A Black Hawk helicopter has reportedly crashed near Amberley air force base, Mount Walker, Australia with at least five seriously injured. [1]
Scientists find a fossilised head and identify it as part of a 400 million-year-old fly, making it the oldest known insect. [2]
The United States Army in Iraq announces a $10 million dollar reward for the capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a leader of the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, blamed for the deaths of unknown numbers of Iraqi citizens and U.S. military during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. [3]
Intel scientists say that they have made siliconchips that can switch light like electricity. [5][6]
Comcast Corp. makes an uninvited bid for The Walt Disney Company. The US$50 billion to $66 billion deal would create the world's largest media company.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopts enhanced mutual fund expense and portfolio disclosure, part of the continuing fall-out from the mutual fund late-trading scandal of 2003. [7]
The Sudanese government cancels plans to attend scheduled peace talks in Geneva with western rebels just days after the Sudanese president proclaimed military victory in the insurgency. The talks were scheduled to begin February 14, 2004. At this time, the Sudanese government is contending with a southern rebellion as well.[10]
French prosecutors reveal that a money-laundering probe into the transfers of millions of dollars to accounts held by the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was opened in October 2003. The probe was opened after discovering that nearly $1.27 million is transferred with some regularity from Switzerland to Mrs. Arafat's accounts in Paris. Tracfin, an organization that collates information about money laundering, detected the movements of funds.[11]
Occupation of Iraq: At least 47 people, mostly Iraqi army recruits, are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad in the second major bomb attack in two days. [12]
SAN DIEGO, California, February11, 2004 (ENS) - A coalition of local, state, and national environmental groups is suing to force the federal government to find ways of improving border security without a proposed 14 mile, triple fence, which plaintiffs say would destroy popular parks, hiking trails, and wildlife habitat.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, February11, 2004 (ENS) - The aquaculture industry is working with federal regulatory agencies to privatize parts of the ocean on behalf of corporate fish farming interests, claims a new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a coalition of consumer and environmental groups based in Minneapolis.
NEW YORK, New York, February11, 2004 (ENS) - A woodpeckers beak is a virtual petri dish of fungal spores that play a key role in the decay of dead trees, according to new research by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Arkansas State University.
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