Well its been almost a week since I did this, and only now am I online while sitting in the mall. Its so very easy to let plans get away from you. I can fortunetly play catchup, since this is all in the past by the time you are reading this. Here is what has happened this week.
.
| |
- China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.(The China Post) (Business Times) (China Daily) (L.A. Times)
- An explosion triggered a fire in a chemical plant in an east China city, leaving 3 dead, one seriously injured. The explosion occurred at 2:40 p.m. in Haiyi Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province. (Sina)
- Middle East:
- US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev finalize a new arms control treaty to further reduce the nuclear arsenals of each country still remaining since the Cold War. (The Jerusalem Post) (The New York Times) (The Hindu)
- A prominent Indonesian cleric says Islamic law should take priority over laws passed by Parliament. (The Jakarta Post)
- The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is disappointed with Burma's military leaders for their lack of democratic progress in the run up to general elections in the country. (Al Jazeera) (Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters)
- Chinese police arrests a suspect for poisoning frozen dumplings for revenge. Those dumplings were exported to Japan and sickened 10 people in 2008. (Asahi Shimbun) (Xinhua)
- 11 people are killed in a highway accident on Interstate 65 in the U.S. state of Kentucky, near Munfordville. The wreck site is roughly 40 miles northwest of the city of Bowling Green, near Mammoth Cave National Park. (CNN) (MSNBC)
- A challenge to Ireland's Romeo and Juliet law is rejected by the High Court. (RTÉ)
- A South Korean Navy ship carrying more than 100 personnel sinks near the Northern Limit Line in waters off the country's west coast near North Korea, a report says. (Yonhap) (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times of India)
- ITV drops police television series The Bill after 27 years. (The Guardian) (RTÉ)
- The Times and The Sunday Times announce they are to charge £1 per day and £2 per week for online access from June 2010 and split into two websites from Times Online. (The Guardian) (Wall Street Journal) (RTÉ) (The New York Times)
- Russia outlaws Mein Kampf due to its "extremist" content. (RIA Novosti) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide) (RTÉ) (The Hindu) (The New York Times)
|
| |
- United Kingdom Chancellor Alistair Darling presents his 2010 United Kingdom Budget to the House of Commons.[citation needed]
- Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears, washed away thirty years after the mud flat island was created by delta currents, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory. The Calcutta Institute raised fears over more islands, such as the Maldives, going under in the future. (BBC) (The Times of India) (Los Angeles Times) (Miami Herald)
- The European Union calls for Iran to halt internet censorship and jamming of radio broadcasts. (Voice of America) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), says that monitoring Sudan's election next month would be like monitoring a vote in Hitler's Germany. (The Washington Post)
- Middle East:
- Six people die and more than 30 people are injured after a car bomb explodes in the centre of the Colombian Pacific port city of Buenaventura. (BBC) (Toronto Sun) (CNN) (ABC News) (TVNZ) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- Portugal's credit rating is downgraded from AA to AA- by the Fitch Group due to fears over its high debt levels. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (CNN)
- A Sharia court in Kaduna bans the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria from debating punishment amputations via Twitter. (BBC) (The Washington Post) (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)
- An out-of-control train derailment in Norway kills three people and seriously injures several others. (BBC) (CNN) (Al Jazeera)
- Scientists identify the Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human through DNA analysis from a finger found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. (Nature) (BBC) (The New York Times)
- Go Daddy, the largest domain name registration company in the world, announces it will cease registering websites in China after the Chinese government required customers to provide photographs and other identifying information before registering. (CNET) (Washington Post) (AP)
- Indonesia bans a conference of Asian gay activists, saying it could prompt violent protests by conservative Muslim groups. (The New York Times) (Jakarta Post) (AsiaOne)
- Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop of Cloyne John Magee. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel Prize for advancing "one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of modern mathematics" (The Hindu) (AP)
- A landslide kills at least three, injures 11 in Indonesia's West Sumatra in Saok Laweh village. (The Hindu)
- The online encyclopedia Wikipedia goes offline, with users encountering navigation error messages. (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph) (PC Magazine)
- Students at the University of Ottawa protest and shut down right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's second stop on her trans-Canada tour. (CBC)
- Craig David is named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. (UN)
|
| |
- A fire tears through a combined residential and office building in Calcutta, India, killing 24 people, including two who leapt to their deaths. (Sky) (LBS)
- United States issues new warnings of Al-Qaeda threat to attack ships off coast of Yemen (Yahoo News)
- 5,000 people at a rally in the town of Kotli in Pakistan-administered Kashmir vow to wage a holy war to "liberate" the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir from India on 70th anniversary of resolution to seek independence separately from India (Reuters India)
- Middle East:
- Irish cabinet reshuffle:
- Nigerian cabinet reshuffle: Acting President Goodluck Jonathan picks new ministers after firing all members of his cabinet last week. (BBC)
- Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir threatens to expel international observers for the first general elections in the country in 21 years, after they called for a delay to deal with "logistical" problems. (The Guardian) (Al Jazeera)
- Libya releases 214 Islamist inmates in what is described as "a historic event". (BBC)
- 88-year-old Heinrich Boere, a former member of the Nazi SS, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians after six decades of legal wrangling. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- Four German pensioners aged 61 to 80 are found guilty of kidnapping their own financial adviser from his home and driving him 450km (280 miles) to southern Bavaria, with the ringleader and his accomplice being jailed. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama signs the health care reform bill into law. (BBC) (New York Times) (IOL)
- A man in Nanping, China, stabs and kills eight children, and wounds another five at an elementary school. (BBC) (The Times) (China Daily)
- China says Google is "totally wrong" to stop censoring its search results. (China Daily) (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- A Turkish ship is hijacked by Somali pirates more than 1,000 miles away from the coast of Somalia and closer to India. (BBC) (Xinhua) (AP)
- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is shown on its maiden flight from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in Mojave, California, United States. (Xinhua)
- Burma's High Court refuses to accept a lawsuit by the National League for Democracy against the ruling State Peace and Development Council for what they allege are unfair and discriminatory election laws. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
- Zimbabwe's finance minister Tendai Biti is involved in a car crash. (BBC)
|
.
No comments:
Post a Comment