April 2010

• Teacher on trial for attacking student
• Hawaii hit by Great Plastic Garbage Patch
• Calls for Americans to use less salt
• Dog dyed to resemble Elvis wins contest
• British man to live with venomous snakes
• Future looking rosy for luxury goods makers
• Polish President killed in plane crash
• Egypt calls for return of ancient treasures
• Murder heightens racial tensions in S. Africa
• Chocolate is good for your heart

• Coldplay to appear on The Simpsons
• Justin Timberlake opens own golf course
• World population aging at record rate
• Brazil fury over Britain’s toxic waste
• Microsoft to offer Windows online
• South Korea hit by cyber attacks
• Standing room on airplanes a possibility
• Dollar under threat as the global currency
• Israel and Hamas reject Amnesty report

• Thousands march ahead of G20 Summit
• Earth Hour - World prepares to save energy
• U.S. school let students fight in metal cage
• World’s first flying car makes its debut
• Vegetarian diet reduces cancer risk
• Swiss banks promise less secrecy
• Warmer weather causes headaches
• NASA telescope to look for other Earths
• 50 candidates for ‘best job in the world’
• HIV virus a step ahead of body’s defences

• Children caught in Sri Lanka fighting
• U.S. woman gives birth to eight babies
• China closes 1250 sites for healthier Web
• Barack Obama’s supercar shown to the world
• Winnie the Pooh to make a comeback
• Internet war of words over Gaza
• Cubans can now build their own homes
• U.S. child guilty of mother’s murder
• Iraqi shoe-thrower trial postponed

October 2007

September 2007

August 2007

July 2007

June 2007

May 2007

April 2007

March 2007

February 2007

January 2007

• Bill Gates launches Microsoft OS Vista
• Iraq War protests in Washington DC
• U.S.: China missile a danger to modern life
• Hillary Clinton “in to win” US presidency
• School leaving age set to rise to 18
• David Beckham in 250-million-dollar LA move
• UN secretary-general announces female deputy
• The year 2007 to be the hottest ever

December 2006

November 2006

October 2006

September 2006

August 2006

• Britain to pardon 306 WWI veterans - easier | harder
• Airports ban liquids on planes - easier | harder
• Scientists discover gene to waterproof rice - easier | harder
• Fidel Castro to return to power - easier | harder
• New computer art mirrors viewer’s mood - easier | harder
• Russia issues 5,000-rouble note - easier | harder

July 2006

• Harry Potter star in new naked role - easier | harder
• Israeli military kill UN officials by mistake - easier | harder
• Food companies targeting kids online - easier | harder
• Movie downloads from home coming soon - easier | harder
• Thousands escaping from Lebanon - easier | harder
• Gang violence increases in Sao Paolo - easier | harder
• Zidane - "Italy player called me a terrorist" - easier | harder
• Sophia Loren poses nude for calendar - easier | harder
• North Korea tests seven missiles - easier | harder
• Heavier toys help fight childhood obesity - easier | harder

June 2006

• No lessons

May 2006

• No lessons

April 2006

• No lessons

March 2006

• Activists fight for water in Mexico - easier | harder
• Dubai ruler promises to sell U.S. ports - easier | harder
• Researchers say jogging alone is unhealthy - easier | harder
• Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell - easier | harder
• British TV bans Australian tourism ad - easier | harder
• UN boss not doing enough for women - easier | harder
• China increases spending on rural poor - easier | harder
• Toys 'R' Us and Amazon.com part - easier | harder
• Hip-hop is history at American museum - easier | harder

February 2006

• Apple iTunes sees billionth download - easier | harder
• Iraq undergoes biggest unrest in two years - easier | harder
• US Supreme Court OKs drug tea - easier | harder
• Retirement age may be extended to 85 - easier | harder
• World’s first spaceport announced - easier | harder
• Workers in microchip implant trial - easier | harder
• Denmark recalls diplomats over cartoons - easier | harder
• Britney Spears admits baby driving mistake - easier | harder
• Britain's sick day culture - easier | harder
• Americans spending at record rates - easier | harder
• Obesity could be catching - easier | harder

January 2006

December 2005

• 2005-12-31:US teen visits Baghdad to do his homework - easier | harder
• Regional accents are 'bad for business' - easier | harder
• Bolivian leader to halve own salary - easier | harder
• Japanese women to have more equality - easier | harder
• Libya overturns AIDS death penalties - easier | harder
• Disgraced Korean stem cell hero quits - easier | harder
• Hangover cures do not work - easier | harder
• Maradona breaks airport door in anger - easier | harder
• Time Warner picks new president - easier | harder
• Indian policewomen slap dating couples - easier | harder
• Yoga is best for back pain sufferers - easier | harder
• Arab Gulf nations call for nuclear-free region - easier | harder
• Bill Gates & Bono - Time's Persons of 2005 - easier | harder
• President Bush OK'd spying in America - easier | harder
• The Beatles sue EMI for $50 million - easier | harder
• The Asian Economic Community is coming - easier | harder
• Cuba grounds human rights prizewinners - easier | harder
• Self-destructing mobile phone messages - easier | harder
• Japan to resume US beef imports - easier | harder
• Pope: Christmas polluted by consumerism - easier | harder
• New life given to Kyoto Protocol - easier | harder
• Draw made for 2006 World Cup Finals - easier | harder
• Coca-Cola unveils new global ad strategy - easier | harder
• “Podcast” is 2005 Word of the Year - easier | harder
• Report highlights maid abuse in Singapore - easier | harder
• New highways threaten giant pandas - easier | harder
• Rice faces questions over CIA prisons - easier | harder
• Brad Pitt to adopt Angelina Jolie’s kids - easier | harder
• Sharp objects allowed back on US planes - easier | harder
• Surprise upswing in US economy - easier | harder
• Woman has first face transplant - easier | harder

November 2005

• 2005-11-30:Paul McCartney's Beijing Olympics boycott - easier | harder
• Romantic love lasts only a year - easier | harder
• Water supply returns to Chinese city - easier | harder
• Indian breaks hot-air balloon record - easier | harder
• Swim with dolphins to reduce stress - easier | harder
• Vodafone ends $60m Man Utd shirt deal - easier | harder
• UN: Hunger kills 6m children a year - easier | harder
• Working mothers pass on stress to kids - easier | harder
• Australia's death row plea to Singapore - easier | harder
• Bullying an epidemic in the U.K. - easier | harder
• Shocking state of world’s toilets - easier | harder
• Climate change threatens fish populations - easier | harder
• Outsourcing on the increase - easier | harder
• Sparrow shot in domino-record challenge - easier | harder
• International conference on Islam opens - easier | harder
• Keep warm to avoid colds: scientists - easier | harder
• Paul McCartney’s Space Station concert - easier | harder
• 18-year-old elected as US mayor - easier | harder
• Africa gets first elected female president - easier | harder
• Lamborghini to enter Chinese market - easier | harder
• Kyoto Protocol heated bra developed - easier | harder
• Second Saddam Hussein lawyer killed - easier | harder
• Myanmar moves its capital city - easier | harder
• Tobacco company tests "safe cigarette" - easier | harder
• No lesson due to server upgrade.
• No lesson due to server upgrade.
• 2005-11-04: Samsung Electronics aims to double sales - easier | harder
• Iran to replace 40 ambassadors - easier | harder
• Fifth night of riots in Paris suburb - easier | harder
• No hip-hop fashion for basketball players - easier | harder
  

October 2005

• Vodafone’s vending machine mobile phones - easier | harder
• China’s death penalty reform - easier | harder
• Nelson Mandela launches comic book - easier | harder
• Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam - easier | harder
• Japan close to allowing female emperor - easier | harder
• Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies - easier | harder
• Fleas have organ-saving antifreeze - easier | harder
• Zimbabwe to get new currency - easier | harder
• Brazil votes on gun ban - easier | harder
• Retire later to live longer - easier | harder
• Film company Kodak loses $1 billion - easier | harder
• David Beckham to defend marriage in court - easier | harder
• Corruption widespread in 70 countries - easier | harder
• Bush & Blair attacked by Mugabe & Chavez - easier | harder
• Amazon region hit by drought - easier | harder
• A new prince for Denmark - easier | harder
• Cannabis may reduce depression - easier | harder
• Chechen rebels attack Russian city - easier | harder
• Croatian homosexuals make a stand - easier | harder
• Eating fish is good for the brain - easier | harder
• Fire destroys Wallace & Grommit history - easier | harder
• Survey shows Mt. Everest has shrunk - easier | harder
• Earthquake kills 3000 across South Asia - easier | harder
• Bible translated for mobile phones - easier | harder
• $10 million for golf’s 15-year-old Wie - easier | harder
• Australians happiest people in the world - easier | harder
• US Army having recruiting problems - easier | harder
• Movies condone drugs and unsafe sex - easier | harder
• Crisis talks for Turkey to join EU - easier | harder
• Terror returns to Bali - easier | harder
• $100 laptop for world’s poor children - easier | harder

September 2005

• Tougher steroid fines for U.S. sport - easier | harder
• Global warming threatens Arctic - easier | harder
• UK hospital bans cooing at babies - easier | harder
• S. Africa’s Mbeki slammed over AIDS - easier | harder
• China regulates news websites - easier | harder
• Half of Europe’s citizens are bilingual - easier | harder
• Violence in Japan’s elementary schools - easier | harder
• Women wash hands more often than men - easier | harder
• Kate Moss axed over drug scandal - easier | harder
• International Car Free Day - easier | harder
• German election turmoil - easier | harder
• New Zealand’s election terror scare - easier | harder
• Baghdad car bomb kills 30 - easier | harder
• Home robots on sale in Japan - easier | harder
• Jennifer Lopez in anti-fur stalking - easier | harder
• Annan pleads for United Nations reform - easier | harder
• OPEC urged to increase oil production - easier | harder
• Warning for “square-eyed” Britons - easier | harder
• Japan’s Koizumi reelected in landslide win - easier | harder
• Pig organ transplants within 5 years - easier | harder
• Breakfast helps girls stay slim - easier | harder
• Egypt’s Mubarak in landslide election win - easier | harder
• Web users going to Wikipedia for news - easier | harder
• Toddlers mimic smoking parents - easier | harder
• Congo conference to save great apes - easier | harder
• US rapper says President Bush is racist - easier | harder
• Missing Australian PM mystery solved - easier | harder
• Bush under pressure over New Orleans - easier | harder
• Iran’s oil revenue “love fund” - easier | harder
• 800 die in Baghdad shrine stampede - easier | harder

August 2005

July 2005

• Irish woman in $135 million lotto win - easier | harder
• Site for beautiful people only - easier | harder
• IRA ends its armed struggle - easier | harder
• Porsche unveils 4-door sports car - easier | harder
• Shuttle Discovery launches successfully - easier | harder
• Philippine president faces impeachment - easier | harder
• Armstrong wins 7th Tour de France - easier | harder
• Koreas joined by first phone link - easier | harder
• London police shoot to kill - easier | harder
• Actor’s ashes to be scattered in space - easier | harder
• The 50 must-see children’s films - easier | harder
• U.S. welcomes India to nuclear elite - easier | harder
• Moscow subway cars to have CCTV - easier | harder
• Disneyland celebrates 50th birthday - easier | harder
• Darjeeling tea pickers continue strike - easier | harder
• London bomb suspect held in Cairo - easier | harder
• “Liquid candy” needs health warnings - easier | harder
• Kenya disposes of disposable bags - easier | harder
• English Church accepts women bishops - easier | harder
• Average worker wastes 2 hours a day - easier | harder
• Hurricane Dennis menaces U.S. coast - easier | harder
• Giant panda born in U.S. zoo - easier | harder
• Sheep suicides cause financial ruin - easier | harder
• Terrorists strike heart of London - easier | harder
• London to host 2012 Olympics - easier | harder
• France’s Chirac rubbishes British food - easier | harder
• Indonesia president slams cohabitation - easier | harder
• Swiss ace Federer cruises to greatness - easier | harder
• Campaign against poverty begins - easier | harder
• Chocolate bars poisoned in Australia - easier | harder
• Spain legalizes same sex marriage - easier | harder

June 2005

• Four dead in Indian “diamond” hunt - easier | harder
• Another shark attack in Florida - easier | harder
• French minister knocks EU expansion - easier | harder
• Rwandan president names gorillas - easier | harder
• Ahmadinejad wins Iranian presidency - easier | harder
• Zimbabwe’s homeless ignored - easier | harder
• U.S. is not losing Iraq war: Rumsfeld - easier | harder
• British royal finances online - easier | harder
• Ex-KKK leader guilty in 1964 killings - easier | harder
• Laboratory-created eggs and sperm - easier | harder
• Indian heat wave kills 200 - easier | harder
• Forty million credit cards hacked - easier | harder
• Tom Cruise proposes in Paris - easier | harder
• Friends help you live longer - easier | harder
• Japan, France to develop super-Concorde - easier | harder
• Saudi king in $32bn divorce case - easier | harder
• UK doctors’ drink/drug problem - easier | harder
• Defeated Mike Tyson quits boxing - easier | harder
• World naked bike ride against oil use - easier | harder
• Japanese student bombs classroom - easier | harder
• Italian hostage freed in Afghanistan - easier | harder
• Ronald McDonald to promote fitness - easier | harder
• Jail possible for Russell Crowe - easier | harder
• Russia to start 24-hour TV news in English - easier | harder
• Oil-rich Gulf urged to help Africa - easier | harder
• Pentagon reports on Koran abuse - easier | harder
• Everest wedding - easier | harder
• Russia warns against WMD in space - easier | harder
• World record 80 years of marriage - easier | harder
• Geldof announces “Live 8” concerts - easier | harder

May 2005

• France rejects European constitution - easier | harder
• Israel to release 400 prisoners - easier | harder
• Time stands still in London - easier | harder
• Japanese WW2 soldiers found in jungle - easier | harder
• S. African capital to have new name - easier | harder
• Caspian oil pipeline opens - easier | harder
• Al-Qaeda’s Zarqawi wounded in Iraq - easier | harder
• Star Wars sets box office records - easier | harder
• “Naked sushi” banned in China - easier | harder
• Sunshine may prevent cancer - easier | harder
• Saddam to sue over underwear photos - easier | harder
• Miss Universe pageant angers Thais - easier | harder
• Television shoes - easier | harder
• Eiffel Tower parachutist dies - easier | harder
• Kuwaiti women get the vote - easier | harder
• Anti-smoking vaccine developed - easier | harder
• The fight for Manchester United - easier | harder
• New mammal species found - easier | harder
• Chimpanzee art up for sale - easier | harder
• The face of Tutankhamen - easier | harder
• First S. American-Arab summit opens - easier | harder
• Women-only cars for Tokyo trains - easier | harder
• N. Korea nuclear weapon tests likely - easier | harder
• Darwinism on trial in American state - easier | harder
• Tony Blair makes political history - easier | harder
• New York WTC redesign - again - easier | harder
• Kenya’s First Lady runs amok - easier | harder
• Journalism becoming deadlier - easier | harder
• Soldier admits guilt over Iraq photos - easier | harder
• US Vietnam mark end of war - easier | harder
• Two dead, 10 hurt in Cairo attacks - easier | harder

April 2005

• 2005-04-30:Chinese thumbs up for GM rice - easier | harder
• Putin’s historic visit to Israel - easier | harder
• Surrogate mother donates 5 boys - easier | harder
• Japan rail death toll at 89 - easier | harder
• Japanese Emperor and anthem - easier | harder
• Exploding toad mystery - easier | harder
• James Bond, aged 13 - easier | harder
• Hibernation on demand - easier | harder
• British food best in the world - easier | harder
• Arnie wants Mexican border closed - easier | harder
• New Pope chosen - easier | harder
• “Start Something” with old Microsoft - easier | harder
• World education missing the mark - easier | harder
• Eminem wins bully lyrics case - easier | harder
• Five million ecstasy tablets seized - easier | harder
• Nike coming clean about sweatshops - easier | harder
• Killer flu virus mistakenly sent worldwide - easier | harder
• Japanese whaling to increase - easier | harder
• Sex education Malaysian style - easier | harder
• High-tech camel racing - easier | harder
• Spammer imprisoned for nine years
• Fast food fingertip mystery
• India-Pakistan bus service resumes after 48 years
• White supremacist sentenced to 40 years
• Asian anger at Japanese school history books
• Pope's funeral delays Prince Charles' wedding
• Deceased John Paul II seen on TV
• Dandruff linked to global warming
• S. Korea to block Japanese Security Council bid
• Prince Albert takes charge of Monaco

March 2005

• Venus and Serena to do reality TV
• Laura Bush's 5-hour Afghan trip
• New molecule blocks cat allergy
• EU has "good impression" of Castro
• Tap water as good as bottled water
• Marburg virus death toll up to 114
• Designer babies row in Britain
• Yahoo also to offer 1GB mailbox
• US judge says no feeding tube
• Yoghurt - bad news for bad breath
• Deadly alcohol kills 21 in Sudan
• Aussie frog hospital to close
• Internet bank robbery plan foiled
• Sunbed cancer risk for teens
• 85 years in jail for ex-WorldCom CEO
• Luxembourg the world's safest city
• British Army bullies
• India's drumming tax collectors
• Christ’s Last Supper jeans ad banned again
• Who wants to be a billionaire?
• Carrefour quits Japan
• Tarantino to make 12th "Friday the 13th"
• International Women's Day still necessary
• Sony appoints British CEO
• Australian Grand Prix success for Italian
• Canine suicide puzzle
• Early human or different "Hobbit"
• Pocket Playstation the 'must have' of 2005
• Bill Gates knighted by British Queen
• France tops for asylum seekers
• Daredevil nonstop solo flight

February 2005

• Anti-tobacco treaty begins
• Hairdressers top job satisfaction poll
• Animal rights Road Kill candy victory
• New cavity-filling wonder toothpaste
• Turkmenistan eye operation festival
• Veggie diet bad for kids
• Where's that smile from?
• Bush's European Peace Mission
• Britney Spears' fury at unauthorized honeymoon pics
• Global warming IS human made
• Half the world in cities
• U2's Bono up for Nobel prize
• Anti-McDonald's McDavids beat Goliath
• Gay rights for penguins
• Swaziland king buys wives BMWs
• Valentine's "suicide party"
• Kate Moss best dressed and undressed
• Prince Charles to remarry
• BBC producer killed in Somalia
• 4-year-old joyrider
• 100-Valentine-Question bumper lesson plan
• Israeli-Palestinian truce
• Pope gives brief address
• Bob Marley's 60th birthday concert
• Japan's first Mad Cow Disease death
• Napster - A rival for i-Pod?
• Have an exam? Have a Kit Kat
• $15 million coffee face
• Hillary Clinton collapses 

January 2005

December 2004

• Death Toll Spirals past 120,000
• Bush creates core tsunami aid coalition
• 50,000 Dead - US Token Aid
• New 'bin Laden' Tape
• Killer Tsunamis Strike Asia
• The Queen's Speech
• We Wish You a Merry Something, America
• Dollar hits all-time low against euro
• Mid-East peace closer?
• Harry Potter 6 Announced
• Ronaldhino World Player of the Year
• Bush named 'Person of 2004'
• 'Chemical' Ali trial process starts
• Another killer painkiller?
• Marriage - Good for your Health
• UK Closes Embassies
• Continental Airlines blamed for Concorde crash
• Chile's Pinochet indicted for murder
• Five Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza
• Love Love Love in Myanmar
• US-Vietnam Flights Resume
• English - the Lingua Franca
• Chinese IBM
• Man Machines
• The World is Safer?
• Spain Conquers USA
• Miss Peru most Beautiful
• Terror in Spain
• Prisoner for Palestine president?
• …And the Winner is… Blog
• Get Stressed, Get Old

November 2004

• U.S. Gay Marriage Victory
• Jordan Monarchy Change
• Taj Mahal Nights
• WTO hits USA
• Japanese-Russian Peace Treaty
• Impeach Tony Blair?
• New UN AIDS Warning
• Gay Alexander angers Greeks
• Little Economics for APEC
• The World's Oldest Man Dies
• Prince William & the Army
• UK Fox Hunting Ban
• Fish are Friends, Not Food
• UK Smoking Ban
• Colin Powell Quits
• BBC nets best Net news award
• Mosul - the next Fallujah?
• Coke Isn't It
• Virgin Millionaire
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• DIY Death Pill
• U.S. launches major Fallujah offensive
• Radcliffe wins NY Marathon
• Airplane Toilet Drama
• Pakistan Wedding Food Ban
• iPod Photo
• Four More Years
• The Fight for Arafat's Fortune
• China’s Internet Café Crackdown
• Bin Laden's Election Message?

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