World Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 1)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of October 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, October 2011.

• A mosque in the Israeli village of Tuba-Zangaria is torched. Unconfirmed suspicion is raised against Israeli Jews.(2nd October)
• American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile phone.(3rd October)
• Eight people are injured following an explosion and fire at a factory in Surrey, United Kingdom.(3rd October)
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her new coalition government, thereby becoming the 41st and the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. She takes over the office from Lars Løkke Rasmussen.(3rd October)
• US golfer Tiger Woods drops out of the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time in nearly 15 years, ending a streak of 778 consecutive weeks inside the top 50, dating to when Woods was No. 61 on October 13, 1996.(3rd October)
• Gunmen kill 12 Shiite Muslims near the Pakistani city of Quetta in an apparent sectarian killing.(4th October)
• At least 130 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.(4th October)
• Technology company Apple Inc. announces its much-anticipated iPhone 4S at Apple's Cupertino campus.(4th October)
• The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 164.(4th October)
• Russia and the People's Republic of China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Syria for a crackdown on political protestors.(4th October)
• In eastern Saudi Arabia near the Persian Gulf, police open fire on protesters as public unrest intensifies.(5th October)
• Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., dies of pancreatic cancer.(5th October)
• In Thailand, more than 200 people are killed by floods during a severe monsoon season, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.(5th October)
• The Bank of England injects a further £75bn into the British economy through quantitative easing.(6th October)
• Indonesian police arrest four people in connection with the suicide bombing of a mosque in Cirebon, West Java.(8th October)
• At least 25 people are killed and many more injured after protesters and security forces clash in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, during a protest in response to an attack on a Coptic church.(9th October)
• 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.(10th October)
• An oil spill from the ship MV Rena off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand becomes the country's worst environmental disaster.(11th October)
• The Cabinet of Israel approves a prisoner swap deal with Hamas for the release of the Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held in captivity for five years.(11th October)
• Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, is jailed for seven years for exceeding her powers by entering a gas deal with Russia.(11th October)
• President of the United States Barack Obama's "jobs bill" stalls in the Senate.(11th October)
• A US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan region destroys a Haqqani network militant compound, with four people reported killed.(13th October)
• At least 16 people are killed by twin bomb blasts in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.(13th October)
• The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, marries 21-year-old college student Jetsun Pema in Punakha.(13th October)
• Vietnam's Mekong River delta suffers its worst flooding in a decade, with 43 people killed and 70,000 homes destroyed.(13th October)
• At least 41 people die after a bus drives off a narrow mountain road in Nepal's Sindhuli District.(13th October)
• Sri Lankan-American Raj Rajaratnam, a former hedge fund tycoon, is sentenced to 11 years in jail for insider trading.(13th October)
• A United States drone attack kills a further four militants in Waziristan near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan; it is the third such attack in 48 hours.(14th October)
• Apple Inc. releases its latest smartphone model, the iPhone 4S.(14th October)
• Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's cuts Spain's credit rating to AA- with a negative outlook, as the European debt crisis deepens.(14th October)
• Google announces that it plans to shut down its Google Buzz social network.(14th October)
• The Netherlands becomes the first European country to win a professional world baseball championship since 1938.(15th October)
• Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013.(17th October)
• Motorola introduces the Droid RAZR, the world's thinnest smartphone.(18th October)