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The maiden flight of the Soyuz TMA-M, with three astronauts of Expedition 25 on board, docks at the International Space Station.
Imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (pictured) is named Nobel peace laureate.
A Roman helmet dating from the first to third century AD sells at auction for £2.3 million.
The Russian RSM-56 Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, the proposed future cornerstone of the country's nuclear triad, undergoes its first successful test since 2008.
Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The identification of the Koro language, spoken by 800 to 1,200 people in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India, is announced.
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki are jointly named Nobel laureates in chemistry for their work in organic synthesis.
Faisal Shahzad is sentenced to life in prison for an attempted car bombing in Times Square, New York City.

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TVNZ race row: John Key pledges to continue fronting TVNZ's Breakfast amid calls by MPs for disgraced and suspended broadcaster Paul Henry to be sacked. (The New Zealand Herald)

Disasters

Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh. (ABC News Australia)

Politics and elections

North Korean television broadcasts live a military parade for Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il and his heir apparent Kim Jong Un. (AP via Google News)
Prominent North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop is found dead in Seoul, South Korea. (Yonhap News Agency)
Voters in Kyrgyzstan go to the polls for a parliamentary election with concerns about a possible renewal of tensions between ethnic groups. (The Guardian), (BBC)

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7 naxals are gunned down by the police in an encounter in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh. (Deccan Chronicle)
Four Italian soldiers die following an attack in the Farah area, Afghanistan. (CNN)
Violence in England:
- Riot police and dogs clash with protesters as demonstrations lead to violence in England. There are injuries and 5 men are arrested in the country's largest police operation for a quarter of a century (25 years). (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A Sky News satellite truck is attacked by elements of the far-right English Defence League as 4 frightened members of its news team lock themselves inside. (Sky News)
Death of Linda Norgrove:
- The death of Linda Norgrove occurs during a botched rescue attempt by the United States in Afghanistan. (Sky News)
- David Cameron defends the failed American rescue attempt. (BBC)
Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan near the town of Sibi set fire to more than 20 oil tanker trucks carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Arts and culture

Minister of Māori Affairs Pita Sharples adds his name to calls for suspended TVNZ broadcaster Paul Henry to be sacked after he manages to upset most of India. (stuff.co.nz)
Warner Bros. axes the 3D version of the next Harry Potter film. (BBC) (Daily Mail)

Disasters

Ajka alumina plant accident:
- The Hungarian town of Kolontár is evacuated as the emergency worsens. (BBC) (Sky News)
2010 Copiapó mining accident:
- A drill reaches the underground chamber where the 33 trapped miners reside. Wild celebrations occur. Rescue efforts are scheduled to begin within days. (BBC) (Reuters)
More than 200 passengers are rescued, 20 of whom sustain injuries, from Baltic Sea ferry Lisco Gloria, en route from Kiel to Klaipėda, after it ignites near Fehmarn off the eastern coast of Schleswig-Holstein. There are reports of an explosion on board. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)

International relations

The United States leads a group of non-EU developed countries in attempts to thoroughly revamp the Kyoto Protocol, blocking any possible progress in the climate negotiations currently under way in Tianjin, according to negotiator Sui Wei. (China Daily)

Law and crime

An Ecuadorean court orders the imprisonment of 12 police after last week's 2010 Ecuador crisis, with a lawyer saying they are being swept up in a "witch hunt". (Al Jazeera)
Former Oceanic Bank chief Cecilia Ibru is sentenced to six months in prison after being found guilty of committing 3 of 25 charges of fraud and mismanagement. (BBC)
Erwin Arnada, the former editor of Playboy Indonesia, is arrested on Bali. He had been on the run since being sentenced to two years in prison in August after an earlier trial in 2007. (BBC) (AFP via Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Politics

Kim Jong-un attends the Arirang Festival performance in Pyongyang with his father Kim Jong-il. It is Kim Jong-un's first appearance before the world's media. (BBC) Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang is also in attendance. (Xinhua)

Sport

The New York Yankees sweep the Minnesota Twins to progress to the 2010 American League Championship Series in Major League Baseball. (New York Times)

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Several militants are killed in Khyber Agency when security forces targeted militant hideouts with gunship helicopters. (Tafreehmela) (Dawn)
At least 16 people, including the governor of Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, are killed in a bombing. (Al Jazeera) (Voice of America)
German officials say that Islamic militants whose disclosures have triggered a Europe-wide terror alert, have links to the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. (AP via Google News)
A Taiwanese ship initially believed to have been hijacked off the coast of Madagascar is later found safe. (BBC) (Focus Taiwan News Channel) (Xinhua)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
- Two Hamas militants are killed, several others are injured and more are detained in an overnight Israeli military raid on Hebron in the West Bank. A Hamas-affiliated group, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, threatens revenge attacks. (Al Jazeera) (Haaretz) (The Jerusalem Post)
- Two Palestinians stoning an Israeli car in Silwan are hurt when the driver of the car, the director of the Ir David Foundation, crashes into them while trying to escape the crowd of men and youths attacking him. One of them is hospitalized. (The Jerusalem Post) (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google doodle. (The Daily Telegraph)
German film The White Ribbon wins the BBC Four World Cinema Award. (BBC)
United States gospel music singer Albertina Walker, known as the "Queen of Gospel" dies in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune via HeraldNet)

Business and economy

The United States economy shed 95,000 more jobs than expected in September. (Al Jazeera)
The Government of Japan approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
The United Arab Emirates announces that it will not implement a proposed ban on all BlackBerry services due to go into effect from next year. (CNN)
Premier Wen Jiabao of the People's Republic of China denies reports that China is using its control over minerals crucial to high technology (called "rare earth") as a bargaining chip, especially in a dispute with Japan over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing-boat captain (AP)

Disasters

Ajka alumina plant accident in Hungary:
- 2 more corpses are discovered, bringing the death toll to 7, as Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán plays down the disaster on the Danube. (BBC)
- Greenpeace say samples taken in Kolontár indicate "surprisingly high" levels of toxic substances, including arsenic, chrome and mercury. (Al Jazeera)
- MAL Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company, the company responsible for the Ajka alumina plant accident in Hungary, offers $150,000 for local authorities to help deal with the disaster while not admitting fault. (Al Jazeera) (Sky News)
Maltese chemical tanker YM Uranus is reported to be sinking following a collision with the Panamanian cargo ship Hanjin Rizhao off the coast of Brittany, France. (Sky News) (Vesseltracker)
One person died and 42 others remain hospitalized in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze. Over 100 people, mostly tourists and hotel staff, were affected. (Global Times)

International relations

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao holds talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. (China Dialy)
2010 Nobel Peace Prize:
- Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. China blocks internet coverage of the award. (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times) (CNN) (The Hindu) (RIA Novosti)
- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu remarks in a press release that the Nobel Peace Prize has been "desecrated" and this event could damage ties between the countries. (Xinhua)
TVNZ Breakfast race row: New Zealand issues an apology to India's External Affairs ministry over the "gratuitous and insulting" behaviour of its now suspended broadcaster Paul Henry, who works for the government-owned corporation television network TVNZ. (Bloomberg)
Arab League leaders meeting in Libya announce their support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to stop peace talks with Israel over Israel's recently expired moratorium on construction in the West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)

Law and crime

The International Criminal Court orders the resumption of the war crimes trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, who is on trial for using children under the age of 15 to fight for his militia during the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Google News) (CNN)
Pakistani army Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani orders an investigation into a video showing the firing squad execution of 6 blindfolded Pakistanis by men dressed in what appear to be Pakistani army uniforms. (Los Angeles Times)
The Supreme Court in Burma agrees to hear an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest. (AP via Google News)
France's highest legal authority rules in favour of a ban on facial veils. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

United States National Security Advisor General James L. Jones announces his resignation effective in two weeks; his deputy Thomas E. Donilon is expected to replace him. (MSNBC) (Al Jazeera)
A senior North Korean official, Yang Hyong Sop, confirms that Kim Jong-un will succeed his father Kim Jong-il in an interview with the Associated Press. (AP via Google News)
The Australian Murray-Darling Basin Authority issues a report calling for water consumption in the 19 catchments of the Murray-Darling basin to be cut by up to half. (ABC News Online)

Science

China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2 completes final braking, enters working. (Xinhua)
Two Russian cosmonauts, Aleksandr Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, and American astronaut Scott J. Kelly leave on mission Soyuz TMA-01M for the International Space Station from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. (AP via Yahoo! News)
Anthropologists claim to have proven that Yersinia pestis was responsible for the Black Death in Medieval Europe. (AFP via ABC News Australia)

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At least 7 people are injured in separate attacks by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza on Wednesday. (Ynetnews) (Daily Times)
The African Union says its forces have captured 40% of the Somali capital Mogadishu from Islamist militants in a recent offensive. (BBC) (News24)
The leader of a Congolese rebel group suspected of being involved in the mass rape of more than 300 civilians is arrested by the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeeping troops. (The Irish Times)
14 people are killed and 70 others are injured in 2 suicide blasts at a shrine in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi. (Xinhua) (IRNA)
At least 5 people are killed due to back-to-back afternoon bombings at a vegetable market south of Baghdad. In Iskandariyah, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad, also wounded at least 20 people. (AP)
A land mine blast kills 6 soldiers in Tajikistan. (Dawn)
Gunmen kill 4 police officers in Iranian Kurdish area. (Santa Cruz Sentinel) (Chron)
20 Taliban militants, including two rebel commanders, are killed in fighting with security forces in northeastern Takhar province, Afghanistan. (Deccan Chronicle)
An airstrike and a raid by ground troops kills 8 insurgents, including a senior Taliban leader who spearheaded attacks against Afghan security forces. (Boston Herald)

Arts and culture

Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa is announced as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (The Irish Times) (BBC) (Huffington Post)
TVNZ Breakfast race row:
- Suspended TVNZ broadcaster Paul Henry is embroiled in further controversy as his mockery of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit is declared "racist" and "unacceptable" and New Zealand's ambassador to India is summoned for a dressing down. (AFP via NDTV) (Indian Weekender) (Xinhua) (Radio New Zealand) (TVNZ)
- A senior TVNZ manager resigns over her defence of Henry. (The New Zealand Herald)
- There are calls for advertising to be withdrawn from TVNZ's Breakfast show after Henry's slur. (The New Zealand Herald)
A lost Antonio Vivaldi concerto is found in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. (BBC)
A Roman parade helmet discovered by a metal detectorist in May 2010 is auctioned for £2.3 million ($3.6 million). (The Independent)
The FBI seizes a set of John Lennon's fingerprints. (BBC)
United States film studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer begins plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a bid to rid itself of $4 billion in debts. (BBC)

Business and economy

Austerity measures of pay cuts and pension freeze supported by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) cause civil servants to stage a 24-hour strike in Greece. (Al Jazeera)
The United States dollar reaches a 15-year low against the Japanese yen and depreciates against a range of other currencies due to concerns about further quantitative easing by the United States Federal Reserve. (FT via CNN)

Disasters

Nine, mostly children, die, after an overloaded river ferry capsizes in the Irrawaddy River delta, in Myanmar. (AP)
A woman was killed and 25 others were injured when the tractor-trolley they were travelling in overturned in Kashipur town of Udhamsingh Nagar district. (DNA)
Six workers die when scaffolding collapsed near the Beishan Interchange in Nantou County, Taiwan. (Taipei Times)
The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia's West Papua province rises to 97 with dozens of people missing. (ABC News Australia)
Red mud from the Ajka alumina plant accident in Hungary reaches the Danube River with alkalinity rising in the Rába River which flows into the Danube. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (AFP via Google) (Reuters)

International relations

United Nations Security Council visit to Sudan:
- Members of the U.N. Security Council arrive in the Darfur region of Sudan prior to the referendum on independence from Sudan and receive a hostile welcome from pro-government forces. (VOA) (AFP)
- A United Nations worker is kidnapped in Darfur hours after the Security Council delegation visited the area. (BBC)
Russia will refund Iran for the canceled the sale of an air defense missile system following United Nations sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program (VOA) (AP)
United States helicopter strike on Pakistan:
- The United States apologizes to Pakistan for a helicopter strike on a Pakistan Army border post that killed 3 soldiers. (The New York Times)
- Pakistan opts to maintain a shut border in the face of NATO troops. (Al Jazeera)
- Pakistan says no decision to reopen the border will take place until the security situation is improved. (Xinhua)
Israel buys 20 F-35I variant radar-evading fighter jets from the United States, Israel's first batch of advanced fighter jets which arm the country with the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the Middle East. Officials at The Pentagon acknowledge the sale. (AFP via Google News) (Haaretz) (Ynetnews)

Law and crime

Kenyan authorities announce that more than 1,000 teachers have been fired for sexually abusing girls over a 2-year period. (BBC)
Right-wing Israeli politicians push for a controversial change to the wording of the oath required to become an Israeli citizen, amending the wording so that potential citizens must promise to respect Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". (BBC)
China issues new regulations requiring the managers of mines to accompany workers down the shafts. (BBC) (RTHK)

Politics and elections

New Zealand MP and senior Cabinet Minister Chris Carter quits politics, stating that his travel expenses received unfair attention due to his sexuality. (The New Zealand Herald)
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai charges his President Robert Mugabe with violating the constitution and unilateral decision-making. Mugabe and his party fail to respond in public. (BBC)
The United Kingdom Labour Party announces its Shadow Cabinet to be led by Ed Miliband. (Sky News) (Press Association via Google News) (Xinhua)
Mark Rutte of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is asked by Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands to become Prime Minister of the Netherlands leading a coalition government. (Reuters)

Religion

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu retires from public life after reaching his 79th birthday. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)

Sport

English team officials at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India seek reassurance about water safety at the Dr SPM Aquatics Centre after up to fifteen members of the English and Australian swim teams come down with a stomach virus. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) ( Sky News)
Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki becomes the new world number one during the 2010 China Open. (BBC) (Reuters)

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Eleven suspected militants are killed in a US drone attack near Miramshah in North Waziristan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
One person is 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 tanker trucks 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)
President of the United States Barack Obama awards a Medal of Honor postumously to Robert James Miller of the US Army Green Berets for "conspicuous gallantry ... at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty" while fighting in the War in Afghanistan on January 25, 2008. (CNN)

Arts and culture

The 15th Pusan International Film Festival started in Pusan, South Korea. (People via Xinhua)
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins the Forward Poetry Prize. (BBC)
An autopsy finds that the death of United States actor Gary Coleman in Salt Lake City, Utah was an accident. (BBC)

Disasters

Four people were killed and three others were injured when two containers of fireworks exploded near the My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi. (Vietnamnet)
At least 25 soldiers are killed in a helicopter crash in Tajikistan, east of the capital Dushanbe. (BBC) (Xinhua)
Floods leave 1 dead, 3 missing, 33,000 evacuated in the Chinese province of Hainan. (Global Times) (China Dialy)
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 tens of millions of dollars 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 fourty-nine. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) (VOV News) (Vietnamnet) (TRT)
A firefighter is killed and 17 others injured in a major fire in Vishwas Nagar, India. (PTI)
Tornadoes hit Bellemont, Arizona in the southwest of the United States resulting in at least seven people being injured. (CNN)

International relations

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

Law and crime

46 police officers in Ecuador are arrested on suspicion of involvement in last week's uprising. (AFP)
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)
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrest dozens of Puerto Rico police officers accused of aiding drug traffickers. (AP via Google News)
Law enforcement agencies in Victoria, Australia, the United Kingdom and Spain conduct raids in relation to allegedly corrupt behaviour by the currency subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. (Radio New Zealand)
Two Turkish soldiers are shot dead by a third soldier in the southwestern province of Muğla. (Hurriyet Daily)

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)
China's climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua states 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)

Science

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)
Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies throws a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds making him the first Major League Baseball pitcher to throw a no-hitter in postseason play since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. (New York Times)

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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 in protest of a possible court 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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3 people killed in Pibor county of Jonglei state of Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
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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