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2010  July 21
 
    
President Obama signs into law a sweeping and radical package of reforms in the control of the US financial sector       
2010  July 25
 
   
The website Wikileaks publlishes more than 90,000 classified internal reports about US involvement in Afghanistan since 2004      
2010  July 31
 
 
Disastrous monsoon floods strike northwest Pakistan, killing more than 1600 people, displacing as many as 20 million and ruining crops    
2010  August 3
 
     
US Federal estimates are that more than 200 million gallons of oil have spilled into the sea from the Deepwater Horizon disaster (the Exxon Valdez figure was 11 million)        
2010  October 13
 
   
Thirty-three miners are brought safely to the surface after being trapped deep underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile      
2010  November 13
 
   
Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest in Rangoon under certain conditions      
2010  November 17
 
    
CERN announces its successful production and brief capture of atoms of antihydrogen, the first observed example of antimatter       
2010  November 23
 
   
North Korea shells the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, causing four deaths and a dangerous deterioration in relations with South Korea      
2010  November 28
 
   
Wikileaks publishes another batch of US government documents, this time diplomatic cables of which about 100,000 are maked 'secret' or 'confidential'      
2010  November 29
 
   
The European Union agrees a rescue package of €85 billion to deal with the financial crisis in the republic of Ireland