2010 presidential election Three presidential candidates Nikolai Statkevich, Grigoriy Kostusev, Andrei Sannikov and his wife Halib are taken into police custody with thousands of other protesters.
Thousands of opposition protesters encounter riot police at government headquarters in Minsk, while opposition candidate Vladimir Neklyaev is seriously injured.
Wen Jiabao Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao addresses a special joint session of Parliament in Islamabad, praising Pakistan for its efforts in combating terrorism.
United Nations Security Council A United Nations Security Council meeting regarding the situation in the Korean Peninsula ends without agreement.
United Nations The United Nations rejects a demand by incumbent Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo to remove its peacekeepers from the country.
Venezuela Venezuela once again expresses its disapproval of Larry Palmer, the man who may become the next US ambassador to the country, and says it will arrest and deport him upon arrival due to a months long disagreement following Palmer's comments on the Venezuelan military.
Child pornography Approximately 107 people are charged with possessing offensive child pornography in Austria.
Guatemala The Guatemalan military declares a state of siege in the department of Alta Verapaz to reclaim control of cities controlled by the Los Zetas Mexican drug gang.
Heathrow Airport Flights in and out of Heathrow Airport are at a virtual standstill as severe weather conditions continue across the United Kingdom.
U.S. state 8 people are seriously injured when a tour bus carrying a church group lost control, slides off a road and rolls onto its side on an icy highway in the U.S. state of Colorado.
Tuguegarao 15 people, including 9 nursing students, are killed while 12 others are injured in an blaze that gobbles up two buildings in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan province in northern Philippines.
Pemex At least 28 people are killed and dozens more are injured following an explosion on a PEMEX oil pipeline in San Martín Texmelucan, Puebla, Mexico.
60 Minutes 60 Minutes, an influential news program, runs a segment with Meredith Whitney a bank analyst credited with a timely bearish call in 2008, in which she predicts hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defaults by U.S. municipalities.
Dhaka Hundreds of small investors engage in protest activities in Dhaka following the steepest daily fall in the stock exchange.
Dubai International Film Festival Stars appeared at the red carpet closing ceremony of the 7th Dubai International Film Festival.
Somalia Two rebel groups in Somalia–al-Shabaab and the Islamic Party–announce plans to merge to try to topple the UN-backed Transitional Federal Government.