Cricket Pakistan's cricket captain, Shahid Afridi, quits in controversy after losing his team's first Test to Australia.
Nigeria Police in Nigeria seize the passports of four top football officials who were sacked after the national football team's poor performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup leads to fraud allegations.
Venezuelan president President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez announces the exhumation of 19th-century revolutionary Simón Bolívar to investigate suspected foul play in Bolívar's death.
Mount Everest Photos taken on Mount Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken by George Mallory in 1921 reveal what is described as an "alarming" loss of ice.
Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch expresses its dissatisfaction with President of Syria Bashar al-Assad's human rights record on the tenth anniversary of his rise to the top, calling it "a wasted decade".
Ousmane Conté Ousmane Conté, the eldest son of Guinea's dead leader Lansana Conté, is released from prison after 16 months.
Pakistan Pakistan's foreign minister criticises the behaviour of the Indian foreign minister during their first talks in two years.
United Kingdom The United Kingdom and United States decide last year's release from a Scottish prison of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was "a mistake".
Hong Kong 800 gambling dens are raided in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and China, (including Hong Kong and Macau) and 5,000 people arrested for illegal betting on the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Maria Jepsen Maria Jepsen, the world's first female Lutheran bishop, resigns due to her handling of an alleged case of sexual abuse. She is the third German bishop to resign in recent months.
Chechnya Three Chechens are charged by France in connection with a conspiracy to attack Russia; another man is released.
Philip Alston Philip Alston expresses concern at the rise in murders in Ecuador and the declining number of murderers being caught.
Life imprisonment An American judge sentences a former State Department worker to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and his wife to 6¾ years for spying for Cuba for three decades.
Rwanda Rwandan police arrest a business partner of opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka in connection with his recent murder.
Hotel A hotel fire in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya kills at least 29 people and injures another 21.
Microsoft Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledges the majority of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death.
Goldman Sachs American company Goldman Sachs pays a record $550 million (US) fine to settle civil fraud charges.
P!nk Singer P!nk is hospitalised without serious injury after falling out of a harness and colliding with a barricade during a concert in Nuremberg.
President President of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon's daughter Zarina Rahmonova presents the news on Channel One.
Orlando Figes Orlando Figes agrees to pay damages to Rachel Polonsky and Robert Service for fake book reviews he posted on Amazon.com.
United States The United States places U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on its "terror blacklist".
South Africa South Africa warned Ugandan intelligence services last October that it might be attacked like it was on Sunday evening.
Khyber Agency Six people are killed and 15 others are wounded during a bomb at a weekly market selling second-hand cars in Khyber.
Minister for Defence Federal Defence Minister John Faulkner rules out withdrawing Australian troops from Afghanistan, alleging it would undo nine years of hard work.