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Researchers announce that they have identified the Koro language, spoken by 800 to 1,200 people in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India.
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in organic synthesis.
Faisal Shahzad (pictured) is sentenced to life in prison for an attempted car bombing in Times Square, New York City.
Former trader Jérôme Kerviel is sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident.
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments on graphene.
British comedy actor Norman Wisdom dies aged 95.
A state of emergency is declared in western Hungary after an accident at an alumina factory floods a large area with "red mud", killing at least four people.

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Two Turkish soldiers were shot dead by a third soldier in the southwestern province of Muğla. (Hurriyet Daily)
Three militants were killed in a US drone attack near Miramshah in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
One person was killed and two others were injured when an explosion took place in the Azmat Khel Area of Bannu, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Thai authorities accuse the anti-government red shirts of being behind a bomb blast in the capital Bangkok that killed at least three people. (AFP) (Straits Times) (Thai News Agency)
Gunmen torch up to 40 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in Quetta and Nowshera, Pakistan and kill a truck driver. The Tehreek-e-Taliban claimed responsibility for that and other attacks. This was the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing almost a week ago. (AP via MSNBC) (Reuters), (AFP via Google News) (Sky News), (Reuters)
Yemen attacks
- A British embassy car is attacked in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen with three people injured . (Channel News Asia) (Yemen Observer), (AFP via Google News)
- A Frenchman is shot dead outside the Austrian oil company OMV compound outside Sanaa. (Reuters via the New York Times)
- Suspected al-Qaeda militants are believed to be responsible for both attacks. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins the Forward Poetry Prize. (BBC)

Disasters

Floods leave 2 missing, 33,000 evacuated in the Chinese province of Hainan. (Global Times)
At least 75 people are killed in flash floods in eastern Indonesia. (Straits Times) (Al Jazeera)
Ajka alumina plant accident
- Hungary expects to take at least a year and lots of money to clean up what the country's environment minister describes as its worst chemical accident. (BBC)
- Hungary opens a criminal investigation into the incident. (The Telegraph)
The death toll from floods in central Vietnam rises to at least twenty-eight. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) (VOV News) (Vietnamnet)
Fire-fighter was killed and 17 others injured in major fire in Vishwas Nagar, India. (PTI)

International relations

South Korea and the European Union sign a free trade agreement. (Xinhua)

Law and crime

The first civilian trial of a person formerly imprisoned by the United States in Guantánamo Bay begins in New York. According to his lawyers Ahmed Ghailani of Tanzania was tortured. (BBC)
A Federal Court of Canada judge rejects a request by francophone groups outside Quebec to overturn the Conservative government's decision to scrap the longform census. (Toronto Sun)

Politics and elections

Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa of the Unity for Democracy and Justice is released from prison after two years of incarceration. (Bloomberg)

Science

China's climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua stated that the country's voluntary efforts supported by its own resources and technologies only accept "non-invasive" international consultation and analysis at the UNFCCC meeting in Tianjin, China. (China Daily)
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new ways of linking carbon atoms together. (Nobel Prize), (BBC)

Sports

The appeals of Pakistan cricket players Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif regarding spot-fixing during the tour of England are set for October 30 and 31. (BBC)
Boston Red Sox owner John W. Henry agrees to purchase Liverpool F.C. for an undisclosed sum, the deal still needs final approval. (Boston.com),(Sky News)

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Afghan militant attacks kill 4 civilians, wound 6 in southwestern Farah province's Rusht Rod district. (Poten via Associated Press)
At least 3 people are killed and 9 others receive wounds during a bomb explosion at an apartment complex in the suburbs of Bangkok. (BBC), (ABC Online)
A linkmen working for the banned ULFA is killed, while 2 other cadres reportedly escape with their lives in an encounter in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district. (PTI)
A car bomb explodes beside a shopping centre in Derry, Northern Ireland. (BBC)
A state of emergency in place in Ecuador after the 2010 Ecuador crisis is extended to Friday. (CNN)

Arts and culture

TVNZ Breakfast race row:
- Breakfast broadcaster Paul Henry is suspended effective immediately by TVNZ after yesterday's controversial interview with John Key. The network had previously issued a statement in support of Henry. (The New Zealand Herald)
- Protesters rally outside TVNZ's central Auckland office to call for the broadcaster's scalp. (The New Zealand Herald)
Google lines up Internet TV programming partners like TBS, TNT, CNN, HBO, NBA, CNBC. (Shanghai Daily)
Researchers identify a new, though threatened, language known as Koro. (BBC)

Business and economy

The Bank of Japan lowers interest rates in Japan to a range of between 0 and 0.1%. (The New York Times)
Mexico issues its first ever 100-year bond, raising US$1 billion in a day. (Reuters)

Disasters

A state of emergency is declared after three people are killed and 120 injured by chemical sludge from an alumina plant flooded out of a burst dam in western Hungary. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Reuters) (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
The United Nations states that at least 400 children have already died in the Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic, double the amount that had been previously reported; the incident is described as "far from over". (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters via News24)
At least seven people die after a Cessna 402 crashes in the Bahamas. (Reuters via Yahoo)

International relations

President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cancels a state visit to the Netherlands over fears of a possible arrest. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells Der Spiegel that a blind eye was turned to militant groups fighting in Kashmir. (BBC) (Der Spiegel) (The Asian Age)
President of the United States Barack Obama announces plans via Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that additional solar panels will be installed at the White House, while the founder of Sungevity plans to install solar panels at the private official residence of President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed for the "Global Work Party" event planned by 350. (The Associated Press) (The Washington Post) (Asian Tribune)
1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire is deported by Israel ending her joint effort with other Nobel laureates to meet Israeli and Palestinian peace activists. (The Hindu) (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

Israel's army says it is investigating a video which appears to show a soldier dancing around a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
A London court is told that a Saudi prince sexually murdered his servant. (BBC)
Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber, is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole by a court in New York. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)
Former Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel is sentenced to three years in jail in France for his role in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
The extradiction of alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout from Thailand to the United States moves a step closer after a Thai court dismisses money laundering charges against him. (The Guardian)
French police arrest twelve alleged al-Qaeda terrorists in Marseilles and Bordeaux including three suspects allegedly found with bomb making kits. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
Steven Hayes is found guilty of murdering three women of the same family in Connecticut during a home invasion in 2007, now he is facing the death sentence or life imprisonment.(Fox News)
Ahmed Ghailani will have the first civilian trial for a Guantanamo inmate which will begin tomorrow in New York. (BBC)

Politics

Serbia mark the tenth anniversary of the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. EU and U.S. politicians send their congratulations. (BBC)
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is forced to issue an apology to his own voters after breaking an election promise by withdrawing child benefit from 1.2 million of them. (The Guardian)
President of Bolivia Evo Morales knees a political opponent in the "testicular zone" during a friendly football match. (The Guardian)
Kim Jong-un joins his father Kim Jong-il in observing Korean People's Army, confirming his status as heir-apparent as Supreme Leader of North Korea. (AP via Google News)
President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade dismisses his energy minister Samuel Sarr, following a week of protests over frequent power cuts, and replaces him with Wade's own son. (BBC)
Sudan announces its timetable for January's referendum on independence for the south, with 14 November named as the first date for voter registration. (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
Guinea announces that the second round of voting for the Guinea presidential election will be on October 24 after months of delay. (CNN)

Science

Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". (Nobel Prize) (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)

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Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Three soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan's restive southern and eastern regions. (Xinhua)
- 12 people die and 7 others receive wounds during a torch attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on a convoy of more than a dozen oil tankers intended for NATO forces in Afghanistan. This follows a dispute over a NATO helicopter strike that killed 3 soldiers in Pakistan territory. (AFP via The Age) (The New York Times), (BBC)
- At least 8 people are killed by a CIA drone attack in Pakistan, with three to five of those killed being citizens of Germany. (BBC)
Jewish settlers in the West Bank set fire to the Muslim Al-Anbiaa Mosque in Beit Fajjar area near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Its rug ground and some parts of the Qur'an are burnt and anti-Islamic and anti-Palestinian slogans are written. (Xinhua) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
War in Iraq
- 89 people are killed in violence in Baghdad and northern Iraq, including a journalist for a US-funded Al Hurra satellite television station. (Khaleej Times via AFP) (Africasia) (IFEX)
- At least 1 person is killed in in a roadside bombing in Baghdad targeting a deputy minister of the country's government. (Al Jazeera)
5 Tajik policemen are killed in a clash in East Tajikistan. (Xinhua)
4 people, including two Central Reserve Police Force men, are killed and 2 others are injured in an evening landmine blast in the remote parts of South Gadchiroli. The attack is carried out by Maoists. (DNA) (ZEE)

Arts and culture

TVNZ Breakfast race row: Video
- TVNZ Breakfast broadcaster Paul Henry questions Prime Minister John Key about whether New Zealand's ethnic minority Governor-General Anand Satyanand, representative of Queen Elizabeth II, is a proper New Zealander. Henry has previously described singer Susan Boyle as "retarded" and homosexuality as "unnatural", though the state-owned broadcaster defends him, furthering the controversy. (AFP via The Age)
- Breakfast tech commentator Ben Gracewood quits after describing Henry's comments as "the final straw" and saying "I can't work with him". (The New Zealand Herald)
The world's oldest known high altitude human settlement, estimated to be 49,000 years old, is uncovered near Kokoda, Papua New Guinea. (Radio Australia)
Jonathan Evans, head of Britain's MI5, gives a rare interview, disclosing details of his love for classics and calling for wider availability of Latin and Greek in schools as, he claims, they are useful for spies. (The Daily Telegraph)
British comic actor and songwriter Sir Norman Wisdom dies in an Isle of Man nursing home. (BBC)(The Guardian)
The industrial dispute surrounding The Hobbit film project is mediated by New Zealand's Economic Development Minister Gerry Brownlee and Arts and Culture Minister Chris Finlayson. (The New Zealand Herald) (BBC)
Hundreds of people attend the public funeral of actor Tony Curtis who died last week. (BBC)

Business and economy

2001 Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz warns of a "wave of austerity" set to sweep across Europe, triggering a new recession and the demise of the euro, and predicts Spain will enter a "death spiral" - similar to that of Argentina a decade ago - when it is attacked by speculators. (AFP via The Age)
The Greek government announces additional harsher austerity measures in its 2011 draft budget. (BBC)
Visa and Mastercard agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorneys-general of seven states. They agreed to allow their participating merchants to steer customers toward lower-cost options. American Express will fight rather than agree to the terms, it said. (NPR)

Disasters and accidents

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Public Welfare Affairs Agung Laksono said here on Tuesday that the massive flood in Wasior, West Papua that continuously occurred from Sunday to Monday has claimed 56 lives. (Xinhua)
3 people were killed and 5 were injured after a boiler exploded in a tannery in Hatay in the Dericiler area of Güzelburç town. The injured were taken to Mustafa Kemal University’s faculty of medicine hospital. (Today's Zaman)
Two persons were killed when a mini-lorry was hit by the Netravati Express, they were travelling at an unmanned level crossing at Panachuvadu near Punnapra, India. (Hindu)
At least 26 are killed and many more left missing missing after flash floods in eastern Indonesia's Papua province. (Deccan Chronicle via AP) (Jakarta News)

International relations

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan met in Brussels, on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting. (CNN)
The 2010 Asia–Europe Meeting commences in Brussels, Belgium with Russia, Australia and New Zealand joining the discussions. (Xinhua)
China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo delivers a speech at the opening session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Tianjin before the U.N. climate summit in Mexico at year's end. (China Daily via Xinhua) (Al Jazeera)
An angry stand-off results from a row over the ongoing presence of dozens of United States military bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa, all of which remain through intense U.S. pressure despite protests from tens of thousands of residents. (BBC)
Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière tells a news conference in Berlin that there is no concrete evidence of an imminent attack and "no reason to be alarmist at this time"; the Japanese government alerts its citizens to watch out for any attacks in Europe. The United States and UK have both done so in recent times. (BBC)
Israel decides to deport 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, whom it has kept locked up in a detention facility since last Tuesday when she arrived to attend a conference with 5 other Nobel peace laureates. An Israeli court orders her to keep "her propaganda to herself". Israel claims it has banned her from entering its land but she says she is unaware of such a ban. (The Irish Times) (BBC) (Haaretz)

Law and crime

Dutch MP Geert Wilders is put on trial in Amsterdam on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims in his 17-minute film Fitna. Anti-Wilders protests occur outside court. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (AFP via iAfrica)
Syria issues arrest warrants for more than 30 people accused of misleading an investigation into the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafic Hariri. (Al Jazeera)
Former Prime Minister of Fiji Mahendra Chaudhry is released on bail. (Indian Express) (BBC)
A court in Thailand rejects a request to drop charges against Viktor Bout, whom the United States suspects of attempting to sell weapons to its opponents. He was arrested by undercover United States agents in 2008 at a Bangkok hotel. (BBC) (Xinhua)
A vigil is held by Rutgers University in the United States for Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide after a roommate and another student secretly streamed online a private sexual encounter he had with a man. (AP via The Age)
A gunman in Gainesville, Florida shoots six people, killing his father before committing suicide. (Gainesville Sun)
Tens of thousands of people protest about tree-felling in Stuttgart and are confronted by police wielding water cannon and pepper spray. (BBC)

Politics

Brazilian elections:
- The Brazilian presidential election heads for a second round, with Dilma Rousseff polling most votes. (BBC)
- Brazilian clown Tiririca wins a seat in Congress with more votes than any other candidate in yesterday's elections. (BBC)
- Former FIFA World Player of the Year Romário is elected as a deputy by Rio de Janeiro. (The Daily Telegraph)
A Japanese judicial panel calls for charges against top Democratic Party (DPJ) figure Ichirō Ozawa. (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
Lima receives its first female mayor in Susana Villarán. (BBC)
The Cuban government considers another large-scale round of political prisoner releases after the release of 52 in July. (BBC)

Science

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:
- Robert Geoffrey Edwards of the United Kingdom wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in developing in vitro fertilization. (Nobel Prize) (Al Jazeera) (AFP via The Age) (BBC)
- A Vatican official condemns the move as "completely out of order". (BBC) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
The first Census of Marine Life (CoML), a 10-year major international project described as the most comprehensive study of its kind, is completed, sparking celebration among scientists. (BBC), (AFP via Google News)

Sport

2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland defeats Hunter Mahan of the United States in the final match to win the 2010 Ryder Cup for Europe by 14½-13½. (BBC Sport) (RTÉ Sport) (The Irish Times) (Sky News)
Football:
- FIFA suspends the Nigeria Football Federation due to government interference, thereby barring the country's men's, women's, and age-grade national teams from all competitions. (BBC Sport)
- Al Jazeera calls on Jordan for a full investigation into why its signal was jammed during live coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (Al Jazeera)
- The corpse of David Le Cluse, the chairman of Croydon Athletic football club, is located with a bullet wound to the head. The team's owner was recently arrested in connection with the recent Pakistan cricket match-fixing controversy. (BBC News) (Sky News)

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Security forces eliminated 25 Taliban militants in their former stronghold Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. (Xinhua) (People)
A roadside bomb strikes a civilian car in Paktika Province, in eastern Afghanistan, leaving seven civilians dead. (Xinhua)
Twelve people were killed and seven injured after individuals opened fire at NATO oil tankers near the Defence Housing Authority, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
In a second audio recording in 24 hours, Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven't done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan. (timesnow.tv)
An Israeli military tribunal convicts two Israeli soldiers for using a Palestinian child as a human shield during an offensive in Gaza in 2009, said to be the first conviction of its kind in Israel's history. (BBC) (Haaretz) (AFP via Google News)
Two Thai soldiers are killed and four others are wounded during a gun fight with suspected Islamist rebels in the south of the country. (Channel NewsAsia) (Thai News Agency)
Police in Indonesia kill six suspected Islamist militants and arrest four others in a raid in North Sumatra. (AFP) (Jakarta Post) (Xinhua)

Arts and culture

Archaeologists digging at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city which they believe is more than 2,000 years old. They encounter difficulties while excavating due to the blockade of Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
International cultural experts attack the Italian government's policy of tolerating oversized advertisements on historic Venetian sights as being "probably illegal". They say it violates the city's UNESCO ranking as a World Heritage Site. (The Observer)
An art exhibition indicates Adolf Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, planned to retire in Cornwall after the planned German invasion of Britain during World War II. (The Observer)

Disasters

Six people were killed and five injured Sunday after a wall of a factory building under construction collapsed in east China's Shandong Province. (Sina)
Five people were killed and four others were injured in a colliery explosion in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The accident was reported at Huanghegou pit in Xixiu District of Anshun City. (China Daily)
Rain-triggered floods killed four people and left two others missing Sunday in Atush city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (Global Times)
Nine die in floods in central Vietnam. Four people have been killed in Ha Tinh Province, one in Quang Binh Province and one in Quang Tri Province, while two individuals were injured in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh Provinces. (Vietnam News) (Vietnamnet)
An explosion rips through a leather workshop in the town of Güzelburç in Hatay Province, Turkey, killing 3 people and injuring 5 others. (Hürriyet)
74-year-old Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi tells a blasphemous joke about Jews to emergency workers dealing with the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, causing upset to the Vatican. Berlusconi describes it as "just a laugh" he made "made in private, not offensive and not a sin." (The Daily Telegraph)

International relations

Germany marks 20 years as a reunified nation with events in Bremen and pays its last World War I reparations. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
Egypt and Iran agree to resume direct flights after three decades. (Al Jazeera)
The United States issues a travel alert to its citizens across Europe, warning that it suspects they may become the target of a commando-style attack. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Channel 4 News)
The United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office updates its travel advice for Europe. (The Guardian) (BBC). (Sky News)
American and British government officials make contact to collaborate on the issue of a broad travel alert. (PA via The Independent)

Law and crime

Ecuadorean Policy Minister Doris Soliz announces that parts of an austerity law which provoked the 2010 Ecuador crisis are to be rewritten. (BBC)
22 Mexican tourists are kidnapped in Acapulco. (CNN) (RFI)

Politics and elections

Fiji's former prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, is arrested for allegedly breaching the military government's emergency regulations. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Fiji Times) (Sify India)
Voters in Brazil go to the polls in a presidential election with a runoff election likely between Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party and José Serra of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party. (Al Jazeera), [(The Guardian)
Voters in Bosnia and Herzegovina go to the polls in a general election. (Al Jazeera)
Healthcare Professionals for Change, the first professional body established with the aim of improving the United Kingdom's Suicide Act 1961, is to launch its campaign to change death laws, described as "unprecedented". (The Observer)

Sport

The 2010 Commonwealth Games officially start at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
Rugby league:
- The St. George Illawarra Dragons defeat the Sydney Roosters 32–8 to win the 2010 NRL Grand Final in Sydney. (The Australian)
- Wigan Warriors defeat St Helens 22–10 to win the 2010 Super League Grand Final in Manchester. (BBC Sport)

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A British soldier has been killed in an explosion while on patrol in Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (York Press via AP) (Google via AP)
3 drone strikes kill 18 people in the Data Khel area of North Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area as the government continues to block a NATO supply route into Afghanistan, bringing the numbers of militant and civilian deaths to at least 150. (CNN) (BBC)
In Abuja, two car bombs explode during Nigeria's 50th anniversary celebrations of its Independence from the British Empire, killing 12 and injuring 17. Militant rebel group MEND claims responsibility. (BBC)
Iran arrests several people suspected of spying for foreign intelligence services on its nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera) (The Observer)

Disasters

A four-story residential building under construction collapsed Saturday morning in Chang'an District of Xi'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, killing eight workers and injuring three. (China Daily)
In Indonesia, two trains are involved in a rear-end collision at Petarukan, killing 43 and injuring 50. Another train crash at Solo kills one person. (BBC) (Jakarta Post)

Arts, culture and entertainment

Rick Sanchez, a Cuban-born news anchorman with the American channel CNN, is fired by the network after calling comedian Jon Stewart a "bigot", saying Jews are not an oppressed minority in the United States, and implying the people who run CNN and other news media are Jewish. (BBC) (The Times of India) (AP via The New Zealand Herald)
The MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome wins the Stirling Prize, a British architectural award given by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). (BBC) (The Observer) (The Daily Telegraph)
The 60th Miss World 2010 pageant begins as the last delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China. (Globalbeauties)
A film produced for the 10:10 campaign in which a teacher explodes two of her students is withdrawn due to complaints and an apology is issued. (BBC) (The Guardian)
American female television station Oxygen gives the go-ahead to a new reality show set to star American celebrity and heiress Paris Hilton; the show is to follow Hilton in the course of her everyday life. (Reuters)

International relations

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells that peace negotiations will not continue until Israel makes a new settlement freeze on the West Bank, ending the current Israel-Palestine peace negotiations after just one month, though maintaining contacts with the United States. (Xinhua) (Aljazeera)
Sweden raises its threat level in response to reports that the country could be targeted by terrorists. (Stockholm News) (CNN)

Law and crime

Spanish police arrest 41 people suspected of financing FARC rebels in Colombia. (Al Jazeera) (euronews)
Druidry is recognised as religion for first time in the United Kingdom. (AP via Google News)
Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the kidnappers of 11-year-old American child Jaycee Lee Dugard, are each indicted on 18 counts, ranging from rape to false imprisonment. (Fox News)

Politics and elections

President of Ecuador Rafael Correa declares "a great victory for the government" after defeating the 2010 Ecuador crisis in a nationally broadcast address from the presidential palace. (Al Jazeera)
Voters in Latvia go to the polls in a parliamentary election. (Latvians Online) (Reuters)
A report into the second Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon is published, indicating reasons why people voted for and against the European Union treaty, which the Government eventually ratified successfully after much effort. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Socialist Worker)
Death of Kwa Geok Choo:
- Kwa Geok Choo, wife of first Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and mother of current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, dies at home. (Channel News Asia) (TODAY) (The Straits Times)
- Lee Hsien Loong interrupts his visit to the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Brussels to fly home. (Channel News Asia)
- The nation mourns and tributes are given by netizens. (The Straits Times)
- There are international tributes, including official condolences sent from Belgium, Malaysia and Taiwan. (Channel News Asia) (The Straits Times) (Focus Taiwan)
Millions of people demonstrate on the streets of France for a third day in more than 200 protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Reuters)
Thousands of people rally in Washington, D.C., calling for improved civil rights in the country. (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
Around 1,500 people demonstrate peacefully in Bremen city centre against a weekend of celebrations as the 20th anniversary of German reunification approaches, discrediting police fears of large-scale riots. (Deutsche Welle) (BBC)

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Activists claim that the Israeli Navy interception of Irene, heading from Turkish occupied Cyprus towards Gaza with Jewish activists attempting to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, used 'excessive force'. (Haaretz.com)
At least 8 people are killed as a result of 2 car bombs exploding in Abuja, as Nigeria celebrates its 50th anniversary of gaining independence from the British Empire. (Al Jazeera) (AP via Google News)
Prominent video journalist Merajuddin is hospitalised in Srinagar after being severely beaten with a baton in his neck by Kashmir police. They also beat up his son and colleague in the latest police attack on the media there. (BBC)
Following the killing of 3 Pakistani soldiers by NATO, tankers carrying supplies for NATO troops based in Afghanistan are set alight in Shikarpur, Sindh, injuring no one. (Al Jazeera)
6 sailors taken hostage off the coast of Cameroon on September 12 by the Africa Marine Commando are released. (BBC)
An airstrike launched by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) kills 15 insurgents in the Tsowkey district of Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province. (Xinhua)

Arts and culture

American author Jonathan Franzen advises British fans to cease reading his latest novel Freedom as a printing error has led to the publication of an old draft of his text, with thousands of copies set to be pulped. (The Guardian)
Sky 3D, the first dedicated 3D TV channel in Europe, launches in the UK. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Independent)

Business and economics

BMW announces the international recall of hundreds of thousands of luxury cars. (BBC)
American Bob Dudley succeeds Tony Hayward as the new CEO of BP after the recent controversies over the Oil Spill crisis in the Deepwater Horizon. (AP via Google News)

Disasters

A massive rainstorm, formed from the combination of the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole and a second extratropical low, drenches the East Coast of the United States from North Carolina to Maine. (AOL) (AP via WMBF)

International relations

The United Nations publishes a toned down version of its report into war crimes said to have occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the 1990s after Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi rejected the report's findings. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Guardian) (AFP via The Straits Times)
North Korea and South Korea agree to restart a family reunion program for families separated in the Korean War. (AFP via Google News)

Law and crime

Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire is to be deported from Israel within 48 hours after her appeal to overturn her entry refusal was rejected. (BBC)
Nigerian police free 15 schoolchildren kidnapped by an armed gang. (NEXT) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)

Politics

Politicians in Iceland flee from their own people as they protest on the streets of Reykjavík. (The Guardian)
David Lloyd Johnston is sworn in as new Governor General of Canada, succeeding Michaëlle Jean. (The Globe and Mail)
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf launches a new political party - the All Pakistan Muslim League - in London. (Dawn) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
Thailand lifts a state of emergency in Nakhon Ratchasima, Khon Kaen and Udon Thani but it remains in place in Bangkok and the nearby provinces of Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan. (AFP via Google News) (Thai News Agency)
President of the United States Barack Obama calls a press conference in the White House to make a "personnel announcement" reported to be related to the departure of his aide Rahm Emanuel. (BBC)

Science and technology

Sky has launched it's 3D Channel, Virgin Media has announced the launch of 3D Movies On Demand – the first digital TV service. (Sky) (Virgin Media)
The 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes are announced. (The Guardian) (BBC) (AP via The New Zealand Herald)
The discovery of Inkayacu, an extinct genus of prehistoric penguin that lived in the Late Eocene period, is announced. (The New York Times)
More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. (CNN)
China launches the Chang'e 2 lunar probe from Sichuan. (Xinhua) (BBC)

Sport

The 2010 Ryder Cup between golfers representing the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour begins at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. (BBC)

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Three paramilitary soldiers of the Pakistani Armed Forces are killed and three wounded when NATO helicopters strike a border checkpoint in the Kurram Agency tribal area. Pakistan responds by closing an important supply route that runs through its territory. Interior Minister Rehman Malik announces a high-level meeting to discuss NATO violations of Pakistani sovereignty. (Bernama via Malaysian Digest)
An explosion rocks Taliban birthplace Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding eight people. (Xinhua)
Two policemen and a civilian are killed and four others wounded in a failed bank robbery in southern Baghdad. (Xinhua)
2010 Ecuador crisis
- A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état. (The Telegraph)
- President Rafael Correa is injured and Peru and Colombia close their border with the country. (AFP) (BBC) (The Telegraph)(Euronews)
- The Ecuadorian Army rescues President Correa from hospital where he was being held by rebel troops. (CNN)
A convoy of at least 27 fuel tankers headed for NATO forces in Afghanistan is attacked in Pakistan's Sindh province. (AP via Silicon Valley Mercury News)

Arts and culture

US actor Tony Curtis, who appeared in more than 100 films including Some Like It Hot and The Defiant Ones, dies in Henderson, Nevada. (People)

Business and economy

The International Monetary Fund calls for tighter regulation of credit rating agencies. (BBC)

Disasters

Two earthquakes occur off the coast of West Papua in Indonesia of 6.2 and 7.2 in magnitude. (AFP via Google)
Three Japanese mountain climbers and a guide go missing in Nepal after attempting to climb the Himalayan mountain Dhaulagiri. (AFP via Google News)
Heavy rain from former Tropical Storm Nicole causes flooding the US states of North Carolina and Virginia and delays in airline flights on the east coast. (CNN)

International relations

The United States imposes sanctions on a Swiss-based Iranian oil company, the Naftiran Inter-trade Company. (VOA)
The first inter-Korean military talks between North and South Korea in two years end without progress. (Yonhap) (Hürriyet) (Xinhua)
China and the United States officially resume military ties after a 10-month break following US arms sales to Taiwan, with the two countries emphasizing the importance of a close military dialogue. The two countries will also confer on maritime issues next month.(Business Week} (BBC)
Three Japanese employees of Fujita Corporation detained by China for allegedly intruding in a restricted area in Hebei Province are released while a fourth remains in custody. (Reuters)
Argentina grants asylum to the Chilean former leftist guerrilla Galvarino Apablaza, who has been charged in Chile with assassinating a senator, despite the Chilean government's request to extradite him. (AP) (Buenos Aires Herald)

Law and crime

58 people, including 34 former government officials, are given sentences in China over a deadly landslide at an illegal iron ore mine that killed 277 people in 2008. (China Radio International) (Sify India)
Somali pirates seize a Panamanian-flagged ship with 15 Indian crewmen on board, off the coast of Tanzania. (The Citizen) (Emirates 24/7)
Hundreds of soldiers are deployed to Aba in southern Nigeria after the kidnapping of 15 school children by an armed gang. (Reuters) (AFP) (NEXT Nigeria)
Allahabad High Court in India gives its verdict on the Ayodhya title suits, amid fears that the ruling could spark unrest. They decide to split the site into three portions between Hindus and Muslims. (CNN) (BBC) (The Times of India)
The Argentine Senate passes a controversial law protecting glaciers in the Andes Mountains and prohibiting drilling for oil and other resources, hindering Barrick Gold from drilling for gold in the Pascua Lama mine. (Reuters Africa)

Politics

Filipino social activist Carlos Celdran is arrested after staging a protest action which disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral attended by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and Papal Nuncio Edward Adams, in order to demonstrate against the Catholic Church’s opposition to the Reproductive Health Bill (Philippines). Philippine Daily Inquirer GMA News Philippine Star
North Korea releases the first official image of Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un. (BBC) (Yonhap) (AFP)
The new right wing coalition in the Netherlands have agreed to ban full Islamic veils, such as the Burqa and Niqab (BBC)

Science and technology

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reports that the computer worm Stuxnet has affected 6 million computers and almost 1,000 enterprises in the country. (Wall Street Journal) (Economic Times)

Sport

The International Cycling Union provisionally suspends Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, the current Tour de France champion, after he was found to have tested positive for a small amount of clenbuterol, a banned substance, on July 21. He blames food contamination for the positive sample.(Sydney Morning Herald) (AAP via The Australian) (New York Times), (Reuters)

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