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• Rosa Otunbayeva was sworn in as caretaker president of Kyrgyzstan 27 June 2010, three months after her predecessor, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, was ousted in a popular uprising. The 59-year-old took the oath of office at a ceremony in the capital, Bishkek, media reports said. Otunbayeva, a former ambassador to Britain and the US, is the first woman to hold the highest office in the Central Asian country. Officially, she is to serve as head of a transitional government until the end of 2011, after which she plans to withdraw from politics. Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections are scheduled for October.
• Finland has become the first country to make broadband with a speed of 1Mbps a legal right for every citizen
• After years of search by top monks, a 4-year-old Tibetan boy was  chosen as the sixth 'Living Buddha' in the Tibetan capital Lhasa through a lot-drawing system of two candidates conducted by the 11th Panchen Lama who is being projected by China as the Dalai Lama's successor. The fifth living Buddha, Dezhub Jambai Gaisanggyaco, died in Lhasa on March 11, 2000 at the age of 66.
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• tran- Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI), running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

• First proposed in 1995, it was originally called TAP or Trans-Afghan Pipeline but with Pakistan and India now involved it was renamed TAPI.
  The gas pipeline would stretch 1,043 miles from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad gas field to the northwestern Indian town of Fazilka.

• Kamla Persad-Bissessar (born 22nd April 1952 in Siparia^[1]) is the seventh and current Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She was sworn in as Prime Minister on May 26, 2010 and is the country's first female Prime Minister^[2].

  Persad-Bissessar is the political leader of the United National Congress and leads the People's Partnership, a coalition of five parties, formed for the general election of 24 May 2010. She was the first woman to serve as Attorney General, acting Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad and Tobago. She became Political Leader of the Opposition United National Congress in 2010.^[3]

• Karnataka Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests M N Jayakumar has been awarded MFIAP the highest distinction awarded by the UNESCO-affiliated International Federation of Photographic Art for a set of 20 images entitled "Spectacular Indian Birds".
• Treaty of Maastricht (formally, the Treaty on European Union,^[1] (TEU)^[2]) was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht. The treaty led to the creation of the euro currency, and created what is commonly referred to as the pillar structure of the European Union.