World News Archive05-Jan-2006
NEW YORK (AP) - With little fanfare Monday, ABC News debuted its anchor team of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff on World News Tonight and a 15-minute Webcast that previewed the broadcast 3 1/2 hours earlier. News from the virtual world: ROME ? Urbano Lazzaro, a resistance fighter credited with arresting fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at the end of World War II, has died at age 81, officials said Wednesday. Filed under: ABC , News , Talent The new, young faces of World News Tonight debut this evening on ABC. Five months after Peter Jennings' death from lung cancer, Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff will co-host the nightly newscast. They are the first network anchor team since Dan Rather and Connie Chung shared the desk at CBS in the 1990s. But, don't expect to see them sharing the desk JERUSALEM ? Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who took over after Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke Wednesday, is a seasoned operator and Sharon confidante who is comfortable in cutthroat local politics and in world capitals alike. Xinhua world economic news summary at 0445 GMT, Jan. 3 PARIS -- A total of 2,067,818 new cars were sold in France in 2005, up 2.7 percent compared to 2004, the French automobile manufacturers' association (CCFA) said Monday in a statement. Elizabeth Vargas writes: Tonight, Bob Woodruff & I begin our new role as co-anchors of World News Tonight. It is a momentous, and humbling, occasion for us. We know that... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill favored summarily executing German leader Adolf Hitler in an electric chair if captured rather than holding ``farce'' trials for Hitler and other Nazis, according to British news media reports describing recently declassified World War II-era documents. When the post-Peter Jennings era officially begins on ABC's "World News Tonight" tonight co-anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff will be on different sides of the world instead of different sides of a desk. Jan. 4th, 2006 -- Following a December 14 announcement that prices would increase at SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa, Walt Disney World announced today that it would follow suit.
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