Wikinews:2005/January/24


 * Report: The Pentagon's new powers
 * China Hands Stiff Sentences to 27 Farmers Over Land Seizure Protest
 * Google plans free Internet phone service. The search king is planning its next big move into the VoIP market.
 * Taiwan's cabinet resigns
 * Venezuela-Colombia crisis continues
 * Lithuania plans to adopt euro in 2007
 * Romanian Social Democrats criticise flat tax. Romania's opposition party has criticised the government's new liberal fiscal policy of a 16% flat tax rate.
 * Woman appointed as Bucharest prefect
 * Romanian PM visits Brussels. Romanian PM Călin Popescu Tăriceanu visits Brussels to discuss the Government's strategies for EU accession.
 * Relativity turns 100
 * Northeast US blizzards create havoc
 * Top Zarqawi ally captured
 * Militant group declares war on Iraq poll