March 30, 2010 (Tuesday)
- Colombian soldier Pablo Emilio Moncayo is released after 12 years in FARC captivity. (BBC)
- Russia has a day of mourning following the train bombs in Moscow. (CBC) (RTÉ)
- The Andaman Islands are rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. (USGS)
- Two mortuary staff in Shandong are arrested after 21 baby corpses are found in a river. (China Daily) (news.com.au) (Sky News) (CNN)
- The body of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is found by a team of Moroccan and French divers four days after his aircraft crashed into a lake in Morocco. (Al Jazeera)
- The 2010 South American Games are officially closed, with Colombia winning the most gold medals and Brazil just a little over 10 medals behind.
- Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. (The Times of India)
- 10 children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 are gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango. (CNN)
- Chinese police are hunting a man suspected of killing five members of a migrant family, including an 8-year-old girl, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (People's Daily)
- Seán Quinn's Quinn Insurance goes into administration. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (The Guardian) (BBC)
- Ten people were shot Tuesday night in what appears to be two drive-by shootings in southeast Washington D.C., with at least four killed. (Xinhua) (China Dialy) (CCTV) (CNN)
- At least 31 militants were killed Tuesday during Pakistan Security Forces operation in the Orakzai tribal agency. Over 150 militants have been killed in the last six days. (People Dialy)