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Ukraine Supreme Court temporarily blocks victory of Prime Min Viktor F Yanukovich in disputed presidential election until court reviews complaints of fraud and abuse; unexpected ruling shifts momentum toward loser, Viktor A Yushchenko and thousands of demonstrators in Kiev; photo of Ukrainian police guards on fifth day of opposition demonstrations (M)
Indianapolis Colts defeat Detroit Lions, 41-9; photos (M)
Air Force laboratory that conducted research into safety of Taser International's stun guns disputes Taser's claim that study endorsed safety of its guns; Taser stock price soared after company's announcement; now laboratory says it found that guns could be dangerous and that more data is needed to evaluate their risks; Taser says it stands behind its original statement; more than 5,500 police departments and prisons now use Tasers; diagram; graph (M)
Peter Hartz reflects on playing title role in Germany's economic transformation; notes that he was tapped to head commission by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, making it impossible to refuse post; says becoming synonymous with far-reaching, often unpopular, reforms turned him into lightning rod; German government will put last of his proposals into law in January; he has returned to his job as director of human resources at Volkswagen; photos (M)
Judge Ethan Greenberg on March 25 ruled that prosecutors in domestic violence case in Bronx could use 911 recording of women's call for help as evidence, even though she refused to testify against her boyfriend; prosecutors and judges around country seized on decision, citing it as important precedent as they wrestled with their own cases; there was problem with decision rendered by Greenberg; none of assumptions he based his opinion on were actually fact; person heard on tape was neighbor, not victim, and call was made nine hours after alleged assault, not while it was happening; prosecutors eventually abandoned case, but Greenberg's ruling continues to have legal life of its own; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 24, 2004, covering November 26, 2004.
Eminem
Shania Twain
Toby Keith
Britney Spears
Various Artists
2004Philippe de Broca, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1933)[†]
Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
2004C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (born 1909)[†]
Cyril Walter Hodges was an English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping to recreate Elizabethan theatre. He won the annual Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration in 1964.
2004Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.[†]
This is a list of mass stabbings that took place before 2010. It includes incidents in which there were at least three casualties.
2004The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.[†]
The poʻo-uli or Hawaiian black-faced honeycreeper is an extinct species of passerine bird that was endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi. It is considered to be a member of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, and is the only member of its genus Melamprosops. It had a black head, brown upper parts and pale gray underparts. This bird inhabited only the wetter, easternmost side of Maui, where it had rapidly decreased in numbers. With extinction threatening, efforts were made to capture birds to enable them to breed in captivity. These efforts were unsuccessful; in 2004, only two known birds remained, and since then, no further birds have been sighted. A 2018 study recommended declaring the species extinct, citing bird population decline patterns and the lack of any confirmed sightings since 2004, and in 2019, the species was declared extinct.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]