Template:In the news
- Park Geun-hye (pictured) is elected President of South Korea, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
- Shinzō Abe is elected Prime Minister of Japan as the Liberal Democratic Party gains an absolute majority in the House of Representatives.
- Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are dead following a shooting at an elementary school in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
- Twenty-three people are injured in a knife attack at a primary school in the Chinese province of Henan.
- In Denmark, the discovery of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by author Hans Christian Andersen, is confirmed.
- North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using a Unha-3 carrier rocket.
Recent deaths: Daniel Inouye – Dina Manfredini – Páidí Ó Sé
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