Scottish Transport Minister Scottish Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson resigns following severe criticism of his handling of the travel chaos caused in Scotland by recent extreme winter weather conditions.
Kosovo Political parties in Kosovo cease campaigning ahead of the first parliamentary elections since independence from Serbia was declared in 2008.
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement The ruling Sudan People's Liberation Army-Movement in Southern Sudan formally confirms that it will support secession from Sudan in a January 2011 independence referendum.
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is to seek talks with rival presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara to end the crisis in the country. The head of the Economic Community of West African States James Victor Gbeho rejects the idea of power-sharing talks.
Russia Thousands of people in eastern Russia protest against proposed changes to the country's time zones.
Mark Madoff Mark Madoff, the 46-year-old son of convicted American fraudster Bernard Madoff is located hanging dead at an apartment in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange is moved to the segregation unit of London's Wandsworth Prison "for his own safety, presumably", says his lawyer.
Spartak Moscow Hundreds of Spartak Moscow fans and Russian nationalists clash with riot police in central Moscow over the death of a football fan earlier this week.
A newly released cable A large group of hacktivists plans to bring down British government websites if the extradition of WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange to Sweden is carried out.
Newly released cables indicate the British ambassador to the Vatican was afraid after Pope Benedict XVI approved conversions to Catholicism of Anglicans who opposed the ordination of women priests. Francis Campbell thought it so inflammatory as to cause discrimination and violence against British Catholics.
Newly released cables show the Vatican's refusal to co-operate with the Murphy Report child sexual abuse inquiry in Ireland which "offended many" of them when they were summoned to Ireland from Rome.
Richard Holbrooke U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke is hospitalised in a critically ill state in Washington, D.C., after gasping at a meeting with Hillary Clinton.
The former U.S. Attorney General U.S. attorney-general Eric Holder tells a Muslim community group near San Francisco that FBI sting operations are "an essential law enforcement tool".
U.N. climate change talks Delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico, agree to a compromise on slowing climate change, though overall failing to reach a "deal that many activists and governments want."
A/H1N1 Eight fatal cases of A-H1N1 swine flu and two from seasonal flu are confirmed within six weeks in the United Kingdom.
Venezuela Due to recent floods in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez announces the erection in his garden of a Bedouin tent given as a gift by Muammar al-Gaddafi from which he is to live and govern to make room for more homeless families in his presidential palace at Miraflores. 25 families made homeless by the disaster had already sought shelter there and Chávez has been personally supervising the provision of relief in the country.
Bolivia Bolivia lowers its retirement age from 65 to 58 as other countries raise their retirement ages.
Car bombs explode At least two car bombs explode in Stockholm, Sweden, killing at least one person and injuring two more.
Nazario Moreno González Nazario Moreno González, the leader of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, is killed in a shootout with police in Michoacán, Mexico.
New People's Army Leftist New People's Army rebels capture a village official and tribal chieftain during an attack on a militia outpost in Davao City, southern Philippines.