This is the second set of World Current Affairs, October 2011.
- Google unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone.(19th October)
- Queen Elizabeth II commences her 16th visit to Australia in the capital Canberra.(19th October)
- Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril promising to release more details regarding Gaddafi's death later in the week.(20th October)
- The leading commander of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Jabari, confirms in an interview with the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners released in exchange for captured Israeli Gilad Shalit were collectively responsible for the deaths of 569 Israeli civilians.(20th October)
- NATO commander James G. Stavridis announces that NATO plans to conclude its Libyan military intervention, Operation Unified Protector, on October 31.(21th October)
- The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announces a plan to withdraw all of the remaining American military forces from Iraq by the the end of 2011.(21th October)
- The President of Cameroon Paul Biya is declared the winner of the Cameroonian presidential election held on October 6.(21th October)
- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people.(23rd October)
- Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won re-election on 22 October 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.(23rd October)
- The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962.(25th October)
- A bomb hidden in a fuel truck kills at least 5 people and injures 45 in Afghanistan's Parwan province.(26th October)
- The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong.(26th October)
- Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva resigns following corruption allegations, but insists he is innocent.(26th October)
- 18 people are killed and at least 36 wounded by twin bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.(27th October)
- Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War 2-era bomb.(27th October)
- Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior, is named as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia following the death of Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.(27th October)
- A Wahhabi Islamist armed with hand grenades and an automatic weapon opens fire outside the United States embassy in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, resulting in two people being injured, including the gunman.(28th October)
- Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is released from jail after her sentence for acting in the banned film My Tehran for Sale is reduced.(28th October)
- The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.(28th October)
- South Korea manufacturer Samsung supersedes Apple to become the largest maker of smartphones in the world.(28th October)
- A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualities are issued.(28th October)
- The trial of former Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader, which was due to begin in Zagreb, is postponed on health grounds.(28th October)
- Michael D. Higgins wins the Irish presidential election.(28th October)
- NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.(28th October)
- Syrian security forces attack the city of Homs with fighter jets and tanks, killing at least 3.(29th October)
- A suicide bomber targets a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least four Afghans, 13 American troops, and members of the International Security Assistance Force.(29th October)
- A United States drone attack kills six militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.(30th October)
- The interim Prime Minister of Libya Mahmoud Jibril confirms the presence of chemical weapons in Libya under the Gaddafi regime and announces that weapons inspectors would be visiting the country to help get rid of them.(30th October)
- The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.(30th October)
- The Government of Japan intervenes to reduce the exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the United States dollar after the yen reached record highs.(31st October)
- UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member with the United States withdrawing funding in protest.(31st October)
- Abdurrahim El-Keib is named as the new interim Prime Minister of Libya by the country's National Transitional Council.(31st October)
- The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people.(31st October)
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