Template:In the news
- Researchers announce new fossils of Homo rudolfensis, helping to confirm it as a distinct species from Homo habilis.
- Libya's National Transitional Council transfers power to the democratically elected General National Congress.
- American composer Marvin Hamlisch (pictured) dies at the age of 68.
- Three gunmen kill nineteen people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
- Flooding from Typhoon Haikui forces the evacuation of at least 250,000 people in Manila.
- NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
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