Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/January

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 * A fire at a nightclub in Bangkok, Thailand kills 61 people and injures 212.
 * Slovakia adopts the euro and becomes the 16th member of the eurozone.
 * Sri Lanka's military seizes control of the Tamil Tiger's de facto capital of Kilinochchi.
 * John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress is elected President of Ghana.
 * Following a week of Israeli air attacks against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli ground forces enter Gaza.
 * In the first running outside of Europe and Africa, the Dakar Rally begins in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 * Russian state-controlled supplier Gazprom cuts off gas deliveries to Ukraine, with several European countries reporting a fall in supplies.
 * Israeli and Hamas forces resume hostilities in Gaza after a brief respite to allow humanitarian aid to enter the area.
 * A 6.1 Mw earthquake kills 15 people and injures dozens more in Costa Rica.
 * The 66th Golden Globe Awards takes place in Beverly Hills, California, with Slumdog Millionaire winning four awards including best picture.
 * Flooding in Fiji kills 8 people and displaces 6,000.
 * Indonesian ferry MV Teratai Prima capsizes and sinks off Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing more than 200 people.
 * China surpasses Germany to become the third largest economy, based on revised 2007 GDP figures.
 * An Airbus A330, US Airways Flight 1549, flying from LaGuardia Airport, New York City to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River, following a bird strike with geese.
 * Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares a unilateral ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
 * Computer worm Conficker infects nearly 9 million Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.
 * Seven French soldiers are killed and one is reported missing following a helicopter crash off the Gabonese coast.
 * Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.
 * The President of Ireland Mary McAleese signs emergency legislation confirming the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank.
 * Three people are stabbed to death and ten more are injured after an attack at a crèche in Dendermonde, Belgium.
 * Rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is arrested by the Rwandan military on its country's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 * Japan launches the world's first greenhouse-gas-monitoring satellite Ibuki from the Tanegashima Space Center.
 * Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated in 1988 by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
 * Three people are killed and one is seriously injured following an avalanche on Buachaille Etive Mòr in the Scottish Highlands.
 * A storm across France and Spain kills 15 people with hurricane-force winds.
 * In an ongoing civil war, Sri Lankan army captures Mullaitivu, the last stronghold of Tamil Tigers.


 * The coalition government of Iceland under Prime Minister Geir Haarde (pictured) collapses amid escalating protests against its handling of the country's financial crisis.
 * The number of unique internet users in a single month reaches 1 billion for December 2008.
 * A set of human octuplets are born in Bellflower, United States.
 * The Illinois Senate votes unanimously to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office and bar him from holding future office in the state.
 * At least 68 people are killed in anti-government protests in Madagascar.
 * A massive fire at a supermarket in downtown Nairobi, Kenya kills at least 14 people.
 * A heat wave affects southeastern Australia, killing at least 22 people and blasting Adelaide and Melbourne with temperatures above 40 C.
 * After an indirect election held in Djibouti, Sharif Ahmed is elected President of Somalia.