World News, 1/25/04 - 2004-01-27

The U.S. space agency's robotic explorer Opportunity lands gently on the surface of Mars today, and it could start sending pictures to Earth in the next few hours.

Another wounded American soldier has died in Iraq, raising the toll from a series of attacks in the "Sunni Triangle" to six U.S soldiers and four Iraqis killed.

Thailand dispatches troops and prison inmates to help stop an outbreak of bird flu in the Kingdom.

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