Template:In the news
- Sebastián Piñera (pictured) of the center-right Alliance for Chile is elected President of Chile.
- The first experimental measurement of the melting point of diamond (pictured) indicates that the solid form floats on the liquid form at ultrahigh pressures.
- The longest annular solar eclipse of the entire third millennium occurs over parts of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia.
- Two buses collide near Lae, Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people.
- A 7.0 Mw earthquake strikes Haiti, causing widespread destruction in Port-au-Prince and killing more than 40,000 people.
- The Liberal Democratic Party wins a plurality of seats in elections to the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan.
- Beach in Pourville, a painting by Impressionist artist Claude Monet stolen in 2000, is recovered in Poland.
- An international investigation into the death of Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, who had left a recorded message saying President of Guatemala Álvaro Colom would have been responsible for his death, determines Rosenberg staged his own murder.
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