November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning "nine") when January and February were added to the Roman calendar.
November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 1, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, Release of 127 Hours
November 5, 2010, Release of Kinect Sports and Kinectinmals two video games for the Xbox 360 that uses the new Kinect peripheral. The games were developed by Rare and launched alongside the peripheral
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia rises to 122 as at least 78 bodies were removed from homes and streets blanketed by ash up to 30-centimeters deep. (The Jakarta Globe)
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the cargo plane bomb plot of October 29 2010 and a September UPS plane crash in Dubai. (Reuters)
November 5, 2010, Thomas Hoenig, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, gives some indication of the split within that body in a speech to the National Association of Realtors. Though the Fed announced a new round of quantitative easing on Wednesday, Hoenig said that the Fed risks inflation and another boom-bust. (Bloomberg)
November 5, 2010, An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. (BBC)
November 5, 2010, At least one person dies in Haiti from flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas, adding to the fourteen people who died in Saint Lucia. (BBC)
November 6, 2010, US President Barack Obama arrives in India on the first leg of an Asian tour aimed at boosting United States exports. (BBC)
November 6, 2010, Lava and ash spew from Mount Merapi in Central Java province in Indonesia before dawn as the death toll rises to 120. (The Guardian)
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010, Christ the King, the world's biggest statue of Jesus, is completed in Świebodzin, Poland (AP)
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010, The House of the Gladiators in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii collapses, prompting criticism of the Italian government's "neglect" of the site. (AP via Washington Post)
November 6, 2010, The death toll from the Haiti cholera outbreak rises to 500. (AFP)
November 6, 2010, Finance Ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meet in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
November 7, 2010,
November 7, 2010, Airlines cancel flights to Indonesia due to the Mount Merapi volcanic eruption. (ABC News Australia)
November 7, 2010, Queen Elizabeth II starts a Facebook page but one is not permitted to "poke" or "befriend" her. (MSNBC)
November 8, 2010, American talk show host Conan O'Brien returns to television on TBS ten months after his high-profile exit from The Tonight Show. (CNN)
November 8, 2010, Release of Some Kind of Trouble the third studio album from British singer-songwriter James Blunt
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010, Global Green Growth conference ends in Copenhagen. (People Daily)
November 8, 2010, At least 120 people are tested for cholera in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. (BBC)
November 8, 2010, Israel has revealed plans to build nearly 1,300 housing units for Jewish settlers in east Jerusalem. (BBC)
November 8, 2010, The reptile scientist, Ngô Văn Trí of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, discovers a species of self-cloning lizard later known as Leiolepis ngovantrii when he came across tanks full of them at small restaurants in rural villages in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province. Ngo Van Tri becomes intrigued when he notices that all of the lizards appeared to be female. (Dan Tri)
November 8, 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao unveils pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang`e-2 lunar probe mission. (Xinhua)
November 9, 2010, Release of Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager the second studio album by American recording artist Kid Cudi.
November 9, 2010, Release of Call of Duty: Black Ops (often shortened to Black Ops) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision
November 9, 2010, Release of All The Women I Am the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire.
November 1, 2010, 58 hostage-takers, hostages and police officers are killed and 67 people wounded when Iraqi forces storm a Baghdad church to free dozens of hostages. (Deccan Chronicle)
November 1, 2010, While attempting to open a mental healthcare facility in Dublin, Irish Health Minister Mary Harney is pelted with red paint by an opposition politician highlighting the "blood budget" which "will result in the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the coming years". Harney is overseeing hospital cuts of €1 billion. (The Straits Times)
November 2, 2010, Release of Cardiology is the fifth studio album by pop punk band Good Charlotte
November 2, 2010, Release of James Bond 007: Blood Stone an action-adventure video game, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision for 360, Ps3, PC
November 2, 2010, Release of GoldenEye 007 a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by Eurocom and published by Activision for the Wii video game console
November 2, 2010,
November 2, 2010, U.S. Midterms
November 2, 2010, Greek mail bombs Parcel bombs explode at the Mexican, Russian and Swiss embassies in Greece. Similar packages were sent or addressed to the embassies of Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany and the Netherlands over the past two days. (BBC)
November 2, 2010, BP raises the estimated cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to $40 billion. (Reuters)
November 2, 2010, At least 14 people are killed as Tropical Storm Tomas passes over Saint Lucia. (BBC)
November 2, 2010, Continuing eruptions of Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia, lead to cancellation of flights to the nearby city of Yogyakarta. (AP)
November 2, 2010, NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. (CNN)
November 2, 2010, The San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series 4-1. (Sports Illustrated)
November 2, 2010, Three time surfing world champion Andy Irons dies from suspected dengue fever, one of five people on the ASP World Tour to suffer from the illness in the past three weeks. (The Australian)
November 4, 2010, Indonesia evacuates thousands more people from their villages as Mount Merapi in central Java explodes again. (Jakarta Globe)
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010, Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore to Sydney makes an emergency landing at Changi Airport after debris suspected to be from the aircraft is found on Batam Island in Indonesia. (MSN)
November 2, 2010, Release of James Bond 007: Blood Stone an action-adventure video game, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision for 360, Ps3, PC
November 2, 2010, Release of GoldenEye 007 a 2010 first-person shooter video game developed by Eurocom and published by Activision for the Wii video game console
November 2, 2010, U.S. Midterms
November 2, 2010, Greek mail bombs Parcel bombs explode at the Mexican, Russian and Swiss embassies in Greece. Similar packages were sent or addressed to the embassies of Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany and the Netherlands over the past two days. (BBC)
November 2, 2010, BP raises the estimated cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to $40 billion. (Reuters)
November 2, 2010, At least 14 people are killed as Tropical Storm Tomas passes over Saint Lucia. (BBC)
November 2, 2010, Continuing eruptions of Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia, lead to cancellation of flights to the nearby city of Yogyakarta. (AP)
November 2, 2010, NASA delays the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-133, its final mission, due to a circuitry glitch. (CNN)
November 2, 2010, The San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series 4-1. (Sports Illustrated)
November 2, 2010, Three time surfing world champion Andy Irons dies from suspected dengue fever, one of five people on the ASP World Tour to suffer from the illness in the past three weeks. (The Australian)
November 3, 2010, The United States Federal Reserve announces its plan for further quantitative easing in a bid to ward off deflation. (CNN)
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010, Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore to Sydney makes an emergency landing at Changi Airport after debris suspected to be from the aircraft is found on Batam Island in Indonesia. (MSN)
November 4, 2010,
November 4, 2010, A piece of stone axe found at the Gabarnmung rock art gallery on the lands of the Jawoyn people in Australia's Northern Territory is dated at 35,500 years old making the oldest of its type in the world. (ABC News Australia)
November 4, 2010, Residents in Haiti and Jamaica are evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Tomas. (AP)
November 4, 2010, Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
November 4, 2010, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that "the window is closing" on the possibility of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. (BBC)
November 4, 2010, A piece of stone axe found at the Gabarnmung rock art gallery on the lands of the Jawoyn people in Australia's Northern Territory is dated at 35,500 years old making the oldest of its type in the world. (ABC News Australia)
November 4, 2010, Residents in Haiti and Jamaica are evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Tomas. (AP)
November 4, 2010, Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
November 4, 2010, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that "the window is closing" on the possibility of a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. (BBC)
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, Release of 127 Hours
November 5, 2010, Release of Kinect Sports and Kinectinmals two video games for the Xbox 360 that uses the new Kinect peripheral. The games were developed by Rare and launched alongside the peripheral
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia rises to 122 as at least 78 bodies were removed from homes and streets blanketed by ash up to 30-centimeters deep. (The Jakarta Globe)
November 5, 2010,
November 5, 2010, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the cargo plane bomb plot of October 29 2010 and a September UPS plane crash in Dubai. (Reuters)
November 5, 2010, Thomas Hoenig, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, gives some indication of the split within that body in a speech to the National Association of Realtors. Though the Fed announced a new round of quantitative easing on Wednesday, Hoenig said that the Fed risks inflation and another boom-bust. (Bloomberg)
November 5, 2010, An Aero Caribbean passenger plane crashes in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, killing all 68 on board. (BBC)
November 5, 2010, At least one person dies in Haiti from flooding caused by Hurricane Tomas, adding to the fourteen people who died in Saint Lucia. (BBC)
November 6, 2010, US President Barack Obama arrives in India on the first leg of an Asian tour aimed at boosting United States exports. (BBC)
November 6, 2010, Lava and ash spew from Mount Merapi in Central Java province in Indonesia before dawn as the death toll rises to 120. (The Guardian)
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010, Christ the King, the world's biggest statue of Jesus, is completed in Świebodzin, Poland (AP)
November 6, 2010,
November 6, 2010, The House of the Gladiators in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii collapses, prompting criticism of the Italian government's "neglect" of the site. (AP via Washington Post)
November 6, 2010, The death toll from the Haiti cholera outbreak rises to 500. (AFP)
November 6, 2010, Finance Ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meet in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
November 7, 2010,
November 7, 2010, Airlines cancel flights to Indonesia due to the Mount Merapi volcanic eruption. (ABC News Australia)
November 7, 2010, Queen Elizabeth II starts a Facebook page but one is not permitted to "poke" or "befriend" her. (MSNBC)
November 8, 2010, American talk show host Conan O'Brien returns to television on TBS ten months after his high-profile exit from The Tonight Show. (CNN)
November 8, 2010, Release of Some Kind of Trouble the third studio album from British singer-songwriter James Blunt
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010,
November 8, 2010, Global Green Growth conference ends in Copenhagen. (People Daily)
November 8, 2010, At least 120 people are tested for cholera in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. (BBC)
November 8, 2010, Israel has revealed plans to build nearly 1,300 housing units for Jewish settlers in east Jerusalem. (BBC)
November 8, 2010, The reptile scientist, Ngô Văn Trí of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, discovers a species of self-cloning lizard later known as Leiolepis ngovantrii when he came across tanks full of them at small restaurants in rural villages in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province. Ngo Van Tri becomes intrigued when he notices that all of the lizards appeared to be female. (Dan Tri)
November 8, 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao unveils pictures of the moon's Sinus Iridum, or Bay of Rainbows, taken during China's Chang`e-2 lunar probe mission. (Xinhua)
November 9, 2010, Release of Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager the second studio album by American recording artist Kid Cudi.
November 9, 2010, Release of Call of Duty: Black Ops (often shortened to Black Ops) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision
November 9, 2010, Release of All The Women I Am the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire.
November 9, 2010,
November 9, 2010,
November 9, 2010, A United Nations report suggests North Korea has supplied Burma, Iran and Syria with nuclear technology, in violation of United Nations sanctions. China had previously blocked the report from reaching the UN Security Council. (Reuters)
November 9, 2010, Construction of a factory for the first fleet of commercial spaceships begins at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the United States. (The Australian)
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010, Qantas and Cathay Pacific cancel flights out of Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport due to the eruptions of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. (CNN)
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010, The United Nations says pirates off the coast of Somalia are "outperforming" an international effort to stop them. (Al Jazeera)
November 10, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama gives a speech in Indonesia during which he says more needs to be done to repair the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. (Reuters)
November 11-12, 2010, G-20 meeting in Seoul Korea
November 11, 2010, The crippled Carnival Cruise liner Carnival Splendor is towed to port in San Diego, California. (The New York Times
November 11, 2010,
November 11, 2010, Cholera in Haiti has now caused at least 724 deaths. (Al Jazeera)
November 11, 2010, The United Nations says there has been "no material change" for people in Gaza since Israel announced it was easing its economic blockade. An Israeli spokesman stated that the reason for the blockade was "because the territory has been overtaken by a declared terror movement."(BBC)
November 12, 2010, Release of Loud the fifth studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna
November 12, 2010, Release of Born Free the eighth studio album by American artist Kid Rock
November 12, 2010, Release of A Christmas Cornucopia the fifth studio album and the first Christmas album by Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010, The United Nations appeals for nearly $164 million to fund the battle against Haiti's outbreak of cholera as hospitals overflow and space and time run out. (BBC)
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010, The 23rd consecutive season of American cartoon The Simpsons is announced. (BBC)
November 12, 2010, Brazil begins auctioning parts of the Amazon Rainforest to private companies for logging. (CNN)
November 12, 2010, Mount Bulusan, a volcano in the Phillippines, erupts again. (The Inquirer)
November 12, 2010, The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to rescind the country's ban on openly gay soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
November 12, 2010, Irish Health Minister Mary Harney is targeted with eggs and cheese by protestors shouting "Bloody Mary" in response to her healthcare funding cuts. It follows a similar incident involving red paint last week. (The Irish Times)
November 13, 2010,
November 13, 2010, Leaders from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation area attend the APEC Japan 2010 summit in Yokohama. (Japan Times)
November 13, 2010, Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to win the WBC World Super Welterweight title, winning his record eighth belt in eight championship classes. (AP via NBC)
November 14, 2010,
November 14, 2010, Former British soldier turned singer-songwriter James Blunt claims that he stopped what he believed would be World War III by disobeying a direct order for his troops to attack Russian soldiers given by American General Wesley Clark while he was in Kosovo with NATO in 1999. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, Yines, a previously unknown indigenous tribe, is discovered in the Amazonian jungle of southeast Peru. (Al Jazeera)
November 14, 2010, The UK is to become one of the first countries to officially monitor happiness in a government scheme designed to measure psychological and environmental wellbeing. (The Guardian)
November 14, 2010, 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak: The death toll rises to 917. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruptions reaches 250. (AP via Yahoo! News)
November 14, 2010, The United States offers Israel 20 F-35s and opposition to anti-Israel resolutions in the UN if Israel agrees to a partial 90-day freeze in building in the West Bank, excluding east Jerusalem. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders agree to work towards forming a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific. (Straits Times)
November 15, 2010, Release of What Separates Me from You the fourth album by A Day to Remember
November 15, 2010, Release of Progress the sixth studio album by British boy band Take That
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010, US diplomat Richard Holbrooke says the US has a transition plan for Afghanistan, not an exit strategy, and that there will be some drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan next year but the U.S. combat mission will not end there until 2014. (CP via Google)
November 15, 2010, The United States will provide an additional US$500-million aid to Pakistan to help rebuild the country after devastating floods caused the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history. (VOA)
November 16, 2010, Release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a historical fantasy third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
November 16, 2010, Release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit a 2010 racing video game in the Need For Speed series developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and iPhone
November 16, 2010, Clarence House announces the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, to be married next year. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, The Beatles release their back catalogue on iTunes. (NME)
November 16, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama presents a Medal of Honor, the highest United States military decoration to Staff Sgt Salvatore Giunta at the White House. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, New York archbishop Timothy Dolan is voted president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (The New York Times)
November 16, 2010, Facebook announces that it will launch a new messaging platform, providing an email address of "@facebook.com." (Xinhua)
November 16, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak passes 1,000. At least one man is shot dead by United Nations peacekeepers after allegedly opening fire on the peacekeepers. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, Authorities in Shanghai arrest four people for unlicensed welding following the 2010 Shanghai fire. (Al Jazeera)
November 16, 2010, President Herman Van Rompuy predicts the possible collapse of the European Union but then says "I'm very confident we will overcome this". (The Guardian)
November 16, 2010, The United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct finds Charlie Rangel guilty of multiple violations of House rules. (CNN)
November 16, 2010, U.S. Republican Party Senators adopt a ban on earmarking, or setting aside money in bills for specific purposes specificed by legislators. (Reuters)
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010, Germany heightens its police security presence at its airports after identifying "concrete indications" that a terrorist attack is planned for the end of November (BBC News)
November 17, 2010, Thirty-six minutes of the first part of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film is leaked. (CNN)
November 17, 2010, A Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains is unearthed at a construction site in London. (BBC News)
November 18, 2010, CERN has managed to trap antihydrogen atoms for the first time. (BBC )
November 18, 2010,
November 18, 2010, Officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union arrive in Dublin to discuss the Irish debt crisis with the Irish Government. (BBC)
November 18, 2010,
November 18, 2010, A planet, HIP 13044 b, which was formed in another galaxy has been discovered in the Helmi Stream. (BBC)
November 18, 2010, Auto maker General Motors is listed again on the New York Stock Exchange in the biggest Initial public offering in United States history. (Reuters)
November 18, 2010, The Leonid meteor shower was visible across much of the US early this morning. (USA Today)
November 18, 2010, A fault discovered in Idaho could produce an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude. (BBC)
November 19, 2010, Release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
November 19, 2010, Release of Three Days
November 19, 2010, Release of Pink Friday the debut studio album by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj
November 19, 2010, Release of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band My Chemical Romance
November 19, 2010, Release of Cannibal the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Kesha
November 19, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to elevate 24 new cardinals at a ceremony. (BBC)
November 19, 2010,
November 19, 2010, Twenty-nine coal miners and officials are feared trapped following an explosion at the Pike River Coal Processing Plant at Atarau in the Grey District of the South Island of New Zealand. (Stuff.co.nz)
November 19, 2010, The cholera epidemic which has killed more than 1,100 people in Haiti spreads to the largest prison in the country. (CNN)
November 19, 2010, Anti-government red shirt protesters return to the streets in Thailand. (Reuters)
November 20, 2010,
November 20, 2010, NATO summit
-NATO nations agree to start handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military and give local forces total control by 2014. (Associated Press)
-Russia agrees to help NATO build a United States planned missile shield in Europe. (Washington Post)
November 20, 2010, The Vatican will issue guidelines for bishops, on how to combat sexual abuse within the church. (BBC)
November 20, 2010, Doctors without Borders criticizes the response to the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak as inadequate. (BBC)
November 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistani authorities to release Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman facing a death sentence on a charge of blasphemy against Islam. (Daily Times)
November 20, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is welcoming Iran's invitation for a visit next year by the United Nations' human rights chief, Navi Pillay (SMH News)
November 21, 2010, Release of Donkey Kong Country Returns a side-scrolling 2.5D platform game developed by Retro Studios, and released by Nintendo for the Wii console
November 21, 2010, Rescuers begin drilling a hole to analyse air inside the Pike River mine in New Zealand. There has been no communication with the 29 trapped miners. (TVNZ)
November 21, 2010, North Korea unveils a new uranium enrichment plant. (The New York Times)
November 21, 2010, Irish financial crisis Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr applies for an international bailout to deal with the Irish financial crisis. (RTÉ)
November 21, 2010, A flood traps 28 people in a coal mine in Sichuan, southwestern China. (BBC)
November 21, 2010, The death toll from the eruptions of Mount Merapi in Indonesia reaches 292. (CNN)
November 21, 2010, US stock car racer Jimmie Johnson wins his fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, the first driver to do so. (New York Times)
November 22, 2010, Release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West
November 22, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI says his personal opinion is that condoms may be used "in exceptional cases" to combat HIV-AIDS, but the Vatican says it has not has changed its policy on contraception. (The Australian)
November 22, 2010, Russia hosts the International Tiger Forum summit meeting of international wildlife experts and officials from 13 countries in St.Petersburg, to discuss the protection of tigers which could become extinct in 12 years if unprotected. (AP via Google News)
November 22, 2010, An army robot encounters water and breaks down 550 metres into the Pike River Mine in New Zealand where 29 miners are missing, but drilling of a shaft continues to allow air sampling. (The New Zealand Herald)
November 22, 2010, All 29 Chinese miners trapped in the flooded Batian mine in Sichuan Province are rescued. (AP)
November 22, 2010, At least 339 people are killed at a stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (BBC)
November 23, 2010, Release of Splatterhouse is a beat 'em up video game developed by Namco Bandai Games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
November 23, 2010,
November 23, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong: North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island, South Korea at 14:34 local time in response to South Korean shelling close to the North Korean border during military drills. The North's shelling kills two marines and prompts a military response by the South in one of the most serious clashes since the 1953 armistice of the Korean War. (YTN Television)
November 23, 2010, Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be married at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. (BBC)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Release of Burlesque
November 24, 2010, Release of Gran Turismo 5, the fifth edition of the Gran Turismo racing simulator series. Developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment
November 24, 2010, Release of Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2.
November 24, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong: The bodies of two civilians killed in the attack are discovered on Yeonpyeong. (BBC)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Moscow and meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Chinese companies sign deals worth over $8.6 billion with Russian counterparts. (AFP via Yahoo! Finance)
November 24, 2010, 29 miners in a New Zealand mine are confirmed dead after a second explosion, following a first explosion on November 19 which trapped them. (TVNZ)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Ireland unveils a 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a bailout from the financial crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald)
November 24, 2010, American corporations posted record profits of $1.67trillion for last quarter, amidst high unemployment rates. (Democracy Now!)
November 24, 2010, The United Nations and Pan American Health Organization estimate that the number of cases in the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak could reach more than 200,000 in the next three months. (AFP via Google)
November 24, 2010, Former United States House of Representatives Majority Leader and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Tom DeLay is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy in relation to Republican fundraising for the 2002 Texas state elections. (CNN)
November 25, 2010,
November 25, 2010,
November 25, 2010, Del Monte Foods is purchased in a US$5 billion leveraged buyout led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. (Financial Times)
November 25, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-North Korea warns that it will launch further attacks on South Korea if it continues "reckless military provocation". (CNN)
-South Korea increases its military strength on the islands near the border since the shelling of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday. (Reuters)
-The South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young resigns over the handling of the incident. (Yonhap)
November 25, 2010, The United States Government sets aside an area in Alaska twice the size of the United Kingdom as a "critical habitat" for polar bears. (BBC)
November 25, 2010, A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified from a fossil in Thailand. (NPR)
November 25, 2010, A World Health Organization study estimates that 600,000 deaths a year are attributable to second hand smoking. (Reuters)
November 26, 2010, Release of The Beginning is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010, United States country music singer Willie Nelson is charged with marijuana possession. (AP via MSN)
November 26, 2010, Irish financial crisis. Widespread speculation that senior bondholders of Irish banks will have to take a "haircut" -- i.e. share in the costs of an EU bailout -- leads to downgrades in the credit worthiness of the institutions that hads the most at stake in the ballooning property values of recent years. (CNBC)
November 26, 2010, A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead. (ABC Australia)
November 26, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-North Korea issues warnings about a planned exercise by South Korea and the United States this weekend. (Jerusalem Post)
-North Korea holds an artillery drill near Yeonpyeong Island, which it shelled earlier this week. (Times of India)
November 26, 2010, China warns the U.S. against preforming any military acts within their exclusive economic zone, ahead of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises aimed at threatening North Korea. (Reuters)
November 26, 2010, Authorities find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the United States, in two houses near Escondido, California. (CNN)
November 26, 2010, Kim Kwan-jin becomes the new Minister for Defense in South Korea, replacing Kim Tae-Young who resigned following the shelling of Yeonpyeong. (Yonhap)
November 27, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
-North Korea accuses South Korea of using "human shields" during the incident. (BBC)
-International diplomats work to ease hostilities in the Korean Peninsula, after North Korea warned of unpredictable "consequences" if the United States deploys an aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea. (CNN)
November 27, 2010, Somali-born teenager Mohamed Osman Mohamud is arrested in Portland, Oregon, for allegedly plotting a bombing attack on a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (BBC)
November 27, 2010, Icelanders vote for the creators of a new constitution. (AP via MSNBC)
November 28, 2010, United States diplomatic cables leak and attack on WikiLeaks:
-The WikiLeaks website is attacked by a computer-hacking operation and undergoes a "a mass distributed denial of service attack" as it prepares to release more secret U.S. documents. Julian Assange says U.S. authorities are afraid of being held accountable for their actions. (BBC)
-The United States Department of State says the planned release of a new batch of classified documents would place its military operations at risk, and warns of possible legal action if they were found to have been provided in violation of U.S. law. (The Washington Post)
-Wikileaks releases 250,000 messages sent by U.S. embassies, including messages discussing corruption, criticisms of the UK, Guantánamo Bay prison camp, a Chinese cyber attack, the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, and a possible unified Korea. (Sky News)
-The White House issues a statement of condemnation "in the strongest terms [of] the unauthorised disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information". (BBC)
November 28, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-The United States Navy and South Korean Navy hold exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea. (Reuters)
-Artillery fire is heard on Yeonpyeong Island after residents are ordered to take shelter. (AP)
-China calls for emergency “six-party talks” on resolving the crisis. (CNN)
-North Korea deploys surface-to-air missiles near its disputed border in the Yellow Sea. (Arirang)
November 28, 2010, Leslie Nielsen, famed for his roles in Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, dies at the age of 84 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP via Fox News)
November 28, 2010, Central China's Hunan Province begins building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC), where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed. (Xinhua)
November 28, 2010, Irish financial crisis: European Union finance ministers meet to work out the details for rescuing the Irish economy, and to outline an agreement for a fund to rescue other economically troubled euro-zone nations. (CNN Money)
-The EU approves an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland, which includes €10 billion for bank recapitalisation, €25 billion for banking contingencies and €50 billion for financing the budget. (RTÉ)
November 28, 2010, Parts of the UK experience their coldest temperatures on record for November overnight. (BBC)
November 28, 2010, Haitian general election, 2010:
-Voters in Haiti go to the polls for a general election, amid confusion and disorganization resulting from the cholera epidemic and the aftermath of the January earthquake (Voice of America)
-12 of the 18 candidates call for the election to be cancelled, alleging widespread voter fraud. (AP via Yahoo! News)
November 29, 2010, Release of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn a role-playing game for the Nintendo DS developed by Camelot Software Planning
November 29, 2010,
November 29, 2010, Pablo Picasso's electrician says he has 271 previously unknown works given to him as gifts by the artist. (BBC)
November 29, 2010, Irish financial crisis:
-Fine Gael speaks out against the high interest rate imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank and their insistence that the country pay €17 billion out of its own national pension fund. (The Guardian)
-Major European stock markets record falls while the Euro suffers its biggest drop in 2 months against the US dollar. (BBC)
-The Central Bank says Anglo Irish Bank's brand name is to "disappear" within weeks. (RTÉ)
November 29, 2010, Ash from Mount Bromo in Indonesia forces the closure of a nearby airport. (Bernama)
November 29, 2010, The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Cancun, involving 194 countries, amidst low expectations. (The Telegraph)
November 30, 2010, Release of Let Freedom Reign the third studio album by American R&B and soul singer–songwriter Chrisette Michele
November 30, 2010, Release of Disney Epic Mickey, known as Disney Micky Epic in Germany, is a Mickey Mouse video game designed by Warren Spector, with 2D cinemas by Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. and developed by Junction Point Studios for the Wii console
November 30, 2010,
November 30, 2010, The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) opens in the Mexican resort city of Cancún. (Xinhua)
November 30, 2010, The European Commission launches an anti-trust investigation of Google. (The Guardian)
November 30, 2010, Heavy flooding and mudslides claim at least 21 lives in Venezuela, with the President of Venezuela declaring a state of emergency in the state of Falcón. (CNN)
November 30, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan are to meet in Washington, D.C., to discuss North Korea. (CNN)
-North Korea warns of "all-out war any time" in response to a continuing drill by South Korean and US forces. (CNN)
-North Korea claims it has "thousands" of nuclear centrifuges operating at a previously undetected nuclear plant. (BBC)
November 30, 2010, Ecuador invites Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to speak publicly and offers him residency where he can make more revelations. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez praises the website and and calls for the resignation of U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. (BBC)
November 30, 2010, The easing of Israel's blockade of Gaza six months ago has led to "little improvement" for people living there, a report by 21 aid and rights agencies says; Israeli officials says that the claims "are biased and distorted" and that truckloads of supplies entering the Gaza Strip has increased from 86 to 176 truckloads per day, since June.(The Jerusalem Post)
November 30, 2010, Interpol issues an arrest warrant for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to face sexual assault charges in Sweden. (Fox News)
November 30, 2010, The Slurpee Summit occurs in Washington, DC. (Slate)
November 9, 2010,
November 9, 2010, A United Nations report suggests North Korea has supplied Burma, Iran and Syria with nuclear technology, in violation of United Nations sanctions. China had previously blocked the report from reaching the UN Security Council. (Reuters)
November 9, 2010, Construction of a factory for the first fleet of commercial spaceships begins at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the United States. (The Australian)
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010, Qantas and Cathay Pacific cancel flights out of Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport due to the eruptions of Mount Merapi in Indonesia. (CNN)
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010,
November 10, 2010, The United Nations says pirates off the coast of Somalia are "outperforming" an international effort to stop them. (Al Jazeera)
November 10, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama gives a speech in Indonesia during which he says more needs to be done to repair the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. (Reuters)
November 11-12, 2010, G-20 meeting in Seoul Korea
November 11, 2010, The crippled Carnival Cruise liner Carnival Splendor is towed to port in San Diego, California. (The New York Times
November 11, 2010,
November 11, 2010, Cholera in Haiti has now caused at least 724 deaths. (Al Jazeera)
November 11, 2010, The United Nations says there has been "no material change" for people in Gaza since Israel announced it was easing its economic blockade. An Israeli spokesman stated that the reason for the blockade was "because the territory has been overtaken by a declared terror movement."(BBC)
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010, Release of Unstopppable
November 12, 2010, Release of Loud the fifth studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna
November 12, 2010, Release of Born Free the eighth studio album by American artist Kid Rock
November 12, 2010, Release of A Christmas Cornucopia the fifth studio album and the first Christmas album by Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010, The United Nations appeals for nearly $164 million to fund the battle against Haiti's outbreak of cholera as hospitals overflow and space and time run out. (BBC)
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010,
November 12, 2010, The 23rd consecutive season of American cartoon The Simpsons is announced. (BBC)
November 12, 2010, Brazil begins auctioning parts of the Amazon Rainforest to private companies for logging. (CNN)
November 12, 2010, Mount Bulusan, a volcano in the Phillippines, erupts again. (The Inquirer)
November 12, 2010, The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to rescind the country's ban on openly gay soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
November 12, 2010, Irish Health Minister Mary Harney is targeted with eggs and cheese by protestors shouting "Bloody Mary" in response to her healthcare funding cuts. It follows a similar incident involving red paint last week. (The Irish Times)
November 13, 2010,
November 13, 2010, Leaders from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation area attend the APEC Japan 2010 summit in Yokohama. (Japan Times)
November 13, 2010, Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to win the WBC World Super Welterweight title, winning his record eighth belt in eight championship classes. (AP via NBC)
November 14, 2010,
November 14, 2010, Former British soldier turned singer-songwriter James Blunt claims that he stopped what he believed would be World War III by disobeying a direct order for his troops to attack Russian soldiers given by American General Wesley Clark while he was in Kosovo with NATO in 1999. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, Yines, a previously unknown indigenous tribe, is discovered in the Amazonian jungle of southeast Peru. (Al Jazeera)
November 14, 2010, The UK is to become one of the first countries to officially monitor happiness in a government scheme designed to measure psychological and environmental wellbeing. (The Guardian)
November 14, 2010, 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak: The death toll rises to 917. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, The death toll from the Mount Merapi eruptions reaches 250. (AP via Yahoo! News)
November 14, 2010, The United States offers Israel 20 F-35s and opposition to anti-Israel resolutions in the UN if Israel agrees to a partial 90-day freeze in building in the West Bank, excluding east Jerusalem. (BBC)
November 14, 2010, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders agree to work towards forming a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific. (Straits Times)
November 15, 2010, Release of What Separates Me from You the fourth album by A Day to Remember
November 15, 2010, Release of Progress the sixth studio album by British boy band Take That
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010,
November 15, 2010, US diplomat Richard Holbrooke says the US has a transition plan for Afghanistan, not an exit strategy, and that there will be some drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan next year but the U.S. combat mission will not end there until 2014. (CP via Google)
November 15, 2010, The United States will provide an additional US$500-million aid to Pakistan to help rebuild the country after devastating floods caused the worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history. (VOA)
November 16, 2010, Release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a historical fantasy third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
November 16, 2010, Release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit a 2010 racing video game in the Need For Speed series developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and iPhone
November 16, 2010, Clarence House announces the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton, to be married next year. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, The Beatles release their back catalogue on iTunes. (NME)
November 16, 2010, The President of the United States Barack Obama presents a Medal of Honor, the highest United States military decoration to Staff Sgt Salvatore Giunta at the White House. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, New York archbishop Timothy Dolan is voted president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (The New York Times)
November 16, 2010, Facebook announces that it will launch a new messaging platform, providing an email address of "@facebook.com." (Xinhua)
November 16, 2010, The death toll from the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak passes 1,000. At least one man is shot dead by United Nations peacekeepers after allegedly opening fire on the peacekeepers. (BBC)
November 16, 2010, Authorities in Shanghai arrest four people for unlicensed welding following the 2010 Shanghai fire. (Al Jazeera)
November 16, 2010, President Herman Van Rompuy predicts the possible collapse of the European Union but then says "I'm very confident we will overcome this". (The Guardian)
November 16, 2010, The United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct finds Charlie Rangel guilty of multiple violations of House rules. (CNN)
November 16, 2010, U.S. Republican Party Senators adopt a ban on earmarking, or setting aside money in bills for specific purposes specificed by legislators. (Reuters)
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010,
November 17, 2010, Germany heightens its police security presence at its airports after identifying "concrete indications" that a terrorist attack is planned for the end of November (BBC News)
November 17, 2010, Thirty-six minutes of the first part of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film is leaked. (CNN)
November 17, 2010, A Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains is unearthed at a construction site in London. (BBC News)
November 18, 2010, CERN has managed to trap antihydrogen atoms for the first time. (BBC )
November 18, 2010,
November 18, 2010, Officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union arrive in Dublin to discuss the Irish debt crisis with the Irish Government. (BBC)
November 18, 2010,
November 18, 2010, A planet, HIP 13044 b, which was formed in another galaxy has been discovered in the Helmi Stream. (BBC)
November 18, 2010, Auto maker General Motors is listed again on the New York Stock Exchange in the biggest Initial public offering in United States history. (Reuters)
November 18, 2010, The Leonid meteor shower was visible across much of the US early this morning. (USA Today)
November 18, 2010, A fault discovered in Idaho could produce an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude. (BBC)
November 19, 2010, Release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
November 19, 2010, Release of Three Days
November 19, 2010, Release of Pink Friday the debut studio album by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj
November 19, 2010, Release of Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band My Chemical Romance
November 19, 2010, Release of Cannibal the first extended play (EP) by American recording artist Kesha
November 19, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to elevate 24 new cardinals at a ceremony. (BBC)
November 19, 2010,
November 19, 2010, Twenty-nine coal miners and officials are feared trapped following an explosion at the Pike River Coal Processing Plant at Atarau in the Grey District of the South Island of New Zealand. (Stuff.co.nz)
November 19, 2010, The cholera epidemic which has killed more than 1,100 people in Haiti spreads to the largest prison in the country. (CNN)
November 19, 2010, Anti-government red shirt protesters return to the streets in Thailand. (Reuters)
November 20, 2010,
November 20, 2010, NATO summit
-NATO nations agree to start handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military and give local forces total control by 2014. (Associated Press)
-Russia agrees to help NATO build a United States planned missile shield in Europe. (Washington Post)
November 20, 2010, The Vatican will issue guidelines for bishops, on how to combat sexual abuse within the church. (BBC)
November 20, 2010, Doctors without Borders criticizes the response to the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak as inadequate. (BBC)
November 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistani authorities to release Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman facing a death sentence on a charge of blasphemy against Islam. (Daily Times)
November 20, 2010, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is welcoming Iran's invitation for a visit next year by the United Nations' human rights chief, Navi Pillay (SMH News)
November 21, 2010, Release of Donkey Kong Country Returns a side-scrolling 2.5D platform game developed by Retro Studios, and released by Nintendo for the Wii console
November 21, 2010, Rescuers begin drilling a hole to analyse air inside the Pike River mine in New Zealand. There has been no communication with the 29 trapped miners. (TVNZ)
November 21, 2010, North Korea unveils a new uranium enrichment plant. (The New York Times)
November 21, 2010, Irish financial crisis Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan, Jnr applies for an international bailout to deal with the Irish financial crisis. (RTÉ)
November 21, 2010, A flood traps 28 people in a coal mine in Sichuan, southwestern China. (BBC)
November 21, 2010, The death toll from the eruptions of Mount Merapi in Indonesia reaches 292. (CNN)
November 21, 2010, US stock car racer Jimmie Johnson wins his fifth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, the first driver to do so. (New York Times)
November 22, 2010, Release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Kanye West
November 22, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI says his personal opinion is that condoms may be used "in exceptional cases" to combat HIV-AIDS, but the Vatican says it has not has changed its policy on contraception. (The Australian)
November 22, 2010, Russia hosts the International Tiger Forum summit meeting of international wildlife experts and officials from 13 countries in St.Petersburg, to discuss the protection of tigers which could become extinct in 12 years if unprotected. (AP via Google News)
November 22, 2010, An army robot encounters water and breaks down 550 metres into the Pike River Mine in New Zealand where 29 miners are missing, but drilling of a shaft continues to allow air sampling. (The New Zealand Herald)
November 22, 2010, All 29 Chinese miners trapped in the flooded Batian mine in Sichuan Province are rescued. (AP)
November 22, 2010, At least 339 people are killed at a stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (BBC)
November 23, 2010, Release of Splatterhouse is a beat 'em up video game developed by Namco Bandai Games for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
November 23, 2010,
November 23, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong: North Korea shells Yeonpyeong island, South Korea at 14:34 local time in response to South Korean shelling close to the North Korean border during military drills. The North's shelling kills two marines and prompts a military response by the South in one of the most serious clashes since the 1953 armistice of the Korean War. (YTN Television)
November 23, 2010, Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be married at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29 April 2011. (BBC)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Release of Burlesque
November 24, 2010, Release of Gran Turismo 5, the fifth edition of the Gran Turismo racing simulator series. Developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment
November 24, 2010, Release of Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2.
November 24, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong: The bodies of two civilians killed in the attack are discovered on Yeonpyeong. (BBC)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Moscow and meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Chinese companies sign deals worth over $8.6 billion with Russian counterparts. (AFP via Yahoo! Finance)
November 24, 2010, 29 miners in a New Zealand mine are confirmed dead after a second explosion, following a first explosion on November 19 which trapped them. (TVNZ)
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010,
November 24, 2010, Ireland unveils a 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a bailout from the financial crisis. (Sydney Morning Herald)
November 24, 2010, American corporations posted record profits of $1.67trillion for last quarter, amidst high unemployment rates. (Democracy Now!)
November 24, 2010, The United Nations and Pan American Health Organization estimate that the number of cases in the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak could reach more than 200,000 in the next three months. (AFP via Google)
November 24, 2010, Former United States House of Representatives Majority Leader and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Tom DeLay is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy in relation to Republican fundraising for the 2002 Texas state elections. (CNN)
November 25, 2010,
November 25, 2010,
November 25, 2010, Del Monte Foods is purchased in a US$5 billion leveraged buyout led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. (Financial Times)
November 25, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-North Korea warns that it will launch further attacks on South Korea if it continues "reckless military provocation". (CNN)
-South Korea increases its military strength on the islands near the border since the shelling of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday. (Reuters)
-The South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young resigns over the handling of the incident. (Yonhap)
November 25, 2010, The United States Government sets aside an area in Alaska twice the size of the United Kingdom as a "critical habitat" for polar bears. (BBC)
November 25, 2010, A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified from a fossil in Thailand. (NPR)
November 25, 2010, A World Health Organization study estimates that 600,000 deaths a year are attributable to second hand smoking. (Reuters)
November 26, 2010, Release of The Beginning is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010,
November 26, 2010, United States country music singer Willie Nelson is charged with marijuana possession. (AP via MSN)
November 26, 2010, Irish financial crisis. Widespread speculation that senior bondholders of Irish banks will have to take a "haircut" -- i.e. share in the costs of an EU bailout -- leads to downgrades in the credit worthiness of the institutions that hads the most at stake in the ballooning property values of recent years. (CNBC)
November 26, 2010, A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead. (ABC Australia)
November 26, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-North Korea issues warnings about a planned exercise by South Korea and the United States this weekend. (Jerusalem Post)
-North Korea holds an artillery drill near Yeonpyeong Island, which it shelled earlier this week. (Times of India)
November 26, 2010, China warns the U.S. against preforming any military acts within their exclusive economic zone, ahead of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises aimed at threatening North Korea. (Reuters)
November 26, 2010, Authorities find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the United States, in two houses near Escondido, California. (CNN)
November 26, 2010, Kim Kwan-jin becomes the new Minister for Defense in South Korea, replacing Kim Tae-Young who resigned following the shelling of Yeonpyeong. (Yonhap)
November 27, 2010, Shelling of Yeonpyeong:
-North Korea accuses South Korea of using "human shields" during the incident. (BBC)
-International diplomats work to ease hostilities in the Korean Peninsula, after North Korea warned of unpredictable "consequences" if the United States deploys an aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea. (CNN)
November 27, 2010, Somali-born teenager Mohamed Osman Mohamud is arrested in Portland, Oregon, for allegedly plotting a bombing attack on a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. (BBC)
November 27, 2010, Icelanders vote for the creators of a new constitution. (AP via MSNBC)
November 28, 2010, United States diplomatic cables leak and attack on WikiLeaks:
-The WikiLeaks website is attacked by a computer-hacking operation and undergoes a "a mass distributed denial of service attack" as it prepares to release more secret U.S. documents. Julian Assange says U.S. authorities are afraid of being held accountable for their actions. (BBC)
-The United States Department of State says the planned release of a new batch of classified documents would place its military operations at risk, and warns of possible legal action if they were found to have been provided in violation of U.S. law. (The Washington Post)
-Wikileaks releases 250,000 messages sent by U.S. embassies, including messages discussing corruption, criticisms of the UK, Guantánamo Bay prison camp, a Chinese cyber attack, the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, and a possible unified Korea. (Sky News)
-The White House issues a statement of condemnation "in the strongest terms [of] the unauthorised disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information". (BBC)
November 28, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-The United States Navy and South Korean Navy hold exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula despite warnings from North Korea. (Reuters)
-Artillery fire is heard on Yeonpyeong Island after residents are ordered to take shelter. (AP)
-China calls for emergency “six-party talks” on resolving the crisis. (CNN)
-North Korea deploys surface-to-air missiles near its disputed border in the Yellow Sea. (Arirang)
November 28, 2010, Leslie Nielsen, famed for his roles in Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, dies at the age of 84 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (AP via Fox News)
November 28, 2010, Central China's Hunan Province begins building the country's third National Supercomputing Center (NSCC), where the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, will be installed. (Xinhua)
November 28, 2010, Irish financial crisis: European Union finance ministers meet to work out the details for rescuing the Irish economy, and to outline an agreement for a fund to rescue other economically troubled euro-zone nations. (CNN Money)
-The EU approves an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland, which includes €10 billion for bank recapitalisation, €25 billion for banking contingencies and €50 billion for financing the budget. (RTÉ)
November 28, 2010, Parts of the UK experience their coldest temperatures on record for November overnight. (BBC)
November 28, 2010, Haitian general election, 2010:
-Voters in Haiti go to the polls for a general election, amid confusion and disorganization resulting from the cholera epidemic and the aftermath of the January earthquake (Voice of America)
-12 of the 18 candidates call for the election to be cancelled, alleging widespread voter fraud. (AP via Yahoo! News)
November 29, 2010, Release of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn a role-playing game for the Nintendo DS developed by Camelot Software Planning
November 29, 2010,
November 29, 2010, Pablo Picasso's electrician says he has 271 previously unknown works given to him as gifts by the artist. (BBC)
November 29, 2010, Irish financial crisis:
-Fine Gael speaks out against the high interest rate imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank and their insistence that the country pay €17 billion out of its own national pension fund. (The Guardian)
-Major European stock markets record falls while the Euro suffers its biggest drop in 2 months against the US dollar. (BBC)
-The Central Bank says Anglo Irish Bank's brand name is to "disappear" within weeks. (RTÉ)
November 29, 2010, Ash from Mount Bromo in Indonesia forces the closure of a nearby airport. (Bernama)
November 29, 2010, The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Cancun, involving 194 countries, amidst low expectations. (The Telegraph)
November 30, 2010, Release of Let Freedom Reign the third studio album by American R&B and soul singer–songwriter Chrisette Michele
November 30, 2010, Release of Disney Epic Mickey, known as Disney Micky Epic in Germany, is a Mickey Mouse video game designed by Warren Spector, with 2D cinemas by Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. and developed by Junction Point Studios for the Wii console
November 30, 2010,
November 30, 2010, The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-16) opens in the Mexican resort city of Cancún. (Xinhua)
November 30, 2010, The European Commission launches an anti-trust investigation of Google. (The Guardian)
November 30, 2010, Heavy flooding and mudslides claim at least 21 lives in Venezuela, with the President of Venezuela declaring a state of emergency in the state of Falcón. (CNN)
November 30, 2010, Korean peninsula:
-Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan are to meet in Washington, D.C., to discuss North Korea. (CNN)
-North Korea warns of "all-out war any time" in response to a continuing drill by South Korean and US forces. (CNN)
-North Korea claims it has "thousands" of nuclear centrifuges operating at a previously undetected nuclear plant. (BBC)
November 30, 2010, Ecuador invites Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to speak publicly and offers him residency where he can make more revelations. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez praises the website and and calls for the resignation of U.S. secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. (BBC)
November 30, 2010, The easing of Israel's blockade of Gaza six months ago has led to "little improvement" for people living there, a report by 21 aid and rights agencies says; Israeli officials says that the claims "are biased and distorted" and that truckloads of supplies entering the Gaza Strip has increased from 86 to 176 truckloads per day, since June.(The Jerusalem Post)
November 30, 2010, Interpol issues an arrest warrant for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to face sexual assault charges in Sweden. (Fox News)
November 30, 2010, The Slurpee Summit occurs in Washington, DC. (Slate)
