Labour Party The Labour Party make significant gains in local elections throughout the United Kingdom.
Tanzania Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete sacks six ministers amid allegations of government corruption.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, starts at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
British government The UK government is to launch a consultation process on introducing measures requiring internet users to opt in if they wish to view adult content.
Sun Hung Kai Properties Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest real estate developer, advises the markets that former chairman Walter Kwok was arrested for corruption and released on bail.
Conrad Black Former media mogul Conrad Black is released from prison in Miami after being locked up for just over three years for defrauding investors.
People's Republic of China Chinese official "Beijing Daily" describes dissident Chen Guangcheng as a "tool and a pawn of American politicians".
The Lancet A new study published in "The Lancet" finds that up to 90 per cent of school-leavers in Asia's major cities are suffering from myopia, or short-sightedness and that 10 to 20 per cent have high myopia, which can lead to blindness.
Adam Yauch Adam Yauch, founding member of the influential hip hop group the Beastie Boys, dies aged 47.
Mexican drug war Three journalists are killed and their bodies dumped in plastic bags in a canal in Boca del Río in the Mexican state of Veracruz, where the rival criminal groups of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel are fighting for territorial control.
23 bodies—14 of them decapitated and 9 of them hanged from a bridge—are found in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo; those killed were reportedly members of the Gulf Cartel who were killed by Los Zetas, a rival cartel.
Suicide bomb At least eleven people are killed in a suicide bombing attack in a crowded market in Pakistan's Bajaur Agency.
Armenia Official figures indicate that at least 144 people were injured at an Armenian government campaign event in Yerevan's central square after an explosion during a political rally.
Egypt At least one person is killed and at least 373 others are wounded when armed forces fire water cannon, tear gas and rocks on demonstrators near Egypt's defence ministry in Cairo.