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SCIENCE 1 A giant squid; 2 More than 26 million square kilometres; 3 China, with almost 100 million; 4 2003; 5 The Airbus A380, from Toulouse, France; 6 53 genes in humans are either missing or only partially formed in chimps; 7 Huygens; 8 Spacewalks and trips to the moon; 9 Snuppy; 10 Fruit bats in central Africa.
ARTS & BOOKS 1 The Tibetan Book of the Dead; 2 Orhan Pamuk; 3 Ismail Kadare; 4 Dumbledore; 5 Hunter S. Thompson; 6 A SMS version was published; 7 St Sulpice in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London; 8 Senior Pompidou Centre executives, reacting to the idea of sharing space with the Guggenheim at the West Kowloon Cultural hub; 9 A large shed; 10 The Henry Moore sculpture, A Reclining Figure.
SPORT 1 Lee Sze-ming; 2 Vengeance Of Rain (HK Cup) and Natural Blitz (HK Sprint); 3 David Beckham, Real Madrid, estimated wealth GBP75 million ($1 billion); 4 Two medals, for wushu and shooting; 5 Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio; 6 Yao Ming and Liu Xiang; 7 Tiger Woods (Masters and The Open), Phil Mickelson (PGA Championship) and Michael Campbell (US Open); 8 Vladimir Smicer; 9 1917; 10 Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, after England's Ashes victory over Australia.
TECHNOLOGY 1 Apple introduced two new iPod music players, the ultra-thin Nano and on-the-go Shuffle; 2 Microsoft unveiled its next-generation Windows platform, Vista, which has had the working title of Longhorn over its four-year development; 3 Google launched its Google Earth satellite-mapping programme; 4 He received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth; 5 A hacksaw to cut away protruding fabric; 6 They were all forced under new US laws to reveal data breaches involving hundreds of thousands of customers' payment details; 7 In a court settlement, Grokster agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software and compensate the music and movie industries for contributing to copyright infringement by people who used its file-swapping software to download songs and films; 8 Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment recalled millions of music CDs because anti-copying software on them exposed customers to hackers; 9 This year marked the 40th anniversary of Moore's Law, which says the number of transistors in a chip - and thus its computing power - tends to double every two years; 10 The web portal ran into controversy after it was found to have supplied Beijing with information on its Chinese e-mail users
SNAPSHOTS 1 Parks was tried and fined $14 after her refusal to get up from her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955; 2 Iraq's main Shi'ite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, swept to victory, but with 48 per cent of the vote failed to win an absolute majority; 3 The magazines' readers voted Paris the world's worst celebrity dog-owner this year. Joss Stone was the best; 4 March 10; 5 Stewart was chafing from having to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet that limited her to 48 hours a week outside her home; 6 French youths rioted to protest against the accidental deaths of two teenagers of North African origin who were being chased by police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-Sous-Bois; 7 Protesters gathered to petition world leaders at the G8 summit at the Gleneagles Hotel, where tackling third-world debt was the main event; 8 It was in memory of the death of Pope John Paul II, whom the Ferrari team had met earlier in the year; 9 He had tried in vain to open the locked door in front of him during a trip to Beijing in November; 10 The Netherlands voted 'Nej', and the two results prompted Britain to scrap its referendum plans.
HONG KONG 1 Seretide; 2 a) from $15 to $25; 3 Former radio host and legislator Albert Cheng King-hon; 4 His stepmother Hung Man-yee and five others; 5 b) beef; 6 d) 290kg; 7 Dr York Chow Yat-ngok for his handling of health and food safety issues; 8 Red fire ants; 9 Oranges hanging from the Tai Po Wishing Tree caused a large limb to break off; 10 Dropping a house key. She was fined $1,500, but won a legal challenge
MOVIES & MUSIC 1 Wallace and Gromit. The archive of the four films featuring the plasticine figures - including new release The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - were destroyed in a warehouse blaze at Aardman Animations; 2 Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger as two gay cowboys in a love story set in the wilds of Wyoming and Texas; 3 Gwen Steffani released an enhanced version of her song Hollaback Girl in June; 4 March of the Penguins, a French documentary about the mating ritual of Antarctic penguins, was championed by Christians as proof of 'intelligent design' over evolution; 5 The Promise, which stars Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi, Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, Jang Dung-Kun and Hiroyuki Sanada, is China's hope for the Oscars but has received a lukewarm reception from the critics; 6 Fortune was chosen after he won a reality television show. He replaces former lead singer Michael Hutchence who died in unusual circumstances in 1997;
7 Pete Doherty, drug-troubled lead singer of Babyshambles, mumbled his way and looked lost when invited by Elton to do a duet of T-Rex classic Children of the Revolution; 8 Rapper Lil' Kim over her attempt to protect friends involved in a shootout outside a New York radio station; 9 Election, which centres around the selection of a triad boss to lead Wo Luen Sing, and stars Tony Leung Ka-fai, Simon Yam Tat-wah and Maggie Shiu Mei-kei; 10 Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
WHO SAID IT? 1 Nancy Kissel testifying she had an affair before her husband Robert was murdered; 2 Tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun reminiscing on being trapped in a room with 36 girls during the 1941 Japanese Invasion; 3 Disgraced former Democrat Alex Ho Wai-to, insisting he was with a platonic friend when arrested during a vice raid on the mainland; 4 Tycoon Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung, claiming he was a victim of collusion; 5 Sean Hotung, son of billionaire Eric Hotung, on trying to find out what happened to money put into two trusts the tycoon set up; 6 Colonel Fei Junlong on his inspiration during the Shenzhou VI mission; 7 Xinhua's first official statement after police fired on villagers in Dongzhou village, Shanwei city, Guangdong; 8 Activist Lu Banglie after a British newspaper report he had been nearly beaten to death at Guangdong's Taishi village; 9 Myanmar's Information Minister, Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan, briefing reporters on arrangements at the country's new capital; 10 Prince Charles' alleged diary account of the 1997 handover ceremony, as published by a British newspaper.
POLITICS 1 The struggle against violent extremism; 2 Anson Chan Fang On-sang; 3 d) $300,000; 4 Chief Secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan before the reform package was defeated; 5 Harriet Myers; 6 Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh; 7 Richard Gere, who was promoting Shall We Dance?, his new film; 8 The Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko; 9 Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a visit to the controversial Yasakuni Shrine; 10 George Weah
WEIRD WORLD 1 Poo; 2 c) 13 hours; 3 Mr Dick Head; 4 A 1.8-metre alligator; 5 Bolivia; 6 Japan's Junichiro Koizumi (it was a gift from George W. Bush); 7 He ran over a goat. Previously he had run over a suicide victim; 8 One imitated the roar of trucks on a nearby road; 9 They were made from US birds; 10 Number 12