Word: ans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hopes that an election would put an end to Romania's political stalemate were dashed when center-right incumbent Traian Basescu won the Dec. 7 vote by less than 1%, leading his opponent, Mircea Geoana, to accuse him of "massive fraud" and push for a second vote. The E.U.'s...
? | What They're Naming in Australia: The decade is nearly over, and the world still hasn't reached a consensus on what to call the 2000s. But an Australian website has gotten a head start on naming the 2010s. In a contest that garnered more than 3,500 entries...
In a case that engrossed observers on both sides of the Atlantic, American student Amanda Knox, 22, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, were convicted on Dec. 4 of murdering Meredith Kercher--Knox's British roommate--in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 1, 2007. Knox was ordered to serve 26...
Visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the bald eagles on Camano Island in Washington State's Puget Sound are more likely to see a different bird in the sky: a police chopper skimming the cedar forests in search of an outlaw. Colton Harris-Moore, a gangly 18-year-old...
He had a rough past. Harris-Moore's abusive father walked out after choking him during an argument at a family barbecue. His mother raised him in a mobile home dragged into the woods on the island's South End, which, as local writer and stained-glass artist Jack Archibald...