At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, on 10 November 2007, Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spain's prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. King Juan Carlos I of Spain turned to him and asked, in Spanish, '¿Por qué no te callas?', 'Why don't you shut up?' The phrase spread online, appeared on T-shirts and became a ringtone, and the exchange was one of the best-known diplomatic outbursts of the decade.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.