March 26, 2003 (Wednesday)
- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says that American and allied troops in Iraq must be used to provide humanitarian aid to Iraqis whilst the security situation is so unstable (BBC)
- At least 14 people are killed in Baghdad after a missile hits a marketplace (BBC).
- Al Jazeera television broadcasts images of two dead soldiers and two prisoners of war, whom it says are British (BBC).
- Scientists at the Rovira i Virgili University claim to have a 350,000-year-old axe, the oldest evidence of human creativity yet uncovered (BBC)
- A meteor exploded over the midwest, showering Park Forest, Illinois, with dozens of meteorite fragments. APOD: 2003 May 6 – A Chicago Meteorite Fall
- 954 paratroopers of the US Army's 173rd Airborne made a combat jump into the Bashur Drop Zone as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom