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- 2010 Kyrgyzstan riots:
- Pakistan adopts the 18th amendment to the Constitution, stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers. (Dawn) (Hindustan Times) (Press TV) (CNN) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- 5 people are killed and 11 others are injured in separate attacks in Diyala and Nineveh. (People's Daily Online)
- United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a new arms reduction treaty that will cut both countries' arsenals by a third. (BBC) (AP) (TIME)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancels his trip to a summit on nuclear weapons in the United States over fears that Egypt and Turkey might question him on his nuclear supplies and ask him to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). (BBC) (Reuters)
- Professor Lee R. Berger announces the discovery of a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an ancestor of either Homo habilis or Homo erectus. (Time)
- The Bangladeshi army distributes drinking water among more than 12 million people in Dhaka as fears grow over the city's water crisis. (Arab News)
- More than 50 doctors in Edo State, Nigeria go on strike after a colleague is kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. (BBC)
- 29 paramilitary troops are convicted of mutiny and imprisoned to up to seven years at a Bangladeshi tribunal. (Arab News)
- The death toll in the storm which caused severe damage to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro metro area reaches 200. (The Huffington Post) (Xinhua)
- Separation surgery is declared successful in London on the conjoined twins from Cork, Ireland, born on 2 December. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph) (Irish Examiner) (Sky News) (BBC) (CNN)
- Scientists say Glacier National Park has lost two more of its glaciers to climate change. (Xinhua)
- Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, notorious for the banned "God Save the Queen" single, dies in New York. (The Independent) (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News)
- 14 people die of dengue fever in Dominican Republic. 2,000 cases of dengue fever have been registered. A total of 52 died of the disease last year. (Xinhua)
- Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery, which holds 1.5 million corpses, is reopened with a new museum after an €11 million redevelopment. (The Irish Times)
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