From Jan 10-31, here's a compilation of events
January 31, 2013
January 26, 2013
January 25, 2013
January 24, 2013
January 23, 2013
January 20, 2013
January 19, 2013
January 18, 2013
January 17, 2013
- 2013 Pretoria train collision: Two passenger trains packed with schoolchildren and rush-hour commuters collide near Pretoria,South Africa, injuring up to 300 people in a crash.
- 2013 Brisbane train crash: A train overshoots the end of the tracks and crashes into a railway station's ladies bathroom in Brisbane, Australia, leaving 14 people injured.
- A brief lake effect snow squall on Interstate 75 in Detroit, Michigan, United States, leads to a 30-car accident that leaves 3 dead and 15 injured.
- A blast at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, the headquarters of Pemex in Mexico City, Mexico, kills 25 and injures 101 people.
- A teacher suffers scrapes and bruises and a 14-year-old boy is shot in the back of the neck and suffers a non-life-threatening wound at Luther Judson Price Middle School, a newer Atlanta Public Schools facility in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The boy is stable at a hospital and the suspected student was safely disarmed by a resource officer and arrested.
- U.S. daily newspaper The New York Times claims that Chinese hackers have broken into their computers and stolen passwords of high-profile members and reporters over the past four months, around the same time the paper began an investigation involving wealth accumulation by relatives of Premier Wen Jiabao.
- Canadian wireless device manufacturer Research In Motion officially unveils BlackBerry 10, the newest version of the operating system for its BlackBerry devices, and announces the first two phones that will run on the new platform.
- Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect the midwestern and southern United States with damage reported in several states, from Missouri to Georgia, and at least two people killed.
- Three people are dead, including the shooter, one person is wounded after a shooting at an office building in Phoenix, Arizona,United States.
- A gunman kills a school bus driver and holds a 6-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in Midland City, Alabama,United States.
- A suicide attack against the Somali government offices kills at least two people and injures dozens in Mogadishu.
- At least 65 corpses are discovered in the Queiq River near Aleppo. All of them appear to have been executed with gunshots.
- A Bombardier CRJ200 airliner operated by SCAT Air crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing all 15 passengers and 5 crew people on board.
- A freight train collides with a bus at a level crossing in Heihe City, Heilongjiang province, China, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11 others.
- American fighter aircraft F-16 flying out of Aviano Air Base loses radio contact and crashes in the Adriatic Sea.
- Beatrix the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands announces her abdication in favor of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander, on April 30, 2013
- Iran's state news agency announces that a monkey was sent successfully into space by the Iranian Space Agency and returned safely aboard the Pishgam rocket.
- At least twenty members of the Afghan National Police have been killed in bomb attacks over the past day with eight police officers killed in the latest attack in Kandahar.
- Kiss nightclub fire: A fire at a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria kills at least 235 people and injures at least 169 people.
- At least 7 workers die in the factory fire in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.
- A landslide in the Indonesian island of Sumatra kills at least 4 people with 18 missing.
- A bus crashes and falls into a ravine near the eastern Portuguese town of Sertã, killing 11 people and injuring 32.
- A retaining wall of a soccer field collapses during a match in the Ugur Sports Facility in Şırnak Province, Turkey, killing 7 people and injuring 3 others.
- Tens of thousands of people rally in Paris in support of the legalisation of gay marriage and adoption in France.
January 26, 2013
- At least 24 militants are killed in clashes between the Tehrik-e-Taliban and Ansarul Islam in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
- At least 30 people die in violence that erupted in Port Said, Egypt, following the death sentences of 21 people for their roles in the Port Said Stadium disaster.
- A suicide bombing at a market in the Afghan city of Kunduz kills at least ten people and wounds up to twenty others.
January 25, 2013
- Syrian civil war: Two car bombs explode in the Syrian controlled part of Golan Heights killing 8 people.
- Massive protests against Mohamed Morsi develop all over Egypt on the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution, including inTahrir Square, where thousands of protesters gathered. At least 6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez, while 456 others are injured nationwide
- A prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, kills at least 50 people and injures about 90 people.
- Ongoing protests by Sunni Muslims in Iraq against the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki turn deadly, as clashes leave 7 protesters and 2 soldiers dead in Fallujah. More than 60 others are injured, and at least 3 soldiers are kidnapped by unidentified gunmen.
- Tropical cyclone Oswald makes landfall in Queensland, Australia, and causes widespread flooding.
- Turkish Airlines plane with 114 people aboard makes an emergency landing at Izmir, Turkey, after it was struck by lightning and one of its engines caught fire.
January 24, 2013
- Seventeen people are killed and 34 others are injured in a bus crash near the town of Taperas, Bolivia, along a newly built highway to Brazil.
- North Korea authorities announce a new nuclear weapon and long range missile test, threatening their publicly manifested arch-enemy, the United States, as their primary target.
January 23, 2013
- A suicide bombing at a mosque in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato kills at least 23 people.
- A court in Thailand sentences a magazine editor to ten years' imprisonment for publishing articles that were deemed to have insulted the monarchy.
- The United States Armed Forces overturns its ban on women serving in combat, reversing a 1994 rule, and potentially clearing the way for women to serve in front-line units and elite commando forces.
- Syrian civil war: The government of Jordan says that more than 12,000 Syrians have fled to Jordan in the past six days.
- Car bombings in Baghdad kill at least 17 people and injure dozens of others.
- The government of the Philippines announces that it will file a complaint against China before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking arbitration for the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
- A Canadian man shoots dead two people in a court in Cebu, Philippines, and seriously injures another.
- 2013 Vienna train collision: Two trains packed with morning commuters collide in Vienna suburb, Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously.
- Public inauguration ceremony of US President, Barack Obama
- A 14-year-old girl is killed and 17 people are injured in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia
- A car bombing in Salamiyeh kills over 30 people.
January 20, 2013
- In Aménas hostage crisis:
- The death toll has risen to at least 48 hostages killed during a four-day siege at a gas plant, raising the number of militants and their captives killed to at least 80. Algerian troops had found the bodies of 25 hostages at the complex on Sunday.
- The United States Department of State issues a travel warning to United States citizens for the country of Algeria in response to the In Aménas hostage crisis.
- A drug lord named Mario Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police in Colombia, is arrested at his villa on theAtlantic coast of Honduras.
- Private inauguration ceremony of US President Obama
- A 15 year old male shoots and kills a family, with three children, at a house near Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. A suspect is later apprehended.
January 19, 2013
- Syrian civil war: The children death toll of the Syrian civil war reaches 3,538, with over 60,000 people killed overall.
- Heavy snowfalls in the United Kingdom results in Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow, to cancel about 100 flights and some passengers are forced to spend the night, sleeping in the terminals!
- US Navy ship damages Tubbataha Reef National Park
January 18, 2013
- Lottery winner Urooj Kahn's body is exhumed after investigators concluded he was poisoned by cyanide.
January 17, 2013
- Syrian civil war: 106 people are massacred in the Basatin al-Hasawiya district of Homs, Syria, including children. People were shot, stabbed and burned to death by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad known as the Shabiha. Lots of prayers to them.
- Iraqi insurgency (post U.S. withdrawal) :Two car bombs explode in the city of Dujail, Iraq, leaving at least 7 dead and 25 wounded. Another bomb detonated on a bus carrying pilgrims in Iraq and in a separate incident a roadside bomb detonated and injures two pilgrims walking to Hussein ibn Ali. On top of that, another bomb detonated at a bus stop killing 7 people and wounding 28. Alongside, a civilian vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb leaving 2 dead. In total, 33 people were killed in one of the most violent days this month with a whole lot of bombs to contribute to this.
- A massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia, with the Indonesian Army deploying rubber boats in the financial district to rescue people trapped in this flood. Four people were killed and over 2,000 evacuated.
- Eight people, three of them children, are killed when a small plane crashed in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
- U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics by the IOC because of his involvement in doping
- .Japan decides to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm near the site of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture (A huge shout out to environmental changes!).
- Tens of thousands of Kurds pour into the streets of Diyarbakir, Turkey, for the funeral of Sakine Cansız, the co-founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, who was killed in Paris, France, on January 9.
- Syrian civil war: Three car bombs explode near military checkpoints and government buildings in Idlib Governorate, Syria, leaving 24 people dead. Two other bombs were defused by government forces.
- A helicopter crash in central London kills two people and injures 13 others
- An apartment block collapses in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 25 people.
- Russian mafia boss Aslan Usoyan is killed in Moscow.
- Syrian civil war: 82 people are killed and dozens injured in twin blasts at Aleppo University, as government forces and rebels continue fighting in the suburbs of Damascus.
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal): A suicide bomber kills a Sunni MP and six others in Fallujah, two days after Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi survived an assassination attempt in the same city.
- A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
- Two people are shot dead and another person was wounded at Hazard Community and Technical College in Hazard, Kentucky.
- Kachin conflict: Myanmar government forces shell the rebel stronghold of Laiza for the first time since the resumption of hostilities in 2011, killing 3 civilians and injuring 6 others
- One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia
- Thousands of people gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a massive rally in protests over many unfair government policies and decisions
- The death toll in the Yunnan landslide rises to 46, according to state media.
- 18 people die after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province of China, while 40 people are feared to be buried.
- 29 people die and 12 people are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal.
- A fire sweeps through a complex containing housing for foreign workers in Manama, Bahrain, leaving 13 foreign nationals dead.
- Twin bombings at a billiard hall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta kill at least 81 people and wound up to 120 others, hours after a bombing at a market area killed 11 people in the same city.
- Police in France discover the bodies of Sakine Cansız, one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, and two other Kurdish activists who were all shot dead in a Kurdish information center in the capital, Paris.
- 2012–2013 Northern Mali conflict: Islamists capture the town of Konna, previously held by the Malian army.
- A gunman opened fire inside a classroom of Taft Union High School in Taft, California. A 16-year-old student was critically wounded, and another student was shot at but was not injured. The gunman surrendered after the classroom's teacher ordered him to drop his weapon. The teacher also suffered minor injuries after being struck by a shotgun pellet. A 16-year-old student, the suspected gunman, was arrested (causes? Because he was being bullied!)