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- Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres announces he is leaving the Labour Party and transferring his support to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
- Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant.
- The United Nations' annual meeting on climate change, the eleventh conference of the parties to the UNFCCC, gets underway in Montreal, Canada. Early discussion is to begin on the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.
- A general election is scheduled in Canada for January 23 after Paul Martin's minority government loses a motion of no confidence and Parliament is dissolved.
- The 23rd Southeast Asian Games continue in the Philippines.