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- UK Eurovision 2009 entrant Jade Ewen becomes the newest member of world famous girl group Sugababes after Amelle Berrabah left the group the same day.The Sun
- Hong Kong sentences former Morgan Stanley managing director Du Jun to seven years in prison for his insider trading conviction in its most high-profile case. (BBC)
- International Quds Day:
- 30,000 Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by the dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura, which, according to the United Nations, has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by a London-based oil firm is not enough. (BBC)
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- The Brazilian government announces a plan to ban sugarcane farming in the Amazon Rainforest and indigenous areas. (Latin American Herald Tribune) (BBC)
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il tells a visiting envoy of Chinese President Hu Jintao he is willing to engage in talks on his country's nuclear programme. (BBC) (Yonhap)
- Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez calls for an integrated Mercosur with a greater number of countries to make it more competitive overseas, but also demands greater balance inside the group among members. (MercoPress)
- Sri Lanka announces it will rehouse displaced Tamil refugees within the next four months. (Associated Press)
- The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirms that serving PSNI officers provided training to the Libyan police force in the past twelve months. (RTÉ)
- Two people are killed and a further 12 injured in a stabbing attack in Beijing. (China Daily) (Associated Press) (China Post)
- At least 33 people die as a result of a suicide bomb attack in Kohat in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. (RTÉ) (AP via Google News)
- Nicola Roxon, the Australian Minister for Health, says that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved an Australian-made swine flu vaccine. (AP via Fox 59)
- The Raptorex kriegsteini, a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered in northeastern China. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Washington Post) (The Guardian)
- The African Union says a twin bombing that killed 17 peacekeepers on its base in Mogadishu, Somalia, was conducted in UN marked cars. (CNN) (IOL)
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- At least 87 refugees are killed after an army air raid on a camp for displaced people in 'Amran Governorate, northern Yemen. (BBC) (Saba) (Bernama) (Al Jazeera)
- The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy says European Union leaders agree to impose a cap on banker pay. (AP via Google News)
- The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Jan Fischer, says that President Barack Obama told him that the United States is abandoning plans for a missile shield based in Poland and the Czech Republic. (AP via Houston Chronicle) (RIA Novosti)
- Two large explosions hit the main base of African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP via Chicago Star-Tribune) (Xinhua)
- Sa'dah insurgency: More than 80 people are killed in an air raid on a camp for displaced people in northern Yemen. (BBC)
- A number of children are injured in an attack at the Carolinum secondary school in the Bavarian town of Ansbach. German police arrest a man. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Colombia says it would consider quitting UNASUR if the bloc does not agree to debate issues related to drug trafficking, terrorism and arms purchases. (MercoPress)
- Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi denounces an International Crisis Group (ICG) report that warns his country could descend into ethnic violence ahead of its first national election since a 2005 poll triggered deadly street clashes. (IOL)
- A large car bomb attack in the centre of Kabul, Afghanistan kills six Italian ISAF soldiers. (BBC) (Adnkronos)
- Egypt's top Islamic authority, Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, defends women's rights to wear trousers in public following the high-profile court case in neighbouring Sudan where women, including Lubna al-Hussein, were flogged for dressing in the garments. (IOL)
- Seven explosions hit the Burmese city of Yangon with no casualties. (Bangkok Post) (Times of India)
- Indonesian police confirm the death of their most wanted man, Noordin Mohammed Top, who was suspected of involvement in the 2009 Jakarta bombings and the Bali bombings in 2002. (Jakarta Post) (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- United Nations Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe begins visiting camps holding displaced Tamil refugees in northern Sri Lanka. (Colombo Page) (BBC) (AFP)
- Venezuela and China agree a $16 billion oil exploration deal allowing China to drill in the Orinoco basin. (Bloomberg) (MarketWatch) (Al Jazeera)
- The ruling Burmese junta defends its decision to bar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from attending her appeal hearing. (Straits Times) (Gulf News) (Philippine Star)
- Four more people are found guilty and jailed for carrying out attacks with syringes in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. (BBC)
- Kenyan MPs pass a bill with an overwhelming majority to nearly halve the number of ministries from 40 to 24 in a bid to cut costs. (BBC)
- Uruguay's ruling coalition presidential candidate José "el Pepe" Mujica says: “The Kirchners [of Argentina] are lefties, but what a left, mamma mia, what a gang!” and that Argentina is a country “of hysteric, mad, paranoiac reactions”. (MercoPress)
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- New documents disclose that novelist J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for His Majesty's Government in the run up to World War II. (The Daily Telegraph)
- José Manuel Barroso is re-elected as President of the European Commission, by Members of the European Parliament. (BBC News) (Angola Press)
- Yukio Hatoyama is sworn in as the 60th Prime Minister of Japan. (Asahi Shimbun) (Radio Australia)
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announces that China is to invest 16 billion US dollars to boost oil production in the country particularly along the Orinoco River as part of a strategy to reduce dependence on the US market. (MercoPress)
- Argentina formally accepts apologies from the Spanish government which admitted having committed a “protocol error” on allowing the presence of a delegation from the Falkland Islands in an international fisheries sustainability conference. (MercoPress)
- Kenya's parliament nullifies President Mwai Kibaki's reappointment of Kenya's anti-corruption chief, Justice Aaron Ringera, who critics say has shown little interest in fighting graft. (IOL)
- The European Union casts doubt on last month's election results showing Afghan President Hamid Karzai winning the presidential election outright in the first round. (Reuters)
- The World Meteorological Organisation says the hole in the Ozone layer is smaller than in 2008. (AFP)
- China says it has foiled a possible terrorist attack in Xinjiang, detaining six people. (Xinhua) (The Straits Times) (UPI)
- The Somalian Islamist group Al-Shabaab call for reinforcements after a U.S. raid killed its leader Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. (Reuters)
- Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico. (Associated Press) (CNN)
- Kenya begins moving the first residents out of slums in the capital Nairobi, as part of a plan to clear all shanty towns over the next two to five years. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Capital FM)
- 21 people are injured, three seriously, after a collision involving a Luas tram and a double-decker bus on O'Connell Street in Dublin, the worst ever accident involving the city's trams. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (The Belfast Telegraph) (The Canadian Press)
- The TEAMS cable system, providing high speed broadband to East Africa for the first time, is poised to go live. (BBC)
- Egyptian border guards shoot dead two sub-Saharan migrants, bringing to at least 14 the number killed this year as they try to cross illegally into Israel. (IOL)
- A lightning bolt kills five children at their school in Bamali, Cameroon, as they are preparing to begin their school day. (IOL)
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- At least 19 people die and 80 are missing after a ferry sinks in the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AFP via Google News)
- Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark to win the 2009 US Open Women's Singles. (New York Times)
- Cork beat Kilkenny in the final of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009. (RTÉ)
- Police arrest more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in Uganda's capital Kampala, as the death toll rises to 14. (IOL)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis. (BBC)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears with her main rival, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in a TV debate, two weeks ahead of an election. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle) (The Guardian) (Bankok Post) (Miami Herald)
- Saudi Arabia's veteran foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal undergoes successful spine surgery in the United States. (Reuters)
- 38 people are killed in a fire at a drug abuse clinic in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. (Kazakhstan News) (AFP) (RIA Novosti) (IOL)
- Hundreds of people protest in Hong Kong over alleged beatings of its journalists in mainland China covering unrest in Xinjiang. (RTHK) (BBC) (Straits Times)
- At least 6 people die in a fall down an elevator shaft of a skyscraper under construction in Hong Kong. (BBC) (IOL) (The New Zealand Herald)
- 4 people die and 3 are injured when a mud house collapses in floods at Lazaret, a poor district of the Nigerien capital Niamey. (IOL)
- Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. (BBC)
- Teeth and bones from a range of animals, including hyenas, deer and rhinos, are discovered by archaeologists inside a cave in Devon, England. (BBC)
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