Wiktionary:Words in the News/2006

Words in the News - Archive - 2006


 * hanging - Dec 30 - Saddam Hussein executed by hanging
 * ice shelf - Dec 29 - Ice shelf breaks free in Canadian Arctic
 * overshoot - Dec 27 - Blair flight overshoots runway
 * explosion - Dec 26 - Gasoline pipeline explosion in Nigeria kills hundreds
 * GPA - Dec 23 - Republican aide fired for trying to hire hackers to raise his GPA
 * chaos - Dec 22 - Travel chaos as fog descends on United Kingdom
 * Harry Potter - Dec 21 - JK Rowling announces seventh Harry Potter title
 * e-passport - Dec 18 - E-Passport cloned in five minutes
 * prostitute - Dec 15 - Five prostitutes found dead in U.K. brings fears of "Ipswich Ripper"
 * dictator - Dec 11 - Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91
 * water - Dec 8 - NASA: Signs of liquid water found on surface of Mars
 * chaos - Dec 6 - Iraq Study Group Report: Iraq could be on a slide towards chaos
 * heart attack - Dec 3 - Former Chilean President Pinochet suffers heart attack
 * polonium-210 - Nov 29 - Polonium 210 traces found on three British Airways aircraft
 * radiation - Nov 25 - Traces of radiation found where Litvinenko ate
 * nuclear deterrent - Nov 22 - Cabinet to discuss UK nuclear deterrent for the first time tomorrow
 * disaster - Nov 18 - Blair agrees Iraq is a disaster
 * economist - Nov 16 - Economist Milton Friedman dies at 94
 * Al Jazeera - Nov 14 - Al Jazeera English news channel to go live today
 * radicalisation - Nov 10 - MI5 Chief: surprised and alarmed by speed of radicalisation of Muslims in UK
 * Secretary of Defense - Nov 8 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns
 * midterm election - Nov 7 - Midterm election polls open in United States
 * boarding pass - Nov 5 - FBI raids creator of fake boarding pass generator
 * yellow pages - Nov 4 - Telecom New Zealand to sell Yellow Page Group
 * military tribunal - Nov 3 - U.S. military tribunal law faces first court challenge
 * mirror image - Nov 1 - Elephants recognize mirror image of themselves
 * Brownian motion - Oct 28 - Physicists test 'forgotten' Brownian motion theory
 * wildfire - Oct 27 - California wildfire kills four firefighters seriously injures one
 * STEREO - Oct 26 - NASA launches STEREO spacecraft
 * Firefox - Oct 24 - New version of Firefox browser released
 * population - Oct 21 - US population reaches 300 million
 * dirty bomb - Oct 19 - American city officials warned about dirty bomb threat
 * buffer zone - Oct 17 - Eritrea moves troops into UN buffer zone
 * unwelcome - Oct 13 - British top General says troops are unwelcome in Iraq
 * dark matter - Oct 11 - Dark matter lacks extra gravitational force
 * PM - Oct 9 - Controversy follows after Canadian PM skips vote for hockey game
 * turbine - Oct 7 - Bratsk hydroelectric plant gets new turbine
 * limbo - Oct 6 - Vatican considering abolishing limbo
 * pumpkin - Oct 5 - Halloween faces pumpkin shortage
 * Amish - Oct 3 - Fatal shooting at school in Pennsylvania, USA
 * lockdown - Oct 2 - Las Vegas schools on lockdown
 * second in command - Sep 30 - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri appears in new videotape
 * trans fat - Sep 28 - New York City considers stricter regulations on trans fat
 * hostage - Sep 27 - Gunman holding hostages in US high school in Bailey, Colorado killed
 * hitjob - Sep 25 Clinton calls Fox interview "conservative hitjob"
 * junta - Sep 24 - Thai junta vows retaliation against foreign media
 * penis transplant - Sep 22 - First penis transplant reversed after two weeks
 * food chain - Sep 20 - Study reveals mercury contamination throughout US food chain
 * bra chain - Sep 19 - Wanaka, New Zealand attempts bra chain record
 * ethane - Sep 18 - Ethane clouds found on Titan
 * cruciferous - Sep 17 - Study: chemicals from cruciferous veggies kill cancer cells
 * thought-controlled - Sep 15 - Thought-controlled cybernetic arms demonstrated
 * icecap - Sep 14 - NASA: Arctic Sea's icecap is melting
 * shooting spree - Sep 13 - 20 injured in Montreal college shooting spree
 * TADA - Sep 12 - TADA court begins pronouncing '93 Mumbai blasts verdict
 * His Majesty - Sep 11 - King of Tonga dies
 * Grand Prix - Sep 10 - Michael Schumacher wins Italian Grand Prix, announces plans to retire
 * sink hole - Sep 9 - Truck crashes through downtown Toronto sink hole
 * defence accord - Sep 7 - Germany, India sign defence accord
 * princess - Sep 6 - Princess Kiko gives birth to imperial baby boy
 * apartheid - Sep 4 - Former South African apartheid regime's police minister repents
 * winning streak - Sep 2 - South Africa end All Blacks' 15-game winning streak
 * gene therapy - Sep 1 - Gene therapy trial for skin cancer cures two terminal patients.
 * hard shoulder - Aug 31 - Hard shoulder gets the soft treatment on British motorways
 * subservience - Aug 30 - Jimmy Carter blasts Blair for "subservience" to Bush
 * water level - Aug 29 - Water level of Great Lakes is falling
 * heavy water - Aug 26 - Iran inaugurates heavy-water production plant
 * UNIFIL - Aug 25 - Italy to take command of UNIFIL
 * forest fire - Aug 23 - Forest fire in Chalkidiki peninsula causes political tension in Greece
 * Thurston's geometrization conjecture - Aug 22 - Russian mathematician refuses Fields Medal
 * dark matter - Aug 21 - NASA discovers new evidence of dark matter
 * lay to rest - Aug 18 - Canadian soldier killed in accidental shooting laid to rest
 * liquid bomb - Aug 17 - US Airport evacuated in 'liquid bomb' scare
 * planet - Aug 16 - http://www.iau.org/
 * foreign policy - Aug 12 - British Muslims warn Prime Minister Tony Blair over foreign policy
 * plot - Aug 10 - Police in Britain uncovered a suspected terrorist plot
 * resolution - Aug 8 - Talks continue over UN resolution on Lebanon war
 * Domesday Book - Aug 4 - From the eleventh century to the Digital Age, the Domesday Book is now online
 * civilian - July 30 - Israel strike kills more than 50 civilians in Qana
 * testosterone - July 27 - Landis tests positive for high levels of testosterone; could lose Tour title
 * Red Cross - July 26 - Red Cross ambulances hit by Israeli strike
 * intellect - July 22 - After Bush leaves Russia, Voice of Russia commentary questions President's intellect
 * simulcast - July 20 - CBC's new show The One sparked some controversy over simulcast
 * heatwave - July 18 - Heatwave sweeps USA, many struggling to keep cool
 * war - July 14 - Israel-Hezbollah war continues for a third day
 * blockade - July 13 - Israeli vessels enter Lebanese waters to enforce blockade
 * headbutt - July 9 - Italy and France draw 1-1; Italy wins FIFA World Cup on penalties
 * scion - July 9 - Indian royal family disinherits gay scion
 * trade secret - July 6 - Coca-Cola trade secrets attempted to be sold to Pepsi
 * Yellowikis - July 5 - Yell threatens to shut down Yellowikis
 * STS - July 4 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches for mission STS-121
 * cricketer - July 1 - English cricketer Fred Trueman dies, aged 75
 * military tribunal - June 30 - U.S. military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay lack Congressional authorization, violate U.S. law and Geneva Conventions
 * flag-burning - June 28 - Failure for constitutional ban on flag-burning in U.S. Senate
 * penalty shootout - June 26 - Ukraine win penalty shootout; beat Switzerland for quarter-final spot
 * Nix/Hydra - June 23 - Pluto's moons named
 * tortoise - June 23 - Darwin's tortoise dies in Australia at 176 years old.
 * Home Secretary - June 19 - United Kingdom Home Secretary proposes paedophile law
 * step down - June 15 - Bill Gates to step down from daily roles by July 2008
 * spiritual leader - June 14 - Alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah freed from prison
 * suicide pact - June 11 - Three inmates die in "suicide pact" at Guantanamo
 * tropical depression - June 10 - First Tropical Depression of 2006 Forms
 * airstrike - June 8 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike
 * stagflation - June 6 - Federal Reserve chief's stagflation scare
 * beating-heart transplant - June 5 - U.K. doctors successfully transplant a beating heart
 * sex slave - June 4 - Sex slave auctions held at British airports
 * counter-terrorism - June 3 17 arrested in Canadian counter-terrorism operation
 * lifeform - May 31 - Scientists discover prehistoric cave with unknown lifeforms
 * roadside bomb - May 29 - Iraq roadside bomb kills four, including two journalists
 * Grand Prix - May 28 - Fernando Alonso wins Monaco Grand Prix
 * vulnerability - May 26 - Symantec AntiVirus vulnerability found
 * mountaineer - May 24 - Sir Edmund Hillary angry with mountaineers who left British climber to die
 * enrichment - May 21 - Iran stands defiant on Uranium enrichment
 * mammoth - May 20 - China completes "mammoth" Three Gorges Dam hydro-electicity project
 * cholera - May 18 - Cholera outbreak hits Angola
 * invasive species - May 17 - Hawaii to spend $4.9M on coqui frog eradication
 * diplomatic relations - May 16 - U.S. restores full diplomatic relations with Libya
 * call history - May 12 - USA Today reports, NSA obtained call histories from communications companies
 * extradition - May 10 - UK hacker faces extradition to US
 * peacekeeper - May 7 - Sudan will welcome UN Peacekeepers in Darfur
 * reshuffle - May 5 - Charles Clarke loses Home Secretary position in Cabinet reshuffle, UK
 * impeachment - May 2 - Legislators in US states call for the impeachment of President Bush
 * planetarium - May 1 - London Planetarium closes to make way for celebrity-themed show
 * lampoon - Apr 30 - Comedians lampoon Bush at White House Correspondents' Dinner
 * impasse - Apr 28 - Iran nuclear impasse continues
 * Maoist - Apr 27 - Maoists in Nepal declare three month ceasefire
 * ANZAC Day - Apr 25 - ANZAC Day marked throughout NZ, AU
 * heckling - Apr 22 - Woman arrested for heckling Chinese President Hu at White House
 * death toll - Apr 18 - Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated
 * cockpit recorder - Apr 15 - Flight 93 cockpit recorder played in Moussaoui trial
 * bioweapon - Apr 15 - U.S. claims of Iraqi bioweapons labs contradicted in classified Pentagon report filed on 27 May 2003
 * concede - Apr 11 - Prodi claims victory in Italian election; Berlusconi refuses to concede
 * Semapedia - Apr 7 - Semapedia introduced to Africa: Powered by "Made in Ghana" technology
 * NIE - Apr 7 - Libby says Bush authorized NIE leaks
 * PM - Apr 5 - Guinea's PM fired by President
 * twister - Apr 3 - 18 dead after multiple twisters strike US Midwest
 * mass grave - Apr 2 - British report says the U.K. is preparing 'mass graves' for humans if Bird Flu mutates
 * capsizing - Apr 1 - Death toll of Bahrain tourist boat capsizing rises to 57
 * undocumented immigrant - Mar 28 - 7000 rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants' rights
 * flying coffin - Mar 22 - EU bans 92 airlines, buries "flying coffins"
 * take to the streets - Mar 19 - 100s of thousands take to the streets across France
 * war criminal - Mar 16 - Condoleezza Rice labelled "war criminal" by Australian demonstrators
 * flag-bearer - Mar 15 - New Zealand Commonwealth Games flag-bearer announced
 * Scientology - Mar 14 - Isaac Hayes quits South Park over Scientology episode
 * sudoku - Mar 12 - Czech woman wins the first Sudoku world championship
 * vending machine - Mar 9 - UK vending machines begin selling sex toys
 * telecommuter - Mar 8 - Study reveals 10% of telecommuters work nude
 * likelihood - Mar 6 - BBC global poll finds majority feel the US led Iraq invasion increased likelihood of terrorist attacks
 * photo essay - Mar 1 - Photoessay: Fat Tuesday Easy in DC
 * asylum seeker - Feb 27 - Australian Prime Minister blames asylum seekers for "Children Overboard" scandal
 * motherboard - Feb 21 - Microsoft changes OEM license, forcing new purchases after motherboard upgrade
 * whistleblowing - Feb 17 - McGovern calls for whistleblowing before alleged US attack on Iran
 * anti-semitic - Feb 14 - Israeli group announces anti-semitic cartoons contest
 * Olympic Winter Games - Feb 13 - Day 2 Results - Olympic Winter Games
 * tomb - Feb 10 - Tomb discovered in Valley of the Kings
 * insurgency - Feb 8 - Insurgency targeting of teachers causes south Thailand school closures
 * bleaching - Feb 1 - Scientists shocked at Great Barrier Reef bleaching
 * improvised explosive device - Jan 29 - Bob Woodruff injured by improvised explosive device in Iraq
 * mixed blessing - Jan 27 - Storms a mixed blessing for Victorian firefighters
 * kidney stone - Jan 22 - William Shatner sells kidney stone
 * asylum seeker - Jan 18 - 40 Asylum seekers missing off Torres Strait
 * hyperspace drive - Jan 8 - "Hyperspace drive" paper gains interest, AIAA award
 * aspartame - Jan 2 - British MP calls for ban on aspartame