Anti-retroviral drug Anti-retroviral drugs reduce the risk of people spreading HIV to uninfected partners by 96%, according to a new study.
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner has recommended that Liberal Democrat MP and former Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws be suspended from the House of Commons for 7 days over wrongly claimed expenses.
National Alliance Party The ruling National Alliance Party in Papua New Guinea to elect an interim leader with concerns that Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare may not return to office after having heart surgery in Singapore.
People's Republic of China A petition is delivered to the Chinese parliament by underground Christian churches asking for their religious freedom to be respected.
Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt says it will expel any member that attempts to run for President.
South London Police in South London launch a murder hunt after a 15-year-old schoolboy is stabbed to death in the street.
High Court of England and Wales The High Court of England and Wales grants the Attorney General permission to bring a case against "The Sun" and the "Daily Mirror" for the way they reported aspects of the hunt for the killer of Joanna Yeates.
John Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk is convicted by a German court of killing over 28,000 Jews in Nazi Germany.
Indonesia Indonesia deports an alleged people smuggler to Australia to face charges in connection to the death of 48 asylum seekers at Christmas Island last year.
Cambodia A former Cambodian prosecutor is jailed for 19 years on charges of corruption in the first case brought by the country's new anti-corruption unit.
Ethiopia Thousands of asylum seekers from Ethiopia and Somalia are stranded in camps in northern Mozambique after measures adopted by the government to restrict their movements.
International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court asks the United Nations Security Council to take action over Djibouti's failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was indicted by the court on charges of war crimes.
Flooding Flooding along the Mississippi River in the United States threatens $2-4 billion estimated damages.
U.S. Treasury News sources report that a long-planned offering of a portion of the U.S. Treasury's equity interest in giant insurance company American International Group may be indefinitely postponed because the price of AIG stock has fallen to near the Treasury's break-even point.
Australia The Australian airline Qantas is fined NZ$6.5 million for breaches of the Commerce Act in New Zealand, the biggest penalty for price fixing in the history of that country.
Brazil The Brazilian Senate approves a plan to triple payments to Paraguay for the use of excess electricity generated at the jointly-run Itaipu Dam.
Democratic Republic of the Congo A US$600 million project to revamp the Democratic Republic of the Congo's colonial-era railway system is launched in the capital Kinshasa, primarily funded by the World Bank and China.
BBC The BBC is to broadcast its political debate programme "Question Time" from inside a prison for the first time next Thursday. Ten members of staff and ten prisoners from London's Wormwood Scrubs prison are to join 100 other audience members, while panelists are to include Secretary of State for Justice Kenneth Clarke and former Home Secretary Jack Straw.
ITV ITV axes the Scottish police drama "Taggart" after 28 years, citing poor viewing figures in other parts of the UK.
Uganda Police in Uganda open fire on a crowd as it attacks a car carrying Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the capital Kampala, killing one person.
Syria The Syrian military continues to crack down on protesters, with students in the city of Aleppo the latest target.