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2005
 
 
Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a sensitive account of a homosexual relationship between two Wyoming cowboys    
2005
 
   
Hurricane Katrina brings flooding and chaos to New Orleans and other coastal areas, causing more than 1500 deaths      
2005
 
   
In the New Zealand election Helen Clark wins a third term as prime minister      
2005
 
   
Controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad are published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten      
2005
 
   
Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta      
2005
 
   
An earthquake kills more than 70,000 people in inaccessible regions near Muzaffarabad in the Pakistan part of Kashmir      
2005
 
   
Fliint tools from more than 800,000 years ago are discovered at Happisburgh in Norfolk, evidence of human habitation in Britain some 300,000 years earlier than previously thought      
2005
 
   
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad causes international outrage by describing Israel as a blot that should be 'wiped off the map'      
2005
 
   
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, after sheltering since 2000 in Japan, arrives unexpectedly in Chile      
2005
 
     
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, resigns from his party (Likud) with the intention of forming a new one (Kadima)