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.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

In Section 10 ( 7 ) continues the " use of the description city in relation to Kilkenny, to the extent that that description was used before ( January 1, 2002 ) and is not otherwise inconsistent with this Act.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

In November 2002 the city was the place of birth of the first edition of the European Social Forum.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Public and private schools in the city have reopened since 2002 after they were shut down or destroyed during fighting in the 1980s to the late 1990s.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

Petroleum ( found in nearby off-shore deposits ) is refined in the city, although this facility was repeatedly damaged during the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ).

The city also has a thriving building industry, an effect of the nationwide economic boom experienced since 2002, when political stability returned with the end of the civil war.

The city slowly came under the control of the Karzai administration after 2002, which is led by President Hamid Karzai.

Since 2002, most of the campus and surrounding city is covered by a wireless network.

* 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

In 2002, the city of Milan had no sewage treatment plant.

The political independence of suburban municipalities from the nearby city is a sensitive political issue, since provincial governments have the power to rewrite municipal boundaries at will, and they have often dictated mergers without input from residents ( recently in Nova Scotia in 1996, Ontario in 1997 and Quebec in 2002 ).

From 2002 to 2006 the entire Island of Montreal was merged into one city, but this policy was partly reversed when a different party captured the provincial government.

* United States, San Francisco: In November 2002, before it was widely available, the city of San Francisco banned the Segway PT from sidewalks citing safety concerns.

According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje has a population of 506, 926 inhabitants ; according to two unofficial estimates for more recent period, the city has a population of 668, 518 or 491, 000 inhabitants.

The establishment of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal ( 1981 ), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( 1993 ) and the International Criminal Court ( 2002 ) in the city further consolidated the role of The Hague as a center for international legal arbitration.

However, there exist many specially arranged city distributions which make the NN algorithm give the worst route ( Gutin, Yeo, and Zverovich, 2002 ).

Thousands of soldiers died in the city during the retreat ; the mass graves were uncovered in 2002.

According to provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

As per provisional data from 2011 census, 1, 677, 985 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded at the 2002 census.

From 19 January 2002 to November 2004, the opera company was transferred to the new Teatro degli Arcimboldi, built in the Pirelli-Bicocca industrial area 4. 5 miles from the city centre.

Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

In 2002, a theoretical attack, termed the " XSL attack ", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and Josef Pieprzyk, purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple description .< ref >

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.

In November 2002, Sword & Sorcery Studios ( SSS ) announced that it had licensed the Gamma World setting from WOTC in order to produce a sixth version of the game.

On March 2, 2000, Houston NFL 2002 announced that the team name search had been narrowed down to five choices: Bobcats, Stallions, Texans, Toros, and Apollos.

* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

On 15 August 2002, in his National Day Address, Prince Hans-Adam II announced that after months of intensive negotiations, a compromise in the debate on constitutional reform had been reached.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

Because of restrictions on expanding the capacity at Anfield, Liverpool announced plans to move to the proposed Stanley Park Stadium in May 2002.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing its new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

On July 31, 2008, NASA announced that the Phoenix lander confirmed the presence of water on Mars, as predicted in 2002 based on data from the Odyssey orbiter.

In 1999, SGI announced it would overhaul its operations ; it planned to continue introducing new MIPS processors until 2002, but its server business would include Intel ’ s processor architectures as well.

In July 2002 some limited reforms were announced.

In 2002, Kim Jong-Il declared that " money should be capable of measuring the worth of all commodities ", followed by some small market-oriented measures, and the creation of the Kaesong Industrial Region with transport links to South Korea was announced.

However, in 2002 it was announced that the PNGDF would be reduced from 4, 000 to around 2, 100 personnel.

A Return to Castle Wolfenstein film was announced in 2002 with Rob Cohen of xXx attached to direct.

In 2002, King announced he would stop writing, apparently motivated in part by frustration with his injuries, which had made sitting uncomfortable and reduced his stamina.

In 1996 FIFA announced that the two countries would jointly host the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

StarKist Management announced that it was going ahead with setting up at Asau a blast-freezer project to be operational by 2002.

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah announced in January 2002 that the Sierra Leone Army ( SLA ) would be unified with the tiny Sierra Leone Air Force and the moribund Sierra Leone Navy to form a reconstituted force known as the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces ( RSLAF ).

In June 2002, Slovakia announced that they would send an engineering brigade to Afghanistan.

In November 2002, SGI announced a repackaging of its SN system, under the name Origin 3900.

This attempt at creating a new Space Quest was announced on February 7, 2002.

In May 2003 Bracks broke an election promise and announced that the proposed Scoresby Freeway in Melbourne's eastern suburbs would be a tollway rather than a freeway, as promised at the 2002 elections.