* Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho (pictured), the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped in Iraq last month, is found murdered.* Eliot Spitzer announces his resignation as Governor of New York amidst reports he was a client of an illegal prostitution ring.
* Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on an assembly mission to the International Space Station carrying the first Japanese component and Canada's Dextre.
* The Nationalist Party of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi narrowly wins the general election in Malta.
* Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Socialist Workers' Party is re-elected.
* NASA announces evidence of rings around the Saturnian moon Rhea, which would be the first known rings around a moon.
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