Michelle Bachelet
Kashmiri immigrant Mohammed Iqbal, Labour, is the 113th Lord Mayor of Leeds, UK.
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav, 90, freedom fighter, Union minister in the Narasimha Rao regime, dies. He once defended his incessant party-hopping, saying "everyone wants to be in power".
US space probe Stardust returns after 7 years and travelling 2.2 bn miles. A capsule with comet dust and interstellar particles from back when the solar system was formed has scientists excited.
Karpoor Chandra Kulish, 80, Hindi journalism doyen and Rajasthan Patrika founder, dies. His Emergency column, ‘Mein dekhta chala gaya’, was reportage critical of the period.
M. Ali Agca, the Turk who got 20 years in jail for shooting the Pope, is released.
