After a historic, protracted 36-day legal battle, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush became the winner of the 2000 presidential election after a Supreme Court ruling on the Florida vote favored Bush over Vice President Al Gore.
A three-decades long war involving leftist rebels, right-wing paramilitary groups, the Colombian government and and powerful narcotics traffickers have fractured the nation's social structure.
The European Union, an economic and political alliance of 15 European states, underwent more changes in 2000 than at any other time in its 50-year history.
