33,211 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 314 of 333.
“It was their first meeting since Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were seized last July after entering Iran from Iraq.”
“Mothers Nora Shourd, Laura Fattal and Cindy Hickey arrived on Wednesday at Tehran airport on one-week visas.”
“In December, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said they would stand trial, but he did not specify on what charges.”
“US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Tehran to free the hikers, and said that any charges would be unfounded.”
“There are an estimated 900 music festivals being held in the UK this summer, and with many of them likely to lose money, the clamour for sponsorship money is fierce.”
“As a well-established event, boasting acts including Doves and the Flaming Lips, Green Man is set to sell out its 12,000 capacity within weeks.”
“Across Wales' approximately 200 golf courses, figures show there was an 18% increase in visitor numbers from outside of Wales in 2009, with many commentators putting that down to the Ryder Cup factor.”
“figures show there was an 18% increase in visitor numbers from outside of Wales in 2009”
“The interior ministry says only 1,900 women wear full-face veils in France, out of a Muslim population of more than five million.”
“The French cabinet has approved a bill making it illegal to wear in public clothes designed to hide the face.”
“Women wearing the veil in public could be fined, and men judged to have forced them to do so could be imprisoned.”
“Parliament passed a non-binding resolution last week condemning the full Islamic face veil as 'an affront to the nation's values of dignity and equality'.”
“A law against conspicuous religious symbols effectively banned headscarves from state primary and secondary schools in 2004.”
“The bill puts France on course to become the second European country after Belgium to declare the wearing of such veils illegal in public places.”
“Ratko Mladic has been in hiding for the last 15 years”
“The diaries cover the period 1991-96, during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.”
“In all there are 18 diaries totalling 3,500 pages.”
“They were seized in a raid on the Belgrade apartment of Gen Mladic's wife in February.”
“The Serbian authorities handed them over at the prosecution's request.”
“former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in custody four years ago.”
“Ratko Mladic's own whereabouts remain a mystery, 15 years after his indictment.”
“Author JG Farrell has won the Lost Man Booker Prize, a one-off award for books published in 1970, which were not considered for the honour at the time.”
“The book took 38% of public votes, beating the other five shortlisted novels, which included works by Nina Bawden and Dame Muriel Spark.”
“Troubles is a novel of such lasting quality that it has never been out of print in the 40 years since it was first published.”
“Farrell also won the 1973 prize for The Siege of Krishnapur.”
“James Gordon Farrell, who was born in Liverpool and contracted polio as a child, drowned in a fishing accident in Ireland in 1979.”
“The shortlist was selected by a judging panel including newsreader Katie Derham, critic and journalist Rachel Cook and writer Tobias Hill.”
“This year's Booker was won by Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall.”
“within five years it will be a landmark Islamic cultural centre”
“just two blocks from Ground Zero”
“Two or three minutes at most.”
“almost 3,000 who died”
“almost 3,000 who died as the World Trade Center's towers collapsed”
“two blocks from Ground Zero”
“Almost a decade on from the 9/11 attacks”
“If plans to develop the site go ahead however, within five years it will be a landmark Islamic cultural centre, a celebration - in the minds of its backers - of the religion.”
“Mr Burke's brother - a fireman - was one of the almost 3,000 who died as the World Trade Center's towers collapsed.”
“This is a deliberate attempt, Imam Feisal Rauf tells me, to present what he sees as the real face of Islam to a city where some - since the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001 - have come to distrust the religion.”
“Denying them the ability to build a mosque… would be like London denying the Roman Catholic Church the opportunity to build a church during the years of the IRA bombings.”
“over 2,000 years”
“Aristotle in 300 BC”
“up to 50cm (20 inches) in length”
“two web structures”
“typically only a centimetre in length”
“up to 750m (almost half a mile) below the surface”
“With global scrutiny of public finances increasing, the need for early and credible fiscal adjustment has become critical”
“The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has declared a state of emergency in the southern city of Jalalabad after two people died in clashes.”
“Mr Bakiyev fled with his family to Belarus after the 7 April clashes between government forces and protesters that left at least 85 people dead.”
“The interim government said the state of emergency would be in place in Jalalabad until 1 June.”
“It includes a curfew from 2000-0600 (1400-0000 GMT).”
“There has been hostility between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks before in southern Kyrgyzstan. Several hundred people were killed in 1990 as the Soviet Union broke up.”
“There are nearly half a billion mobile phone subscribers in India, and it is the world's fastest growing mobile market.”
“two pieces of headwear”
“is playing Birmingham, London and Manchester in May and June”
“in the same venues she already played back in February”
“"It looks very scary," Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov told reporters via a video link.”
“But in February, Chad's President Idriss Deby agreed with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to stop supporting rebels in each other's country.”
“Since the conflict in Darfur began in 2003, some 2.7 million people have fled their homes and the UN says about 300,000 more have died”
“The Sudanese government, however, says such figures are a massive exaggeration.”
“But voting did not take place in much of the area because of the insecurity.”
“as we did in 1989, when we overthrew the dictatorship”
“I have not eaten or drunk since Sunday morning and will continue... until these demands are met”
“At least 30 protesters have been killed in clashes since last year's disputed elections”
“although the opposition says more than 70 have died”
“Thousands have been detained and some 200 activists remain behind bars”
“and two have been executed already”
“over one thousand five hundred events will be taking place across the UK offering older people a gentle introduction to using a computer and getting online in supportive and friendly settings like UK Online Centres, libraries and Age Conce…”
“Silver Surfers' Day has been going since 2001”
“as I'll be fifty in October”
“Bangkok and about a third of the rest of Thailand have spent a first night under curfew after street protest leaders surrendered.”
“At least 27 buildings were set ablaze after the red-shirt leaders' surrender and pockets of resistance remained despite pleas from leaders to go home.”
“The curfew, the first imposed in the city in 15 years, ran from 2000 to 0600 (1300 to 2300 GMT), and the government ordered television channels to broadcast only officially sanctioned programmes.”
“An Italian photojournalist was killed, while three other reporters, a Dutch person, an American and a Canadian, were among scores of people injured.”
“According to eyewitnesses, the bodies of six people killed in the violence are lying in a Buddhist temple, AP reported. If confirmed, this would bring the overall death toll to 12.”
“The red-shirts had been protesting in Bangkok since 14 March, occupying the shopping district, forcing hotels and shops to close.”
“The US state department said it deplored the violence and urged restraint on both sides.”
“EU parliamentary president Jerzy Buzek said national reconciliation was now "not simply an option, it is absolutely mandatory". "Too much blood has been spilled on the streets of Bangkok," he added.”
“Government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn told the BBC the government wanted to reach a peaceful resolution with the protesters but pockets of resistance remained and had to be dealt with.”
“Brazil and Turkey are convinced that it is time to give a chance for negotiations and to avoid measures that are detrimental to a peaceful solution of this matter”
“The US-drafted text is backed by all five permanent (P5) council members.”
“The new measures put before the UN foresee cargo ship inspections and new banking controls.”
“She said the five veto-wielding permanent members had agreed on a 'strong' draft resolution.”
“A close adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh, has dismissed the new measures as illegitimate.”
“They won't prevail and by pursuing the passing of a new resolution they are discrediting themselves in public opinion”
“They feel that for the first time in the world developing countries are able to defend their rights in the world arena without resorting to the major powers an that is very hard for them”
“Iran is also preparing a letter for the UN atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, officially notifying them of their deal with Turkey, Mr Salehi said.”
“frozen since 2004”
“Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay”
“EU negotiations with the Mercosur trade bloc, frozen since 2004, will reopen.”
“The Mercosur group embraces Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.”
“Trade deals were also reached with Central America, Peru and Colombia, following marathon talks in Madrid.”
“We have opened a ground-breaking chapter in the EU relationship with our LAC [Latin America and Caribbean] partners”
“I don't see why agriculture always has to be the bargaining chip in Europe's trade negotiations... especially when a certain number of South American countries, notably Argentina, are putting new protectionist tariffs on food imports”
“EU farmers' income is now "below pre-2000 levels" in many areas”
“The vessel, which was carrying food aid, was seized by the four pirates in April 2009.”
“The solution to the sea is on the land.”
“The results show a 1% difference in the production of pairs of muon (matter) particles and pairs of anti-muons (anti-matter particles) in these high-energy collisions.”
“Researchers say the new findings, submitted for publication in the journal Physical Review D, show much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter - beyond what can be explained by the Standard Model.”
“The DZero experiment is still collecting data and so, as long as funding for our work continues, we can expect to make even more precise measurements of this effect in the future.”
“LHCb was specifically designed to shed light on this central question in particle physics. [...] LHCb was designed to shed light on the anti-matter puzzle”
