NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 2003, the Ten Commandments carved on a rock led to the suspension of Alabama’s Chief Justice troops stepped up enforced repatriation of refugees to Rwanda and Burundi.

1996: Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy.

2003: Alabama chief justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

2004: A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2006: Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashed over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

2010: More than 100 climate change protesters, dressed in white bio-hazard suits, stormed the Edinburgh HQ of Royal Bank of Scotland.