Portal:Current events/2014 February 7

Current events of February 7, 2014 (2014-02-07) (Friday)

Arts and culture

• Coca-Cola responds to negative reactions to its controversial multilingual ad featuring "America the Beautiful" by releasing a 90-minute version of the ad during the United States airing of the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics. (ABC News)
• The last speaker of the Native American language Klallam dies in Washington state. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Coca-Cola buys a 10 percent share from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. (Daily Mail)

Politics

• After days of rioting in Bosnia, the presidency building in Sarajevo is attacked. [ Al Jazeera]

Law and crime

• Red Cross suspends emergency tents to Palestinians left homeless in the Jordan Valley because they are seized by the Israeli army (Daily Telegraph)
• Australian Schapelle Corby is granted parole in Indonesia after serving nine years in a Bali prison for drug-smuggling. (Sydney Morning Herald) (The Eastern Tribune)
• U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts announced today that he had appointed Judge Richard C. Tallman of the Ninth Circuit to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review for a six-year term that began on January 27, 2014, filling the vacancy that had existed since August, and Judge James E. Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a six-year term to start in May to replace Reggie Walton. (Secrecy News)

Sports

• 2014 Winter Olympics:
  • The opening ceremony is held in the Russian city of Sochi. (BBC)