With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

The President of Germany, Horst Köhler, himself urged judicial review of the constitutionality of the Luftsicherheitsgesetz after he signed it into law in 2005.

* 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team.

Former CEO Dale Fuller was fired in July 2005 after a series of financial and commercial blunders, but remained on the board of directors.

The 1n excitation function was remeasured in 2005 by the team at LBNL after some doubt about the accuracy of previous data.

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

* In 2005, David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party is forced to resign after claiming the highest taxi expenses of any MSP.

Following revelations about Dr Chai Patel and others who were recommended for peerages after lending the Labour party money, the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey said he had not been involved and did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of pounds in 2005.

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

A third network, Centrafrique Telecom Plus closed down in late 2005 after failing to attract more than 5, 000 subscribers and after failing to renew its license, in accordance to the new Bozize government.

Due to lack of budget and care, the 389 km Temuco to Puerto Montt section was abandoned in 1992 but after a $ 44m upgrade it has been back in use since 6 December 2005 with daily service between Victoria ( north of Temuco ) and Puerto Montt ; today, however only the service between Victoria and Temuco still operates.

On October 4, 2005 Croatia finally received green light for accession negotiations after the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte officially stated that Croatia is fully cooperating with the Tribunal.

The relations between the two countries strengthened after Cuba provided humanitarian assistance to the victims of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

Shortly after the untimely passing of Fulham's greatest player Johnny Haynes ; on 27 November 2005 it was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand.

On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

In 2005, the brand survived after mergers with Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc., SATXS Communications BV and Tulip Computers.

The sale was completed in March 2005 after months of negotiations.

In 2005, it was announced that NTL and Telewest would merge, after a period of co-operation in the preceding few years.

A biological survey conducted in early 2005 indicated erosional effects of the tsunami wave on Diego Garcia and other islands of the Chagos Archipelago.

None of these was endemic, and another survey in 2005 identified just 36 species as " native ", meaning arriving without the assistance of humans, and found elsewhere in the world.

It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 – 2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by Skytrax.

" Forever Changes " was ranked 83rd in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.

In 2005 Torvalds appeared as one of " the best managers " in a survey by BusinessWeek.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

In the 2005 survey, Switzerland ranks 7th ( out of 158 surveyed ), with 9. 1 out of 10 possible points, representing an improvement of 0. 4 points over the past four years.

The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 Election ( 2005 ) short survey

According to a survey conducted by the RAND Corporation, the cost of producing a barrel of oil at a surface retorting complex in the United States ( comprising a mine, retorting plant, upgrading plant, supporting utilities, and spent shale reclamation ), would range between US $ 70 – 95 ($ 440 – 600 / m < sup > 3 </ sup >, adjusted to 2005 values ).

* An annual survey of Legambiente ( an ecologist movement of Italy ) in 2005 declared Mantua the most ' liveable ' city of the country.

For example, the survey of corporate social responsibility, published January 2005, produced largely critical letters from Oxfam, the World Food Programme, United Nations Global Compact, the Chairman of BT Group, an ex-Director of Shell and the UK Institute of Directors.

According to a Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens, Germans are most sceptical about the removal of the one-and two-cent coins from complete circulation in the eurozone, however on average there is a majority for their removal ( 58 % for the one cent coin and 52 % for the two cent coin in 2005 ).

In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first ( in a tie with Vancouver, Canada ) for the world's most livable cities ( in the 2012 survey of 140 cities Vienna was ranked number two, behind Melbourne ).

An international self-esteem survey titled Simultaneous Administration of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in 53 Nations: Exploring the Universal and Culture-Specific Features of Global Self-Esteem conducted on 16, 998 people from 53 nations by researchers from Bradley University David P. Schmitt ( PhD ), and University of Tartu Jüri Allik, was published by the American Psychological Association in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2005, Vol.

In 2005, a survey of Kentish Town by the local Green Party claimed that out of 87 shops on Kentish Town Road ( locally known as Kentish Town High Street ), 53 were still independently owned.

In a 2005 New Economics Foundation survey of 27 London high streets, Putney's was deemed the fifth most " cloned ", offering identikit shopping with little local character.

Big research conducted a survey for the National Retail Federation in the United States and found that 53. 3 percent of consumers planned to buy a costume for Halloween 2005, spending $ 38. 11 on average ( up $ 10 from the year before ).

Development of the site began with survey and exploration work in Sept 2005.

Crestwood was ranked 52nd overall on a CNNMoney. com survey for " The Best Places to Live, 2005.

According to survey conducted between 2005 and 2009, the median income for a household in the area was $ 87, 324, and the median income for a family was $ 113, 719.

In the company's 2005 survey, the Township was ranked 15th safest of 354 cities surveyed nationwide.

In 2006 the global airport customer satisfaction survey AETRA ranked Helsinki Airport one of the best airports worldwide and according to Association of European Airlines 2005 delay rates, Helsinki Airport was the most punctual airport in Europe.

In 2005, a Walloon survey elected him as the " 16th greatest Belgian ever ".

Data for the survey was taken from the Government's 2005 / 06 Audit Commission.

One survey of the beliefs of the general United States population regarding paranormal topics was conducted by the Gallup Organization in 2005.