Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/April

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 * The British government establishes the UK Space Agency to manage all of the country's civil space activities.
 * Children in India are granted a legal right to a free education.
 * A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Baja California, Mexico.
 * 114 miners are rescued from a flooded mine in Shanxi, China, after being trapped for more than a week.
 * Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-131 carrying the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station.
 * Maoist rebels kill at least 72 Indian soldiers in an attack on security convoys in Dantewada district in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh.
 * Wikileaks releases a video from 2007 showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq.
 * At least 96 people die in floods and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas of Brazil.
 * Police open fire on demonstrators in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing at least twelve people.
 * The Duke Blue Devils defeat the Butler Bulldogs, 61-59, to win their fourth U.S. men's college basketball title.
 * A new species of monitor lizard, growing up to 2 meter, is discovered in Philippines.
 * British Airways and Iberia agree to a merger, creating the third largest airline in the world.
 * The discovery of a new hominid species Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an ancestor of either Homo habilis or Homo erectus, is announced.
 * United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a new arms reduction treaty to limit the number of nuclear warheads and missiles.
 * Polish President Lech Kaczyński and wife Maria die in a plane crash in Western Russia.
 * Twenty people are killed after violence breaks out between government forces and protesters in Thailand.
 * The creation of ununseptium, element with atomic number 117, is announced.
 * An explosion in a mine in West Virginia kills 29 miners.
 * The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan is passed, removing the power of the President to dissolve Parliament.
 * Phil Mickelson win his third Masters title with a score of 16 under par, besting his nearest competitor by three strokes.
 * The center-right party Fidesz led by Viktor Orban wins absolute majority in the parliamentary election in Hungary.
 * A landslide causes a train to derail in Merano, Italy, killing several people and injuring dozens.
 * At least 300 people are killed in an earthquake in Qinghai province, China.
 * Leaders of more than forty countries agree to a plan combating nuclear terrorism at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.
 * A severe storm strikes Bangladesh and eastern India, killing more than 100 people and destroying more than 50,000 homes.
 * Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland causes the closure of airspace over the British Isles and Scandinavia.
 * The GSAT-4 satellite is lost in the failure of the maiden flight of the GSLV Mk.II, India's first rocket with an indigenous cryogenic upper stage.
 * The United Kingdom holds a live, pre-election debate between the leaders of the largest political parties for the first time in the country's history.
 * President Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan.
 * A pair of bombings on a center for displaced people near Kohat, Pakistan kill more than 40 people.
 * A state funeral is held for Polish President Lech Kaczyński in Krakow, following a week of mourning in the wake of his fatal plane crash.
 * Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero is found dead from an apparent suicide at the age of 28.
 * Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins the 2010 Boston Marathon, setting a new course record.
 * The party of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa wins the general elections, securing 144 of the 225 parliamentary seats.
 * Juan Antonio Samaranch, the 7th president of the International Olympic Committee, dies at the age of 89.
 * Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agrees to extend Russia's lease on the Black Sea Fleet naval base in Sevastapol for 25 years in exchange for discounted natural gas.
 * Eleven people are missing following the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
 * A series of explosions in Bangkok kills at least one person and injures 86 others during a peak in tension between anti- and pro-government protesters in Thailand.
 * An Atlas V rocket launches a experimental military spaceplane, the X-37B, on its '''maiden flight.
 * Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani announces a new energy policy which extends the official weekend and bans neon signs to combat an energy crisis.
 * A clash in South Darfur kills 58 and raises tensions along the internal border.
 * At least 85 people are killed in more than a dozen bombings over two days in Baghdad.
 * Eighty people over three weeks die from multiple organ failure after drinking waragi in Kabale, Uganda.
 * Heinz Fischer is reelected President of Austria.
 * Tsegaye Kebede wins the men's race of the 2010 London Marathon and Liliya Shobukhova wins the women's event.
 * Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's debt to junk status, four days after the country's government requested the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout.
 * Former military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited from the United States to France.
 * Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending Leterme's government, and leading to early elections.
 * Omar al-Bashir is re-elected President of Sudan, after an election criticised by foreign observers and opposition leaders.
 * The U.S. Coast Guard initiates a controlled burn of the 4,700-mi2 (12,000-km2) oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
 * Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history, opens in Shanghai, China.