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- The Indian government initiates The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 years, making education a fundamental right for millions of children. (The Hindu) (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Times) (Press TV)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church:
- Sudanese elections:
- Almost 25,000 homes remain powerless after part of Northern Ireland's electricity network is knocked out. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Guinea-Bissau's chief of staff and Prime Minister Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior are "seized" as national radio broadcasts are replaced by military music. (BBC) (France24) (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- India launches its new 2011 biometric census, the largest census in the world. (The Times of India) (BBC) (The Guardian) (France24) (Bangkok Post)
- President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev pays an unexpected visit to Dagestan, the day after the deaths of 12 people occur there in a double suicide attack. (BBC) (The Sydney Moning Herald) (France24)
- Missing four-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah, whose disappearance from her home in Huixquilucan, Edomex, achieved major publicity in Mexico, is found dead under a mattress in her bedroom. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Melbourne Age)
- Dozens of prisoners escape/are wounded after an explosion occurs at a prison in Daleh. (BBC) (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (The Daily Telegraph) (Reuters)
- A landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal allows science writer Simon Singh to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action taken by the British Chiropractic Association over a 2008 article in The Guardian newspaper. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Times)
- Justice Victoria Sharp blocks a rail work stoppage by signallers over pay cuts and working conditions, which would have been Britain's first national rail strike in 16 years. (Reuters)
- The Nigerian government asks that criminal charges against Nuhu Ribadu be withdrawn. (BBC)
- 12 people are wounded in a seven-vehicle pile-up on the M6 motorway near Rugby in Warwickshire, England. (BBC)
- South Warwickshire Tourism Ltd (Shakespeare Country), which promoted Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick and Kenilworth, ceases to trade. (BBC)
- Machu Picchu reopens with the help of actress Susan Sarandon. (BBC) (Channel 4 News) (The Guardian)
- Academy Award winning actor Anna Paquin's unexpected public acknowledgement of her bisexuality in a video causes the anti-discrimination Give a Damn campaign website she is promoting to crash. (Reuters) (The Daily Telegraph) (The New Zealand Herald) (RTÉ) (The Vancouver Sun)
- Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson are inducted into the hall of fame at New York's Apollo Theater. (BBC)
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is photographed boarding a budget easyJet flight for her trip from Luton to Aberdeen. (Oneindia) (TTG live) (Press Trust of India)
- Members of the Christian militia group Hutaree plead not guilty to a court in Michigan, United States, to claims of plotting to kill American police officers. (CNN)
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- Colombian soldier Pablo Emilio Moncayo is released after 12 years in FARC captivity. (BBC)
- Russia has a day of mourning following the train bombs in Moscow. (CBC) (RTÉ)
- The Andaman Islands are rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. (USGS)
- A Palestinian teenager is killed at a protest rally in the Gaza Strip; according to BBC News, it is not now clear who was responsible for the shooting (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Two mortuary staff in Shandong are arrested after 21 baby corpses are found in a river. (China Daily) (news.com.au) (Sky News) (CNN)
- The body of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is found by a team of Moroccan and French divers four days after his aircraft crashed into a lake in Morocco. (Al Jazeera)
- The 2010 South American Games are officially closed, with Colombia winning the most gold medals and Brazil just a little over 10 medals behind.
- Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. (The Times of India)
- 10 children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 are gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango. (CNN)
- Chinese police are hunting a man suspected of killing five members of a migrant family, including an 8-year-old girl, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (People's Daily)
- Seán Quinn's Quinn Insurance goes into administration. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (The Guardian) (BBC)
- Ten people were shot Tuesday night in what appears to be two drive-by shootings in southeast Washington D.C., with at least four killed. (Xinhua) (China Dialy) (CCTV) (CNN)
- At least 31 militants were killed Tuesday during Pakistan Security Forces operation in the Orakzai tribal agency. Over 150 militants have been killed in the last six days. (People Dialy)
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- 15 people, including 2 journalists, are arrested by Israel during a police attack on a protest near Bethlehem. (The Muslim News)
- Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP)
- Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN)
- The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap)
- Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua)
- A Rio Tinto executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ)
- FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC)
- Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ)
- More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News)
- Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN)
- A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)
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- The BBC reports it has found evidence of a massacre which occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo last December in which at least 321 people, including children, were killed. Human Rights Watch calls it "one of the worst massacres carried out by the LRA". (BBC)
- Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal:
- Middle East:
- U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first visit to Afghanistan as commander in chief, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and speaks to American troops deployed there. (Washington Post)
- One male is killed and two other people are injured in the Patissia area of the Greek capital Athens after a bomb explodes outside a public building. It is the first fatal bombing in Greece for many years. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (BBC) (Sky News) (The Daily Telegraph) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 152 coal miners are trapped after a pit floods in Shanxi, while 109 others escape. (BBC) (China Daily)
- 6 die and 33 are injured in five co-ordinated bombings targeting militia leader Sheikh Turki Hamad Mikhlif in Qaim, Iraq. (BBC) (Xinhua) (RTÉ) (Washington Post) (France24) (The New York Times)
- 2 journalists are shot dead, in the northeastern region of Olancho in Honduras. (Xinhua) (People) (The Associated Press)
- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva meets with leaders of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship on live television to help bring about an end to the political crisis in the country. (CNN) (Thai News Agency) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A Chinese dissident lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for over a year, says he is "free" and wanting to spend time away from media attention. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (BBC)
- Italians test Silvio Berlusconi in regional elections. (BBC)
- First step in Russian time zone reform comes into force. The number of time zones drops from 11 to 9, eliminating Samara Time and Kamchatka Time. (RT) (The Moscow Times) (Reuters) (AP)
- America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts raids in southeastern Michigan in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group. (AnnArbor.com) (WDIV) (AP)
- 24 is cancelled. (BBC)
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