Portal:Current events/2004 January 25
January 25, 2004 (Sunday)
- Georgia's new president, Mikhail Saakashvili, is sworn in.
- Chess player Viswanathan Anand wins in group A of the Corus chess tournament. Thirteen-year-old Norwegian prodigy, Magnus Carlsen, wins in group C.
- David Kay says, in his opinion, Iraq had no banned WMD stockpiles: "I don't think they existed", Kay said, "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s." David Kay also says that part of Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programme may have been hidden in Syria. Syria denies receiving Iraq arms.
- Indonesia announces that millions of birds have died from avian influenza in the last few months.
- Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, and Angels in America.
- Hungarian footballer Miklós Fehér dies in a match between Benfica and Vitória Guimarães in Portugal. Benfica will subsequently retire his number 29 shirt.