November 25, 2003

• Annualized Q3 growth rate in the US gross domestic product exceeds 8%, the highest rate of growth since the Reagan administration. [1]
• In a speech to lawyers in London, one of the United Kingdom's most senior Law Lords, Lord Steyn, condemns the detentions at Guantanamo Bay as a monstrous failure of justice. [2] [3][4] Australia reaches a deal concerning 2 men detained at Guantanamo Bay. [5]
• Occupation of Iraq: At least two rockets are reported fired near the US compound in central Baghdad. [6]
• Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is not invited to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference to be held in Nigeria. [7]
• UNAids and the World Health Organization report record numbers of new AIDS cases. [8]
• Canadian National Railway buys British Columbia Railway from the British Columbia provincial government. [9]