President The President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete is reelected to a second term despite allegations of vote-rigging.
France A protest by French anti-nuclear organisation GANVA blocks a train carrying nuclear waste near Caen in northwestern France.
Election court A specially convened Election court in the United Kingdom orders a re-run of the 2010 general election campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth, the constituency of ex-immigration minster Phil Woolas, after he is found guilty of making false statements against an opponent during the original campaign.
Oakland, California Violent protests occur in Oakland, California following Johannes Mehserle receiving two years jail for the shooting of Oscar Grant on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system with Oakland police chief Anthony Batts expecting to make 150 arrests.
Mexican Mexican drug cartel leader Ezequiel Cardenas Guillén is shot dead by Mexican security forces in Matamoros following a gun fight of several hours.
Government The Government of Norway demands an explanation from the US Government on reports that the US embassy in Oslo conducted illegal surveillance on Norwegian citizens for more than ten years.
Greece Greece resumes shipping mail and packages overseas following a 48-hour suspension imposed following a spate of parcel bombs sent to embassies in Athens and to European Union leaders.
People's Republic of China The Chinese embassy in Oslo implicitly warns foreign diplomats not to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for Liu Xiaobo.
Haiti At least one person dies in Haiti from flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas, adding to the fourteen people who died in Saint Lucia.
East China 12 people are dead after a 41-vehicle traffic accident on an expressway in East China's Jiangxi province.
Aero Caribbean An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board.
Mount Merapi volcanic eruption The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia rises to 122 as at least 78 bodies were removed from homes and streets blanketed by ash up to 30-centimeters deep.
Thomas Hoenig Thomas Hoenig, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, gives some indication of the split within that body in a speech to the National Association of Realtors. Though the Fed announced a new round of quantitative easing on Wednesday, Hoenig said that the Fed risks inflation and another boom-bust.
Airbus A400M A final funding deal for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft has been agreed to by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.
Ready Steady Cook "Ready Steady Cook", thought to be the longest running cookery show currently on television, is axed by the BBC.
MSNBC MSNBC suspends U.S. television pundit Keith Olbermann indefinitely for making political donations to three Democratic Party candidates.
National Union of Journalists In the United Kingdom, members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48 hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the Corporation's pension scheme. BBC News operates a reduced service.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the cargo plane bomb plot of October 29, 2010 and a September UPS plane crash in Dubai.
Sindh At least five people are killed after two clans clash in Sindh's Khanur Mahar region of Pakistan.
A suicide bomber kills A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people and injures around 90 in a mosque near Darra Adam Khel region, 30 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.