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- The death toll from the Indian Ocean Earthquake and subsequent tsunamis on December 26 has exceeded 150,000 people in 13 countries from Malaysia to South Africa. An international charitable effort is underway to help the victims. (map)
- President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal announces he will sign a peace treaty with the separatist group in the Casamance region of the country.
- A fire in República Cromagnon, a nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 174 and injures 410.
- Jazz artist Artie Shaw dies at home in Los Angeles, USA, aged 94.
