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• Ruins of an ancient Wari city are discovered in northern Peru.
• ASEAN meets in Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch the ASEAN Charter, which groups its 10 member states into a legal entity.
• The House of Representatives of Thailand selects Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democrat Party as the country's new Prime Minister.
• Bernard Madoff is arrested by the FBI in the United States, and charged with defrauding investors in a US$50 billion Ponzi scheme.
• Switzerland becomes the 25th European country to join the Schengen Agreement, whereby cross-border passport checks (pictured) will be abolished.
• The Channel Island of Sark, a British crown dependency, holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism.
• Anti-police riots break out in Athens and spread to several cities across Greece.Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events...

December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958)

• 218 BC – The Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia, the first major battle of the Second Punic War, along the Trebbia River in present-day Italy.
• 1271 – Mongol ruler Kublai Khan (pictured) established the Yuan Dynasty in present-day Mongolia and China.
• 1892 – The first performance of the fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
• 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.