Unix Timestamp: 1198454400
Monday, December 24. 2007, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed, by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.

The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.

Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.