Template:In the news
- Sebastian Vettel (pictured) becomes the youngest-ever Formula One world champion, winning the 2010 Formula One season, while Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.
- Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to become the first octuple champion in boxing.
- Following detention for 15 of the past 21 years, Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
- Polish composer Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.
- The 16th Asian Games commence in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
- A truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in Karachi, destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.
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