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| December 1 |
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| Construction workers have drilled through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France. |
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| December 29 |
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| Six people are feared dead after raging storms hit competitors in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. |
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| December 28 |
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| British customs officials have seized ￡70m of Columbian cocaine which is thought to be directly linked to the Mafia. |
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| December 27 |
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| Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight. |
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| December 26 |
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| Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force. |
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| December 25 |
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| Charles "Charlie" Spencer Chaplin, the comic genius of silent films, has died aged 88. |
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| December 24 |
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| Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found living under a false name in Australia after apparently faking his own death. |
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| December 21 |
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| General Charles de Gaulle has been elected President of France with an overwhelming majority. |
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| December 20 |
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| The Queen has urged the Prince and Princess of Wales to seek "an early divorce".Buckingham Palace said the Queen called for an end to the marriage in a letter to each of them earlier this week. |
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| December 19 |
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| The British colony of Hong Kong is to be returned to China in 1997 after an historic agreement was signed in Peking today. |
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| December 18 |
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| A bill giving Scotland its own parliament for the first time in three centuries has been unveiled in Glasgow today. |
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| December 17 |
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| The Germans have mounted a series of counter-attacks on the Western front allowing them to re-cross the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. |
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| December 14 |
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| The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers. |
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| December 13 |
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| A group of gunmen has broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi. |
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| December 12 |
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| Princess Anne today became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. |
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| December 11 |
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| Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers. |
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| December 10 |
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| Up to 45,000 people have died and a further 500,000 are homeless after the devastating earthquake which ripped through Armenia, official figures revealed today. |
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| December 7 |
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| Thousands of people may have died from the most devastating cyclone to strike Bangladesh in almost 20 years, the UN reports. |
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| December 6 |
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| A mob of Hindu militants has torn down a mosque and attacked other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence. |
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| December 5 |
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| Administrators have been called in to try to salvage the Maxwell business empire, which is at least ?bn in debt. |
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| December 4 |
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| The US President, George W Bush, has withdrawn a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe. |
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| December 3 |
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| Health minister Edwina Currie has provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria. |
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| November 28 |
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| Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in over 11 years. |
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| November 27 |
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| John Major is to be Britain's new prime minister after winning the Conservatives' leadership election. |
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| November 26 |
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| A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. |
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| November 25 |
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| The funeral of the assassinated President, John F Kennedy, has taken place in Washington. |
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| November 24 |
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| The man accused of assassinating the US President, John F Kennedy, has himself been shot dead in a Dallas police station. |
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| November 21 |
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| The Geneva summit has ended in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system. |
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| November 20 |
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| At least 27 people have been killed and more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish capital, Istanbul. |
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| November 19 |
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| The An estimated jackpot of ￡1m may be won tonight in Britain's first ever lottery draw. |
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