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• Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championships and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty four.
• A Malagasy general fails in his coup d'état attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
• Ségolène Royal (pictured) wins the Socialist Party's nomination for President of France in next year's election to become France's first female presidential candidate representing a major party.
• Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the election for the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His opponent, Jean-Pierre Bemba, alleges fraud.
• The Parliament of South Africa votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
• Nadarajah Raviraj, a human rights lawyer and legislator from the Tamil National Alliance, is assassinated in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• A new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan adopted by the Joghorku Keneš is signed into law by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
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