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- Two thousand new private color photographs of Adolf Hitler are published. (Telegraph) (Daily News)
- The European Union's parliamentary election continues in the Czech Republic and Ireland. (Europarl)
- Ireland conducts local elections and two by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- American economist Paul Krugman says that the Irish economy may not recover from the 2008-2009 financial crisis until 2014. (RTÉ)
- The Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi threatens to sue the Spanish newspaper El País for publishing indecent photographs of people at his villa in Sardinia. (BBC)
- Ireland's rate of unemployment reaches 11.8%. (RTÉ)
- Pope Benedict XVI is briefed on Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse's public report. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- A bus fire kills at least 24 people in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (Reuters via News Limited)
- Brazil's Air Force confirms that no debris has been recovered from Air France Flight 447. (Sky News)
- Presidential-election candidate Baciro Dabó and former Defense Minister Helder Proenca are accused of plotting a coup d'état and killed by Guinea-Bissau's government. (BBC) (AFP)
- A bomb kills nine people in a café in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
- Philippe Gomès is elected President of New Caledonia. (RNZI)
- A landslide buries approximately 59 people and kills at least two others in Chongqing, China. (BBC)
- A suicide attack kills at least 38 people at a mosque in Upper Dir District, Pakistan. (BBC)
- Former United States State Department employee Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, are arrested and charged with spying for Cuba's government. (CNN)
- David Bain, after an extensive three-month retrial, is found not guilty of murdering five family members in Dunedin, New Zealand on 20 June 1994. (TVNZ)
- United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown shuffles the Cabinet: (RTÉ)
- Secretary of State for Transport Geoff Hoon announces his resignation. (Daily Telegraph)
- Minister of State for Europe Caroline Flint announces her resignation. (BBC)
- Minister of State for Housing and Planning Margaret Beckett announces her resignation. (ABC)
- Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform Tony McNulty announces his resignation. (Sky News)
- Bob Ainsworth replaces John Hutton as Secretary of State for Defence. (Times)
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper replaces James Purnell as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. (Guardian)
- Alan Sugar becomes "Enterprise Tsar" and receives a position in the House of Lords. (Daily Telegraph)
- John Denham replaces Hazel Blears as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. (PA via Google News)
- Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson replaces Jacqui Smith as Home Secretary. (BBC)av
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