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Current topics

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on mission STS-125 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

• NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-125 (pictured), the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

• In ice hockey, Russia wins the 2009 IIHF World Championship and Ilya Kovalchuk is named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

• Participating countries of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants add nine more chemicals to its globally banned list.

• The Democratic Party, led by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, wins a plurality of seats in Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly.

• Jacob Zuma is sworn in as South Africa's fourth president since the end of apartheid.

• The death toll in Brazil's most devastating floods in over two decades reaches 40, with more than 300,000 people left homeless.