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- Australian billionaire and media mogul Kerry Packer dies, aged 68.
- The Supreme Court of Libya overturns the convictions and death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV.
- Egyptian opposition figure Ayman Nour is sentenced to five years in prison on fraud charges.
- The Chadian government declares a "state of war" with neighboring Sudan, following a recent attack by Darfur-based RDL rebels on the town of Adre.
- A Seoul National University panel finds that Hwang Woo-Suk faked some of his stem cell research.