- Peter Eastgate of Denmark wins the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, winning over US$9.1 million. (ESPN)
- The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 sets sail on her final voyage before she is refurbished and turned into a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (BBC News)
- Germany announces new charges against John Demjanjuk in the deaths of 29,000 people at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust. (BBC News)
- A Holocaust survivor group announces the abandonment of negotiations with the Mormon church over the latter's continued posthumous baptism of Jews killed in the Holocaust. (CNN)
- Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announces the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid belonging to Queen Sesheshet, mother of King Teti. (CNN)
- Former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China is arrested while the anti-corruption prosecutors have asked a three-judge panel to formally detain the former President. (CNN)
- The Indian Navy foils an attempt by Somali pirates to hijack a merchant ship in Gulf of Aden. (The Indian Express)
- Mohamed Nasheed is sworn in as the new President of the Maldives. (CNN)
- 2008 Russian financial crisis:
- Russian regulators halt trading on one of the country's two main stock indexes, the MICEX, after it fell 6.5%, dragged down by commodity and banking shares. (AP via Google News)
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