* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

In January 2003, the Armenian government and United Company RUSAL signed an investment cooperation agreement, under which United Company RUSAL ( which already owned a 76 % stake ) acquired the Armenian government's remaining 26 % share of RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill, giving RUSAL 100 % ownership of RUSAL ARMENAL.

* 2003 – Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

* 2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.

* 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – in Kent, England.

United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia and Iraq ( 1990 – 2003 ), two of the country's most significant trading partners, took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

In a more detailed 2003 Fortune article, Buffett proposed a tool called Import Certificates as a solution to the United States ' problem and ensure balanced trade.

In late 2003, transgenic zebrafish that express green, red, and yellow fluorescent proteins became commercially available in the United States.

In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

Chile has signed free trade agreements ( FTAs ) with a whole network of countries, including an FTA with the United States that was signed in 2003 and implemented in January 2004.

After two years of negotiations, the United States and Chile signed an agreement in June 2003 that will lead to completely duty-free bilateral trade within 12 years.

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

In 2003, the NZBS further extended restrictions to preclude permanently donors who had received a blood transfusion in the United Kingdom since January 1980, and in April 2006, restrictions were further extended to include the Republic of Ireland and France.

* George W. Bush hosted dignitaries, including the then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin in 2003 and hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, in 2007.

File: Songmayling. jpg | Soong May-ling ( 宋美齡, 1898 – 2003 ) Moved to the United States after Chiang Kai-shek's death.

* Remarks to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003

The Children's Internet Protection Act and the June 2003 case United States v. American Library Association found CIPA constitutional as a condition placed on the receipt of federal funding, stating that First Amendment concerns were dispelled by the law's provision that allowed adult library users to have the filtering software disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

In 2003 and 2004, The Scientist magazine placed Dalhousie among the top five places in the world, outside the United States, for postdoctoral work and conducting scientific research.

In November 2003, an Ecuadorian United Nations Training Centre was established under the name of: ( La Unidad Escuela de Misiones de Paz “ Ecuador ”).

* 2003 UNMIL United Nations Observer Group in Liberia.

( 2003 United Kingdom Edition by PCCS Books )

Akwe-Shavante society ( 1967 ), The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States ( 2003 ).

EDGE was deployed on GSM networks beginning in 2003 – initially by Cingular ( now AT & T ) in the United States.

Under the doctrine introduced by the 2003 Defense Policy Guidelines, Germany continues to give priority to the transatlantic partnership with the United States through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

In 2003, after his ashes were rediscovered in the United States, they were buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin.

In March 2003 the United States and the United Kingdom, with military aid from other nations, invaded Iraq.

Iraq was occupied by foreign troops beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with military forces coming primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom.

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& Helen H. & Evan A. Leach, Leigh S. Shaffer ( 2003 ) Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States.

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

In the United Kingdom, the process known in the United States as involuntary commitment is informally known as " detaining " or " sectioning ," using various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 ( covering England and Wales ), the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 and the Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2003 that provide its legal basis.

Jordan used to depend on Iraq for oil until the Iraq invasion in 2003 by the United States.

* 2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

The Union of the Comoros, known as the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros until 2003, is ruled by Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.

* 1908 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 2003 )

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

The Federal Reserve Banks began a multi-year restructuring of their check operations in 2003 as part of a long-term strategy to respond to the declining use of checks by consumers and businesses and the greater use of electronics in check processing.

* 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.

In June 2003, the Department of Justice issued its Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies forbidding racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials.

The Federal Assembly of FRY ( 1992 – 2003 ) was composed out of two chambers: the council of citizens and the council of republics.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received ( effective January 1, 2004 ) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

On October 15, 2003, the Federal Council ended the import restrictions on raw diamonds from Sierra Leone and lifted sanctions against Libya.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

According to the Federal Government, about 1. 1 million children were Home Educated in 2003.

In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band.

In November 2003 Staind attempted to sue Ohio musician Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court over his 1980 trademark of " The Stain ".

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ( TRA ) of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) was established according to the UAE Federal Law by Decree No. 3 of 2003.

One of the five successor states was also known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until 2003.

On 4 February 2003 parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) agreed to a weaker union between Serbia and Montenegro within a commonwealth called " Serbia and Montenegro ".

Finally in February 2003, the Constitutional Charter was ratified by both republics, and the FRY Parliament and the name of the country was changed from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro.

Since the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 ) was characterized primarily by a desire to secure its political and geopolitical position and the solidarity of ethnic Serbs in the Balkan region through a strong nationalist campaign.

* December 6 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor ( d. 2003 )

* April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro ), bringing to an end the official union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 ( with the exception of the period during World War II ).

The Court also overruled that portion of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U. S. 93 ( 2003 ), that upheld BCRA's restriction of corporate spending on " electioneering communications ".

The NCS was one of 22 Federal agencies transferred to the Department on March 1, 2003, in accordance with Executive Order 13286.