Today in The World : 18 Aralık 2006

US animated cartoon producer, animator Joseph Barbera, died today.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced HTML 4.0.

In Peru, the Tupac Amaru guerrillas repress the Japanese Embassy in the capital Lima. The Guerrillas have taken 500 hostages hostage

The British parliament has suspended the death penalty for murder.

Japan was accepted into the United Nations.

In Australia, women have the right to be elected and elected.