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ELECTED. Alan Garcia, 57, President of Peru from 1985 to 1990; to a new term as President, in a victory over fellow leftist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez; in Lima. By choosing Garcia—whose earlier tenure saw the explosion of guerrilla violence and 7,500% inflation—many Peruvians said they were rejecting the anti-Americanism of Chávez, whom Garcia dubbed a "midget dictator with a big wallet."

APPROVED. Gardasil, the world's first cancer-fighting vaccine, designed to protect women from four strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), two of which are believed to cause 70% of cervical-cancer cases; for females aged 9 to 26; by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; in Maryland. The drug, produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., is the first to attempt to prevent infections that can develop into cervical cancer, which each year kills as many as 233,000 women worldwide.

ARRESTED. Yoshiaki Murakami, 46, outspoken Japanese fund manager and corporate raider; on charges of insider trading; in Tokyo. Known for his confrontational attitude and Western-style shareholder activism, Murakami is accused of making over $26 million by buying shares of media firm Nippon Broadcasting System, allegedly with the knowledge that it was the target of a takeover bid by Internet company Livedoor. In a televised news conference last week, Murakami said that he "didn't mean to break the law," noting that while he had "heard" about the bid, he didn't believe Livedoor would carry it out. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.

DIED. Arnold Newman, 88, who snapped 49-cent portraits in his native Philadelphia before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems—most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below—that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little moment of revenge."

DIED. Anthony Marreco, 90, British barrister and human-rights campaigner; in England. In 1945, Marreco was recruited to the small British legal team prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his year at the trial, Marreco became acquainted with the surviving Nazi leaders—including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess—and was stunned by the weak defenses they offered for their terrible crimes. In the 1960s, Marreco helped found Amnesty International, and in 1968 published a scathing report for the organization on the maltreatment of political prisoners by Greece's military junta.