In 2003, the kiss between Bianca and character Lena Kundera ( Olga Sosnovska ) made history when it became the first lesbian kiss to appear on American daytime television.

Babe strikes up a friendship with Bianca Montgomery during December 2003.

CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca " Coco " and Sierra " Rosie " Casady.

In 2003, Bianca joined Sierra in Paris.

* Y Speak was originally broadcast on ABS-CBN hosted by Ryan Agoncillo and Karen Davila with Bianca as the segment host in January 2003.

This terror and the crimes carried out during MLC's war against Bozizé's rebels between October 2002 and March 2003 is now being investigated by the International Criminal Court, which says it has identified 600 rape victims and the real numbers are expected to be higher.

In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.

There have been several attempts to prosecute cadets for rape since 2003, but none have been successful with claims of consent coupled with a lack of forensic evidence.

Only 239 violent offenses ( murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault ) were reported in 2003, compared with 2, 917 property crimes.

* Florence Holway, rape victim, subject of a 2003 HBO documentary

In June 2003, the woman who had fabricated the accusation of rape, Nadine Milroy-Sloan, was imprisoned for attempting to pervert the course of justice. In February 2005, the publicist Max Clifford, who had acted for Milroy-Sloan, settled, paying Hamilton an undisclosed sum.

Human rights organizations have documented government-approved executions, acts of torture and rape for decades since Saddam Hussein came to power in 1979 until his fall in 2003.

In January 2003, while on trial for rape, Luster left the country and was declared a fugitive from justice by the judge.

On December 2, 2003, Woolsey wrote a letter on behalf of Stewart Pearson, the son of one of her senior aides, who had pleaded guilty to rape.

Yun and her husband, Ae Ho Kwon, were later arrested in 2003 and charged with trying to extort money from Mr. Angélil over a false rape claim.

According to a report by the National Commission on Status of Women ( NCSW ) " an estimated 80 % of women " in jail in 2003 were there as because " they had failed to prove rape charges and were consequently convicted of adultery.

On the other hand, a 2003 study found that the frequency of pregnancy from rape is significantly higher than that of pregnancy in non-coercive intercourse, and advanced the hypothesis that male rapists disproportionately target women exhibiting biological indications of fertility.

The 2003 book Evolution, Gender, and Rape, written in response to A Natural History of Rape, compiles the views of twenty-eight scholars in opposition to sociobiological theories of rape.

* In 2003, Gerald Mason was arrested and charged with the murder of two El Segundo police officers, as well as rape and robbery, dating back to 1957.

Although no agreement on authorizing force could be found within the United Nations Security Council, the war was ultimately launched in March 2003, after Bush, in a speech on March 17 effectively had declared war on Iraq, along with a declaration of his objectives as " assuring national security " of the United States, and " no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms.

From 2001 to 2003, Russian courts tried Colonel Yuri Budanov on the charges of March 27, 2000, kidnapping, rape ( an allegation later withdrawn by the prosecution ) and brutal murder of Elza Kungaeva, an 18-year-old Chechen girl whom Budanov alleged of being a sniper for Chechen rebels who were attacking his unit.

While awaiting a court appearance for the letter incident, in July 2003, drawings of gang rape were discovered in Skaf's prison cell.

The drawings depicted violence and rape against his once loyal fiance, who had ended their relationship in March 2003.

U. S. Federal law, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, calls for the compilation of national prison rape statistics, annual hearings by a review panel, and the provision of grants to the states to address prison rape.

In May 2003, Bairstow was charged in Everett, Washington with second degree child rape for allegedly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, who is related to Bairstow's ex-wife, and later asking her to keep quiet about it.

However, following a June 5, 2003 Sparks game, Byears and three men unconnected to the Sparks were investigated for an alleged rape of a WNBA player.

Contemporary crime including date rape following the use of hypnotic drugs such as Flunitrazepam show that little has changed save that where the intended offence is of a sexual nature, separate legislation applies ( see Sexual Offences Act 2003 ).

This would be charged as the common law offences of kidnapping and false imprisonment, or rape, and / or human trafficking under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

In 2003, a fan ( Les Braun ) published GW11 Omega Project on the internet, finishing the Third Edition series by closely following Eastland's original storyline.

An expansion for Generals, Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour, was released on September 22, 2003 to further the Generals storyline.

KOF 2003 begins a new storyline focusing on another new lead character named Ash Crimson, a young man who seeks to possess the powers of the Three Divine Vessels for his own unknown agenda.

With more than five million copies sold worldwide as of November 9, 2005, Microsoft released versions of the game for Microsoft Windows ( ported by Gearbox Software ) and Mac OS X in 2003, and the surrounding storyline was adapted and elaborated into a series of novels and comic books.

From there, Storm was briefly involved in a storyline in which Stone Cold Steve Austin, an authority figure, encouraged the fans to chant " boring " during Storm's matches including one with Storm losing to newcomer Garrison Cade on June 16, 2003, thanks to Austin bringing out a pillow and blanket and snoring loudly into the microphone, and other distracting antics.

Her most high profile storyline took place in 2003 when she feuded with Dawn Marie.

As Russo promised, Hogan never resurfaced in WCW and even filed a lawsuit against Russo for defamation of character ( which was dismissed in 2003 stating that the charges filed against Russo were " groundless " and " were just part of a wrestling storyline ").

The storyline involves the modern-day ( 2003 cartoon ) ninja turtles, the 1980s cartoon turtles and eventually the original Mirage Studios Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle counterparts.

On the June 23, 2003 episode of Raw, Mick Foley ( who was the first champion as " Mankind ") was awarded the WWE Hardcore Championship belt by the Raw brand — a storyline division in which WWE employees are assigned to a television program of the same name — authority figure Stone Cold Steve Austin for his contributions in hardcore wrestling.

A spin-off manga drawn by Fumino Hayashi, following roughly the same storyline as the game, was serialized in the Monthly Asuka in November 2003 and is available in volumes from the same publisher.

His first major storyline within WWE came on the May 1, 2003 episode of SmackDown !.

Lucy was introduced in the July 11, 2003 strip, in a storyline that had Danae and Kate going to a summer horse riding camp.

The ratings success of the serial killer storyline made Coronation Street the most-watched UK television programme of 2003 beating rival EastEnders into second place.

A sequel to the 2003 Daredevil film is in development, and is expected to use the " Born Again " storyline.

The framing device gives perspective and narration to the flashback storyline beginning in 2003.

* A Cyborg Superman toy, using Henshaw's costume from the Reign of the Supermen storyline, was released for the DC Direct Superman line in 2003.

Eaton made a one night only appearance for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on August 13, 2003, as a part of a Kid Kash storyline where Kash faced off against a series of 1980s wrestling stars such as Larry Zbyszko and Ricky Morton.

This record received the most critical acclaim yet upon its release in February 2003, partly owing to the increased exposure caused by their signing of a distribution deal with American label The End Records, and saw them play a string of live shows before travelling to Västerås in June 2004 to record Invisible, which is the band's first departure from their conceptual storyline approach, dealing with a wide array of topics from love to history.

" Nina departed on-screen in October 2003, with an exit storyline that allowed for a return in the future.

At the 2003 British Soap Awards, Sue Nicholls won gongs for ' Best Dramatic Performance ' and ' Hero of the Year ' for her role in the highly successful Richard Hillman storyline which ran between 2002 and 2003.

The recreation of scenes from Flashdance led Maureen Marder — whose life was the inspiration for the storyline of the film — to sue Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in November 2003, claiming the video was an unauthorized depiction of her life story.