February 1, 2010 (2010-02-01 ) (Monday)
February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02 ) (Tuesday)
Russia and
Ukraine accuse each other of
espionage , while the latter detains one Russian and expels four others.
(BBC)
(RIA Novosti)
(Kyiv Post )
A hearing whether to repeal the
Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy is held in the
United States allowing the possibility of
openly gay people to become active-duty members of the
United States armed forces . (
BBC )
The
World Food Programme announces the number of hungry people in
Sudan has quadrupled since August 2009 to 4.3 million.
(AFP)
(Emirates News Agency)
(Taiwan News )
China says that
relations will be undermined if U.S. President
Barack Obama meets the
Dalai Lama .
(BBC)
(China Daily )
(CBC)
Continental Airlines and five men go on trial for their alleged role in the crash of
Air France Flight 4590 , a
Concorde flight, that killed 113 people in 2000.
(Reuters)
The Lancet medical journal issues a full retraction of a paper that caused a 12-year
international controversy over alleged links between the
MMR vaccine and
autism .
(BBC)
(Reuters)
Finance Minister of Germany
Wolfgang Schaeuble says that the German government will buy stolen information on
Swiss bank accounts, offered in a CD that contained 1,500 names in exchange for 2.5 million
euros , to pursue
tax evasion .
(Bloomberg)
Nominations for the
82nd Academy Awards are announced.
Avatar and
The Hurt Locker lead the way with nine nominations each, and are both among ten nominees for
Best Picture , the first time more than five films have been up for consideration since
1943 .
(CNN)
Paul Volcker testifies before the
Banking Committee of the
United States Senate about the so-called "Volcker rule," an administration proposal to separate banks from
hedge funds and have them close down their risk-taking
prop desks .
(L.A. Times)
February 3, 2010 (2010-02-03 ) (Wednesday)
L'Homme Qui Marche I by
Alberto Giacometti , a bronze sculpture sells in
London for £65,001,250, a new world record auction price.
(BBC)
(The Daily Telegraph ) A major fireball is reported in the skies over
Ireland , lighting up "the whole country".
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
Avatar becomes the highest grossing film in the
U.S. and Canada while surpassing the 2 billion dollars mark in
worldwide sales .
(Reuters )
(BoxOfficeMojo) Judges at the
International Criminal Court rule that
Sudan 's president
Omar al-Bashir could face charges of
genocide over the
War in Darfur .
(The Guardian )
(CNN)
Pirates off the coast of
Somalia seize a
North Korean -flagged cargo ship south of
Yemen .
(AFP)
(CNN)
NASA and
Cornell University have given up attempting to move the
Spirit roverHome Plate ,
Gusev crater on the planet
Mars , and are converting it into a stationary outpost. Its twin rover,
Opportunity (Space.com)
Malaysian opposition leader
Anwar Ibrahim
goes on trial in
Kuala Lumpur , accused of
sodomy .
(Bernama)
(BBC)
(AFP)
A man detonates a homemade bomb outside a shopping mall in
Darwin ,
Australia , wounding 15 people.
(Sydney Morning Herald )
(The Australian )
A
bombing near a girls' school in Lower Dir ,
Pakistan kills seven, including three
U.S. Marines , marking the first time U.S. soldiers are killed in that country.
(CNN)
(Al Jazeera)
February 4, 2010 (2010-02-04 ) (Thursday)
February 5, 2010 (2010-02-05 ) (Friday)
February 6, 2010 (2010-02-06 ) (Saturday)
Jordan Queen 's educational reform program lauded in
Jordan . Rania Al Abdullah and Princess Hessa bint Salman were briefed on the
Jordan River Foundation (JRF) by the organization's Director General Valentina Qussisiya.
(zawya)
The Eastern Route of the
South-to-North Water Diversion Project , one of the world's largest water projects, has been delayed by about five years due to problems associated with water pollution, officials in east China's
Shandong province .
(China Daily)
Wang Jiarui , head of the
Communist Party of China 's liaison office, arrives in
North Korea on a "goodwill visit" at the invitation of the
Workers' Party of Korea .
(AFP)
(Tehran Times )
(The Straits Times )
Charles McArther Emmanuel , son of
President of Liberia
Charles Taylor , is ordered to pay more than $22 million (£14 million) to five people tortured during the
Second Liberian Civil War .
(BBC)
The
Group of Seven nations agree to write off
Haiti 's debts following a conference in
Iqaluit ,
Nunavut .
(BBC)
The
Bank of Spain announces that
Spain’s economy fell 3.6% in
2009 , the most in decades.
(Mercopress)
(Reuters)
(Business Spectator)
Thousands protest in
Togo against a decision by the
Confederation of African Football to ban the country from the next two editions of the
Africa Cup of Nations .
(BBC)
(Times of India )
An
Australian mining company signs a $70 billion deal to supply
Chinese power stations with
coal , in the country's biggest ever export contract.
(BBC)
(The Hindu )
(Sydney Morning Herald )
Mark Durkan , former
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland , resigns as leader of the
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
(The Belfast Telegraph )
(The Irish Times )
French aid worker,
Laurent Maurice , kidnapped in
Chad last November, is released after 89 days of captivity, described as "tired but appears to be in good health".
(BBC)
(CNN)
(Philippine Daily Inquirer )
(Reuters South Africa)
(CTV News)
(news.com.au)
Afghan police admit they shot dead seven civilians, including two children, as they collected firewood in
Spin Boldak ,
Kandahar , last Thursday.
(Reuters)
(Press TV)
(France24)
23
Yemeni government soldiers are killed by the
Houthis in two separate incidents: 15 are ambushed in
Wadi al-Jabara , while the remaining 8 die in
Sa'dah .
(Press TV)
The
Taliban blow up a girls' school in
Huwaid ,
Pakistan , killing no one.
(AFP)
February 7, 2010 (2010-02-07 ) (Sunday)
February 8, 2010 (2010-02-08 ) (Monday)
February 9, 2010 (2010-02-09 ) (Tuesday)
February 10, 2010 (2010-02-10 ) (Wednesday)
February 11, 2010 (2010-02-11 ) (Thursday)
February 12, 2010 (2010-02-12 ) (Friday)
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly called on the
DPRK to re-engage in the
Six-Party Talks that also involve the
Republic of Korea ,
Japan ,
China ,
Russia and the
United States .
(UN)
Police in
Mtwapa arrest five men accused of being
homosexuals , two of whom had wedding rings and were attempting to marry in a first for
Kenya .
(BBC)
(Daily Nation )
Thousands of people flee
Mogadishu after 24 people are killed and 40 people are wounded in two days.
(BBC)
(CBC)
Russian security forces kill at least 20 people in
Ingushetia .
(BBC)
(The Star )
(The Scotsman )
Togo appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport over their ban from the next two
Africa Cup of Nations in the aftermath of the
Togo national football team attack .
(BBC)
(CNN)
(The Guardian )
Mexican
President
Felipe Calderón 's visit to a community centre in
Ciudad Juárez where 13 teenagers and two adults were shot dead at a school party on 31 January is disrupted by murders, riot police and dozens of protesters.
(BBC)
(Latin American Herald Tribune )
(Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
A
shooting at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville ,
United States , leaves at least three persons dead.
(CNN)
2010 Winter Olympics :
The
United States successfully shoots down a launching
ballistic missile using the
Boeing YAL-1 , a military
Boeing 747-400 F 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) [
permanent dead link ]
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)
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 ) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
February 13, 2010 (2010-02-13 ) (Saturday)
February 14, 2010 (2010-02-14 ) (Sunday)
NATO admits it killed 12 civilians when two misfired rockets hit a house in
Marjah ,
Helmand .
President
Hamid Karzai calls for an explanation.
(BBC)
(news.com.au)
(Reuters)
Viva Leroy Nash , the oldest
death row inmate in the United States, dies of natural causes at the age of 94.
(BBC)
(The New Zealand Herald )
(Taipei News )
Thousands of people collect in
Beirut on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former
Prime Minister
Rafic Hariri in a bombing alongside 21 other people, with his son and current Prime Minister
Saad Hariri addressing the crowd.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(The Irish Times )
(CBC)
(The Independent )
Kenyan
President
Mwai Kibaki undoes the suspensions for fraud of the agriculture and education ministers handed out by his Prime Minister.
(BBC)
BMW Oracle win the
33rd America's Cup becoming the first American team to win since 1992.
(BBC)
(TVNZ)
saling.org/wordcup/news
Rafiq Husseini, a top aide of
Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas , is suspended following involvement in an alleged attempt to trade
influence for sex .
(MSNBC)
(The Jerusalem Post )
(The Guardian )
Cyclone Rene heads for
Tonga and
Niue after brushing
American Samoa .
(The New Zealand Herald )
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
Nine
Irish Roman Catholic bishops and
Cardinal
Seán Brady arrive in
Rome to discuss the
Murphy Report and
Ryan Report into the
Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland with
Pope Benedict XVI , the first such meetings there in eight years.
(RTÉ)
(Reuters)
(Gulf Times )
(The Irish Times )
Pakistani Prime Minister
Yousuf Raza Gilani condemns the
bomb blast in Pune, India , one day earlier, saying Pakistan is against
terrorism and that his country wants better
relations with India .
(The Hindu )
Iran detains five more members of the
Baháʼí minority, in addition to
Baháʼí leaders jailed since 2008 , for alleged involvement in
protests against the regime .
(The Jerusalem Post )
The death toll from
yesterday's double bus electrocution in
Port Harcourt rises to as much as 40, with more than 30 injured.
(THISDAY)
(The Punch)
(Press TV)
(The New York Times )
Viktor Yanukovych is officially named winner of the
Ukraine presidential election .
(RIA)
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
(AP)
(AFP)
2010 Winter Olympics in
Vancouver :
February 15, 2010 (2010-02-15 ) (Monday)
An appreciation of the
Chinese yuan will help
US economic growth but it will not solve problems in its own economy, the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist said Monday.
(China Daily) [
permanent dead link ]
The opposition
Anguilla United Movement , led by former
Chief Minister
Hubert Hughes , wins a majority of seats in the
2010 general election , defeating the governing
Anguilla United Front .
(Anguilla News )
Aid flights arrive on the island of
Aitutaki ,
Cook Islands , where 90% of structures were damaged or destroyed by
Cyclone Pat last week.
(RNZI)
Somalia 's state minister for defence
Yusuf Mohammed Siad survives an attempt on his life from a suicide bomber in
Mogadishu .
(BBC)
A
Naxalite
attack on an army camp in West Bengal kills 24
Indian soldiers, with many more reported missing.
(Hindustan Times)
Kenya 's Prime Minister
Raila Odinga accuses the President
Mwai Kibaki of "overstepping" his powers after the latter re-appointed two ministers sacked by Odinga over a corruption scandal.
(Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
(AP)
The
United Nations Special Envoy to
Myanmar , Tomas Quintana, arrives in the country on the first day of a five day visit to assess the progress on
human rights .
(Al Jazeera)
(Global Times )
(BBC)
Halle train collision : 20 people die in a train collision in
Halle ,
Belgium .
(BBC)
(Flanders News)
(WSJ)
Pope Benedict XVI begins a two-day meeting with all 24
Irish Roman Catholic bishops to discuss child abuse in a "quite unprecedented" move.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Five men are imprisoned for up to 28 years, after being convicted over the
2005 Sydney terrorism plot .
(BBC)
(ninemsn)
Cyclone Rene hammers
Tonga with gusts of 160 kilometres an hour, isolating Tongans for several days. Widespread damage is reported in the capital,
Nukuʻalofa , and contact is lost with the northern island of
Vavaʻu .
(TVNZ)
(The New Zealand Herald )
A joint
NATO and
Afghan military operation is succeeding in pushing
Taliban fighters from their strongholds in
Helmand province.
(BBC)
2010 Winter Olympics in
Vancouver :
February 16, 2010 (2010-02-16 ) (Tuesday)
February 17, 2010 (2010-02-17 ) (Wednesday)
500,000 residents of
Mexico City have been
vaccinated against the
A/H1N1 flu.
(Xinhuanet)
Four people are charged in connection with the
Santika Club fire in
Thailand on December 31, 2008.
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
The body of fallen
luger
Nodar Kumaritashvili returns to his hometown of
Bakuriani ,
Georgia for burial.
(BBC)
(ESPN)
Guam
Governor
Felix Perez Camacho issues an
executive order changing the name of Guam to Guahan in government documents and signage and calls for
unification with the
Northern Mariana Islands .
(Pacific Daily News ) [
permanent dead link ] (Pacific Daily News ) [
permanent dead link ] (Saipan Tribune )
At least 22 people are killed in a
bus crash in
Northern India .
(ABC)
(BBC)
It emerges that fake Irish passports used by suspects in the assassination of a senior
Hamas military commander in
Dubai had valid numbers with mismatched identities, with the Irish
Department of Foreign Affairs embarking on an urgent mission to track the three genuine passport holders with these numbers.
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
Police in
Kenya free five suspects held in connection with
organising a gay wedding in a
Mtwapa hotel.
(BBC)
Services from the
UK ,
France ,
Germany and the
Netherlands remain disrupted as investigations continue into the
Halle train collision in
Belgium .
(BBC)
The
Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine suspends the decision of the
Electoral Commission to declare
Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the
Ukrainian presidential election until the court has decided on the complaints brought by the other candidate,
Prime Minister
Yulia Tymoshenko .
(La Libre Belgique )
The UK branch of publishing company
Reader's Digest files for
administration .
(BBC)
(Sky News)
Walgreen Co. announces that it is buying
Duane Reade Holdings Inc., operator of a chain of 257 drugstores in the
New York City area, for about $1.08 billion including assumption of debt.
(Marketwatch)
Five southern Africans, including
Archbishop
Desmond Tutu , have their genomes analysed by scientists and published in
Nature , with Tutu excited to discover he is "related to the
San people , the first people to inhabit Southern Africa".
(BBC)
Rwanda , the
East African country that is embracing a transition to a
Green economy , will be the global host of
World Environment Day on 5
June 2010 .
(UNEP)
February 18, 2010 (2010-02-18 ) (Thursday)
United States President
Barack Obama meets with the
Dalai Lama amid opposition from
China .
(Times of India )
(Al Jazeera)
(Times Live South Africa )
Irish
Minister for Defence
Willie O'Dea resigns after
a controversy surrounding his remarks on a rival politician's relationship with
brothels but denies claims by opposition party
Fine Gael that he has committed
perjury .
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen assigns himself temporary responsibility for the
Department of Defence .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
(BBC)
The UK's
Press Complaints Commission rejects a complaint by the husband of
Stephen Gately about
Jan Moir 's
Daily Mail article following his death but its head calls Moir's writing "extremely distasteful".
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
Assassination of senior
Hamas commander in
Dubai :
The
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejects the appeal for the inclusion of the
Togo national football team in the draw for the
2012 Africa Cup of Nations which resulted from their ban due to the
Togo national football team attack prior to the
2010 tournament in
Angola . It also says that a new draw will be required if they rule in favor of Togo in upcoming proceedings.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
Asia's biggest railway station, the
Guangzhou South Railway Station , came into use on the first day of
Chinese spring festival transport rush of 2010. China's operational high-speed railways have exceeded 3,300 km.
(Xinhua)
(CCTV)
(People's Daily)
In
Niger , a
military junta named the
Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy carries out
a coup d'état , suspending the
constitution and detaining President
Mamadou Tandja .
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
(Business Day )
Live Earth , organizer of
The Dow Live Earth Run for Water ,
Cape Town race director announced
The Parlotones concert at the Speir Wine Estate in Cape Town.
(Live Earth)
The top climate change official at the
United Nations and Executive Secretary of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ,
Yvo de Boer , announces his resignation.
(The Times )
(CBC)
Humanitarian group
Médecins Sans Frontières accuses
Bangladesh of a "crackdown" on
Muslim
Rohingya refugees from
Burma .
(Médecins Sans Frontières)
(Al Jazeera)
(AFP)
A small private plane is
intentionally crashed into an office building in
Austin, Texas .
(FOX News)
Former
New York City police chief
Bernard Kerik is jailed for four years on tax fraud.
(BBC)
(Boston Globe )
(The Daily Telegraph )
February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19 ) (Friday)
February 20, 2010 (2010-02-20 ) (Saturday)
February 21, 2010 (2010-02-21 ) (Sunday)
February 22, 2010 (2010-02-22 ) (Monday)
Colombian
President
Álvaro Uribe and
Venezuelan
President
Hugo Chávez almost come to blows at the
Rio Group summit in
Playa del Carmen ,
Mexico , with Uribe taunting Chávez "Be a man! … you're a coward face-to-face! Stay and argue face-to-face!" and Chávez responding with a simple "Go to Hell!" The Summit also announces the creation of the
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States .
(La Vanguardia ) (
Telegraph )
(BBC)
An American pediatrician from
Delaware state is indicted by video evidence on 471 felony counts in the alleged rape and sexual abuse of 103 children.
(CNN)
(ABC)
Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute :
China throws a surprise 86th birthday party for President
Robert Mugabe in its
Zimbabwe embassy in
Harare , the first time Mugabe visited a foreign embassy in the country since Zimbabwe won independence in 1980.
(Reuters)
Foreign ministers from the
European Union meet in
Brussels and "strongly condemn" the use of forged passports from various European countries in the
assassination of
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh .
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
Afghanistan 's government condemns a
NATO air strike on a convoy of vehicles in
Uruzgan province , in the south of the country, which killed at least 27 civilians.
(BBC)
Conference of the German Bishops chairman Archbishop
Robert Zollitsch formally apologises to those who went through
sexual abuse as children after fresh controversy surrounding the issue at the beginning of this year.
(Deutsche Welle)
(RTÉ)
(Taiwan News )
Swiss businessman
Max Goeldi , who hid in the Swiss embassy in
Libya for 19 months during a diplomatic argument, is taken away in handcuffs and thrown into jail while his colleague Rachid Hamdani is deported.
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(Reuters)
(The Daily Telegraph )
The
European Union and
Germany deny a report of a 20-25 billion euro (£22 billion) aid plan for
Greece , and
Athens pledge again to take new steps if needed to keep tough deficit-cutting plans on target.
(Reuters)
A strike by thousands of pilots at
Lufthansa , one of the world's largest airlines, is suspended with negotiations expected to resume.
(BBC)
Odeon Cinemas in Ireland,
Italy and the UK confirm their intention to boycott
Tim Burton 's
Alice in Wonderland in a dispute with
Disney .
(BBC)
(Digital Spy)
(news.com.au)
(Sky News)
February 23, 2010 (2010-02-23 ) (Tuesday)
Sudanese President
Omar al-Bashir and the main
Darfur rebel group, the
Justice and Equality Movement , sign a ceasefire deal.
(CNN)
(Xinhua)
(BBC)
Former Irish
Green Party leader
Trevor Sargent resigns as
Minister of State for Food and Horticulture after admitting "an error of judgment" involving his contacts with the
Garda Síochána .
(RTÉ)
(The Irish Times )
Assassination of Hamas official in Dubai :
A
United Nations report says
mobile phones are used by around 4.6 billion in total or two-thirds of the world population, including more than half of people in the
developing world .
(Digital Trends)
(Globe and Mail )
China
increases controls on the internet , requiring anyone who wishes to set up a website to produce identification and meet regulators.
(BBC)
(China Daily )
Mauritania recalls
its ambassador from
Mali after the latter released four members of
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb .
(BBC)
(Reuters South Africa)
Iranian authorities arrest the leader of the
Jundallah ,
Abdolmalek Rigi , a
Sunni militant organisation based in southeastern Iran.
(Press TV)
(CNN)
At least five people are killed and dozens buried in a
landslide near
Bandung in
West Java ,
Indonesia .
(BBC)
(Jakarta Post )
(New Straits Times )
A 250lb car bomb explodes outside a courthouse in
Newry ,
Northern Ireland , the first such bomb to explode in the area since 2000.
(BBC)
Danish
Prime Minister
Lars Løkke Rasmussen carries out a major cabinet reshuffling, bringing in female ministers in charge of
Defence and
Foreign Affairs , the first in Denmark's history.
(Copenhagen Post )
February 24, 2010 (2010-02-24 ) (Wednesday)
February 25, 2010 (2010-02-25 ) (Thursday)
President
Hugo Chávez vows to withdraw
Venezuela from the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights following its publication of a highly critical report on
human rights in the country .
(Guardian )
Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi calls for
jihad against
Switzerland after a
referendum last year supported a
ban on minarets and other rows between the two nations.
(The Times )
(Daily Times of Pakistan )
(Taiwan News )
Defeated
Sri Lanka presidential candidate General
Sarath Fonseka is charged with additional counts in addition to
treason in the aftermath of his failed election bid.
(The Hindu )
Turkey 's prime minister and president hold talks with the head of the country's armed forces over an investigation into an alleged
military coup .
(Al Jazeera) [
permanent dead link ] (BBC)
South Africa announces it has intercepted a ship carrying
North Korean arms destined for central Africa, travelling by way of
China , in violation of
Security Council Resolution 1874 .
(Wall Street Journal )
(Bangkok Post ) [
permanent dead link ]
Australia summons the
Israeli ambassador to explain why three new suspects over the
Dubai killing of a
Hamas leader,
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh , used Australian passports.
(BBC)
Irish
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Micheál Martin makes history as he leads a 10-member delegation to
Gaza via
Egypt , becoming the first EU Foreign Minister to visit since the 2009
Israeli assault after having previously been refused entry by Israel. He calls on Israel to end the blockade.
(The Irish Times )
(Arab News)
(RTÉ)
Brazilian
President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva tours
Haiti to monitor the destruction caused by
the recent earthquake and meets
President
René Préval .
(Press TV)
Viktor Yanukovych is sworn in as the 4th
President of
Ukraine .
(Kyiv Post )
(The Moscow Times )
(BBC Europe)
(CNN)
A fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory clothes factory in
Gazipur ,
Bangladesh kills at least 18 people and injures more than 50 others.
(BBC)
The chief of
Algeria 's national police,
Ali Tounsi , is fatally shot in his office in a retaliatory
murder–suicide .
(Press TV)
(BBC)
The
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) jails Lieut-Col
Eprem Setako , the Ministry of Defence's former head of legal affairs, for 25 years after finding him guilty of
genocide and
crimes against humanity .
(BBC)
The
Congressional Black Caucus appeals to
American
President
Barack Obama and
Democratic congressional leaders for tougher efforts to reduce racial disparities in the
U.S. health system , saying there are four critical areas not addressed by Obama's plan.
(Politico)
Filming on the set of
Coronation Street is suspended as actors and fans gather at
Salford Cathedral to celebrate the life of veteran actress
Maggie Jones (
Blanche Hunt ).
(BBC)
Odeon dispute with
Disney : The boycott of
Tim Burton 's
Alice in Wonderland is reversed.
(BBC)
February 26, 2010 (2010-02-26 ) (Friday)
Kim Yuna , Korean figure skater,won the gold medal with new world record in both short programme and free skate with the total of 228.56, which is another world record in the total score, becoming the first South Korean skater to medal in any discipline of figure skating at the Olympic Games. Kim's gold medal was South Korea's first medal at the Winter Olympics.
(BBC)
A girls' boarding school dormitory in
KwaZulu-Natal is shut down due to widespread
lesbian activity.
(BBC)
Wang Meng wins her third gold medal in the 1,000 meters short track at
Vancouver to become China's first winter Olympian to win three gold medals at one Games and give China all the women's titles.
(Shanghai Daily )
(China Daily )
Brazilian police investigate after a newborn baby dies while two doctors argue during the mother's labour in an
Ivinhema hospital.
(The Irish Times )
The
Organization of American States (OAS)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a 300-page report on
democracy and human rights in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez .
(The Washington Post )
Turkish police launch a second wave of arrests of military officers tied to the alleged "Sledgehammer" coup plot.
(CNN)
Syrian President
Bashar Assad hosts
Hezbollah head
Hassan Nasrallah and
Iranian leader
Ahmadinajad in
Damascus where they condemn the
United States and
Israel
(CNN) ,
(The Jerusalem Post )
At least 17 people killed as
Taliban
suicide bombers carry out a string of attacks in
Kabul ,
Afghanistan
(CNN) ,
(The Hindu )
A suspicious package is discovered at the
Israeli Embassy in
Dublin .
(RTÉ)
The cruise ship
MS Costa Europa crashes into a dock in the
Egyptian port of
Sharm al-Sheikh , killing three people.
(BBC)
(CNN)
At least 16 people are killed in a
stampede at
Djinguereber Mosque in
Mali 's northwestern city of
Timbuktu .
(Reuters South Africa)
(BBC)
(Al Jazeera)
Burma 's Supreme Court rejects an appeal by detained
National League for Democracy leader
Aung San Suu Kyi against an 18 month extension on her
house arrest .
(Times of India )
(CBC)
(MSN Philippines)
The official
North Korean news agency
KCNA announces the country has detained four
South Koreans for crossing the border into the country.
(Yonhap)
(KCNA)
(Al Jazeera)
Prince settles his court case with
MCD Productions which had sued the musician after he cancelled a 2008
Croke Park concert at short notice.
(RTÉ)
(BBC)
It is reported that an
iceberg the size of
Luxembourg has struck the
Mertz Glacier , breaking it in half.
(AP)
Politiken apologises for its reprint of a cartoon depicting the Prophet
Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban in 2008 but is criticised by other
Danish newspapers.
(BBC) An experiment in
Minnesota 's
Soudan Mine reports detection of
weakly interacting massive particles , a form of
cold dark matter , with masses of 7-11 billion
electronvolts .
(Nature News)
(ArXiv)
New York
Democratic
Governor
David Paterson announces he will not run in the
New York gubernatorial election of 2010 .
(The New York Times )
President
Muammar Gaddafi of
Libya declares a
holy war on
Switzerland .
(The Washington Post )
A
7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coast of
Japan 's
Ryukyu Island .
(USA Today )
February 27, 2010 (2010-02-27 ) (Saturday)
February 28, 2010 (2010-02-28 ) (Sunday)
2010 Winter Olympics :
Hundreds of people wearing pink wigs and pink clothing walk out of Catholic
Mass in
's-Hertogenbosch in the
Netherlands in protest of a
gay Dutch man being refused
communion in a nearby town.
(BBC)
(UPI)
2010 Chile earthquake and Pacific Ocean tsunamis:
Tajikistan votes in
parliamentary elections .
(Al Jazeera)
A
storm sweeps across Western Europe, killing at least 50 people and leaving a million homes without power.
(BBC)
(Deutsche Welle)
(euronews)
(The Sydney Morning Herald )
900 ships are stranded in south China's
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region amid falling water level caused by severe drought. The waterway traffic jam started on
Wuzhou City section of
Xijiang River .
(China Daily )
Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica's coast. The two icebergs are drifting together about 62 to 93 miles (100 to 150 kilometers) off
eastern Antarctica , according to an
Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist.
(China Daily )
11 civilians die in a roadside bomb in
Helmand Province .
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
(Reuters India)
Three
ETA militants, including one of its top leaders,
Ibon Gogeascoechea , on the run since 1997, are detained in a French-Spanish raid in
Cahan, Orne .
(BBC)
(The Guardian )
(The Daily Telegraph )
About eighty tons of dead fish are discovered and removed in a
lagoon in
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , likely due to localized
ocean anoxia and
algal blooms .
(The Associated Press )
(Latin American Herald Tribune )
Egyptian authorities announce the discovery of a granite head from a statue of
Tutankhamun 's grandfather
Amenhotep III , which was unearthed at a temple in
Luxor .
(BBC)
(France24)
(Herald Sun )
(Reuters)
(The Scotsman )
(The Washington Post )
(Xinhua)
