Wyclef Jean Musician Wyclef Jean is formally declared unsuitable as a presidential candidate in Haiti's election.
Recent election Ken Wyatt of the Liberal Party of Australia becomes the first indigenous Australian to be elected to the House of Representatives of Australia representing the Division of Hasluck.
Sweden Swedish prosecutors issue and then revoke an arrest warrant against Wikileaks spokesperson Julian Assange. Assange calls the incident "deeply disturbing" as Wikileaks prepares to release 15,000 documents which the U.S. military would like to keep secret.
Amnesty International Amnesty International urges Saudi Arabia not to sever the spine of a man as punishment; the man has been convicted of paralysing another man.
Russia Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
United States The United States is hit by a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people now thought to be ill across the country due to bad eggs; poisoning is expected to increase in the coming weeks.
Pilot whale 11 beached pilot whales are refloated using a crane and body sling on New Zealand's Karikari Peninsula.
Copiapo Relatives accuse authorities of not doing enough to save 33 miners who have spent the past 15 days trapped in a collapsed mine near Copiapó in the Atacama Desert.
United Nations United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes more than $200 million in funds pledged towards the humanitarian effort following the 2010 Pakistan floods.
Save the Children The charity Save the Children says the food crisis in Niger is being made worse by hoarders selling grain at higher prices than most people can afford.
Yalu River More than 50,000 people are evacuated after the Yalu River floods in China; flooding is also reported in North Korea with the city of Sinuiju particularly affected.
Vincent van Gogh A Vincent van Gogh painting - known as both "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase with Flowers" - is stolen from the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil art museum in Cairo, but is later said to have been recovered at Cairo Airport.
São Conrado About 35 people are taken hostage by drug dealers at a tourist hotel in São Conrado, Rio de Janeiro; 1 woman, involved with them, is killed.
Mogadishu At least 10 anti-government protesters are killed by early morning bombs in Mogadishu; the dead include people from Afghanistan, Algeria, India and Pakistan.
Russia Russian Federal Security Service assassinate Magomedali Vagabov, a top militant suspected to be responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings in Dagestan.
South Africa An injunction prevents public sector workers from continuing their national strike for better pay in South Africa; the army had previously been deployed and the country's health minister accused strikers of murder.
United Nations Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev writes a letter to Ban Ki-moon stating that Israel would use force against a Bolivian-flagged all-female aid ship intending to land near Gaza.