On this day — November 12

Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

killing all three people on board.

effective November 16, due in large part to the Euro area crisis.

including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.