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- A series of four explosions kill 25 people and injure a hundred more in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
- Following yesterday's attempted bombings, police in London shot dead a suspected suicide bomber at Stockwell tube station.
- The People's Bank of China announces the abandonment of the Chinese renminbi's 11-year-old peg to the U.S. dollar, in the first step towards a floating exchange rate.
- The legalisation of same-sex marriage in Canada is officially signed into law by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.