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2005
 
    
Two years after its first appearance, the World Health Organization announces that the deadly disease SARS has been 'eradicated'       
2005
 
 
The film series of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia is launched with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe    
2005
 
   
The French people become the first to reject, in a referendum, the proposed European Constitution      
2005
 
    
After a long trial US singer Michael Jackson is declared in a California court not guilty on ten charges of child molestation       
2005
 
   
Fundamentalist politician Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected president of Iran      
2005
 
  
Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour     
2005
 
   
A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist      
2005
 
    
US cyclist Lance Armstrong retires from competition after winning a seventh successive victory in the Tour de France       
2005
 
   
The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons      
2005
 
   
Israel uses force to remove settlers who refuse to leave Gaza in accordance with Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan