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- Engineers announce that the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been stabilized for the first time, and will remain stable for 200 more years. (BBC News)
- Australian paleontologists discover Materpiscis, a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish which is the earliest known animal to bear live young. (BBC News), (ABC News Australia)
- The Governor of New York David Paterson directs New York state agencies to recognise gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions such as Canada, California and Massachusetts. (The New York Times)
- In Dublin, over 100 countries, not including the United States, Russia, or China, agree to the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning cluster bombs. (RTÉ) (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Ehud Barak, the Defense Minister of Israel and Leader of the Labor Party, calls for the resignation of the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert to step aside to face corruption allegations. (AP via Google News)
- The Majlis of Iran elects Ali Larijani as its new Speaker. (AFP via Google News)
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