The World
Biljana Plavsic, the former president of the Bosnian Serb republic, pleaded guilty to complicity in human rights violations against Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-1995 war.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat demanded that Osama bin Laden desist from asserting that al-Qaida is working on behalf of the Palestinians.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Saddam Hussein's government is in "material breach" of Security Council resolutions because of Iraq's failure to disclose information about weapons programs.
Pakistani authorities said they had foiled a plot by Islamic militants to assassinate U.S. diplomats in Karachi.
A clandestine bomb factory used by Islamic militants exploded in Karachi, killing at least five suspected terrorists.
At least 60 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying mourners from a funeral capsized in a river in Liberia.
The Galway (Ireland) County Council enacted a bill banning people who are not fluent in Gaelic from building homes in a coastal area called Gaeltacht.
The Nation
President Bush ordered the Pentagon to have a modest missile defense program in effect within two years.
Former Vice President Al Gore said he would not be a candidate for president in 2004.
Trent Lott said he would not try to remain Senate majority leader after two weeks of controversy over remarks praising Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential bid on a segregationist ticket.
The leader of an Islamic militant group, his wife and five brothers who work at a Texas company were indicted on charges of money-laundering and trading with countries sanctioned for terrorism.
President Bush named former Thomas H. Kean, former governor of New Jersey, to take Henry A. Kissinger's place as head of an inquiry into the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, was awarded the right to the National Basketball Association's next franchise in Charlotte, N.C. He will be the first black owner of an NBA team.
New York City averted a subway strike after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority signed a contract with the union, granting a $1,000 bonus and a 3 percent-a-year salary increase in the next two years.
New York became the 13th state to extend civil rights explicitly to homosexuals.
David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana politician who spent the past three years overseas preaching "white survival," pleaded guilty to bilking his supporters and cheating on his taxes.
A federal jury in Portland, Ore., found Wal-Mart guilty of forcing store employees to work unpaid overtime.
Ten Wall Street firms will pay $1 billion in fines, ending an investigation into conflict-of-interest charges against brokerage houses that made money off stocks that their analysts recommended.
The Region
Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy asked the city to increase her annual salary from $115,000 to $140,000. She received $130,000.
The city's Board of Estimates agreed to allow millionaire political contributor John Paterakis to pay back only $568,000 of a $1.5 million interest-free loan.
Maryland agreed to pay $19 million to buy for preservation thousands of acres of wetlands, timberland and marshland on the Eastern Shore.
Peter Vaughn, executive director of Maryland's troubled state employees' pension board, resigned, taking medical retirement at age 46.
Federal agents arrested Mahendra H. Shah, owner of a Southwest Baltimore industrial park, accusing him of setting fire to his property and filing a bogus $3 million insurance claim.
Dontee D. Stokes, who admitted shooting a Roman Catholic priest accused of assaulting him a decade ago, was acquitted of attempted murder, but convicted of handgun charges and sentenced to home detention.
Sol Sheinbein, a Silver Spring lawyer, was stripped of his license to practice because he helped his son flee to Israel to avoid a Maryland murder trial.
James A. Yorke, a mathematician at the University of Maryland, College Park will share the 2003 Japan Prize in science and technology.
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"There was nothing about the 1948 election or the Dixiecrat agenda that should have been acceptable in any way to any American at that time or any American now."
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, on Sen. Trent Lott's comments of regret that Sen. Strom Thurmond was not elected president when he ran on a segregationist platform