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网页20 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 | Science/Nature | Gilgamesh tomb believed found
网页2003年4月29日 · Archaeologists in Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest "book" in history. Gilgamesh was believed to be two-thirds god, one-third human. The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of ...
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 1948: The State of Israel is founded
网页2008年5月6日 · 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.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 31 | 1997: Princess Diana dies in Paris crash
网页1997: Princess Diana dies in Paris crash. Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. She was taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning where surgeons tried for two hours to save her life but she died at 0300 BST. In a statement Buckingham Palace said the Queen and the Prince of Wales were "deeply shocked and ...
BBC NEWS | UK | The campaign for 'Sarah's Law'
网页2007年4月10日 · The campaign for 'Sarah's Law'. In the mid-1990s, Megan's Law was introduced in the US after the murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanko by a sex offender who had moved in across the street. That law gives parents access to information on paedophiles living in their community. In Britain, there has been a campaign for equivalent legislation ...
BBC NEWS | Americas | 9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'
网页2008年7月4日 · 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 are expected to say ordinary …
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BBC News | UK | Profile: Lord Waheed Alli
网页2000年11月29日 · Profile: Lord Waheed Alli. Millionaire Waheed Alli, given a life peerage at the age of 34 in 1998, became the youngest and first openly gay peer in Parliament, and a man that Prime Minister Tony Blair believed could help him reach out to a younger generation. While one national newspaper described Waheed Alli as the man who …
BBC News | UK | Family win fight to jail doctor's killer
网页1999年10月13日 · Family win fight to jail doctor's killer. The family of murdered doctor Joan Francisco has won a five-year battle for justice after seeing the ex-boyfriend who killed her jailed for life. Obsessed stalker Anthony Diedrick strangled the beautiful 27-year-old doctor who rejected him after their relationship ended.
BBC NEWS | UK | Harold Shipman: The killer doctor
网页2004年1月13日 · Harold Shipman: The killer doctor. The death of Harold Shipman, found hanged in his cell at Wakefield high security jail in West Yorkshire, brings to an end one of the blackest chapters of British criminal history. When the police began investigating Dr Harold Shipman in September 1998 they struggled to understand him.