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- A state of emergency is declared in the Jamaican capital Kingston after armed gangs attacked police and blockaded parts of the city in an attempt to prevent the arrest of an alleged drug lord. (Jamaica Observer) (BBC) (CNN)
- A five-day strike at British Airways is announced to begin tomorrow following a breakdown in talks which were invaded by protesters yesterday. (Al Jazeera) (The Australian) (The Daily Telegraph) (Wall Street Journal)
- Ethiopian general election, 2010:
- Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh vote in a parliamentary election as more than 70 international observers watch. (Voice of Russia) (Reuters)
- A train traveling from Shanghai to Guilin derails in a mountainous area near Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China, and is destroyed, killing at least 19 and injuring 71 others. (Xinhua) (BBC) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- The death toll in Poland's worst flooding in 60 years reaches 12. (Al Jazeera)
- Clashes break out between Indian and Pakistani troops near the border in the disputed Kashmir region. (Al Jazeera) (Hindustan Times)
- Dozens of masked men break into a United Nations-run Gaza summer camp for children and set it on fire, after beating up the guard and destroying the plastic tents. (Al Jazeera)
- Somalia's presidential palace is targeted by Al-Shabab militants in a mortar attack. (Press TV) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (AP)
- Rescue teams hunt for the data recorders from Air India Express Flight 812. (BBC) (The Times) (Japan Today)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama makes an apology for breaking an election promise to get rid of a U.S. military base located in Okinawa which he and the United States believe is "needed to guarantee regional security". Demonstrators affected by this failure order him to "go home". (BBC)
- Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years in prison, goes back to jail for violating the terms of his parole. (AP) (CNN)
- South Korea announces it will take the case of the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan to the United Nations Security Council. (CBC) (The Guardian) (Xinhua)
- The Cuban government eases jail conditions for political prisoners following talks with Catholic Church leaders and President Raúl Castro. (Reuters) (Press Trust of India) (BBC)
- Maria Vittoria Longhitano, Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained. (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- The Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the money is paid for by the British government. (BBC)
- Nine ships under the banner, Freedom Flotilla, from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and comprised of 800 people from 50 nationalities, begin a trip to Gaza, the biggest attempt by international aid groups to break Israel's siege on the Gaza Strip. Israel informs them they will be stopped for "breaching Israeli law". (Al Jazeera)
- Two militants are killed in the woods near Serzhen-Yurt in Shali, Chechen Republic. (Voice of Russia)
- Sarah, Duchess of York:
- Sweden's "Treskilling Yellow", the most expensive postage stamp in the world, retains its title at a private auction. (AP) (The Times of India)
- The UK tourist resort of Blackpool is expected to benefit "tens of millions" of pounds, described by the tourism chief as "unthinkable", following the local football club's elevation to the Premier League as an open-top bus tour is announced. (BBC)
- The Champs-Élysées is covered in earth and turned into a huge green space by young financially impoverished farmers. (BBC) (The Independent) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (pictured) wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the BBC. (BBC)
- The Rolling Stones achieve their first UK number one album for 16 years with a re-release of Exile on Main St.. (BBC)
- Czech Republic defeat Russia in 2010 IIHF World Championship final. (The Washington Post)
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- Air India Express Flight 812:
- Apa, a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber who holds the world record for summiting Mount Everest more than any other person, breaks his own record. (Xinhua) (Press Trust of India) (Asian Tribune)
- The death toll of Cyclone Laila in Andhra Pradesh, the worst storm to hit the Indian state in 14 years, reaches 36. (IndiaTimes) (BBC)
- The death toll from yesterday's car bomb at a market in Diyala reaches 30. (BBC)
- The Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson and suggesting United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" is not implemented. (BBC)
- Irish authorities arrest two men and foil a "major dissident bomb operation". (RTÉ) (Press Association)
- Afghan police seize a cache of hundreds of rockets hidden on the outskirts of Kabul. (BBC)
- At least 13 people have died in a clash between a Somali militia and Ethiopian forces who had crossed the border in Somaliland. (BBC)
- Campaigning closes ahead of the Ethiopian general election, 2010 to be held tomorrow. (Al Jazeera)
- Abbott Laboratories buys a Piramal Healthcare unit in India to become the country's largest drug-maker. (The Irish Times) (Economic Times)
- Five people are shot dead by 100 armed Maoists who storm Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir and burn market buildings in Sheohar, Bihar. (Economic Times) (The Hindu)
- British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh is surrounded by demonstrators who storm the headquarters of the Acas building in London. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian) (CNN) (Hindustan Times)
- Ariane 5 launch vehicle carries out its 50th mission, putting two large telecommunications satellites in orbit. (BBC)
- In the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final, Inter Milan defeats Bayern Munich 2–0, for their first major European title since 1965. (BBC)
- More than 74,000 South African football fans attend the first match at Soccer City—venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final—less than three weeks before the tournament begins. (BBC)
- Thirteen-year-old American Jordan Romero becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (AP via ESPN)
- Blackpool Football Club beat Cardiff City Football Club 3-2 in the 2010 Final of the Football League Championship play-offs to be guaranteed "the biggest windfall in global sport from the outcome of a single event". (The Sunday Times) (BBC) (The Independent)
- Republic of Ireland defender Shane Duffy undergoes life-saving surgery in Dublin after lacerating his liver. (BBC) (RTÉ) (ABC News) (USA Today)
- Nicolaus Copernicus is disinterred from an unmarked grave and reburied by Poland. (AP) (The Voice of Russia)
- A range of activities occur across the United Kingdom to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity. (BBC)
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- 20 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in shelling in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (CNN)
- Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, warns of escalating violence, and is considering a curfew after clashes with protesters kill 25 over the last 3 days. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Australian) (Chicago Tribune)
- At least 11 people are killed after rebels from the Al-Shabab militant group attack the Somali parliament as it meets for the first time this year. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Daily Nation)
- Maoist guerillas kill six villagers in an alleged revenge attack in Chhattisgarh, India. (Hindustan Times) (IOL) (AFP)
- One person is killed and 28 injured in two grenade attacks in the Rwandan capital Kigali. (AFP)
- Voters in the Dominican Republic go to the polls in a parliamentary election. (AFP) (AP)
- A recount of votes in the March 7 Iraqi election found no change in seat allocation for any of the blocs in the most populous province, Baghdad, in a set-back for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who claimed there was election fraud and won a court appeal for the recount after his coalition came in second by two seats. (CNN)
- Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan flies to Tehran to join talks also attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aimed at convincing Iran of the advantages of sending its nuclear material abroad for processing to ease fears from the West that Iran wants to build a bomb. (BBC)
- Canadian fighter jets escort a Cathay Pacific airliner to land at Vancouver International Airport during a bomb alert and the passengers are removed. (BBC) (CBC)
- United States President Barack Obama is to ask the US Congress for an extra $200m in military aid to help Israel get a short-range rocket defence system called Iron Dome in place against mortar and rocket attacks from Gaza or Southern Lebanon. (BBC)
- French lecturer Clotilde Reiss, charged with spying in Iran after last June's disputed election, is released and returns to Paris. (The Times) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots as fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the United States government and BP have given. (USA Today) (The New York Times) (The Times)
- A by-election takes place in Hong Kong triggered by activists calling for universal suffrage in the territory. (Straits Times) (Reuters India) (Radio Television Hong Kong)
- An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude is felt on Puerto Rico. (Reuters) (AP)
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva flies from Moscow, where he met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, to Tehran for a meeting with Iranian officials there on the nuclear issue. (BBC)
- The Republic of Korea Navy fires shots at a patrol boat from North Korea during a skirmish. (Yonhap) (BBC)
- Airspace in Ireland is closed down again due to the Icelandic volcanic eruptions. (BBC)
- David Triesman, Baron Triesman resigns as chairman of The Football Association as well as England's 2018 FIFA World Cup bid after his "entrapment" by The Mail on Sunday in which he suggested Spain could drop its bid if Russia bribed referees at the 2010 FIFA World Cup next month. (BBC) (The Mail on Sunday) (The Scotsman)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cameroon
Mount Cameroon is one of Africa's largest volcanoes, rising to 4,040 metres (13,255 ft) above the coast of west Cameroon. It rises from the coast through tropical rainforest to a bare summit which is cold, windy, and occasionally brushed with snow. The massive steep-sided volcano of dominantly basaltic-to-trachybasaltic composition forms a volcanic horst constructed above a basement of Precambrian metamorphic rocks covered with Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments. More than 100 small cinder cones, often fissure-controlled parallel to the long axis of the massive 1,400 km³ (336 mi³) volcano, occur on the flanks and surrounding lowlands. A large satellitic peak, Etinde (also known as Little Mount Cameroon), is located on the southern flank near the coast. Mount Cameroon has the most frequent eruptions of any West African volcanoes. The first written accounts of volcanic activity could be the one from the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator, who might have observed the mountain in the 5th century BC. Moderate explosive and effusive eruptions have occurred throughout history from both summit and flank vents. A 1922 eruption on the southwestern flank produced a lava flow that reached the Atlantic coast, and a lava flow from a 1999 south-flank eruption stopped only 200 m (660 ft) from the sea, cutting the coastal highway.
The peak can be reached by hikers, while the annual Mount Cameroon Race of Hope scales the peak in around 4½ hours.
English explorer Mary Kingsley, one of the first Europeans to scale the mountain, recounts her expedition in her 1897 memoir Travels in West Africa.
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