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April 18, 2005
The largest moving object on Earth, the iceberg B15A in Antarctica
has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough
to be included in Antarctic maps. During the collision, a five-kilometre-long
section of the ice tongue was broken off. (ESA) (AP)
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory
announce that they have created a newly discovered state of matter
by smashing atoms in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. This
new state of matter behaves like a hot and dense liquid made
up of basic atomic particles such as quarks and gluons. Researchers
claim that all matter in the universe for a fraction of a second
after the Big Bang was in the form of this liquid. (MSNBC), (BNL
News)
Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and Hailu Negussie
of Ethiopia win in the 109th Boston Marathon. Negussie was successful
in finally breaking the Kenyan-dominated men's race.
Defending champion Ndereba became the first
four-time woman's winner. (ABCnews) (CNN) (Boston.com)
Black smoke signals no new Pope is chosen
in the first ballot in the Papal conclave, 2005. (BBC), (ABC),
(Yahoo! News/AP)
Two Israelis, one a soldier in the Combat
Engineering Corps, and one a civilian, are wounded by a Palestinian
sniper in an attack on Philadelphi Route of the southern Gaza
Strip, close to the Egyptian border. The Popular Resistance Committees
claims responsibility. (Haaretz)
Adobe Systems buys Macromedia for $3.4
billion. (Yahoo! Financial), (New York Times), (USA Today), (MSNBC).
The death toll in the collapse of a garment
factory in Dacca, Bangladesh reaches 74. Dozens are still missing.
(Reuters AlertNet)
2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations: Sino-Japanese
relations worsen after a meeting between Chinese State Councilor
Tang Jiaxuan, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, and Japanese Foreign
Minister Nobutaka Machimura in Beijing. China continues to refuse
an apology for the increasing number of anti-Japanese protests,
and further accuses Japan for handling the issues of history
and Taiwan "incorrectly". (Radio Australia)
The Ecuador congress votes to dismiss supreme
court judges. A debate for the selection of the new ones is set
for Tuesday. President Lucio Gutiérrez lifts a day-old
state of emergency, but thousands of protesters still demand
his resignation. (Reuters) (BBC)
The government of the Philippines begins
talks with Moro Islamic Liberation Front. (Manila Times) (Reuters
AlertNet) (BBC)
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
refuses to resign and intends to continue with minority government.
(AGI) (Reuters) (Bloomberg)
Bosnian Serb officer Vujadin Popovic, accused
of complicity in Srebrenica massacre in 1995, pleads not guilty
in the Hague. He surrendered to the ICTY on April 14. (FENA)
(Reuters) (BBC)
The governments of India and Pakistan declare
that peace between them is "irreversible". United Nations
secretary general Kofi Annan welcomes the move. (Hindu) (Deepika)
(IHT) (Daily Times)
Mexican government rules out pardoning
Andrés Manuel López Obrador. His supporters continue
their protests. (Reuters)
The Pakistani government releases 500 members
of Pakistan Peoples Party it detained prior to return of opposition
leader Asif Zardari. Zardari hopes to have dialogue with the
government. (Pakistan Times) (Daily Times) (Reuters AlertNet)
(BBC)
Former Lebanese minister Bassel Fleihan
dies of wounds he received in the bombing that killed Rafik Hariri.
(Daily Star) (Reuters AlertNet) (CNN)
Spain returns Rabei Osman Ahmed, who had
been extradited as a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings, to
Italian custody. (Reuters Alertnet) (World Peace Herald) (BBC)
The Rwandan supreme court hears appeals
for Pasteur Bizimungu, first president of Rwanda after the genocide,
who was arrested last June. (Rwanda Information Exchange) (IOL)
(BBC)
Four people are charged with the 1982 murder
of Roberto Calvi. Suspects have Mafia ties. (Financial Times)
(Reuters) (BBC)
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