July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere. The second half of the year commences in July.
July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January became the first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC. In the ancient Roman calendar the ides of July fell on the 15th day of the month.
July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January became the first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC. In the ancient Roman calendar the ides of July fell on the 15th day of the month.
July 1, 2010,
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July 1, 2010, Release of The Last Airbender
July 1, 2010, According to recent estimates, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I in volume to become the United States' worst oceanic oil spill in recorded history. (MSNBC News Services)
July 1, 2010, Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue is unveiled after a £2.7 million restoration, in a display of green and yellow honouring the Brazil national football team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (BBC)
July 1, 2010, Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes landfall in northeastern Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h), and causes tornadoes that force people into shelters in southern Texas. (National Hurricane Center)
July 1, 2010, Fossils discovered at the Franceville site in Gabon are claimed to be evidence that multicellular life on Earth began at least 1.5 billion years earlier than currently reckoned. (The Australian)
July 1, 2010, Astronomers confirm the first-ever direct picture of an extrasolar planet orbiting its star. (National Geographic)
July 2, 2010, Merlin Season 2 Finale
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July 2, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs into law the CISAD Act, which bans US banks from doing business with foreign banks that provide services to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. (Aljazeera)
July 3, 2010, Sons of Tucson S1 Ep12: Dog Days of Tucson
July 3, 2010, The U.S. Pentagon alleges that Iran has violated United Nations sanctions against itself by providing an advanced radar system to Syria, a system the Pentagon claims would hurt Israel's ability to launch surprise attacks against Iran. (CNN)
July 3, 2010, Poland and the United States sign a deal in Kraków allowing the United States to position an American anti-missile shield in Poland to defend Europe from the perceived threat of Iran and other countries: Russia objects. (Aljazeera)
July 3, 2010, United States Republican Party chairman Michael Steele is heavily criticised by members of his own party and by members of the Democratic Party for saying America's war in Afghanistan is "a war of Obama's choosing". (Aljazeera)
July 4, 2010, Independence Day
July 4, 2010,
July 4, 2010, Australia celebrates indigenous culture with NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)
July 4, 2010, David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. (CBC)
July 4, 2010, Japan's competitive eating champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi is arrested after disrupting the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, United States. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 4, 2010, Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the men's singles titles at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. (AFP)
July 5, 2010, Release of Euphoria the ninth studio album, and first bilingual album, by Spanish pop singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias.
July 5, 2010, Release of Serotonin the third album by Mystery Jets
July 5, 2010, The body of late chess legend Bobby Fischer has been exhumed in Iceland, in an effort to settle paternity questions. (CNN)
July 5, 2010, Japanese scientists believe the SELENE probe has spotted rocks that originated deep within the Moon on its surface. (BBC News)
July 5, 2010, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga condemns the nation's lawmakers for voting themselves a huge pay increase, which makes them the best paid lawmakers in the world. (BBC News)
July 5, 2010, United Kingdom - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces that a referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for national elections will be held on 5 May 2011. (BBC)
July 6, 2010, History channel Special Presentation Afraid of the Dark
July 6, 2010, Release of Video game Crackdown 2
July 6, 2010,
July 6, 2010, Bradley Manning is finally charged with leaking the Collateral Murder video to Wikileaks, along with other documents, after spending more than a month detained in Kuwait without charge. (ABC)
July 6, 2010, The Federal government of the United States files a lawsuit against the U.S. state of Arizona in its bid to overturn its controversial immigration law. (CNN)
July 6, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington, D.C. for talks with President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC News)
July 6, 2010, Rupert Murdoch takes a share in a rival to Aljazeera. (The Guardian)
July 6, 2010, The Khan Shatyry Entertainment Center, which features the tallest tent in the world, opens to the public in Astana, Kazakhstan. (BBC News)
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July 7, 2010, Researchers publish in Nature their discovery of stone tools in Norfolk suggesting that humans landed there almost a million years ago. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Several thousand residents affected by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake and requesting help in Rome are skirmished by police, with two of the residents sustaining injuries. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Blizzard Entertainment announces it is to force people playing its World of Warcraft game to post under their real name. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, The European Union reveals its list of 91 stress test banks. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Spain defeats Germany 1-0 to win its semi-final and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. (ESPN)
July 8, 2010,
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July 8, 2010, The Palestinian Authority calls on President Barack Obama to end tax breaks on American donations to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. (BBC)
July 8, 2010, Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. (CNN)
July 8, 2010, CNN's veteran Middle East editor Octavia Nasr writes on Twitter that she "respected" the recently deceased Lebanese Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. The comment is deleted from Twitter and Nasr is promptly sacked by CNN. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010, United States Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele again resist calls for him to step down after he asserted that the War in Afghanistan was a "war of Obama's choosing". (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, US federal judge Joseph Louis Tauro, in two separate cases, rules that a federal ban against gay marriage is unconstitutional, as it interferes with a state's right to define marriage. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, Los Angeles Police announce that they have arrested Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., suspected to be the serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, yesterday. He is arraigned on various murder charges. (CNN)
July 8, 2010, BT Group and TalkTalk announce they are seeking a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010, 10 people uncovered by the FBI as Russian spies plead guilty in court to conspiracy to act as foreign agents. (BBC News)
-The spies are sentenced to time served, and deported from the United States in exchange for 4 people imprisoned for alleged contact with Western intelligence bodies. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, Johannes Mehserle is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Oscar Grant in 2009. (MSNBC)
-At least 50 people are arrested in Oakland, California, after protests against the involuntary manslaughter verdict turn violent. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010,Greece heads for a general strike after legislators raise the retirement age from 60 to 65. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 8, 2010,The Swiss Solar Impulse project's solar powered plane remains aloft for 24 hours, a record for a solar powered craft. (AP via Fox News)
July 8, 2010,A study conducted by Stanford University suggests that heat waves will become more common in the future, due to climate change and global warming. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010,A hoard of 52,503 Roman coins dating to the third century is found in Somerset, England. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010,NBA free agent LeBron James announces in an hour-long TV special that he plans to sign with the Miami Heat for the upcoming season. (USA Today)
July 8, 2010,Two people are gored and five injured during the Running of the Bulls at the San Fermín festival in Spain. (AP)
July 9, 2010, Release of Despicable Me
July 9, 2010, Release of Predators
July 9, 2010, Series Premiere of Haven
July 9, 2010, Season 4 TV Premiere of Eureka
July 9, 2010,
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July 9, 2010, Two weeks after the sacking of General Stanley A. McChrystal over comments that appeared in Rolling Stone, a top French general is attacked for publicly criticising the United States-led war attempt on Afghanistan and questioning if the United States is controlling its allies. (France24)
July 9, 2010, Guinea's presidential run-off is postponed due to allegations of fraud. (BBC)
July 9, 2010, Johnson & Johnson recalls 3 million bottles of medicines, including Tylenol, Benadryl, and Motrin, because of odors traced to a chemical in pallets used to transport and store the medicines. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Zhejiang, China, is closed after a UFO sighting. (Daily Mail)
July 9, 2010, China renews the internet content provider license for Google allowing it to continue operating in the country. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, The United States Government gives BP a 24-hour deadline to answer questions about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as providing detailed information and plans on stopping the leak. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, The South Korean Central Bank unexpectedly raise interest rates from 2% to 2.25%. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, Wall Street ends the week with the strongest gains in a year, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 5.3%, and NASDAQ rising 5%. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appoints Archbishop Velasio de Paolis to lead the Legion of Christ following the previous head who had engaged in child sex abuse and a number of other crimes throughout his career. (AP via Asia One)
July 9, 2010, Chinese officials seize 64 tonnes of raw dairy materials contaminated with melamine. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, A painting in a Johannesburg shopping centre depicting an autopsy on the corpse of Nelson Mandela surrounded by nosy world leaders attracts controversy as the topic of Mandela's eventual death is taboo in South Africa. (BBC)
July 9, 2010, Mel Gibson:
-The American-born Australian actor is being called a "potential suspect" in a domestic violence investigation. (MSNBC)
-An audio tape reportedly containing the voice of the actor surfaces online, with the actor allegedly making bigoted remarks against Latinos. (New York Daily News)
-The actor is reportedly dropped by his talent agency. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, American researchers discover that some fruits and vegetables grown today have less nutritional value than those grown in the 1950s. (MSNBC)
July 9, 2010, 19-year-old French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre sets a national record of 9.98 seconds and becomes the first genetic European to run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds. (France24)
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010, Eastwick Series Finale
July 10, 2010, After public outcry, gamemaker Blizzard Entertainment rescinds its plan to force users of its World of Warcraft online game to post under their real names. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, Chinese exports rose by 43.9% this past June, compared to the same time last year. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, Gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself after a 6-hour standoff with police, ending the largest manhunt in United Kingdom's recent history. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, The Rosetta probe makes a flyby past the 21 Lutetia asteroid to gather scientific data. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, BP is set to remove the containment cap over the destroyed Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and replace it with a bigger cap. Oil and gas will spew unrestricted from the well for an estimated four to seven days until the new cap is in place. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3-2 to finish third. (BBC)
July 11, 2010,
July 11, 2010,
July 11, 2010, A total solar eclipse occurs in the south Pacific Ocean with thousands viewing the event on Easter Island. (BBC News)
July 11, 2010, Libyan ship, Amalthea, carrying activists and 2,000 tonnes of food and medicine to Gaza, is met with a cold response by Israel which launches intense efforts to prevent it reaching its destination. (The Guardian)
July 11, 2010, Police in northern Eleuthera, The Bahamas, capture Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old fugitive known in the United States as the "Barefoot Bandit". (AP via The Washington Post)
July 11, 2010, Spain defeats the Netherlands by a score of one goal to nil in extra time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with Andrés Iniesta scoring the winning goal. (ABC Online)
-Nelson Mandela attends the closing ceremony after "extreme pressure" from FIFA. (BBC News)
July 12, 2010, Orangeman's Day
July 12, 2010, Series Premiere of Rizzoli & Isles
July 12, 2010,
July 12, 2010, A new cap on the destroyed oil well is put in place, and will undergo more than 2 days of testing. (AP via MSNBC)
July 12, 2010, Afghan rights group Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) releases its report stating that 2010 has been the most violent in the landlocked country since the United States led an invasion in 2001, though notes a reduction in airstrikes - a policy favoured by former General Stanley A. McChrystal - has led to less civilian deaths via this method in 2010. (Aljazeera)
July 12, 2010, The UK Ministry of Defence unveils Taranis, its new long-range unmanned plane intended to damage enemy territory. Tests are due to begin in 2011. (BBC)
July 12, 2010, The EU agree to impose tougher sanctions against member countries that violate the Stability and Growth Pact. (Channel NewsAsia)
July 12, 2010, The U.S.internet search company Google agrees to submit to official Chinese censorship of "law-breaking content". (Aljazeera)
July 12, 2010, Italian military police general Giampaolo Ganzer is sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and fined €65,000 for drug smuggling between 1991 and 1997. (BBC)
July 12, 2010, Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 12, 2010, Spain's victorious 2010 FIFA World Cup "campeones" return to Madrid where they are met by hundreds of thousands of people, the royal family and politicians. (The Australian)
July 13, 2010, White Collar Season 2 Premiere
July 13, 2010, Release of Stampede the second studio album by American heavy metal supergroup Hellyeah
July 13, 2010, Release of Korn III: Remember Who You Are the ninth studio album by American rock band Korn
July 13, 2010,
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July 13, 2010, Pakistani embassy officials confirm missing Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was reported to have been kidnapped by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, is taking refuge in the country's Washington, D.C. embassy. (Aljazeera)
July 13, 2010, Los Angeles police in the United States review a recording of actor and director Mel Gibson allegedly verbally abusing his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, The Washington, D.C. based global lender International Monetary Fund halts funds to the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) used by oil-producing nations in Central Africa, impacting on the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. (Reuters Africa)
July 13, 2010, The EU announces that Estonia is to become the seventeenth member of the euro on 1 January 2011. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, Data collected by the United States Federal Reserve System suggests that the country's financial market, while still fragile, is showing signs of improvement. (Reuters)
July 13, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama unveils his country's first national strategy to cut HIV/AIDS infections and improve care for those with the disease. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 13, 2010, Colton Harris-Moore, otherwise known as the "Barefoot Bandit", pleads guilty to illegally landing a plane in The Bahamas, and currently faces jail or deportation. (CNN)
July 13, 2010, Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro makes his first televised appearance in nearly a year, predicting possible nuclear war in the Middle East. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, The United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City strikes down the Federal Communications Commission's "fleeting expletives" policy that gave it power to fine broadcasters who air a single expletive on air. (The Washington Post)
July 13, 2010, The 2010 FIFA World Cup runner-up Netherlands national football team embarks on an open-top boat tour of Amsterdam's canals drinking beer, lined by hundreds of thousands of people. (BBC Sport)
July 13, 2010, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, dies after suffering a massive heart attack in Florida. (NBC Sports/MSNBC)
July 14, 2010, Release of Sorcerer's Apprentice
July 14, 2010
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July 14, 2010, The United States discusses the arrest of Bradley Manning, accused of providing secret information about US military corruption to Wikileaks. (BBC)
July 14, 2010, India's Home Secretary G. K. Pillai states Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) co-ordinated the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Aljazeera)
July 14, 2010, Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist allegedly abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, leaves U.S. soil: Iran states it will continue to pursue the case "legally and diplomatically". (Aljazeera)
July 14, 2010, Boeing unveils Phantom Eye, its unmanned hydrogen-powered spy plane capable of flying for up to four consecutive days. (BBC)
July 14, 2010, An 18th-Century wood-hulled ship is discovered at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City. (The New York Times)
July 14, 2010, Researchers find that the Vatican Radio transmitters increase the risk of tumours and leukaemia in children who live nearby. (BBC)
July 15, 2010,
July 15, 2010,
July 15, 2010, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez orders a review of Venezuela's ties with the Vatican following tensions between the government and Roman Catholic bishops. (BBC)
July 15, 2010, The Vatican issues a decree making the "attempted ordination of women" a grave crime in ecclesiastical law equivalent to child sexual abuse. (The Guardian)
July 15, 2010, The Vatican issues new instructions to speed up its own cases of priestly sexual abuse that are considered "most urgent". (BBC)
July 15, 2010, A report by Amnesty International says that North Korea's healthcare system is in a state of "crisis". (Al Jazeera)
July 15, 2010, Argentina becomes the first Latin American country to legalise same-sex marriage. (The Washington Post)
July 15, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney admits he has received a small heart pump to combat "increasing congestive heart failure". (BBC)
July 15, 2010, The United States Senate passes the financial reform package, aimed at curbing misconduct on Wall Street, with a 60-39 vote. (The Washington Post)
July 15, 2010, BP reports that no oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for the first time since it began in April. (Reuters)
July 15, 2010, Hundreds of Russians die, including 233 who drowned while swimming after consuming alcohol, amidst a heat wave and drought. (BBC)
July 15, 2010, Researchers discover a new species of fossil primate, Saadanius hijazensis which could be a common ancestor of Old World Monkeys and apes, including humans. (NatureNews)
July 15, 2010, Golfer Rory McIlroy ties the record for lowest score (9-under par) at a major championship. (The Belfast Telegraph)
July 15, 2010, World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya wins her first race since her comeback. (BBC Sport)
July 16, 2010, Release of Inception
July 16, 2010, TV Premiere of The Jenson Project
July 16, 2010,
July 16, 2010, Federal Defence Minister John Faulkner rules out withdrawing Australian troops from Afghanistan, alleging it would undo nine years of hard work. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 16, 2010, Singer P!nk is hospitalised without serious injury after falling out of a harness and colliding with a barricade during a concert in Nuremberg. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, American company Goldman Sachs pays a record $550 million (US) fine to settle civil fraud charges. (Aljazeera)
July 16, 2010, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledges the majority of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, An American judge sentences a former State Department worker to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and his wife to 6¾ years for spying for Cuba for three decades. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, Maria Jepsen, the world's first female Lutheran bishop, resigns due to her handling of an alleged case of sexual abuse. She is the third German bishop to resign in recent months. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, Photos taken on Mount Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken by George Mallory in 1921 reveal what is described as an "alarming" loss of ice. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, Film director Roman Polanski appears in public for the first time since being released from house arrest, watching his wife perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, The Welsh language is spoken for the first time in a ceremony at England's Westminster Cathedral in honour of martyred saint John Roberts. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, 30 bottles of champagne believed to pre-date the French Revolution are found on the Baltic seabed off the coast of Finland; it may be the world's oldest drinkable champagne. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, British tour operator Goldtrail collapses, stranding thousands of holidaymakers abroad. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, German minister Ilse Aigner expresses annoyance at Facebook's privacy policy, saying the website is breaking the law by collecting information such as phone numbers. (The Age)
July 17, 2010, The United States government run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claims 2010 could be the warmest year on record since 1880. (Aljazeera)
July 17, 2010, Unmanned solar-powered plane Zephyr, reaches its seventh consecutive day of flight. (BBC)
July 18, 2010,
July 18, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for a full investigation into allegations that recent killings of opposition figures in Rwanda were politically motivated ahead of the country's election next month. (The Observer)
July 18, 2010, The first Nelson Mandela International Day is held on Nelson Mandela's 92nd birthday. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, A series of two earthquakes, the second quake measuring magnitude 7.3, hit New Britain in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning is issued but later retracted. (ABC)
July 18, 2010, Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who says he was abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, says the United States wanted him to confess to being a spy as part of a plan to force the release of three Americans spies caught by Iran. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, EU commissioner Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, speaking during his first visit to Gaza since 2002, calls the Israeli blockade of Gaza an "immoral failure", expresses shock at the "huge new settlements" in the West Bank, and states the United States dominance of the Quartet on the Middle East - US, EU, UN and Russia - is wrong. (The Guardian)
July 18, 2010, A 2001 film, depicting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu discussing methods of undermining the Oslo Accords and saying the United States is "easy" to manipulate, is aired on Israel's Channel 10. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, The United Kingdom plans to reduce or eliminate international aid to countries such as the "powerhouses" of Russia and China, as well as South American and eastern European countries. The government plans aid increases to some poorer nations including a 40% increase to Afghanistan. (The Observer)
July 18, 2010, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says that Israel must go beyond easing its blockade of Gaza and throw open its long-closed border. (BBC)
July 18, 2010, A decade-long manhunt orchestrated by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ends with the capture of José Figueroa Agosto in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (BBC)
July 18, 2010, Health experts condemn tobacco companies for openly flouting European Union laws against advertising by using glitzy sales teams and techniques to promote cigarette brands at young people on Facebook and at music festivals. (The Observer)
July 19, 2010,
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July 19, 2010, Greek investigative journalist, blogger and broadcaster Sokratis Giolias is killed after being shot more than 15 times outside his home in Ilioupoli, Athens ahead of the publication of his report into corruption. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, Amnesty International releases its "Agents of Fear" report, accusing Khartoum's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of torturing and abusing political dissidents, including journalists, human rights activists and students, in an attempt to silence them. (Aljazeera)
July 19, 2010, The United Kingdom's oldest person, a Gateshead great-great grandmother, dies at the age of 111. She would have been 112 next month. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, China surpasses the United States to become world's biggest energy consumer, consuming about 4% more than the U.S. (Washington Post)
July 19, 2010, Chinese authorities launch a clean-up operation to tackle a 50 sq km slick following an explosion of two crude oil pipelines in Dalian. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, Retired United States Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the person in charge of cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico states that the cap is leaking but it is not a major concern so far. (AP via Google News)
July 19, 2010, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asks that the United States stop using what he describes as "cowboy logic" if it wants to engage in dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme, adding that he would support negotiations. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, A two-year "Top Secret America" investigation by The Washington Post concludes that United States intelligence gathering has grown so much since the September 11 attacks that neither its true cost, size nor effectiveness in keeping the country safe is actually known. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, The United Nations Economic and Social Council grants the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission consultative status after a vote of 23 for, 13 against, 13 abstentions, and 5 absent. (San Diego Gay & Lesbian News)
July 19, 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron launches his "Big Society" scheme. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, An anti-aircraft laser is unveiled, a first for naval warfare. (BBC)
-A supersonic Bloodhound model is unveiled.
July 20, 2010,
July 20, 2010, Actress Lindsay Lohan starts a 90-day sentence for breaking her parole for a 2007 conviction for drunk driving in California, United States. (The Australian)
July 20, 2010, The United States announces it is to deploy troops along the US-Mexico border in August in what it sees as an effort to improve its security. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, An international conference on the future of Afghanistan opens in Kabul co-chaired by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. The conference endorses a goal for Afghan forces to lead security operations across the country by 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggests raising the size of the Afghan National Army to 170,000 troops and the Afghan National Police to 134,000 officers by 2011. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, The leadership of Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon is attacked. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, ASEAN formally invites Russia and the United States to attend the East Asia Summit and urges Myanmar to hold free and fair elections in a foreign ministers meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Agence France Presse)
July 20, 2010, Lesbian student Constance McMillen, banned by a high school in the United States from bringing her girlfriend to her leavers' dinner, is to receive a $35,000 settlement in response to a discrimination lawsuit. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron meets with US President Barack Obama to discuss the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Afghanistan and the global economy. (BBC)
July 21, 2010,
July 21, 2010,
July 21, 2010, A Stonewall study indicates that young people rarely see positive portrayals of lesbian and gay people on television, usually depicted as "promiscuous, predatory, or figures of fun", particularly on BBC One. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron gifts President of the United States Barack Obama a painting, Twenty First Century City, by graffiti artist Ben Eine, while Obama gifts Cameron a signed lithograph, Column with Speed Lines, by Edward Ruscha. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Google Images receives one billion page views per day and receives a revamp. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán says his government would only talk about their 2011 budget with the European Union, not the International Monetary Fund. (Reuters)
July 21, 2010, Hilary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, announces that the United States will impose further sanctions against North Korea as a result of the sinking of the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan. (Bloomberg)
July 21, 2010, Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law. (CNN)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron offends his own war veterans by erroneously suggesting in a Sky News interview that his country fought as the "junior partner" alongside the United States in "...the 1940 war against Germany." (BBC)
July 21, 2010, The White House holds an official review after an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture was forced to resign regarding controversy about a video that surfaced on the Internet. (CNN)
July 21, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs finance reforms into law, overhauling the country's Wall Street Financial District. (Aljazeera)
July 21, 2010, Scientists announce the discovery of R136a1, the most massive star ever found. (BBC)
July 22, 2010,
July 22, 2010, 15,000 villagers are to be displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of British mining company Randgold Resources's search for gold. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, The Israeli military tells the United Nations it will restrict its use of artillery shells containing white phosphorus. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces he is to withdraw from public life. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, Damon Albarn-fronted Gorillaz announce their first world tour and will visit at least four continents. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, The International Monetary Fund cancels Haiti's $268 million debt and approves a new three-year loan worth $60 million; the IMF expects Haiti to start paying back interest in late 2011. (Aljazeera)
July 22, 2010, A proposal to develop nuclear energy is discussed at an energy policy meeting held by Asean in Da Lat, Vietnam. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, Volunteers use their hands to clean an oil spill in the Yellow Sea after pipelines burst off Dalian in Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, spilling 1,500 tonnes of oil and covering an area close to 1,000 km2 and about 90 km of coast. (Xinhua)
July 22, 2010, The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was not illegal, in a move that could set a precedent for unrecognised countries.(Al-Jazeera)
July 22, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon stalls on his earlier proposal for an international investigation into the Gaza flotilla raid. (Asia Times Online)
July 22, 2010, It is announced that the police officer who was filmed pushing Ian Tomlinson to his death during the 2009 G-20 London summit protests will not face charges; his family call it "outrageous". (BBC)
July 22, 2010, A new henge is discovered at Stonehenge World Heritage Site, described to be the biggest discovery of a major monument in over 50 years around Stonehenge. (BBC News)
July 23, 2010, Release of Salt
July 23, 2010, Release of Countdown to Zero
July 23, 2010, Release of Life during Wartime
July 23, 2010, TV Mini Series Premiere "Pillars of Earth"
July 23, 2010,
July 23, 2010, The Diocese of Rome criticizes homosexual priests, accusing them of leading a "double life" and advising them to leave the priesthood. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Black Swan is announced as the opening film of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Alarms on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are found to have been disabled before the explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (The Guardian)
July 23, 2010, Serbia states its intention to never recognize Kosovo's independence after International Court of Justice's yesterday ruling. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Colombia after Colombia claims Venezuela is a "haven for guerrillas". (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Michael Conahan, a former judge in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, pleas guilty to racketeering conspiracy by assisting in the jailing of juvenile defendants in return for bribes. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, The Indian government unveils a solar power touch-screen laptop, cheaper than America's iPad, expected to be on sale next year. (BBC)
July 24, 2010, Doctor Who Season 5 finale
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010, A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 18 people and injures dozens more people. (Deutsche Welle)
July 24, 2010, The Lake Delhi Dam fails along the Maquoketa River in the U.S. state of Iowa. (CBS News)
July 24, 2010, An investigation reveals that several dozen staff and contractors of the United States Department of Defense, some with high-level security clearances, allegedly downloaded child pornography; an undisclosed number did so on government-owned computers. (The Boston Globe)
July 24, 2010, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin meets the Russian intelligence agents who were swapped with the United States. (BBC)
July 24, 2010, Snooker's "first television superstar" and two-times world champion Alex Higgins dies at the age of 61. (BBC)
July 25, 2010, Mad Men Season 4 premiere
July 25, 2010,
July 25, 2010, United States Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner pushes for Congress to allow the tax cuts for high-income taxpayers in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010, while extending the act's tax cuts for middle- and lower-income taxpayers. (CNN)
July 25, 2010, At the African Union summit in Kampala, attended by 53 countries, its president, the President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika, states International Criminal Court indictments against the Sudanese president undermine African peace and security and calls for the issue to be solved in a different way. (Aljazeera)
July 25, 2010, Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro visits a mausoleum in Artemisa, his first reported appearance outside Havana since leaving office in 2006. (BBC)
July 26, 2010, HBO Special Presentation Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
July 26, 2010, Release of The War Logs:
July 1, 2010,
July 1, 2010,
July 1, 2010,
July 1, 2010, Release of The Last Airbender
July 1, 2010, According to recent estimates, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I in volume to become the United States' worst oceanic oil spill in recorded history. (MSNBC News Services)
July 1, 2010, Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue is unveiled after a £2.7 million restoration, in a display of green and yellow honouring the Brazil national football team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (BBC)
July 1, 2010, Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes landfall in northeastern Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h), and causes tornadoes that force people into shelters in southern Texas. (National Hurricane Center)
July 1, 2010, Fossils discovered at the Franceville site in Gabon are claimed to be evidence that multicellular life on Earth began at least 1.5 billion years earlier than currently reckoned. (The Australian)
July 1, 2010, Astronomers confirm the first-ever direct picture of an extrasolar planet orbiting its star. (National Geographic)
July 2, 2010, Merlin Season 2 Finale
July 2, 2010,
July 2, 2010,
July 2, 2010,
July 2, 2010,
July 2, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs into law the CISAD Act, which bans US banks from doing business with foreign banks that provide services to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. (Aljazeera)
July 3, 2010, Sons of Tucson S1 Ep12: Dog Days of Tucson
July 3, 2010, The U.S. Pentagon alleges that Iran has violated United Nations sanctions against itself by providing an advanced radar system to Syria, a system the Pentagon claims would hurt Israel's ability to launch surprise attacks against Iran. (CNN)
July 3, 2010, Poland and the United States sign a deal in Kraków allowing the United States to position an American anti-missile shield in Poland to defend Europe from the perceived threat of Iran and other countries: Russia objects. (Aljazeera)
July 3, 2010, United States Republican Party chairman Michael Steele is heavily criticised by members of his own party and by members of the Democratic Party for saying America's war in Afghanistan is "a war of Obama's choosing". (Aljazeera)
July 4, 2010, Independence Day
July 4, 2010,
July 4, 2010, Australia celebrates indigenous culture with NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)
July 4, 2010, David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. (CBC)
July 4, 2010, Japan's competitive eating champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi is arrested after disrupting the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, United States. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 4, 2010, Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the men's singles titles at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. (AFP)
July 5, 2010, Release of Euphoria the ninth studio album, and first bilingual album, by Spanish pop singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias.
July 5, 2010, Release of Serotonin the third album by Mystery Jets
July 5, 2010, The body of late chess legend Bobby Fischer has been exhumed in Iceland, in an effort to settle paternity questions. (CNN)
July 5, 2010, Japanese scientists believe the SELENE probe has spotted rocks that originated deep within the Moon on its surface. (BBC News)
July 5, 2010, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga condemns the nation's lawmakers for voting themselves a huge pay increase, which makes them the best paid lawmakers in the world. (BBC News)
July 5, 2010, United Kingdom - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces that a referendum on introducing the alternative vote system for national elections will be held on 5 May 2011. (BBC)
July 6, 2010, History channel Special Presentation Afraid of the Dark
July 6, 2010, Release of Video game Crackdown 2
July 6, 2010,
July 6, 2010, Bradley Manning is finally charged with leaking the Collateral Murder video to Wikileaks, along with other documents, after spending more than a month detained in Kuwait without charge. (ABC)
July 6, 2010, The Federal government of the United States files a lawsuit against the U.S. state of Arizona in its bid to overturn its controversial immigration law. (CNN)
July 6, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington, D.C. for talks with President of the United States Barack Obama. (BBC News)
July 6, 2010, Rupert Murdoch takes a share in a rival to Aljazeera. (The Guardian)
July 6, 2010, The Khan Shatyry Entertainment Center, which features the tallest tent in the world, opens to the public in Astana, Kazakhstan. (BBC News)
July 7, 2010,
July 7, 2010,
July 7, 2010,
July 7, 2010,
July 7, 2010, Researchers publish in Nature their discovery of stone tools in Norfolk suggesting that humans landed there almost a million years ago. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Several thousand residents affected by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake and requesting help in Rome are skirmished by police, with two of the residents sustaining injuries. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Blizzard Entertainment announces it is to force people playing its World of Warcraft game to post under their real name. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, The European Union reveals its list of 91 stress test banks. (BBC)
July 7, 2010, Spain defeats Germany 1-0 to win its semi-final and for its first time, along with Netherlands make the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final. (ESPN)
July 8, 2010,
July 8, 2010,
July 8, 2010, The Palestinian Authority calls on President Barack Obama to end tax breaks on American donations to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. (BBC)
July 8, 2010, Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas ends a 134 day hunger strike after the Cuban government is to release 52 political prisoners. (CNN)
July 8, 2010, CNN's veteran Middle East editor Octavia Nasr writes on Twitter that she "respected" the recently deceased Lebanese Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. The comment is deleted from Twitter and Nasr is promptly sacked by CNN. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010, United States Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele again resist calls for him to step down after he asserted that the War in Afghanistan was a "war of Obama's choosing". (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, US federal judge Joseph Louis Tauro, in two separate cases, rules that a federal ban against gay marriage is unconstitutional, as it interferes with a state's right to define marriage. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, Los Angeles Police announce that they have arrested Lonnie David Franklin, Jr., suspected to be the serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, yesterday. He is arraigned on various murder charges. (CNN)
July 8, 2010, BT Group and TalkTalk announce they are seeking a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010, 10 people uncovered by the FBI as Russian spies plead guilty in court to conspiracy to act as foreign agents. (BBC News)
-The spies are sentenced to time served, and deported from the United States in exchange for 4 people imprisoned for alleged contact with Western intelligence bodies. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010, Johannes Mehserle is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Oscar Grant in 2009. (MSNBC)
-At least 50 people are arrested in Oakland, California, after protests against the involuntary manslaughter verdict turn violent. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010,Greece heads for a general strike after legislators raise the retirement age from 60 to 65. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 8, 2010,The Swiss Solar Impulse project's solar powered plane remains aloft for 24 hours, a record for a solar powered craft. (AP via Fox News)
July 8, 2010,A study conducted by Stanford University suggests that heat waves will become more common in the future, due to climate change and global warming. (MSNBC)
July 8, 2010,A hoard of 52,503 Roman coins dating to the third century is found in Somerset, England. (BBC News)
July 8, 2010,NBA free agent LeBron James announces in an hour-long TV special that he plans to sign with the Miami Heat for the upcoming season. (USA Today)
July 8, 2010,Two people are gored and five injured during the Running of the Bulls at the San Fermín festival in Spain. (AP)
July 9, 2010, Release of Despicable Me
July 9, 2010, Release of Predators
July 9, 2010, Series Premiere of Haven
July 9, 2010, Season 4 TV Premiere of Eureka
July 9, 2010,
July 9, 2010,
July 9, 2010, Two weeks after the sacking of General Stanley A. McChrystal over comments that appeared in Rolling Stone, a top French general is attacked for publicly criticising the United States-led war attempt on Afghanistan and questioning if the United States is controlling its allies. (France24)
July 9, 2010, Guinea's presidential run-off is postponed due to allegations of fraud. (BBC)
July 9, 2010, Johnson & Johnson recalls 3 million bottles of medicines, including Tylenol, Benadryl, and Motrin, because of odors traced to a chemical in pallets used to transport and store the medicines. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Zhejiang, China, is closed after a UFO sighting. (Daily Mail)
July 9, 2010, China renews the internet content provider license for Google allowing it to continue operating in the country. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, The United States Government gives BP a 24-hour deadline to answer questions about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, as well as providing detailed information and plans on stopping the leak. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, The South Korean Central Bank unexpectedly raise interest rates from 2% to 2.25%. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, Wall Street ends the week with the strongest gains in a year, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 5.3%, and NASDAQ rising 5%. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appoints Archbishop Velasio de Paolis to lead the Legion of Christ following the previous head who had engaged in child sex abuse and a number of other crimes throughout his career. (AP via Asia One)
July 9, 2010, Chinese officials seize 64 tonnes of raw dairy materials contaminated with melamine. (BBC News)
July 9, 2010, A painting in a Johannesburg shopping centre depicting an autopsy on the corpse of Nelson Mandela surrounded by nosy world leaders attracts controversy as the topic of Mandela's eventual death is taboo in South Africa. (BBC)
July 9, 2010, Mel Gibson:
-The American-born Australian actor is being called a "potential suspect" in a domestic violence investigation. (MSNBC)
-An audio tape reportedly containing the voice of the actor surfaces online, with the actor allegedly making bigoted remarks against Latinos. (New York Daily News)
-The actor is reportedly dropped by his talent agency. (Reuters)
July 9, 2010, American researchers discover that some fruits and vegetables grown today have less nutritional value than those grown in the 1950s. (MSNBC)
July 9, 2010, 19-year-old French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre sets a national record of 9.98 seconds and becomes the first genetic European to run 100 metres in less than 10 seconds. (France24)
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010,
July 10, 2010, Eastwick Series Finale
July 10, 2010, After public outcry, gamemaker Blizzard Entertainment rescinds its plan to force users of its World of Warcraft online game to post under their real names. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, Chinese exports rose by 43.9% this past June, compared to the same time last year. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, Gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself after a 6-hour standoff with police, ending the largest manhunt in United Kingdom's recent history. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, The Rosetta probe makes a flyby past the 21 Lutetia asteroid to gather scientific data. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, BP is set to remove the containment cap over the destroyed Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and replace it with a bigger cap. Oil and gas will spew unrestricted from the well for an estimated four to seven days until the new cap is in place. (BBC News)
July 10, 2010, 2010 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeats Uruguay 3-2 to finish third. (BBC)
July 11, 2010,
July 11, 2010,
July 11, 2010, A total solar eclipse occurs in the south Pacific Ocean with thousands viewing the event on Easter Island. (BBC News)
July 11, 2010, Libyan ship, Amalthea, carrying activists and 2,000 tonnes of food and medicine to Gaza, is met with a cold response by Israel which launches intense efforts to prevent it reaching its destination. (The Guardian)
July 11, 2010, Police in northern Eleuthera, The Bahamas, capture Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old fugitive known in the United States as the "Barefoot Bandit". (AP via The Washington Post)
July 11, 2010, Spain defeats the Netherlands by a score of one goal to nil in extra time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with Andrés Iniesta scoring the winning goal. (ABC Online)
-Nelson Mandela attends the closing ceremony after "extreme pressure" from FIFA. (BBC News)
July 12, 2010, Orangeman's Day
July 12, 2010, Series Premiere of Rizzoli & Isles
July 12, 2010,
July 12, 2010, A new cap on the destroyed oil well is put in place, and will undergo more than 2 days of testing. (AP via MSNBC)
July 12, 2010, Afghan rights group Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) releases its report stating that 2010 has been the most violent in the landlocked country since the United States led an invasion in 2001, though notes a reduction in airstrikes - a policy favoured by former General Stanley A. McChrystal - has led to less civilian deaths via this method in 2010. (Aljazeera)
July 12, 2010, The UK Ministry of Defence unveils Taranis, its new long-range unmanned plane intended to damage enemy territory. Tests are due to begin in 2011. (BBC)
July 12, 2010, The EU agree to impose tougher sanctions against member countries that violate the Stability and Growth Pact. (Channel NewsAsia)
July 12, 2010, The U.S.internet search company Google agrees to submit to official Chinese censorship of "law-breaking content". (Aljazeera)
July 12, 2010, Italian military police general Giampaolo Ganzer is sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and fined €65,000 for drug smuggling between 1991 and 1997. (BBC)
July 12, 2010, Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 12, 2010, Spain's victorious 2010 FIFA World Cup "campeones" return to Madrid where they are met by hundreds of thousands of people, the royal family and politicians. (The Australian)
July 13, 2010, White Collar Season 2 Premiere
July 13, 2010, Release of Stampede the second studio album by American heavy metal supergroup Hellyeah
July 13, 2010, Release of Korn III: Remember Who You Are the ninth studio album by American rock band Korn
July 13, 2010,
July 13, 2010,
July 13, 2010,
July 13, 2010,
July 13, 2010,
July 13, 2010, Pakistani embassy officials confirm missing Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was reported to have been kidnapped by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, is taking refuge in the country's Washington, D.C. embassy. (Aljazeera)
July 13, 2010, Los Angeles police in the United States review a recording of actor and director Mel Gibson allegedly verbally abusing his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, The Washington, D.C. based global lender International Monetary Fund halts funds to the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) used by oil-producing nations in Central Africa, impacting on the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. (Reuters Africa)
July 13, 2010, The EU announces that Estonia is to become the seventeenth member of the euro on 1 January 2011. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, Data collected by the United States Federal Reserve System suggests that the country's financial market, while still fragile, is showing signs of improvement. (Reuters)
July 13, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama unveils his country's first national strategy to cut HIV/AIDS infections and improve care for those with the disease. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 13, 2010, Colton Harris-Moore, otherwise known as the "Barefoot Bandit", pleads guilty to illegally landing a plane in The Bahamas, and currently faces jail or deportation. (CNN)
July 13, 2010, Cuban ex-President Fidel Castro makes his first televised appearance in nearly a year, predicting possible nuclear war in the Middle East. (BBC)
July 13, 2010, The United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City strikes down the Federal Communications Commission's "fleeting expletives" policy that gave it power to fine broadcasters who air a single expletive on air. (The Washington Post)
July 13, 2010, The 2010 FIFA World Cup runner-up Netherlands national football team embarks on an open-top boat tour of Amsterdam's canals drinking beer, lined by hundreds of thousands of people. (BBC Sport)
July 13, 2010, George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, dies after suffering a massive heart attack in Florida. (NBC Sports/MSNBC)
July 14, 2010, Release of Sorcerer's Apprentice
July 14, 2010
July 14, 2010,
July 14, 2010,
July 14, 2010,
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July 14, 2010,
July 14, 2010,
July 14, 2010, The United States discusses the arrest of Bradley Manning, accused of providing secret information about US military corruption to Wikileaks. (BBC)
July 14, 2010, India's Home Secretary G. K. Pillai states Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) co-ordinated the 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Aljazeera)
July 14, 2010, Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist allegedly abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, leaves U.S. soil: Iran states it will continue to pursue the case "legally and diplomatically". (Aljazeera)
July 14, 2010, Boeing unveils Phantom Eye, its unmanned hydrogen-powered spy plane capable of flying for up to four consecutive days. (BBC)
July 14, 2010, An 18th-Century wood-hulled ship is discovered at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City. (The New York Times)
July 14, 2010, Researchers find that the Vatican Radio transmitters increase the risk of tumours and leukaemia in children who live nearby. (BBC)
July 15, 2010,
July 15, 2010,
July 15, 2010, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez orders a review of Venezuela's ties with the Vatican following tensions between the government and Roman Catholic bishops. (BBC)
July 15, 2010, The Vatican issues a decree making the "attempted ordination of women" a grave crime in ecclesiastical law equivalent to child sexual abuse. (The Guardian)
July 15, 2010, The Vatican issues new instructions to speed up its own cases of priestly sexual abuse that are considered "most urgent". (BBC)
July 15, 2010, A report by Amnesty International says that North Korea's healthcare system is in a state of "crisis". (Al Jazeera)
July 15, 2010, Argentina becomes the first Latin American country to legalise same-sex marriage. (The Washington Post)
July 15, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney admits he has received a small heart pump to combat "increasing congestive heart failure". (BBC)
July 15, 2010, The United States Senate passes the financial reform package, aimed at curbing misconduct on Wall Street, with a 60-39 vote. (The Washington Post)
July 15, 2010, BP reports that no oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for the first time since it began in April. (Reuters)
July 15, 2010, Hundreds of Russians die, including 233 who drowned while swimming after consuming alcohol, amidst a heat wave and drought. (BBC)
July 15, 2010, Researchers discover a new species of fossil primate, Saadanius hijazensis which could be a common ancestor of Old World Monkeys and apes, including humans. (NatureNews)
July 15, 2010, Golfer Rory McIlroy ties the record for lowest score (9-under par) at a major championship. (The Belfast Telegraph)
July 15, 2010, World 800 metres champion Caster Semenya wins her first race since her comeback. (BBC Sport)
July 16, 2010, Release of Inception
July 16, 2010, TV Premiere of The Jenson Project
July 16, 2010,
July 16, 2010, Federal Defence Minister John Faulkner rules out withdrawing Australian troops from Afghanistan, alleging it would undo nine years of hard work. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 16, 2010, Singer P!nk is hospitalised without serious injury after falling out of a harness and colliding with a barricade during a concert in Nuremberg. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, American company Goldman Sachs pays a record $550 million (US) fine to settle civil fraud charges. (Aljazeera)
July 16, 2010, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledges the majority of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, An American judge sentences a former State Department worker to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and his wife to 6¾ years for spying for Cuba for three decades. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, Maria Jepsen, the world's first female Lutheran bishop, resigns due to her handling of an alleged case of sexual abuse. She is the third German bishop to resign in recent months. (BBC)
July 16, 2010, Photos taken on Mount Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken by George Mallory in 1921 reveal what is described as an "alarming" loss of ice. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, Film director Roman Polanski appears in public for the first time since being released from house arrest, watching his wife perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, The Welsh language is spoken for the first time in a ceremony at England's Westminster Cathedral in honour of martyred saint John Roberts. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, 30 bottles of champagne believed to pre-date the French Revolution are found on the Baltic seabed off the coast of Finland; it may be the world's oldest drinkable champagne. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, British tour operator Goldtrail collapses, stranding thousands of holidaymakers abroad. (BBC)
July 17, 2010, German minister Ilse Aigner expresses annoyance at Facebook's privacy policy, saying the website is breaking the law by collecting information such as phone numbers. (The Age)
July 17, 2010, The United States government run National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claims 2010 could be the warmest year on record since 1880. (Aljazeera)
July 17, 2010, Unmanned solar-powered plane Zephyr, reaches its seventh consecutive day of flight. (BBC)
July 18, 2010,
July 18, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for a full investigation into allegations that recent killings of opposition figures in Rwanda were politically motivated ahead of the country's election next month. (The Observer)
July 18, 2010, The first Nelson Mandela International Day is held on Nelson Mandela's 92nd birthday. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, A series of two earthquakes, the second quake measuring magnitude 7.3, hit New Britain in Papua New Guinea. A tsunami warning is issued but later retracted. (ABC)
July 18, 2010, Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri, who says he was abducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, says the United States wanted him to confess to being a spy as part of a plan to force the release of three Americans spies caught by Iran. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, EU commissioner Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, speaking during his first visit to Gaza since 2002, calls the Israeli blockade of Gaza an "immoral failure", expresses shock at the "huge new settlements" in the West Bank, and states the United States dominance of the Quartet on the Middle East - US, EU, UN and Russia - is wrong. (The Guardian)
July 18, 2010, A 2001 film, depicting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu discussing methods of undermining the Oslo Accords and saying the United States is "easy" to manipulate, is aired on Israel's Channel 10. (Aljazeera)
July 18, 2010, The United Kingdom plans to reduce or eliminate international aid to countries such as the "powerhouses" of Russia and China, as well as South American and eastern European countries. The government plans aid increases to some poorer nations including a 40% increase to Afghanistan. (The Observer)
July 18, 2010, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says that Israel must go beyond easing its blockade of Gaza and throw open its long-closed border. (BBC)
July 18, 2010, A decade-long manhunt orchestrated by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ends with the capture of José Figueroa Agosto in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (BBC)
July 18, 2010, Health experts condemn tobacco companies for openly flouting European Union laws against advertising by using glitzy sales teams and techniques to promote cigarette brands at young people on Facebook and at music festivals. (The Observer)
July 19, 2010,
July 19, 2010,
July 19, 2010,
July 19, 2010,
July 19, 2010,
July 19, 2010, Greek investigative journalist, blogger and broadcaster Sokratis Giolias is killed after being shot more than 15 times outside his home in Ilioupoli, Athens ahead of the publication of his report into corruption. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, Amnesty International releases its "Agents of Fear" report, accusing Khartoum's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of torturing and abusing political dissidents, including journalists, human rights activists and students, in an attempt to silence them. (Aljazeera)
July 19, 2010, The United Kingdom's oldest person, a Gateshead great-great grandmother, dies at the age of 111. She would have been 112 next month. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, China surpasses the United States to become world's biggest energy consumer, consuming about 4% more than the U.S. (Washington Post)
July 19, 2010, Chinese authorities launch a clean-up operation to tackle a 50 sq km slick following an explosion of two crude oil pipelines in Dalian. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, Retired United States Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the person in charge of cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico states that the cap is leaking but it is not a major concern so far. (AP via Google News)
July 19, 2010, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asks that the United States stop using what he describes as "cowboy logic" if it wants to engage in dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme, adding that he would support negotiations. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, A two-year "Top Secret America" investigation by The Washington Post concludes that United States intelligence gathering has grown so much since the September 11 attacks that neither its true cost, size nor effectiveness in keeping the country safe is actually known. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, The United Nations Economic and Social Council grants the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission consultative status after a vote of 23 for, 13 against, 13 abstentions, and 5 absent. (San Diego Gay & Lesbian News)
July 19, 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron launches his "Big Society" scheme. (BBC)
July 19, 2010, An anti-aircraft laser is unveiled, a first for naval warfare. (BBC)
-A supersonic Bloodhound model is unveiled.
July 20, 2010,
July 20, 2010, Actress Lindsay Lohan starts a 90-day sentence for breaking her parole for a 2007 conviction for drunk driving in California, United States. (The Australian)
July 20, 2010, The United States announces it is to deploy troops along the US-Mexico border in August in what it sees as an effort to improve its security. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, An international conference on the future of Afghanistan opens in Kabul co-chaired by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. The conference endorses a goal for Afghan forces to lead security operations across the country by 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggests raising the size of the Afghan National Army to 170,000 troops and the Afghan National Police to 134,000 officers by 2011. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, The leadership of Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon is attacked. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, ASEAN formally invites Russia and the United States to attend the East Asia Summit and urges Myanmar to hold free and fair elections in a foreign ministers meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Agence France Presse)
July 20, 2010, Lesbian student Constance McMillen, banned by a high school in the United States from bringing her girlfriend to her leavers' dinner, is to receive a $35,000 settlement in response to a discrimination lawsuit. (BBC)
July 20, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron meets with US President Barack Obama to discuss the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Afghanistan and the global economy. (BBC)
July 21, 2010,
July 21, 2010,
July 21, 2010, A Stonewall study indicates that young people rarely see positive portrayals of lesbian and gay people on television, usually depicted as "promiscuous, predatory, or figures of fun", particularly on BBC One. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron gifts President of the United States Barack Obama a painting, Twenty First Century City, by graffiti artist Ben Eine, while Obama gifts Cameron a signed lithograph, Column with Speed Lines, by Edward Ruscha. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Google Images receives one billion page views per day and receives a revamp. (BBC)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán says his government would only talk about their 2011 budget with the European Union, not the International Monetary Fund. (Reuters)
July 21, 2010, Hilary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, announces that the United States will impose further sanctions against North Korea as a result of the sinking of the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan. (Bloomberg)
July 21, 2010, Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law. (CNN)
July 21, 2010, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron offends his own war veterans by erroneously suggesting in a Sky News interview that his country fought as the "junior partner" alongside the United States in "...the 1940 war against Germany." (BBC)
July 21, 2010, The White House holds an official review after an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture was forced to resign regarding controversy about a video that surfaced on the Internet. (CNN)
July 21, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama signs finance reforms into law, overhauling the country's Wall Street Financial District. (Aljazeera)
July 21, 2010, Scientists announce the discovery of R136a1, the most massive star ever found. (BBC)
July 22, 2010,
July 22, 2010, 15,000 villagers are to be displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of British mining company Randgold Resources's search for gold. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, The Israeli military tells the United Nations it will restrict its use of artillery shells containing white phosphorus. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces he is to withdraw from public life. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, Damon Albarn-fronted Gorillaz announce their first world tour and will visit at least four continents. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, The International Monetary Fund cancels Haiti's $268 million debt and approves a new three-year loan worth $60 million; the IMF expects Haiti to start paying back interest in late 2011. (Aljazeera)
July 22, 2010, A proposal to develop nuclear energy is discussed at an energy policy meeting held by Asean in Da Lat, Vietnam. (BBC)
July 22, 2010, Volunteers use their hands to clean an oil spill in the Yellow Sea after pipelines burst off Dalian in Northeastern China's Liaoning Province, spilling 1,500 tonnes of oil and covering an area close to 1,000 km2 and about 90 km of coast. (Xinhua)
July 22, 2010, The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was not illegal, in a move that could set a precedent for unrecognised countries.(Al-Jazeera)
July 22, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon stalls on his earlier proposal for an international investigation into the Gaza flotilla raid. (Asia Times Online)
July 22, 2010, It is announced that the police officer who was filmed pushing Ian Tomlinson to his death during the 2009 G-20 London summit protests will not face charges; his family call it "outrageous". (BBC)
July 22, 2010, A new henge is discovered at Stonehenge World Heritage Site, described to be the biggest discovery of a major monument in over 50 years around Stonehenge. (BBC News)
July 23, 2010, Release of Salt
July 23, 2010, Release of Countdown to Zero
July 23, 2010, Release of Life during Wartime
July 23, 2010, TV Mini Series Premiere "Pillars of Earth"
July 23, 2010,
July 23, 2010, The Diocese of Rome criticizes homosexual priests, accusing them of leading a "double life" and advising them to leave the priesthood. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Black Swan is announced as the opening film of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Alarms on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are found to have been disabled before the explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (The Guardian)
July 23, 2010, Serbia states its intention to never recognize Kosovo's independence after International Court of Justice's yesterday ruling. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Colombia after Colombia claims Venezuela is a "haven for guerrillas". (BBC)
July 23, 2010, Michael Conahan, a former judge in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, pleas guilty to racketeering conspiracy by assisting in the jailing of juvenile defendants in return for bribes. (BBC)
July 23, 2010, The Indian government unveils a solar power touch-screen laptop, cheaper than America's iPad, expected to be on sale next year. (BBC)
July 24, 2010, Doctor Who Season 5 finale
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010,
July 24, 2010, A massive stampede at the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg kills 18 people and injures dozens more people. (Deutsche Welle)
July 24, 2010, The Lake Delhi Dam fails along the Maquoketa River in the U.S. state of Iowa. (CBS News)
July 24, 2010, An investigation reveals that several dozen staff and contractors of the United States Department of Defense, some with high-level security clearances, allegedly downloaded child pornography; an undisclosed number did so on government-owned computers. (The Boston Globe)
July 24, 2010, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin meets the Russian intelligence agents who were swapped with the United States. (BBC)
July 24, 2010, Snooker's "first television superstar" and two-times world champion Alex Higgins dies at the age of 61. (BBC)
July 25, 2010, Mad Men Season 4 premiere
July 25, 2010,
July 25, 2010, United States Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner pushes for Congress to allow the tax cuts for high-income taxpayers in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010, while extending the act's tax cuts for middle- and lower-income taxpayers. (CNN)
July 25, 2010, At the African Union summit in Kampala, attended by 53 countries, its president, the President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika, states International Criminal Court indictments against the Sudanese president undermine African peace and security and calls for the issue to be solved in a different way. (Aljazeera)
July 25, 2010, Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro visits a mausoleum in Artemisa, his first reported appearance outside Havana since leaving office in 2006. (BBC)
July 26, 2010, HBO Special Presentation Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County
July 26, 2010, Release of The War Logs:
- Wikileaks releases over 92,000 documents detailing unreported killings of hundreds of Afghan civilians and other incidents related to the war in Afghanistan to The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history. (The New York Times)
- The United States government condemns the release of the files, calling it a "risk" and a threat to their security. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Julian Assange defends the release, saying the publication was in the public interest, and saying that Wikileaks had withheld the documents from release until it could redact the names of individuals whose safety might be at risk. US Senator John Kerry says the documents "raise serious questions about the reality of America's policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan". (ABC)
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010, The Plastiki, a catamaran made out of recycled plastic, arrives in Sydney, Australia, after travelling across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, United States, to raise awareness of environmental issues. (AP via Yahoo News)
July 27, 2010, Downfall Season 1 Finale
July 27, 2010, The Colony Season 2 Premiere
July 27, 2010, Release of Nightmare is the fifth studio album by American rock band Avenged Sevenfold
July 27, 2010, Release of InDRUpendence Day is the fourth studio album by American R&B group Dru Hill
July 27, 2010, Release of Video game Starcraft: II Wings of Liberty
July 27, 2010, Release of Video game Need for Speed: World
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010, BP announces that Tony Hayward is to step down as CEO following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and will be replaced by Bob Dudley on October 1st. (TV New Zealand),announces that Tony Hayward is to step down as CEO following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and will be replaced by Bob Dudley on October 1st). (Bloomberg)
July 27, 2010,The United States Congress provides funding for a troop increase for the War in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
27, 2010, The wreck of the 19th century Royal Navy ship HMS Investigator is found in Mercy Bay in northern Canada. (National Post)
July 28, 2010,
July 28, 2010,
July 28, 2010, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Season 2 Finale
July 28, 2010, During a visit to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron warns Pakistan not to have any relationship with groups that "promote the export of terror". (BBC)
July 28, 2010,United States federal judge Susan Bolton issues a ruling blocking Arizona from implementing sections of Arizona SB 1070 requiring police to check a person's immigration status and requiring immigrants to carry their papers at all times. (ABC Online)
July 28, 2010, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a "fiscal state of emergency" requiring most state employees to take three days a month of unpaid leave until a new budget is enacted. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
July 28, 2010,The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so. (Los Angeles Times)
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,The Reserve Bank of New Zealand lifts interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to three per cent. (Wall Street Journal)
July 29, 2010, The United States House of Representatives Ethics Committee begins a public hearing into New York Democratic Congressman Charles B. Rangel. (CBS)
July 29, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean announces that he has taken formal steps towards running for President of Haiti but has not yet decided on a candidacy. (Reuters)
July 29, 2010, Google claims that its Chinese Internet search and mobile search is blocked. (Reuters)
July 30, 2010, Release of Dinner for Smucks
July 30, 2010, Release of Charlie St. Cloud
July 30, 2010, Release of Get Low
July 30, 2010, Release of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
July 30, 2010,
July 30, 2010,
July 30, 2010, At least 63 members of the US military have died in the War in Afghanistan during July 2010 making it the deadliest month for US forces in the history of the war. (The Guardian)
July 30, 2010, Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says. (BBC)
July 30, 2010, Flooding caused by monsoonal rain causes hundreds of deaths in northwestern Pakistan. (Al-Jazeera)
July 30, 2010, Multiple law-enforcement agencies seize a hoard of cannabis thought to be worth up to US$1.7 billion in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern California, United States. (BBC)
July 30, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore is cleared of claims that he assaulted a masseuse in Portland, Oregon in 2006. (Associated Press)
July 30, 2010, A Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute study suggests that the Nili Fossae area on the surface of Mars could be a good spot to search for evidence of past life on Mars. (MSNBC)
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky get married in Rhinebeck, New York. (UPI)
July 31, 2010, The United States Department of Commerce releases statistics showing that the United States economy shrunk by 4.1 per cent between the 4th quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009, a deeper recession than previously thought. (Bloomberg)
July 31, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Pakistan floods exceeds 900 and may climb further. (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)
July 31, 2010, United States and Michigan government officials say it will take months to clean up an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan and considerably longer for the ecosystem to recover. (AP via New York Times)
July 31, 2010, The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether civilians conspired with a US soldier to release classified information available on Wikileaks. (UPI)
July 31, 2010, Pakistani intelligence officials have cancelled a planned visit to the United Kingdom after British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Pakistan to avoid links with groups that "promote the export of terror". However, a visit by President Asif Ali Zardari will go ahead. (BBC)
July 31, 2010, Police fire rubber bullets to disperse rioting garment workers as protests spread beyond the capital Dhaka to other Bangladeshi cities. (AFP via Google News)
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010,
July 26, 2010, The Plastiki, a catamaran made out of recycled plastic, arrives in Sydney, Australia, after travelling across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, United States, to raise awareness of environmental issues. (AP via Yahoo News)
July 27, 2010, Downfall Season 1 Finale
July 27, 2010, The Colony Season 2 Premiere
July 27, 2010, Release of Nightmare is the fifth studio album by American rock band Avenged Sevenfold
July 27, 2010, Release of InDRUpendence Day is the fourth studio album by American R&B group Dru Hill
July 27, 2010, Release of Video game Starcraft: II Wings of Liberty
July 27, 2010, Release of Video game Need for Speed: World
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010,
July 27, 2010, BP announces that Tony Hayward is to step down as CEO following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and will be replaced by Bob Dudley on October 1st. (TV New Zealand),announces that Tony Hayward is to step down as CEO following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and will be replaced by Bob Dudley on October 1st). (Bloomberg)
July 27, 2010,The United States Congress provides funding for a troop increase for the War in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
27, 2010, The wreck of the 19th century Royal Navy ship HMS Investigator is found in Mercy Bay in northern Canada. (National Post)
July 28, 2010,
July 28, 2010,
July 28, 2010, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Season 2 Finale
July 28, 2010, During a visit to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron warns Pakistan not to have any relationship with groups that "promote the export of terror". (BBC)
July 28, 2010,United States federal judge Susan Bolton issues a ruling blocking Arizona from implementing sections of Arizona SB 1070 requiring police to check a person's immigration status and requiring immigrants to carry their papers at all times. (ABC Online)
July 28, 2010, The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a "fiscal state of emergency" requiring most state employees to take three days a month of unpaid leave until a new budget is enacted. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
July 28, 2010,The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so. (Los Angeles Times)
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,
July 29, 2010,The Reserve Bank of New Zealand lifts interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to three per cent. (Wall Street Journal)
July 29, 2010, The United States House of Representatives Ethics Committee begins a public hearing into New York Democratic Congressman Charles B. Rangel. (CBS)
July 29, 2010, Musician Wyclef Jean announces that he has taken formal steps towards running for President of Haiti but has not yet decided on a candidacy. (Reuters)
July 29, 2010, Google claims that its Chinese Internet search and mobile search is blocked. (Reuters)
July 30, 2010, Release of Dinner for Smucks
July 30, 2010, Release of Charlie St. Cloud
July 30, 2010, Release of Get Low
July 30, 2010, Release of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
July 30, 2010,
July 30, 2010,
July 30, 2010, At least 63 members of the US military have died in the War in Afghanistan during July 2010 making it the deadliest month for US forces in the history of the war. (The Guardian)
July 30, 2010, Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says. (BBC)
July 30, 2010, Flooding caused by monsoonal rain causes hundreds of deaths in northwestern Pakistan. (Al-Jazeera)
July 30, 2010, Multiple law-enforcement agencies seize a hoard of cannabis thought to be worth up to US$1.7 billion in the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern California, United States. (BBC)
July 30, 2010, Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore is cleared of claims that he assaulted a masseuse in Portland, Oregon in 2006. (Associated Press)
July 30, 2010, A Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute study suggests that the Nili Fossae area on the surface of Mars could be a good spot to search for evidence of past life on Mars. (MSNBC)
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010,
July 31, 2010, Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky get married in Rhinebeck, New York. (UPI)
July 31, 2010, The United States Department of Commerce releases statistics showing that the United States economy shrunk by 4.1 per cent between the 4th quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009, a deeper recession than previously thought. (Bloomberg)
July 31, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Pakistan floods exceeds 900 and may climb further. (Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle)
July 31, 2010, United States and Michigan government officials say it will take months to clean up an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan and considerably longer for the ecosystem to recover. (AP via New York Times)
July 31, 2010, The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether civilians conspired with a US soldier to release classified information available on Wikileaks. (UPI)
July 31, 2010, Pakistani intelligence officials have cancelled a planned visit to the United Kingdom after British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Pakistan to avoid links with groups that "promote the export of terror". However, a visit by President Asif Ali Zardari will go ahead. (BBC)
July 31, 2010, Police fire rubber bullets to disperse rioting garment workers as protests spread beyond the capital Dhaka to other Bangladeshi cities. (AFP via Google News)
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