- French President Jacques Chirac met Russia's Vladimir Putin for dinner at the Elysee Palace on Friday and the two leaders traveled to Compiegne north of Paris early on Saturday for a three-way meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss Energy Security.
- L'Est Republicain, a French regional newspaper, printed an unconfirm report from a French Secret Service stating that Saudi Arabia is convinced that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid last month in Pakistan.
- Another blast in Baghdad kills at least 37 people, mostly women and children. The bomb claimed by a Sunni Arab extremist group detonated next to a tanker truck.
- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was detained by U.S Airport Security in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
- Storm hits South, Midwest with a total of 7 dead as of 9:38 PM Eastern Time. Officials urged people to stay off the roads as forecasters warned of more stormy weather to come.
Today is the 266th day of the year .267th in leap year
In the Past
- 2005 :FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
- 2004 :In Haiti at least 1,070 were reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne.
- 2002 :Birth of Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix) web browser - version 0.1.
- 1999 :Qantas Flight 1 overruns wet runway in Bangkok, while some passengers only received minor injuries.
- 1999 :NASA announces that it lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
- 1459 :Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
- 63 B.C. : Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
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