Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/November

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 * Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is elected Brazil's first female President.
 * At least 32 people are injured in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey.
 * In baseball, the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series.
 * Authorities investigate a plot to bomb planes with cargo packages intercepted in England and Dubai, en route from Yemen to the United States.
 * Islamic militants attack a Catholic church in Baghdad, killing 58 people and injuring dozens of others.
 * In the United States midterm elections, the Democratic Party retains a majority in the Senate, while the Republican Party wins a majority of seats in the House of Representatives.
 * Viktor Chernomyrdin, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia and the founder of Gazprom company, dies at age 72.
 * Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 on board.
 * Hurricane Tomas strikes several Caribbean nations, killing at least 24 people and causing damage estimated at US$544 million.
 * Flights are disrupted by repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia.
 * Over 400 people are killed by an outbreak of cholera in the Saint-Marc region of Haiti.
 * Pope Benedict XVI consecrates the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and declares it a basilica, 128 years after its construction started.
 * Gebre Gebremariam and Edna Kiplagat win the 2010 New York City Marathon, as world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement after abandoning the race through injury.
 * Michel Houellebecq wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel La Carte et le Territoire.
 * Cyclone Jal and associated flooding kill at least 117 people in India, Thailand and Malaysia.
 * Opposition parties concede defeat to the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party in Burma's first elections for 20 years, after the National League for Democracy boycotts the elections.
 * The video game Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks the 24-hour sales record, selling 5.6 million copies.
 * A truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in Karachi, destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.
 * Polish composer Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.
 * The sixteenth Asian Games commence in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
 * Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
 * In boxing, Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to become the sport's first octuple champion.
 * Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest-ever Formula One world champion, winning the 2010 Formula One season, while Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.
 * Russia defeats Brazil to win the women's volleyball world championship.
 * A fire destroys a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China, killing 42 people and injuring over 100.
 * Alpha Condé wins the Guinean presidential election, the first held since the 2008 coup d'état.
 * Prince William, second in line to the thrones of the 16 Commonwealth realms, and Kate Middleton announce their engagement to be married next year.
 * Researchers at CERN announce that they have trapped antihydrogen atoms for the first time.
 * A series of flash floods kills 136 people and disrupts more than 1.2 million others across Colombia.
 * At a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, the heads of government of the NATO member states adopt a new Strategic Concept and agree to develop a mutual missile defense system.
 * Voters in Madagascar approve a new constitution in a referendum which also sees Andry Rajoelina remain as interim president.
 * Eurozone countries agree to a bailout of the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the global financial crisis.
 * A stampede during festival celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills at least 345 people.
 * North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea.
 * 29 miners are confirmed dead after a second explosion in the Pike River Mine, New Zealand's worst mining disaster in 96 years.
 * The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins an absolute majority in the Tongan general election.
 * The Russian State Duma passes a bill officially condemning the 1940 Katyn massacre.
 * Tom DeLay, former Republican Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
 * WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables.
 * Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen dies at the age of 84.