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Afghan voter registration worker Mohammed Zafar, 50, sits in the registration office in Baghe-Alam village, Parwan province, 50 kilometers north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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INDEPTH: YEAR IN REVIEW 2004
Overview
CBC News Online | December 22, 2004
The year 2004 brought avian flu to Canada and confirmed that one case of BSE originated here, forcing the slaughter of millions of birds in B.C. and closing the country's borders to beef sales. Paul Martin's Liberals were given a minority government. A fire aboard HMCS Chicoutimi on its first voyage as a Canadian ship brought the entire submarine fleet into question.
The continuing U.S. occupation of Iraq saw the deaths of more than 1,000 American troops and thousands of Iraqis. Images of prisoner abuse prompted apologies from American leaders. And a bitter election year in the U.S. ended with the re-election of George W. Bush as president.
Hundreds died after Chechen rebels took children hostage in a school in Beslan, Russia. The death of Yasser Arafat marked a turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And the election in Ukraine give us two Viktors, but no winner, and a revote on Boxing Day.
And on Mars, NASA's rovers took stunning pictures of the alien landscape and made startling discoveries about the planet's past, including the possibility that liquid water once flowed there.
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