Template:In the news

• In American football, the New England Patriots defeat the New York Giants 38-35 to finish 16-0, making them the first NFL team to have an undefeated regular season since 1972.

• Former Guantanamo Bay inmate and convicted Al-Qaeda operative David Hicks is released from Yatala Labour Prison in South Australia.

• Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (pictured) is assassinated in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

• The Nepalese government agrees to abolish the country's 240-year-old monarchy.

• Islom Karimov is re-elected President of Uzbekistan.

• The People's Power Party led by Samak Sundaravej wins a plurality in parliament after the general elections in Thailand.

• The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia join the Schengen zone of the European Union.

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