Template:In the news
- Australia defeats Sri Lanka at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados to win the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
- Violent protests break out as Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier (pictured), a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy.
- Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu is invested as the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the elected monarch of Malaysia.
- Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
- Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of the Nigerian presidential election amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud.
- Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999, dies at age 76 and is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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