Template:In the news
- Ukraine's Supreme Court annuls the run-off vote of the disputed presendential election. The judges declared a new vote must be held by 26 December.
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica upholds the conviction of Lori Berenson in Peru.
- United States President George W. Bush chooses former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik to succeed Tom Ridge as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
- Jailed Palestinian radical Marwan Barghouti joins the race to succeed Arafat in the Palestinian presidential election, 2005.