October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010, Release of The Social Network
October 1, 2010, Release of Casino Jack
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama calls a press conference in the White House to make a "personnel announcement" reported to be related to the departure of his aide Rahm Emanuel. (BBC)
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010,
October 1, 2010, Rick Sanchez, a Cuban-born news anchorman with the American channel CNN, is fired by the network after calling comedian Jon Stewart a "bigot", saying Jews are not an oppressed minority in the United States, and implying the people who run CNN and other news media are Jewish. (BBC)
October 1, 2010, Sky 3D, the first dedicated 3D TV channel in Europe, launches in the UK. (BBC)
October 1, 2010, American Bob Dudley succeeds Tony Hayward as the new CEO of BP after the recent controversies over the Oil Spill crisis in the Deepwater Horizon. (AP via Google News)
October 1, 2010, The discovery of Inkayacu, an extinct genus of prehistoric penguin that lived in the Late Eocene period, is announced. (The New York Times)
October 1, 2010, More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. (CNN)
October 1, 2010, The 2010 Ryder Cup between golfers representing the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour begins at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. (BBC)
October 2, 2010, Druidry is recognised as religion for first time in the United Kingdom. (AP via Google News)
October 1, 2010, American Bob Dudley succeeds Tony Hayward as the new CEO of BP after the recent controversies over the Oil Spill crisis in the Deepwater Horizon. (AP via Google News)
October 1, 2010, The discovery of Inkayacu, an extinct genus of prehistoric penguin that lived in the Late Eocene period, is announced. (The New York Times)
October 1, 2010, More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. (CNN)
October 1, 2010, The 2010 Ryder Cup between golfers representing the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour begins at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. (BBC)
October 2, 2010, Druidry is recognised as religion for first time in the United Kingdom. (AP via Google News)
October 2, 2010, China launches the Chang'e 2 lunar probe from Sichuan. (Xinhua)
October 22, 2010, Release of Paranormal Activity 2
October 22, 2010, Wikileaks releases Iraq War Logs, secret American military records which reveal new information, including that U.S. commanders allowed torture and execution to occur without investigation and that hundreds of civilians have been killed at U.S. military checkpoints during the War on Iraq. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials condemn the disclosures. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, The Haitian Health Ministry informs the World Health Organisation of a cholera outbreak north of Port-au-Prince; at least 150 people have been killed. (CNN)
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010, Chilean writer and social critic Pablo Huneeus registers the copyright in "Estamos bien en el refugio los 33" on behalf of of the man who wrote it. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, 2010 strikes in France:
-French riot police take over the Grandpuits Total S.A. oil refinery which had been blockaded by strikers for more than ten days. (BBC)
-The Senate of France passes the contentious pension reform bills. (BBC)
-French trade unions plan two further days of protest on October 28 and November 6. (Reuters)
October 22, 2010, Unemployment fell in 23 states and Washington, D.C., rose in 11 states.(Washington Times)
October 22, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon warns that North Korea is headed for a "chronic" food crisis with droughts and floods in various parts of the country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
October 22, 2010, Typhoon Megi kills 7 people and leaves 23 missing after triggering landslides in Taiwan. (Focus Taiwan)
October 22, 2010, Cyclone Giri, which rapidly intensified with winds of 144mph, makes landfall in western Burma. (CNN)
October 22, 2010, Forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, cause a thick haze to drift over Singapore. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices. (Reuters)
October 23, 2010,
October 23, 2010, Scientists studying the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster’s impact find substantial amounts of oil on the seafloor, contradicting statements by US government officials that the oil has largely disappeared. (USA Today)
October 23, 2010, 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak:
-Cholera is detected in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for the first time since the post-earthquake outbreak began. (BBC)
-The death toll passes 250. (The Wall Street Journal)
October 23, 2010,
October 23, 2010, Iraq War Logs: Julian Assange of Wikileaks tells a London news conference that the 400,000 classified U.S. military documents released to the general public yesterday reveal that the Iraq War is "a bloodbath on every corner". (AFP via Tehran Times)
October 23, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: French unions challenge a back-to-work order in court, one day after the senate voted in favour of increasing their retirement age. (Al Jazeera)
October 23, 2010, Group of Twenty finance leaders agree to give 6% more International Monetary Fund votes to developing countries, though the U.S. retains its veto power, in a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea. (BBC)
October 23, 2010, The death toll from Typhoon Megi in Taiwan has reached as least eleven with at least 23 people from two Chinese tour groups missing. It has now made landfall in China's Fujian province. (CNN)
October 23, 2010, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that as many as 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050 if current trends in diet and exercise continue.(Reuters)
October 23, 2010, Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
-Richard Falk, a UN human rights rapporteur, issues a report to the United Nations General Assembly saying continued settlement construction would probably make Israel's occupation of Palestinian land irreversible and that said the UN, the US and Israel had failed to uphold the rights of Palestinians. (BBC)
-Bishops from across the Middle East urge Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories at the end of a two-week-long meeting at the Vatican. (The New York Times)
-The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preventing it from building schools in Gaza; the Israeli Defense Ministry says it is doing so to thwart Hamas from building the schools next to Hamas military installations.(The Jerusalem Post)
October 23, 2010, German economy minister Rainer Bruederle criticizes the United States' monetary easing as indirectly manipulation of the USD exchange rates. (Reuters)
October 23, 2010, 306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua)
October 24, 2010,
October 24, 2010, The number of visitors to the Shanghai World Expo 2010 topped 70 million. (Xinhua)
October 24, 2010, Britain's privacy watchdog is to investigate Google once again, charging it with gathering personal information from private wi-fi networks. Google admits collecting details such as passwords and e-mails. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan welcomes U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the port of Qingdao as the United States objects to what it labels the "artifical" value of China's own currency, the yuan. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Further, larger strikes are planned against government attempts to increase the age of retirement for the country's workers. (The Observer)
October 24, 2010, Tropical Storm Richard lashes Honduras's Caribbean Coast with heavy rain before becoming a hurricane and making landfall in Belize. (AP)
October 24, 2010, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees starts an emergency airlift to Benin which is suffering its worst flooding in decade. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, The Pope calls for an end to conflict in the Middle East, and for Islamic countries in the Middle East to guarantee freedom of worship to non-Muslims. (Reuters)
October 24, 2010, Actor Randy Quaid and his wife seek asylum in Canada to avoid prosecution in the United States, claiming they are being "persecuted". (BBC)
October 25, 2010, Chuck S4 Ep 6: Chuck Vs The Isle Of Terror
October 25, 2010, Indonesia:
-Authorities evacuate 40,000 people in Java due to fears of an explosion by Mount Merapi. (CNN)
-A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes near the Mentawai Islands, but tsunami warnings for western Sumatra proved unwarranted. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, Sony stops selling the original cassette Walkman. (Newcore via Herald Sun)
October 25, 2010, US financial regulators launch an investigation into the foreclosure practices of various US financial institutions. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, BP:
-CEO Bob Dudley outlines a strategy to rebuild public trust, after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC News)
-The British oil firm sells its interests in four Gulf of Mexico oil wells to Japanese firm Marubeni, in a wider cash-raising effort that aims to raise 30 billion dollars for compensations related to the oil spill. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, One person is killed and nine others injured after a plane carrying employees of BP Canada crashes in northeastern Alberta. The twin-engine King Air 100 was on its way from Edmonton City Centre Airport to Kirby Lake, southeast of Conklin. (Edmonton Journal)
October 25, 2010, The EU activates its Rapid Border Intervention Teams for the first time since its creation in 2007 to stem illegal immigration at the Greek border. (BBC News)
October 26, 2010, Release of Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Expansion
October 26, 2010, Sumatra earthquake, tsunami and Merapi volcanic eruption:
-After receiving orders from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is now on his visit program to China and Vietnam, Indonesian Public Welfare Minister Agung Laksono declares an emergency response. (Xinhua)
-The death toll from the tsunami rises to 23. (AP) (Xinhua)
-160 people are missing from a village on the Indonesian village of Betu Monga on Sumatra hit by a local tsunami after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck south of the Mentawai Islands. The earthquake leaves at least one person dead and damages 150 houses. (Reuters) (Today's Zaman)
-At least nine Australian surfers go missing after the tsunami struck including Alex McTaggart, a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly but are later found. (Herald Sun)(News Limited) (News Limited)
-At least 12 people are dead following the eruption of Mount Merapi in Central Java. Thousands of people are evacuating the area. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
October 26, 2010,
October 26, 2010,
October 26, 2010, The Emperor of Exmoor, a red deer believed to be Britain's largest wild animal, is shot and killed. (The Guardian)
October 26, 2010, The Japanese Cabinet approves an extra budget containing an emergency economic stimulus package to help shore up the economy. (AAP via NineMSN)
October 26, 2010, A cholera outbreak kills 559 in Cameroon. (Xinhua)
October 26, 2010, The World Health Organization announces a mass polio vaccination campaign across Africa, the same day an outbreak of the disease in Uganda is declared. (CP)
October 26, 2010, The United States has fallen to a new low of 22nd place in Transparency International's rating of the least corrupt nations, noting various financial scandals and a lack of regulation leading to power being bought. (Reuters)
October 26, 2010, Hungarian-born multibillionaire George Soros donates $1 million to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund California's Proposition 19 in the upcoming November 2, 2010 elections that would legalize marijuana in the state if passed. (Sfgate.com)
October 26, 2010, GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to intentionally manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs, including Paxil, and will pay $750 million for committing the felony. (Reuters)
October 26, 2010, A U.S. court disables Limewire's file-sharing service due to copyright infringement.(Reuters)
October 26, 2010, Iran starts loading fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Plant, its first nuclear plant. (BBC)
October 27, 2010, Indonesia:
- The death toll from the tsunami following the October 2010 Sumatra earthquake reaches at least 282 with hundreds of people still missing. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
-Concerns are raised about the effectiveness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System. (BBC)
-Fatalities caused by the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province rises, with 28 people known to have been killed by hot ash. (Xinhua)
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010, American bank Wells Fargo admits it made mistakes in 55,000 real estate foreclosure cases. (AP via Today Online)
October 27, 2010, Astronomers discover the most massive neutron star yet known. (Nature)
October 28, 2010, China's Tianhe-1 overtakes Nebule to regain top spot as the world's fastest supercomputer. (China Daily)
October 28, 2010,
October 28, 2010,
October 28, 2010, Indonesia:
-The death toll from the recent eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia rises to 32 as it erupts again. (CNN)
-The death toll from the tsunami rises to at least 343. (CBC)
October 28, 2010, Two volcanoes erupt on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Klyuchevskaya Sopka and Shiveluch, forcing flights to divert and spewing volcanic ash over the nearby town of Ust-Kamchatsk. (AP)
October 28, 2010, Verizon will pay a $25 million settlement to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cellphone customers. (Reuters)
October 29, 2010, Release of Saw: 3D
October 29, 2010, Release of Monsters
October 29, 2010, Security alert in the United Kingdom and United States: Law enforcement authorities in the UK and the US are on high alert after suspicious packages are found on flights arriving from Yemen. A similar package is discovered in Dubai. (BBC News)
October 29, 2010,
October 29, 2010,
October 29, 2010, Indonesian tsunami:
- The death toll from the Indonesian tsunami climbs to 394 with 312 still missing. (BBC)
-Only nine of the 23 sensor buoys off the coast of Indonesia of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System are working due to technical problems or vandalism. (ABC News Australia)
October 29, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak reaches 300 as new cases are reported nearer the capital Port-au-Prince. (BBC)
October 29, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Shary strengthens and nears Bermuda, while Tropical Storm Tomas forms and approaches the Caribbean Sea. (ABC News)
October 29, 2010, Iran says it is ready to resume international talks over its nuclear program "in a place and on a date convenient to both sides", says a letter to the European Union. (The Guardian)
October 29, 2010, The UN Convention on Biological Diversity places a ban on geoengineering projects and experiments. (Washington Post)
October 30, 2010, 2010 cargo plane bomb plot:
-The United States searches on Saturday for the people behind the attempts to send mail bombs to Chicago synagogues. (BBC)
-Yemeni authorities arrest two women in relation to the attack and search for other people of interest. (Al Jazeera)
October 30, 2010, Aftermath of October 2010 Sumatra earthquake:
-The death toll from the tsunami climbs to 413 and 218 people missing with the Government of Indonesia considering evacuations. (CNN)
-Rescue workers find 135 people on a remote island and revise downwards by half the missing toll. (Al Jazeera)
October 30, 2010, 18-year old Alexandria Mills from the USA wins the 60th edition of the Miss World pageant in China. (ABC News)
October 30, 2010, A large oil field is discovered off the coast of Brazil that could contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels. (BBC)
October 30, 2010, Hurricane Tomas lashes the islands of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. (BBC)
October 30, 2010, An estimated 200,000 people attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear by political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Al Jazeera)
October 31, 2010, Release of Walking Dead
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010, The US, UK, France and Germany ban all air freight from Yemen at their respective countries' airports following the discovery of two explosive packages. (The Jerusalem Post)
October 31, 2010, The Shanghai World Expo in China ends. (China Daily)
October 31, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak reaches 330 with the impact of Hurricane Tomas later in the week expected to make things worse. (CNN)
October 31, 2010, The death toll from the Sumatra tsunami reaches 435 with 110 people missing and feared dead. (AFP via ABC News Online)
October 31, 2010, Mount Merapi erupts again in Indonesia, surprising villagers who had returned to check their possessions. (AP)
October 2, 2010, Thousands of people rally in Washington, D.C., calling for improved civil rights in the country. (CNN)
October 2, 2010,
October 2, 2010, The United States issues a travel alert to its citizens across Europe, warning that it suspects they may become the target of a commando-style attack. (Al Jazeera)
October 2, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Millions of people demonstrate on the streets of France for a third day in more than 200 protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. (Xinhua)
October 2, 2010, The 60th Miss World 2010 pageant begins as the last delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China. (Globalbeauties)
October 2, 2010, A film produced for the 10:10 campaign in which a teacher explodes two of her students is withdrawn due to complaints and an apology is issued. (BBC)
October 2, 2010, American female television station Oxygen gives the go-ahead to a new reality show set to star American celebrity and heiress Paris Hilton; the show is to follow Hilton in the course of her everyday life. (Reuters)
October 2, 2010, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells that peace negotiations will not continue until Israel makes a new settlement freeze on the West Bank, ending the current Israel-Palestine peace negotiations after just one month, though maintaining contacts with the United States. (Xinhua)
October 2, 2010, A report into the second Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon is published, indicating reasons why people voted for and against the European Union treaty, which the Government eventually ratified successfully after much effort. (RTÉ)
October 3, 2010, Season Premiere American Dad S 7 Ep1:
October 3, 2010, The 2010 Commonwealth Games officially start at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera)
October 3, 2010,
October 3, 2010,
October 3, 2010, Twelve people were killed and seven injured after individuals opened fire at NATO oil tankers near the Defence Housing Authority, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
October 3, 2010, Archaeologists digging at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city which they believe is more than 2,000 years old. They encounter difficulties while excavating due to the blockade of Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
October 4, 2010, Release of Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Bruno Mars.
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, Release of Easy Wonderful the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band Guster.
October 5, 2010, Release of Illuminaudio is the third studio album by American post-hardcore band Chiodos.
October 5, 2010, Release of Something About Faith the sixth studio album by American singer Faith Evans.
October 5, 2010, Release of Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards the fourteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani.
October 5, 2010, Release of Life Turns Electric the sixth studio album from Canadian band Finger Eleven.
October 5, 2010, Release of Fight or Flight the debut studio album by American pop singer-songwriter Emily Osment.
October 5, 2010,
October 5, 2010,
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, Google lines up Internet TV programming partners like TBS, TNT, CNN, HBO, NBA, CNBC. (Shanghai Daily)
October 5, 2010, Researchers identify a new, though threatened, language known as Koro. (BBC)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, Premiere of The Challenge: Cutthroat
October 6, 2010,
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October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, At least 75 people are killed in flash floods in eastern Indonesia. (Straits Times)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia's West Papua province rises to 97 with dozens of people missing. (ABC News Australia)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, China issues new regulations requiring the managers of mines to accompany workers down the shafts. (BBC)
October 7, 2010, The United Kingdom Labour Party announces its Shadow Cabinet to be led by Ed Miliband. (Sky News)
October 7, 2010, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu retires from public life after reaching his 79th birthday. (Al Jazeera)
October 8, 2010, Release of My Soul To Take
October 8, 2010, Release of Life as We Know It
October 8, 2010, Release of Stone
October 8, 2010, Release of It's Kind of a Funny Story
October 8, 2010, Release of The Secretariat
October 8, 2010, Release of In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010 the second greatest hits compilation album by the British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010, China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2 completes final braking, enters working. (Xinhua)
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google doodle. (The Daily Telegraph)
October 8, 2010, United States gospel music singer Albertina Walker, known as the "Queen of Gospel" dies in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune via HeraldNet)
October 8, 2010, The United States economy shed 95,000 more jobs than expected in September. (Al Jazeera)
October 8, 2010, The Government of Japan approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2 completes final braking, enters working. (Xinhua)
October 9, 2010,
October 9, 2010,
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 9, 2010, The Government of Ecuador extends a state of emergency initially imposed on September 30 in the 2010 Ecuador crisis. (CNN)
October 9, 2010, Ajka alumina plant accident:
-The Hungarian town of Kolontár is evacuated as the emergency worsens. (BBC)
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 10, 2010, 2010 Copiapó 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)
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010, Surgeons at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia inject a spinal chord injury patient with embryonic stem cells in an experiment approved by United States Food and Drug Administration. (USA Today)
October 10, 2010, U.S. soul singer Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam's Airport Schiphol. (AP via Yahoo News)
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010, Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh. (ABC News Australia)
October 10, 2010, Hungary races against time in its efforts to construct an emergency dam to defeat the Ajka alumina plant accident. (BBC)
October 10, 2010, The Israeli cabinet approves a bill requiring all non-Jews taking Israeli citizenship to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". (Al Jazeera)
October 10, 2010, The Equality and Human Rights Commission releases a 700-page report condemning Britain as a land where discrimination and disadvantage are rife. (The Observer)
October 11, 2010, , 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)
October 11, 2010,
October 11, 2010, The death toll from flooding in Indonesia reaches 145 with West Papua most heavily affected. (CNN)
October 11, 2010, British judge Heather Hallett opens the inquests into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (Reuters UK)
October 12, 2010,
-Rescue efforts conclude for the Chilean miners trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, with the last miner being rescued at 9:56PM local time. (Bloomberg)
October 12, 2010,
October 12, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: French workers initiate a 24-hour strike against pension reform with transport services badly affected. (Euronews)
October 12, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paula (2010) reaches hurricane strength as it moves towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. (Reuters)
October 12, 2010, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tours the disaster area resulting from the 2010 floods in West Papua Province. (RNZI)
October 12, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California orders an injunction against the United States military continuing its don't ask don't tell policy against lesbian and gay members. (USA Today)
October 12, 2010, The trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to face a criminal trial in the United States, begins in New York City. (Reuters)
October 12, 2010, Kim Jong-il's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, announces his opposition to the hereditary succession plan in North Korea which would see power transferred to his younger brother Kim Jong-un. (AP)
October 12, 2010, The Obama administration in the United States lifts a six month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC)
October 13, 2010, French unions continue mass strikes for a second day with over one million people protesting on Tuesday against pension reform. (CNN)
October 13, 2010, The US government rules out a moratorium on foreclosures. The moratorium would help millions expected to lose their homes, but may also hurt the housing market. (Reuters)
October 13, 2010, The New Zealand city of Christchurch is hit by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake, an aftershock to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (ABC News Australia)
October 14, 2010, The number of mortgage foreclosures in the United States in September 2010 exceeds 100,000 for the first time. (Reuters)
October 14, 2010, Don't ask, don't tell
-The Obama administration asks United States District Court for the Central District of California judge Virginia A. Phillips to stay her ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy is unconstitutional while it appeals the decision. (Reuters)
-President Barack Obama promises that "don't ask, don't tell" will "end on his watch". (KTLA)
October 14, 2010, United Nations scientists claim to have eliminated rinderpest virus making it the second virus to have been wiped out by humans if confirmed. (BBC)
October 14, 2010, French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
October 15, 2010, Release of RED
October 15, 2010, Release of Jackass 3D
October 15, 2010, Release of Conviction
October 15, 2010, Release of Sale el Sol (English: The Sun Comes Out) album by Shakira.
October 15, 2010, A museum in Berlin opens an exhibition on Adolf Hitler and his relationship with the German people, the first museum in Germany to do so. (BBC)
October 15, 2010,
October 15, 2010, The Gotthard Base Tunnel, in the Swiss Alps becomes the world's longest railway tunnel, as final breakthrough occurs on the east bore. (Washington Post)
October 15, 2010, US rapper T.I. is sentenced to eleven months in prison for violating the terms of his parole. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
October 15, 2010, Miners in Chile rescued from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident return home after receiving hospital treatment. (Reuters)
October 15, 2010, The Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary is set to reopen following the accident earlier this month as the death toll reaches nine. (Deutsche Welle)
October 15, 2010, Four miners are trapped underground in southern Ecuador. (CNN)
October 15, 2010, Israel unveils preliminary plans for 238 new homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem with Palestineans protesting in response. (BBC)
October 16, 2010, Oscar Wilde receives a Google doodle on the 156th anniversary of his birthday, a portrait from his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. (The Guardian)
October 16, 2010, The number of visitors to Expo 2010 Shanghai exceeds 64 million, breaking the record the history of the World's Fairs. (Global Times)
October 16, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Thousands of students join millions more people on the streets of France for a fifth day of protests against government pension reform plans; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is running out of fuel amid calls by the government for people "not to panic". (BBC)
October 16, 2010, Two of four trapped Ecuadorean gold miners are found dead near the town of Portovelo. (Reuters)
October 16, 2010, 28 of 33 miners rescued in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident are secretly discharged from hospital in Chile, with 2 remaining inside. (BBC)
October 16, 2010, On World Food Day, United Nations calls for united front against food shortages, because one billion people are still hungry. (UN)
October 17, 2010,
October 17, 2010, Canonization:
-Pope Benedict XVI canonises Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint, in front of 50,000 people in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City. (Herald Sun)
-Canonization: Pope Benedict XVI canonises Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint, in front of 50,000 people in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City. (Herald Sun)
October 17, 2010, GM workers protest a drop in wages, from $58,000/year to $30,000/year, at a new car plant in Michigan that was funded by a $50 billion government bailout and is receiving $770 million in tax incentives. (Reuters)
October 17, 2010, An international report finds its most noticeable example of racial profiling is that black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be searched by police in England and Wales; U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson describes it as "astonishing". (The Observer)
October 17, 2010, Angela Merkel claims that multicultural society has "failed" in a Potsdam speech before younger activist members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. (BBC)
October 18, 2010, Release of Come Around Sundown is the fifth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon.
October 18, 2010, The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the California megachurch founded by televangelist Robert Schuller and best known for its weekly The Hour of Power television program, files for bankruptcy court protection. (Reuters)
October 18, 2010,
October 18, 2010, Bank of America resumes foreclosures in 23 states following a temporary halt in foreclosures due to the 2010 Foreclosure crisis.
October 18, 2010, BP is to sell assets worth an estimated $1.8 billion as part of series of sales to help pay for damages caused by the explosion on its Deepwater Horizon rig in April, which killed 11 workers and spilled more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. (AOL News)
October 18, 2010, Typhoon Megi: One person is missing and thousands of people have fled as Typhoon Megi, the first supertyphoon of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season, makes landfall in the Philippines. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
October 18, 2010, The U.S. government has concluded that Chinese companies are bypassing UN sanctions on Iran and helping Iran to improve its missile technology and develop nuclear weapons, and has asked China to stop such activity. (The Washington Post)
October 18, 2010, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Iran, where he is told to "get rid of America". (Telegraph)
October 18, 2010, The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a major United Nations gathering, meets in Japan to work out why governments have failed to stop the rapid rate of extinction and loss of habitats by 2010, as they vowed 8 years ago. (BBC)
October 18, 2010, The United Arab Emirates' highest court rules in a domestic violence case that a man can beat his wife and children as long as he leaves no physical marks. (MSNBC)
October 19, 2010, Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority announce plans to publish the Dead Sea Scrolls online. (AP via NPR)
October 19, 2010, China reveals plans to develop a "super-speed" train with a speed of up to 500 km per hour from the 431 km per hour speed. (China Daily)
October 19, 2010, French unrest:
-French strikes against pension reform as the Government of France taps emergency reserves to meet a fuel shortage with more than four thousand petrol stations running out of fuel. (Reuters via France 24)
-French police fire tear gas on rioting high school students in Paris with cars set on fire while there are reports of looting in Lyons. (AP)
-Half the flights at Paris-Orly Airport and thirty per cent of flights at Charles de Gaulle airport are expected to be cancelled. (CNN)
October 19, 2010, A British court finds Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud guilty of murdering his servant in a hotel. (Al Jazeera)
October 19, 2010, Naheed Nenshi is voted mayor of Calgary, Alberta, the first Muslim person to be elected mayor of a major city in Canada. (The Globe and Mail)
October 19, 2010, The National Football League announces that it will suspend players for dangerous hits, especially those involving helmets. (AP via Yahoo! News)
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez finishes a two-day visit to Iran, signing agreements on oil, energy and commerce. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, French strike:
-France braces itself for another day of strikes against proposed cuts to pensions that the Senate will consider later this week. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
-The Government of France sends in security forces to lift blockades in three oil depots at Donges, La Rochelle and Le Mans. (BBC)
October 20, 2010, China denies reports that it has banned export of rare earth mineral to the United States and Europe following similar measures against Japan. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling £81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected. (BBC)
October 20, 2010, The Obama administration notifies the United States Congress of plans for a $60billion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia in a move to threaten Iran. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, Astronomers announce the discovery of the galaxy UDFy-38135539, the most distant object observed from earth. (Daily Mail)
October 21, 2010, An analysis of data detected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the LCROSS impact last October finds the presence of carbon monoxide in Cabeus Crater in higher concentrations than the approximately 155 kg of water ice and water vapour, more than initially estimated, in addition to two hydroxyl flavours and smaller quantities of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, formaldehyde, mercury, magnesium, calcium, sodium, hydrogen gas, and possibly ammonia, ethylene and silver. (Universe Today)
October 21, 2010, French protest:
-France faces another day of strikes with a quarter of petrol stations not having any fuel. (Reuters)
-Activists block access to the Marseille Provence Airport, the fifth biggest airport in France. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, A powerful 6.9 magnitude occurs off the coast of Baja California Sur in Mexico. (Economic Times)
October 21, 2010, At least 50 people die as an outbreak of an as-of-yet unidentified disease occurs in Haiti. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, Jewish settlers have started building more than 600 homes in the West Bank since a building freeze expired last month. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, Microsoft Research and Wikipedia have joined forces to launch a beta version of a new multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia named WikiBhasha. (The Independent)
October 22, 2010, Release of HereAfter
October 2, 2010, The United States issues a travel alert to its citizens across Europe, warning that it suspects they may become the target of a commando-style attack. (Al Jazeera)
October 2, 2010,
October 2, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Millions of people demonstrate on the streets of France for a third day in more than 200 protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. (Xinhua)
October 2, 2010, The 60th Miss World 2010 pageant begins as the last delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China. (Globalbeauties)
October 2, 2010, A film produced for the 10:10 campaign in which a teacher explodes two of her students is withdrawn due to complaints and an apology is issued. (BBC)
October 2, 2010, American female television station Oxygen gives the go-ahead to a new reality show set to star American celebrity and heiress Paris Hilton; the show is to follow Hilton in the course of her everyday life. (Reuters)
October 2, 2010, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells that peace negotiations will not continue until Israel makes a new settlement freeze on the West Bank, ending the current Israel-Palestine peace negotiations after just one month, though maintaining contacts with the United States. (Xinhua)
October 2, 2010, A report into the second Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon is published, indicating reasons why people voted for and against the European Union treaty, which the Government eventually ratified successfully after much effort. (RTÉ)
October 3, 2010, Season Premiere American Dad S 7 Ep1:
October 3, 2010, The 2010 Commonwealth Games officially start at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, India. (Al Jazeera)
October 3, 2010,
October 3, 2010,
October 3, 2010, Twelve people were killed and seven injured after individuals opened fire at NATO oil tankers near the Defence Housing Authority, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
October 3, 2010, Archaeologists digging at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city which they believe is more than 2,000 years old. They encounter difficulties while excavating due to the blockade of Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
October 4, 2010, Release of Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and producer Bruno Mars.
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010,
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 4, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, Release of Easy Wonderful the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band Guster.
October 5, 2010, Release of Illuminaudio is the third studio album by American post-hardcore band Chiodos.
October 5, 2010, Release of Something About Faith the sixth studio album by American singer Faith Evans.
October 5, 2010, Release of Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards the fourteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani.
October 5, 2010, Release of Life Turns Electric the sixth studio album from Canadian band Finger Eleven.
October 5, 2010, Release of Fight or Flight the debut studio album by American pop singer-songwriter Emily Osment.
October 5, 2010,
October 5, 2010,
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, Google lines up Internet TV programming partners like TBS, TNT, CNN, HBO, NBA, CNBC. (Shanghai Daily)
October 5, 2010, Researchers identify a new, though threatened, language known as Koro. (BBC)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 5, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, Premiere of The Challenge: Cutthroat
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010,
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, At least 75 people are killed in flash floods in eastern Indonesia. (Straits Times)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 6, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010,
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia's West Papua province rises to 97 with dozens of people missing. (ABC News Australia)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, 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)
October 7, 2010, China issues new regulations requiring the managers of mines to accompany workers down the shafts. (BBC)
October 7, 2010, The United Kingdom Labour Party announces its Shadow Cabinet to be led by Ed Miliband. (Sky News)
October 7, 2010, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu retires from public life after reaching his 79th birthday. (Al Jazeera)
October 8, 2010, Release of My Soul To Take
October 8, 2010, Release of Life as We Know It
October 8, 2010, Release of Stone
October 8, 2010, Release of It's Kind of a Funny Story
October 8, 2010, Release of The Secretariat
October 8, 2010, Release of In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010 the second greatest hits compilation album by the British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010, China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2 completes final braking, enters working. (Xinhua)
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010,
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google doodle. (The Daily Telegraph)
October 8, 2010, United States gospel music singer Albertina Walker, known as the "Queen of Gospel" dies in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune via HeraldNet)
October 8, 2010, The United States economy shed 95,000 more jobs than expected in September. (Al Jazeera)
October 8, 2010, The Government of Japan approves a $60 billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, 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)
October 8, 2010, China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2 completes final braking, enters working. (Xinhua)
October 9, 2010,
October 9, 2010,
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 9, 2010, The Government of Ecuador extends a state of emergency initially imposed on September 30 in the 2010 Ecuador crisis. (CNN)
October 9, 2010, Ajka alumina plant accident:
-The Hungarian town of Kolontár is evacuated as the emergency worsens. (BBC)
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 9, 2010, 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)
October 10, 2010, 2010 Copiapó 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)
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010, Surgeons at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia inject a spinal chord injury patient with embryonic stem cells in an experiment approved by United States Food and Drug Administration. (USA Today)
October 10, 2010, U.S. soul singer Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam's Airport Schiphol. (AP via Yahoo News)
October 10, 2010,
October 10, 2010, Nearly half a million people are made homeless by flooding caused by three days of heavy rain in Bangladesh. (ABC News Australia)
October 10, 2010, Hungary races against time in its efforts to construct an emergency dam to defeat the Ajka alumina plant accident. (BBC)
October 10, 2010, The Israeli cabinet approves a bill requiring all non-Jews taking Israeli citizenship to swear loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". (Al Jazeera)
October 10, 2010, The Equality and Human Rights Commission releases a 700-page report condemning Britain as a land where discrimination and disadvantage are rife. (The Observer)
October 11, 2010, , 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)
October 11, 2010,
October 11, 2010, The death toll from flooding in Indonesia reaches 145 with West Papua most heavily affected. (CNN)
October 11, 2010, British judge Heather Hallett opens the inquests into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. (Reuters UK)
October 12, 2010,
October 12-13, 2010, Rescue of Trapped Chilean Gold/Copper miner is completed.
-Rescue efforts conclude for the Chilean miners trapped in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, with the last miner being rescued at 9:56PM local time. (Bloomberg)
October 12, 2010,
October 12, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: French workers initiate a 24-hour strike against pension reform with transport services badly affected. (Euronews)
October 12, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Paula (2010) reaches hurricane strength as it moves towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. (Reuters)
October 12, 2010, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tours the disaster area resulting from the 2010 floods in West Papua Province. (RNZI)
October 12, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California orders an injunction against the United States military continuing its don't ask don't tell policy against lesbian and gay members. (USA Today)
October 12, 2010, The trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to face a criminal trial in the United States, begins in New York City. (Reuters)
October 12, 2010, Kim Jong-il's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, announces his opposition to the hereditary succession plan in North Korea which would see power transferred to his younger brother Kim Jong-un. (AP)
October 12, 2010, The Obama administration in the United States lifts a six month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC)
October 13, 2010, French unions continue mass strikes for a second day with over one million people protesting on Tuesday against pension reform. (CNN)
October 13, 2010, The US government rules out a moratorium on foreclosures. The moratorium would help millions expected to lose their homes, but may also hurt the housing market. (Reuters)
October 13, 2010, The New Zealand city of Christchurch is hit by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake, an aftershock to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (ABC News Australia)
October 14, 2010, The number of mortgage foreclosures in the United States in September 2010 exceeds 100,000 for the first time. (Reuters)
October 14, 2010, Don't ask, don't tell
-The Obama administration asks United States District Court for the Central District of California judge Virginia A. Phillips to stay her ruling in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy is unconstitutional while it appeals the decision. (Reuters)
-President Barack Obama promises that "don't ask, don't tell" will "end on his watch". (KTLA)
October 14, 2010, United Nations scientists claim to have eliminated rinderpest virus making it the second virus to have been wiped out by humans if confirmed. (BBC)
October 14, 2010, French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
October 15, 2010, Release of RED
October 15, 2010, Release of Jackass 3D
October 15, 2010, Release of Conviction
October 15, 2010, Release of Sale el Sol (English: The Sun Comes Out) album by Shakira.
October 15, 2010, A museum in Berlin opens an exhibition on Adolf Hitler and his relationship with the German people, the first museum in Germany to do so. (BBC)
October 15, 2010,
October 15, 2010, The Gotthard Base Tunnel, in the Swiss Alps becomes the world's longest railway tunnel, as final breakthrough occurs on the east bore. (Washington Post)
October 15, 2010, US rapper T.I. is sentenced to eleven months in prison for violating the terms of his parole. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
October 15, 2010, Miners in Chile rescued from the 2010 Copiapó mining accident return home after receiving hospital treatment. (Reuters)
October 15, 2010, The Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary is set to reopen following the accident earlier this month as the death toll reaches nine. (Deutsche Welle)
October 15, 2010, Four miners are trapped underground in southern Ecuador. (CNN)
October 15, 2010, Israel unveils preliminary plans for 238 new homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem with Palestineans protesting in response. (BBC)
October 16, 2010, Oscar Wilde receives a Google doodle on the 156th anniversary of his birthday, a portrait from his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. (The Guardian)
October 16, 2010, The number of visitors to Expo 2010 Shanghai exceeds 64 million, breaking the record the history of the World's Fairs. (Global Times)
October 16, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Thousands of students join millions more people on the streets of France for a fifth day of protests against government pension reform plans; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is running out of fuel amid calls by the government for people "not to panic". (BBC)
October 16, 2010, Two of four trapped Ecuadorean gold miners are found dead near the town of Portovelo. (Reuters)
October 16, 2010, 28 of 33 miners rescued in the 2010 Copiapó mining accident are secretly discharged from hospital in Chile, with 2 remaining inside. (BBC)
October 16, 2010, On World Food Day, United Nations calls for united front against food shortages, because one billion people are still hungry. (UN)
October 17, 2010,
October 17, 2010, Canonization:
-Pope Benedict XVI canonises Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint, in front of 50,000 people in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City. (Herald Sun)
-Canonization: Pope Benedict XVI canonises Mary MacKillop, the first Australian saint, in front of 50,000 people in Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican City. (Herald Sun)
October 17, 2010, GM workers protest a drop in wages, from $58,000/year to $30,000/year, at a new car plant in Michigan that was funded by a $50 billion government bailout and is receiving $770 million in tax incentives. (Reuters)
October 17, 2010, An international report finds its most noticeable example of racial profiling is that black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be searched by police in England and Wales; U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson describes it as "astonishing". (The Observer)
October 17, 2010, Angela Merkel claims that multicultural society has "failed" in a Potsdam speech before younger activist members of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. (BBC)
October 18, 2010, Release of Come Around Sundown is the fifth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon.
October 18, 2010, The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the California megachurch founded by televangelist Robert Schuller and best known for its weekly The Hour of Power television program, files for bankruptcy court protection. (Reuters)
October 18, 2010,
October 18, 2010, Bank of America resumes foreclosures in 23 states following a temporary halt in foreclosures due to the 2010 Foreclosure crisis.
October 18, 2010, BP is to sell assets worth an estimated $1.8 billion as part of series of sales to help pay for damages caused by the explosion on its Deepwater Horizon rig in April, which killed 11 workers and spilled more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. (AOL News)
October 18, 2010, Typhoon Megi: One person is missing and thousands of people have fled as Typhoon Megi, the first supertyphoon of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season, makes landfall in the Philippines. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
October 18, 2010, The U.S. government has concluded that Chinese companies are bypassing UN sanctions on Iran and helping Iran to improve its missile technology and develop nuclear weapons, and has asked China to stop such activity. (The Washington Post)
October 18, 2010, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Iran, where he is told to "get rid of America". (Telegraph)
October 18, 2010, The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a major United Nations gathering, meets in Japan to work out why governments have failed to stop the rapid rate of extinction and loss of habitats by 2010, as they vowed 8 years ago. (BBC)
October 18, 2010, The United Arab Emirates' highest court rules in a domestic violence case that a man can beat his wife and children as long as he leaves no physical marks. (MSNBC)
October 19, 2010, Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority announce plans to publish the Dead Sea Scrolls online. (AP via NPR)
October 19, 2010, China reveals plans to develop a "super-speed" train with a speed of up to 500 km per hour from the 431 km per hour speed. (China Daily)
October 19, 2010, French unrest:
-French strikes against pension reform as the Government of France taps emergency reserves to meet a fuel shortage with more than four thousand petrol stations running out of fuel. (Reuters via France 24)
-French police fire tear gas on rioting high school students in Paris with cars set on fire while there are reports of looting in Lyons. (AP)
-Half the flights at Paris-Orly Airport and thirty per cent of flights at Charles de Gaulle airport are expected to be cancelled. (CNN)
October 19, 2010, A British court finds Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud guilty of murdering his servant in a hotel. (Al Jazeera)
October 19, 2010, Naheed Nenshi is voted mayor of Calgary, Alberta, the first Muslim person to be elected mayor of a major city in Canada. (The Globe and Mail)
October 19, 2010, The National Football League announces that it will suspend players for dangerous hits, especially those involving helmets. (AP via Yahoo! News)
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010,
October 20, 2010, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez finishes a two-day visit to Iran, signing agreements on oil, energy and commerce. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, French strike:
-France braces itself for another day of strikes against proposed cuts to pensions that the Senate will consider later this week. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
-The Government of France sends in security forces to lift blockades in three oil depots at Donges, La Rochelle and Le Mans. (BBC)
October 20, 2010, China denies reports that it has banned export of rare earth mineral to the United States and Europe following similar measures against Japan. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling £81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected. (BBC)
October 20, 2010, The Obama administration notifies the United States Congress of plans for a $60billion-dollar weapons deal with Saudi Arabia in a move to threaten Iran. (CNN)
October 20, 2010, Astronomers announce the discovery of the galaxy UDFy-38135539, the most distant object observed from earth. (Daily Mail)
October 21, 2010, An analysis of data detected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the LCROSS impact last October finds the presence of carbon monoxide in Cabeus Crater in higher concentrations than the approximately 155 kg of water ice and water vapour, more than initially estimated, in addition to two hydroxyl flavours and smaller quantities of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, formaldehyde, mercury, magnesium, calcium, sodium, hydrogen gas, and possibly ammonia, ethylene and silver. (Universe Today)
October 21, 2010, French protest:
-France faces another day of strikes with a quarter of petrol stations not having any fuel. (Reuters)
-Activists block access to the Marseille Provence Airport, the fifth biggest airport in France. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, A powerful 6.9 magnitude occurs off the coast of Baja California Sur in Mexico. (Economic Times)
October 21, 2010, At least 50 people die as an outbreak of an as-of-yet unidentified disease occurs in Haiti. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, Jewish settlers have started building more than 600 homes in the West Bank since a building freeze expired last month. (BBC)
October 21, 2010, Microsoft Research and Wikipedia have joined forces to launch a beta version of a new multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia named WikiBhasha. (The Independent)
October 22, 2010, Release of HereAfter
October 22, 2010, Release of Paranormal Activity 2
October 22, 2010, Wikileaks releases Iraq War Logs, secret American military records which reveal new information, including that U.S. commanders allowed torture and execution to occur without investigation and that hundreds of civilians have been killed at U.S. military checkpoints during the War on Iraq. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials condemn the disclosures. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, The Haitian Health Ministry informs the World Health Organisation of a cholera outbreak north of Port-au-Prince; at least 150 people have been killed. (CNN)
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010,
October 22, 2010, Chilean writer and social critic Pablo Huneeus registers the copyright in "Estamos bien en el refugio los 33" on behalf of of the man who wrote it. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, 2010 strikes in France:
-French riot police take over the Grandpuits Total S.A. oil refinery which had been blockaded by strikers for more than ten days. (BBC)
-The Senate of France passes the contentious pension reform bills. (BBC)
-French trade unions plan two further days of protest on October 28 and November 6. (Reuters)
October 22, 2010, Unemployment fell in 23 states and Washington, D.C., rose in 11 states.(Washington Times)
October 22, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon warns that North Korea is headed for a "chronic" food crisis with droughts and floods in various parts of the country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
October 22, 2010, Typhoon Megi kills 7 people and leaves 23 missing after triggering landslides in Taiwan. (Focus Taiwan)
October 22, 2010, Cyclone Giri, which rapidly intensified with winds of 144mph, makes landfall in western Burma. (CNN)
October 22, 2010, Forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, cause a thick haze to drift over Singapore. (BBC)
October 22, 2010, Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices. (Reuters)
October 23, 2010,
October 23, 2010, Scientists studying the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster’s impact find substantial amounts of oil on the seafloor, contradicting statements by US government officials that the oil has largely disappeared. (USA Today)
October 23, 2010, 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak:
-Cholera is detected in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for the first time since the post-earthquake outbreak began. (BBC)
-The death toll passes 250. (The Wall Street Journal)
October 23, 2010,
October 23, 2010, Iraq War Logs: Julian Assange of Wikileaks tells a London news conference that the 400,000 classified U.S. military documents released to the general public yesterday reveal that the Iraq War is "a bloodbath on every corner". (AFP via Tehran Times)
October 23, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: French unions challenge a back-to-work order in court, one day after the senate voted in favour of increasing their retirement age. (Al Jazeera)
October 23, 2010, Group of Twenty finance leaders agree to give 6% more International Monetary Fund votes to developing countries, though the U.S. retains its veto power, in a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea. (BBC)
October 23, 2010, The death toll from Typhoon Megi in Taiwan has reached as least eleven with at least 23 people from two Chinese tour groups missing. It has now made landfall in China's Fujian province. (CNN)
October 23, 2010, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that as many as 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050 if current trends in diet and exercise continue.(Reuters)
October 23, 2010, Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
-Richard Falk, a UN human rights rapporteur, issues a report to the United Nations General Assembly saying continued settlement construction would probably make Israel's occupation of Palestinian land irreversible and that said the UN, the US and Israel had failed to uphold the rights of Palestinians. (BBC)
-Bishops from across the Middle East urge Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories at the end of a two-week-long meeting at the Vatican. (The New York Times)
-The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preventing it from building schools in Gaza; the Israeli Defense Ministry says it is doing so to thwart Hamas from building the schools next to Hamas military installations.(The Jerusalem Post)
October 23, 2010, German economy minister Rainer Bruederle criticizes the United States' monetary easing as indirectly manipulation of the USD exchange rates. (Reuters)
October 23, 2010, 306 former Tamil Tiger combatants are to be released from rehabilitation in Sri Lanka. (Xinhua)
October 24, 2010,
October 24, 2010, The number of visitors to the Shanghai World Expo 2010 topped 70 million. (Xinhua)
October 24, 2010, Britain's privacy watchdog is to investigate Google once again, charging it with gathering personal information from private wi-fi networks. Google admits collecting details such as passwords and e-mails. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan welcomes U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the port of Qingdao as the United States objects to what it labels the "artifical" value of China's own currency, the yuan. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, 2010 strikes in France: Further, larger strikes are planned against government attempts to increase the age of retirement for the country's workers. (The Observer)
October 24, 2010, Tropical Storm Richard lashes Honduras's Caribbean Coast with heavy rain before becoming a hurricane and making landfall in Belize. (AP)
October 24, 2010, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees starts an emergency airlift to Benin which is suffering its worst flooding in decade. (BBC)
October 24, 2010, The Pope calls for an end to conflict in the Middle East, and for Islamic countries in the Middle East to guarantee freedom of worship to non-Muslims. (Reuters)
October 24, 2010, Actor Randy Quaid and his wife seek asylum in Canada to avoid prosecution in the United States, claiming they are being "persecuted". (BBC)
October 25, 2010, Chuck S4 Ep 6: Chuck Vs The Isle Of Terror
October 25, 2010, Indonesia:
-Authorities evacuate 40,000 people in Java due to fears of an explosion by Mount Merapi. (CNN)
-A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes near the Mentawai Islands, but tsunami warnings for western Sumatra proved unwarranted. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, Sony stops selling the original cassette Walkman. (Newcore via Herald Sun)
October 25, 2010, US financial regulators launch an investigation into the foreclosure practices of various US financial institutions. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, BP:
-CEO Bob Dudley outlines a strategy to rebuild public trust, after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (BBC News)
-The British oil firm sells its interests in four Gulf of Mexico oil wells to Japanese firm Marubeni, in a wider cash-raising effort that aims to raise 30 billion dollars for compensations related to the oil spill. (BBC News)
October 25, 2010, One person is killed and nine others injured after a plane carrying employees of BP Canada crashes in northeastern Alberta. The twin-engine King Air 100 was on its way from Edmonton City Centre Airport to Kirby Lake, southeast of Conklin. (Edmonton Journal)
October 25, 2010, The EU activates its Rapid Border Intervention Teams for the first time since its creation in 2007 to stem illegal immigration at the Greek border. (BBC News)
October 26, 2010, Release of Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Expansion
October 26, 2010, Sumatra earthquake, tsunami and Merapi volcanic eruption:
-After receiving orders from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is now on his visit program to China and Vietnam, Indonesian Public Welfare Minister Agung Laksono declares an emergency response. (Xinhua)
-The death toll from the tsunami rises to 23. (AP) (Xinhua)
-160 people are missing from a village on the Indonesian village of Betu Monga on Sumatra hit by a local tsunami after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck south of the Mentawai Islands. The earthquake leaves at least one person dead and damages 150 houses. (Reuters) (Today's Zaman)
-At least nine Australian surfers go missing after the tsunami struck including Alex McTaggart, a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly but are later found. (Herald Sun)(News Limited) (News Limited)
-At least 12 people are dead following the eruption of Mount Merapi in Central Java. Thousands of people are evacuating the area. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
October 26, 2010,
October 26, 2010,
October 26, 2010, The Emperor of Exmoor, a red deer believed to be Britain's largest wild animal, is shot and killed. (The Guardian)
October 26, 2010, The Japanese Cabinet approves an extra budget containing an emergency economic stimulus package to help shore up the economy. (AAP via NineMSN)
October 26, 2010, A cholera outbreak kills 559 in Cameroon. (Xinhua)
October 26, 2010, The World Health Organization announces a mass polio vaccination campaign across Africa, the same day an outbreak of the disease in Uganda is declared. (CP)
October 26, 2010, The United States has fallen to a new low of 22nd place in Transparency International's rating of the least corrupt nations, noting various financial scandals and a lack of regulation leading to power being bought. (Reuters)
October 26, 2010, Hungarian-born multibillionaire George Soros donates $1 million to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund California's Proposition 19 in the upcoming November 2, 2010 elections that would legalize marijuana in the state if passed. (Sfgate.com)
October 26, 2010, GlaxoSmithKline pleads guilty to intentionally manufacturing and distributing adulterated drugs, including Paxil, and will pay $750 million for committing the felony. (Reuters)
October 26, 2010, A U.S. court disables Limewire's file-sharing service due to copyright infringement.(Reuters)
October 26, 2010, Iran starts loading fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Plant, its first nuclear plant. (BBC)
October 27, 2010, Indonesia:
- The death toll from the tsunami following the October 2010 Sumatra earthquake reaches at least 282 with hundreds of people still missing. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
-Concerns are raised about the effectiveness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System. (BBC)
-Fatalities caused by the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province rises, with 28 people known to have been killed by hot ash. (Xinhua)
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010,
October 27, 2010, American bank Wells Fargo admits it made mistakes in 55,000 real estate foreclosure cases. (AP via Today Online)
October 27, 2010, Astronomers discover the most massive neutron star yet known. (Nature)
October 28, 2010, China's Tianhe-1 overtakes Nebule to regain top spot as the world's fastest supercomputer. (China Daily)
October 28, 2010,
October 28, 2010,
October 28, 2010, Indonesia:
-The death toll from the recent eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia rises to 32 as it erupts again. (CNN)
-The death toll from the tsunami rises to at least 343. (CBC)
October 28, 2010, Two volcanoes erupt on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Klyuchevskaya Sopka and Shiveluch, forcing flights to divert and spewing volcanic ash over the nearby town of Ust-Kamchatsk. (AP)
October 28, 2010, Verizon will pay a $25 million settlement to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cellphone customers. (Reuters)
October 29, 2010, Release of Saw: 3D
October 29, 2010, Release of Monsters
October 29, 2010, Security alert in the United Kingdom and United States: Law enforcement authorities in the UK and the US are on high alert after suspicious packages are found on flights arriving from Yemen. A similar package is discovered in Dubai. (BBC News)
October 29, 2010,
October 29, 2010,
October 29, 2010, Indonesian tsunami:
- The death toll from the Indonesian tsunami climbs to 394 with 312 still missing. (BBC)
-Only nine of the 23 sensor buoys off the coast of Indonesia of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System are working due to technical problems or vandalism. (ABC News Australia)
October 29, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak reaches 300 as new cases are reported nearer the capital Port-au-Prince. (BBC)
October 29, 2010, 2010 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Shary strengthens and nears Bermuda, while Tropical Storm Tomas forms and approaches the Caribbean Sea. (ABC News)
October 29, 2010, Iran says it is ready to resume international talks over its nuclear program "in a place and on a date convenient to both sides", says a letter to the European Union. (The Guardian)
October 29, 2010, The UN Convention on Biological Diversity places a ban on geoengineering projects and experiments. (Washington Post)
October 30, 2010, 2010 cargo plane bomb plot:
-The United States searches on Saturday for the people behind the attempts to send mail bombs to Chicago synagogues. (BBC)
-Yemeni authorities arrest two women in relation to the attack and search for other people of interest. (Al Jazeera)
October 30, 2010, Aftermath of October 2010 Sumatra earthquake:
-The death toll from the tsunami climbs to 413 and 218 people missing with the Government of Indonesia considering evacuations. (CNN)
-Rescue workers find 135 people on a remote island and revise downwards by half the missing toll. (Al Jazeera)
October 30, 2010, 18-year old Alexandria Mills from the USA wins the 60th edition of the Miss World pageant in China. (ABC News)
October 30, 2010, A large oil field is discovered off the coast of Brazil that could contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels. (BBC)
October 30, 2010, Hurricane Tomas lashes the islands of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. (BBC)
October 30, 2010, An estimated 200,000 people attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear by political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Al Jazeera)
October 31, 2010, Release of Walking Dead
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010,
October 31, 2010, The US, UK, France and Germany ban all air freight from Yemen at their respective countries' airports following the discovery of two explosive packages. (The Jerusalem Post)
October 31, 2010, The Shanghai World Expo in China ends. (China Daily)
October 31, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak reaches 330 with the impact of Hurricane Tomas later in the week expected to make things worse. (CNN)
October 31, 2010, The death toll from the Sumatra tsunami reaches 435 with 110 people missing and feared dead. (AFP via ABC News Online)
October 31, 2010, Mount Merapi erupts again in Indonesia, surprising villagers who had returned to check their possessions. (AP)
Cool stuff, as always. Oh yeah, I really enjoy that new "Walking Dead" show. Very well done, to me anyway.
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