April 2, 2010 (Friday)
- United States Department of Labor announces second solid growth in jobs since the recession. (Los Angeles Times) (Business Week)
- Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor says at St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast in Northern Ireland that the "crimes and sins of abuse of children and minors by clergy and religious" are "faith-shaking". (RTÉ) (The Times) (The Australian)
- Rescue teams attempting to reach 153 miners trapped in a flooded coal pit in Shanxi report "signs of life", including "tapping", "banging" and "shouts", as relatives allege an official cover-up of the incident. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Brazilian land reform activist Pedro Alcantara de Souza is fatally shot five times in the head by two men on motorcycles as he tries to ride his own bicycle in Pará. (BBC) (Miami Herald) (Arabnews)
- Soyuz TMA-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 23 crew of the International Space Station. (CNN)
- 3 men are charged with murder in the fatal stabbings of two men on a New York City subway over the weekend. (AP) (CBS) (The New York Times) (CKOY)[permanent dead link]
- Record rains cause flooding across New England, with Rhode Island hit the hardest. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials say as many as 200,000 people in Rhode Island could be affected. President Barack Obama talks to Governor Don Carcieri about the damage. (My Fox Boston) (Boston Channel) (The Boston Globe) (CNS)
- Limerick pubs break with tradition by opening on Good Friday following the recent landmark court ruling. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Irish Examiner)
- Another nationwide blackout affects Malta due to a technical fault. (MaltaMediaOnline) (Times of Malta)[permanent dead link]