Portal:Current events/2010 February 12

Current events of February 12, 2010 (2010-02-12) (Friday)

• A shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville leaves at least three persons dead. (CNN)
• Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili is killed after a crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre, during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics. (BBC) (The Times) (The Los Angeles Times)
• Walter Frederick Morrison, World War II veteran and inventor of the Frisbee, dies at his home in Utah, aged 90. (CNN)
• The United States successfully shoots down a launching ballistic missile using the Boeing YAL-1, a military Boeing 747-400F aircraft mounted with a chemical oxygen iodine laser weapon. (Reuters)
• Thailand deports the five-man crew detained in the country since December after transporting weapons from North Korea. (AFP) (Thai News Agency)
• Campaigning for Iraq's parliamentary election begins. (Xinhua) (AFP) (Press TV)
• Indonesia's former anti-corruption chief Antasari Azhar is sentenced to 18 years for the murder of a businessman. (Jakarta Post) (CNN)
• A ceasefire is declared between Houthi fighters and the Yemeni government in northern Yemen. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera) (Press TV)
• Burma's leader General Than Shwe says the general elections will be held "soon". (Al Jazeera) (Press Trust of India)
• A Chinese human rights activist, Feng Zhenghu, stranded at Japan's Narita International Airport after being refused entry to China for three months, returns home. (Bangkok Post) (BBC)