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Israel i troops kill Rania Siam , an 8-year-old Palestinian girl, as she eats lunch in the kitchen of her home in Khan Yunis , Gaza Strip . Earlier, three mortar shells are fired into the nearby Israel i settlement of Neve Dekalim injuring four people, one of them a child. Hamas claims responsibility. Israeli troops fire in the general direction the source of Mortar Fire . The Israeli army says it will investigate Rania Siam's death. (NYT)

A Riot forms in Puerto Rico between members of the PIP , the FUPI , the Socialist Party and members of the Police in front of the Federal Court Business , where PIP and PNP backers had shown two days before the outcome of the 2004 Puerto Rican Elections are decided by a judge. Several people, including seven policemen, are severely injured. (El Vocero, in Spanish)

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is acquitted of bribery thanks to the Statute Of Limitations . The court's ruling implied that Berlusconi probably was guilty of bribing a judge in 1991 , but said that too much time had passed for him to be punished. Financial Times Reuters

The 2004 Nobel Prize s are handed out at twin ceremonies in Oslo and Stockholm . (Canadian Press) (BBC)

"Godfather of Soul" James Brown is diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and will undergo surgery next week. (BBC)

A bomb explodes at a market in the Pakistan i city of Quetta , leaving at least ten people dead. (BBC)

The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights orders Guatemala to pay USD $7.9 million in compensation to 317 survivors of the 1982 Plan De Sánchez Massacre in which soldiers and paramilitaries killed 268 villagers.