August 22, 2004

U.S. journalist Micah Garen, who had been kidnapped in Iraq more than a week earlier, is released in the southern city of Nasiriyah. (Comcast)
Singapore's new Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, hoping to quell Beijing's fury over his July 10-12 visit to Taiwan, says that he will not support the island if the People's Republic of China attacks it in retaliation for any push for Taiwan independence. (Yahoo! India)
A Venezuelan military plane crashes as it approaches its base in the central industrial state of Aragua, killing all 25 on board. (Bloomberg)
Arsonists raze a Jewish community centre in Paris, leaving behind menacing graffiti including swastikas and the words "Jews get out." (CTV)
A Bangladeshi mob torches a passenger train, a day after a grenade attack on a political rally killed 19 people and injured hundreds. (CBC News)
Armed robbers steal the Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna from the Munch Museum in Oslo. (BBC) (Aftenposten)