Danish Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions.
Yesterday's double bus electrocution At least 10 people are electrocuted to death when a power cable collapses onto a bus in Port Harcourt.
NATO NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province.
Kenya Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki demands eight senior officials to resign due to corruption scandals in the education ministry and a maize scandal.
China prepares to celebrate New Year holidays with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated.
2010 Winter Olympics The luge event goes ahead at the Whistler Sliding Centre a day after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili.
The men's downhill skiing is postponed due to "slushy conditions", with the women's super-combined event having already been postponed.
Côte d'Ivoire The Côte d'Ivoire government is dissolved with President Laurent Gbagbo saying on state television that the peace process has broken down.
Burma Burma releases vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo at the age of 82, after he has spent more than a decade in prison or under house arrest.
2010 Pune bombing A suspected terrorist attack in the western Indian city of Pune kills 9 people and injures more than 45 others.
U Tin Oo U Tin Oo, the Vice-Chairman of the National League for Democracy was released today in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, after the expiration of his term of house arrest.