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- U.S. track and field athlete Marion Jones relinquishes the five medals she received at the 2000 Summer Olympics after admitting to the use of anabolic steroids.
- Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies win the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of gene targeting.
- Pervez Musharraf (pictured) wins indirect elections to remain President of Pakistan, but the Supreme Court states that a winner cannot be declared until it rules on the legality of his candidacy.
- A plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills over 50 people, and results in the dismissal of the country's transport minister.
- At the Inter-Korean Summit, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il sign a joint declaration calling for a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War.
- Parties representing the Orange Revolution, headed by Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko, regain a slim majority in the Parliament of Ukraine.
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