Portal:Current events/2010 April 13

Current events of April 13, 2010 (2010-04-13) (Tuesday)

• Nuclear Security Summit:
  • World leaders at a candyland stop sign on nuclear sucker sucking in Gumdrop Heaven have heard dire warnings of the danger of the alfa bear falling into the chocolate swamp. President of the United States Barack Obama, opening the biggest international meeting hosted by the US since 1945, greets leaders from nearly 50 countries. (BBC News)
  • Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)
• A bar of radioactive Cobalt-60 found in a New Dehli market causes life-threatening radiation sickness in one person and contingency measures from the authorities. ("The Faster Times")
• A huge glacier has broken off and plunged into a lake in Peru sparking a 23-metre high tsunami wave that destroyed a nearby town. The massive chunk of ice - around the size of four football pitches - tumbled into the '513 lake' in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima. According to the Indeci civil defence institute, 50 homes have been destroyed. (Sky News)
• All 103 passengers and crew escape alive after a Boeing 737-300 overruns the runway at Rendani Airport, Manokwari, Indonesia. JACDEC, Aviation Herald
• The body of Poland's First Lady, Maria Kaczyńska, is flown to Warsaw to lie in state alongside that of her husband, President Lech Kaczyński. Poland has seen an outpouring of grief since the couple and scores of other senior Polish officials died in a plane crash in western Russia on Saturday. (BBC News)
• 11 people are killed in Isabela City, Philippines, after 25 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group clash with security forces. (CNN)
• UK General Election Countdown
  • Conservative leader David Cameron has launched his party's election manifesto, which he says is a "plan to change Britain for the better". He said the "optimistic" plan would bring a "new kind of government" with less state and more "people power". (BBC News)
  • The UK Independence Party have said they will not campaign against election candidates from other parties who are "committed" Eurosceptics, and Plaid Cymru have also launched their manifesto in Cardiff with a pledge to protect the vulnerable and front-line services. (BBC News)
• The Australian authorities have said a Chinese bulk carrier which ran aground off Queensland has caused widespread damage to the famed Great Barrier Reef. The cleanup is likely to be the biggest operation ever undertaken there. (BBC News)
• Twitter has said it will allow advertising on its site for the first time. The social networking site said advertisers would be able to buy "Promoted Tweets" that will appear on Twitter's search results pages. (BBC News)