Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/July

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• A new constitution is approved in a referendum in Kyrgyzstan.
• A common market comes into force in the East African Community.
• At least 41 people are killed and 175 others injured in a series of suicide bomb attacks in Lahore, Pakistan.
• A team of astronomers confirm the orbital motion of the first directly imaged exoplanet near a sun-like star.
• The discovery of fossilized remains of Leviathan melvillei, an extinct species of physeteroid whale, is announced.
• Hurricane Alex, the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes its second landfall in Tamaulipas, Mexico, killing at least 24 people, and making it the most intense June Atlantic hurricane in 53 years.
• At least 270 people are killed and 190 injured in an explosion caused by a fuel truck overturning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• U.S. General David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
• Pierre Nkurunziza is re-elected as President of Burundi.
• Senegal begins eight days of national mourning upon the death of Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
• Islamic scholar Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah dies at the age of 74.
• In the Polish presidential election, held following the death of Lech Kaczyński, Acting President Bronisław Komorowski defeats Jarosław Kaczyński to become president-elect.
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the men's singles title at the Wimbledon Championships.
• Sierra Leonean writer Olufemi Terry wins the Caine Prize for his short story "Stickfighting Days".
• Former military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega is sentenced to seven years in jail for money laundering in France.
• The prototype airplane of the Solar Impulse project completes the world's first 24-hour solar flight.
• A series of bombings kills at least 70 people and injures 400 more during an annual Shia pilgrimage to the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq.
• The United States and Russia exchange prisoners accused of spying in one of the largest "spy swaps" since the Cold War.
• A suicide attack in Mohmand Agency, Pakistan, kills 56 people and injures more than 100 others.
• After more than a century in British collections, the head of Noongar leader Yagan is ceremonially buried on the 177th anniversary of his last full day of freedom.
• Spain win the FIFA World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 1–0 in extra time.
• A series of bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda kills dozens and injures over 100 others.
• More than a million people protest in Barcelona against restrictions on the autonomy of Catalonia within Spain.
• A total solar eclipse occurs over much of the Pacific Ocean.
• The International Criminal Court charges Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide for his role in the Darfur conflict.
• Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977.
• Argentina legalises same-sex marriage, becoming the first Latin American country to do so.
• Australian classical music conductor Charles Mackerras dies in London at the age of 84.
• The discovery of Saadanius hijazensis, a fossilized primate species closely related to the common ancestor of Old World monkeys and apes, is announced.
• BP announces that it has temporarily halted the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• Typhoon Conson makes landfall near Hai Phong, Vietnam after devastating the Philippines, leaving at least 65 people dead.
• A bomb attack in Zahedan, Iran kills 27 people, including Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi.
• In golf, South African Louis Oosthuizen wins The Open Championship.
• Divers uncover a store of champagne, believed to be the world's oldest, off the coast of the Åland Islands.
• Two trains collide in West Bengal, India, killing more than 60 people and injuring over 160 others.
• Greek investigative journalist Sokratis Giolias is assassinated in Athens; the first such assassination in Greece for 25 years.
• Sri Lankan international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan retires after becoming the first bowler to achieve 800 test wickets.
• In a non-binding, advisory decision, the International Court of Justice holds that Kosovo's unilateral 2008 declaration of independence did not violate international law.
• A Dutch court finds British commodities trader Trafigura guilty of dumping toxic waste off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire in 2006.
• At least 17 people are killed and 100 others injured in a stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg, Germany.
• Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Colombia.
• In cycling, Alberto Contador of Spain wins the Tour de France.
• Wikileaks releases nearly 92,000 classified military documents related to the war in Afghanistan to The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and The New York Times.
• Kang Kek Iew is sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for his role in the Khmer Rouge regime in Democratic Kampuchea from 1975–1979.
• Astronomers discover that R136a1 is the most massive star ever found.
• Airblue Flight 202 crashes outside Islamabad, Pakistan, with 152 people aboard.
• A team of scientists, archaeologists and surveyors discover the wreckage of 19th century Royal Navy vessel HMS Investigator in Mercy Bay, Canada.
• A boat sinks on the Kasai river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing as many as 140.
• The Parliament of Catalonia, an autonomous region of Spain, votes to ban bullfighting.
• Hundreds of people are killed and thousands more displaced by severe flooding in northern Pakistan.