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clipped from www.hindu.com| Jan. 1 | China launches official website www.gov.cn. at zero hour. | Full Story |
| Jan. 3 | Scottish writer Ali Smith's The Accidental wins the 2006 Whitbread Prize. | Full Story |
| Jan. 4 | Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai dies in Australia. | Full Story |
| Two hundred persons are feared killed in a landslip unleashed by heavy rains in Indonesia's Central Java. | ||
| Jan. 5 | At least 120 persons are killed in suicide bomb attacks across Iraq. | |
| The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, suffers a massive brain haemorrhage. | Full Story | |
| Sharon's Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert takes charge. | Full Story | |
| Seventysix persons are killed in a building collapse near the Grand Mosque in Mecca. | Full Story | |
| Jan. 6 | Three Turkish siblings die of bird flu. | Full Story |
| Jan. 9 | Bird flu spreads in Turkey and WHO warns of its mutation into a dangerous form. | Full Story |
| Jan. 10 | Ukrainian Parliament votes to sack the Government. | Full Story |
| Iran removes seals at atomic research facility at Natanz after two-and-a-half years. | Full Story | |
| Jan. 11 | The London High Court 'orders' the de-freezing of two British bank accounts of the Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi accused of receiving kickbacks in the Bofors scandal, and frozen in July 2003. | Full Story |
| Jan. 12 | Over 345 Haj pilgrims, including 51 Indians are killed in a stampede at Mina in Saudi Arabia. | Full Story |
| Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca who shot at Pope Paul II on May 13, 1981 is freed from prison in Istanbul. | Full Story | |
| Jan. 15 | The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah (79) dies and Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah is appointed his successor. | Full Story |
| The NASA's Stardust spacecraft returns to earth with the first comet dust samples and lands in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey. | ||
| Michelle Bachelet is elected the first woman President of Chile. | ||
| Jan. 16 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in Liberian President and also earns a name in history as Africa's first elected female head of state. | Full Story |
| Brokeback Mountain, a film about a love affair between two cowboys bags top awards at the 63rd Golden Globes presentation in Los Angeles. | ||
| Jan. 18 | Militants kill 67 Iraqis after dragging them from cars at checkpoints north of Baghdad. | |
| Jan. 19 | NASA launches the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, 4.5 billion km journey to Pluto from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. | |
| Jan. 21 | The Kosovo President, Ibrahim Rugova (61), dies of lung cancer. | |
| Jan. 22 | Pakistan lifts ban on Bollywood films. | Full Story |
| Jan. 23 | Conservatives led by Stephen Harper win Canadian election. | |
| Pakistan denies lifting of ban on Indian films. | Full Story | |
| Jan. 24 | The Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh al-Ahmad al Sabah, is named Emir following the ouster of ailing Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah by Parliament. | Full Story |
| Jan. 25 | Palestinians cast votes in Parliament polls being held after 10 years. | Full Story |
| Uzbekistan joins the Eurasian Economic Community at a summit in St. Petersburg. | ||
| Jan. 26 | Hamas wins absolute majority in Palestinian parliamentary polls. The Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei quits. | Full Story |
| Jan. 29 | Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah is sworn in Kuwait Emir. | |
| Myanmarese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is named winner of the Olof Palme Prize. | Full Story | |
| Events 2006 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec | ||
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