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In 1986, he became a detective with the department, specializing in hostage negotiations. His law-enforcement background was an asset during the campaign. Lawhorne wants to expand the jail into the former headquarters of the police department and increase security for the facility. It will also allow city workers to test the feasibility of using wireless devices for municipal operations. There, hostage negotiators tried to reason with Barber using a sound system and a robot. Eventually, Barber emerged from the house with a gun, and two police officers shot him.
This prompted one member of the commission to vote against accepting the report. A second jury found Jones guilty of second-degree murder, recommending 13 years imprisonment. The second murder happened on May 28, when bicyclist Mark Creasy, 48, was strangled by a man who later ran naked across the George Washington Memorial Parkway and bit a police officer. In November, Andre Dwayne Suggs pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. The murder, which happened on federal property, is not counted in city homicide statistics.
On Sept. He is currently awaiting trial. The fourth murder happened on Dec. No arrest has yet been made in the case.
By 95-2, the united states senate has confirmed robert gates as next secretary of defense. Bainimarama nominates jona senilagakali to be interim prime minister of fiji. After the military made promises not to censor further news, the fiji times resumes publication. The united kingdom joins australia, the united states and new zealand in stopping foreign defense aid. Three people are killed in an explosion near milwaukee.
The judgment itself contains a coded message on the whim of the judge. The Prince of Wales makes a televised address in tribute. Richard Lochhead holds the seat for the Scottish National Party. Steve McClaren , manager of Middlesbrough F.
The iraq study group report identifies the iraqi situation as "grave and deteriorating" and recommends a shift in strategy, including the withdrawal of all united states troops from iraq by 2008. After a vote of conscience, the australian house of representatives approves private members legislation that allows therapeutic cloning. By 95-2, the united states senate has confirmed robert gates as next secretary of defense. Bainimarama nominates jona senilagakali to be interim prime minister of fiji. After the military made promises not to censor further news, the fiji times resumes publication.
2006 World Cup scandal inquiry to cost 3.5 mn euros
December 06, 2006: What happened on that day? As president, joseph kabila is the first democratically elected leader of the democratic republic of the congo for 40 years. The iraq study group report identifies the iraqi situation as "grave and deteriorating" and recommends a shift in strategy, including the withdrawal of all united states troops from iraq by 2008. After a vote of conscience, the australian house of representatives approves private members legislation that allows therapeutic cloning. By 95-2, the united states senate has confirmed robert gates as next secretary of defense.
One year ago, the article count for the african origin language Wikipedias was 772, the Afrikaans Wikipedia 4,439 and the Arab Wikipedia 10,247. Together they had just above 15,000 articles, while today they have passed 36,000. The pacific language Wikipedias remained small during 2006. Polynesian language Wikipedias grew most, while the rest advanced slowly. No Wikipedia reached 500 articles. One year ago, 3 had reached 100 articles.
The total article count was 918. There is still no Wikipedia in any Australian aboriginal language. East Asia competes with Europe and America as a developed Wikipedia area. Chinese passed 100,000 articles. One year ago, the total article count was 238,190. European languages still dominate the Wikipedia system. English has 1,560,143 articles, more than the total number of articles for Wikipedias in languages of all continents outside of Europe. English passed the milestones of 1 million and later 1,5 million articles in 2006, fortifying the position of the English Wikipedia as the greatest one-language encyclopedia that ever existed. But historically, the relative weight of the English Wikipedia is going down. The percentage of english Wikipedia articles seems to be roughly similar to the percentage of native english speakers on the Internet.
One year ago they had 2,747,489 articles. With less than one thousand: Romansh state language in Switzerland. One year ago such Wikipedias had 74,392 articles. Of the 97 Wikipedias listed above, 1 has more than 1,5 million articles, 1 more than 500,000, 8 have more than 100,000, 27 more than 10,000, 35 more than 1,000, and 17 more than 100. One year ago 1 had more than 500,000, 6 more than 100,000, 20 more than 10,000, 31 more than 1,000, and 11 more than 100. The 7 wikipedias have 3,803 registered users, of which Esperanto alone has 2,662. Including these, planned languages on the Meta page have 84,213 articles. The 9 Wikipedias in historical or «dead» languages have 14,537 articles and 3,327 registered users. The borderline Wikipedia in Simple English , arguably a language without native speakers, has 13,124 articles and 7,195 users. Together, the 20 Wikipedias or online lexicons without native speakers registered on the Meta page have 111,874 articles.
Commissioner Terence Cole recommended a task force be established to look into possible charges against several former AWB executives. The Stern report on global warming released in the UK in October put the effect of climate change in economic terms, making governments around the world stand up and take notice. The nuclear energy debate intensified after a report by Dr Ziggy Switkowski recommended a rethink on uranium mining and alternative energy industries. Scientists rejoiced as Federal Parliament passed a controversial Bill lifting the ban on stem cell research.
New industrial relations laws took hold in March, as unions joined the Federal Opposition and state governments in a vow to fight implementing the legislation. As Prime Minister John Howard celebrated 10 years in office in March, he disappointed Treasurer Peter Costello who said the Prime Minister promised him 12 years ago to hand over the leadership crown to him before two terms were up. Business In the second-biggest share offer in Australian history behind the T2 sale seven years ago, the Federal Government finally gave the green light for the third sell-off of Telstra shares. T3 shares began trading on the Australian Stock Exchange in November.
The Government parked the remaining 17 per cent of Telstra stock into the Future Fund to sell down over time. Many Australians felt the pinch of three interest rate rises during this year, with the final Reserve Bank decision for 2006 setting the financial climate at 6. Farewells Australia reeled with shock as it lost two icons in the same week in September - conservationist and self-proclaimed "wildlife warrior" Steve Irwin and motor racing legend "king of the mountain" Peter Brock. Celebrities, friends and family mourned the death of actress Belinda Emmett , wife of entertainer Rove McManus, who lost her long battle against cancer in November.
Courage Australians marvelled at the incredible survival of two miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, trapped for 14 days in May in a steel cage after a mine collapse in Beaconsfield in northern Tasmania.
The Dechatu River in Ethiopia floods, killing over 200 people. BBC Reuters Fifteen local employees of the French charity organisation Action Against Hunger are found dead in a town in northeastern Sri Lanka at the center of heavy fighting between Tamil rebels and government forces. Both sides have denied involvement in the killings. Chad had recognized the Republic of China Taiwan from 1997-2006. Chadian diplomats cited the prospects of greater financial investments and the PRC status in the United Nations Security Council as the principal factors motivating the diplomatic shift.
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The new MRF just might make it easier for a countywide curbside recycling program to take shape in 2007.***So there you have it – the news year that was 2006. Houston Community News >> Top 10 World News in 2006. ANDRIAN KREYE, from 1987 to 2006, was the US cultural correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (currently the largest German-language daily). ANDRIAN KREYE, from 1987 to 2006, was the US cultural correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (currently the largest German-language daily). This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from August 2006. 05 May 2006NEWS RELEASE New heritage advisory group for Minister The Minister for Planning and Envi.
2006 Year in review
17th February» A 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide known as massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126. It's a good time to think about what went right and what went wrong in 2006. The Economist Intelligence Unit looks at the The World in 2006 in figures by country and industry. All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc. William Shatner sold one of his kidney stones for $25,000 in 2006.
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Delivered straight to your door, an original newspaper is the thoughtful and interesting gift you have been looking for. Over 6,000 people are killed, at least 36,000 are injured and 1. The state union of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved on 5th June, leaving Serbia as the successor state. The competition is eventually won by Italy, following a penalty shoot-out against France in the final.
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Also in Washington, several congressmen from the Republican Party were involved in cases of wrongdoing. One was former House majority leader Tom DeLay who resigned after being charged with campaign finance crimes. Another was former representative Mark Foley. He resigned after he was found to have sent sexual messages to male students working for Congress.
He was sentenced to death by hanging. In the Middle East, Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia fought a month-long war during the summer. More than nine hundred people were killed. Much of southern Lebanon was severely damaged.
Russia officially recognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. India becomes the fourth nation to reach the moon.
November 2008 Mumbai attacks, a series of ten coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India, killing 195 people and injuring 290 more. This mission will enable Hubble to last for approximately 5 to 10 years.
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Steve McClaren , manager of Middlesbrough F. Charles Clarke is dismissed as Home Secretary. His murderer, Hannad Hasan, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in 2007. The Lord Chancellor , Lord Falconer , rejects calls from families of murder victims for all convicted murderers to be sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison.
On the county and municipal level, programs were established to enable fire mitigation and fire prevention planning. Homeowners worked to clear dead and dying trees from their properties, and a widespread Community Wildfire Protection Plan took hold across the county. But the more we know about the pine beetle epidemic, the more nuance it seems is needed in the debate. While beetle-killed trees grow in numbers, a new argument about a consequent rise in fire danger arose.
Water, or lack thereof, was less of an issue this year, as the hydrological year between 2005 and 2006 was one of the wettest on record. And on June 5, Dillon Reservoir filled to capacity, and excess water spilled through the glory hole for the second year in a row. In other environmental news this year, a surge of run-off from an abandoned mine above Breckenridge threatened a number of species in April. The result of the mine run-off: the Blue River flowed a deep orange color right through downtown Breckenridge, though no long-term impacts to the ecosystems there could be reported. Finally, boosted water flows in the same Blue River were the goal of the Breckenridge Sanitation District with their proposed Blue River Pumpback Project — where a series of pipes and pumps would recirculate water flows normally lost to Dillon Reservoir back into the river further upstream. The year was marked with much progress on the project; funding was secured and scheduling and planning begun. County welcomes some impressive new neighborsLate last year, the county realized the dream of a fully-functioning, advanced new hospital to its boundaries, the culmination of years of hard work by county commissioners and staff.
While the finishing touches on a new Flight-For-Life helicopter hangar are yet to be finished, the MOB opened for business this summer without a major vacancy. The new MRF just might make it easier for a countywide curbside recycling program to take shape in 2007.
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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have teamed up with probably the funniest chap around, Mr Karl Pilkington, to put together a series of podcasts. The first season were available on the Guardian Unlimited website. Just give it a listen and find out. If you missed out — note that Series 2 is available now direct from www.
Film 4 to go free February 25th, 2006 Film 4 to go free on Freeview by the end of 2006. Now delayed — expected 2006-7. See our News Section , follow us on Facebook or Twitter , or sign up to our newsletter.
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