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- A draft Climate Change Bill is published in the United Kingdom, outlining a framework for achieving a mandatory 60% cut in carbon emissions by 2050.
- A judge rules that government plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom are unlawful because elements of the 2006 Energy Review were 'seriously flawed', 'inadequate', or 'misleading'.
- Andrea Yates is acquitted in her second trial for the murder of her children, based on a jury finding that she was legally insane at the time.
- The Doha round of the WTO global trade talks is suspended in Geneva, amid substantial disagreements over farming subsidies and import taxes among the U.S., the EU and the developing world.
- U.S. President George W. Bush has used the first veto of his presidency on a bill for federal funding of scientific research which uses embryonic stem cells. A Congressional attempt to over-ride the veto failed.
- Nur-Pashi Kulayev, pictured, a Chechen thought to be the sole surviving hostage-taker from the September 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, is sentenced to life in prison in Vladikavkaz, Russia.
- Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas of securities fraud, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice relative to the collapse of Enron, for which the two had been corporate officers.
- A retrial for the Benghazi Six, five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian physician accused of causing an HIV epidemic by injecting 393 children with the virus, is adjourned for one month.
