BAFTA Awards 2012

The BAFTAs are Britain’s top movie honours and the most prestigious industry awards outside of the United States. Following is a list of winners of the main awards in 2012.

Catagory	Winner
Best Film	The Artist
Outstanding British Film:	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Director	Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist"
Leading Actor	Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Leading Actress	Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Supporting Actor	Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Supporting Actress	Octavia Spencer in “The Help”
Outstanding British Debut	“Tyrannosaur”
Film Not In The English Language	The Skin I Live In
Original Screenplay	Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist"
Adapted Screenplay	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Documentary	Senna
Animated Film	Rango

Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-2011

Sahitya Akademi announced its first annual Yuva Puraskar in 16 languages February13,2012 ; the rest of the languages will be declared at a later date except Dogri and Sindhi. Six books of poetry,one of novel, five of short stories, one of biography, one of essay and two of plays have won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva uraskar.

Language	Title and Genre	Author
Assamese	ANUSILON (ESSAYS)	ARINDAM BORKATAKI
Bengali	DANAOWLA MANUS (SHORT STORIES)	BINOD GHOSHAL
English	MY NAME IS GAUHAR JAAN! - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MUSICIAN (BIOGRAPHY)	VIKRAM SAMPATH
Gujarati	ANTIM YUDDHA (PLAY)	DHWANIL PAREKH
Hindi	KAHTE HAIN TAB SHANSHAAH SO RAHE THE (POETRY)	UMA SHANKAR CHOUDHARY
Kannada	NELADA KARUNEYA DANI (POETRY)	VEERANNA MADIWALARA
Kashmiri	PATTE LEJI ZOON DARAS(POETRY)	NISAR AZAM
Konkani	NIRNAY (SHORT STORIES)	JOFA GONSALVES
Maithili	HATHAT PARIVARTAN (PLAY)	ANAND KUMAR JHA
Malayalam	MARANA VIDYALAYAM (SHORT STORIES)	SUSMESH CHANDROTH
Marathi	BHUISHASTRA (POETRY)	AISHWARYA PATEKAR
Odia	GAAN (POETRY)	GAYATRIBALA PANDA
Punjabi	AMRIT VELA (POETRY)	PARAMVEER SINGH
Rajasthani	PEER (SHORT STORIES)	DULA RAM SAHARAN
Tamil	SEVALKATTU (NOVEL)	M. THAVASI
Telugu	MOLOKALAPUNNAMI (SHORT STORIES)	VEMPALLI GANGADHAR

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)

World Current Affairs, February 2012 (Part - 1)

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 first set of World Current Affairs, february 2012.

• The London Times reports that a secret NATO report claims that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to regain control over Afghanistan after international forces withdraw from the country.(1st February)
• Pakistan Air Force jets bomb militant positions in the Orakzai and Kurram Agency areas near the border with Afghanistan with claims that 31 alleged insurgents were killed.(1st February)
• American television host and producer Don Cornelius, creator of Soul Train is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.(1st February)
• The social network Facebook files for an initial public offering.(1st February)
• At least 73 people are killed as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.(1st February)
• The Zimbabwe Football Association suspends 80 players including members of the Zimbabwe national football team on suspicion of participation in match-fixing.(1st February)
• The Mexican Army sends 4,000 soldiers to Michoacán state as a result of recent violence.(2nd February)
• The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 350 people on board. Nearby commercial ships rescue 238 people from the sea.(2nd February)
• More than 110 people are killed across Europe as a result of a recent cold snap.(2nd February)
• The People's Republic of China asks for assistance from South Sudan to obtain the release of 29 Chinese workers held captive in Sudan for five days.(2nd February)
• The Supreme Court of India cancels 122 telecom licences granted in the 2008 sale at the centre of a corruption scandal involving former minister A. Raja.(2nd February)
• Egyptian comedian Adel Imam is sentenced to three months in prison for insulting Islam.(2nd February)
• Prince William arrives in the Falkland Islands for a tour of duty as a Royal Air Force search and rescue pilot. His deployment comes at a time of high tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the sovereignty of the islands.(2nd February)
• Seven Pakistan Army soldiers are killed and three others wounded following a Taliban attack in the Kurram Agency.(3rd february)
• Hungarian airline Malév ceases operation as its aircraft are grounded due to unpaid debts.(3rd february)
• At least three people die and 50 are injured after a passenger train derails in the Kamrup district in India's Assam state.(3rd february)
• Thousands of Australians are evacuated in northern New South Wales and Queensland due to rising floodwaters with parts of Queensland declared as a disaster area.(3rd february)
• The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia increases the sentence of Kang Kek Iew, or Duch, to life for running the Tuol Sleng prison camp under the Khmer Rouge.(3rd february)
• Major General Michael Linnington orders a court martial for US Private Bradley Manning responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks.(3rd february)
• The Football Association removes John Terry as captain of the England national football team over allegations of racial abuse of Anton Ferdinand during a match.(3rd february)
• The United Nations Security Council votes on an Arab League proposal to resolve problems in Syria with reports of hundreds of people dead in the past couple of days as a result of shelling in Homs - the People's Republic of China and Russia veto the resolution.(4th february)
• The Arab Parliament calls for Arab countries to sever relations with Syria.(4th february)
• Iran starts new military exercises as tensions rise over its nuclear program.(4th february)
• Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies at the age of 110 in the United Kingdom.(4th february)
• Over 100,000 people protest for and against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow.(4th february)
• An explosion hits the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the North Sinai Governorate west of Arish.(5th february)
• More than 250 people have died of the cold weather in Europe, with Russia forced to reduce supplies of natural gas.(5th february)
• A Libyan starts court proceedings against 41 people accused of helping Muammar Gaddafi to attempt to suppress the opposition in the Libyan civil war.(5th february)
• Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah resigns as the Prime Minister of Kuwait following a strong performance by the Opposition in a recent parliamentary election.(5th february)
• In darts, England win the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts defeating Australia 4-3 in the final.(5th february)
• Hacker group Anonymous publishes hundreds of emails from President Bashar al-Assad's office.(6th february)
• The United States closes its embassy in Damascus, while the United Kingdom recalls its ambassador.(6th february)
• Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies, a pioneer of abstract art, dies in Barcelona at the age of 88.(6th february)
• The government of Greece fails to reach agreement over the terms of a new bailout from the European Union, but retracts the deadline they had given themselves to do so, 30 minutes before the deadline would have passed.(6th february)
• A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 13 deaths and 29 people missing with houses buried in a landslide in Guihulngan.(6th february)
• Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her becoming the monarch of the United Kingdom and seven other sovereign states in the Commonwealth of Nations with events to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee set for later in the year.(6th february)
• Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc and his entire cabinet resign after major social and political unrest in the country.(6th february)
• Maldives National Defence Force soldiers fire rubber bullets at police officers demonstrating in the capital Malé who are defying an order by President Mohamed Nasheed to crack down on protests.(7th february)
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, states that Argentina will lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly about the alleged "militarisation" of the area around the Falkland Islands by the United Kingdom.(7th february)
• An anti-gay bill is reintroduced in the Ugandan parliament after it was previously withdrawn.(7th february)
• Pakistani officials claim that US drone missiles have killed ten people in Spalga village in North Waziristan.(8th february)
• Air France cancels long-haul flights due to a strike by staff.(8th february)
• Airbus announces that it will inspect the wings of all Airbus 380 aircraft for cracks.(8th february)
• The New Zealand Royal Commission on the Pike River Mine disaster hears that a collapse in the coal extraction area was the most likely cause of the fatal blast in the mine on November 19, 2010 that claimed 29 lives.(8th february)
• The death toll throughout Europe rises to over 400 with the Danube River freezing over for 170 km.(8th february)
• Three Bharatiya Janata Party Ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka – Laxman Savadi, C C Patil and J. Krishna Palemar – are forced to resign after footage is shown of them watching a pornographic video in the Legislative Assembly.(8th february)
• Fabio Capello resigns as the manager of England over continuing clashes with The Football Association (FA) following the sacking of John Terry as team captain, with Terry facing charges of racist abuse.(8th february)
• The United States Department of Defense issues new guidelines removing restrictions on use of women in combat.(9th february)
• Eastman Kodak Co. announces that it will no longer make digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in an effort to save money during bankruptcy.(9th february)
• Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes on an official visit to China, meeting with President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and Vice-Premier Li Keqiang. The two countries sign trade deals worth over $3 billion.(9th february)
• Analyst Roland S. Martin is suspended from CNN over numerous offensive comments he made about gay men on Twitter during the broadcast of Super Bowl XLVI.(9th february)
• Egypt's military rulers warn of conspiracies that seek to topple the state and spread chaos one day before the one-year anniversary of the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.(10th february)
• A new book of poetry by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins is negatively reviewed by leading critic Professor Kevin Kiely, who says the President "can be accused of crimes against literature".(10th february)
• The Guard wins The Guardian's annual First Film award.(10th february)
• The death toll of a boat sunk with more than 70 people from Samaná, Dominican Republic, trying to illegally enter Puerto Rico, reaches 47.(10th february)
• A group of South Korean lawmakers make a rare visit to North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Region.(10th february)
• Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledges greater freedoms in Tibet, hours after two protesters are killed demanding the end of Chinese rule in the region; seven officials are also sacked for "neglecting state duties".(10th february)
• A Saudi blogger is detained by Malaysian police after fleeing Saudi Arabia for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.(10th february)
• Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab says two Americans have been detained by Bahraini security forces and US Embassy is looking into the reports.(11th february)
• Activists in Egypt mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak in the 2011 Egyptian revolution with a strike and a day of civil disobedience.(11th february)
• American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the age of 48 at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.(11th february)
• Thousands of people march in Japan against the resumption of nuclear reactors that were closed after the Fukushima disaster last year.(11th february)
• The Arab League meets in Cairo to discuss sending a joint mission to Syria with the United Nations.(12th february)
• The historic Attikon cinema in Athens is set on fire following demonstrations over the latest round of economic austerity measures proposed by the government.(12th february)
• The 54th Grammy Awards for music are held at the Staples Center in the U.S. city of Los Angeles, with some of the show being re-worked to commemorate the late Whitney Houston.(12th february)
• The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Awards is held in London with The Artist winning the Award for best film.(12th february)
• A senior aide to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, is killed, and the Finance Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon is injured in a plane crash near the town of Bukavu.(12th february)
• A teenage Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Choedon dies after setting herself on fire in protest against Chinese rule of Tibet in Sichuan province.(12th february)
• In football, the final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations played at Libreville, Gabon, between Zambia and Ivory Coast, with Zambia winning 8-7 on penalties in a shock result.(12th february)
• An explosion tears through an Israeli diplomat's car in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India; one woman is injured.(13th february)
• Explosives are found near the Israeli Embassy building in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi; the device is neutralized safely.(13th february)
• Beverly Hills police confirm Whitney Houston was underwater and unconscious when found in a bath in her Los Angeles hotel room last Saturday.(13th february)
• Barack Obama, the President of the United States, presents 16 people with the National Medal of Arts at the White House including actor Al Pacino, country music singer Mel Tillis and former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove.(13th february)
• The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group announces plans to cut 1000 jobs in Australia.(13th february)
• The European Union and United States approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola.(13th february)
• The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani appears before the Supreme Court of Pakistan to face contempt of court charges.(13th february)
• The president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, wins a new five-year term with 97% of the vote, according to election officials.(13th february)
• The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by the cruiser Cape St. George and the destroyer Sterett, sails through the Strait of Hormuz, close to the coast of Iran, for the second time in recent weeks.(14th february)
• A new statue of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is unveiled in the capital Pyongyang.(14th february)
• China issues new regulations on foreign television programmes being aired in the country - banning all imported programmes during prime time.(14th february)
• The World Bank announces that its President, Robert Zoellick, is stepping down when his term ends in June.(14th february)
• FIFA warns the Argentine Football Association (AFA) against renaming their top league after the ARA General Belgrano cruiser on which hundreds of people were killed after it was sunk by a British nuclear submarine in 1982. FIFA says such a move might breach rules on mixing politics with football.(14th february)

World Current Affairs, January 2012(Part - 2)

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

• The King Center publishes online 200,000 personal papers belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr. to mark his birthday.(16th January)
• The online shoe retailer Zappos reports that up to 24 million customer accounts may have been accessed by hackers, and has warned its customers to change their passwords.(16th January)
• Syria rejects calls for Arab troops to intervene in the country's conflict.(17th January)
• Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns as chief executive officer.(17th January)
• Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon.(17th January)
• Abdollah Jassbi resigns as President of Islamic Azad University after near thirty years in position.(17th January)
• Federal prosecutors in the United States charge seven people with insider trading in shares of computer firm Dell Inc., alleging that the ring made a criminal profit of nearly $62 million.(18th January)
• The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, appears before Pakistan's Supreme Court, facing contempt proceedings that could see him barred from holding public office if found guilty.(18th January)
• A new Neptune-sized exoplanet is discovered by an amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England.(18th January)
• Kodak files for bankruptcy protection.(19th January)
• Five people are killed and thousands of others are affected following the first tropical storm to hit Mozambique since 1984.(19th January)
• News International pays out compensation to 37 people, including the actor Jude Law and politician John Prescott. over phone hacking by the News of the World.(19th January)
• The army of Bangladesh says it has foiled a military coup.(19th January)
• A decision by the International Telecommunication Union on whether to abolish the leap second is postponed until 2015 pending the results of further studies.(19th January)
• Several people are killed in a series of bomb explosions in the city of Kano, Nigeria.(20th January)
• The United Nations says 120,000 people in South Sudan required aid amid tribal fighting.(20th January)
• An Indonesian man is charged with blasphemy after saying that God does not exist on his Facebook page.(20th January)
• China warns Iran against developing nuclear weapons.(20th January)
• Around 2,000 women in Malawi stage a protest against attacks on women wearing trousers, who were stripped in the streets by unemployed youths and street vendors.(20th January)
• Leading international virologists agree to temporarily halt work on a more virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, due to fears that an airborne strain of the lethal virus could be used by bioterrorists.(21st January)
• Egyptian police shoot two African migrants dead as they attempt to cross the border into Israel.(22nd January)
• Sri Lanka orders 161 foreign clerics from the Tablighi Jamaat movement to leave the country for breaking the terms of their tourist visas.(22nd January)
• At least 16 people drown after a passenger boat sinks off Iran's southern coast.(22nd January)
• Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announces that he is to leave for treatment in the United States.(22nd January)
• End and Closing ceremony of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, showing Germany receiving the most medals at the Medal table, followed by China and Austria.(22nd January)
• A group of Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the green flag after a battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.(23rd January)
• The European Union imposes more sanctions on Iran's banking and oil industries in response to Iran's nuclear program.(23rd January)
• The French Senate passes a bill that makes it illegal for citizens to deny the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.(23rd January)
• Andrew Miller's novel Pure wins the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award.(24th January)
• Apple Inc. announces that the technology generated over $127 billion in revenue during 2011. Apple sold over 37 million iPhones and over 15 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2011.(24th January)
• United States President Barack Obama presents his 2012 State of the Union Address to the United States Congress.(24th January)
• A Tibetan monk is shot dead in Sichuan, China, in the second violent clash this week as unrest spreads.(25th January)
• A United States rescue operation in Somalia frees two foreign hostages and kills nine pirates.(25th January)
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran is willing to talk about Iran's nuclear program with other leaders.(25th January)
• Illumina a U.S. based gene sequencing company, adopts a poison pill strategy to defend its independence against a hostile bid by Roche Holding.(26th January)
• Three people are killed and 16 missing after three office buildings collapse in Cinelândia square in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(26th January)
• Chinese security forces shoot dead a young Tibetan man in Sichuan province, at least the third such killing this week.(27th January)
• 13 people are killed in three separate clashes between the Russian forces and Islamist militants in the Russian republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkariya.(27th January)
• The Economic Commission for Africa says Africa's economy faces "serious" threats because of the Eurozone crisis and the Arab Spring.(27th January)
• Two sacks of cocaine are accidentally delivered to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.(27th January)
• Russia's Central Election Commission refuses to register opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko party, citing invalid signatures.(27th January)
• A media advisor to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard resigns after leaked information that led to a confrontation between Australian Aborigines and Gillard yesterday.(27th January)
• Twitter alters technology to enable country-specific censorship of messages.(27th January)
• Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu calls on the Church of England not to permit same-sex marriage.(28th January)
• The African Union opens its new headquarters in Addis Ababa.(28th January)
• Eight sea lions are found shot dead in the U.S. state of Washington.(28th January)
• Israeli police enter the Red Cross compound and arrest two more Palestinian MPs associated with Hamas.(28th January)
• A poll finds most voters in Ireland want to see any new European Treaty put to a referendum, though the government remains undecided.(28th January)
• Approximately 300 people are arrested in the US city of Oakland, California during Occupy Oakland protests.(28th January)
• The 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards is held in the US city of Los Angeles with Jean Dujardin winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his role in The Artist.(29th January)
• Cyclone Iggy kills 14 people and injures 60 over a four day period in Indonesia.(29th January)
• Greece rejects outright German proposals for direct European Union control of the country's financial affairs, expressing opposition to further outside interference.(29th January)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors begin a three-day visit to Iran.(29th January)
• At least three people are killed and 100 injured in clashes between Bangladeshi police and members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party protesting against the government.(29th January)
• The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy outlines an economic reform package increasing taxes and proposing a new tax on financial transactions.(29th January)
• Tibetan advocacy groups claim that as many as seven ethnic Tibetans have been killed and 60 wounded in the past week in protests in China's Sichuan province bordering Tibet.(30th January)
• Sudanese officials claim that the army has freed 14 of 29 Chinese workers held by rebels in the South Kordofan region since last Saturday.(30th Janauary)
• A US drone airstrike kills 15 members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in the Yemeni town of Lawdar in the Abyan Governorate.(30th Janauary)
• The death toll from a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, reaches 112.(30th Janauary)
• The People's Republic of China claims that 29 Chinese citizens abducted while working on a construction project in the Sudan are still missing.(31st January)
• An Afghan woman was killed by her husband and mother-in-law 3 months after giving birth to her third daughter after not producing a son.(31st January)
• Former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Fred Goodwin loses his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II as a result of the near collapse of the bank in 2008.(31st January)
• A search continues off Turkey's Black Sea coast for eight missing crew members of the Cambodia-flagged freighter the Vera.(31st January)
• The International Atomic Energy Agency gives its approval to nuclear reactor safety checks made by Japan.(31st January)
• China tightens control of monasteries and on main roads in Tibet following deadly protests in the region.(31st January)
• The Cabinet of Japan approves a bill to put a 40-year cap on the life of nuclear reactors following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.(31st January)
• In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's Singles championship of the 2012 Australian Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5.
• In the Netherlands, the Council of Ministers vote in favor of a ban on the Burqa, an outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions.

World Current Affairs, January 2012(Part - 1)

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• Syrian opposition groups say that over 5,800 people were killed in violence in 2011.(1st January)
• Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in parts of the country hit by violence by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.(1st January)
• Queen Elizabeth II appoints former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and British painter David Hockney to the Order of Merit.(1st January)
• Rio Tinto Alcan locks out hundreds of workers from a smelter in the Canadian town of Alma, Quebec.(1st January)
• The Iranian Navy test-fires a surface-to-air missile.(1st January)
• The second of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft is in orbit around the moon.(1st January)
• In football, the Swaziland national football team withdraws from the qualifying rounds of the Africa Cup of Nations due to financial constraints.(1st January)
• Hundreds of Muslim villagers clash with riot police in the Ningxia region of China after a mosque is demolished by local authorities.(2nd January)
• Iran states that it has successfully test-fired two long-range missiles, a Qader and a Noor, during military exercises in the Persian Gulf.(2nd January)
• Iranian news agencies report that the country has produced its first nuclear fuel rod.(2nd January)
• The military government of Fiji announces that it is to lift martial law and other emergency regulations.(2nd January)
• President of China Hu Jintao warns of attempts to "westernise" the country by "hostile powers".(2nd January)
• Germany's unemployment rate reportedly reaches its lowest level since 1991.(3rd January)
• Negotiators from Israel and the Palestinian Authority meet in the Jordanian capital, Amman, for the first time in 16 months.(3rd January)
• Iran warns the United States not to send any more aircraft carriers into the Persian Gulf.(3rd January)
• South Korea lifts a temporary ban that it placed on travel to North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il.(3rd January)
• Libya appoints Yousef al-Manqoush as the new head of its armed forces.(3rd January)
• Two bombs explode in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri with the Boko Haram movement believed to be responsible.(4th January)
• The China Air Transport Association advises that Chinese airlines will not pay the carbon costs under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme.(4th January)
• The military-backed civilian government of Burma (Myanmar) marks the anniversary of the country's independence by commuting prison sentences and releasing more than thirty prisoners.(4th January)
• The President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner temporarily hands over power to her Vice-President Amado Boudou ahead of surgery for thyroid cancer.(4th January)
• Former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou announces that he will resign as head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.(4th January)
• Armed commandos will be ordered to protect endangered tigers in India's Bandipur and Nagarhole national parks.(4th January)
• Qatar's prime minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani says the Arab League monitors have made "mistakes" in Syria.(5th January)
• A series of explosions occur in mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad and in the city of Nasiriyah, with at least 73 killed and 149 wounded.(5th January)
• The Pakistan Taliban claims to have killed 15 security force members it kidnapped last month.(5th January)
• An alleged North Korean spy is indicted in South Korea.(5th January)
• The President of the United States Barack Obama announces a new defense strategy, cutting spending dramatically.(5th January)
• Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in for the second time as the Prime Minister of Jamaica.(5th January)
• The Ramnit worm steals more than 45000 Facebook logins and passwords.(6th January)
• A Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Sichuan, China.(6th January)
• The Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announces that the country is to become a republic, with plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and the Jamaican monarchy in general.(6th January)
• Peter MacKay, Canadian Minister of Defence. marries Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian former beauty queen, in a private ceremony in Mexico.(6th January)
• Iran praises the United States Navy after American sailors rescued Iranian fishermen from armed pirates in the Arabian Sea.(7th January)
• Several of Bosnia's leading cultural institutions are due to close following funding disputes. The affected institutions include the National Library, the National Museum, the Historical Museum and the National Gallery.(7th January)
• Piracy in Somalia: Georgia announces 15 Georgian sailors held hostage by pirates for over a year are released through the government's efforts.(8th January)
• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on the first stop of Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour.(9th January)
• A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 29 people and leaves over 50 others injured.(10th January)
• The Scottish Government announces that it plans to hold the referendum on Scottish independence in the autumn of 2014, but Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore tells the House of Commons that the power to hold a referendum is "reserved" to Westminster.(10th January)
• The United States denies any involvement in a bomb blast that killed an Iranian scientist.(11th January)
• The Burmese government signs a ceasefire with Karen rebels.(12th January)
• The Supreme Court of Israel upholds a law banning Palestinians who marry Israelis from gaining Israeli citizenship.(12th January)
• The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each.(13th January)
• Lions Gate Entertainment, the largest independent studio in the United States, purchases Summit Entertainment for US$412.5 million.(13th January)
• Reforms in Burma: Burma announces a mass pardon for political prisoners, including student leader Min Ko Naing.(13th January)
• The cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground at the Isola del Giglio in the Mediterranean Sea with 11 deaths and 14 other casualties confirmed.(13th January)
• A suicide bomber kills at least 53 people and injures more than 130 in the Iraqi city of Basra.(14th January)
• A bomb detonates near a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani town of Khanpur, killing at least 18 people and wounding 30.(15th January)
• The Russian tanker Renda, accompanied by the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy, prepares to deliver fuel to Nome, Alaska. A fall storm had blocked an earlier fuel delivery, leaving the city facing fuel shortages.(15th January)
• Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed.(15th January)

World Current Affairs, December 2011(Part-2)

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This is the second set of World Current Affairs, December 2011.

• Syrian troops reportedly open fire on anti-government protesters following Friday prayers.(16th December)
• Human Rights Watch calls on Bahrain to release political prisoners from the 2011 Bahraini uprising.(16th December)
• Russia joins the World Trade Organization.(16th December)
• Moody's Investors Service downgrades Belgium's credit rating two notches to Aa3.(16th December)
• Japan declares the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in cold shutdown.(16th December)
• The death toll from an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam reaches 156 with 96,000 people having been sick with the disease as at the end of November 2011.(16th December)
• The United States and North Korea are expected to hold diplomatic talks regarding North Korea's nuclear program. The talks are the first meeting after the six-party talks stalled in 2008.(16th December)
• Russian customs seize radioactive material bound for Iran.(16th December)
• Hollywood actor Christian Bale is prevented from visiting Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng by police.(16th December)
• Thailand reissues a passport for Thaksin Shinawatra, saying he is no longer a "threat".(16th December)
• Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi kill at least 400 people in the Philippines with hundreds more missing.(17th December)
• A boat carrying 380 asylum seekers en route from Indonesia to Australia sinks off the coast of Java with hundreds of people missing.(17th December)
• The Arab League threatens to take Syria to the United Nations within two weeks if the country does not accept its proposals to end the crackdown on the uprising. (Xinhua)Clashes continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a third day between the Egyptian Army and protesters.(18th December)
• Nine people die following an explosion in a coal mine in Binzhou City in China's Hunan Province.(18th December)
• The Philippines Red Cross estimates that the death toll from the floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi has risen to 521.(18th December)
• Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia and President of the Czech Republic, dies.(18th December)
• Spain's FC Barcelona win the final of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup, beating Brazil's Santos 4-0 in Yokohama, Japan. Barcelona win the Cup for the second time in three years.(18th December)
• Syria agrees to an Arab League plan to allow monitors into the country amid the uprising.(19th December)
• Samsung Electronics announces it has filed new claims of patent infringement against Apple in Germany, raising the stakes in an ongoing worldwide patent war.(19th December)
• The death of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il on December 17 is announced by Korean Central Television.(19th December)
• Kim Jong-un is proclaimed the expected successor to his father.(19th December)
• Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returns to Pakistan after undergoing treatment in Dubai.(19th December)
• Diplomats from the European Union, Non-aligned Movement and the Arab States Group on the UN Security Council criticise Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.(20th December)
• Joseph Kabila is sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the presidency being contested by opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.(20th December)
• Two Earth-sized planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20d, are found orbiting a star 950 light-years away from Earth.(20th December)
• Health authorities in Hong Kong start slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu H5N1 is found at a poultry market.(21st December)
• North Korea closes its border with China ahead of the funeral of former leader Kim Jong-il.(21st December)
• Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay agree to close their ports to ships flying the flag of the Falkland Islands at a Mercosur meeting; Argentina and the United Kingdom both claim the islands.(21st December)
• Soyuz TMA-03M, launched from Baikonur, carries a crew of three men to the International Space Station.(21st December)
• At least 72 people are killed and 169 wounded in a series of 16 bombing attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, shortly after the final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. (22nd December)
• The United States admits it was significantly responsible for an airstrike last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.(22nd December)
• Human Rights Watch alleges that security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been responsible for the deaths of 24 people since the re-election of Joseph Kabila as President.(22nd December)
• Egypt's military-appointed Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri calls for national dialogue after weeks of deadly protests against the military regime.(22nd December)
• Police in Brazil seek to press charges for environmental crimes committed by the United States oil company Chevron and drilling firm Transocean in relation to last month's Campos Basin oil spill.(22nd December)
• Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposes political reforms at his final state-of-the-nation address.(22nd December)
• The Large Hadron Collider makes its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009, the boson Chib 3P.(22nd December)
• North Korea says it will accept all South Korean delegations wishing to pay respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il.(23rd December)
• World leaders attend the funeral of former Czech President and dissident Václav Havel.(23rd December)
• Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi registers her National League for Democracy party, and visits Burma's parliament for the first time.(23rd December)
• Gun battles in Nigeria between government troops and Islamist Boko Haram militants kill 68 people.(24th December)
• The Buddha Memorial Center of Fo Guang Shan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, housing a tooth relic of Gautama Buddha, is consecrated.(24th December)
• Dutch actor and singer Johannes Heesters, the world's oldest performer, dies at the age of 108.(24th December)
• A former official of the central bank of the People's Republic of China states that the People's Bank of China could lower the country's reserve requirements in 2012.(24th December)
• Cuba announces that it will release 2,900 prisoners – including some political prisoners – in the next few days.(24th December)
• Libya celebrates its independence for the first time in 42 years; independence celebrations were banned under the regime of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.(24th December)
• At least 39 people are killed and many injured in a series of attacks against churches in Nigeria during Christmas prayers. The Islamic group Boko Haram claims responsibility.(25th December)
• Pope Benedict XVI delivers the annual Christmas message at Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City.(25th December)
• At least 38 migrants from Haiti are found dead after their boat sank off the east coast of Cuba.(25th December)
• Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former President of Iran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stands trial on charges of making anti-regime propaganda.(25th December)
• Brazil surpasses the United Kingdom to become the world's sixth-largest economy.(26th December)
• The government of China sentences activist Chen Xi to ten years imprisonment for "inciting subversion".(26th December)
• Helen Frankenthaler, who developed Color Field painting, dies at age 83.(27th December)
• Over $30 billion was spent on holiday online shopping in the United States, a 15% increase from last year, according to comScore.(27th December)
• The government of Argentina announces that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has cancer in her thyroid gland, and will have an operation on 4 January and step aside as president for 20 days until 24 January.(27th December)
• The Washington-based organisation Human Rights Watch accuses Syria of hiding hundreds of political detainees during a visit by Arab League monitors.(28th December)
• A Russian court rejects an attempt to ban Bhagavad Gita As It Is, a Russian translation of the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita.(28th December)
• Stones reportedly fall from the Colisseum, one of Rome's most famous landmarks.(28th December)
• The Silence of the Lambs, a 1991 thriller film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is to be preserved by the United States Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry.(28th December)
• 31 people are injured following the crash-landing of a passenger jet at Osh Airport in southern Kyrgyzstan.(28th December)
• Four people are killed and 1,000 others flee their homes amid lahars from the Mount Gamalama volcano in Indonesia.(28th December)
• Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz if more sanctions are imposed on it by Western nations.(28th December)
• In China, 54 government officials and the Ministry of Railways are punished over a fatal high-speed rail crash in July.(28th December)
• An Egyptian court bans forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons.(28th December)
• The corruption trial of the former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, resumes in Cairo.(28th December)
• North Korea begins two days of funeral services for former leader Kim Jong-Il, who died on December 17 of a heart attack, aged 69.(28th December)
• China's Compass satellite navigation system, a rival to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), becomes operational, offering navigation services on the Chinese mainland. The system is expected to become available worldwide by 2020.(28th December)
• Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes aimed at Kurdish militants, accidentally killing 35 smugglers that were suspected as guerillas.(29th December)
• The United States sells 84 F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.(29th December)
• Mount Cleveland, a volcano in the U.S. state of Alaska, erupts, causing an air traffic alert to be issued.(29th December)
• A Russian nuclear submarine, the K-84 Ekaterinburg, is forced to partially submerge itself at a shipyard in Murmansk to douse a blaze on its hull. No radiation leaks are reported.(29th December)
• The Pacific Island nations of Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line in order to align their time zone better with their main trading partners, meaning that they will not mark December 30 this year.(29th December)
• Kim Jong-un is acknowledged as the Supreme Leader of North Korea at the conclusion of a state funeral for his father.(29th December)
• Around 500 people protest in the Russian capital Moscow against the detention of opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov.(29th December)
• Poland announces an amnesty for illegal immigrants from January 1, 2012.(29th December)
• The stock for McDonald's rose 31 percent in 2011, the largest gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while Bank of America fell 59 percent, the largest loss in the Dow Jones.(30th December)
• Cyclone Thane makes landfall near the southern Union Territory of Pondicherry on India's southern coast.(30th December)
• North Korea says that "foolish politicians around the world" should not expect any change in the country's policies.(30th December)
• Tens of thousands of Yemenis protest against an immunity deal for former President Ali Abdullah Saleh demanding he face trial for deaths in the 2011 Yemeni uprising.(30th December)
• The party of Democratic Republic of the Congo politician Étienne Tshisekedi says he has been placed under house arrest in Kinshasa since he claimed to have won the presidential election earlier this year.(30th December)
• Ethiopian forces capture the central Somali town of Beledweyne from al-Shabaab Islamist militants.(3st December)
• The President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir urges members of the Darfur based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to seek peace following the recent death of rebel leader Ibrahim Khalil.(31st December)
• The President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the states of Borno, Yobe, Niger and Plateau due to violence by the Islamist sect Boko Haram.(3st December)
• More than 200 people are injured by illegally huge firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines.(31st December)
• The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a law providing for new sanctions against Iran.(31st December)
• United States President Barack Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act into law allowing the indefinite imprisonment of any United States citizen under suspect of terrorism without need of trial.(31st December)
• Kim Jong-un is named as the Supreme Commander of North Korea's armed forces following the death of his father Kim Jong-Il.(31st December)
• NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.(31st December)
• In motor sports, WilliamsF1 co-founder Patrick Head resigns as a director of the team after 34 years in Formula One.(31st December)

World Current Affairs, December 2011(Part-1)

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

• One person dies and 16 others are injured in three separate chain-reaction crashes involving 176 cars in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.(1st December)
• The 2010–2011 Belgian government formation draws to a close as six parties come to an agreement which will see PS leader Elio di Rupo become Prime Minister.(1st December)
• Muslim rioters attack liquor stores and massage parlours in Zakho in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq after Friday prayers. The attacks later extended to include Christian owned shops and businesses in other cities including Dohuk and Simele.(2nd December)
• United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pre-eminent pro-democracy activist, to promote democratic reforms.(2nd December)
• The United Nations Human Rights Council denounces the crimes against humanity during the 2011 Syrian uprising which killed over 4,000 people since the uprising started in March.(2nd December)
• Indian cinema actor, director and producer Dev Anand dies of a heart attack in London.(3rd December)
• At least eight children have died in the past few weeks in Ecuador's Amazon basin after being bitten by rabid bats.(3rd December)
• The governing Australian Labor Party changes its platform in support of gay marriage at its conference in Sydney, paving the way for legislation.(3rd December)
• Herman Cain announces that he will suspend his campaign for Republican nomination in the United States presidential election following a series of sexual harassment and other misconduct allegations.(3rd December)
• 45,000 citizens of Koblenz, Germany, are allowed to return home after bomb squads defused World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for almost 65 years.(4th December)
• Australia approves exports of uranium to India.(4th December)
• Transparency International releases the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, declaring North Korea and Somalia the most corrupt nations in the world, and New Zealand the least corrupt.(4th December)
• Independent exit polls suggest the governing United Russia party failed to get a majority in the Duma, amid accusations of massive voter harassment and DDoS attacks targeting blogs.(4th December)
• The President of Peru Ollanta Humala declares a state of emergency in the Cajamarca region to stop anti-mining protests.(4th December)
• Former Brazilian football captain Sócrates dies in hospital in Sao Paulo from complications of food poisoning.(4th December)
• In lawn tennis, Spain wins the 2011 Davis Cup.(4th December)
• Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, call for a new European Union Treaty to help prevent future Eurozone crises.(5th December)
• There are widespread reports that credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will put 15 nations in the Eurozone under review for a possible downgrade, including France and Germany.(5th December)
• Former Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.(5th December)
• Julian Assange is allowed a final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom against his extradition to Sweden to answer questions over sexual assault allegations.(5th December)
• Preliminary results are released from the Russian legislative election showing the ruling United Russia winning 50 percent of the vote, well down on its 2008 vote.(5th December)
• A suicide attack attacks a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul during the festival of Ashura, resulting in at least 50 people killed and hundreds injured. Hours later another attack takes place at Mazar-i-Sharif, killing at least 4.(6th December)
• The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent due to continuing global economic concern.(6th December)
• Australia announces more sanctions against Iran amidst growing concerns about its nuclear and missile programs.(6th December)
• A journalist, Luz Marina Paz, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years.(6th December)
• After 541 days of negotiations, the longest in history, the new federal government of Belgium is sworn in, with Elio di Rupo as Prime Minister, making him the first Walloon to reach this position in 38 years and the second openly gay head of government in the world.(6th December)
• Thousands of people take to the streets of Moscow in protests against the conduct and outcome of the Russian legislative election with dozens of opposition supporters being arrested as the demonstrations turn violent.(6th December)
• The Parliament of Greece approves an austerity budget.(6th December)
• The United States commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i.(7th December)
• The board of Japan's Olympus Corporation announces its plans to resign early next year due to its accounting scandal.(7th December)
• The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav is due to arrive at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape.(7th December)
• Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev says that the Russian authorities must acknowledge the recent street protests, annul the results of Sunday’s parliamentary election and hold a new poll.(7th December)
• The Russian Federal Space Agency officially gives up attempting to rescue Fobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1, and expects them to fall back to Earth in January 2012.(7th December)
• An investigation by the Associated Press and German media uncovers a secret prison suspected of having been operated by the CIA in Bucharest, Romania.(8th December)
• Hundreds of workers continue a strike in southern China for a fifth day amid a labour dispute.(8th December)
• Former CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine, testified to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that he doesn't know what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars of customers' money, supposedly in segregated accounts, that appears to be missing.(8th December)
• A storm causes damage, flooding and power cuts across the north of the British Isles, particularly Scotland with winds up to 165 mph (264 km/h).(8th December)
• Philippines officials claim that the People's Republic of China has executed a Filipino man for drug trafficking despite a plea for clemency from the President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds.(8th December)
• Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accuses the United States of sponsoring the opposition in the country, following protests over the outcome of the recent elections.(8th December)
• Iranian state television shows footage of a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drone that its forces claim to have shot down.(8th December)
• The Government of Japan apologizes to Canada over the treatment of Canadian POWs during World War II.(8th December)
• Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe calls for elections in 2012 to replace the power-sharing government in place since 2008.(8th December)
• Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.(9th December)
• Stock prices rise at stock exchanges around the world, and some analysts see this as a reaction to a fiscal agreement among the leaders of the eurozone.(9th December)
• David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December)
• David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, refuses to join a European Union financial crisis accord after negotiations in Brussels.(9th December)
• Incumbent President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila is declared the winner of the Congolese general election but lead opposition candidate Étienne Tshisekedi disputes the outcome.(9th December)
• The Pakistani Taliban confirms that it is holding peace talks with the government.(10th December)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wins the game of the year at the Spike Video Game Awards.(10th December)
• A light cargo plane crashes into an elementary school building in the Philippines city of Paranaque with 13 people dead.(10th December)
• A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Mexican state of Guerrero. It causes three deaths and is felt across several central states.(10th December)
• A day of protests begins in cities across Russia against alleged election fraud by Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party, with fifty thousand people marching in Moscow and 25 people arrested in Khabarovsk.(10th December)
• Restrictions on Russian media covering the protests are lifted.(10th December)
• At least six people are killed in clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the aftermath of disputed general elections in which Joseph Kabila was named President.(10th December)
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is sworn as President of Argentina in a second consecutive mandate.(10th December)
• Oscar Valdés is named as the new Prime Minister of Peru, after Salomón Lerner Ghitis resigned.(10th December)
• NASA clears SpaceX to launch Dragon COTS Demo Flight 2 toward the International Space Station in a window opening on February 7, 2012.(10th December)
• Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrate in Yemen calling for the trial of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.(11th December)
• North Korea warns of "unexpected consequences" if South Korea lights a Christmas tree near their mutual border.(11th December)
• The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference finishes in Durban in South Africa with an agreement to begin negotiations on a new treaty.(11th December)
• Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited home from France and the United States where he has been serving jail sentences for the past 22 years to serve more time for his role in the murder of political opponents.(11th December)
• Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders an inquiry into the disputed results of the parliamentary elections.(11th December)
• Around 1,000 people protest in Taipei, demanding that the government make a weekly day off a legal right for Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers.(11th December)
• United States President Barack Obama has asked Iran for the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar on December 4.(12th December)
• A Chinese fishing boat captain allegedly stabs a Republic of Korea Coast Guard officer, killing him, after his boat is stopped for illegally fishing in South Korean waters.(12th December)
• Canada announces that it will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, because the country would face large penalties because of treaty violations.(12th December)
• Pakistan police rescues 50 boys from a dungeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Police reports say that the dungeon was equipped with shackles and hooks.(13th December)
• At least 5,000 people are now estimated to have been killed in Syria's uprising, amid continuing violence.(13th December)
• Three Thai soldiers are killed by a land mine near the border with Cambodia.(13th December)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 becomes the fastest selling entertainment product of all time passing $1bn in sales in 16 days.(13th December)
• Iran has turned down the United States request to return a RQ-170 that was captured recently by Iranian forces after it crash landed in the country. Iranian officials report that they are extracting data from the aircraft. Iranian officials stated the drone was brought down by a cyber attack.(13th December)
• According to researchers, in two separate experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, indications of the Higgs boson may have been detected.(13th December)
• The governments of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands protest the start of Japan's whaling season off the coast of Antarctica.(14th December)
• The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and ally of Vladimir Putin, Boris Gryzlov, resigns.(14th December)
• The United States flag is lowered in Baghdad marking the end of U.S. military operations in Iraq after nearly nine years of the Iraq War.(15th December)
• The United Nations calls for the protection of LGBT rights worldwide, in its first report on the issue.(15th December)
• Former President of France Jacques Chirac is found guilty of embezzlement and violating trust due to his hiring members of his party to fill non-existent jobs while Mayor of Paris.(15th December)
• The US National Institutes of Health places a temporary moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees in response to a report that claims nearly all medical research on the animals is scientifically unjustified.(15th December)

World Current Affairs, November 2011 (Part - 2)

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This is the second set of World Current Affairs, November 2011.

• Suspected US drone missiles kill 13 militants in a compound in Pakistan's South Waziristan province.(16th November)
• Eighteen children and two adults die after an overloaded school bus collides with a coal truck in northwest China's Gansu province.(16th November)
• Tibetans demonstrate near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India, following recent self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns protesting the Chinese government's repressive policies in Tibet.(16th November)
• Two bullets are found to have been fired at the White House in Washington, DC., one into a window that was stopped by bullet-proof glass.(16th November)
• Mario Monti is sworn in as Italian prime minister and temporary finance minister, with the task of implementing austerity measures to prevent the euro area's third-biggest economy from collapsing as a result of the debt crisis.(16th November)
• The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, wins a vote of confidence in Parliament, opening the way for his government of national unity to take the steps to restore financial stability in Greece.(16th November)
• The presidents of Kenya, Somalia and Uganda meet in Nairobi to discuss coordinated military operations against the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab.(17th November)
• Swedish divers find the wreckage of the warship Svärdet, sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Öland.(17th November)
• An Idaho man, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, is charged with the attempted assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama, after two bullets are found embedded in the exterior of the White House. The President and First Lady were not present at the time of the alleged attack.(17th November)
• Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, is declared the winner of the recent Presidential election, but opponents protest the results.(17th November)
• China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth, landing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after docking twice with the Tiangong-1 orbital laboratory module.(17th November)
• Former President of the Phillipines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested over charges of electoral fraud.(18th November)
• A verdict is due in the trial of former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Sarath Fonseka, on charges of "spreading disaffection".(18th November)
• At least two people are killed and over 600 injured in violent clashes with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following mass protests against Egypt's post-revolutionary military leadership.(19th November)
• Muammar Gaddafi's fugitive son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, is captured in Libya.(19th November)
• The United States successfully tests a new hypersonic weapon system, capable of striking targets 3,700 kilometres (2,300 mi) away in under 30 minutes, as part of its Prompt Global Strike program.(19th November)
• At least 13 people are killed and as many as 900 injured as violent protests continue in Cairo's Tahrir Square against Egypt's ruling military government. Security forces attempt to disperse the crowds with tear gas and baton charges.(20th November)
• Two rocket-propelled grenades hit the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in Damascus.(20th November)
• The President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, commences a three-day state visit to the United Kingdom.(20th November)
• Syrian soldiers attack buses carrying Turkish citizens returning through Syria from a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, injuring two.(21st November)
• The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada impose further sanctions against Iran's nuclear program.(21st November)
• Scientists discover Bulbophyllum nocturnum, the first orchid known to flower at night, in New Britain off the coast of Papua New Guinea.(22nd November)
• Violent anti-regime protests enter their fifth day in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with 35 people killed and over 3,200 injured to date in clashes between protesters and security forces.(23rd November)
• The United States announces that it will stop observing the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The decision comes four years after Russia withdrew compliance from the treaty.(23rd November)
• In a warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls al-Assad's ongoing crackdown on protests cowardice, comparing al-Assad to past dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Muammar Gaddafi.(23rd November)
• The European Space Agency claims to have made contact with Russia's stranded Fobos-Grunt probe, two days after the closure of the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars.(23rd November)
• Uzbek midfielder Server Djeparov is named Asian Footballer of the Year for the second time, in a ceremony held at the Asian Football Confederation headquarters.(23rd November)
• India's government decides to relax rules concerning the operation of foreign-owned retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco within India.(24th November)
• The Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives Harry Jenkins resigns to be replaced by Opposition MP Peter Slipper.(24th November)
• 26 Pakistani soldiers are killed after a NATO helicopter opens fire on a Pakistani checkpoint, sparking outrage from the Pakistani government.(26th October)
• Colombian military forces raid a FARC rebel hideout in the province of Caquetá, freeing police sergeant Luis Alberto Erazu, who had been held hostage by FARC for 12 years. Four other hostages are killed by the rebels during the raid.(26th October)
• NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars.(26th October)
• NBA team owners and players reach an agreement to end the 149-day NBA lockout and to begin the current NBA season on Christmas Day.(26th October)
• In Canada, Chinook windstorms tear through Alberta and Saskatchewan, producing a dust storm in downtown Calgary and causing millions of dollars in damage. The windstorms fuel a grass fire that grows to two kilometres wide near Lethbridge, Alberta, before being contained, and gusts reach a maximum speed of 149 km/h (93 mph).(27th November)
• The Arab League approves sanctions against Syria amid the nation's ongoing violent uprising. The Syrian government calls the League's move "an unprecedented measure".(27th November)
• Gary Speed, the manager of the Welsh national football team, is found dead at his home in Cheshire, England.(27th November)
• Saboteurs attack Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, destroying a section of the pipeline west of al-Arish in Sinai.(28th November)
• At least 25 people are killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia groups in Yemen.(28th November)
• Fitch Ratings maintains the credit rating of the United States government at AAA, but downgrades its outlook on the government to negative. This follows rival ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating in August.(28th November)
• The government of Sudan expels Kenya's ambassador, following the Kenyan High Court's ruling that it will arrest Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, if he enters Kenya.(28th November)
• The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa.(28th November)
• The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, and his cabinet resign after protesters storm the national Parliament.(28th November)
• Ante Markovic, the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, dies in the Croatian capital Zagreb.(28th November)
• American Airlines, the world's fourth-largest airline, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.(29th November)
• Six staff members at the British embassy in Tehran are taken hostage by a group of Iranian students.(29th November)
• A new Russian anti-missile early warning facility equipped with Voronezh-DM radar opens in Kaliningrad Oblast.(29th November)
• Dr. Conrad Murray is sentenced to four years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles in connection to the death of Michael Jackson in 2009.(29th November)
• Anders Behring Breivik is declared to have been criminally insane when he committed the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people.(29th November)
• The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, is hospitalised in Bangkok with suspected food poisoning.(29th November)
• Up to two million public sector workers in the United Kingdom commence a 24-hour strike over pension reforms affecting schools, hospitals, airports, ports and government offices.(30th November)
• It is announced that former President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo has been transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.(30th November)
• United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Myanmar to urge reforms.(30th November)

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)

World Current Affairs, October 2011 (Part - 2)

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

• Google unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone.(19th October)
• Queen Elizabeth II commences her 16th visit to Australia in the capital Canberra.(19th October)
• Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril promising to release more details regarding Gaddafi's death later in the week.(20th October)
• The leading commander of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Jabari, confirms in an interview with the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners released in exchange for captured Israeli Gilad Shalit were collectively responsible for the deaths of 569 Israeli civilians.(20th October)
• NATO commander James G. Stavridis announces that NATO plans to conclude its Libyan military intervention, Operation Unified Protector, on October 31.(21th October)
• The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announces a plan to withdraw all of the remaining American military forces from Iraq by the the end of 2011.(21th October)
• The President of Cameroon Paul Biya is declared the winner of the Cameroonian presidential election held on October 6.(21th October)
• A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people.(23rd October)
• Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won re-election on 22 October 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.(23rd October)
• The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962.(25th October)
• A bomb hidden in a fuel truck kills at least 5 people and injures 45 in Afghanistan's Parwan province.(26th October)
• The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong.(26th October)
• Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva resigns following corruption allegations, but insists he is innocent.(26th October)
• 18 people are killed and at least 36 wounded by twin bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.(27th October)
• Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War 2-era bomb.(27th October)
• Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior, is named as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia following the death of Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.(27th October)
• A Wahhabi Islamist armed with hand grenades and an automatic weapon opens fire outside the United States embassy in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, resulting in two people being injured, including the gunman.(28th October)
• Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr is released from jail after her sentence for acting in the banned film My Tehran for Sale is reduced.(28th October)
• The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.(28th October)
• South Korea manufacturer Samsung supersedes Apple to become the largest maker of smartphones in the world.(28th October)
• A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualities are issued.(28th October)
• The trial of former Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader, which was due to begin in Zagreb, is postponed on health grounds.(28th October)
• Michael D. Higgins wins the Irish presidential election.(28th October)
• NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions.(28th October)
• Syrian security forces attack the city of Homs with fighter jets and tanks, killing at least 3.(29th October)
• A suicide bomber targets a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killing at least four Afghans, 13 American troops, and members of the International Security Assistance Force.(29th October)
• A United States drone attack kills six militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.(30th October)
• The interim Prime Minister of Libya Mahmoud Jibril confirms the presence of chemical weapons in Libya under the Gaddafi regime and announces that weapons inspectors would be visiting the country to help get rid of them.(30th October)
• The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth.(30th October)
• The Government of Japan intervenes to reduce the exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the United States dollar after the yen reached record highs.(31st October)
• UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member with the United States withdrawing funding in protest.(31st October)
• Abdurrahim El-Keib is named as the new interim Prime Minister of Libya by the country's National Transitional Council.(31st October)
• The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people.(31st October)