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Malaysia's Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd says net income rose to 272.1 million ringgit ($71.6 million) in second quarter; graph (S)
Sagging demand in North America and Europe has led to fierce price-cutting of stainless steel; price of nickel, one of main ingredients in stainless steel, is surging; London Metal Exchange's three-month nickel contract trades around $9,575 metric ton, up 70 percent since early January 2002 and 33 percent so far this year; prices of stainless steel scrap have also climbed; Merrill Lynch analyst Daniel A Roling expects nickel price to remain strong for at least next three years (M)
Eight associate justices of Alabama Supreme Court overrule their defiant chief justice, Roy Moore, and unanimously order removal of 5,280-pound monument of Ten Commandments he installed in State Supreme Court lobby; say State Supreme Court must abide by federal rulings that found Moore violated separation of church and state; state faces fines of $5,000 for each day granite block remains in lobby; hundreds of Moore's supporters rally in front of courthouse; associate justices, all but one a Republican like Moore, order building's manager to slide partition in front of monument to screen it from public view; Moore seems undeterred; tells supportive crowd in front of courthouse, 'I must obey God!'; says he is again appealing to United States Supreme Court, which rejected him on Aug 20; photo (M)
India's government says tests of samples of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo products show that they conform to safety standards; government ordered tests after group called Center for Science and Environment charged that drinks contained pesticide residue (S)
US women's gymnastics team wins first world championship; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 2003, covering August 22, 2003.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Evanescence
Beyonce
Chingy
2003Cooper Connolly, Australian cricketer[†]
Cooper Patrick Leonard Connolly is an Australian cricketer who represents the Australia national cricket team in Test, ODI and T20I cricket. He is a left-handed batter and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, who plays for Western Australia in interstate cricket and Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League.
2003Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (born 1914)[†]
Arnold Gerschwiler OBE was a Swiss figure skating coach.
2003Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.[†]
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]