Wikipedia:ITN archives/2011/April

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 * Mayotte officially became France's 101st department, as approved by 95% of the population in a 2009 referendum.
 * At least eleven people are killed in an attack by demonstrators on a UN compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.
 * Arturo Chávez resigns as Mexico's Attorney General amid the ongoing Drug War.
 * India defeat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the Cricket World Cup final.
 * Japan's Monkashō announces that it had found evidence of match fixing in the Japanese Sumo Association.
 * A series of floods that began in Southern Thailand kill at least 120 people and affect nearly two million.
 * Double suicide bombings at a Sufi shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan leave 50 people dead and 120 wounded.
 * The wreckage of Air France Flight 447 which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 is found.
 * In college basketball, The University of Connecticut Huskies defeats Butler University to win the NCAA Championship.
 * A United Nations aircraft crashes in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people onboard.
 * Bones of a new dinosaur almost as big as a Tyrannosaurus are found in eastern China.
 * The Democrats for Andorra win an absolute majority in a parliamentary election.
 * The Ozone layer experienced the highest level of depletion on record as result of cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere last winter.
 * At least 20 people are dead and over 100 missing after a boat sinks off Lampedusa, Italy.
 * Baruch Samuel Blumberg, the 1976 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner and discoverer of the first vaccine for Hepatitis B, dies at the age of 85.
 * At least 11 people are killed and 20 more injured in a shooting at a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 * The Chinese government announces that artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has been arrested.
 * Indian social activist Anna Hazare fasts until the Indian government passes stronger anti-corruption laws.
 * At least 27 people are killed in the anti-governmental protests in the Syrian city of Deraa.
 * A gunman opens fire in a shopping centre in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, killing himself and 7 others.
 * American film director Sydney Lumet dies at the age of 86.
 * In golf, South African Charl Schwartzel wins The Masters.
 * Laurent Gbagbo is arrested by Ouattara forces, concluding months of standoff.
 * Iceland rejects a plan to repay the British and Dutch governments over guarantee savings over Icesave's failure.
 * The Japan Atomic Energy Agency raises the severity of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents to level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale and equivalent to the Chernobyl disaster.
 * At least 12 people are killed in a bombing at a metro station in Minsk.
 * The French ban on face covering is implemented, making France the first European country with such a ban.
 * BRICS states meet in Sanya, China for an annual summit that features South Africa for the first time.
 * Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal are detained for 15 days following the revolution.
 * APNIC becomes the first regional Internet registry to run out of IPv4 addresses.
 * States of emergency are declared in several areas across the Southern United States after at least 26 people are killed in a large tornado outbreak.
 * Former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is sentenced to 24 years prison after being found guilty of war crimes during Operation Storm.
 * An Egyptian court orders the dissolution of the former ruling National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak (pictured) as part of overall political reform.
 * The National Coalition Party, led by Jyrki Katainen, win a plurality in the Finnish parliamentary election, while the nationalist True Finns increase their vote nearly five-fold to become the third largest party in parliament.
 * Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee.
 * President Goodluck Jonathan pictured, of Nigeria is reelected with a majority of more than ten million.
 * Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 * Syria lifts its 48-year-old state of emergency in response to anti-government protests.
 * The Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliner performs its first commercial flight.
 * Photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros are killed in the Battle of Misrata in Libya.
 * At least 50 people are reported killed in the biggest day of protests in Syria this year.
 * Indian guru and spiritual figure Sathya Sai Baba dies at the age of 84.
 * After four months of anti-government protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down within thirty days.
 * In association football, the Copa del Rey ends with Real Madrid defeating Barcelona in the final.
 * WikiLeaks and several news organizations begin publishing 779 secret documents related to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
 * Violence continues along the Cambodian–Thai border with shelling and gunfire outside the Ta Moan temple complex.
 * Former South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu dies at the age of 87.
 * Sony announces that a breach of its PlayStation Network may have resulted in a compromise of users' personal data.
 * Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sign a deal to form a unity government ahead of elections.
 * More than 200 people are killed in the Southern United States in the deadliest tornado outbreak since 1974.
 * The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton takes place in London.
 * Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan wins the 2011 World Figure Skating Men's event in Moscow, setting record scores for long and short program.