SpaceShipTwo Construction of a factory for the first fleet of commercial spaceships begins at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the United States.
Authorities The Chinese government prevents the lawyer for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo from going to London to speak at a conference organised by the International Bar Association.
Union Solidarity and Development Party The Union Solidarity and Development Party is predicting a sweeping victory in the Burmese general election which overseas observers have called a sham.
Hamas Hamas bans Fatah supporters from holding a rally in the Gaza Strip as representatives of the two parties prepare to meet in Syria to discuss ways of resolving the conflict between them.
Jordanian elections One person is killed and several others injured as fighting between rival groups breaks out during the vote in Imrea, near Kerak.
Jordanians go the polls for their parliamentary election but the opposition Islamic Action Front boycotts.
Claims Conference Seventeen people including six employees of the Claims Conference in the United States have been charged with theft of $42 million from Holocaust compensation funds provided by the Government of Germany.
Kuomintang A new law in Taiwan allows women to breastfeed in public and imposes fines on those trying to stop them.
Riot A riot in the Pedrinhas prison in north-eastern Brazil results in eighteen prisoner deaths and a guard being wounded.
Russia A second Russian journalist is attacked in Moscow. Motivation is unclear but both had written about trees being felled to make way for motorways.
South China A man surrendered to police and confessed to killing five and wounding one in two separate attacks in South China's Hainan province.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani In the first public sign that the sentence of death by stoning passed on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is causing divisions within the regime, Alef, a conservative newspaper in Iran, challenges the handling of the case.
Churches Secret documents are released showing churches and civilians upon the enemies list of Indonesian special forces Kopassus. The U.S. government had just removed a twelve-year funding ban on the group this summer.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom British Prime Minister David Cameron begins an official visit to the People's Republic of China. China, UK seek closer ties as economic dialogue opens in Beijing.
United Nations A United Nations report suggests North Korea has supplied Burma, Iran and Syria with nuclear technology, in violation of United Nations sanctions. China had previously blocked the report from reaching the UN Security Council.
European Commission The European Commission finds that Qantas, British Airways, Air France, Japan Airlines and seven other carriers fixed the price of air cargo between 1999 and 2006 and fines each airline involved millions of euros.
Dublin In Dublin, dozens of complaints are made about the "heavy-handed" tactics of "excessive force" deployed by gardaí following last week's nationwide student demonstration against a government-proposed fee increase, the largest such demonstration in a generation.
British military Three members of the British Armed Forces are being investigated by military lawyers over alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees.
Burma About 20,000 people flee Burma to escape fighting between the Burmese military and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in Karen State after the recent general election.
Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni cleric affiliated with al-Queda, tells Muslims in a new video posting that they are free to kill American at will, in retaliation for the killing of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Western Sahara The death toll from clashes at a camp in Western Sahara between Sahrawi protesters and Moroccan police rises to eleven.
Explosion A bomb explosion kills Ali Abadi, governor of Shwak district in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia.