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- Sony blames recent malfunctions of older PS3 "fat" models on an internal clock glitch. (BBC)
- An aeroplane carrying aid materials for the 2010 Chile earthquake crashes killing at least six people. (ABC)
- In response to the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Dubai's police chief states that travelers suspected of being Israeli will not be allowed into the United Arab Emirates even if they arrive with passports issued by other countries. (AP), (The Jerusalem Post)
- Xynthia:
- Floodwaters in Les Cayes and surrounding areas responsible for the deaths of 8 Haitians recede. (Al Jazeera)
- Georgia and Russia re-open their only usable land border crossing, located on the Caucasus Mountains, for traffic and trade for the first time in four years. (Al Jazeera) (Press TV) (Toronto Sun) (Xinhua)
- Spain requests an explanation from Venezuela concerning allegations that it helped terrorist groups Euskadi Ta Askatasuna and FARC plot to kill Colombian President Álvaro Uribe and other Colombian personalities in Spanish soil. (BBC) (Houston Chronicle) (Sky News)
- Goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilalé, shot in the Togo national football team attack prior to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, is to return to France after emergency surgery in Johannesburg. (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (Reuters South Africa)
- 63-year-old former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ejup Ganić is detained at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the UK to escape charges of war crimes. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Radio Srbija) (Al Jazeera) (The New York Times)
- The Palestinian cabinet moves its weekly meeting from Ramallah to Hebron in a symbolic protest at the decision by Israel to add Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem to its list of national heritage sites. (Voice of America)
- The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić resumes in The Hague. (CNN) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The New Zealand Herald) (RTÉ)
- 17 Nigerian police officers are arrested in connection with the deaths of Boko Haram members in 2009. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- Convicted member of ETA Iñaki de Juana Chaos is to be extradited from Northern Ireland to Spain where he is scheduled to face further charges. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- Toyota president Akio Toyoda apologies to his Chinese customers in Earth's largest auto mart. (BBC) (Financial Times)
- Two of three Sikhs kidnapped in Khyber Agency on the Afghan border in January are recovered by Pakistan's security forces. The decapitated corpse of the other was found last week. (Reuters India)
- Robert Mugabe's indiginisation law begins, with 51 per cent of each company being given to black Zimbabweans. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (Voice of America)
- A petition featuring 450,000 international names in opposition of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill is given to the speaker of parliament, Edward Ssekandi, by an Anglican priest and an HIV/AIDS activist. (BBC) (Voice of America)
- Over 5,000 people, including a pregnant woman and TV weatherman Grant Denyer, strip naked and are photographed at the Sydney Opera House during the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, double the number which had been expected. (BBC) (news.com.au) (CBC) (Reuters)
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- Gay people may now receive communion across the diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch after nationwide protests following an incident last Sunday. (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- An Israeli raid on the West Bank is aborted after a soldier posts the following secret details on Facebook: "On Wednesday we are cleaning Qatanna, and on Thursday, God willing, going home". (RTÉ) (RIA Novosti) (USA Today) (Ha'aretz) (Reuters)
- Aftermath of the 2010 Chile earthquake:
- Leonid Tyagachyov, head of Russia's Olympic Committee, resigns after the nation's worst performance in the history of the Winter Olympic Games at the 2010 event in Vancouver. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Bangkok Post) (The New York Times)
- A fake Swedish pilot is detained in an Amsterdam cockpit in the process of taking off for Turkey in a jet with 101 passengers. (BBC) (The News International) (Reuters) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Age)
- One German and one Italian man are killed and at least 6 are injured near Marseille in a collision between a 26-foot wave and the Greek-Cypriot cruise ship Louise Majesty which was travelling with 2,000 passengers from Barcelona to Genoa. (Al Jazeera) (USA Today) (Herald Sun) (Irish Independent)
- President of Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua does not attend a cabinet meeting in Abuja after his arrival home from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan chairs instead. (Al Jazeera)
- Spain says Venezuela has said it will assist an investigation into allegations of support for ETA. (BBC)
- 5 police officials in Chiniot, Punjab, are detained after footage of them whipping people in their custody are broadcast across national television channels. (BBC) (The News International)
- 7 suspected weapons traffickers to Iran (2 Iranians, 5 Italians) are detained in Italy with the help of Swiss police. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph) (France24)
- Multiple suicide bombings, including one at a hospital, kill at least 33 and wound more than 50 people in Baqouba, Iraq. (CNN) (The Hindu) (Al Jazeera)
- Three are killed in Indian Navy air show crash in Hyderabad, India. (The Hindu) (BBC) (CNN)
- In the elections in the Netherlands, voters choose new municipal councils for 394 municipalities. (Nederland Kiest) (NOS)
- A BBC investigation claims millions of dollars in Western aid donated to the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was stolen by rebels who used it to purchase weapons. (BBC)
- The Hurt Locker:
- 14 killed, 39 wounded in a gunbattle in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital city. (Stuff) (Hurriyet)
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- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he does not mind the nomination of the former Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei in the next presidential election as long as it is under the framework of existing constitution. (Gulf NEWS)
- Forty-one scientists publish a paper in Science affirming that the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, the large-scale mass extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms on Earth ~65.5 million years ago, was caused by an asteroid impact. (Science), (Science)
- A Mexico City law allowing same-sex marriages takes effect. (CNN)
- The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives accepts a resolution describing the Armenian Genocide as "genocide", prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador and threatening Turkey – United States relations. (BBC)
- Thousands of passengers are stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea. (BBC) (The Age) (CNN)
- Dozens of tourists are airlifted to safety following flash floods at the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. (BBC)
- 2010 Uganda landslide:
- Four German Islamists are imprisoned after being convicted of planning "a second 11 September 2001". (BBC)
- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Taiwan, injuring 12 and disrupting communications and rail services. (AP) (China Daily) (Taiwan News) (Focus Taiwan)
- At least 63 people die after a stampede at a Hindu temple in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. (YahooNews) (Xinhua) (Hurriyet)
- At least 14 people are killed in Baghdad on the first day of voting in Iraq's parliamentary elections. (BBC)
- A Cairo court orders the retrial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa and Muhsin Sukkari who were sentenced to death for killing Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai in 2008. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian) (The Los Angels Limes) (Houston Chronicle)
- The Party for Freedom (PVV) of Geert Wilders becomes the largest political party in Almere and the second largest in The Hague. (BBC)
- The brother of Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams, detained under a European arrest warrant, is released on bail after surrendering to the Garda Síochána in Ireland. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- The family of kidnapped boy Sahil Saeed ask that he be returned home safely. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (Sky News)
- Footballer Thierry Henry is booed by his own fans each time he touches the ball in his first game for France since his handball controversy against Ireland last November, with his own manager expressing doubt about his recent performances for the first time. (RTÉ) (The Guardian) (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Burt Reynolds undergoes quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery. (BBC) (Ireland Online) (CNN) (CBC)
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- The corpse of former President of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos, which had been stolen in December 2009, is found at a cemetery in Nicosia. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Miami Herald)
- Irish Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen resigns from politics after seeking medical advice. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- New York politician Eric Massa resigns after admitting to sexual harassment. (The Times)
- A strong earthquake in Turkey kills dozens. (BBC)
- Female poet Simin Behbahani says the government of Iran has issued her with a "travel ban" after confiscating her passport at Tehran International Airport as she was about to travel to France. (BBC)
- Interpol issues "red notices" for 16 more individuals in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, bringing to 27 the number of people wanted for the assassination. (Ha'aretz) (Ynetnews) (RTÉ) (Reuters India)
- The French Navy, supported by European Union aircraft and vessels, seizes 35 suspected pirates in 4 mother ships and 6 little boats off the coast of Somalia in the EU's most successful mission. (BBC)
- German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger says the Vatican has built a "wall of silence" in response to the country's child sexual abuse controversy of recent months. (BBC)
- Nine people go on trial charged with terrorism and links to al-Qaeda in Belgium. (The New York Times) (euronews) (Al Jazeera) (France24)
- Middle East:
- A Pakistani Taliban car bomb attack on a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore kills at least 11, wounds 60. (BBC)
- 12 people — 10 civilian passengers and 2 policemen — die in two separate roadside bombs in Badghis Province, Afghanistan. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Parliament approves President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's budget for 2010/11. (Reuters)
- Togolese police fire tear gas at street protesters who dispute Faure Gnassingbé's presidential election triumph. (BBC)
- French police shoot tear gas at protesters at oil company Total S.A.'s headquarters in Paris. (Al Jazeera)
- Members of Parliament from Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan refuse a body scan in the USA, and return home. (Dawn)
- President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta begins his two-day first official state visit to Ireland by meeting Taoiseach Brian Cowen, urging the country to continue providing economic support as a priority nation and receiving an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Philippines News)
- Chilean looters return £1.3 million ($2million) of stolen goods, according to the government. (The Daily Telegraph)
- New research based on a previous study indicates climate may be responsible for Scotland having more and Africa having fewer people with red hair. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Tibet Governor Padma Choling announces to the National People's Congress that China will decide Tenzin Gyatso's reincarnation as Dalai Lama. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Plans by the Scottish Maritime Museum (SMM) to scrap City of Adelaide/HMS Carrick, one of the world's oldest clippers built in Sunderland in 1864, are postponed in the hope that enough money can be raised to send her to Australia. (BBC)
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- The United States Department of State issues an apology for Department spokesman P.J. Crowley's personal comments, which described Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi's comments on the minaret controversy in Switzerland as "lots of words, not necessarily a lot of sense". (BBC)
- Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. (BBC)
- Prince Ernst August of Hanover, husband of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, is fined €200,000 by a court in Hildesheim for assaulting a hotelier on Lamu Island in 2000. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (IOL) (ABC News)
- The first witnesses appear before the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (RNZI) (Solomon Times)
- A Uyghur man is sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for spying on a Uyghur community in Sweden and passing information to China. (Malaysia Star) (Press Trust of India) (BBC)
- Seven people are arrested in Ireland — five in Waterford and two in Cork — over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks. (RTÉ) (BBC) (CNN)
- 186 members of the 245-seat Rajya Sabha of the Sansad in India vote in favour of a bill giving one third of available seats in the national parliament and state legislatures to women. One member votes against, several parties boycott the vote and seven MPs are suspended after expressing their disagreement. (BBC) (Times of India) (CNN)
- The Northern Ireland Assembly votes — 88 votes in favour to 17 Ulster Unionist Party against — in favour of the devolution of justice. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Israel grants permission to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton to visit Gaza after denying permission to other international politicians. (RTÉ)
- Israel approves the construction of 1,600 new houses, a central park and other facilities near the Orthodox Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem. (Ha'aretz) (BBC) (The Irish Times)
- The Christian Association of Nigeria says the Nigerian Army ignored warnings before the recent massacre of civilians near Jos. (BBC) (Afrik.com)
- Following several decades of "official denial", Japan confirms it permitted nuclear-armed United States vessels to pass through its ports using its Cold War "secret treaties". (BBC) (The New York Times) (The Washington Post) (People's Daily Online) (Japan Today)
- A national strike by taxi drivers causes disruption across Ireland, stopping work at the country's three main airports, closing Dublin's O'Connell Street completely and blocking other streets as the High Court orders protesters to leave their sit-in at Commission for Taxi Regulation headquarters. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Ireland Online)
- The first use of a biocontrol agent against a weed in the European Union is approved — the Japanese insect Aphalara itadori will be released at trial sites in England to combat invasive Japanese knotweed. (BBC)
- Burma's military junta announces the first law relating to the 2010 general election, concerning the election commission. (Bangkok Post) (The Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Canberra for his "symbolic" three-day visit to Australia. (ABC News) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Australian) (The Age)
- First President of Rwanda Dominique Mbonyumutwa's son objects to the removal of his father's corpse from the Democracy Stadium in Gitarama, saying it defies a court ruling. (BBC)
- Dublin's Tallaght Hospital blames "systemic and process failures" for more than 57,000 X-rays taken between 2005 and 2009 not being reviewed by medical professionals and admits at least two patients received incorrect treatment, one of whom has since died and the other who is receiving cancer treatment. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times) (Ireland Online)
- Sir Nicholas Winton and Denis Avey are presented with the new British Hero of the Holocaust medal by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (Daily Telegraph)
- Pink Floyd take legal action against EMI. (BBC) (Boston Globe) (ABC News)
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- Interreligious riots in Jos, Nigeria:
- Britain, France and the EU support U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's condemnation of Israeli expansion of settlements in occupied territory. (BBC)
- Burma's newly announced second law relating to the 2010 general election bars anyone with a criminal conviction from participating in a political party, effectively barring Aung San Suu Kyi. (Al Jazeera) (Straits Times) (CNN)
- Three men are detained in relation to the theft of the corpse of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos. (BBC)
- Australia and Indonesia sign an agreement to combat people smuggling. (news.com.au)
- Dulmatin, the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, is confirmed dead in a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta, by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a state visit in Australia. (ANTARA News) (CNN) (BBC)
- Aid worker Alicia Gamez, captured in Mauritania in 2009 by a group affiliated with Al Qaeda and taken to Mali, is released. (BBC) (IOL) (Houston Chronicle) (CNN)
- Boris Berezovsky is awarded £150,000 in England's High Court and wins his libel case in relation to the 2006 poisoning to death of Alexander Litvinenko. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (Sky News)
- A man wrongly accused of being child murderer Jon Venables goes into hiding after becoming the target of a hate campaign on the internet. (The Daily Telegraph)
- The birth of a live elephant at Taronga Zoo is hailed as a "miracle" that will "completely rewrite the elephant birth textbooks" after he was thought to have died inside his mother's womb. (BBC)
- Forbes magazine publishes its 2010 list of billionaires, replacing Bill Gates with Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest person. (Forbes)
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- The Kyzyl-Agash dam in Kazakhstan bursts, killing at least 35.(AFP)
- Two children are prevented by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver from enrolling in a Catholic school in Boulder, Colorado, United States because their parents are lesbians. (The Straits Times)
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) intervenes when Mississippi bans same-sex relationships and cancels its prom (leavers' dinner) due to the desire of a female student to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo, while one of her teachers tells her "she had to remember where she was". (BBC) (CNN)
- Israeli authorities plan thousands more homes in settlements in East Jerusalem since Palestinian leaders terminated talks earlier this week due to this issue. (The Guardian)
- Israel apologises for the timing of the announcement during a visit by the Vice President of the United States, calling it a "grave error", a "mistake" and a "failure" and promising it would not happen again. (Gulfnews)
- British freelance journalist Paul Martin, the first Western journalist to be arrested by Hamas, is released but deported after no evidence is found to convict him of a crime in court. (The Times) (CBC)
- More than 30,000 Greek workers stage their third general strike against the government. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ)
- Hundreds of angry women dressed in black march though the streets of Abuja and Jos following the recent massacre in Nigeria. (BBC)
- More than 20 civilians die during the second day of conflict between Somali government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera)
- The Gambia arrests people, including former fisheries minister Antouman Saho, without telling them why. (BBC)
- Former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ejup Ganić is released on bail on "stringent" conditions by the British High Court. (Al Jazeera)
- As Sebastián Piñera is inaugurated as the new President of Chile, a new earthquake —6.9 and 6.7 magnitude—strike 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Pichilemu. (BBC) (MercoPress)
- Afghanistan: Five civilians, including four children, die in an explosion, while two construction contractors, including one from South Africa, are shot dead. (Reuters)
- Turkey recalls its ambassador to Sweden and cancels the Turkey - Sweden summit planned for March 17 after the Riksdag votes in favour of calling the Armenian Genocide a genocide. (Armenian Weekly) (Deutsche Welle) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (RTÉ) (Reuters)
- Sahil Saeed is "found" in Pakistan. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Ivory Coast and Chelsea F.C. striker Didier Drogba is named African Footballer of the Year. (BBC)
- The Duke of Edinburgh, on a trip to Exeter, Devon with Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, asks a female sea cadet if she works at a strip club before concluding that it is "probably too cold for that anyway". (The Daily Telegraph) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Pink Floyd win their court battle with EMI, paving the way for individual tracks of their music to be removed from online music services. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
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- The 2010 Indian Premier League starts under "heavy security" in DY Patil Stadium Navi Mumbai. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- Madagascar's disaster officials say at least 14 people have died and 32,000 have been affected by Tropical Storm Hubert. (Miami Herald) (AJC)
- Nine suicide bombing attacks on the Pakistani military kill more than 350 people in Lahore. (ABC News)
- Middle East:
- Pope Benedict XVI is "distraught" by news alleged of child sexual abuse in Catholic dioceses in Germany, according to Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, as the church also faces paedophilia scandals in Ireland, Austria, and the Netherlands, while Pope Benedict defends clerical celibacy, calling it a symbol of "full devotion" and of "giving oneself to God and to others." (BBC) (AFP) (The New York Times) (RAINews24) (CNN)
- Karl Rove appears on British television to promote waterboarding and speaks of his pride that "we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists", saying these techniques were "appropriate". (BBC) (The Hindu) (RTÉ) (The Guardian)
- The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges the Egyptian interior ministry manipulated the legal system to target blogger Wael Abbas who posted videos of police corruption and abuse online and has been jailed for six months for "providing a telecommunications service to the public without permission". (BBC)
- Irish authorities release three of the seven Muslims they detained over an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. Vilks says he has not been put off the idea of visiting Ireland by the threat. (BBC) (RTÉ) (Irish Independent)
- Mayor Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor instructs residents to leave the war zones of Mogadishu after at least 50 of them are killed in three days of violence. (BBC)
- Security is increased in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of anti-government protesters by the "red shirts" over the coming days. (Thai News Agency) (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- The United Nations Special Rapporteur to Burma Tomas Quintana calls for investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated against Burmese civilians. (AFP) (DailyIndia.com)
- Darfur peace talks are threatened by new violence as Sudanese army steps up military operations against a major Darfur rebel faction. (Voice of America)
- Russia signs a nuclear reactor deal with India which will see it build 16 nuclear reactors in India. (BBC)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen departs for the United States ahead of his Saint Patrick's Day engagements with President Barack Obama. (RTÉ) (ABC News) (The Washington Post) (The Irish Times)
- Eleven rare Siberian tigers—of which only an estimated 300 remain in the wild—die of malnutrition after living in little cages and eating chicken bones at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times)
- American photographer Jill Sonsteby from Jacksonville, Florida captures a zebra putting its head inside the mouth of a hippopotamus and surviving at Zürich Zoologischer Garten. (BBC)
- Margaret Thatcher, in a rare moment of publicity since her withdrawal from public life, puts her weight and "heavy heart" behind a campaign by Combat Stress for the mental health of ex-servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Sahil Saeed's father returns to the United Kingdom from Pakistan to work with police there on his son's case. (Sky News)
- The award-winning hardcore porn director Anna Arrowsmith is selected as a Liberal Democrat candidate for Gravesham in Kent to fight the 2010 general election. (Sky News) (Mirror) (BBC) (The Times) (The Guardian) (Mail Online) (Belfast Telegraph) (Argus) (New Kerala)
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- The shortest living person, He Pingping, dies in Rome due to unknown complications at the age of 21. (BBC)
- Catholic sex abuse cases:
- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launches an inquiry into how plans for hundreds of new homes in East Jerusalem were announced.(Al Jazeera)
- Eli Ohren turned 17
- The Georgian television station Imedi sparks panic throughout Georgia by broadcasting a fake news item about a supposed invasion of Russian troops and the murder of President Mikheil Saakashvili. (RIA Novosti)
- New Zealander Peter Bethune, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who captained the Ady Gil when it crashed with the MV Shonan Maru 2 and sank, encounters coastguards, police and protesters as he arrives on the Japanese mainland. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has killed 60 people since March 10. (Reuters)
- Afghanistan:
- At least 6 people, including three security personnel, die and more than 16 others are wounded after a suicide bomber tries to enter a government building, is stopped by police and detonates himself in Swat, Pakistan. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
- Association Mutual Aid and Solidarity AF447 seeks equal compensation for Air France Flight 447's French famiiles after Brazilian judge Mauro Nicolau Junior awards NZ$1.6 million for dead state prosecutor Marcelle Valpacos Fonseca; French insurer Axa will appeal. (The New Zealand Herald) (Reuters)
- Peruvian President Alan García orders funding for a tsunami-warning system. (The New Zealand Herald)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen begins his state visit to the United States in Chicago, announcing to the world his scheme that will allow senior citizen tourists aged 66 and above to travel free on Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland. (RTÉ) (Chicago Sun-Times) (The Times of India)
- Sport:
- 450,000 are left without power in the Northeastern United States as high winds topple power lines and trees. A crane collapses at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, injuring one. (New York Times) (Press of Atlantic City)
- U.S. President Barack Obama proposes sweeping changes to education law which would rework the No Child Left Behind program. (New York Times)
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- Ancient tombs of Uganda's Bugandan kings, a World Heritage Site, are burnt down by unknown causes. (New Vision) (Xinhua)
- Nauru President Marcus Stephen dissolves Parliament, paving the way for an early general election, originally scheduled for 2011. (Radio New Zealand International)
- Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady is accused of using the "Nuremberg defence" and is told to resign by politicians, including Martin McGuinness, over his representation of the Church when two teenagers abused by Father Brendan Smyth were forced to sign an oath of silence. (Ireland Online) (CNN) (The Times)
- A man who used to teach at a Roman Catholic religious order's schools in Spain is arrested in Chile on suspicion of sexually abusing children. (CNN)
- The military trial of Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka, charged with participating in politics while in uniform, is adjourned at the end of day one. (BBC) (The Guardian) (CBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times)
- Thai redshirts spill blood at the gates of the government in their third day of protests. (BBC) (The Times) (The Guardian)
- France sends military aid to Wallis and Futuna, which suffered extensive damage from Cyclone Tomas. (Ocean Flash)
- French national railway SNCF, as part of a rapid response training, causes a media scare by mistakenly placing a statement on its website stating that more than 100 people died in a train explosion in Mâcon, Burgundy. (BBC) (San Francisco Chronicle) (The Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
- NASA researchers in Antarctica discover cold-water Lysianassidae, shrimp-like amphipods, living in the water beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Michael Jackson's estate signs history's largest recording deal with Sony Music. (BBC) (Sky News) (The Guardian) (The Times)
- Sahil Saeed is located alive and well in a field in Pakistan after being deposited at a school. (BBC) (Sky News) (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times)
- The Pakistan Olympic Association postpones its national games in Peshawar due to security concerns. (BBC) (Reuters)
- A French gendarme is killed by ETA terrorist members near Paris, in the first murder of a French police officer by ETA. (BBC)
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- Former Iranian Vice-President Hossein Marashi is jailed after being accused of spreading propaganda. (BBC) (TIME) (FOX News) (MSNBC)
- NASA announces that "It is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010", in a new draft paper based on GISS temperature analysis. (Climate Progress)
- Dutch officials object to "ridiculous" and "out of the realm of fiction" claims by retired American general John J. Sheehan, a former NATO commander, that the use of gay soldiers in 1995 meant Dutch forces were "under-strength" and "poorly led" when attempting to protect Bosnian civilians in Srebrenica. (Al Jazeera) (CBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A hoax stating that at least 200 people have died in a mining accident in Bo, Sierra Leone, makes headlines around the world. (The Washington Post) (Reuters)
- At least 13 people die during clashes in Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
- President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh declares an end to his country's six-year war against the Houthis. (Al Jazeera)
- Catholic sex abuse cases:
- China's State Commission of Disaster Relief says severe drought has affected 51 million Chinese and left more than 16 million people and 11 million livestock with drinking-water shortages. (Xinhua)
- Middle East:
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says radio station the Voice of America (VOA) is promoting "destabilising propaganda" that is inciting genocide in his country. (BBC) (News24.com) (TheStar.com.my)
- Egyptian mosques pray for President Hosni Mubarak—who is ill and whose health is taboo—as images of his recovery in Germany are broadcast on television screens, boosting stock markets. (BBC)
- Switzerland ceases to deport asylum seekers in response to the death of a Nigerian man at Zürich Airport as he was being forcefully deported. Nigeria condemns the occurrence. (BBC) (THISDAY) (The Scotsman) (Taiwan News) (The New Zealand Herald)
- South African police fire water cannon at 2,000 students protesting at the release of hip-hop performer Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, accused of killing four school pupils. (BBC)
- President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak names Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed al-Tayeb as head of Al-Azhar University. (Al Jazeera)
- A judge in the United States rejects a $657.5 million deal for 10,000 people involved in the aftermath of 9/11. (BBC) (Miami Herald) (The New York Times)
- FIFA dismisses the bid of Indonesia for the 2022 FIFA World Cup after the country failed to provide "guarantees". (BBC) (San Francisco Chronicle) (CBC)
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) breaks its own record. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Amnesty International asks Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to intervene in the case of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery". (CNN)
- An investigation is urged into the assassination of Colombian human rights activist Johnny Hurtado. (BBC)
- Colombian journalist, radio reporter and El Pulso magazine editor Clodomiro Castilla is shot to death while reading a book at his Montería home. (The Washington Post) (Press Trust of India) (Latin American Herald Tribune)
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- A series of severe sandstorms hit north China, affecting the regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei. (China Daily)
- Death of Girija Prasad Koirala:
- Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church:
- The Pope's special pastoral letter to Irish Catholics on the issue of child sex abuse within the Church is published by the Vatican but fails to impress some survivors organisations. (RTÉ) (BBC) (CBC) (CNN)
- The Swiss Catholic Church investigates its own sex allegations, including some said to have occurred since 2001. (Reuters)
- Middle East:
- Unidentified gunmen assassinate Sheikh Daud Ali Hasan, a senior commander of the Al-Shabab militant group in the southern city of Kismayo, Somalia. (Reuters) (African Press Agency)
- Thousands of Russians demonstrate across the country against the policies of the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (Al Jazeera) (RIA Novosti) (BBC)
- A severe sandstorm affecting northern parts of China hits the capital Beijing, with health authorities urging people to stay inside. (China Daily) (BBC) (Bernama)
- Cabin crew at British Airways begin a three-day strike. (BBC) (The Times) (The Guardian)
- 67 people are arrested and several people are injured during a clash between members of the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism in the town centre of Bolton, UK. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Times)
- A Western Saharan human rights campaigner alleges abuse by Moroccan police after being interviewed by the BBC for their Tropic of Cancer programme. (BBC)
- Hundreds of thousands of people attend a rally in support of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome ahead of this month's elections. (France24) (BBC) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- A teenager is arrested in New Jersey, United States in connection with the recent Wal-Mart announcement telling "all blacks" to leave the shop. (CNN) (CBS News) (The New York Times)
- David Bowie and Sir Elton John are among those to publicly mourn the death of Lesley Duncan, who also appeared on albums by Pink Floyd and Dusty Springfield. (BBC) (The Scotsman)
- In international rugby union, France achieve the Grand Slam—their first since 2004—to win the 2010 Six Nations Championship. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times) (The Globe and Mail)
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- A fire tears through a combined residential and office building in Calcutta, India, killing 24 people, including two who leapt to their deaths. (Sky) (LBS)
- United States issues new warnings of Al-Qaeda threat to attack ships off coast of Yemen (Yahoo News)
- 5,000 people at a rally in the town of Kotli in Pakistan-administered Kashmir vow to wage a holy war to "liberate" the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir from India on 70th anniversary of resolution to seek independence separately from India (Reuters India)
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- Irish cabinet reshuffle:
- Nigerian cabinet reshuffle: Acting President Goodluck Jonathan picks new ministers after firing all members of his cabinet last week. (BBC)
- Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir threatens to expel international observers for the first general elections in the country in 21 years, after they called for a delay to deal with "logistical" problems. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- Libya releases 214 Islamist inmates in what is described as "a historic event". (BBC)
- 88-year-old Heinrich Boere, a former member of the Nazi SS, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians after six decades of legal wrangling. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- Four German pensioners aged 61 to 80 are found guilty of kidnapping their own financial adviser from his home and driving him 450km (280 miles) to southern Bavaria, with the ringleader and his accomplice being jailed. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama signs the health care reform bill into law. (BBC) (New York Times) (IOL)
- A man in Nanping, China, stabs and kills eight children, and wounds another five at an elementary school. (BBC) (The Times) (China Daily)
- China says Google is "totally wrong" to stop censoring its search results. (China Daily) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- A Turkish ship is hijacked by Somali pirates more than 1,000 miles away from the coast of Somalia and closer to India. (BBC) (Xinhua) (AP)
- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is shown on its maiden flight from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in Mojave, California, United States. (Xinhua)
- Burma's High Court refuses to accept a lawsuit by the National League for Democracy against the ruling State Peace and Development Council for what they allege are unfair and discriminatory election laws. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- Zimbabwe's finance minister Tendai Biti is involved in a car crash. (BBC)
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- United Kingdom Chancellor Alistair Darling presents his 2010 United Kingdom Budget to the House of Commons.(BBC)
- Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears, washed away thirty years after the mud flat island was created by delta currents, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory. The Calcutta Institute raised fears over more islands, such as the Maldives, going under in the future. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Los Angeles Times) (Miami Herald)
- The European Union calls for Iran to halt internet censorship and jamming of radio broadcasts. (Voice of America) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), says that monitoring Sudan's election next month would be like monitoring a vote in Hitler's Germany. (The Washington Post)
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- Six people die and more than 30 people are injured after a car bomb explodes in the centre of the Colombian Pacific port city of Buenaventura. (BBC) (Toronto Sun) (CNN) (ABC News) (TVNZ) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- Portugal's credit rating is downgraded from AA to AA- by the Fitch Group due to fears over its high debt levels. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (CNN)
- A Sharia court in Kaduna bans the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria from debating punishment amputations via Twitter. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- An out-of-control train derailment in Norway kills three people and seriously injures several others. (BBC) (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
- Scientists identify the Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human through DNA analysis from a finger found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. (Nature) (BBC) (The New York Times)
- Go Daddy, the largest domain name registration company in the world, announces it will cease registering websites in China after the Chinese government required customers to provide photographs and other identifying information before registering. (CNET) (Washington Post) (AP)
- Indonesia bans a conference of Asian gay activists, saying it could prompt violent protests by conservative Muslim groups. (The New York Times) (Jakarta Post) (AsiaOne)
- Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop of Cloyne John Magee. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel Prize for advancing "one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of modern mathematics" (The Hindu) (AP)
- A landslide kills at least three, injures 11 in Indonesia's West Sumatra in Saok Laweh village. (The Hindu)
- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia goes offline, with users encountering navigation error messages. (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph) (PC Magazine)
- Students at the University of Ottawa protest and shut down right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's second stop on her trans-Canada tour. (CBC)
- Craig David is named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. (UN)
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- China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.(The China Post) (Business Times) (China Daily) (L.A. Times)
- An explosion triggered a fire in a chemical plant in an east China city, leaving 3 dead, one seriously injured. The explosion occurred at 2:40 p.m. in Haiyi Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province. (Sina)
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- US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev finalize a new arms control treaty to further reduce the nuclear arsenals of each country still remaining since the Cold War. (The Jerusalem Post) (The New York Times) (The Hindu)
- A prominent Indonesian cleric says Islamic law should take priority over laws passed by Parliament. (The Jakarta Post)
- The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is disappointed with Burma's military leaders for their lack of democratic progress in the run up to general elections in the country. (Al Jazeera) (Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
- Chinese police arrests a suspect for poisoning frozen dumplings for revenge. Those dumplings were exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008. (Asahi Shimbun) (Xinhua)
- 11 people are killed in a highway accident on Interstate 65 in the U.S. state of Kentucky, near Munfordville. The wreck site is roughly 40 miles northwest of the city of Bowling Green, near Mammoth Cave National Park. (CNN) (MSNBC)
- A challenge to Ireland's Romeo and Juliet law is rejected by the High Court. (RTÉ)
- A South Korean Navy ship named the Cheonan, carrying more than 100 personnel sinks near the Northern Limit Line in waters off the country's west coast near North Korea. (Yonhap) (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times of India) An international team of investigators attributes the attack to a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine. (The Times).
- ITV drops police television series The Bill after 27 years. (The Guardian) (RTÉ)
- The Times and The Sunday Times announce they are to charge £1 per day and £2 per week for online access from June 2010 and split into two websites from Times Online. (The Guardian) (Wall Street Journal) (RTÉ) (The New York Times)
- Russia outlaws Mein Kampf due to its "extremist" content. (RIA Novosti) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (RTÉ) (The Hindu) (The New York Times)
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- The BBC reports it has found evidence of a massacre which occurred in Democratic Republic of Congo last December in which at least 321 people, including children, were killed. Human Rights Watch calls it "one of the worst massacres carried out by the LRA". (BBC)
- Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal:
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- U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first visit to Afghanistan as commander in chief, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and speaks to American troops deployed there. (Washington Post)
- One male is killed and two other people are injured in the Patissia area of the Greek capital Athens after a bomb explodes outside a public building. It is the first fatal bombing in Greece for many years. (Reuters) (RTÉ) (BBC) (Sky News) (The Daily Telegraph) (Al Jazeera)
- At least 152 coal miners are trapped after a pit floods in Shanxi, while 109 others escape. (BBC) (China Daily)
- 6 die and 33 are injured in five co-ordinated bombings targeting militia leader Sheikh Turki Hamad Mikhlif in Qaim, Iraq. (BBC) (Xinhua) (RTÉ) (Washington Post) (France24) (The New York Times)
- 2 journalists are shot dead, in the northeastern region of Olancho in Honduras. (Xinhua) (People) (The Associated Press)
- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva meets with leaders of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship on live television to help bring about an end to the political crisis in the country. (CNN) (Thai News Agency) (The Daily Telegraph)
- A Chinese dissident lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for over a year, says he is "free" and wanting to spend time away from media attention. (Al Jazeera) (AP) (BBC)
- Italians test Silvio Berlusconi in regional elections. (BBC)
- First step in Russian time zone reform comes into force. The number of time zones drops from 11 to 9, eliminating Samara Time and Kamchatka Time. (RT) (The Moscow Times) (Reuters) (AP)
- America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts raids in southeastern Michigan in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group. (AnnArbor.com) (WDIV) (AP)
- 24 is cancelled. (BBC)
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- 15 people, including 2 journalists, are arrested by Israel during a police attack on a protest near Bethlehem. (The Muslim News)
- Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP)
- Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN)
- The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap)
- Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua)
- A Rio Tinto Group executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ)
- FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC)
- Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ)
- More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News)
- Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN)
- A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)
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