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Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is elected Brazil 's first female President .[ 1]
At least 32 people are injured in a suicide bombing in Istanbul , Turkey .[ 2]
In baseball , the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series .[ 3]
Authorities investigate a plot to bomb planes with cargo packages intercepted in England and Dubai , en route from Yemen to the United States .[ 4]
Islamic militants attack a Catholic church in Baghdad , killing 58 people and injuring dozens of others.[ 5]
In the United States midterm elections , the Democratic Party retains a majority in the Senate , while the Republican Party wins a majority of seats in the House of Representatives .[ 6]
Viktor Chernomyrdin , the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia and the founder of Gazprom company, dies at age 72.[ 7]
Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba , killing all 68 on board.[ 8]
Hurricane Tomas strikes several Caribbean nations, killing at least 24 people and causing damage estimated at US$ 544 million.[ 9]
Flights are disrupted by repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java , Indonesia .[ 10]
Over 400 people are killed by an outbreak of cholera in the Saint-Marc region of Haiti .[ 11]
Pope Benedict XVI consecrates the Sagrada Família in Barcelona , and declares it a basilica , 128 years after its construction started.[ 12]
Gebre Gebremariam and Edna Kiplagat win the 2010 New York City Marathon , as world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement after abandoning the race through injury.[ 13]
Michel Houellebecq wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel La Carte et le Territoire .[ 14]
Cyclone Jal and associated flooding kill at least 117 people in India , Thailand and Malaysia .[ 15]
Opposition parties concede defeat to the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party in Burma 's first elections for 20 years, after the National League for Democracy boycotts the elections.[ 16]
The video game Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks the 24-hour sales record, selling 5.6 million copies.[ 17]
A truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in Karachi , destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.[ 18]
Polish composer Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.[ 19]
The sixteenth Asian Games commence in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China .[ 20]
Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest .[ 21]
In boxing , Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to become the sport's first octuple champion.[ 22]
Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest-ever Formula One world champion, winning the 2010 Formula One season , while Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.[ 23]
Russia defeats Brazil to win the women's volleyball world championship .[ 24]
A fire destroys a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai , China , killing 42 people and injuring over 100.[ 25]
Alpha Condé wins the Guinean presidential election, the first held since the 2008 coup d'état .[ 26]
Prince William , second in line to the thrones of the 16 Commonwealth realms , and Kate Middleton announce their engagement to be married next year.[ 27]
Researchers at CERN announce that they have trapped antihydrogen atoms for the first time.[ 28]
A series of flash floods kills 136 people and disrupts more than 1.2 million others across Colombia .[ 29]
At a summit in Lisbon , Portugal , the heads of government of the NATO member states adopt a new Strategic Concept and agree to develop a mutual missile defense system.[ 30]
Voters in Madagascar approve a new constitution in a referendum which also sees Andry Rajoelina remain as interim president.[ 31]
Eurozone countries agree to a bailout of the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the global financial crisis .[ 32]
A stampede during festival celebrations in Phnom Penh , Cambodia , kills at least 345 people.[ 33]
North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island , prompting a military response by South Korea .[ 34]
29 miners are confirmed dead after a second explosion in the Pike River Mine , New Zealand 's worst mining disaster in 96 years.[ 35]
The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins an absolute majority in the Tongan general election .[ 36]
The Russian State Duma passes a bill officially condemning the 1940 Katyn massacre .[ 37]
Tom DeLay , former Republican Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives , is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.[ 38]
WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables .[ 39]
Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen dies at the age of 84.[ 40]