Fidel Castro Steps Down
1. 64 persons killed by twin bomb blasts in Baghdad
*Microsoft offers to acquire Yahoo! for $ 44.6 b. oAI Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi killed in Pakistan.
3.Serbs vote in presidential election that will decide the fate of breakaway Kosovo province
*Earthquake hits Rwanda and DR Congo, killing 28
*Rebels in Chad surround President Idrissa Defy's palace
*French President Sarkozy marries his girlfriend former model Carla Bruni at Elysee Palace.
4.12 killed in bus explosion in northcentral Sri Lanka
*Boris Tadic re-elected Serbian President.
5.Prototype of 'AVG', a successor to France's TGV fast trains, with 360 kmph speed, unveiled in France
*lran regrets India's launch of Israeli spy satellite.
6.In Super Tuesday showdown in USA, John McCain rides closer to the top of Republican ticket
*Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies in the Netherlands
*Chinese end the Year of the Pig and ring in the Year of the Rat.
7.A billion dollar defence deal signed by US and India for the purchase of 6 Super Hercules military transport planes from Lockheed Martin
*55 killed in tornadoes in southern US states.
8.Scotland Yard thinks that Benazir Bhutto died of an injury she sustained when her head hit the roof-opening of her car as a result of the bomb blast
*Shuttle Atlantis soars into orbit after a 2-month delay.
9.Myanmar authorities announce referendum in May on a new constitution
*Sri Lanka dissident leader Sripathi Sooriayaarachchi dies
*Ban on Islamic headscarves in universities lifted in Turkey.
11. Yahoo rejects Microsoft's buyout offer
*Grammy awards won by Amy Wine house
*Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama wins Grammy for best spoken word album
*Pak Ambassador to Kabul goes missing
*East Timor President Horta shot and wounded by rebel soldiers.
13.Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologises to the country's 4.7 lakh-strong Aborigines for past injustices against them
*Obama gets three more states in US election nominations.
14.Hizbollah declares open war on Israel
*President Musharraf pledges to hold free, fair and timely elections.
15. Ex-student in Northern Illinois University kills 6 in a lecture hall
*A South Korean firm receives an order for cloning a pet dog
*US to shoot down a broken spy satellite hurtling towards Earth with a large supply of toxic fuel aboard
*Global loss put at $ 8 trillion resulting from US subprime crisis, Bank of America estimates
*Alan Greenspan says US economy is clearly on the edge of a recession.
l6. Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, declared dead 5 months after he vanished while flying in a small plane
*Hindraf urges ethnic Indians in Malaysia to vote against Badawi's political grouping
*Sharp drop reported in Baghdad deaths from violence.
17.Suicide attacks kill 40 on poll eve in Pakistan
*40 die in Pak bus mishap
*Kosovo declares independence from Serbia
*80 killed in Afghan blast.
18.Pak elections pass off without major untoward incidents
*The Serb-run half of Bosnia seeks independence.
19. In Pakistan, PPP and PML (Nawaz) sweep polls, with big setback for Musharraf's PML(Q)
*Cuba's Fidel Castro steps down.
20. Oil touches $100 a barrel again
*Earthquake (7.3) strikes Indonesia's Aceh province
*Barack Obama bags 10th consecutive victory against Hillary Clinton *Britain makes it mandatory for immigrants to pass more tests to 'prove their worth'
*Serbia withdraws ambassador from Washington; UK, Germany, France and Italy recognise Kosovo.
21.UK to introduce 'migrant tax'
*Thousands of Serbs held a rally to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence, while the number of nations recognising Kosovo rises to a dozen
*Riots target Western embassies in Belgrade, over Kosovo issue.
22.Venezuelan plane crashes in Andesregion killing 46.
24.VirginAtlantic operates its first flight using biofuel
*Three bankers jailed in' USA for Enron-linked fraud
*Presidential elections in Cuba; National Assembly elects Raul Castro as Fidel Castro's successor.
25.'No Country for Old Men' wins best picture at Oscars
*Raul Castro is the newly elected President of Cuba,
26. Cyprus has a communist head of state, Demetris Christifias.
27. Mathew Hayden of Australia let off with reprimand for calling India's Harbhajan Singh an 'obnoxious little weed' in a radio interview
*UN projections say half the world's people will live in urban areas by the end of 2008
*Earthquake (5.2 Richter) jolts Britain.
28. Nepal Government and United Democratic Madhesi Frontsign an 8-point agreement
*Thailand's deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is back.
29. Chemical Ali's execution approved by Iraq's presidency council
*Israel warns of 'holocaust' in Gaza after attacks
*British Army to recall Prince Harry from Afghanistan.
'Civilians die' in Sri Lanka zone
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BBC News, Colombo :At least 60 civilians have been killed by shells fired in a no-fire zone in Sri Lanka in the past 24 hours, a senior health official there says.
Two health facility compounds in the north-east region were also hit, Dr T Varatharaja told the BBC.
Tens of thousands of civilians are trapped by the fighting between the Sri Lanka military and Tamil Tigers rebels.
The military has denied responsibility for the casualties, and the rebels have not responded.
More than 300 people were injured in the shelling in a small stretch of coastal area in Mullaitivu district.
The military says it has captured all rebel-held territory in the north-east after days of intense fighting, and has now pushed the rebels into a government-designated "safe zone" set up to protect civilians.
Health facility hit
The zone is estimated to be about 20 sq km (8 sq miles) of the coastal area.
"Some shells landed inside a smaller health facility in the Ambalavanpokkanai area when people were waiting to collect milk powder for children.
Ten people were killed in the incident," Dr Varatharaja told the BBC by phone from a make-shift health facility inside the "safe zone".
He said the intensity of shell fire had increased in the last 24 hours and another health facility had also come under attack in the same area in which one health worker was killed.
The official said the shells came from an area dominated by the security forces.
There is no confirmation of the official's version of events, because independent journalists are banned by the government from travelling to the war-affected area.
However, the military has denied responsibility for civilian deaths.
"We have not fired any shells towards the safe zone," Sri Lankan military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
"The doctor may be under pressure from the rebels to talk about civilian casualties."
There has been no reaction from Tamil Tiger rebels.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said one of its aid workers was killed in shelling in the region on Wednesday.
It also evacuated more than 500 sick and war-injured people from the war zone the same day.
The United Nations says that more than 2,800 civilians may have been killed and 7,000 injured in fighting in the last two months.
The government disputes these figures.
The UN has also accused the rebels of preventing the civilians from leaving the war zone, saying there were credible reports that Tamil Tigers were shooting at those attempting to flee.
The rebels deny the accusations.
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Event January 2008
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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.
Event December 2007
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1.Zhang Zilin, 23, of China is Miss World 2007
*Parliamentary elections in Russia
*Referendum on constitution reforms in Venezuela.
2.Iran to attend Gee summit for the first time.
*Muttiah Muralidharan equals Shane Warne's record In test wickets.
3.Nawaz Sharif's nomination for jan. 8 Pakistan election rejected
*Muttiah Muralidharan breaks Shane Warne's record of 708 wickets at Kandy and becomes Test cricket's leading wicket-taker (710)
*A man dies of bird flu in China's jiangsu province
*In Venezuela, the Chavez referendum for constitution reform is defeated.
4. Benazir and Nawaz join forces to demand a free and fair general election in Pakistan.
5. Nawaz Sharif says he doesn't aspire to become Prime Minister again
*Prayer room for Sikhs at jFK airport.
Zhang Zilin
6.Yulia Tymoshenko named Ukraine Prime Minister
*Nicole Kidman's wax statue unveiled in Madame Tussaud's.
8.Ebola epidemic in Uganda, 100 infected, 22 die.
9.African leaders at EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon reject Economic Partnership. Agreement demanded by EU
*China's largest Hydropower plant Three Gorges to produce 63.7 b. kwt in 2007
*Iran accuses US of nuclear espionage.
10.Nobel Prizes awarded
*Dmitry Medvedev named Putin's favoured successor.
11.Medvedev asks Putin to be his Prime Minister
*Blasts in Algiers kill 60
*Pakistan testfires a cruise missile called Hatf 7.
12.Top Lebanese military officer Big Gen.francois ai-Hajj assassinated
*Muslim party quits Rajapaksa regime
*40 killed in Iraq blasts.
13.Russia and Iran reach agreement on nuclear plant
*Garry Kasparov not to run for Russian President.
14.'EU summit in Brussels
*Bornbs explode outside. Indian consulate in Afghanistan
*Pakistan arrests AI Qaida members for allegedly plotting to kill President Musharraf.
15.Emergency rule in Pakistan lifted
*Political leaders in Belgium fail to form a government after the general elections of june, as it sparks speculation that the state could split into Dutch-and Frenchspeaking regions.
16. UK to tighten immigration laws.
17.In Malaysia, 31 ethnic Indians acquitted of charges of attempting to murder a police officer during an agitation by Hindu Rights Action Force (Hin-draf)
*Russia delivers nuclear fuel to Iran
*Putin agrees to become Prime Minister if Medvedev is President.
18.Arcelor Mittal signs pact for first steel plant in Russia
*Brazil's Kaka is FIFA World Player of the Year.
19.jacob Zumais elected ANC President, defeating Thabo Mbeki
*Pak train crashes in Mehrabpur, killing 58
*US Senate adds $70b. for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
20.Bangladeshi writerTaslima Nasreen is told by Government of India she can't go to Kolkata
*Earthquaake (6.8) strikes New Zealand's North Island
*President Bush signs Climate Bill.
21.Gold is above $800 an ounce in Europe
*Suictde bomber kills 50 in a mosque near Peshawar in Pakistan
*China's first homegrown regional jet Xiang Feng(meaning 'Flying Phoenix') rolls off the production line in Shanghai.
22. Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest, at 81, to be a British monarch
*Tony Blair becomes a Catholic
*China unveils 300-kmph train
*Thailand goes to the polls .
23.UN's twoyear budget of $4.17b. approved
*Pro-Thaksin party PPP leads in Thailand elections
*Government moves bill to declare Nepal a republic.
24. Queen Elizabeth launches her own special Royal Channel on YouTube.
26.Landslips and flash floods kill over 100 in java.
27.Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan assassinated in Rawalpindi, violence spreads to all parts of the country
*Russia to set up a missile shield for Iran.
28. Benazir Bhutto's body laid to rest
*AI Qaida claims responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
*25 LTTE rebels killed
*For the 6th time, George Bush and Hillary Clinton are Americans' most admired man and woman.
30.Benazir Bhutto's son, 19-year-old Bilawal is named PPP chairman
*Footbailer Phil O'Donnell dies on field during a match
*Election in Pakistan postponed
*Rioting in Pakistan, as suspicion about the circumstances of the murder of Benazir Bhutto grows.
31.Riots in Kenya, about 100 killed.
1.Zhang Zilin, 23, of China is Miss World 2007
*Parliamentary elections in Russia
*Referendum on constitution reforms in Venezuela.
2.Iran to attend Gee summit for the first time.
*Muttiah Muralidharan equals Shane Warne's record In test wickets.
3.Nawaz Sharif's nomination for jan. 8 Pakistan election rejected
*Muttiah Muralidharan breaks Shane Warne's record of 708 wickets at Kandy and becomes Test cricket's leading wicket-taker (710)
*A man dies of bird flu in China's jiangsu province
*In Venezuela, the Chavez referendum for constitution reform is defeated.
4. Benazir and Nawaz join forces to demand a free and fair general election in Pakistan.
5. Nawaz Sharif says he doesn't aspire to become Prime Minister again
*Prayer room for Sikhs at jFK airport.
Zhang Zilin
6.Yulia Tymoshenko named Ukraine Prime Minister
*Nicole Kidman's wax statue unveiled in Madame Tussaud's.
8.Ebola epidemic in Uganda, 100 infected, 22 die.
9.African leaders at EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon reject Economic Partnership. Agreement demanded by EU
*China's largest Hydropower plant Three Gorges to produce 63.7 b. kwt in 2007
*Iran accuses US of nuclear espionage.
10.Nobel Prizes awarded
*Dmitry Medvedev named Putin's favoured successor.
11.Medvedev asks Putin to be his Prime Minister
*Blasts in Algiers kill 60
*Pakistan testfires a cruise missile called Hatf 7.
12.Top Lebanese military officer Big Gen.francois ai-Hajj assassinated
*Muslim party quits Rajapaksa regime
*40 killed in Iraq blasts.
13.Russia and Iran reach agreement on nuclear plant
*Garry Kasparov not to run for Russian President.
14.'EU summit in Brussels
*Bornbs explode outside. Indian consulate in Afghanistan
*Pakistan arrests AI Qaida members for allegedly plotting to kill President Musharraf.
15.Emergency rule in Pakistan lifted
*Political leaders in Belgium fail to form a government after the general elections of june, as it sparks speculation that the state could split into Dutch-and Frenchspeaking regions.
16. UK to tighten immigration laws.
17.In Malaysia, 31 ethnic Indians acquitted of charges of attempting to murder a police officer during an agitation by Hindu Rights Action Force (Hin-draf)
*Russia delivers nuclear fuel to Iran
*Putin agrees to become Prime Minister if Medvedev is President.
18.Arcelor Mittal signs pact for first steel plant in Russia
*Brazil's Kaka is FIFA World Player of the Year.
19.jacob Zumais elected ANC President, defeating Thabo Mbeki
*Pak train crashes in Mehrabpur, killing 58
*US Senate adds $70b. for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
20.Bangladeshi writerTaslima Nasreen is told by Government of India she can't go to Kolkata
*Earthquaake (6.8) strikes New Zealand's North Island
*President Bush signs Climate Bill.
21.Gold is above $800 an ounce in Europe
*Suictde bomber kills 50 in a mosque near Peshawar in Pakistan
*China's first homegrown regional jet Xiang Feng(meaning 'Flying Phoenix') rolls off the production line in Shanghai.
22. Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest, at 81, to be a British monarch
*Tony Blair becomes a Catholic
*China unveils 300-kmph train
*Thailand goes to the polls .
23.UN's twoyear budget of $4.17b. approved
*Pro-Thaksin party PPP leads in Thailand elections
*Government moves bill to declare Nepal a republic.
24. Queen Elizabeth launches her own special Royal Channel on YouTube.
26.Landslips and flash floods kill over 100 in java.
27.Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan assassinated in Rawalpindi, violence spreads to all parts of the country
*Russia to set up a missile shield for Iran.
28. Benazir Bhutto's body laid to rest
*AI Qaida claims responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
*25 LTTE rebels killed
*For the 6th time, George Bush and Hillary Clinton are Americans' most admired man and woman.
30.Benazir Bhutto's son, 19-year-old Bilawal is named PPP chairman
*Footbailer Phil O'Donnell dies on field during a match
*Election in Pakistan postponed
*Rioting in Pakistan, as suspicion about the circumstances of the murder of Benazir Bhutto grows.
31.Riots in Kenya, about 100 killed.
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