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European Union finance ministers agreed to adjust rules in the stability and growth pact; Mr Gordon Brown, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, said this would make it even harder for Britain to join the euro zone. Mr Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, proposed in a 62-page report to reform the organisation; the Security Council could be expanded either by the addition of six new permanent members to Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States or by adding a third tier of semi-permanent members. President George Bush nominated Mr Paul Wolfowitz as the next head of the World Bank. He later received the five sisters and fiancée of the murdered Robert McCartney at the White House on St Patrick’s Day. Mr Bush signed into law at 1.11 a.m., after returning to the White House from Texas, a Bill passed by Congress allowing the parents of Terri Schiavo, 41, who has been in a coma for 15 years, to apply to a federal court to have water and food restored to her after her husband got the feeding tube removed; but the federal court did not order its restoration. A teenager shot dead his grandfather and eight others before killing himself at a high school in the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota. Spain applied for the extradition of Moutaz Almallah Dabas, a Spanish citizen arrested in Slough, Berkshire, a day after his brother, Mohammed Almallah Dabas, a Syrian, was arrested in Madrid in connection with the bombs that killed 191 there in March 2004. A car bomb at the Doha Players theatre in Qatar killed a British man, Jonathan Adams. There was political unrest in Kyrgyzstan. George Kennan, author in 1946 of the long telegram that shaped American policy in the Cold War, died, aged 101. The Internet search engine Ask Jeeves was sold for £1 billion. Switzerland plans to wrap its largest glaciers in foil to stop them melting so fast.
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