- Spain’s Catalonia province has banned bullfighting.
- Because of budget constraints, the United States’ prison population will have its first drop since 1972.
- In Pennsylvania, the Allegheny County Health Department’s building that houses the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has lead levels exceeding 1,500 times the acceptable limit.
- US District Court Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., appears certain to be only the eighth federal judge to be impeached by Congress. The list of charges against Porteous includes six-vodka-cocktail work lunches, gambling with borrowed money, bankruptcy under a phony name, and gifts from lawyers and a bail bondsman with business before his court.
- In an annual vote, the UN voted 81-60 with 42 abstentions to condemn defamation against religion. The resolution has been proposed every year since the 2005 Danish cartoon incident with Islam, but the vote totals for the resolution have steadily declined.
- In Italy, a man was convicted of sticking his tongue out at another man. He was found guilty of a law offending someone’s honor.
