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WEB20 February. The Soviets open a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir. Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to Indian elections.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Timeline: Break-up of Yugoslavia
WEBMay 22, 2006 · Timeline: Break-up of Yugoslavia. A brief history of the dramatic and violent changes that took place as the Yugoslav Federation disintegrated during the 1990s. 1991-1992: DISINTEGRATION. Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 1948: The State of Israel is founded
WEBMay 6, 2008 · 1948: The State of Israel is founded. The State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948, the culmination of nearly 2,000 years of hopes by Jewish people that they would one day return to the land from which the Romans expelled them. The Holocaust of European Jewry in the Second World War strengthened their determination.
What does the Bible actually say about being gay? - BBC News
WEBOct 23, 2003 · It is clear from the pro-gay viewpoints that they will twist and turn every Bible verse they want to say what they want it to say, or otherwise just brush over it and say that we are apparently a more enlightened society in the 21st Century. The Bible is God's word and should be the only guide in a Christian's life.
BBC NEWS | Americas | 9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'
WEBJul 4, 2008 · BBC, Conspiracy Files. One of the twin towers collapses. The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center. The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers. Investigators …
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BBC News - Remembering Katyn, 70 years later
WEBApr 7, 2010 · Remembering Katyn, 70 years later. The Polish prime minister has attended a ceremony in Russia marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of Poles by Soviet forces. It is an unprecedented step, and one which could herald a new era in strained relations between Poland and Russia, says the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw. The families of the ...
BBC News | Americas | Lost people of Appalachia
WEBJul 3, 1999 · Lost people of Appalachia. In the heart of Appalachia in the southern United States, an isolated, dark skinned people known as the Melungeons, are challenging the accepted version of modern America's earliest history. For centuries, they remained almost invisible to the American mainstream. They live hidden away …
The truth about Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher - BBC News
WEBJan 1, 2001 · The truth about Thatcher Thatcher milk snatcher. The one political decision that cemented the left's view of Margaret Thatcher nine years before she entered Number 10 as prime minister was the one that left her dubbed "Thatcher, Thatcher Milk Snatcher". But documents published today reveal that she …
UK | Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved' - BBC News
WEBSep 13, 2009 · Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. But journalist Tom Mangold's new examination for …