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- The United States Senate ends a rare closed session, discussing possible congressional investigations into the Plame affair and the Bush administration's role in pre-Iraq War intelligence for two hours and ten minutes.
- Justice John Gomery releases his first report on corruption in the Liberal Party of Canada and the sponsorship scandal.
- Two possible new moons of Pluto are imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.
- German grand coalition: CSU leader Edmund Stoiber will not serve in the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Franz Müntefering retires as SDP leader.
- Samuel Alito is nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
- Recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricane Wilma in florida and Hurricane Beta in Nicaragua continue.
- Three bomb blasts in Delhi, India, kill at least 61 and wound dozens.