarks on an 8 day visit to West Asia
*27 LTTE cadres killed.
10.Lahore suicide bombing kills 22 people, mostly policemen
*Iraq death toll put at 1 .5 lakh
*Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary, 88, passes away.
11.FBI describes LTTE as one of the most deadly extremists in the world
*China to limit the use of plastic bags from [une
*China's forex reserves top $1.5 trillion.
12.American Olympian Marion jones fined for six months for lying about steroid use and involvement in a drug fraud case
*Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima says PPP need not be led by a member of the Bhutto family
*Gold tops $900 on fears over US interest rate cut.
14.University of Minnesota researchers create a beating rat heart in a laboratory
*President Musharraf rules out national government.
15.Australia's new government not to sell uranium to India
*India and China raise trade target by 50% to $60 b. by 2010.
16.Bus blast in Sri Lanka kills 26, as six-year-old ceasefire comes to an end
*Pope Benedict XVI cancels visit to Rome's La Sapienza 'varsity after protests
*Apple comes out with the world's tiniest laptop
*Two protesters shot dead in Kenya
*Paddy Ashdown is appointed UN envoy in Afghanistan.
17.Bhutan to hold first ever general election on March 24
*US researchers create the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9% of light
*Chess legend Bobby Fischer dies, at 64.
18.Bomb threat to World Bank offices
*Britain wants to take relationship with China to a higher level
*Pakistan denies report on its stand on jinnah Home.
19.Terror network busted in Spain
*Teenager arrested for Benazir killing.
20.Hindu festival of Thai pusan declared a national holiday in Malaysia
*Serial blasts rock Bhutan
*30 cadres of LTTE killed in clashes in Sri Lanka
*Kenya's john Kelai wins Mumbai Marathon.
22.Federal Reserve cuts interest rate by 75 basis points
*UNICEF report says India accounts for 2.1 m of the global total of 9.7 m. children dying before they reach the age of 5
*Stock markets tumble across the world; Bush's package fails to reassure US economy
*State funeral held in Auckland for Everest hero Hillary.
23.US Fed rate cut stabilises Asian markets
*Iraq's parliament adopts a new flag
*Sri Lanka claims to have bombed an LTTE hub frequented by V. Prabhakaran
*NASA pictures of Mars have one of a mystery female figure walking down a hill.
24. Israel to halt fuel shipment to Gaza.
26.Maria Sharapova wins Australian Open final.
27.Novak Djokovic, 20, becomes the first Serb to win a Grand Slam, at Australian Open
*Barrack Obama sweeps South Carolina
*Former Indonesian President Suharto is dead
*Bird flu situation in Bangladesh reported alarming
*The five-day World Economic Forum at Davos ends.
28. Samak Sundaravej (PPP) elected Prime Minister in Thailand
*China hav- ing one of its coldest and snowiest winters
*Prince Charles to boycott Beijing Olympics over rights abuse in Tibet.
31.Climate summit opens in Honolulu
*Argentinian footballer apologies for infamous 'hand of God' goal against England in 1986 World Cup.
