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- The Shard, the tallest building in Europe and the tallest habitable free-standing structure in the UK at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft), is officially opened. (LondonSEI) (Gulf Times)
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- A gunbattle breaks out near Choix, Sinaloa, after alleged drug traffickers ambushed and killed seven police officers; upon the aggression, the officers gunned down four cartel members. The area is a stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel, a powerful drug trafficking organization. (BBC)
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- UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, states that talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus are "constructive". (BBC)
- The death-toll from the uprising reportedly surpasses 17,000, mostly civilians. (Al Arabiya)
- 31 people are reportedly killed by the Syrian army, primarily in Homs. (Yahoo! News)
- Gunmen open fire at a Pakistan Army training camp near the city of Wazirabad resulting in seven deaths and five people being injured. (AFP via ninemsn)
- Two men are killed after protests in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia, following the arrest of a Shi'ite cleric, Nimr al Nimr yesterday.(Reuters)
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- David Burgess, already serving life imprisonment on two counts of murder, is given a fresh life sentence after being convicted of the 1966 murder of Yolande Waddington, a nanny from Berkshire, England. (BBC)
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- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
- South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
- Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
- United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky
Ongoing
- Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Canada: Luka Magnotta
- China: Organized crime in Chongqing
- France: Church of Scientology
- Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
- Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
- Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
- Palau: Tommy Remengesau
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan, Jr.
- Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Pussy Riot
- Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
- Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
- Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
- Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
- United Kingdom: Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed
- United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, John Edwards, Lauryn Hill
Upcoming
- Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
- Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
- United Kingdom: Justin Lee Collins, Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce
- United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum
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