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Tsunami guide Step by step: how the disaster in the Indian Ocean unfolded		Loving memory A look at the major entertainment figures who died in 2004

TOP STORIES
	Push to speed up tsunami relief World leaders step up plans for a united response to Asian tsunamis as the 124,000 confirmed dead are mourned.
	Olympians lead New Year honours Matthew Pinsent is knighted and Tanni-Grey Thompson and Kelly Holmes become Dames in the New Year Honours.
	Scores die in Argentina club fire At least 169 people die and hundreds are hurt in a fire at a nightclub in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
	UK quake donations top £32m mark Britain is leading the drive to raise money for the Asian tsunami victims, with public donations of £1m an hour.
	Tsunami mother's terrible choice Jillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.

AMERICAS
	Scores die in Argentina club fire At least 169 people die and hundreds are hurt in a fire at a nightclub in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
	US probes 'laser-tracked' flights The FBI is examining a series of incidents in which lasers have been shone into the cockpits of aircraft.
	Jazz giant Artie Shaw dies at 94 One of the most famous American band leaders of the swing era, clarinettist Artie Shaw, dies aged 94.

EUROPE
	Hopes fade for missing Europeans At least 5,000 Europeans are still missing - most of them presumed dead - after the tsunami wrecked Thai resorts.
	UK diplomat's Greek guard killed A Greek policeman guarding a UK diplomat's home in Athens is shot dead in a dawn attack.
	Basque MPs back greater autonomy Basque MPs vote in favour of a proposal to loosen ties with central government in Madrid.

ON THIS DAY NEWS FROM THE BBC ARCHIVES
	1964: Campbell speeds to double record Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record¸ the only man to break both land and water speed records in the same year.
	1999: Putin takes over as Yeltsin resigns Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president and says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take over immediately.
	1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured People who displayed heroism during the Zeebrugge ferry disaster are recognised in the New Year's Honours List.

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