According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

* 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

Bank One Ballpark ( now Chase Field ) in April, 2005.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

The World Bank records that electricity distribution losses for 2005 totaled about 38. 2 %, a rate of losses exceeded in only three other countries.

The World Bank reported that the European Union was the top food importer in 2005, followed at a distance by the USA and Japan.

In 2003, the Israeli government issued a plan for total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the northern West Bank by late 2005.

In 2005, Haiti paid its arrears to the World Bank, paving the way for reengagement with the Bank.

Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.

In 2005, all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the northern West Bank were forcibly evacuated as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan.

The entire area of the West Bank and Gaza, previously annexed by Jordan and occupied by Egypt respectively, was controlled by Israel from the 1967 war until August 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza.

Spacey was awarded a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa from the London South Bank University in November 2005.

The World Bank reports that China was the top importer of ores and metals in 2005 followed by the U. S. A. and Japan.

( The World Bank has revised the figure for 2001 downward from the 3. 9 percent reported in the 2005 Index.

Free-market reforms of recent decades have removed many barriers to foreign investment, and the World Bank in 2005 praised New Zealand as being the most business-friendly country in the world, before Singapore.

In September 2005, Nigeria, with the assistance of the World Bank, began to recover US $ 458 million of illicit funds that had been deposited in Swiss banks by the late military dictator Sani Abacha, who ruled Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.

* 2005, Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia ( the first Sir Norman Foster building in the Southern Hemisphere )

In 2005, astronomers using data from the Green Bank Telescope discovered a superbubble so large that it extends beyond the plane of the galaxy.

The World Bank reports that China was the top importer of ores and metals in 2005 followed by the USA and Japan.

It plays a prominent role in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and in 2005 joined the World Trade Organisation.

According to a 2005 World Bank report, the " private airline business in Somalia is now thriving with more than five carriers and price wars between the companies.

* Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Darlene Clark Hine ( Editor ), Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ( Editor ), Elsa Barkley Brown ( Editor ), Paperback Edition, Indiana University Press 2005.

* Schiff, Stacy, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, ( 2005 ) Henry Holt

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America ( 2005 ) ( UK title Dr Franklin Goes to France )

) ( Library of America, 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume ) ISBN 978-1-931082-22-8

) ( Library of America, 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume ) ISBN 978-1-883011-53-6

In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe, and with coast-to-coast shows across North America.

By 2005 Colombia had the highest mobile phone density ( 90 percent ) in Latin America, as compared with the region ’ s average density of 70 percent.

Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, ( 2005 ), ISBN 0-521-83416-3. online review

On 5 September 2005, the Congress of the Dominican Republic ratified a free trade agreement with the U. S. and five Central American countries, the Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA-DR ).

The regions with the highest tropical deforestation rate between 2000 and 2005 were Central America — which lost 1. 3 % of its forests each year — and tropical Asia.

* 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician ( b. 1916 )

* Humanoids Publishing ( distribution rights for English-language reproductions in America 2004 to 2005 )

In 2005 Guatemala ratified its signature to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) between the United States of America and several other Central American countries.

The Library of America published a volume of Lovecraft's work in 2005, essentially declaring him a canonical American writer.

In 2005 the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub, and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the " definitive edition " of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness ( also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ").

( 2005 ) Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America.

* 1980 – Deidre Downs, American model, Miss America 2005

* Souder, William ( 2005 ) Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America.

Voice of America, 13 September 2005

In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking ( Brazil ) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.

* Ghost in the Shell 2: Man / Machine Interface ( 2001 ) ( released in collected form in America on January 19, 2005 )

Legalizing Misandry ( 2005 ), the second in the series, gave similar attention to laws in North America.

OSS: The Secret History of America ’ s First Central Intelligence Agency ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 ; Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005 )