This tenth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective IX (Volume 265) and the end of May 2008 (journal availability permitting). As well as the 452 metals abstracts, the issue includes – in line with the new editorial policy of including original papers on all of the major material groups: “Defect Investigation of Plastically Deformed Al 5454 Wrought Alloy Using PADBS and Electrical Measurements” (Abdel-Rahman, Kamel, Lotfy, Badawi and Abdel-Rahman), “Activation Enthalpy of Dislocation Migration in Aircraft (Aerospace) (2024) Alloy by Positron Spectroscopy” (Abdel-Rahman, Abdallah, Hassan and Badawi), “Effect of Irradiation Dose on AlCu6.5 Alloy using Positron Annihilation Doppler Broadening Technique” (Abdel-Rahman, Lotfy, Abdel-Rahman and Badawi), “Dependence of Mono-Vacancy Formation Energy on the Parameter of Ashcroft's Potential” (Ghorai), “X-Ray Characterization of Ag Impurities in Na1-xAgxCl” (Hazeen, Syed Ali, Prema Rani and Saravanan), “Self-Organization Behavior of Sub-Micron CdO Grains Grown during Vapour-Solid Transition” (Zhang, Wang and Li), “Studies of the Local Structure and the Spin Hamiltonian Parameters for Co2+ in CaTiO3” (Lu, Wu, Zhang and Wei).