Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/March

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 * The 2010 Winter Olympics conclude in Vancouver, after victory in men's ice hockey gives host nation Canada a Winter Olympic record 14 gold medals.
 * A cyclonic storm brings flooding and winds up to 230 km/h (140 mph) across Western Europe, killing more than 50 people.
 * Heavy rains result in a landslide on Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda, destroying 85 homes and killing an estimated 100 people.
 * A series of suicide bombings in Baqubah, Iraq kills 33 people and injures at least 55 more.
 * More than sixty people are killed during a stampede at a temple in Kunda, Uttar Pradesh, India.
 * Vladislav Ardzinba, the first President of the Republic of Abkhazia, dies in Moscow at the age of 64.
 * A panel of 41 scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference confirms that the K–T extinction event, which killed off the dinosaurs, was caused by an asteroid impact.
 * Icelanders reject a referendum to pay the United Kingdom and the Netherlands €3.8 billion as compensation for the collapse of Icesave bank.
 * Hundreds of townspeople are killed in inter-religious attacks just outside Jos, Nigeria.
 * The Hurt Locker wins six Academy Awards including Best Picture and the first female Best Director, Kathryn Bigelow.
 * An earthquake in Turkey's Elâzığ Province kills more than 50 people and injures at least 50.
 * A series of storms passes through Victoria, Australia, leading to flash flooding and 5-cm (2-in) hail in Greater Melbourne.
 * Egypt's foremost Islamic cleric Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy dies at the age of 81 during a visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
 * Mykola Azarov is appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine, formally replacing Yulia Tymoshenko.
 * Carlos Slim (pictured) becomes the first Mexican to top the Forbes rich list of billionaires.
 * The Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Paralympics is held in Vancouver, Canada. A selection of 506 top athletes from 44 nations will compete in 5 sports.
 * A series of bomb attacks in Lahore, Pakistan kill at least 72 people.
 * At least 35 people are killed and over 1000 evacuated after a dam bursts in Kazakhstan.
 * As much as ninety percent of Chile's population loses power in a massive blackout.
 * Kasubi Tombs, the tombs of of Uganda's Bugandan kings and a World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.
 * The first Millennium Prize is awarded to Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture.
 * The estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music sign the biggest recording deal in history, which includes future album deals of his unreleased material.
 * Former Nepali Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala dies at the age of 85.
 * Pope Benedict XVI issues a pastoral letter to Catholics in Ireland apologizing for sexual abuse of children by clergy.
 * In rugby union, France win the 2010 Six Nations Championship with a Grand Slam.
 * The United States House of Representatives approves both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, the main health care reform measures.
 * Google redirects its .cn domain to Hong Kong servers and stops censoring its search results within the People's Republic of China.
 * American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel prize for his work on the theory of numbers.
 * Scientists identify a previously unknown type of ancient human through analysis of DNA from a finger bone unearthed in a Siberian cave.
 * Sir James W. Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel laureate, dies at the age of 85.
 * The South Korean Navy corvette ROKS Cheonan sinks after an explosion, leaving 46 crew members missing.
 * Two suicide bombings at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury kill at least 36.
 * New Moore/South Talpatti, an uninhabited island disputed between Bangladesh and India, is found to have disappeared beneath the Bay of Bengal due to the sea level rise.
 * The Ford Motor Company (CEO Alan Mulally pictured) agrees to sell Volvo Cars to China-based Geely Automobile for $1.8 billion.
 * Collisions between two 3.5 TeV proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Geneva sets the world record for the highest energy man-made particle collisions.
 * In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize.
 * Human Rights Watch says it has discovered the killings of at least 321 people by the Lord's Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.