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- British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Blunkett resigns for a second time, following allegations of ministerial misconduct related to his involvement in a bioscience company.
- Rioting in Paris, triggered by the death of two Muslim teenagers, continues for a sixth consecutive night.
- Minority Leader Harry Reid brings the U.S. Senate into a rare closed session to discuss the Plame affair and the role of the Bush administration in pre–Iraq War intelligence.
- Justice John Gomery releases his first report on corruption in the Liberal Party of Canada and the sponsorship scandal.
- The Hubble Space Telescope images two possible new moons of Pluto.
- German grand coalition: CSU leader Edmund Stoiber will not serve in the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Franz Müntefering retires as SPD leader.