October 10, 2011 (Monday)
Arts and culture
- Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is sentenced to 90 lashes of the cane and a year's jail in Tehran for appearing in the film My Tehran For Sale which criticises the Government of Iran's harsh policies on the arts. (ABC News Australia)
Business and economy
- France and Belgium agree to break up and partially nationalize Dexia, Belgium's largest bank. (Globe and Mail)
- American economists Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims win the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. (Bloomberg via Business Week)
- The Bank of Greece announces the bail-out and takeover of Proton Bank via that country's Financial Stability Fund. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The trial of two South African farm workers for the murder of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche begins. (Daily Telegraph)
- Governor Rick Scott of Florida signs the death warrant for Oba Chandler, convicted of the murder of three women in 1989, with the execution set for November 15. (Orlando Sentinel)[permanent dead link]
- The trial of Vincent Tabak, who is accused of murdering British landscape architect Joanna Yeates, begins at Bristol Crown Court. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- The president of Equatorial Guinea and the first lady met the president of Gabon to inaugurate the new Corisco International Airport. (Oficina de Información y Prensa de Guinea Ecuatorial)
Sport
- In basketball, National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern cancels the first two weeks of the 2011–12 NBA season due to the ongoing lockout. (CBS Sports)