Taoiseach Taoiseach Brian Cowen tells his government he is to take on the foreign affairs portfolio after his challenger Micheál Martin's resignation yesterday. President Mary McAleese accepts Martin's resignation.
Parliament The opening of the Afghan parliament is delayed by a month amid allegations of fraud in the parliamentary election.
Nguyễn Phú Trọng Nguyễn Phú Trọng is elected as General Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam to succeed Nông Đức Mạnh.
United States A United States Federal grand jury indicts Jared Lee Loughner for attempted murder of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and two of her aides with further charges pending.
U.S. state Prosecutors in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania charge a Philadelphia illegal abortionist with eight counts of murder for killing a patient and seven live born babies.
Terry Jones The British Home Office says that American pastor Terry Jones is excluded from the UK for the public good.
Italian Prime Minister Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi gives a ten-minute television address vowing to punish those investigating him in relation to claims he purchased an under-age prostitute.
South Africa Two attempts in South Africa to arrest former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes during the war on Gaza are rejected.
Jean-Claude Duvalier Duvalier is sued for torture and other crimes against humanity by former United Nations spokeswoman Michèle Montas and three Haitians jailed during Duvalier's rule.
Haiti Haitian authorities file corruption and theft charges against former president Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Former Swiss bank employee Rudolf Elmer, who passed details of rich tax evaders to the WikiLeaks website, is found guilty of breaching Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws.
State of Palestine Palestine calls for the "immediate, full lifting of the Israeli blockade" and "the sustained opening of Gaza's border crossings for the movement of persons and goods." during a debate at the UN Security Council.
Hu Jintao President Hu Jintao of China is welcomed at an official ceremony at the White House by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Earthquake A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits Pakistan with an epicentre 50 kilometres west of the town of Dalbandin.
A suicide bomber driving an ambulance kills at least 12 people and injures another 50 in Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
Democratic Republic of the Congo An army commander in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is accused of leading a recent mass rape in Fizi of at least 50 women.