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Pope John Paul II dies at 9:37 p.m. Vatican time (CEST ) at the age of 84, thus ending the third longest papacy in history and the beginning of a Sede vacante (Wikinews) Sumatran earthquake : Nine Australian Defence Force personnel are missing, presumed dead, after a Sea King helicopter crash on the Indonesian island of Nias . Two personnel survive. (Wikinews) Scientists at the California Institute of Technology devise a method to weigh the smallest mass ever, a cluster of xenon atoms weighing a few zeptograms , or billionths of a trillionth of a gram. (BBC) (AIP Bulletin)
Riccardo Muti resigns as music director of La Scala opera house , Milan after 18 years, following a vote of no-confidence by 700 orchestra members and staff last month. (BBC) In France , radical wine producers attack the offices of agriculture ministries in Montpellier and Carcassonne with dynamite . A group calling itself Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (BBC) (WineNews, SA) [permanent dead link ] (Independent) [permanent dead link ]
In Nepal , former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala is released from house arrest and demands the return to democracy . (New Kerala) (Telegraph, India) (BBC)
Newcastle United teammates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer are sent off for fighting each other in a 3-0 home defeat to EPL rivals Aston Villa at St. James' Park (The Guardian)
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