Template:In the news
- SpaceX launches (pictured) a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
- A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
- Tomislav Nikolić is elected President of Serbia.
- Danilo Medina is elected President of the Dominican Republic.
- British singer-songwriter Robin Gibb, a member of the Bee Gees, dies at the age of 62.
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