* Animal ( book ), full title Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to The World's WildLife, a 2003 non-fiction book by David Burnie and several co-authors

He first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo !, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

The Afghan government has reported to the UPU several times about illegal stamps being issued and sold in 2003 and 2007.

In 2003 several new models were released, including an improved version of the HP 12c, the " HP 12c platinum edition " which added more memory, more built-in functions, and the addition of the algebraic mode of data entry.

* 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

In 1996, offshore oil began flowing, and, with several US oil companies present in the country, the US reopened the embassy in October 2003.

Enya is featured in featurettes included with the 2003 BBC Video DVD release of The Celts, including performances of several songs videotaped in the late 1980s.

These numbers are highly speculative ; many sources give vague ideas of the unemployment rating being ( for example, in 2003 ) around 50 %, giving the impression that the actual rate could be several percentage points higher or lower.

Between 1998 to 2003, there were only several new releases, including a number of DJ Mix-CDs mixed by various DJs like Oliver Bondzio, Frank Lorber and Plank.

During Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's two successive governments 1995 – 2003, several large state companies were privatized fully or partially.

The album peaked at # 9 on Billboard magazine's Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums and at # 14 on the Billboard 200, spawning several singles including " Gotta Lotta Love ", " I Ain't New To This " and " 99 Problems " – which would later inspire Jay-Z to record a version with new lyrics in 2003.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

In yet another set of related cases, in September 2003, the RIAA ( trade association of the music industry ) filed suit in civil court against several private individuals who had shared large numbers of files with Kazaa ; most of these suits were settled with monetary payments averaging $ 3, 000.

In 2003, Kid Rock returned with an eponymous album, almost stripping away the accustomed rap metal sound he had created, opting for southern rock and several country ballads in the wake of " Picture "' s success.

Since the fixed-line voice communication monopoly ended on January 1, 2003, several companies entered the market for fixed voice communication services: Aeronavigācijas serviss, Baltkom TV, Beta Telecom, Latvenergo Tehniskais Centrs, OPTRON, Rigatta, Telecentrs, Telenets, Telekom Baltija and CSC Telecom.

The 2003 reprint corrects several typographical mistakes.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

Since 2003, following the death in custody of a prisoner, Naseem, the Maldives experienced several anti-government demonstrations calling for political reforms, more freedoms and, and end to torture and oppression.

In December 2003, several dozen of these refugees, in protest of the conditions of their detention on Nauru, began a hunger strike.

The United States was supported by several nations during Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) in Afghanistan in 2001 – 2003 and in subsequent coalition operations directly or indirectly in support of OEF.

Since 2003, several new carriers have entered the market, mainly low-cost airlines.

Although Sears ' naming rights expired in 2003, the building continued to be called the Sears Tower for several years.

The second generation was introduced in 2003, based on the new Impreza platform, featuring several fine-tune improvements over the past model.

:* Uday Hussein ( 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003 ), was Saddam's oldest son, who ran the Iraqi Football Association, Fedayeen Saddam, and several media corporations in Iraq including Iraqi TV and the newspaper Babel.

The USASF was formed in 2003 by the competition companies to act as the national governing body for all star cheerleading and to create a standard set of rules and judging standards to be followed by all competitions sanctioned by the Federation, ultimately leading to the Cheerleading Worlds.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

In the United States, the underwriting loss of property and casualty insurance companies was $ 142. 3 billion in the five years ending 2003.

By 2003 private companies made up 70 % of Mongolian GDP and 80 % of exports.

In July 2003 the government introduced a Deregulation Policy for the Telecommunication Sector, which allowed and encouraged foreign companies to invest in the Pakistani telecommunications market.

Of the 16 banks operating in Paraguay in 2003, 50 percent were wholly foreign-owned and 25 percent were partially owned by foreign companies.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

The Mission Bay campus, opened in 2003 with construction still ongoing, contains additional research space and facilities to foster biotechnology and life sciences companies.

* domestic: offsetting the shortage of fixed line capacity, mobile phone service has been available since 1996 ; by 2003 two companies were providing mobile services at a greater density than some of Albania's Balkan neighbors

In 2003 the marketing and umbrella brand Metlink was introduced to co-ordinate the promotion of Melbourne's public transport and the communications from the separate privatised companies.

Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera and many of the other British opera companies have mounted productions, as did the reconstituted D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1990 and its closure in 2003.

Their distribution is roughly as follows: European trade federations ( 32 %), consultants ( 20 %), companies ( 13 %), NGOs ( 11 %), national associations ( 10 %), regional representations ( 6 %), international organizations ( 5 %) and think tanks ( 1 %), ( Lehmann, 2003, pp iii ).

One in three companies offered apprenticeships in 2003 ; in 2004 the government signed a pledge with industrial unions that all companies except very small ones must take on apprentices.

In 2006, private equity firms bought 654 U. S. companies for $ 375 billion, representing 18 times the level of transactions closed in 2003.

* The " e-schools programme ", adopted by the HSGIC in 2003 as an initiative to equip all 600, 000 primary and secondary schools in Africa with IT equipment and internet access within 10 years, in partnership with several large IT companies.

During the Canadian national elections of 2003 and 2006, it was cited that the former Minister of Finance and later Prime Minister Paul Martin had international shipping companies that operated in Barbados ' offshore sector under the bilateral treaty possibly saving his company from higher taxes in Canada.

Many companies ceased to sell PDA's by 2003 – 2004 because of a declining market.

* SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, a 2003 videogame in which the star characters from said companies face off

The allegations concern meetings between Agere and Microsoft in 2002 and 2003, where the companies discussed selling Agere's stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation technology to Microsoft.