User:Cam/In the news alternative

In the news translated out of the present tense.




 * The People of Freedom alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi (pictured) won the general election in Italy.
 * Trevor Immelman of South Africa won the 2008 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club.
 * Jacques-Édouard Alexis was ousted as Prime Minister of Haiti following riots over the price of food.
 * The Channel Island Sark abolished the last remaining feudal system in Europe.
 * The Grand National Party of President Lee Myung-bak won a majority of seats in the National Assembly of South Korea.
 * Soyuz TMA-12 was launched, carrying Yi So-yeon, the first Korean in space, for a mission to the International Space Station.
 * The Olympic torch relay was disrupted in London, Paris and San Francisco by protesters objecting to China's human rights record.