1 One man is killed and his body run over during clashes with Italian police in Genoa during the G8 Summit in July. Riots by anti-globalisation protesters in Quebec City and Gothenburg at earlier summit meetings meant Genoa's city centre was cordoned off by steel walls. In Hong Kong, 20 members of the April 5th Action Group stage their own small protest during the East Asia Conference in October.
2 Two months after the WTC attack, New York is again covered in thick smoke when a passenger jet goes down in Rockaway, Queens, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground. It is believed to have been an accident, not sabotage.
3 Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh is executed in June in front of a small audience of journalists and the families of his victims, despite his request for his death to be broadcast live. The execution had been delayed by a month after it was revealed the FBI had failed to hand over 3,000 pages of evidence.
4 More than 750 people are killed and 30,000 made homeless by flooding in Algiers. In the aftermath, a resident is helped by relatives to evacuate belongings from his ruined home.
5 Foot-and-mouth disease rampages through British livestock, and hundreds of thousands of healthy animals are destroyed in a bid to halt its spread.
6 The Palestinian intifada that erupted in September 2000 continues to escalate with a series of atrocities on both sides, including the killing of Amean Abu Hatab by Israeli soldiers. More than 700 Palestinians and almost 200 Israelis have died.