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Park Geun-hye (pictured) is elected President of South Korea, becoming the first woman to hold the position. Swiss bank UBS is fined US$1.5 billion for its role in the Libor scandal. Shinzō Abe is elected Prime Minister of Japan as the Liberal Democratic Party gains an absolute majority in the House of Representatives. Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are dead following a shooting at an elementary school in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Twenty-three people are injured in a knife attack at a primary school in the Chinese province of Henan. In Denmark, the discovery of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by author Hans Christian Andersen, is confirmed. North Korea launches its first orbital satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using a Unha-3 carrier rocket.

