falling approval ratings and internal pressure from his government and party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces his intention to resign by the end of 2007. September 7 – Partial lunar eclipse, visible over most of Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. September 19 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup. September 22 – Annular solar eclipse, visible in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, parts of Brazil, and the southern Atlantic. September 28 – Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnam. September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business jet over the Amazon rainforest, killing all 154 on board the former. October October 6 – Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime Minister of Sweden. October 9 North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test. Google purchased YouTube for US$1.65 billion. October 11–13 – St Andrews Agreement is held in Scotland between the British and Irish governments on devolution in Northern Ireland. October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Kofi Annan. October 22 – Fernando Alonso wins his second World Drivers Championship October (date unknown) - The Offshore MPA project is initiated. November November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million. November 3 – Microsoft released Office 2007 for manufacturing. November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30. November 12 – The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia. November 18 – Gulli, a children's channel launched. November 22 – A toxic waste dumping incident occurs in Côte d'Ivoire by a Panama ship sent by Singaporean oil company, causing 3 deaths and the poison treatment of 1500 people. November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people and injure 257 other people. December December 1 – WikiLeaks leaks Hassan Dahir Aweys' conspiracy to assassinate Somali government officials. December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama. December 11 – Felipe