World Current Affairs, February 2012 (Part - 2)

This time I am loading the current affairs of the world for the month of February 2012. I hope viewes may like it and express their feelings. This is the second set of World Current Affairs, february 2012.

• The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, a painting by Francis Bacon, sells at Christie's for £21.3 million, the second most valuable work of post-war contemporary art sold at the London auction house.(15th february)
• Sony admits it increased the price of two Whitney Houston albums hours after she was found in the bathtub of her hotel room last Saturday. Fans react with outrage.(15th february)
• 358 people perish in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua. Many others are injured.(15th february)
• A United States drone attack kills five militants in the Pakistani town of Spalga in north Waziristan.(16th February)
• Two time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid dies suddenly at age 43 of an acute asthma attack.(16th February)
• Four World Trade Center's construction crane snaps while lifting a steel.(16th February)
• South Korean silicon chip maker Hynix Semiconductor claims that a US court has rejected an antitrust claim against it by Rambus Inc.(16th February)
• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called "underwear bomber", is sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to detonate a bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in the US city of Detroit, Michigan.(16th February)
• Libya celebrates the first anniversary of the start of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.(17yh february)
• Dozens are killed and wounded as fighting intensifies between the Russian forces and the local Muslim insurgents in Chechnya and Dagestan.(17yh february)
• Thieves break into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. stealing between 60 and 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic Games.(17yh february)
• The World Bank announces plans to select a new President to replace Robert Zoellick when his term expires in June.(17yh february)
• The United Kingdom and France sign a deal to improve cooperation on nuclear energy.(17yh february)
• Christian Wulff, the President of Germany, resigns over a corruption scandal.(17yh february)
• Violence breaks out in Dakar, Senegal, during an anti-government protest.(18th february)
• The Russian Army loses 17 soldiers while fighting in a day long battle with insurgents in the North Caucasus region.(18th february)
• The funeral of American entertainer Whitney Houston is held at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.(18th february)
• The Italian film Caesar Must Die wins the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.(18th february)
• Former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is summoned by French police to face questions about alleged involvement in a prostitution ring in the city of Lille.(18th february)
• A suicide bomber kills at least 19 officers and cadets and injures 26 outside an Iraqi police academy in northeastern Baghdad.(19th february)
• Australians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin by Japan during World War II.(19th february)
• A record 2.2 million people attend the Bola Preta street party during the Rio de Janeiro carnival.(19th february)
• Iran ceases oil exports to France and the United Kingdom, in a retaliatory move against European Union sanctions.(19th february)
• India's Kingfisher Airlines cancels 16 flights from Mumbai and stops operations in Kolkata over the next four days.(19th february)
• President of France Nicolas Sarkozy has the first big rally of his re-election campaign in Marseille.(19th february)
• Samsung Electronics announces plans to spin off its LCD business.(20th february)
• The price of oil reaches an eight month high following Iran banning sales to Britain and France on Sunday.(20th february)
• Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, orders an inquiry into the death of six people at a stampede at the Bhavnath Hindu temple in the Junagadh district over the weekend.(20th february)
• International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear inspectors arrive in Tehran to hold discussions about Iran's nuclear program.(20th february)
• Scientists report regenerating specimens of Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record for oldest plant sucessfully regenerated.(20th february)
• Thailand sends an extradition request to Malaysia for one of the five Iranian nationals suspected of involvement in the bombings in Bangkok earlier this month.(21st february)
• The 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music are held in O2 Arena in London with Adele, One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay among the winners.(21st february)
• Celebrations of Losar, the Tibetan Buddhist New Year, are cancelled in the People's Republic of China due to a wave of immolations.(21st february)
• The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez confirms that doctors in Cuba have found a lesion and he will have to undergo an operation.(21st february)
• Hundreds of Afghans hold violent protests against the alleged burning of Qurans at the Bagram Airbase north of Kabul.(22nd february)
• The International Atomic Energy Agency states that Iran has denied inspectors access to the Parchin military site where it believes that suspicious nuclear activities may be taking place.(22nd february)
• Kevin Rudd resigns as Foreign Minister of Australia after alleged "attacks on credibility" by supporters of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.(22nd february)
• Wikileaks suspect United States Army Private Bradley Manning is formally charged ahead of a court martial.(23rd february)
• Tens of thousands rally at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium in support of the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's candidacy for President of Russia in the upcoming election on March 4th.(23rd february)
• Representatives of more than seventy countries meet in Tunisia to discuss supporting the opposition in the Syrian uprising.(24th february)
• The Taliban attacks a Pakistani police station in Peshawar killing four officers.(24th february)
• Air Zimbabwe suspends all of its flights indefinitely.(24th february)
• Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns after a power struggle within the government.(24th february)
• Two U.S. officers are killed inside the Ministry of Interior in the Afghan capital Kabul.(25th february)
• Treasure from the Spanish Navy frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes returns to Spain after being recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007.(25th february)
• The Artist wins four awards including best film at the Independent Spirit Awards 2011 held in Santa Monica.(25th february)
• A G-20 finance ministers meeting is held in Mexico City to discuss progress in the Eurozone bailout.(25th february)
• A bribery case against former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is dismissed due to the statute of limitations having expired.(25th february)
• The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.(25th february)
• France and Germany follow the United States and United Kingdom in withdrawing civilian staff from Afghan government facilities following the killing of two senior NATO officers.(26th february)
• Chandra Bahadur Dangi is verified by Guinness World Records to be the world's shortest person ever, beating the record long held by Gul Mohammed.(26th february)
• Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation launches the The Sun on Sunday to replace the News of the World, which closed due to a phone hacking controversy.(26th february)
• Two members of the Italian Marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen will be prosecuted under Indian law. (26th february)
• Jailed U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning, U.S. political scientist Gene Sharp and news network Al Jazeera are among those known to have been nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.(27th february)
• Internet portal company Yahoo warns social network company Facebook that it believes Facebook has infringed on several Yahoo patents, between 10 and 20.(27th february)
• WikiLeaks begins disclosing 5 million e-mails from the private intelligence company Stratfor.(27th february)
• Singer Charlotte Church and her parents agree damages and costs of £600,000 (US$950,000) with Rupert Murdoch's News Group, publishers of the defunct News of the World.(27th february)
• A United States Department of Defense report finds that the partial remains of the victims of the September 11 attacks ended up at a military landfill site.(28th february)
• Millions of workers in India go on strike to demand improved rights and express anger at rising prices.(28th february)
• European Union Foreign Ministers support Serbia's candidacy to join the European Union despite opposition from Romania.(28th february)
• Two new species of prehistoric penguin are discovered - Kairuku grebneffi and Kairuku waitaki. Standing nearly 5ft tall, Kairuku grebneffi is the largest penguin ever discovered.(28th february)
• IBM claims to be on the verge of creating the world's first quantum computer.(28th february)
• James Murdoch resigns from News International to focus on running News Limited's television business with the News International phone hacking scandal as a factor in the decision.(29th february)
• North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for food aid.(29th february)
• The President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is recovering from the removal of a tumour from his pelvis in a Cuban hospital.(29th february)
• Egypt announces that a presidential election will held on May 23-24.(29th february)