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 * Harrods department store in London is sold to Qatar Holdings, owned by the Qatari royal family, for £1.5 billion.
 * ICANN introduces the first internationalized country codes, enabling domain names written completely in non-Latin script for the first time.
 * Svante Pääbo (pictured) of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announces genetic evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
 * The United Kingdom general election results in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party winning the most seats.
 * The tanker MV Moscow University is freed by the Russian Navy after being hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.