World News Archive03-Jan-2006
PARIS -- 2005 has brought its share of unusual, outrageous, tragi-comic and just downright silly news items. Among the oddities served up by the world of science: TOKYO ? A strong earthquake struck Monday off the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, but there were no reports of injuries or a tsunami. News of the quake prompted thousands of residents along the coast of Sri Lanka _ thousands of miles away _ to flee inland, officials said. NEW YORK - When the post-Peter Jennings era officially begins on ABC's "World News Tonight" Tuesday, co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff will be on different sides of the world instead of different sides of a desk. Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff take the helm at ABC's World News Tuesday night, the first network evening news anchor team since CBS paired Dan Rather and Connie Chung in the '90s. Several legitimate news sites picked up a hoax press release saying that representatives of the fictional land of Narnia had walked out of the recent World Trade Organization's talks in Hong Kong, Australia's The Age newspaper reported.
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