The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Gilbraltar - Spain briefly closed its border with Gilbraltar on Monday while a cruise ship with some 2,000 passengers, including several dozen sickened by a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus, docked at the British colony. The 13-hour border closing - the first in nearly two decades - angered London, which called the move unnecessary, and temporarily kept several hundred people from entering the tiny territory from Spain. Spain and Britain regularly disagree over the sovereignty of the once-strategic military post. Baghdad - American troops hunted for anti-aircraft missiles along Iraq's trucking routes, digging through heaps of manure, mounds of hay or piles of pomegranates Monday. The U.S. army retrieved the wreckage of a downed transport helicopter and searched for clues about who knocked it from the sky. The downing of the CH-47 Chinook, one of two carrying dozens of soldiers on their way to Baghdad airport, killed 16 and wounded 20 others. It was the heaviest U.S. death toll since the invasion of Iraq last March 20. London - An American charged with abducting a 12-year-old British girl he allegedly met over the Internet pleaded not guilty Monday in a preliminary court hearing. Toby Studabaker, 32, allegedly travelled to France and Germany with a schoolgirl he met in an Internet chat room.
