In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

* The world income per head has increased by more over period 2002 – 2007 than during any other period on the record.

In the 2002 – 3 operating year, franchised services provided 976 million journeys totalling 24. 7 billion passenger miles of travel, an increase over 1986 – 7 of 32 % in journeys ( from 738 million ) and 29 % in passenger-miles ( from 30. 8 billion ).

The ICJ delivered its judgment on 10 October 2002, finding ( based principally on the Anglo-German agreements ) that sovereignty over Bakassi did indeed rest with Cameroon.

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers have attempted to use the tunnel to enter the UK, causing a minor diplomatic disagreement over the siting of the Sangatte refugee camp, which was eventually closed in 2002.

For example, Ecuador has closed its main border crossing with Colombia every night since August 2002, when evidence emerged that Colombian guerrillas and paramilitaries were asserting control over Ecuador's border communities.

In 1993, with Oracle losing its franchise to Teletext Ltd, the running of 4-Tel was taken over by Intelfax, and in 2002 was renamed FourText.

In 2002, Fox's defense-first philosophy worked well as the Panthers improved to 7 – 9 ( a six-game improvement over the previous year ) and posted the second-best overall defense in the league after having the second-worst the previous season.

The journal Pediatrics has reportedly said that the number of cheerleaders suffering from broken bones, concussions, and sprains has increased by over 100 percent between the years of 1990 and 2002, and that in 2001 there were 25, 000 hospital visits reported for cheerleading injuries dealing with the shoulder, ankle, head, and neck.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

Tensions with Yemen over fishing rights in the Red Sea flared up in 1995 and again in 2002, and Eritrea ’ s difficult relations with other nations could hamper further development of the industry.

Use of voice over IP services such as Skype and Google Talk was prohibited by telecommunications legislation in 2002.

* Dispute over alignment of boundary with Eritrea led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War ( 1998 – 2000 ), which was resolved by an independent boundary commission's delimitation decision in 2002.

Fenway Park retained the metric measurement until mid-season 2002, when they were painted over.

As a result, public debt has increased sharply to over 100 percent of GDP since 2002 ; it remained as high as near 130 percent of GDP in 2004.

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

The disagreement over the future of Galeon split the development team in 2002, which resulted in departure of browser's initial author and several other developers.

Following the collapse of the Ur-III dynasty at the hands of the Elamites ( 2002 BC traditional, 1940 BC short ), the Amorites gained control over most of Mesopotamia, where they formed a series of small kingdoms.

It became an independent nation in 2002 ; and Macau was handed over to the Chinese as per a treaty in 1999.

* 2002 – A Bashkirian Airlines ( flight 2937 ) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL ( German cargo ) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.

* 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1, 100 people and displaces over 20, 000 others.

In her 2002 victory over Kasparov, she deliberately chose a line Kasparov used against Vladimir Kramnik, employing the strategy of forcing the opponent to " play against himself ".

Hampton, after a strong first half in 2001, completely fell apart in 2002, going 7 – 15 with a 6. 15 ERA and demanding a trade following the season.

Additionally, CRM systems face the challenge of producing viable financial profits, with a 2002 study suggesting that less than half of CRM projects are expected to provide a significant return on investment.

The stock price of Compaq, which was around $ 25 when Capellas became CEO, was trading at half that by 2002.

2002 saw the release of Heathen, and, during the second half of the year, the Heathen Tour.

In the run up to the 2002 election the CSU / CDU held a huge lead in the opinion polls and Stoiber famously remarked that "... this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2 – 0.

The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault ( 1857, 1906 ), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey ( 1939 ) and the Denali Fault in Alaska ( 2002 ), are about half to one third as long as the lengths along subducting plate margins, and those along normal faults are even shorter.

In 2002 a total of 112, 000 cubic meters of wood were harvested, nearly half of which was used as fuel.

Morocco suffers both from unemployment ( 9. 6 % in 2008 ), and a large external debt estimated at around $ 20 billion, or half of GDP in 2002.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

After several years of substantial growth, foreign direct investment not related to privatization fell dramatically in 2000 and 2001, as well as in the first half of 2002.

Porsche's 2002 introduction of the Cayenne also marked the unveiling of a new production facility in Leipzig, Saxony, which once accounted for nearly half of Porsche's annual output.

In 2002 Brookside went from three half hour episodes on different week nights to airing one ninety minute episode each week.

Revenue from gaming machines in pubs and clubs accounts for more than half of the $ 4 billion in gambling revenue collected by state governments in fiscal year 2002 – 03

Industrial output has gradually decreased from accounting for over half of Taiwan's GDP in 1986 to just 31 % in 2002.

* Álvaro Uribe is elected President of Colombia in 2002, the first political independent to do so in more than a century and a half.

As of 2005, 4. 85 million unmarried couples were living together, and as of 2002, about half of all women aged 15 to 44 had lived unmarried with a partner.

A six-month political crisis triggered by a dispute over the outcome of the presidential elections held in December 2001 virtually halted economic activity in much of the country in the first half of 2002.

Between 1999 and 2002 conflict between Muslims and Christians killed thousands and displaced half a million people.

** Dark Angel ( 2000 – 2002 ), second half of Season One and first half of Season Two

By the latter half of 2001, however, the volume of media reports declined precipitously, and by 2002, major news organizations like the New York Times and Washington Post had almost completely ceased their coverage of Falun Gong from China.

In the United States, the country's 196 farmers ' cooperatives sold 86 % of milk in the U. S. in 2002, with five cooperatives accounting for half that.

Following the forensic report of 2002 which established that Calvi had been murdered, the policy was finally settled, although around half of the sum was paid to creditors of the Calvi family who had incurred considerable costs during their attempts to establish that Calvi had been murdered.

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.