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2 March 2006 (Thursday)

• Australian Prime Minister John Howard celebrates 10 years of being the country's leader. (National Nine News)
• In a major turnaround for the American policy, US signs a historic civilian nuclear pact with India, that is going to further bolster India's rapidly growing economy. (Forbes) (Times of India) (CNN)
• Just two days before U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to visit Pakistan, a car bomb explodes outside a United States consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, injuring five people. (CNN)
• A prison riot involving close to 1,300 prisoners at Afghanistan's Pul-e-Charkhi prison ends after four days. (BBC)
• Italian judges in Milan to charge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and David Mills, husband of Tessa Jowell a British Minister in connection with a bribery scandal. (Independent).
• Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami describes the Holocaust as a "historical reality," even though current leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described it as a "myth" last year. (BBC)

1 March 2006 (Wednesday)

• Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. (Radio New Zealand)
• A member of the board of directors of major German steel manufacturing company ThyssenKrupp AG says the company is "examining all its options," and may not complete its proposed acquisition of Canadian steel company Dofasco. (MSN Money)

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