Template:In the news
- CNN and Al Arabiya report that kidnapped hostage Paul Johnson has been beheaded by militants linked to Al Qaeda.
- Colombia's left-wing FARC rebels claim responsibility for the massacre of 34 coca farmers found dead earlier this week, claiming the farmers were supporters of right-wing paramilitary groups.
- The Pentagon confirms a report in The New York Times that Donald Rumsfeld ordered the secret detainment of an Iraqi prisoner, in apparent violation of the Geneva Conventions.
- In football, on the sixth day of EURO 2004, England beat Switzerland, 3-0, whilst Croatia hold France to a 2-2 draw.