March 18, 2010 (Thursday)
- The Sudanese government signs a ceasefire deal with a small Darfur rebel group, Liberation and Justice Movement. (Al Jazeera)
- Nigeria recalls its ambassador to Libya after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi suggests the country be partitioned into two separate Christian and Muslim nations. (BBC) (Modern Ghana) (Al Jazeera)
- Proposed international trade bans on polar bears and bluefin tuna are rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. (Reuters) (Global Times) (BBC)
- Former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean FitzPatrick is arrested and has his home searched under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at his home in Greystones, County Wicklow. (RTÉ) (The Times) (Sky News) (France24) (The New York Times)
- Current Bishop of Derry Séamus Hegarty is named as one of those involved in a "secret deal" in the case of a woman who says she was sexually abused for ten years from the age of eight. (The Belfast Telegraph) (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (BBC) (The Times)
- An official report released after five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission states a reduced figure of as many as 25,000 people died in the 1945 bombing of Dresden. (BBC) (USA Today) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is to be extradited to the U.S. following a ruling by a Guatemalan criminal court. (BBC)
- A Thai farm worker in Israel is killed by a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza, according to the Israeli military. (The New York Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Turkey arrests around 20 people as it investigates an alleged attempted coup d'état. (The Guardian)
- Charges occur in The Gambia's attempted coup d'état to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh. (BBC)
- Released kidnapped child Sahil Saeed returns home to Manchester in England. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- French photographer Sophie Ristelhueber wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. (BBC)