In the news
Below is a list of WP:ITN items for which I was the nominator or one of the primary updaters.
- Recent deaths: Chinua Achebe
- Cheick Modibo Diarra, the Prime Minister of Mali, and his government resign after Diarra's arrest by leaders of the Malian coup d'état.
- A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
- In the East DR Congo conflict, the March 23 Movement seizes control of the provincial capital of Goma.
- At least sixty people are killed in fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma.
- Iranian dissidents Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi are awarded the Sakharov Prize.
- The High Court of Botswana rules that women have the constitutional right to inherit property.
- In Mali, Islamist militants seize control of Douentza, ousting the local secular militia.
- A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Venezuela kills at least 26 people and injures more than 80 others.
- Burma announces an end to pre-publication censorship of print media.
- Chinese and Japanese activists stage protests around the disputed Senkaku islands.
- South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
- Three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk-rock collective, are convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
- The government of Ecuador grants political asylum to Julian Assange (pictured), founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
- British bank Standard Chartered agrees to pay a US$340 million fine to New York State to settle money laundering charges.
- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi orders Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi to resign and cancels military-declared constitutional amendments.
- Researchers announce new fossils of Homo rudolfensis, helping to confirm it as a species distinct from Homo habilis.
- Libya's National Transitional Council transfers power to the recently elected General National Congress.
- Three gunmen kill nineteen people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
- Flooding from Typhoon Haikui forces the evacuation of at least 250,000 people in Metro Manila.
- Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab defects to the opposition.
- Unidentified gunmen kill 16 Egyptian police officers on the Egyptian-Israeli border in Sinai.
- American author and playwright Gore Vidal dies at the age of 86.
- A referendum to impeach Romanian President Traian Băsescu (pictured) fails due to low voter turnout.
- A power grid failure in India leaves 20 states in the country without electricity, affecting 600 million people.
- At least 42 people are killed in clashes between rebels and Tajik government troops in Gorno-Badakhshan.
- Ghanaian President John Atta Mills dies at the age of 68 and is succeeded by Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
- Ansar Dine and MOJWA take over Gao and destroy World Heritage Sites in the northern Malian region of Azawad after fighting the MNLA.
- An Australian coroner rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980.
- A passenger plane crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board.
- In response to the Houla massacre, high-ranking Syrian diplomats are expelled from several countries.
- In the ongoing Spanish financial crisis, Bankia requests €19 billion in funds from the Spanish government, the largest bank bailout in the nation's history.
- A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
- Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in 2001 in connection with the Lockerbie bombing, dies in Libya.
- Facebook, Inc. raises US$16 billion with its initial public offering, the third largest in U.S. history.
- Using terahertz radiation, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai campus pictured) set a new record for wireless data transmission speed.
- Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, who influenced the Latin American Boom, dies at the age of 83.
- Mali's Azawad National Liberation Movement claims military victory and declares independent the new state of Azawad.
- The Malian towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu fall to rebel control.
- The African Union suspends Mali after President Amadou Toumani Touré is ousted in a coup d'état.
- Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest and flees to Beijing.
In the news
Below is a list of WP:ITN items for which I was the nominator or one of the primary updaters.
- Recent deaths: Chinua Achebe
- Cheick Modibo Diarra, the Prime Minister of Mali, and his government resign after Diarra's arrest by leaders of the Malian coup d'état.
- A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
- In the East DR Congo conflict, the March 23 Movement seizes control of the provincial capital of Goma.
- At least sixty people are killed in fighting between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma.
- Iranian dissidents Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi are awarded the Sakharov Prize.
- The High Court of Botswana rules that women have the constitutional right to inherit property.
- In Mali, Islamist militants seize control of Douentza, ousting the local secular militia.
- A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Venezuela kills at least 26 people and injures more than 80 others.
- Burma announces an end to pre-publication censorship of print media.
- Chinese and Japanese activists stage protests around the disputed Senkaku islands.
- South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
- Three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist punk-rock collective, are convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
- The government of Ecuador grants political asylum to Julian Assange (pictured), founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks.
- British bank Standard Chartered agrees to pay a US$340 million fine to New York State to settle money laundering charges.
- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi orders Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi to resign and cancels military-declared constitutional amendments.
- Researchers announce new fossils of Homo rudolfensis, helping to confirm it as a species distinct from Homo habilis.
- Libya's National Transitional Council transfers power to the recently elected General National Congress.
- Three gunmen kill nineteen people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
- Flooding from Typhoon Haikui forces the evacuation of at least 250,000 people in Metro Manila.
- Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab defects to the opposition.
- Unidentified gunmen kill 16 Egyptian police officers on the Egyptian-Israeli border in Sinai.
- American author and playwright Gore Vidal dies at the age of 86.
- A referendum to impeach Romanian President Traian Băsescu (pictured) fails due to low voter turnout.
- A power grid failure in India leaves 20 states in the country without electricity, affecting 600 million people.
- At least 42 people are killed in clashes between rebels and Tajik government troops in Gorno-Badakhshan.
- Ghanaian President John Atta Mills dies at the age of 68 and is succeeded by Vice President John Dramani Mahama.
- Ansar Dine and MOJWA take over Gao and destroy World Heritage Sites in the northern Malian region of Azawad after fighting the MNLA.
- An Australian coroner rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980.
- A passenger plane crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board.
- In response to the Houla massacre, high-ranking Syrian diplomats are expelled from several countries.
- In the ongoing Spanish financial crisis, Bankia requests €19 billion in funds from the Spanish government, the largest bank bailout in the nation's history.
- A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
- Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted in 2001 in connection with the Lockerbie bombing, dies in Libya.
- Facebook, Inc. raises US$16 billion with its initial public offering, the third largest in U.S. history.
- Using terahertz radiation, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Suzukakedai campus pictured) set a new record for wireless data transmission speed.
- Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, who influenced the Latin American Boom, dies at the age of 83.
- Mali's Azawad National Liberation Movement claims military victory and declares independent the new state of Azawad.
- The Malian towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu fall to rebel control.
- The African Union suspends Mali after President Amadou Toumani Touré is ousted in a coup d'état.
- Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng escapes house arrest and flees to Beijing.