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In the news
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being kept in an induced coma for 72 hours after surgery to stem bleeding from his "massive" hemorrhagic stroke. Ehud Olmert remains Acting Prime Minister.
- Microsoft releases a high priority fix for the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
- The final body is removed from the collapsed Bad Reichenhall ice rink in Bavaria, Germany, bringing the death toll of the disaster to fifteen.
- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, dies of a heart attack on the Gold Coast, Australia.
- Twelve of thirteen trapped coal miners are found dead in the West Virginia Sago Mine in the U.S.
- Russia agrees to resume the supply of gas to Ukraine.