- Businessman Allen Stanford is convicted of running a US$7 billion Ponzi scheme.
- Avalanches in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province kill at least 50 people.
- Vladimir Putin (pictured) is elected President of Russia for a third term.
- Explosions at an arms dump in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, kill at least 250 people and injure more than 2,000 others.
- A train crash near Szczekociny, Poland, kills 16 people.
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