March 25, 2004

• Évora-Tambacounda 2004 - 4 University students from Portugal and Spain start descending West Africa in order to redraw history. Their goal is to take Évora city UNESCO medal to several also World Heritage sites along the way. Total of 12000km in 5 weeks. Évora-Tambacounda 2004
• The 2004 Abel Prize in mathematics is announced to be awarded to Michael F. Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer for their index theorem. (Aftenposten)
• The terrorist group AZF suspends its bombing campaign in France but continues to demand money from the government. News agencies report that the government placed notices in Libération newspaper to contact the terrorists. (BBC)
• The House of Representatives of US state of Georgia passes a ban on genital piercings for women, including consenting adults, as part of a bill to ban female genital mutilation as performed by some Muslim populations, among others. The ban does not apply to men. The provision is not included in the version passed by Georgia's Senate. (AP)
• Novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet is elected to the Académie française. (Académie française)
• Five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) array across the evening sky in a night show that won't be back for another three decades. (AP)
• A prototype of a mechanized five-ton disaster-rescue robot, the T-52 Enryu, is unveiled in Japan. (AFP)