User:Venustas 12/December 16 2010/In the news


 * American diplomat Richard Holbrooke (pictured), chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, dies at the age of 69.
 * Two bombs explode in Stockholm, Sweden, killing the attacker and injuring two other people.
 * Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia, the first time since 1936 that neither the recipient nor a relative attended the presentation ceremony.
 * The SpaceX Dragon, in its first test flight, becomes the first commercially developed spacecraft to successfully return after orbiting the Earth.
 * An original copy of Birds of America by John James Audubon is auctioned for £7.3 million, a record price for the sale of a printed book.

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