Quiz Diary - 2005-05

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• French President Jacques Chirac accepts Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's resignation after voters rejected the E.U. constitution.
• Former Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin is named as France's new Prime Minister.
• Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ex-head of Yukos, is sentenced to nine years in jail for charges including fraud and tax evasion.
• England beat Columbia 3-2 with a hattrick by Michael Owen.
• The Washington Post said that Mark Felt, was the confidential source known as "Deep Throat" who provided the newspaper information that led to President Nixon's impeachment investigation and eventual resignation. Felt aged 91 and living in California, talked to a lawyer who wrote a magazine article for Vanity Fair. Felt, the second-in-command (Deputy Director) at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept his secret even from his family before confiding he was Post reporter Bob Woodward's source on the Watergate scandal.
• Bob Geldof has unveiled plans for a repeat of 1985's Live Aid concert, called Live 8, to highlight the ongoing problem of global poverty and debt. The free event will be held in London's Hyde Park on 2 July with concerts in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
• Lawyers in Michael Jackson trial discuss with the judge the instructions to be given to the jury
• French Open Quarter Finals - women:
  • Justine Henin-Hardenne beat Maria Sharapova
  • Nadia Petrova beat Ana Ivanovic
  • Mary Pierce beat Lindsay Davenport
  • Elena Likhovtseva beat Sesil Karatancheva (only 15)
• Phil Taylor wins the Premier League Darts Final, beating Colin Lloyd 16-4
• Bob Geldof calls for a million-strong march on Edinburgh to coincide with the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in July. The march is being called "Long Walk To Justice"
• Serbia cancels international arrest warrant for Mirjana Markovic, wife of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.

30

• Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has named Angela Merkel to challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in elections this year. The nomination means Mrs Merkel might become Germany's first woman leader.
• The Cooper's Hill annual cheese rolling contest takes place with competitors hurling themselves 200 metres down a steep hill. The winner receives the 9lb Double Gloucester they had been chasing down the hill. During last year's event 21 people were injured - including one competitor who suffered a dislocated shoulder. The contest was cancelled in 2003 because the safety team was in Algeria helping with the aftermath of an earthquake.
• King Mswati the third of Swaziland, has married his eleventh wife. Noliqwa Ntentesa, 21, was selected by the king three years ago at an annual ceremonial dance. She is pregnant with his 25th child. Two more women have already been lined up to marry the king. His late father, King Sobhuza the second, who led the country to independence in 1968, had more than 70 wives when he died in 1982.
• Uruguayan Diego Forlan of Villarreal and Thierry Henry of Arsenal will share the Golden Shoe award for being the season's top goalscorers in Europe. Henry becomes the first player to win the award two years in a row.
• The 1995 Oasis song Wonderwall was named best British song of all time in a poll by Virgin Radio of more than 8,300 listeners. Queen and the Beatles had eight entries each in the top 100. The Rolling Stones and David Bowie had six entries and Coldplay had five tracks in the top 100. There was only one song by a female solo artist - Kate Bush at number 16 with Wuthering Heights. Wonderwall topped the Virgin Radio chart despite failing to top the U.K. singles chart on its release, being kept in second place by Michael Jackson's Earth Song.
  • 1 Oasis - Wonderwall
  • 2 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
  • 3 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
  • 4 The Beatles - Let It Be
  • 5 John Lennon - Imagine
  • 6 Police - Every Breath You Take
  • 7 The Jam - Going Underground
  • 8 Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
  • 9 Robbie Williams - Angels
  • 10 The Stranglers - Golden Brown
• Liberal Democrat M.P. Patsy Calton died of breast cancercancer, five days after being sworn in.
• Bobby Zamora's second-half goal gave West Ham victory in the Championship play-off final and a return to the Premiership after a two-year absence. They join Wigan and Sunderland as the promoted teams replacing Crystal Palace, Norwich and Southampton.

29

• Uefa president Lennart Johansson says he believes Liverpool should be able to defend their Champions League crown. The Football Association maintains the clubs that finished in the top four of the Premiership - Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Everton - were their nominees. Rafael Benitez's side may be given a berth in the tournament at the expense of Fenerbahce, who will have to drop into the qualifying competition. Liverpool will not be asked to pre-qualify, partly because that process clashes with Uefa's date for the Super Cup match between the Champions League winners and the Uefa Cup winners, C.S.K.A. Moscow, in Monaco on 26 August. Franz Beckenbauer, who is tipped to be the next Uefa president, has given his support to Liverpool's cause.
• Saudi Arabia's King Fahd remained in hospital for a third day with a lung ailment, preparing to undergo more medical tests as authorities in the main OPEC country sought to calm rumours about his health.
• Pope Benedict the Sixteenth has begun the first trip of his papacy by heading to the southern Italian city of Bari. The Pope's first foreign trip is set to be to Germany, for the 20th World Youth Day on 16 August 2005.
• European Grand Prix (Nurburgring, Germany) result
  • 1 Alonso (Renault)
  • 2 Heidfeld (Williams)
  • 3 Barrichello (Ferrari)
  • 4 Coulthard (Red Bull)
  • 5 M Schumacher (Ferrari)
• The French vote No on the proposed E.U. constitution.
• Dan Wheldon becomes the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500 since Graham Hill in 1966.
• U.K. singles chart
  • 1 Crazy Frog - Axel F
  • 2 Coldplay - Speed Of Sound
  • 3 Akon - Lonely
• Coca-Cola Football League One Hartlepool 2 - 4 Sheffield Wednesday (After Extra Time) Sheffield Wednesday win promotion to the Championship

28

• First Test, Lord's: England 528-3 declared beat Bangladesh 108 & 159 by an innings and 261 runs.
• Martin O'Neill leaves Celtic with a seventh trophy as his side beat Dundee United 1-0 in the Scottish Cup final with a goal by Alan Thompson.
• Williams driver Nick Heidfeld claims his first career pole position at the European Grand Prix.
• England defeat the U.S.A. 2-1 in Chicago with two first half goals from Kieran Richardson (Manchester United's 20-year-old winger, who ended the season on loan at West Brom) Clint Dempsey got a goal back late in the game.
• Coca-Cola Football League Two Lincoln City 0 - 2 Southend (After Extra Time) Southend win promotion to League One

27

• The Liverpool football team paraded the cup through the streets of Liverpool.
• London temperatures reached 31C (88F) - the hottest May day since 1953.
• The founder of Multiplex quit as executive chairman after the Australian property firm building the new Wembley football stadium warned that it could make a substantial loss on the project.
• The BBC is to modify its controversial new weather map after complaints that it did not give enough prominence to Scotland and the north of England. The angle at which viewers see the UK will be changed from Saturday - but the colours will stay the same.

26

• A recommendation that the name of South Africa's capital be changed from Pretoria to Tshwane has been unanimously approved. Tshwane is the name of a pre-colonial local chief and means "we are the same". The city was named after Boer settler and Afrikaner hero Andries Pretorius.
• Pro-hunt protesters, including Otis Ferry, are found guilty of violating the Public Order Act after invading the Commons.
• Liverpool's triumphant players parade the Champions League trophy to a million people.

25

• Oil is set to begin flowing from the Caspian Sea direct to the Mediterranean for the first time after a pipeline was opened. Starting in Baku, Azerbaijan, it will pass through Georgia to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
• Bolton Wanderers striker, El-Hadji Diouf from Senegal has successfully claimed legal aid to defend a spitting charge. He is accused of spitting at a Middlesbrough fan during a match at the Riverside last November.
• Celtic manager Martin O'Neill is to leave the club for personal reasons after Saturday's Scottish Cup final against Dundee United, with Gordon Strachan taking over from 1 June. His wife Geraldine has been receiving treatment for cancer.
  • 2000-2001: SPL winners, CIS Cup winners, Scottish Cup winners
  • 2001-2002: SPL winners
  • 2002-2003: Uefa Cup runners-up
  • 2003-2004: SPL winners, Scottish Cup winners
  • 2004-2005: Scottish Cup finalists
• Liverpool win the Champions League after beating AC Milan in a penalty shoot-out in Istanbul. The match ended 3-3 after extra time. Paolo Maldini gave Milan the lead within a minute and Hernan Crespo scorred two to make it 3-0 before half time. Goals from Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer and Xabi Alonso levelled the scores in a seven-minute spell. Serginho and Andrea Pirlo missed Milan's first two penalties, while Dietmar Hamann and Djibril Cisse were on target for Liverpool. Jon Dahl Tomasson put Milan in contention before John Arne Riise was denied by a save from Dida. Kaka scored for Milan, and after Vladimir Smicer scored for Liverpool, Andriy Shevchenko had to scored but his kick was saved by Jerzy Dudek to win Liverpool the shoot out 3-2.

24

• Marks and Spencer saw its profits fall by 19 percent to £618.5m from £805m last year.

23

• The lottery operator announced a rise in ticket sales. The Camelot chief executive is Dianne Thompson.
• Many BBC news and live programmes were disrupted by a one-day strike by staff protesting at job cuts. Almost half of the employees due in on Monday joined the walkout. Unions estimate up to 11,000 people are on strike. The strike is over plans to cut 3,780 jobs and privatise parts of the BBC.
• Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall carried out her first solo engagement as a member of the Royal Family when she visited Southampton General Hospital.
• Radio 2 listeners vote the top five songs of the decades:
  • 1955-1964 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
  • 1965-1974 David Bowie - Space Oddity
  • 1975-1984 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
  • 1985-1994 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
  • 1995-2004 Robbie Williams - Angels

22

• McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen won the Monaco Grand Prix for his second successive win this season.
• Rangers pipped rivals Celtic to the Scottish Premier League title. Celtic were two points ahead at the start of the day led through Chris Sutton but two goals in the closing minutes from Scott McDonald earned Motherwell a 2-1 win. Nacho Novo's goal gave Rangers a 1-0 win over Hibernian to see them leapfrog Celtic.
• Oasis top the charts.
  • 1. Oasis - Lyla
  • 2. Akon - Lonely
  • 3. Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart
  • 4. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc
  • 5. Tony Christie Ft Peter Kay - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

21

• Arsenal won a penalty shoot-out 5-4 to lift the F.A. Cup after the match ended 0-0 after extra time. Paul Scholes missed the third penalty and Patrick Vieira scorred the 10th penalty that gave Arsenal victory. Jose Reyes had been dismissed for a second booking late in extra time. This was the first time in its history that the F.A. Cup had been decided by penalties.
• Greece's Helena Paparizou, with the song My Number One, beat 23 nations winning 230 points (38 points ahead of second place Malta who were 34 points ahead of third placed Romania) to win the Eurovision Song Contest in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. U.K. entrant Javine with Touch My Fire managed to secure 18 points and finished third from last ahead of France (11 points) and Germany (4 points). Cyprus (5), Ireland (8), Malta (4) and Turkey (1) were the only countries to award points to the U.K. The U.K. was the only country to give 12 points to Greece and 10 to Malta giving them the same finishing positions in the U.K. vote as in the overall contest.

20

• Iraq's prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari, arrives in Ankara, Turkey for his first official foreign trip since the new government was formed.
• South Korean scientists create the first human embryonic stem cells
• Tony Blair has been treated in London's Royal Free Hospital for a slipped disc.
• Former Australia cricket captain Greg Chappell has been confirmed as the new coach of India's national team.
• Shadow chancellor George Osborne rules himself out of standing for the Conservative Party leadership.

19

• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, opens around the world.
• MPs are to have an 80-day summer break from the House of Commons. Commons leader Geoff Hoon said the House will rise on 21 July - and not return until 10 October, after the party conference season.
• The oldest existing version of the F.A. Cup has became the world's most expensive piece of football memorabilia after being sold for 420,000GBP. The sale, at Christie's in London it beat the previous record of 254,000GBP paid for the Jules Rimet World Cup in 1997. The solid silver trophy was presented to winning teams between 1896 and 1910.

18

• Abigail Witchalls talks of "sensation over most of my body" as she recovers in hospital.
• A man was arrested after a break-in at the home of Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard. Two vehicles, a plasma TV and computer were stolen.

17

• Singer Kylie Minogue is diagnosed with breast cancer, postponing the Australian leg of her world tour.
• The three main video game companies have all now lauched their consoles.
  • Microsoft xBox 360
  • Sony PlayStation 3 (P.S. 3)
  • Nintendo Revolution

16

• The US says it is "deeply disturbed" by reports that troops in Uzbekistan shot at unarmed civilians. The unrest has spread from nearby Andijan to Korasuv.
• The Kuwaiti parliament voted to give women full political rights.
• Malcolm Glazer secured a 75.7% stake in Manchester United, enabling him to take the company private and delist its shares from the stock exchange.
• Star Wars Eposode 3: Revenge of the Sith got its UK premier in Leicester Square.
• Sony launched their new PlayStation (P.S 3) console.

15

• West Bromwich Albion escaped Premiership relegation beating Portsmouth 2-0 to stay up by a point and become the first team since the Premiership began to survive despite being bottom at Christmas. Crystal Palace were eight minutes from survival but Charlton's equaliser sent them down, while Norwich went down 6-0 at Fulham. Southampton's 27-year top-flight stay ended with a 2-1 defeat by Man Utd.
• Star Wars Eposode 3: Revenge of the Sith got its World premier at Cannes.

14

• Ipswich come from two goals down to draw 2-2 in their play-off at West Ham United.
• Wasps win a third straight Zurich Premiership title with a 39-14 victory over Leicester. The top three in the title race were Leicester 78 points, Wasps 73 points and Sale 60 points.

13

• Friday the 13th - the last was in August last year, the next is in January next year. The last time we only had one in the year was in 2003, and the next is in 2008. In 2009 it will happen three times, in February, March and November.
• Soldiers in Uzbekistan sealed off the eastern town of Andijan, where some 2,000 protesters are gathered following an overnight jailbreak. Uzbekistan (Capital: Tashkent) is the most populous (26 million people) central Asian former Soviet republic, and has been ruled since independence in 1991 by Islam Karimov.
• Pope Benedict the Sixteenth has begun the process to beatify his predecessor John Paul the Second, the first step to sainthood. The Pope waived the usual rules which require a five-year wait before the Church begins to make someone a saint. Beatification allows public veneration of the person and for the person to be known as "Blessed".
• Russian prosecutors are to bring charges of money laundering against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former boss of oil firm Yukos.

12

• A US Senate report said Former Labour MP and Respect leader George Galloway was granted oil allocations by Iraq.
• US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer launched a formal takeover bid for Manchester United. The American who also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has secured the 28.7% stake of racing tycoons J.P. MacManus and John Magnier, giving him a 59% stake in the Premiership club. Red Football Ltd, acting on behalf of Mr Glazer, said the Irishmen had sold their stakes for 300p a share.

11

• Maryland will try the Washington sniper killers (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo also known as John Lee Malvo), who are accused of six murders there in October 2002. Virginia have already tried them and other states, including Louisiana and Alabama, are seeking to try them too. Muhammad, 44, was sentenced to death and Malvo, 20, to life in prison without parole.
• The European Parliament votes to scrap an opt-out rule on the limit of the working week in the EU to an average of 48 hours. The opt-out is only really used in the United Kingdom.
• A report on higher education in Wales calls for the University of Wales Newport, the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff (Uwic) and the University of Glamorgan (all in south Wales) to merge.
• The first meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party since the general election took place. The Labour party won 356 seats in the election.
• Michael Martin was elected unopposed as Speaker of the House of Commons. He is the Labour MP for Glasgow North East - a constituency where the Conservative and Liberal Democrats didn't field candidates the General Election although other parties did.
• Arsenal beat Everton 7-0 in the Premiership

10

• George W. Bush spoke in Georgia, in Tbilisi's Freedom Square - the place where Georgians celebrated ousting the old regime in what is known as the Rose Revolution. His trip gave support to President Mikhail Saakashvili.
• Michael Howard announced he will stand down after the Conservative Party's October conference, for a new leader by Christmas.
• Shadow Cabinet
  • Shadow chancellor - George Osborne (age 33)
  • Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury - Philip Hammond
  • Shadow foreign secretary - Liam Fox
  • Education - David Cameron
  • Work and pensions - Sir Malcolm Rifkind
  • Defence - Michael Ancram
  • Shadow home secretary - David Davis
  • Rural affairs - Oliver Letwin
  • Northern Ireland - David Lidington
  • Chief whip - David Maclean
  • Family - Theresa May
  • Health - Andrew Lansley
  • Constitutional affairs - Oliver Heald
  • Transport - Alan Duncan
  • Shadow Commons leader - Chris Grayling
  • International development - Andrew Mitchell
  • Deregulation - John Redwood
  • Local and devolved government - Caroline Spelman
• Members of the European Parliament voted to request European Union money to help fund a civil action against those suspected of killing Robert McCartney.

09

• More than 50 world leaders, including George W. Bush, paid tribute in Moscow to the Soviet people's sacrifice in World War II.
• The Bank of England leaves the base interest rate unchanged at 4.75% for a ninth month.
• Nicholas Soames and Tim Yeo have quit the Conservative shadow cabinet saying they want to play an active role in rethinking the party's future.
• Congestion charging could end half an hour earlier than at present when the zone is extended westwards according to Transport for London (TfL). This would be a change to 6 p.m. and could happen in February 2007.
• The Krypton Factor could make a comeback after the BBC's entertainment head named it as the next TV "gem" that should be revived. The show was hosted by Gordon Burns and put contestants through rigorous physical and mental tests on ITV from 1977 to 1995.
• Australian snooker player Quinten Hann was found not guilty of sexually attacking a singer and an actress at his home.
• Dean Richards was confirmed as director of rugby at relegated Harlequins on a three-year contract. The former Leicester boss spent this season at Grenoble.

08

• 60th anniversary of V.E. (Victory in Europe) Day.
• Prince Charles lays a wreath at the Cenotaph. George W. Bush and Queen Beatrix attend a wreath laying ceremony near Maastrict.
• Division 1: Wigan Athletic win promotion to the Premiership with a 3-1 win over Reading. The other promoted team is Sunderland (Champions). Ipswich, Derby, Preston and West Ham will contest the play-offs. Gillingham, Nottingham Forrest and Rotherham are relegated.
• Prince Harry arrives to begin training with the army at Sandhurst. The academy lies within the Bracknell Forest district in the former county of Berkshire, but the nearest town is Camberley in Surrey.
• Hashim al-Shible, a Sunni Arab, turns down the post of human rights minister in Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari newly formed Iraqi government.
• Pippa Funnell on Primmore's Pride wins her third Badminton Horse Trials title.
• The only Ulster Unionist MP Lady Sylvia Hermon considers running for the leadership of her party. She has been an MP since 2001 when she took the North Down seat from the UK Unionist Party leader Robert McCartney.
• McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) wins the Spanish Grand Prix to deny championship leader and Renault driver Fernando Alonso (Spain) a fourth straight victory. Toyota's Jarno Trulli (Italy) was third after a puncture stopped Ferrari's Michael Schumacher.
• Akon's single Lonely ousts (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (number one for seven weeks), while his album Trouble takes the top spot from Bruce Springsteen's Devils & Dust.
  • 1 Akon - Lonely
  • 2 Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
  • 3 Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson, Justin Timberlake - Signs
  • 4 Eminem - Mockingbird
  • 5 Bodyrockers - I Like the Way

07

• Head of the I.A.E.A. (International Atomic Energy Agency) Mohamed ElBaradei says The world must show zero tolerance to North Korea and put pressure on it not to launch a nuclear test.
• US President George W Bush has arrived in Europe to take part in ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two. The anniversary of V.E. (Victory in Europe) Day is May 8th.
• Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell holds Harlow in Essex after three recounts beating Conservative Robert Halfon by 97 votes.
• The last constituency to declare will be Staffordshire South, where the vote was called off following the death of the Liberal Democrat candidate Jo Harrison.
• U.U.P. (Ulster Unionist Party) leader David Trimble resigns.
• Junior doctors call for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to repeat his success with school dinners and lead a campaign to improve food in hospitals.
• EastEnders actress Jessie Wallace loses her bid to secure a High Court injunction to block a News of the World interview with Dave Morgan, the estranged father of her daughter.
• Grey colt Giacomo wins the 131st Kentucky Derby at 50-1 odds.

06

• Conservative David Burrows unseats Labour minister Stephen Twigg in Enfield Southgate - the constituency Twigg won from Michael Portillo at the 1997 election.
• Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate Richard Taylor wins again in Wyre Forest this time against Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative candidates.
• Peter Law, who quit Labour in protest at all-women short-lists, overturns a 20,000 Labour majority to defeat Maggie Jones win Blaenau Gwent.
• Former Labour M.P. and Respect party leader George Galloway wins in Bethnal Green and Bow ousting Oona King from one of the most Muslim seats in the country.
• Conservative party leader Michael Howard will stand down "sooner rather than later" to allow a younger figure to take over.
• After 474 results, declared turnout was 60.16%, up 2% from those seats in 2001 election. Turnout was expected to be higher as a result of the trebling in numbers of people registered to vote by post.
• U.U.P. (Ulster Unionist Party) leader David Trimble loses his Parliamentary seat at Upper Bann to David Simpson of the D.U.P. (Democratic Unionist Party).
• New cabinet
  • Chancellor: Gordon Brown
  • Deputy Prime Minister: John Prescott
  • Foreign Secretary: Jack Straw
  • Home Secretary: Charles Clarke
  • Health Secretary: Patricia Hewitt
  • Defence Secretary: John Reid
  • Leader of the Commons: Geoff Hoon
  • Northern Ireland Secretary: Peter Hain
  • Transport Secretary: Alistair Darling
  • Leader of the Lords: Baroness Amos
  • Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Des Browne
  • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: John Hutton
  • Education Secretary: Ruth Kelly
  • Secretary for productivity, energy and industry: Alan Johnson
  • Work and Pensions Secretary: David Blunkett
  • Communities and local government minister: David Miliband
  • Constitutional Affairs Secretary: Lord Falconer
• In Formula 1, B.A.R. (British American Racing) were banned for two races for running an underweight car and using a secondary fuel tank at the 2005 San Marino (Imola) Grand Prix. Jenson Button and Takuma Sato will miss the Spanish (Barcelona) and Monaco Grand Prix. The team denied any wrongdoing and insist their cars were never under the 600 kilogram minimum weight requirement.
• Andy Gilchrist ousted as general secretary of the F.B.U. (Fire Brigades Union) by left-wing Matt Wrack.

05

• Novelty hand-grenades packed with gunpowder, were put in a concrete flower tub in front of the British consulate building in New York. The British Consul-General is Sir Philip Thomas.
• United Kingdom General Election day.
• Party slogans:
  • Labour - "Britain, forward not back" became "If you value it, vote for it"
  • Conservative - Are you thinking what we're thinking?
  • Liberal Democrats - The Real Alternative
• Sunderland South is the first constituency to declare at 2243 BST. Labour hold with Chris Mullin re-elected.
• An exit poll suggests Tony Blair is on his way to an historic third term in power, but with a reduced majority. The words "third term" are rarely used without the word "historic".

04

• Fine crystal and china maker Waterford Wedgwood is to cut 1,800 jobs.
• Marconi fails to win a BT deal and the union Amicus wants to know why.
• Paul Dyson admits killing Joanne Nelson who disappeared on Valentine's Day.
• Court of Appeal Judges release teacher Linda Walker, who was jailed for firing a pellet gun during a row with youths.
• Commander Eileen Collins says the risks of launching the Discovery space shuttle in May were unacceptable.
• Libyan Abu Faraj al-Libbi, ranked third in Al-Qaeda's leadership, is captured in Pakistan say officials.
• US firefighter Donald Herbert unexpectedly begins speaking again after a brain injury in 1995.
• Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho signs a new five-year contract to stay until 2010. It is expected to earn him around £5m a year before bonuses and commercial deals.
• Tim Campbell becomes The Apprentice winning a £100,000 a year job the BBC2 show of that name beating Saira Khan in the final. The boss in the U.K. version is Sir Alan Sugar, aided by Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford. The boss in the U.S. version was Donald Trump. The show's catch phrase is "You're Fired!" but this was changed to "You're Hired!" when the winner was decided.
• Massimo Ambrosini scores a late goal for A.C. Milan to defeat P.S.V. Eindhoven on away goals (3-3 on aggregate) and reach the Uefa Champions League final against Liverpool in Istanbul on May 25. A.C. Milan have won the European Cup six times, including two years ago on penalties against Juventus at Old Trafford.

03

• Luis Garcia scores the winning goal to put Liverpool in the Uefa Champions League final with a 1-0 win over Chelsea.
• Paul Sculthorpe named as captain of the Great Britain Rugby League team. Former captain Andy Farrell having switched to Rugby Union.
• Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century (Prime Minister: Ibrahim Jaafari) is sworn in.
• The United States Federal Reserve (Chairman: Alan Greenspan) increases the federal funds rate by 0.25% to 3%.

02

• Shaun Murphy beats Matthew Stevens 18-16 to win Snooker's World Championship, the first qualifier to win since Terry Griffiths in 1979.
• Former BBC director general Greg Dyke says he has switched from Labour to the Liberal Democrats.
• The Organization of American States (OAS) picks Chilean minister Jose Miguel Insulza as its new leader.
• Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk has delays his return home from China due to failing health.

01

• Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter. Their spiritual leader, Patriarch Bartholomew the First, leads ceremonies in Istanbul.
• Three hundred fans begin queuing outside a New York cinema for the 19 May opening of Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Director: George Lucas).
• Suspects held over the kidnapping of Margaret Hassan, director of CARE International.
• Tony Christie and Peter Kay hold the number one spot for the seventh week in a row with (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.
• Honduran President Ricardo Maduro suffered minor bruising his plane crashes into the sea.

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