| | - President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov is reelected after a run-off election with Volen Siderov in the presidential elections. (EITB)
- Chenagai airstrike: Pakistani helicopter gunships fired missiles and destroyed an al-Qaeda-linked training facility and killed 80 suspected terrorists in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border, in a madrassa near the town of Khar. (Reuters AlertNet)
- The Israeli cabinet has approved the addition of the Yisrael Beitenu party into the governing coalition. (BBC News)
- Sir Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, submits a report to the British Government warning of the economic costs and damage to the world that could result from global warming. (The Times)
- Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer, Khalil al-Duleimi, walks out of court after 12 of his requests were rejected, but the chief judge immediately appoints other attorneys to defend the deposed President of Iraq. (USA Today)
- Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, an Iraqi American United States Army soldier currently listed as missing in action in Iraq, is reported to have married an Iraqi citizen, against U.S. military regulations. (MSNBC)
- A bomb at a Baghdad market kills 31 people and wounds more than 50 others. (AP via ABC News America)
- Super Typhoon Cimaron, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in eight years, kills at least three people as it makes landfall in Luzon. (Reuters), (Reuters)
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