Forbes "Forbes" magazine publishes its 2010 list of billionaires, replacing Bill Gates with Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest person.
Taronga Zoo The birth of a live elephant at Taronga Zoo is hailed as a "miracle" that will "completely rewrite the elephant birth textbooks" after he was thought to have died inside his mother's womb.
Jon Venables A man wrongly accused of being child murderer Jon Venables goes into hiding after becoming the target of a hate campaign on the internet.
Boris Berezovsky Boris Berezovsky is awarded £150,000 in England's High Court and wins his libel case in relation to the 2006 poisoning to death of Alexander Litvinenko.
Mauritania Aid worker Alicia Gamez, captured in Mauritania in 2009 by a group affiliated with Al Qaeda and taken to Mali, is released.
Dulmatin Dulmatin, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, is confirmed dead in a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta, by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a state visit in Australia.
Cyprus Three men are detained in relation to the theft of the corpse of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos.
Burma Burma's newly announced second law relating to the 2010 general election bars anyone with a criminal conviction from participating in a political party, effectively barring Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.S. Britain, France and the EU support U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's condemnation of Israeli expansion of settlements in occupied territory.
Interreligious riots Nigeria charges with murder 49 of the 200 people it has arrested so far following the recent massacre of civilians near Jos.
Nigerian soldiers open fire on a crowd after curfew in Jos, killing two people, days after Muslim-Christian riots in the area left more than 200 dead including dozens of children