August 24, 2010 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown:
- 80,000 people flee the southern Yemeni city of Lawdar after clashes between Al-Qaeda linked forces and government troops killed several people. (Al Jazeera)
- Two Catalonian aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania by Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb return home. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Battle of Mogadishu (2010):
- Al-Shabaab militants storm the Hotel Muna, close to the Presidential palace Villa Somalia in Mogadishu, killing at least 33 people including several MPs. (euronews) (BBC) (AFP), (New York Times)
- Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of gang-raping nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the village of Bunangiri, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (AP) (Reuters)
- A lance-corporal in the Australian Army is killed in fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province. (News Limited)
Arts and culture
- American actor Lindsay Lohan is released from a rehabilitation centre 22 days into a three month program. (ABC News)
Business and economics
- India rejects plans by mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in Orissa due to environmental concerns. (Times of India) (BBC)
- Cairn Energy discovers gas off the coast of Greenland, amid protests from Greenpeace demanding it halt its oil operations. (BBC) (AFP)
- Stocks on the Philippine Stock Exchange fall the day after the Manila hostage crisis. (Businessweek)
Disasters
- Henan Airlines Flight 8387, carrying 91 people on board, overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Yichun City in Heilongjiang, northeastern China; at least 43 people are reported dead. (AP) (Xinhua) (BBC)
- Oxfam warns of a "double disaster" following flooding compounding a recent drought and food crisis in Niger. (AFP) (BBC)
- Agni Air Flight 101, a small plane carrying fourteen people, crashes in Nepal's Makwanpur District with no survivors expected. (Kantipur) (CNN)
- Rescue efforts start to free the men trapped following the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. (ABC News America)
Law and crime
- The United States Department of Justice states that it will appeal a decision by United States federal judge Royce C. Lamberth to block an executive order by President Barack Obama to expand embryonic stem cell research. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Samantha Cameron, wife of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, gives birth to the couple's fourth child, a girl. (Telegraph) (BBC)
- John McCain wins the Republican Party primary election to become the nominee in the US Senate election in Arizona. (Fox News)