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February 1, 2013
- The United States announces that it will provide $60 million of food and medical aid, but not weapons, to rebel fighters.
- At least 35 people are killed across Bangladesh in violent demonstrations sparked when Islamic political leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced to death for war crimes.
- At least 23 people are killed and 60 others injured in a series of bombings in Shiite districts of Baghdad and surrounding suburbs.
- At least eight people are killed and several are missing after a restaurant boat sinks in the Tigris, in central Baghdad, Iraq
- A study finds common genetic links between five major psychiatric disorders: autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.
- Pope Benedict XVI completes his last day of work before he starts his retirement.
- A temporary third radiation belt is discovered around planet Earth by NASA's twin Van Allen Probes.
- A Duke research scientist announces that he has successfully connected the brains of two rats in such a way that they share can information.
February 27, 2013
- Taliban insurgents kill 17 Afghan government-affiliated militia personnel in an overnight attack in Andar District of eastern Ghazni Province.
- At least 20 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Calcutta, India.
- 2013 Meat Scandal: Gæðakokkar 30% meat pie on Iceland is found to not contain any meat at all.
- Four people (including the perpetrator) are killed and six injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau,Switzerland
- Pope Benedict XVI gives his farewell address at the Vatican City.
February 26, 2013
- Gunmen break into a prison in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, and liberate 12 inmates.
- Gunmen kill seven guards guarding a marketplace in Yobe State, Nigeria.
- A hot air balloon crashes near the Egyptian town of Luxor killing 19 tourists.
- A study finds that sleep loss can alter gene behavior, which may explain why it often precedes medical problems such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.
- United States researchers announce a flexible battery that can be charged wirelessly and will continue to work when folded, twisted, or even stretched.
February 25, 2013
- At least 4 people are dead and 20 injured after a homemade bomb is detonated at a Buddhist festival in Thailand's Maha Sarakham Province
- A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Tokyo, Japan, with no injuries reported.
- 2013 Meat Scandal: Ikea withdraws Swedish meatballs from sale in 14 countries after tests in the Czech Republic revealed traces of horse meat.
- Russia enacts a law banning smoking on subways and in schools.
- Park Geun-hye is sworn in as the first female President of South Korea in the capital Seoul.
- Scientists announce they have found fragments of Rodinia, an ancient "lost" continent, in what is now the Indian Ocean.
February 24, 2013
- Northern Mali Conflict: 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Islamist insurgents are killed in heavy fighting in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains of northern Mali.
- Eleven African nations including all the members of the African Great Lakes region sign a United Nations brokered peace deal for the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Anemia drug Omontys is recalled due to reports of fatal anaphylactic reactions in 0.02% of patients.
- A new study finds that chimpanzees will solve puzzles for the fun of it.
February 23, 2013
- Three people are killed and 14 injured in clashes between civilians and government security forces in Aden and Mukalla, as thousands turn up for a day of planned protests. In a separate attack, a senior Yemeni security chief and two of his bodyguards are injured in a shooting.
- Fighting between rival Arab tribes in Sudan's Darfur region kills 51 people and injures 62 others.
- The death toll from flooding in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) rises to two as residents in northern NSW towns including Kempsey, Port Macquarie, and Bellingen are evacuated
- A container truck slams into several vehicles in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia, killing 16 people and injuring several others.
- The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns of possible attacks within Canada due to the presence of Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the country.
- A crash during the final lap of the 2013 NASCAR DRIVE4COPD 300 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Florida, United States, sends debris flying into the stands, injuring at least 33 spectators.
- Space tourist Dennis Tito, founds the Inspiration Mars Foundation and announces plans for a privately funded manned trip to Mars in 2018.
February 22, 2013
- Syrian civil war:Three missiles launched by the Syrian army crash into residential areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 29 civilians and injuring 150 others.
- Northern Mali Conflict; 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Islamist insurgents are killed in heavy fighting in a remote part of northern Mali.
- Several hours of heavy rain and thunderstorms in the Greek capital, Athens, flood roads, houses, and causes disruption to train and tram networks
- The FDA approves Kadcyla, a new drug manufactured by Roche, for treating late-stage breast cancer.
- North Korea announces plans to allow foreign residents mobile access to the Internet!
- Japan vows to continue its whale hunting despite pressure from environmentalist group Sea Shepherd.
- Six people are stabbed and wounded in downtown Los Angeles, California and two suspects are arrested.
- Plans are announced to attempt to intercept 65803 Didymos, a non-threatening near-Earth asteroid, in 2022 using AIDA.
February 21, 2013
- Syrian civil war: At least 61 people are killed and more than 200 injured following a car bombing near Syria's Baath Party headquarters in Damascus. Three other bombings kill 22 people and injure 50 others in the suburb of Barzeh, most of them government soldiers, making these attacks, the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since the outbreak of the civil war.
- At least 20 people are dead and 54 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
- Three young girls are kidnapped, raped, and killed in the Bhandara district of India.
- Japan executes by hanging three convicted murderers, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiro Kanagawa and Keiki Muto. The number of death-row inmates in Japan now stands at 134
- The remains of a pyramid for an adviser to Pharaoh Ramses II is found in an archaelogical excavation in Luxor, Egypt.
- A study finds that bumblebees can sense electric fields around flowers
February 20, 2013
- Estonia becomes the first country in the world to install a nationwide system of fast chargers for electric vehicles.
- NASA reports the discovery of Kepler-37b, the smallest exo-planet yet known.
February 19, 2013
- North Korea threatens the "final destruction" of South Korea during a United Nations conference on disarmament.
- A one-man carjacking and shooting spree in Orange County, California, United States, results in the death of 4 people including the alleged gunman.
- Pakistani police arrest 170 suspected militants following the February 2013 Quetta bombing that killed 84 people and injured another 190.
- A Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others.
- Two people are missing and at least 14 injured after a car struck a gas main causing an explosion at the Country Club Plaza in the American city of Kansas City, Missouri.
February 18, 2013
- A fishing vessel capsizes off of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada, leaving 5 fishermen missing in the frigid waters.
- Food giant Nestlé removes its beef pasta meals from supermarkets in France, Spain, and Italy, after tests confirmed that the product contained horse meat.
- 2013 Belgium diamond heist: Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
February 17, 2013
- A series of car bombs kill at least 37 people and injure more than 130 others in mostly Shiite areas of the capital Baghdad.
- In Nigeria six foreign workers, are kidnapped in a construction site and one security guard is killed.
- Five people are killed and eleven are injured, two seriously, when an apartment complex is destroyed by a gas explosion inFrenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic.
- Protests occur in Pakistan demanding protection for Shiite Muslims following yesterday's bombing in Quetta that killed 84 people
February 16, 2013
- At least 79 people are killed and more than 200 injured after a bomb explodes at a market in Hazara Town on the outskirts of Quetta, in Pakistan. Most of the victims are members of the predominantly Twelver Shia Hazara minority that was targeted by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi only a month earlier. The organization later claims responsibility for the blasts
- A suicide bombing kills General Ali Aouni, the head of the Iraqi intelligence academy, and three of his bodyguards in Tal Afar.
- A magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs near the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
February 15, 2013
- Syrian civil war: After intense fighting 40,000 people become displaced in the city of Shadadah, Hasakah, adding to the 3 million people already internally displaced in Syria.
- A meteor breaks up in the vicinity of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. More than 1,200 people are injured, two of them seriously, from the shattering of windows caused by the shockwaves and the debris.
- 2013 North Korean nuclear test: In reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear test the European Union will tighten sanctions against the country in the form of blocking the trade of gold and diamonds, as well as cracking down on financial ties between them. As well, North Korea tells China that it is prepared to stage one or even two more nuclear tests this year in an effort to force the United States into diplomatic talks.
- The social networking giant Facebook announces that it was the target of sophisticated hackers, who through a then-unknown bug from Oracle's Java on an infected website, managed to infiltrate employees' laptops, and then the internal networks. There was no user data collected, but certain code and corporate e-mails could have been infiltrated. PROTECT YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS.
- Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 with an estimated diameter of about 50 meters (160 ft) comes within 17,200 miles (27,700 km) from the Earth's surface. This distance is a record close approach for a known object of such size.
February 14, 2013
- 16-year-old child is shot dead at close range in Al-Daih, a village west of Manama, Bahrain
- Four police officers are killed and five injured after a suicide bombing in the Russian republic of Dagestan.
- Two people are killed and a third injured following an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands.
- US Airways and the bankrupt American Airlines announce a merger to form the world's largest air carrier trading as American Airlines. There will no longer be a US airway just a merged American Airlines, when this will come into action is unknown still.
- 2013 Meat Scandal: French sources find traces of phenylbutazone, a suspected harmful drug, in several horse carcasses slaughtered in Somerset, England, and fear they could be part of lasagne or other food sold in France.
- Oscar Pistorius, a South African sprint runner who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead at Pistorius's home in Pretoria.
February 13, 2013
- 16 Muslim insurgents are killed during an attack on a military base in the Thai province of Narathiwat.
- Apple Inc. is denied their request to sell their phones under the name "iPhone" in Brazil after regulators voted in favor of IGB Electronica who won the rights to use the name in 2008. Therefore, if you buy an iPhone in Brazil, it's no guarantee that you'll actually get an iPhone that's an Apple product!
- An Antonov An-24 aircraft carrying 44 passengers and 8 crew members crash lands near the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, killing 4 people on board and injuring 8 others.
- A Tibetan monk sets himself on fire near Boudhanath in Nepal in protest of the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
- After a 12-mile (19 km) chase, a man was caught for shooting a woman and her stepfather near a South Carolina courthouse
- International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge is meeting with the head of wrestling's governing body in an attempt to revive the sport for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
February 12, 2013
- 2013 North Korean nuclear test: The South Korean officials reports that an "artificial earthquake" has occurred in North Korea suggesting that a nuclear test has occurred. North Korea then later confirms that it has successfully tested a nuclear device, claiming that it is small enough to be weaponized. This is quite alarming, considering that North Korea is dangerous and it could possibly effect peace in the future and who knows, maybe the US will get involved, which is very likely.
- Three people are dead and 11 are wounded in a stabbing attack on the U.S. territory island of Guam
- The International Olympic Committee drops wrestling from the 2020 Summer Olympics. Wonder how wrestling fans will react!
- Two people are dead, including the perpetrator and one of his two victims, in a murder-suicide, in a home in College Park,Maryland, United States. The three were student roommates at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- Three people are killed in a drug-related shooting in a house in Midvale, Utah, United States.
- Christopher Dorner kills a sheriff's deputy and injures another in the Big Bear Lake, California, United States. He then barricades himself in a cabin, which catches on fire during a police assault. Unsurprisingly, the suspect was killed in the fire.
February 11, 2013
- A mass shooting takes place at a courthouse in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, where a gunman shot and killed two women and injures two police officers. He is later found dead at the scene.
- Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation, effective from 20:00 on 28 February 2013. He will become the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. It is likely that there will be no residing pope in the month of March.
- Six top Guinean military officials, including the head of the Guinean armed forces, are killed in a plane crash in Liberia.
- 18 miners are killed in explosion at the Vorkutinskaya coal mine in Russia's Komi Region.
- Syrian civil war: An explosion in a vehicle at the Cilvegözü border gate kills 14 civilians (eleven Syrians and three Turks), and injures more than 25 others in Reyhanlı district of Hatay Province, Turkey. The gate is located on the Turkish–Syrian border.
February 10,2013
- A roadside bombing in Thailand's southern Yala Province kills 5 soldiers and injures three others.
- Tens of millions of Hindus bathe in the Ganges River in the Indian city of Allahabad during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival.
- The 2013 Grammy Awards are held in the American city of Los Angeles
- A stampede of people at the Allahabad railway station, India, coming back from bathing in the Ganges River during the Kumbh Mela festival, kills 36 and injures many others
- Three crew members are killed when a Bell 206 helicopter crashes at the Polsa Rosa Movie Ranch in Acton, California, United States, while filming a documentary.
- A tornado causes significant damage to the American town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
- A lifeboat falls off of a cruise ship MS Thomson Majesty while it was docked in the port of Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands, killing 5 people
February 9, 2013
- The death toll from a massive blizzard across the Northeastern United States and southeastern Canada rises to at least 15, with 40 inches of snow reported from Hamden, Connecticut. More than 900,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm, while airports in the region cancelled over 5,300 flights.
- The death toll from a massive blizzard across the Northeastern United States and southeastern Canada rises to at least 15, with 40 inches of snow reported from Hamden, Connecticut. More than 900,000 customers lost power at the height of the storm, while airports in the region cancelled over 5,300 flights.
- Former Canadian navy intelligence officer Jeffrey Delisle is jailed for 20 years after pleading guilty to selling classified NATO information to Russia.
- Four people are wounded after a shooting in Bourbon Street, New Orleans, United States, while it was crowded with party-goers and people setting up for Mardi Gras parades.
February 8, 2013
- Syrian civil war: Over 110 people are killed nationwide by the Syrian army in Syria.
- A string of bombings kill at least 29 people and injure 69 others in central Iraq, including twin blasts in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighborhood, as well as the city of Hilla.
- A bomb at a market kills 16 people and wounds 27 others in Kalaya, capital of Orakzai Agency in Pakistan.
- Nine women are shot to death in the Nigerian city of Kano. According to reports, all of them were involved in a polio vaccination policy and were most probably killed by the Islamist movement Boko Haram, which has previously threatened to target those involved in vaccinations.
- A massive blizzard hits the northeastern United States and southeastern regions of Canada, with over 5,000 flights cancelled and at least 600,000 thousand people losing power.
- A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Munshiganj District near the capital Dhaka.
- A murder-suicide on Interstate 80, near Salt Lake City, United States, causes the death of two people.
- 2013 Shahbag Protest: In Bangladesh, over 100,000 people join in a mass movement to demand justice for atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- 2010–2013 Greek protests: As demonstrations, protests and rallies against the government decisions to close down or downgrade schools and hospitals continue, in Ierapetra, Crete, over 7,000 people, including students, stage a peaceful march, holding candles and torches, to protest the forthcoming closure of the one of two technical schools and the only hospital of the region.
- Some scientists express concern that an influenza vaccine marketed by GlaxoSmithKline called Pandemrix may be responsible for an increase in cases of narcolepsy (The inability to control when one falls asleep and therefore, one often falls asleep at irregular intervals. It's pretty serious!) in Europe.
February 7, 2013
- 2013 Meat Scandal: Frozen food manufacturer Findus withdraws its beef lasagna ready meals after tests showed the product contained horse meat.
- At least 53 people are killed in a crash involving a bus and truck in Zambia.
- 2013 Solomon Islands earthquake: The death toll from a magnitude 8.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Solomon Islands rises to nine, while government officials express fear regarding remote areas where emergency personnel are arriving.
- An investigation by the Australian Crime Commission finds that there is widespread use of illegal drugs in Australian professional sport.
February 6, 2013
- A tsunami warning is issued for a wide range of islands in the South Pacific after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of the Solomon Islands. At least five people have been reported dead in the Solomons' Santa Cruz Islands.
- In United States, two children and one woman are killed in a Denver apartment shooting.
- Chokri Belaid, the general secretary of the Patriotic Democratic Party, is shot dead outside his house in Tunis, leading to reported clashes between the police and hundreds of protesters. The Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali claims that a new government will be formed within one day.
February 5, 2013
- Three people are shot to death in a house near Forestville, Sonoma County, California, United States
- Four people are dead in a possible murder-suicide in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States.
- Riots take place in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, ahead of the verdict of a trial in the International Crimes Tribunal against Abdul Quader Molla, the assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party dating from the 1971 Bangladeshi War of Independence. He is given a life sentence.
- United Kingdom MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of government legislation to introduce same-sex marriages.
- Curtis Cooper, a mathematician and computer science professor at the University of Central Missouri, discovers the largest known 17.4 million-digit prime number.
February 4, 2013
- Syrian civil war: At least 20 people die in Aleppo, Syria, after an apartment complex was struck by a rocket belonging to the forces of Bashar Assad.
- A suicide bomber attacks a government building in Taji, 15 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, killing 22 and injuring 44 others. Nineteen of the dead are members of the Sahwa militia opposed to al-Qaeda in Iraq, who were waiting for their monthly salaries.
- The University of Leicester holds a media conference to announce that a skeleton found in Leicester last year during an archaelogical dig is that of former King Richard III of England
- The remains of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia who died on 15 October 2012 are cremated in Phnom Penh.
- Eight people are killed and thirty others are injured after a bus is struck by two vehicles and flips over in Yucaipa, California,United States.
- A collision between a truck and a bus carrying Bangladeshi workers kills 22 people and injures 24 others in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
- Three people are injured after a stabbing on a subway platform in the Parsons/Archer subway station in Queens, New York City,United States
- .The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces his desire of becoming the first Iranian astronaut after the successful launching and returning of a monkey sent by its national scientific space program.
February 3, 2013
- At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound.
- A charter bus carrying high school students from Philadelphia crashes when it attempted to pass under a low bridge in Boston,United States, injuring 34 people.
- Special services are held in Brazil in memory of the 237 people killed in last week's Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria.
- Iran unveils a new combat jet which they claim can evade radar.
- Militants attack a Pakistani Army base in the Lakki Marwat District in Pakistan killing 23 and injuring at least 8.
- The Turkish radical leftist group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front claims responsibility for the 2013 United States embassy bombing in Ankara.
- The protesters clashes with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, after a week of violence in which more than 60 people were killed.
- Militants attack a Pakistani Army base in the Lakki Marwat District in Pakistan killing at least 23 and injuring at least 8
- Five road accidents in two days claims the lives of at least 58 people in China.
February 1, 2013
- A suicide bombing outside the U.S. embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, kills at least two people.
- The Nigerian army bomb a suspected terrorist camp used by Boko Haram killing 18 members and capturing large amounts ammuntions,guns and weapons.
- At least 26 people are killed on the G30 Expressway in Henan province, China, after a truck carrying fireworks explodes on an elevated highway, with an 80 metres (260 ft) section of road being destroyed and part of it collapsing.
- Three construction workers are killed and eight are injured after a wall collapses on a construction site in Zhoukou, Henan, China.