In the news
- Researchers from the University of Toronto discover GhostNet, a China-based electronic spying operation which has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries.
- In a referendum, Mayotte chooses to become an overseas department of France.
- Flooding in the Red River causes evacuations in Manitoba, Canada, and in North Dakota and Minnesota, USA.
- A suicide attack kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.
- Situ Gintung, a dam in Tangerang, Indonesia, fails, flooding hundreds of homes and killing at least 97 people.
- Mirek Topolánek (pictured) tenders his resignation as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his government's loss of a parliamentary confidence vote.
- The Board of Control for Cricket in India decides to relocate the 2009 Indian Premier League from India to South Africa due to security concerns.
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