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| 2010 April 27 |
| | | Greece's credit rating is downgraded by Standard & Poor to BB+ ('junk'), causing a run on global stock markets | |
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| 2010 May 1 |
| | | Severe austerity measures in Greece persuade Germany to back an increased EU and IMF bail-out package of 110 billion euros | |
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| 2010 May 6 |
| | | The UK general election results in no overall majority, with the Conservatives winning 306 seats, the Labour party 258 and the Libereral Democrats 57 | |
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| 2010 May 11 |
| | | Conservative leader David Cameron becomes UK prime minister, forming a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats and appointing Nick Clegg as his deputy prime minister | |
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| 2010 May 20 |
| | | Geneticist Craig Venter announces that his team have inserted the genome of a bacterium into a cell to create the world's first synthetic life form | |
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| 2010 May 31 |
| | | Israeli soldiers board an aid flotilla headed for Gaza and in the resulting violence kill nine Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara | |
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| 2010 June 11 |
| | | Ethnic violence against the Uzbek minority erupts in the Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan, lasting several days and resulting in more than 200 deaths | |
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| 2010 July 8 |
| | | The Solar Impulse, promoted by Bertrand Piccard and piloted by André Borschberg, becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to fly for more than 24 hours | |
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| 2010 July 11 |
| | | Spain beats the Netherlands 1-0 in the final of the FIFA World Cup in the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg | |
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| 2010 July 15 |
| | | BP announces that a newly fitted cap has finally stopped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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