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May 10, 2010 (Monday)

Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal. (The Times)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announces his intention to resign as Leader of the Labour Party, and calls for a leadership election to be completed by September. (BBC)
Stock markets rise significantly and bond prices fall around the world after investors are reassured by the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s nearly $1 trillion plan to avoid a European debt crisis. (USA Today) (The Times)
President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States. (USA Today) (The Times)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government loses its majority in the upper house of parliament in a state election marked by voter anger over the bailout to avoid the Greek debt crisis. (The Australian) (Los Angeles Times)
BP sprays more chemicals into the main massive undersea oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico using a deep-sea robot in an attempt to thin the oil which is rushing up from the seabed at the rate of about 210,000 gallons (795,000 liters) per day. (USA Today)
A mass grave containing the bodies of 250 ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo War is discovered in Serbia. (USA Today) (B92) (AFP)
Presidential elections, legislative elections and local elections start today in the Philippines. (Philippine Inquirer) (BBC)
The South Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young announces that investigators have found traces of explosives in the wreck of the ROKS Cheonan that sank in March. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Kyodo)^{[permanent dead link]}
Rescue efforts continue in the aftermath of the May 2010 Siberia mine explosion. (RIA Novosti)
A senior U.S. official, Kurt M. Campbell, meets with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP) (The New York Times) (Press TV)
Severe rainstorms have killed at least 70 people since a powerful tornado hit Chongqing municipality in south-western China in Dianjiang and Liangping counties. Inclement weather in the next two days will affect Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. (Sina)
Multiple tornadoes across Oklahoma and Kansas result in at least 5 deaths and 58 injuries. Twisters hit a truck stop near Midwest City and locations in Oklahoma City. (KTUL) (AP) (NWS Norman) (NewsOK)