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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)        
2005
 
    
Angela Merkel, leader of the CDU, replaces Gerhard Schröder and becomes Germany's first woman chancellor       
2005
 
   
French surgeon Bernard Devauchelle and his team in Amiens carry out the first human face transplant      
2005
 
    
David Cameron wins the Tory leadership election, succeeding Michael Howard as the Leader of the Opposition in Britain       
2005
 
  
The first general election is held in Iraq, for 275 members of a permanent Iraqi General Assembly