Template:In the news
- The Nepal Civil War officially ends, with an accord signed between the government (flag pictured) and Maoist rebels.
- An international consortium signs a deal formally launching ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
- Pierre Amine Gemayel, the Minister of Industry of Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
- Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is in critical condition in a London hospital after an apparent thallium poisoning.
- Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four.
- A Malagasy general fails in his coup d'état attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
- Ségolène Royal wins the Socialist Party's nomination for President of France in next year's election to become France's first female presidential candidate representing a major party.
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