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The world's largest passenger ship MS Oasis of the Seas (pictured) sets sail for the first time.[ 1]
Hamid Karzai (pictured) wins a second term as President of Afghanistan after opponent Abdullah Abdullah pulled out citing concerns about the political independence of the Indepentent Election Commission.[ 2]
President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus (pictured) signs the Treaty of Lisbon after it was upheld by the Constitutional Court , fulfilling the final step in its ratification .[ 3]
The European Space Agency 's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites are launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome , Russia .[ 4]
Claude Lévi-Strauss , the "father of modern anthropology ", dies in Paris , aged 100.[ 5]
The source of the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea near Australia is plugged at the fifth attempt.[ 6]
An Italian court convicts 22 known or suspected CIA agents over the kidnap of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (pictured) , delivering the first convictions against people involved in the the U.S. extraordinary rendition program.[ 7]
The New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 4–2 and win their 27th World Series (MVP Hideki Matsui pictured) .[ 8]
Australia and New Zealand expel Fijian diplomats in retaliation for Fiji's expulsion of their High Commissioners , in a row over travel bans on Fijian officials.[ 9]
The Israeli navy seizes hundreds of tons of arms from the MV Francop off the coast of Cyprus .[ 10]
A gunman opens fire at Fort Hood , a United States Army base in Texas , killing twelve people and injuring 31.[ 11]
Cambodia and Thailand recall their ambassadors from each other over the Cambodian government appointment of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra .[ 12]
The Sa'dah insurgency , a civil war in Yemen , spreads into Saudi Arabia .[ 13]
Finland and Sweden give a permit to build the controversial Nord Stream , a natural gas pipeline from Vyborg , Russia , to Greifswald , Germany , in their exclusive economic zones .[ 14]
In baseball , the New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies to win their 27th World Series , and the Yomiuri Giants defeat the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to win their 21st Japan Series .[ 15]
A ruptured water pipe floods the Central Railway Station metro station, the busiest station on the Helsinki metro , possibly closing it from traffic for several months.[ 16]
Russian physicist Vitaly Ginzburg , a Nobel laureate and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb , dies in Moscow , aged 93.[ 17]
At the 4th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sharm el-Sheikh , China 's Premier Wen Jiabao pledges US$10 billion in soft loans to 49 African leaders for Sino-African cooperation .[ 18]
El Salvador declares a state of emergency as at least 140 people are killed by floods and mudslides .[ 19]
A German man is sentenced to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing Marwa El-Sherbini (memorial pictured) in a court in Dresden , an attack that caused uproar in the Muslim world .[ 20]
The discovery of Aardonyx , a genus of prosauropod dinosaur , in South Africa is announced.[ 21]
Brazil and Paraguay suffer a blackout caused by failure in the eletric transmission network of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam .[ 22]
An illegal gold mine collapses in Dompoase , Ghana killing 18 people.[ 23]
NASA announces that the LCROSS project (satellite pictured) has discovered evidence of water in the Cabeus crater on the Moon .[ 24]
Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao (pictured) defeats Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico , becoming the first boxer in history to win seven world titles in seven different weight divisions .[ 25]
Patriarch Pavle of Serbia , the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs , dies at the age of 95.[ 26]
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 (mission insignia pictured) , bringing supplies and the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station .[ 27]
The Original of Laura , a novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov , is published despite his wish that its manuscript be burned.[ 28]
The population of Africa has exceeded one billion people for the first time according to the United Nations Population Fund , and has doubled in the last 27 years.[ 29]
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh upholds the death sentences of five former soldiers convicted of assassinating the country's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) .[ 30]
Prime Minister of Belgium Herman Van Rompuy (pictured) is chosen as the first permanent President of the European Council .[ 31]
The discovery of ancient crocodile genera , Kaprosuchus and Laganosuchus , is announced.[ 32]
British politician Catherine Ashton is selected as the first High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy .[ 33]
A United States district court finds the Army Corps of Engineers was negligent in maintaining New Orleans levees that contributed to flooding during Hurricane Katrina .[ 34]
Continued flooding affecting Great Britain and Ireland results in the death of a police officer when a bridge collapses at Workington .[ 35]
Egypt recalls its ambassador to Algeria in a dispute following a qualifying match between the nations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup .[ 36]
At least 87 people are killed in a mine explosion in Heilongjiang , People's Republic of China .[ 37]
A research concludes that Homo floresiensis , discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly .[ 38]
Chinese human rights activist Huang Qi , who campaigned for the parents of the children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , is convicted of "illegally holding state secrets ".[ 39]
An election-related massacre kills 46 people in the Philippines.[ 40]
Leaked contents of a report on the destruction of the Babri Mosque (pictured) cause a row in the Indian parliament .[ 41]
Unidentified hackers steal and publish more than 1,000 private e-mails and 2,000 documents on climate change research, from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia .[ 42]
More than 300,000 animals are ritually slaughtered in Gadhimai festival in southern Nepal , in the world's largest animal sacrifice .[ 43]
The world's largest mass vaccination against yellow fever begins in West Africa , targeting more than 12 million people.[ 44]
The investment company Dubai World , owned by the Dubai government, asks creditors for a six-month moratorium on its US$59 billion debt, giving indication of problems with the state's finances.[ 45]
The Murphy Report , the result of an investigation into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin , is published.[ 46]
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (pictured) , the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr , resigns over allegations that he withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike .[ 47]
A flash flood on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia during the hajj holidays leaves 77 dead and hundreds missing.[ 48]
Citizens of St Vincent and the Grenadines reject a new constitution which would have replaced Queen Elizabeth II with a president as Head of State .[ 49]
Wolfgang Schneiderhan (pictured) , the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr , and Franz Josef Jung , the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs , resign over allegations that they withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike .[ 50]
At least 25 people are killed after a train derails on the Moscow–Saint Petersburg Railway near to Bologoye in Russia .[ 51]
Rwanda (flag pictured) is admitted under the Edinburgh criteria to the Commonwealth of Nations , becoming the second member of the organisation without any historical ties to the United Kingdom .[ 52]
Voters in Switzerland approve in a referendum to ban the construction of minarets in the country.[ 53]