05 Jan	Shipman 'may have killed hundreds'
08 Jan	Bulger killers win anonymity for life
12 Jan	Swedish 'Iceman' starts England job
12 Jan	Climbie carers guilty of murder
13 Jan	Earthquake devastates Salvador
16 Jan	DR Congo President Kabila shot
16 Jan	Oil tanker endangers eco-paradise
19 Jan	'Internet twins' taken into care
22 Jan	MMR triple vaccine declared safe
24 Jan	Mandelson resigns - again
26 Jan	Thousands die in Gujarat quake
06 Feb	Sharon sweeps to power
13 Feb	Landmark Aids case begins in Scotland
16 Feb	Serbs killed in Kosovo pilgrimage
19 Feb	Foot-and-mouth scare at UK abbatoir
28 Feb	At least 10 die in Selby rail crash
08 Mar	Donald Campbell's speedboat recovered
11 Mar	Big rise in new cases of foot-and-mouth
16 Mar	Teenage woman guilty of rape
01 Apr	Ex-Yugoslav leader arrested after siege
05 Apr	Driver jailed for immigrant deaths
19 Apr	Drugs firms withdraw from Aids case
23 Apr	Royal aide on trial for murder
28 Apr	First space tourist blasts off
02 May	Sotheby's and Christies chiefs charged
05 May	Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis
07 May	Healthy cattle to die to save Exmoor
07 May	Thousands greet Pope in Syrian visit
14 May	Scientists warn of more CJD cases
15 May	UK supermarkets slash price of drugs
16 May	Prescott punches protester
24 May	Israel wedding party tragedy
30 May	French ex-minister jailed over sleaze
01 Jun	Nepal royal family massacred
17 Jun	Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies
22 Jun	Bulger killers to be released
25 Jun	Race violence erupts in Burnley
29 Jun	Diana fountain given go-ahead
02 Jul	Dando killer jailed for life
07 Jul	Two stabbed in Bradford race riots
09 Jul	Scientists discover why we are here
13 Jul	Family demand inquiry into police shooting
14 Jul	NI agreement stalls in Staffordshire
16 Jul	Rebel MPs defeat the government
07 Aug	NHS buys private hospital
08 Aug	Hollywood's 'golden couple' divorce
10 Aug	Hamiltons condemn 'sex assault' arrest
14 Aug	Setback for NI peace process
16 Aug	Diana butler charged with theft
30 Aug	Milosevic to face genocide charge
11 Sep	US rocked by day of terror
12 Sep	US declares war on terror
13 Sep	Duncan Smith is new Tory leader
17 Sep	Workers return to Wall Street
22 Sep	Simpson smuggled into Afghanistan
27 Sep	Swiss man kills 14
07 Oct	US launches air strikes against Taleban
19 Oct	Inquiries into BSE brain blunder
21 Oct	Anthrax claims third victim in US
22 Oct	UK braced for more flooding
23 Oct	IRA begins decommissioning weapons
24 Oct	Swiss tunnel ablaze after head-on crash
25 Oct	Crime rates lowest for 20 years
28 Oct	Christians killed in Pakistan massacre
07 Nov	Billionaire mayor for New York
12 Nov	Greece holds plane-spotting 'spies'
07 Dec	Taleban surrender Kandahar
11 Dec	30,000 postal jobs 'to be cut'
13 Dec	Suicide attack on Indian parliament
16 Dec	Thousands rally for Scots countryside
21 Dec	Terror alert as police seize cargo ship