• The US, UK, France and Germany ban all air freight from Yemen at their respective countries' airports following the discovery of two explosive packages. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Nigeria intercepts a weapons shipment including artillery rockets, originating in Iran, after Israeli officials accused Iran of trying to smuggle the weapons into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (CNN) (The Jerusalem Post)
• A bomb blast occurs in Istanbul's Taksim Square, injuring at least fifteen people. (Reuters via Yahoo! News), (BBC), (Reuters)
• Iraqi police raid the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Church in the Karrada district of Baghdad where gunmen were holding a hundred hostages resulting in seven hostages being killed and twenty injured. (BBC), (AFP via Yahoo! News), (Al Jazeera)

• The Shanghai World Expo in China ends. (China Daily) (euronews) (BBC)
• The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez nationalises Sidetur, a subsidiary of Sivensa.(Reuters)
• The Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal is triggered after Mark Russinovich publishes details of Sony's rootkit.

• 2010 Atlantic hurricane season:
  • The death toll from the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak reaches 330 with the impact of Hurricane Tomas later in the week expected to make things worse. (CNN)
  • Hurricane Tomas heads into the Caribbean after hitting the Lesser Antilles becoming a Category 2 hurricane. (AP), (CNN)
• The death toll from the Sumatra tsunami reaches 435 with 110 people missing and feared dead. (AFP via ABC News Online)
• Mount Merapi erupts again in Indonesia, surprising villagers who had returned to check their possessions. (AP)

• Human Rights Watch expresses concern that Iran and Saudi Arabia, which have been criticized for their records on women's rights, are expected to join a new U.N. agency devoted to women and could interfere with the work of the agency. (Los Angeles Times)
• Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounces a large-scale drug raid in which U.S. forces and Russian drug agents took part, calling it a violation of Afghan sovereignty, even though Afghan police participated. (Los Angeles Times)
• Six New Zealanders return home after breaking Israel's blockade of Gaza claiming to have delivered medical aid and a message of international solidarity. (Newstalk ZB)

• A United States military commission sentences Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to eight more years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of an American soldier in 2002. (CNN)

• The Somali parliament approves Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as Prime Minister. (Al Jazeera) (RFI)
• Voters in Brazil go to the polls for the second round of the Brazilian presidential election between Dilma Rousseff and José Serra. Rousseff won 55% of the vote and will become the first female President of Brazil. (Latin American Herald Tribune), (BBC), (CNN)
• Voters in the Ivory Coast go to the polls for the long delayed presidential election. (Reuters)
• Voters in Tanzania go to the polls for the country's general election. (BBC)

• The International Cricket Council upholds the suspension of two Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Amir for involvement in the 2010 Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy. (BBC), (Reuters)