The world - Feb. 25, 2010

THURSDAY

A federal court ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay $1.25 billion to more than 13,000 black farmers for unjustly denying them farm loans because of their race.

Disgruntled over problems with the federal tax agency, Joseph Andrew Stack flew his small plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. The crash set ablaze the seven-story building and hospitalized two people.

Eight Idaho missionaries were flown out of Haiti after a judge ordered them freed after being charged with trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country without documentation following the Jan. 12 e...