Canadian author
Yann Martel won the
Booker Prize for his "quirky fable" Life of Pi. The prize is worth £50,000 ($77,300). Martel's work was picked from 130 novels from Britain, Ireland.
The German
Bundestag made
Gerhard Schröder again
Chancellor. He was elected with 305 votes, one vote out of the 306 red-green coalition missing. After that, the new ministers of the
Bundesregierung were appointed.