Template:In the news
- Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
- Nineteen firefighters are killed fighting a wildfire in Yarnell, United States.
- At least six planets, including three planets suspected of being habitable, are found orbiting the star Gliese 667 C.
- Kevin Rudd (pictured) wins leadership of the Australian Labor Party, ousting incumbent Julia Gillard and becoming Prime Minister of Australia.
- DNA from a Middle Pleistocene horse is successfully sequenced, becoming the oldest genome ever sequenced.
- The Cambodian Tailorbird, found in Phnom Penh, is identified as a new bird species.
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