Harvard University Harvard scientists unveil RoboBee, a robot with the smallest ever man-made wings capable of flight.
His resignation Two months after his resignation, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI returns to live in Vatican City at the Mater Ecclesiae.
By-election Voting also gets underway in the South Shields by-election to fill the parliamentary seat vacated by former Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Kindergarten Two kindergarteners are poisoned to death by the owner of a rival school in northern China.
Indian Convicted Indian spy Sarabjit Singh dies after being attacked by fellow inmates in a Pakistani prison. He is flown home to India where the government of Punjab has declared him a martyr.
United Kingdom British businessman James McCormick, who sold ADE 651 fake bomb detector to Iraq and other countries, is jailed for ten years at the Old Bailey.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rules that five relatives of Osama bin Laden and a construction company started by his father cannot be held liable for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Bush Intercontinental Airport A man fires two shots into the ceiling of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, United States with a rifle before killing himself.
North Korea North Korea sentences American Kenneth Bae to 15 years of prison labor for "hostile acts" against the regime. The United States calls for amnesty.
Gold mine More than 60 miners die when a recently reopened gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan.
Sons of Iraq At least 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in two separate attacks within Fallujah.
Chad The Chad government announces that it foiled a coup attempt that "had been in preparation for several months."