Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/January

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 * Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, the only Chernobyl-type nuclear power station in the European Union, is shut down after 22 years service.
 * The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area, the world's largest free trade area in terms of population, comes into effect.
 * At least 95 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide bombing in Lakki Marwat, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
 * Researchers announce that the origin of devil facial tumour disease (example pictured), a transmissible cancer which has caused the population of Tasmanian devils to collapse by 60% in the past decade, is Schwann cells.
 * Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen (pictured) becomes the youngest world number one in the official January 2010 FIDE rating list.
 * Burj Dubai, the tallest structure ever built, opens to the public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 * Several countries, including France, the United Kingdom and the United States, close their embassies in Yemen in response to threats by al-Qaeda.
 * A new wave of very cold weather, with temperatures dropping to −41 °C (−42 °F), affects much of Europe.
 * Turkmenistan gains a new route to export its natural gas production to Iran with the opening of the Dauletabad – Salyp Yar pipeline.
 * Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person to have survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, dies of stomach cancer aged 93.
 * The Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, is confirmed by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning to have decommissioned all of its weapons.
 * Several churches in Malaysia are attacked following a legal dispute involving a Catholic newsweekly which used the word Allah for the Christian God.
 * The Ady Gil (pictured), a trimaran used by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is abandoned following a collision with the Japanese whaling vessel MV Shōnan Maru 2.
 * One person is killed and several others are injured as the Togo national football team's bus comes under attack ahead of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
 * Social democrat Ivo Josipović is elected President of Croatia, beating Milan Bandić by 60.3% to 39.7%.
 * In world darts championships, Martin "Wolfman" Adams wins the 2010 BDO World Championship and Phil "The Power" Taylor wins the 2010 PDC World Championship.
 * Chile accepts the invitation to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and will become the first member from South America.
 * A 7.0 Mw earthquake strikes Haiti, causing the collapse of a hospital and other buildings in Port-au-Prince.
 * The first map in Chinese to show the Americas, created by Matteo Ricci in 1602 at the request of the Wanli Emperor, goes on public display.
 * The Liberal Democratic Party wins a plurality of seats in elections to the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan.
 * The longest annular solar eclipse (animated path pictured) until the year 3043 occurs over parts of Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.
 * Papua New Guinea's worst road accident kills at least 40 people after two buses collide near Lae.
 * An international investigation into the death of Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, who had left a pre-recorded message saying President of Guatemala Álvaro Colom Caballeros would be responsible for his death, determines Rosenberg staged his own murder.
 * Beach in Pourville (pictured), a painting by Impressionist artist Claude Monet stolen in September 2000, is recovered in Poland.
 * The first experimental measurement of the melting point of diamond indicates that the solid floats on the liquid.
 * Sebastián Piñera (pictured) of the center-right Alliance for Chile is elected President of Chile.
 * Communist politician Jyoti Basu, the longest serving Chief Minister of West Bengal, dies at the age of 95.
 * Japan Airlines, the national carrier of Japan, declares bankruptcy.
 * The board of directors of Cadbury plc recommends acceptance of the revised £11.5 billion offer from Kraft Foods for the equity of the company.
 * The Democratic Party caucus loses its supermajority in the United States Senate after a special election in Massachusetts.
 * A strong aftershock measuring 6.1 Mw strikes Haiti one week after an earthquake that caused widespread destruction in Port-au-Prince.
 * More than 200 people are killed during several days of rioting between Muslims and Christians in Jos, Nigeria.
 * The National Assembly of Angola passes a new constitution.
 * Irinej is chosen as the 45th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
 * Sultan Iskandar of Johor, the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) of Malaysia, dies at the age of 77.
 * Overturning two precedents, the U.S. Supreme Court rules corporations and labor unions may spend money to influence elections.
 * Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, with 85 passengers on board, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Beirut Airport, Lebanon.
 * Ali Hassan al-Majid, nicknamed Chemical Ali for his role in Saddam Hussein's gassing of Kurds, is executed in Iraq after four death sentences.
 * James Cameron's Avatar becomes the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing his 1997 Titanic.
 * The Labour Party, led by Denzil Douglas, is elected to a fourth consecutive term in government in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
 * Mahinda Rajapaksa is re-elected as the President of Sri Lanka.
 * American novelist J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, dies at the age of 91.
 * The U.S. Senate votes to give Ben Bernanke (pictured) a second term as Chair of the Federal Reserve.
 * Following the discovery of an accelerator pedal fault, Toyota announces the recall of 7.5 million vehicles worldwide.
 * In tennis, Serena Williams wins her fifth women's singles Australian Open title, beating Justine Henin in the final.