2000s
2000
- DVD players become world’s fastest selling home electronics device.
- George W Bush declared president
- Launch of Big Brother
- Launch of ITN News Channel

2001
- US terror attacks. Two planes crash into the World Trade Centre Towers and the Pentagon
- In response to the terror attacks, US and British forces launch a bombing campaign on the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan
- Race riots in Cincinnati continue for several days following a shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer

2002
- Live autopsy on Channel 4
- Launch of BBC Four
- India's worst Hindu-Muslim violence in a decade rocked the state of Gujarat after a Muslim mob fire-bombed a train, killing Hindu activists
- MTV reportedly reaches 250 million homes worldwide

2003
- Space shuttle Columbia explodes, killing all 7 astronauts
- The Recording Industry Association of America cracked down on people who illegally swapped more than 1,000 songs over the Internet, filing lawsuits against hundreds of people. Apple Computer, however, made downloading both affordable and easy with its iTune Music Store
- Saddam Hussein is captured by American troops
- Leni Riefenstahl dies (Triumph of the Will)

2004
- Asian tsunami
- Hutton report published
- Spain is rocked by terrorist attacks, killing more than 200
- Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11
- Mel Gibson – Passion of the Christ – angered Jews
- The secret policemen (BBC) – documentary which uncovered institutionalised racism within the police force.
- Crash

2005
- Desperate Housewives
- Tony Blair becomes first Labour Party prime minister to win three successive terms, but his party loses a large number of seats in the elections
- London hit by Islamic terrorist bombings, killing 52 and wounding about 700
- Youtube Is launched
- Worldwide aid pours in to help the eleven Asian countries devastated by the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami

2006
- The Walt Disney Co. pays $7.4 billion for Pixar Animation Studios
- A Danish newspaper challenges taboos against illustrations of Muhammad by printing several negative cartoons depicting him
- Series of bombs explode on commuter trains in Mumbai, India during the evening rush hour
- Saddam Hussein is convicted of crimes against humanity by an Iraqi court

2007
- Benazir Bhutto assassinated
- Launch of the iphone
- Increase in fuel prices
- Al Gore – an inconvenient truth