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• The discovery of Balaur, a new genus of dinosaurs closely related to velociraptor, is announced.^[1]
• In the Iraq War, Operation Iraqi Freedom concludes and Operation New Dawn begins; marking the end of foreign combat operations in Iraq.^[2]
• A mass shooting in Bratislava, Slovakia, leaves eight people dead, including the gunman.^[3]
• Hurricane Earl, a major Category four hurricane that has already battered the northern Leeward Islands, impacts the East Coast of the United States with mandatory evacuations of 30,000 people in North Carolina.^[4]
• Three bombings kill at least 30 people and injure more than 200 others in Lahore.^[5]
• Typhoon Kompasu makes landfall in South Korea, becoming the strongest typhoon to affect Seoul in fifteen years.^[6]
• A 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand, causing widespread damage in Christchurch.^[7]
• In one of the longest trials in Portuguese history, six men are convicted on charges stemming from the child sexual abuse at the Casa Pia children's home in Lisbon.^[8]
• A bombing at a Shia rally in Quetta, Pakistan, marking Quds Day kills at least 73 people and injures 200 others.^[9]
• The Spanish Basque nationalist group ETA announces a ceasefire; the first since a similar 2006 declaration.^[10]
• At least 54 people are killed by Tropical Depression Eleven-E in Guatemala after a series of mudslides cover parts of the Inter-American Highway.^[11]
• The Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, forms a minority government after a federal election in Australia that resulted in a hung parliament.^[12]
• The Iranian government suspends the sentence of death by stoning for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in response to international pressure.^[13]
• Gunmen storm a prison in Bauchi, Nigeria, freeing over 700 inmates.^[14]
• The White House announces that Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta (pictured) will be awarded the Medal of Honor, the first living recipient to be so honored since the Vietnam War.^[15]
• The American film Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola, wins the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.^[16]
• In basketball, the United States defeats Turkey to win the 2010 FIBA World Championship.^[17]
• New Zealand win the 2010 Tri Nations Series undefeated, after beating Australia at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney.^[18]
• Voters in Turkey approve constitutional changes in a referendum.^[19]
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Kim Clijsters of Belgium win the men's and women's singles, respectively, at the US Open.^[20]
• The French parliament passes a bill, controversially banning the wearing of the niqāb or the burqa Islamic garments in public.^[21]
• Pope Benedict XVI makes the first state visit by a pope to the United Kingdom, amid controversy over Catholic social policies.^[22]
• The killing of exiled Pakistani politician Imran Farooq in London provokes violence in his home town of Karachi.^[23]
• Researchers announce that the Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), closely related to HIV, has evolved at least 32,000 years ago, making it about a hundred times older than previously thought.^[24]
• French athlete Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim the English Channel, completing the challenge in less than 14 hours.^[25]
• In the Swedish general election, the centre-right Alliance wins a plurality, while the Sweden Democrats hold the balance of power.^[26]
• The King's Speech, directed by Tom Hooper, wins the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[27]
• In cycling, Vincenzo Nibali from Italy, wins the Vuelta a España.^[28]
• In Gaelic football, Cork defeat Down to win their seventh All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.^[29]
• Italian authorities seize €23 million in assets from the Vatican Bank amidst an investigation of alleged money laundering.^[30]
• The discovery of Kosmoceratops, a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, is announced.^[31]
• Typhoon Fanapi makes landfall in Mainland China after devastating Taiwan, leaving at least 72 dead.^[32]
• Alleged al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui is sentenced by a federal court to 86 years in prison for attempted murder, resulting in protests in Pakistan.^[33]
• Soviet politician Gennady Yanayev, leader of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, dies at the age of 73.^[34]
• Hugo Chavez' United Socialist Party of Venezuela maintains a majority of seats in the Venezuelan parliamentary election but loses its supermajority in the National Assembly.^[35]
• President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev dismisses Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov with first Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin appointed as acting Mayor.^[36]
• Maatia Toafa is elected as Prime Minister of Tuvalu.^[37]
• Kim Jong-un, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is made a general of the Korean People's Army and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea.^[38]
• An Indian High Court rules that the disputed holy site in Ayodhya be split into three parts.^[39]
• The Icelandic parliament indicts former Prime Minister Geir Haarde on charges of negligeance in office related to the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis.^[40]