a Shia mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 44 people. July 5 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome is declared to be contained by the World Health Organization. July 6 The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these stars in 2036, 2040, May 2044, September 2044 and 2049 respectively. Dennis Schmitt discovers the island of 83-42, a candidate for being the northernmost point of land. July 10 – The existence of PSR B1620−26 b, the oldest known exoplanet in the galaxy, is confirmed using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. July 13 – The Iraqi Governing Council is created by the United States as an ethnically diverse provisional government of Iraq. July 14 – Robert Novak identifies Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent, initiating a scandal known as the Plame affair. July 16 – Major Fernando Pereira leads a failed coup in São Tomé and Príncipe. July 18 – The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution. July 24 – The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands, led by Australia, begins after ethnic violence engulfs the island country. July 27 – Oakwood mutiny: Philippine military officers lead approximately 300 soldiers a failed coup. August August 1 – Social networking service Myspace is launched. August 11 The Second Liberian Civil War comes to an end after President Charles Taylor resigns and flees the country. NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. August 14 – The Northeast blackout of 2003 cuts electricity to the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. August 19 In the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad 22 people are killed, among them United Nations' Special Representative in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello. Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills at least 18 people in a bus bombing in Jerusalem. August 25 The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Car bombs explode at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai, claiming 54 lives and injuring 244 others. Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba is blamed for the attack. August 27 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in over 60,000 years. The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea,