Government The Cambodian government opens a "protest park" in the capital Phnom Penh, amid criticism from rights groups.
Moorlands More than fifty inmates at the Moorlands Young Offenders Institution in South Yorkshire, England, riot for the second successive night.
Denial-of-service An ongoing denial-of-service cyber attack knocks Burma off the internet, days ahead of the general election.
Serbia Serbian President Boris Tadić apologises for the Vukovar massacre in 1991 on a visit to a mass grave in Croatia.
UK Foreign Secretary UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that "the window is closing" on the possibility of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore to Sydney makes an emergency landing at Changi Airport after debris suspected to be from the aircraft is found on Batam Island in Indonesia.
Mudslide At least sixteen people are dead and fifteen missing following mudslides in Costa Rica caused by heavy rains.
Indonesia Indonesia evacuates thousands more people from their villages as Mount Merapi in central Java explodes again.
Vince Cable United Kingdom - Business Secretary Vince Cable orders Ofcom to investigate News Corporation's plan to take full control of BSkyB.
United States A United States jury rules that Citigroup did not mislead Terra Firma Capital Partners in its bid for music group EMI.
Stone axe A piece of stone axe found at the Gabarnmung rock art gallery on the lands of the Jawoyn people in Australia's Northern Territory is dated at 35,500 years old making the oldest of its type in the world.
Police Several Sudanese police are killed in a battle with rebel Justice and Equality Movement fighters in Darfur. The Sudanese government claims that the rebels sustained heavy casualties.
Terrorism Two men are charged with terrorism following parcel bomb attacks in Greece, as a 14 th bomb addressed to the French embassy in Athens is detonated by police.
Comoros Islands Somali pirates hijack a vessel under the flag of the Comoros Islands with 29 people on board off the coast of Tanzania.
United Nations The United Nations says child soldiers continue to be recruited to fight and engage in piracy in Somalia.
Ethnic groups Six armed ethnic groups in Burma join forces, fearing they will be attacked by the military government after the general election on Sunday.