- UK politics sees a Conservative-led coalition with the Liberal聽Democrats
- Designer Alexander McQueen was found dead at his London聽home
- 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver,聽Canada
- Dennis Hopper died from prostate聽cancer
- Air traffic throughout Northern and Western Europe was seriously disrupted when a volcano beneath Eyjafjallaj枚kull, an ice cap in Iceland, began聽erupting
- Thirty-three miners working in the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapo, Chile became trapped 2,000 feet underground after a cave-in and mining聽accident
- Wikileaks
- 贬补颈迟颈听贰补谤迟丑辩耻补办别
- Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director, for The Hurt Locker, which took six prizes including best聽film