• One person was killed and eight others were wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in Rawalpindi’s Civil Lines area of Pakistan. (dawn)
• Gunman opened fire on a group of people on a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14. (Shanghai Daily)
• NATO forces repel a Taliban attack on an outpost in Afghanistan's Paktika Province, killing at least 80 insurgents. (BBC) (Reuters Africa) (The Australian)
• 2010 cargo plane bomb plot
  • The United States searches on Saturday for the people behind the attempts to send mail bombs to Chicago synagogues. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Yemeni authorities arrest two women in relation to the attack and search for other people of interest. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai reprimands Russia after its forces enter the country without permission and "violate Afghan sovereignty" in a joint mission with United States agents. Karzai orders an investigation. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• Thousands of people flee their homes in Guinea amid ethnic clashes ahead of a presidential run-off. (IOL)
• Community leaders in Plateau State, Nigeria, appeal for calm following attacks by Muslim Hausa-Fulani against a Christian village near the city of Jos. (BBC)
• Somali pirates attack and seize a Liberian tanker with 24 crew on board in the Indian Ocean. (AFP)
• A roadside bomb targeting the African Union Mission to Somalia kills seven people in the capital Mogadishu. (AHN)

  Arts, culture and entertainment

• English pop group Take That sell 1 million 2011 reunion tour tickets within 24 hours amid crashing websites and jammed phone lines. (The Times of Malta) (The Irish Times) (Reuters) (BBC)
• 18-year old Alexandria Mills from the United States wins the 60th edition of the Miss World pageant in China. (ABC News)

• A large oil field is discovered off the coast of Brazil that could contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels. (BBC)

• At least 16 people drown and 70 are missing after an overcrowded ferry sinks in a river in West Bengal, eastern India. (AFP)
• Aftermath of October 2010 Sumatra earthquake:
  • The death toll from the tsunami climbs to 413 and 218 people missing with the Government of Indonesia considering evacuations. (CNN)
  • Rescue workers find 135 people on a remote island and revise downwards by half the missing toll. (Al Jazeera)
• Typhoon Chaba heads towards eastern Japan. (AFP via Google News)
• French and Australian rescue crews find four French nationals who died in a helicopter crash in Antarctica. (CNN)
• Hurricane Tomas lashes the islands of Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles. (BBC)

• Family reunions take place in North Korea between North and South Korean families separated during the Korean War sixty years ago. (Al Jazeera) (Yonhap)
• Turkey's national security council adds Israeli activity in the Middle East, "online terror" and global warming to a document listing potential threats, while removing Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran and Syria from the same list. The document also calls for a Middle East without nuclear weapons. (Ynetnews)
• The prime ministers of China and Japan meet in Vietnam amid a diplomatic disagreement, with Hillary Clinton of the United States wading into the dispute during a speech. (Al Jazeera)
• Abdullah of Saudi Arabia invites Iraqi political leaders for a meeting in Riyadh as part of an attempt to sort out the deadlock over the formation of a new government. (Al Jazeera)

• Two men are sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of a Rwandan journalist who had allegedly uncovered evidence that the Rwandan government was behind the attempted murder of an ex-army general. (IOL)
• Turkey lifts a two-year ban on YouTube, which was blocked due to videos insulting the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. (BBC) (Today's Zaman)
• Sweden detains two people for allegedly plotting to attack Gothenburg in an alleged "terrorist crime". (Al Jazeera)
• Fourteen people are killed by gunmen at a soccer field in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (CNN)

• An estimated 200,000 people attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear by political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Al Jazeera) (Toronto Sun) (Reuters)
• Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party, issues an apology for branding Danny Alexander, a member of the British Government, a "ginger rodent". Mr Alexander tweets in response: "I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind". (Sky News) (Press Association via The Guardian)
• In an interview with Al-Hayat later quoted by Israeli television, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar calls a "rebel" against Hamas policy anyone who fires rockets from Gaza into Israel. (Haaretz)

• Australia defeat Ireland by a score of 102-92 to win the 2010 International Rules Series at Croke Park. (RTÉ Sport) (The Irish Times) (ABC News) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (BBC Sport) (Sky Sports)