Authorities The Chinese government announces it will review a new language policy promoting mandarin as the sole language of instruction in universities following protests by Tibetan students across the country.
David Thompson David Thompson, the Prime Minister of Barbados, dies of pancreatic cancer with Freundel Stuart being sworn in as the new Prime Minister.
Birthday party Gunmen kill thirteen people and wound fifteen at a birthday party in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam 306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka.
Germany German economy minister Rainer Bruederle criticizes the United States' monetary easing as indirectly manipulation of the USD exchange rates.
People's Republic of China Rival demonstrations take place in China and Japan over the disputed Senkaku Islands.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preventing it from building schools in Gaza; the Israeli Defense Ministry says it is doing so to thwart Hamas from building the schools next to Hamas military installations.
Bishops from across the Middle East urge Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories at the end of a two-week-long meeting at the Vatican.
Richard Falk, a UN human rights rapporteur, issues a report to the United Nations General Assembly saying continued settlement construction would probably make Israel's occupation of Palestinian land irreversible and that said the UN, the US and Israel had failed to uphold the rights of Palestinians.
CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that as many as 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050 if current trends in diet and exercise continue.
Mourne Mountains Several people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Mourne Mountains, County Down.
Typhoon Megi The death toll from Typhoon Megi in Taiwan has reached as least eleven with at least 23 people from two Chinese tour groups missing. It has now made landfall in China's Fujian province.
Cyclone Giri At least one person is killed and thousands more are affected after Cyclone Giri makes landfall in western Burma.
Naples Residents of Naples are repelled by the police force while expressing their ire over a government plan to open a huge garbage dump on the edge of town.
Group of Twenty Group of Twenty finance leaders agree to give 6% more International Monetary Fund votes to developing countries, though the U.S. retains its veto power, in a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Recent strikes and demonstrations 2010 strikes in France: French unions challenge a back-to-work order in court, one day after the senate voted in favour of increasing their retirement age.
Taliban Nine Taliban fighters, including two commanders, are killed as security forces storm their hideout in Kandahar province, south of Afghanistan.
Suicide bomber A suicide bomber attacks the United Nations compound in western Afghanistan based in Herat.
Conakry There are clashes on the streets of Conakry after the second round of voting in the Guinean presidential election, due on 24 October, is deferred for the third time.
Iraq War Logs Iraq War Logs: Julian Assange of Wikileaks tells a London news conference that the 400,000 classified U.S. military documents released to the general public yesterday reveal that the Iraq War is "a bloodbath on every corner".
Bangladesh 50 people are injured in Bangladesh protests attacked army camps, set a jeep on fire and damaged two other vehicles during the clashes in Roopganj, a sub-district of Narayanganj near Dhaka.