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* An attack on a United States military base in Mosul leaves 15 dead and at least 55 injured, marking the greatest number of casualties in a single strike on the U.S.-led coalition since the start of the war. * Former British Home Secretary David Blunkett (right) was not found to have unduly expedited the visa-application of his lover's nanny, the application had been fast tracked but said it was not possible to determine if Blunkett had personally ordered the visa to be fast-tracked. * Russia auctions off the main production unit of oil giant YUKOS for 260.75 billion rubles (USD 9.37 billion) to the previously unknown and recently founded Baikalfinansgroup. * U.S. President George W Bush is named "Person of the Year" by TIME magazine.
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  • ...that the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?
  • ...that J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V?
  • ...that Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?
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