General election in the Netherlands In the general election in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy gains 10 seats to win 41 of the 150 in the House of Representatives and Diederik Samsom's Labour Party, gains 8.
Prime Minister Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed, saying that their further imprisonment is "unproductive".
Pakistani factory fires Pakistani factory fires: Pakistan files murder charges, for "utter negligence", against managers and government officials responsible for the safety of the burned Karachi factory.
Khmer Rouge Former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Thirith is unfit to face a genocide trial in Cambodia due to dementia.
Mexican drug war Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, the supreme leader of the drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel and one of the most-wanted drug lords in Mexico, is arrested in the state of Tamaulipas.
Tokyo Newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, is found collapsed on a street in Tokyo and hospitalized.
Attacks and protests An other person, named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, self-identified manager of the company that allegedly produced the film, is identified by a security official.
In short, Pastor Terry Jones and Copt Washington-based lawyer Morris Sadek are two of the promoters of the film.
More details emerge about the privately produced anti-Islam film that sparks unrest in the world. Sam Bacile is also the name a Washington-based activist assumed to initiate forwarding the link last week. One reporter points to the suspected real name of "Abano(u)b Basseley".
The US consulate in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany, is briefly evacuated due to suspicions over the contents of an envelope.
Protestors breach the walls of the U.S. embassy compound in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemeni police fire warning shots in the air and four people are killed. The Egyptian ministry of health says 224 people are injured in demonstrations around the embassy in Cairo. In Kuwait, 500 people gather and chant near the embassy.
Guatemala Guatemala's Volcano of Fire (Volcán de Fuego) erupts, leading to the evacuation of more than 33,000 people.
Wuhan A freight elevator crashes 100 meters and kills 19 construction workers in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.
Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System starts a new campaign of increasing the money supply, the expected so-called QE3. But it says it buys mortgage-backed securities in an "open-ended" way, essentially "creating" 40 billion US$ each month. The Fed also considers other measures in a bid to stimulate the economy.
A museum A 1430's painting in a museum in Rotterdam, "The three Mary's at the tomb", is attributed to Jan van Eyck.