January 23 - An Iranian train derailment from Mashhad to Tehran kills at least eight people and injures 12 others.
January 24 - A mountain fire breaks out in Mancheng County, Hebei Province, stretching 10 kilometers and affecting the Jingkun Highway.
January 24 - An Iranian Taban Airlines Tu-154 carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew members catches fire during a forced landing in Mashhad, injuring 46 people.
January 25 - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 carrying 83 passengers and seven crew members crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from the airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and search and rescue crews have recovered the bodies of 34 victims.
On January 25 I the 2010 World Social Forum opened in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, the first time in 10 years since its creation that the Forum has returned to the site of its debut.
January 26 - Presidential elections are held in Sri Lanka.
January 27 - The 40th World Economic Forum opens in the small city of Davos in eastern Switzerland. The theme of the conference is "Improving the World - Rethinking, Redesigning, Rebuilding".
On January 27, Honduran President-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa was officially sworn in at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa.
January 27 - U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the Union address since taking office.
January 28 - A gas explosion in a building in the eastern Belgian city of Liège kills seven people and injures 21 others.
January 28 - Former Prime Minister de Villepin is acquitted of all charges in the Clearwater case involving several French dignitaries in Paris.
January 28 - The third session of the 10th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opens.
January 30 - Guangzhou South Railway Station (Guangzhou New Passenger Station) is officially opened, the southern starting point of the Wuhan-Guangzhou Express Line.
January 31 - Afghan President Karzai rejects the Taliban's conditions for peace talks.
January 31 I The 14th African Union Summit opens at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
February 1 - The third meeting of the 10th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference closes.
February 2 I Sri Lanka's Supreme Court announces that Rajapaksa, who was re-elected in the presidential election held last week, begins his second term of office on November 19 this year.
February 3 - The Greek parliament voted to elect a new president of Greece, and incumbent Papoulias was re-elected to a second term with 266 votes out of 300 seats in the parliament.
February 4 - Sun Coronation, a member of a Chinese mountaineering team stranded in Indonesia's primeval forest, sends out a message saying that a group of seven members of the team have been rescued.
On February 4, two Chinese giant pandas, Taishan and Meilan, born in the United States, take a special flight from Washington Dulles International Airport, and set off for their hometowns amidst fond farewells from the American public.
February 5 - The 46th Munich Conference on Security Policy opens at the Bavarian Manor Hotel in Munich, Germany.
February 6 - The Zhengzhou-West High Speed Railway officially opens, shortening the time from Zhengzhou to Xi'an to two hours.
February 7 - Guangzhou's first BRT rapid transit system, the Zhongshan Road BRT, opens.
February 7 - Presidential elections are held in Costa Rica, where Laura Chinchilla, presidential candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN), is declared the winner of the presidential election, becoming the first female president in the country's history.
February 7 - Ukraine holds a second round of voting in its presidential election.
February 8 - Ukrainian presidential election candidate and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych declares himself the winner of the election and urges rival and incumbent Prime Minister Tymoshenko to resign.
February 8 - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched into space, this time Endeavour carries a crew of six.
February 8 - An explosion occurs on the same day at a power plant under construction in Middletown, Connecticut, killing five people and injuring 12 others.
February 8 - China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines hold a joint reorganization summary meeting, announcing the successful completion of the joint reorganization of China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines, and that business cooperation between the two parties has been widely carried out.
February 10 - An Afghan government official says a number of avalanches have occurred over the past few days in the Sarang Pass in Parwan Province in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 165 people.
February 10 - China's men's soccer team thrashed South Korea 3-0 in the East Asian quarterfinals, ending a 32-year run without a win over the South Koreans in international A-level tournaments.
February 10 - The parties involved in the Western Sahara issue begin informal talks in Westchester County, New York, USA.
February 11 - Nanjing narrowly wins the right to host the second Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014, overtaking rival bidder Poznan, Poland, in the 122nd IOC Plenary Vote in Vancouver.
The 21st Winter Olympics were held from February 12-28 in Vancouver, Canada.
February 13 - The 2010 Chinese New Year Gala opens
February 16 - In the Vancouver Winter Olympics, China's Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo win the Olympic gold medal in pairs skating with a record 216.57 points. Breaking the Russian captain's 42-year monopoly on the program's gold medal, the pair finally won the first figure skating Olympic gold medal in Chinese sports history after 18 years of cooperation! This is also the first gold medal won by the Chinese delegation in the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
February 17 - Vancouver Winter Olympics short track speed skating women's 500 meters final, Chinese female athlete Wang Meng to 43 seconds 048 to win the title, to achieve two consecutive championships, creating China's Winter Olympic history. Canada's St. Glass was second in 43 seconds 707, and Italy's Fontana took the bronze in 43 seconds 804.