Unix Timestamp: 1054771200
Thursday, June 5. 2003, 12:00:00 AM UTC

A female suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16.

For the first time in more than two months, no new deaths were reported yesterday from SARS, the latest indication that the epidemic is subsiding, the World Health Organization said. //www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14953-2003Jun4.html?nav=hptoc_h

A United Nations war crimes tribunal charges President Charles Taylor of Liberia with war crimes for masterminding atrocities in the Sierra Leone civil war.