From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Arts and culture
- A US judge blocks an agreement between Google and publishers about efforts to digitize books online at Google Books. (BBC)
- Business and economy
- Disasters
- International relations
- Law and crime
- Politics and elections
- John-Paul Langbroek stands down as the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian state of Queensland with the sitting Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman favoured to take his place. (ABC News)
- The Philippine House of Representatives votes to impeach the Ombudsman, Merceditas Gutierrez, for allegedly failing to investigate former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and other senior officials of her administration with sufficient vigor. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Dennis Daugaard, the Governor of South Dakota, signs an abortion bill requiring women to undertake counselling and wait for 72 hours, the longest period in the US. (Argus Leader)
- All 3 opposition parties in the Canadian House of Commons, who together form a majority, state they will not support the 2011 federal budget, precipitating a possible election. (Globe and Mail), (CBC News)
- Bob Buckhorn is elected as the mayor of the US city of Tampa, Florida. (WUSF)
- Sly James is elected as the Mayor of the US city of Kansas City, Missouri. (Kansas City Business Journal)
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