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Business and economics Apple Inc. launches Ping. (BBC) A trade agreement between Australia and the European Union comes into effect stopping Australian wine being marketed using terms such as champagne and port. (ABC Online) (BBC) (People's Daily) The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, upheld an injunction issued by a federal district court in Indiana in 2009, enjoining Teva ...
Disasters The United Nations estimates on a preliminary basis that at least 2,000 tents were damaged or destroyed in the storm that struck Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera) At least two people are killed and seventeen injured in a domestic gas explosion in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels, Belgium. (RIA Novosti) International relations Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations ...
Disasters More than 50 people are injured in an oil pipeline blast in northeastern Iran. (Press TV) Thousands of people are evacuated in Delhi over flooding fears. (BBC) (The Hindu) (The Times of India) The death toll from the fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno in the U.S. state of California, reaches 4, with 50 other people injured. (ABC News America) A large fish kill, consisting ...
Disasters The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake is lifted. (The Press) A storm in New York City kills one person and leaves 25,000 people without power. This includes a Tornado which touched down in Flushing and a Macroburst. (CNN) Hurricane Karl becomes a Category 2 hurricane as it heads across Mexico's offshore oil wells in the Gulf of ...
Arts and culture British singer George Michael is given a sentence of eight weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis at the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London. (BBC) Disasters 2010 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. (Reuters) Mexico and Belize issue warnings about Tropical Storm Karl which is ...
Disasters A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala after heavy rains and landslides kill at least 18 people. (BBC) (RTÉ) The Australian Army is called in to assist with flood relief in the state of Victoria. (ABC News Australia) International Relations A Palestinian Authority spokesman says that Iran has no standing to criticize them for relaunching direct talks with Israel while Iran ...
The United States commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with events in New York City, the Pentagon Memorial in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed. (AFP via ABC News) 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy:
Disasters Two workers are missing and more than thirty workers are trapped in an oil rig in the Shengli oil field off Dongying in China's Shandong province. (AFP via Google News) The state of emergency in Christchurch, New Zealand, is extended for another week following an aftershock to Saturday's earthquake in Lyttelton. (Sydney Morning Herald) Eight people are missing and at least fifty-four ...