World Current Affairs, November 2011 (Part - 1)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of November 2011. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings.
This is the first set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.

• The President of the United States, Barack Obama, makes Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, a National Monument.(1st November)
• The FBI and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launch an investigation into MF Global after $600 million of customers' money went missing.(1st November)
• The Palestinian Authority is hit by hackers disrupting Palestinian internet and mobile phone services. A link has been suggested to Palestine's UNESCO bid.(1st November)
• At least seven people are killed and 200 injured following an explosion caused by two trucks carrying explosives crashing in Fuquan City in China's Guizhou Province.(1st November)
• Almazbek Atambayev, the newly elected President of Kyrgyzstan, states that a lease for a United States air base in Manas will not be renewed when it expires in 2014.(1st November)
• China launches the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft, intending to robotically dock it with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module. If successful, the mission will mark China's first orbital docking, and will be a major milestone in its efforts to construct a full-scale space station.(1st November)
• French author Alexis Jenni wins France's literary Prix Goncourt for his novel L'Art français de la guerre.(2nd November)
• Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses his appeal in England's High Court against extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations.(2nd November)
• Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is convicted in New York City for conspiracy to smuggle weapons to the Colombian terrorist group FARC.(2nd November)
• American actress Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to 30 days in a Los Angeles jail for breaching the terms of her parole.(2nd November)
• Russia and Georgia strike a deal that will allow Russia to enter the World Trade Organization.(2nd November)
• The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel warn that a sixth tranche of financial aid will not be paid to Greece unless the referendum is successful.(2nd November)
• China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, marking China's first orbital docking.(2nd November)
• President of Syria Bashar al-Assad agrees with the Arab League to end the crackdown on the uprising in Syria, releasing political prisoners and allowing international news agencies back into Syria.(3rd November)
• Advanced Micro Devices announces that it will be cutting 1,400 jobs or 12 per cent of its work force.(3rd November)
• An Egyptian ferry carrying 1200 people catches fire in the Red Sea between the Jordanian port of Aqaba and Nuweiba.(3rd November)
• The 2011 G-20 summit gets underway in the French city of Cannes, with discussions expected to focus on the continuing Eurozone debt crisis.(3rd November)
• The Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou holds an emergency Cabinet meeting, during which the cancellation of the Greek economy referendum is announced following negotiations with opposition lawmakers(3rd November)
• Three members of the Pakistan national cricket team (Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir) together with agent Mazhar Majeed are given jail sentences for their roles in a spot-fixing scandal.(3rd November)
• The U.S. Department of Energy publishes 2010 greenhouse gases levels, showing they are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by IPCC climate experts just four years ago.(3rd November)
• U.S. General John R. Allen, the head of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, sacks Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller for making inappropriate comments about Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government.(4th November)
• Toyota extends production cuts in Japan and Thailand due to parts shortages caused by the 2011 Thailand floods.(4th November)
• The Hellenic Parliament rejects a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou following a failed attempt to hold a referendum on a Eurozone bailout.(4th November)
• The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram claims responsibility for a series of bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Damaturu that have killed at least 63 people.(5th November)
• Residents of El Hierro in Spain's Canary Islands are evacuated following continuing volcanic activity.(5th November)
• A Pakistan anti-terror court indicts two police officers and five alleged members of the Taliban for the murder of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto.(5th November)
• Al-Sadd wins the 2011 AFC Champions League beating Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 2-2 (4-2 in penalties) in the 2011 AFC Champions League Final.(5th November)
• A landslide kills 18 and injures dozens in Colombia.(6th November)
• Eleven Hungarian tourists die after a bus overturns in Egypt.(6th November)
• The New York City Marathon begins with over 45,000 runners participating in the 26.2-mile run with Geoffrey Mutai and Firehiwot Dado winning the mens and womens races, respectively.(6th November)
• The Swedish Enforcement Administration (Kronofogden) announces the public auction of seven paintings originally believed to be painted by German leader Adolf Hitler.(7th November)
• Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, recuses himself from that agency's investigation into the bankruptcy of MF Global.(7th November)
• Flooding continues in Italy with seven people having died in the past week and thousands of people ordered to evacuate in Turin as the Po River continues to rise.(7th November)
• A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes 47 miles SE of Faizabad, India, with tremors felt in Kashmir Valley, Northern Pakistan and in parts of North India.(7th November)
• Former world champion boxer Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer.(7th November)
• The Syrian government continues its crackdown on protesters and army defectors in the city of Homs, killing dozens of civilians in the process.(8th November)
• The United Nations reports that the death toll of the eight-month-old Syrian uprising has reached 3,500.(8th November)
• Russia starts commercial natural gas deliveries to Central Europe via the Nord Stream, the world's longest submerged pipeline.(8th November)
• A record number of Americans — 49.1 million — are living below the poverty line, based on a new census measure.(8th November)
• Flooding in Thailand reaches the residence of the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok, forcing her to withdraw from the Hawaii APEC summit to deal with the crisis.(8th November)
• At least 16 people are killed in a stampede during a religious festival in the Indian city of Haridwar, Uttarakhand.(8th November)
• The International Atomic Energy Agency releases a report that says that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device, and that the project may still be under way.(8th November)
• Human rights groups send an open letter to the President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, pressing the Chinese government to address the underlying causes of protests that have led 11 Tibetans to set themselves on fire since March.(8th November)
• Journalists report comments by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit in Cannes, in which Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar".(8th November)
• The Australian Senate votes to introduce a carbon tax, a form of carbon pricing.(8th November)
• NASA observes the asteroid YU55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU55 is approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976.(8th November)
• Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first player in history to score 15,000 Test runs.(8th November)
• Italy's cost of borrowing reaches a record high, with interest rates on 10-year loans rising to 7%, as fears grow of an escalating economic crisis.(9th November)
• A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Van, Turkey, leading to the collapse of numerous buildings. The tremor comes in the wake of last month's destructive 7.1 magnitude earthquake.(9th November)
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the International Atomic Energy Agency report is based on "empty claims" and that Iran would not budge from its nuclear program despite allegations it may be trying to develop nuclear weapons; European countries and the US say they will consider fresh sanctions against Iran.(9th November)
• Dutch scientists build a nanoscopic electric car made of a single complex molecule. Currently the world's smallest vehicle, the nanocar is capable of travelling small distances when an electric current is applied to it.(9th November)
• Israel's Supreme Court upholds a seven-year rape sentence against former President Moshe Katsav.(10th November)
• Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs of the United States Army is convicted of murder in relation to the 2010 Maywand District killings in Afghanistan.(10th November)
• Lucas Papademos is appointed interim prime minister of Greece's new unity government, and pledges to implement a European bailout package to help resolve the Greek government debt crisis.(10th November)
• The President of Nauru, Marcus Stephen, resigns amid allegations of corruption, and is replaced by Freddie Pitcher.(10th November)
• A former Libyan envoy to the Arab League confirms that Musa al-Sadr, an Iranian-Lebanese scholar, was executed by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 1978.(10th November)
• The incumbent President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is declared the winner of the Liberian presidential election, gaining 90% of the vote following a boycott by oppostion candidate Winston Tubman.(10th November)
• 2011 Syrian uprising: 250 Syrians, mostly civilians, have been killed so far this month, as the violence escalates in Syria's eight-month-old crackdown on pro-democracy protests and attacks on security forces increase.(11th November)
• 2011 Yemeni uprising: At least seven people die after forces loyal to the President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh shell the city of Taez. A further 32 were injured.(11th November)
• The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea issues orders for the arrest of Deputy Prime Minister Belden Namah and Attorney General Allan Marat over contempt of court charges.(11th November)
• The former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, already serving a seven-year sentence for abuse of office, is charged with tax evasion, theft and concealing foreign currency revenues.(11th November)
• Michael D. Higgins is inaugurated as the ninth President of Ireland.(11th November)
• Lucas Papademos is sworn as the Prime Minister of Greece.(11th November)
• The Gold Coast in the Australian state of Queensland is chosen as the host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games ahead of Hambantota in Sri Lanka.(11th November)
• London in the United Kingdom wins the rights to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships ahead of Doha, Qatar.(11th November)
• The Arab League votes to suspend Syria over its violent suppression of the Syrian uprising, pledging new sanctions and urging member states to withdraw ambassadors from Damascus.(12th November)
• Nine civilians are killed by a bomb explosion on a bus in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan in a suspected Taliban attack.(12th November)
• The Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa sign an accord to develop a mega-hydroelectric plant on the Congo river to address their nations' growing energy needs.(12th November)
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticizes Russia and China's opposition to further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program following an International Atomic Energy Agency report that Iran had worked on an atomic weapon design.(12th November)
• Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy to make way for an emergency government to address the country's economic crisis; thousands of Italians celebrate his departure in street demonstrations.(12th November)
• In athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations names Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Sally Pearson of Australia as its World Athletes of the Year.(12th November)
• The Yemeni Army and tribal fighters kill nine suspected Al Qaeda militants in fighting in the town of Zinjibar.(13th November)
• Former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is frisked and has his clothes inspected for explosives by officials in New York, with the United States apologising for its breach of protocol.(13th November)
• Law enforcement in Brazil occupy Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela or slum, in a bid to clean the city ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.(13th November)
• The President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano nominates Mario Monti to be the new Prime Minister.(13th November)
• 200,000 people protest in Bogotá, Colombia, against government cuts in public education.(14th November)
• A suspected drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan province kills six militants.(15th November)
• Pressure is applied to the Syrian government from many sides as Turkey threatens to cut electricity to its southern neighbor, while the European Union increases sanctions on the regime.(15th November)
• Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will leave office "within 90 days" of an agreement regarding elections with the regional Gulf Cooperation Council.(15th November)
• The first Gas Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum opens in Doha.(15th November)