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- Protesters angered by an anti-Islamic film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad attack the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. In Khartoum, Tunis and Cairo, at least seven people die. An Egyptian fruit seller dies by rubber bullets. (BBC) (BBC) (Egypt Independent)
- Protesters in Tripoli, Lebanon, set fire to a KFC and a Hardees restaurant, sparking clashes with local security forces. One protester has been killed and 25 people have been wounded, including 18 police officers. (BBC) (AP via Globe and Mail)
- Fifty U.S. Marines are deployed to the American embassy in Yemen as a "precautionary measure" after clashes in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (Fox News) (Reuters)
- In the Sinai, an international observer base near El Gorah is shot at. Two observers are injured. (Reuters)
- The bodies of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Officer Sean Smith, and former SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, killed in the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, are returned to the United States, for their eventual funerals, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in a solemn military ceremony attended by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (CNN)
- At least two American Marines and 16 Taliban fighters have been killed in a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion airbase in Afghanistan's Helmand province, says a spokesman at nearby Camp Leatherneck. (The Telegraph) (AP via Boston.com) (BBC)
- The campus buildings of the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University are evacuated due to bomb threats. (USA Today)
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- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge begin legal action after the magazine Closer published topless pictures of the Duchess taken during a holiday to France last week, and which their spokesman describes as “a grotesque and totally unjustifiable” invasion of privacy. (BBC) (The Telegraph)
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- A car bomb targeting Yemen's defence minister, Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, kills at least twelve people, including seven bodyguards of the minister and five civilians in Sana. (The New York Times)
- In Somalia, more than fifty Al-Shabaab fighters are killed as African Union Kenyan peacekeepers, and the Somali National Army, continue their march towards the port city of Kismayo. (Xinhua)
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- A suicide bombing in front of a police station in the western Istanbul suburb of Sultangazi kills a policeman, the bomber, and injures several others. The leftist group Dev Sol claims responsibility. (BBC)
- Militiamen storm the US consulate in Benghazi. Reports indicate it has been burned down and looted. AFP reports a source saying rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the consulate. The U.S. Ambassador in Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other people are killed. (BBC) (Reuters) (AFP via MSN Philippines) (Reuters) (AFP via Star Africa) (Wall Street Journal) (CNN)
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- At least 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in western Nepal. (AP via NineMSN)
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- Three boys aged eight and nine are killed when a bazooka grenade, left over from a war in Cambodia, explodes. (AP via ABC News) (Jane's)
- Tariq al-Hashimi rejects the charges leading to his death sentence in Baghdad on Sunday. He, being a Sunni, claims to be a "target" of Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. He refuses to return to Iraq for an appeal as long as, according to him, the judicial system is "corrupt". He claims to put the verdict "on his chest as a medal". Al-Qaeda says "black days" are ahead. The reaction of Iraqi people on the street generally welcomes a fair rule of law but is wary of political influencing and sectarianism. (ABC News) (Euronews)
- According to a parliamentary answer by the ministry of health, the value of a life lost during a clinical trial is 2.2 lakh rupees ($ 4,000) in India in 2011. This number is the average compensation paid for deaths during clinical trials. No rules governing compensations for clinical trial-related injury or death have been approved by the Parliament of India yet. (IRNA)
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- Canada: Michael Rafferty
- Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
- Germany: Breno Borges
- Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
- Russia: Pussy Riot
- 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, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir
- United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner
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- 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., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
- 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: Kweku Adoboli
- United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, 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, Tony McCluskie
- 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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