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1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool.
BBC NEWS | Americas | 9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'
Jul 4, 2008 · The National Institute of Standards and Technology's lead investigator, Dr Shyam Sunder, spoke to BBC Two's "The Conspiracy Files": "Our working hypothesis now actually …
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 1948: The State of Israel is founded
May 6, 2008 · The State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948, the culmination of nearly two thousand years of hopes by Jewish people.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 31 | 1997: Princess Diana dies in Paris crash
Only Princess Diana's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived the crash. Blood tests showed the driver, Henri Paul, had taken both drugs and a large amount of alcohol before the accident.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Timeline: Break-up of Yugoslavia
May 22, 2006 · Yugoslavia has disappeared from the map of Europe, after 83 years of existence, to be replaced by a looser union called simply Serbia and Montenegro, after the two remaining …
BBC News | What is a fascist?
Oct 20, 2009 · It's a word much applied by opponents to the British National Party and other radical political movements, but what is a "fascist"?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Gilgamesh tomb believed found
Apr 29, 2003 · Archaeologists in Iraq believe they have found the tomb of King Gilgamesh, the subject of the world's oldest "book".
BBC News | UK | Lockerbie pair 'could have survived'
Sunday, January 31, 1999 Published at 06:07 GMT UK Lockerbie pair 'could have survived' Wreckage: 259 on board and 11 on the ground died New research has suggested that two …
BBC NEWS | UK | The Moors murders
Feb 28, 2000 · The Moors murders were a series of crimes that shocked Britain when they first came to light. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley murdered four children during 1963 and 1964 and …
BBC News | TV AND RADIO | Actor John Thaw dies
Feb 22, 2002 · The role that was to define Thaw's career began in 1985 when he was cast as the cerebral Inspector Morse, based on the books by Colin Dexter. When the character was finally …