World News Archive09-Jun-2006
At the end of another week, test your knowledge with our world news quiz. This page covers all rugby and tournament news from around the world. Trimble relishing chance to play with heroes 08 Jun 2006 Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell were nothing but heroes for Andrew Trimble when the Ireland rugby team last went close to beating the All Blacks four years ago. Charles Gibson's official debut as anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" produced a second-place finish among newscasts for the week of May 29-June 2, which counts as a four-day week because of the Memorial Day holiday. MIAMI ? Broadcast design/VFX house Deep Blue Sea recently completed design and branding for DirecTV?s Latin America World Cup channel, Mundial Total, which targets soccer-obsessed fans throughout the Hispanic market. Many stations break into regular programming to report al-Zarqawi's death Red banners with urgent tags appeared on many Arab TV stations today as the region's major stations broke into regular programming to announce some of the biggest news in months -- the death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. World leaders welcomed the killing of Jordanian militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Thursday but also cautioned that Al-Qaeda remains a dangerous force in Iraq and elsewhere.The US ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, said in an interview with US television network MSNBC that Zarqawi's death was a "good omen" but didn't portend.
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