COPYRIGHT: Material on this webpage copyright Integritext UK. All rights Reserved. Copyright owners have permitted the material on this page to be used for Education, Research & Private Study. No material from this page may be reproduced on any other website or distributed in any other medium.
Search the whole site for any search term.
This page fully supports Safari, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer 11 browsers.
WHAT HAPPENED ON 22nd January 2001?
21st January 2001
RESCUERS FIND POSSIBLE QUAKE SURVIVOR
A French rescue team is searching for what it believes could be a survivor of an earthquake that shook Central America eight days ago. They believe the man may be trapped in a mudslide which hit the town of Las Colinas El Salvador. The rescuers have detected sounds from under a mud-covered destroyed building which they say may be "signs of life". The quake killed more than 700 people in El Salvador say local officials.
22nd January 2001
FRENCHWOMAN HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIER
A French woman astronaut is in training in Moscow for a mission on a Russian spacecraft which will take her up to the new International Space Station. Claudie Andre-Deshays will join the ten-day flight in October aboard a new module which will serve as an emergency escape craft for the new space station. She has already been up to the Russian Mir space station in August 1996. "I dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child when I watched the first man landing on the Moon on TV " she said.
22nd January 2001
FRENCH NO LONGER IMPORTANT IN TURKEY
Officials at Istanbul international airport say French businessmen can no longer use the fast-track VIP hall. The airport administration chief said only official guests of the Turkish government could now enjoy that perk. The move is a sign of Turkey's outrage over the French parliament vote to recognise as genocide the 1915 deaths of Armenians under the Ottoman empire. Turkey disputes the number of deaths and denies that the killings were part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
21st January 2001
EXECUTIVE AGREES TO AUDIT AT BISHOPTON
The Scottish Executive has agreed to hold an independent audit into the proposed closure of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Bishopton. Enterprise Minister Wendy Alexander has accepted a call from unions to have the National Audit Office investigate the viability of the plant. The 270 workers at the plant have spent the past two years living under the threat of closure. The Renfrewshire site makes missile propellant for the Ministry of Defence.
22nd January 2001
FRENCHWOMAN HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIER
A French woman astronaut is in training in Moscow for a mission on a Russian spacecraft which will take her up to the new International Space Station. Claudie Andre-Deshays will join the ten-day flight in October aboard a new module which will serve as an emergency escape craft for the new space station. She has already been up to the Russian Mir space station in August 1996. "I dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child when I watched the first man landing on the Moon on TV " she said.
22nd January 2001
MUSEUM AND GALLERY ENTRANCE TO BE FREE
Entrance fees to all national galleries and museums in England are to be scrapped the BBC has learned. The Government is to announce the move after Culture Secretary Chris Smith won a concession from the Treasury. Previously institutions which charged entrance fees would have faced high VAT bills when opening for free. The move safeguards institutions such as the National Gallery which feared it would have to introduce charges.
21st January 2001
PUTIN PULLS TROOPS FROM REBEL CHECHNYA
President Vladimir Putin has decided to withdraw some Russian forces from the rebel region of Chechnya. Reports said Mr Putin also ordered the head of the FSB domestic security service a successor to the KGB to take over command of the operation. It is understood that around 22 000 troops were being withdrawn. The exact number of Russian troops in Chechnya in unknown but analysts
22nd January 2001
FRENCHWOMAN HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIER
A French woman astronaut is in training in Moscow for a mission on a Russian spacecraft which will take her up to the new International Space Station. Claudie Andre-Deshays will join the ten-day flight in October aboard a new module which will serve as an emergency escape craft for the new space station. She has already been up to the Russian Mir space station in August 1996. "I dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child when I watched the first man landing on the Moon on TV " she said.
22nd January 2001
GIRL SUES OVER RUSSIAN ORPHANAGE ORDEAL
A 19-year-old Russian woman is suing local authorities in the Russian town of Nizhny Novgorod alleging she was mistreated in an orphanage. Natalya Pechenkina says the head of the orphanage starved the children forcing them to spend hours feeding pigs & chickens instead of going to school. The children also had to cook the meals and serve them to the orphanage staff. The woman who spent 11 years in the institution wants compensation & the right to continue her education.
