Alexandre Bilodeau Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men's freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil.
Yesterday's double bus electrocution The death toll from yesterday's double bus electrocution in Port Harcourt rises to as much as 40, with more than 30 injured.
Iran Iran detains five more members of the Baháʼí minority, in addition to Baháʼí leaders jailed since 2008, for alleged involvement in protests against the regime.
Pakistan Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemns the bomb blast in Pune, India, one day earlier, saying Pakistan is against terrorism and that his country wants better relations with India.
Catholic hierarchy Nine Irish Roman Catholic bishops and Cardinal Seán Brady arrive in Rome to discuss the Murphy Report and Ryan Report into the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland with Pope Benedict XVI, the first such meetings there in eight years.
Palestinian Rafiq Husseini, a top aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is suspended following involvement in an alleged attempt to trade influence for sex.
Kenya Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki undoes the suspensions for fraud of the agriculture and education ministers handed out by his Prime Minister.
Beirut Thousands of people collect in Beirut on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in a bombing alongside 21 other people, with his son and current Prime Minister Saad Hariri addressing the crowd.
Viva Leroy Nash Viva Leroy Nash, the oldest death row inmate in the United States, dies of natural causes at the age of 94.
NATO NATO admits it killed 12 civilians when two misfired rockets hit a house in Marjah, Helmand. President Hamid Karzai calls for an explanation.