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• British politician Michael Martin announces his resignation in a scandal over expenses of Members of Parliament, becoming the first Commons Speaker since 1695 to be forced from office.

• The Sri Lankan government declares victory in the civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

• Raffaele Amato, a Camorra boss accused of being one of the principal importers of cocaine into Italy, is arrested in Marbella, Spain.

• Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected as the first female President of Lithuania.

• Women are elected to the National Assembly of Kuwait for the first time.

• Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Fairytale" performed by Alexander Rybak (pictured), with a record-breaking 387 points.