Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/October

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 * President of Ecuador Rafael Correa declares a state of emergency as protests by the police and members of the armed forces close main airports and disrupt communications.
 * A newly discovered planet, Gliese 581 g, is found to be in the habitable zone of its parent star, where liquid water may exist.
 * Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador is suspended following detection of clenbuterol in a sample taken during the 2010 Tour de France, which he won.
 * David Lloyd Johnston is sworn in as the twenty-eighth Governor General of Canada.
 * The People's Republic of China launches its second lunar orbiter, Chang'e 2.
 * The United States apologizes for conducting Syphilis experiments in Guatemala without the subjects' informed consent in the 1940s.
 * A train collision kills 36 people and injures at least 50 in Indonesia.
 * In Australian rules football, Collingwood defeats St Kilda to win the AFL Grand Final.
 * The XIX Commonwealth Games begin at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, India.
 * Sébastien Loeb, driving for the Citroën World Rally Team, wins his seventh consecutive World Rally Championship.
 * In Australian rules football, Collingwood win the AFL Grand Final, while in rugby league, St George Illawarra win the NRL Grand Final.
 * Robert Geoffrey Edwards wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his development of in vitro fertilisation.
 * The incumbent coalition government of Valdis Dombrovskis wins Latvia's parliamentary election.
 * The 39th Chess Olympiad concludes with Ukraine and Russia winning the open and women's section respectively.
 * In golf, Europe defeats the United States in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor, South Wales.
 * Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments on graphene.
 * A state of emergency is declared in western Hungary after an accident at an alumina factory floods a large area with "red mud", killing at least three people.
 * Former Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel is sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident.
 * Faisal Shahzad (pictured) is sentenced to life in prison for an attempted car bombing in Times Square, New York City.
 * Comedy actor Norman Wisdom dies aged 95.
 * Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in organic synthesis.
 * Researches announce the discovery of the Koro language spoken by 800 to 1200 people in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India.
 * Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 * The Russian RSM-56 Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, the proposed future cornerstone of the country's nuclear triad, undergoes its first successful test since 2008.
 * A Roman helmet dating from the first to third century AD sells at auction for £2.3 million ($3.6 million).
 * Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
 * The maiden flight of the Soyuz TMA-M, with three astronauts of Expedition 25 on board, docks at the International Space Station.
 * The Netherland Antilles is dissolved, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius become special municipalities of the Netherlands.
 * Peter Diamon, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides are awarded the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
 * Australian opera singer Joan Sutherland dies at her home in Switzerland aged 83.
 * Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya and Liliya Shobukhova of Russia win the men's and women's events respectively at the Chicago Marathon.
 * British author Howard Jacobson is awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Finkler Question.
 * The first of the 33 miners trapped for two months in the San José mine in Copiapó, Chile, is rescued.
 * A U.S. Federal judge orders the Defense Department to stop enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.
 * Spanish motorcyclist Jorge Lorenzo becomes 2010 World Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion.
 * The Ata-Zhurt party wins a plurality in the Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election.
 * The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announces that it believes rinderpest has been eradicated, making it the second virus in history, after smallpox, to have been eliminated by humans.
 * After 14 years of construction, the drilling of the world's longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel across the Swiss Alps, is completed.
 * Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, known for his work with fractals, dies at the age of 85.
 * Five new saints, including Mary MacKillop&mdash;the first Australian saint&mdash;are canonised by Pope Benedict XVI.
 * Typhoon Megi, a category 5 super typhoon, makes landfall in the Philippines, becoming one of the strongest recorded storms ever to make landfall.
 * Strikes continue in France as millions of people demonstrate against government attempts to raise the retirement and pension ages.
 * At least six people, including three attackers, are killed and seventeen others injured in an attack on the Chechen parliament in Grozny.
 * A report on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, released by the Indian government, concludes Lashkar-e-Taiba was supported by the Pakastani intelligence service.
 * The UK coalition government announces £81 billion of cuts following a Spending and Defence Review.
 * The discovery of the galaxy UDFy-38135539, the remotest object ever observed from Earth, is announced.
 * A collection of 391,832 classified field reports from the Iraq War are released by WikiLeaks.
 * The government of Burma announces the adoption of a new flag.
 * Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, dies in office and is succeeded by Freundel Stuart.
 * In preparation for a summit, the Ministers of Finance of G-20 agree to reform IMF and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.
 * The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships conclude, with the People's Republic of China winning the most medals.
 * An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 100 people and leaves hundreds missing.
 * Néstor Kirchner, Secretary General of UNASUR and former President of Argentina dies aged 60.
 * Scientists announce the discovery of the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey.
 * The Chinese Tianhe-1A becomes the world's fastest supercomputer.
 * Archeologists in Blombos Cave, South Africa, discover evidence of early humans using Pressure flaking to make Stone tools in 73,000 BCE; 55,000 years earlier than previously thought.