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- JANUARY. Jan. 2 Seven New Orleans police officers surrender to face murder or attempted murder charges related to shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
- FEBRUARY. Feb. 2 A panel of international scientists says global warming is ``very likely'' man-made. 4 The Indianapolis Colts win the Super Bowl, beating the Chicago Bears 29-17.
- MARCH. March 1. A tornado blows down walls at Enterprise High School in Alabama, killing eight teenagers as the students huddled in the hallway. The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center is relieved of command after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
- APRIL. April 2. Florida wins its second consecutive college basketball championship, beating Ohio State 84-75. April 4. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gleefully announces the release of 15 captive British sailors and marines, who leave Tehran the next day.
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Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as the prime minister of Great Britain (June 27).A National Intelligence Estimate says "with high confidence" that Iran froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The report contradicts one written in 2005 that stated Iran was determined to conti...The African National Congress chooses Jacob Zuma as its leader, ousting South African president Thabo Mbeki (Dec. 18).Australian prime minister John Howard loses to the Labor Party's Kevin Rudd (Nov. 24).The Senate confirms Mike McConnell as the director of National Intelligence (Feb. 6).President Bush vetoes the $124 billion spending bill passed by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill called on the Bush administration to establish benchmarks for the Iraqi govern...President Bush vetoes legislation, passed by Congress, that eases restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (June 7).Karl Rove, highly influential and controversial advisor to President Bush, announces his resignation (Aug. 13).A three-year study by the influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that global warming is very likely caused by human activityâspecifically the emission and buildup of carb...UN panel, composed of several of the world's top scientists on climate change, finds that Earth's climate and ecosystems are already being affected by the accumulation of greenhouse gases and warns...Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, experiences its first snowfall in 89 years (July 10).Barbara Morgan, a former teacher from Idaho, is part of a mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavourto the International Space Station, where additional trusses will be added and supplies delivered...The headlines in 2007 were marked by tragedy and scandal, from the Virginia Tech massacre, Utah mine disaster and Minnesota bridge collapse to the arrests of Michael Vick, Larry Craig and O.J ...
Dec 9, 2007 · Top 10 News Stories. By Jeninne Lee-St. John Sunday, Dec. 09, 2007. Jamie Rector / Getty. #2. The Mortgage Crisis. The housing bubble finally burst, big time. Defaults on subprime mortgages — high and adjustable-interest rate home loans for people who don't qualify for the lowest market rates — had been rising slowly for a couple of years ...
Dec 9, 2007 · Top 10 News Stories. By Jeninne Lee-St. John Sunday, Dec. 09, 2007. Aamir Qureshi / AFP / Getty. #1. Transition in Pakistan. The tensions in Pakistan had been building all year, and President General Pervez Musharraf was getting it from all sides. The Taliban gradually solidified control in the northwest of the country, and Islamic extremists ...
Dec 9, 2007 · Top 10 News Stories. By Jeninne Lee-St. John Sunday, Dec. 09, 2007. Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME. #5. Petraeus Under Fire. Shortly after naming Gen. David Petraeus the top commander in Iraq, President Bush announced plans to send in an additional 20,000 troops to quell the sectarian fighting. House and Senate Democrats denounced the "surge ...
Dec 31, 2007 · Blake Hounshell, online editor for Foreign Policy magazine. Guests from the Pew Research Center, National Geographic and Foreign Policy magazine talk about the major news stories of 2007. They'll ...
