International Current Affairs October, 2011, General Awareness October, 2011

• Denmark became first country in world to impose Fat Tax on foods such as butter and oil.
• Afghan rocked at first musicial festival in 3 decades.
• Three immune pioneers shared Medicine Nobel.
• Three shared physics Nobel for Universe insights.
• US President Obama unveiled Jobs plan; Israeli got Chemistry Nobel for Crystals.
• Steve Jobs, 56, iconic cofounder of Apple, passed away; Swedish poet won Nobel for Literature.
• 1 Arab, 2 Liberian women shared peace Nobel.
• 111 person including 13 ethnic Indians charged in the biggest credit card scam in US History.
• NATO pounded strategic city of Sirte, Libya as assault nears end.
• 2 of US won Economics Nobel in Microeconomics.
• Egypt Dy PM quit over Coptic killings.
• Myanmar began releasing 6,300 convicts in its latest liberalizing move.
• Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar married Jetsun Pema.
• Italian Pm Silvio Berlusconi won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament.
• Demonstrators of 951 cities in 82 countries across the world rallied to accuse bankers and politicians of wrecking economics.
• Pope Benedict declare a “year of faith”, starting on October 11, 2012.
• Jordan’s king name Intl court of Justice Judge Awn Khasawneh as PM.
• The Buddh International Circuit was today unveiled amid much fanfare ahead of the widely-anticipated inaugural Indian Grand Prix and was described as “one of the best in the world” by the country’s first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan.
• Israel traded 1927 prisoners for one soldier in Hamas captivity.
• A first group of 200 French soldiers was due to leave Afghanistan on Wednesday as part of an early troop withdrawal announced in July by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
• Julian Balnes won Man Booker for “The sense of the ending”.
• Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte today, a senior NTC military official told Reuters. National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked
• Revolution killed Muammar Gaddafi, dictator of Libya for 42 years.
• Muammar Gaddafi was fatally wounded by a bullet in his intestines following his capture, according to a doctor who examined his body, amid conflicting accounts of how the fugitive former Libyan leader met his end.
• Pak won two-year non-permanent seat in UN Security Council.
• US authorities have approved the transfer of 435 Indian students of the Tri-Valley University to other institutions, indicating some progress in addressing the plight of nearly 1,800 Indian students affected by its closure.
• Inert German satellite Rosat hit to the ground.
• The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to attack installations of Shell Pakistan and the state-run Pakistan State Oil if the two firms do not pay a total of Rs 400 million within 20 days as extortion money, a media report said today.
• Tunisia voted in first Free Polls; Libya declared itself Liberated.
• As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, destroying dozens of buildings and trapping some victims alive under rubble.
• US pulled out envoy from Syria.
• UK House rejected referendum on EU membership.
• US industrialist of Indian origin, Rajat Gupta arrested in Insider Trading Scam.
• IBM named Virginia Rometty the first female CEO in the company’s 100-years history.
• Britain rewrites rules for Royal line of Succession.
• Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet indefinitely and locked out workers.