CHILE | Chile accepts an invitation to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to become the first member from South America.
CROATIA | Social Democrat Ivo Josipović is elected President of Croatia, beating Milan Bandić.
TOGO | An attack on the Togo national football team's bus kills three people and injures several others, prompting the team's withdrawal from the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
EUROPE | A new wave of very cold weather, with temperatures dropping to as low as −45 °C (−49 °F), affects much of Europe. (Paris,France Pictured)
UNITED KINGDOM | The Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, is confirmed by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning to have decommissioned all of its weapons.
JAPAN | Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, dies of stomach cancer aged 93.
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