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- A chartered Atlantic Airways Flight 670 skids off the runway at Stord Airport in Norway, killing three people. (BBC News)
- Iraq insurgency
- Iraqi police announce they have found a total of 60 corpses at locations across Baghdad in the previous 24 hours, thought to be more victims of insurgent death squads. In addition, a bomb planted under a car explodes in the city's southern district of Doura, killing 10 people. (Reuters)
- United States military sources state that a total of 30 militants and 4 US soldiers have been killed since the weekend. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Twelve people die in a bomb attack on a festival in the town of Makilala in the Philippines. (BBC)
- A naval base and oil facility in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, are captured by armed attackers who are now thought to be holding 60 people hostage. (CNN)
- Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go: Hundreds of thousands of people made a protest against President Chen Shui-bian in Taipei, Taiwan, surrounding Office of the President, where Chen took part in ceremony marking Double Tenth Day. (BBC)
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