Kofi Annan visited Sri Lanka and visited several tsunami-hit areas.	Former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated on August 12.	Prince Charles made a visit to Sri Lanka.	President Mahinda Rajapakse waves to his supporters after his victory at the November 17 Presidential Poll.
New Army Commander Sarath Fonseka assumed duties early this month.	Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, Gorge Bush and former President Chandrika Kumaratunga pose for press in Colombo on February 20 during a visit to inspect tsunami-hit areas in Sri Lanka.	President Mahinda Rajapakse, First Lady Shiranthi Rajapakse with Indian Prsident Abdul Kalam and Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh during the State visit to India.	The CTB was re-established by the Government to improve public transport.
President Mahinda Rajapakse and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe greet each other on Presidential Elections Nominations Day.	The series of bomb explosions on October 29, at Govindpuri, Sarojini Nagar and Paharganj markets killed over 60 people. At least 188 others were injured.	King Gyanendra of Nepal dismissed his country�s government and enforced a state of emergency aimed at crushing a Maoist insurgency in February 2005.	George W. Bush was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States in January 2005.
Roman Catholic leader Pope John Paul II died aged 84 after struggling for years against illness. He was replaced by German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in April, 2005.	A Pakistani Kashmiri child walks in the rubble of a collapsed houses in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir. A massive earthquake hit divided kashmir in October 2005. Over 70,000 people died and millions more were homeless in this remote region.	Tony Blair becomes the first ever British Labour leader to win a third term for his party, albeit with a reduced majority in April 2005.	Forensic investigators examine the remains of the bombed out bus in Tavistock square in London July 2005. Over 50 people were killed in the London bomb attacks.
New Orleans residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. Stretched relief services flailed away at a vast refugee crisis developing, unbelievably, within US borders, following a mass human exodus from Hurricane Katrina. Scenes emerged of desperation, deprivation and human agony, which Americans are used to seeing only on their television screens from the world�s hotspots. �It�s the Third World,� said one medical professional, who requested anonymity, in order not to damage his hopes of being sent into blacked out hospitals in New Orleans, after repeated requests.	Israeli soldiers force Jewish settlers to leave the area around the synagogue of the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim, August 2005. The eviction of the settlers came after troops and soldiers moved into the Neve Dekalim with orders to forcibly remove all residents who had defied a midnight deadline.	An Egyptian security officer stands behind the remains of a car bomb that exploded in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, early July 2005. At least 75 people were killed, including foreigners, in a wave of bomb attacks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh early Saturday, according to the latest toll given by medics and officials.