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- The ENCODE project announces the creation of an "encyclopedia" of the human genome, publishing a coordinated series of 30 papers in Nature, Genome Biology, and Genome Research.
- A Bahraini court upholds sentences up to life in prison for 13 opposition leaders.
- Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, dies at the age of 92.
- In Mali, Islamist militants seize control of Douentza, ousting the local secular militia.
- The pardoning of convicted murderer Ramil Safarov, upon his repatriation from Hungary to Azerbaijan, leads Armenia to sever ties with Hungary.
- A national emergency is declared in Sierra Leone after a cholera outbreak causes the deaths of more than 300 people.
- At least 36 people are presumed dead after Hurricane Isaac (satellite image pictured) strikes the Gulf Coast of the United States, Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles and the Bahamas.
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