Swedish general election The final count for the Swedish general election shows that The Alliance finished two seats short of an absolute majority.
Cambodia Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy is sentenced "in absentia" to 10 years' imprisonment for altering maps to show that Vietnam was encroaching on Cambodian territory.
Guinea The election commission in Guinea proposes 10 October as a revised date for the presidential run-off election.
North Korea North Korea reshuffles senior officials days ahead of a meeting of the Korean Workers' Party expected to lead to a transition of power from Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un.
Pakistan Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui is sentenced to 86 years in jail in a New York federal court for trying to kill United States soldiers in Afghanistan.
American The U.S. state of Virginia executes its first woman since 1912; Teresa Lewis will also be the first woman in the U.S. to be executed since 2005.
People's Republic of China Chinese authorities investigate four Japanese employees of Fujita Corp., suspected of entering a military zone and illegally videotaping military targets in northern Hebei Province.
US President The President of the United States Barack Obama meets with the Premier of China Wen Jiabao, with the value of the renminbi the top issue for discussion.
United States The United States and other western nations including Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walk out of the United Nations General Assembly following claims by the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the "majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world" say that the 9-11 attacks were the work of the Government of the United States trying to protect Israel.
Iran Iran withdraws its bid for a seat on the International Atomic Energy Agency board due to lack of support for its candidacy.
France French authorities seek to make contact with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb over the kidnapping of five French nationals and two others in Niger, now believed to have been taken to northern Mali.
cell phones while driving Approximately 16,000 people have died in the United States between 2001 and 2007 due to people using cell phones while driving, according to a new report.
2010 Atlantic hurricane season 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Matthew forms in the western Caribbean Sea with predictions that it could hit Central America on Friday or Saturday.
Recent strikes and demonstrations 2010 strikes in France: French trade unions launch a new round of strikes over plans by the President Nicolas Sarkozy to lift the pension age to 62, with transport services and schools to be badly affected.
Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, the leader of the FARC guerrilla whose "nom de guerre" was "Mono Jojoy", is killed in a military operation by Colombian Armed Forces.
War in Somalia At least 21 people are killed and 70 injured in street battles in the capital Mogadishu.
Somali journalists walk out of the GBC radio station seized by Islamist rebels after refusing to take orders.