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.^[1]
• At least eleven people are killed in an attack by demonstrators on a UN compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.^[2]
• Arturo Chávez resigns as Mexico's Attorney General amid the ongoing Drug War.^[3]
• India defeat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the Cricket World Cup final.^[4]
• Japan's Monkashō announces that it had found evidence of match fixing in the Japanese Sumo Association.^[5]
• A series of floods that began in Southern Thailand kill at least 120 people and affect nearly two million.^[6]
• Double suicide bombings at a Sufi shrine in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan leave 50 people dead and 120 wounded.^[7]
• The wreckage of Air France Flight 447 which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 is found.^[8]
• In college basketball, The University of Connecticut Huskies defeats Butler University to win the NCAA Championship.^[9]
• A United Nations aircraft crashes in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people onboard.^[10]
• Bones of a new dinosaur almost as big as a Tyrannosaurus are found in eastern China.^[11]
• The Democrats for Andorra win an absolute majority in a parliamentary election.^[12]
• The Ozone layer experienced the highest level of depletion on record as result of cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere last winter.^[13]
• At least 20 people are dead and over 100 missing after a boat sinks off Lampedusa, Italy.^[14]
• 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.^[15]
• At least 11 people are killed and 20 more injured in a shooting at a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[16]
• The Chinese government announces that artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has been arrested.^[17]
• Indian social activist Anna Hazare fasts until the Indian government passes stronger anti-corruption laws.^[18]
• At least 27 people are killed in the anti-governmental protests in the Syrian city of Deraa.^[19]
• A gunman opens fire in a shopping centre in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, killing himself and 7 others.^[20]
• American film director Sydney Lumet dies at the age of 86.^[21]
• In golf, South African Charl Schwartzel wins The Masters.^[22]
• Laurent Gbagbo is arrested by Ouattara forces, concluding months of standoff.^[23]
• Iceland rejects a plan to repay the British and Dutch governments over guarantee savings over Icesave's failure.^[24]
• 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.^[25]
• At least 12 people are killed in a bombing at a metro station in Minsk.^[26]
• The French ban on face covering is implemented, making France the first European country with such a ban.^[27]
• BRICS states meet in Sanya, China for an annual summit that features South Africa for the first time.^[28]
• Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal are detained for 15 days following the revolution.^[29]
• APNIC becomes the first regional Internet registry to run out of IPv4 addresses.^[30]
• 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.^[31]
• Former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is sentenced to 24 years prison after being found guilty of war crimes during Operation Storm.^[32]
• An Egyptian court orders the dissolution of the former ruling National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak (pictured) as part of overall political reform.^[33]
• 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.^[34]
• Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee.^[35]
• President Goodluck Jonathan pictured, of Nigeria is reelected with a majority of more than ten million.^[36]
• Jennifer Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.^[37]
• Syria lifts its 48-year-old state of emergency in response to anti-government protests.^[38]
• The Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliner performs its first commercial flight.^[39]
• Photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros are killed in the Battle of Misrata in Libya.^[40]
• At least 50 people are reported killed in the biggest day of protests in Syria this year.^[41]
• Indian guru and spiritual figure Sathya Sai Baba dies at the age of 84.^[42]
• After four months of anti-government protests, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down within thirty days.^[43]
• In association football, the Copa del Rey ends with Real Madrid defeating Barcelona in the final.^[44]
• WikiLeaks and several news organizations begin publishing 779 secret documents related to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.^[45]
• Violence continues along the Cambodian–Thai border with shelling and gunfire outside the Ta Moan temple complex.^[46]
• Former South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu dies at the age of 87.^[47]
• Sony announces that a breach of its PlayStation Network may have resulted in a compromise of users' personal data.^[48]
• Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah sign a deal to form a unity government ahead of elections.^[49]
• More than 200 people are killed in the Southern United States in the deadliest tornado outbreak since 1974.^[50]
• The wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton takes place in London.^[51]
• Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan wins the 2011 World Figure Skating Men's event in Moscow, setting record scores for long and short program.^[52]