Tiger Woods Tiger Woods announces he will take more time off from golf after finishing fourth in the 2010 Masters Tournament.
Thierry Henry Thierry Henry, the footballer involved in a notorious handball controversy in the France vs Republic of Ireland 2010 FIFA World Cup play-off in November 2009, is not assured of playing for his team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, according to his manager Raymond Domenech on French television show "Canal Football Club".
Manchester City Manchester City and Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor announces his retirement from international football at the age of 26, saying he is "still haunted" by the Togo national football team attack which killed three of his colleagues in Angola ahead of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations three months ago.
2010 Chile earthquake SS "Columbia", feared lost at sea after the 8.8-magnitude Chile earthquake, arrives in a Chilean port, more than a month after it was scheduled to dock.
Microsoft Microsoft launches two new mobile phones marketed to young people. The phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, are built around their social networking features.
Copenhagen Conference The Copenhagen Conference was destroyed from the start by the leak of the "Danish draft" negotiating text to The Guardian, the Indian environment minister said this weekend in a warning that the breakdown of international trust would continue to undermine climate talks this year.
Cayman Trough The world's deepest undersea volcanic vents are discovered in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean.
World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization overturns Australia's ban on importing New Zealand apples, which had been in place since 1919.
Labour Party Three former Labour Party MPs – David Chaytor, Elliot Morley and Jim Devine – face criminal charges over their expenses win the right to have their legal fees paid for by the taxpayer.
Russia Leading Russian federal judge Eduard Chuvashov is shot dead at his apartment building in central Moscow.
Iran An Iranian and a Tajik are jailed for 25 years in Dubai over the 2009 killing of a Chechen militant commander.
The Vatican publishes its guidelines for dealing with cases of sexual abuse of children in an effort to quell critics.
Benedict's security is increased for his visit to Malta after the island's population of sexually abused announce plans to protest at his handling of the scandal.
Children were allegedly "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Ettal, Bavaria.
The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an “exemplary” manner, according to the editor-in-chief of Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" Giovanni Maria Vian, who also hails Benedict as a “great communicator”.
Homosexuality is to blame for paedophilia, according to Vatican Secretary of State and the Pope's Deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, speaking today at a news conference in Chile.
Labour Party The Labour party launches its manifesto, which states that it will halve the budget deficit within four years through a mixture of spending restraint and tax increases, mainly for the higher paid, that failing police forces will be taken over by successful ones, that every primary-school child who needs it will get one-to-one tuition and that there will be no switch to the euro without a referendum.
U.S. President Barack Obama opens the summit of 47 countries, the purpose of which is to discuss nuclear security, in particular how to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of potential terrorists.
United States The United States opens fire on a bus in Afghanistan, knocking the driver unconscious, killing as many as five civilians, including a woman, and wounding at least 18 other passengers.
Caused a train to derail Nine people are thought to have been killed and 30 others are injured, some seriously, after a landslide caused a train to derail in Merano, near the Austrian border with Italy.
Polish Polish President Lech Kaczyński lies in state in Warsaw as Russia marks a day of mourning and Poland appoints an acting head of the central bank to replace the one killed in Saturday's air disaster near Smolensk.
A car bomb explodes shortly after midnight near Northern Ireland's MI5 headquarters in Holywood, County Down, blowing an elderly man off his feet and sending him to hospital.
2010 parliamentary elections The left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) wins 28 regional seats, while the far-right Jobbik (Movement for a Better Hungary) wins 26 regional seats. The remaining five seats went to the green party Politics Can Be Different (LMP).