User:Venustas 12/December 17 2010/In the news
- The discovery of the head of Henry IV of France (pictured), lost after a desecration of his grave in 1793, is announced.
- A boat carrying approximately 70 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Christmas Island, killing at least 27 people.
- The Supreme Court of the Philippines acquits Hubert Webb and six other defendants of the 1991 Vizconde massacre.
- American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, chief negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, dies at the age of 69.
- Two bombs explode in Stockholm, Sweden, killing the attacker and injuring two other people.
- Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia, the first time since 1936 that neither the recipient nor a relative attended the presentation ceremony.