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• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
• Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported dead.
• Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
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