Portal:Current events/2015 January 11
January 11, 2015 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Charlie Hebdo shooting
- Thousands of police and military personnel prepare to secure a Paris unity rally with up to a million people expected to attend. (Daily Mail)
- An arson attack on the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which published cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, causes no injuries but leads to two arrests. (Reuters via DNA)
- Boko Haram
- More female suicide bombers, this time two, and again each believed to be around 10 years old, kill themselves and three others at a market in the northeastern city of Potiskum, Nigeria. (Reuters via News24)
Disasters and accidents
- Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
- Divers retrieve the flight data recorder from the crashed jet. (AP)
- The death toll from the Karachi traffic accident rises to 62. (Indian Express)
Politics and elections
- Croatian presidential election, 2014–15
- Former diplomat and foreign minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović from the Croatian Democratic Union narrowly defeats incumbent president Ivo Josipović and will become the first female president of Croatia on February 18, 2015. (BBC)
- Sri Lankan presidential election, 2015
- The new Sri Lankan government announces that it will investigate allegations of a coup attempt by Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a bid to retain power after being defeated at the polls. (Deutsche Welle)
Science and technology
- Public photographs become available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket after the experimental recovery attempt of the first stage fails and crash-lands on a floating platform in the SpaceX CRS-5 resupply mission. (Space Flight Now)