Wikinews:2011/January

January 2

• Spanish smoking ban takes effect in bars and restaurants
• 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Araucanía, Chile; no tsunami warning

January 3

• Fifteen killed by US drone strikes in Northern Waziristan
• Obama signs healthcare bill for 9/11 emergency workers

January 4

• UK actor Peter Postlethwaite dies aged 64

January 7

• Homeless Columbus, Ohio man with 'god-given gift of voice' becomes YouTube sensation
• 'Suspicious' package closes half of Washington Dulles Airport terminal
• Ivory Coast expels British, Canadian ambassadors

January 8

• Former CIA agent indicted after leaking classified information
• US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot at Arizona supermarket

January 9

• Seventeen dead in Afghan bathhouse bombing
• BBC receives 8,400 complaints over 'EastEnders' cot death story

January 11

• 'Brakes failed': fourteen killed in Guatemala bus crash
• Moon water possibly originated from comets, data shows

January 12

• Former US Congressman Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison

January 13

• Tucson gunman appears in court for Giffords shooting
• Release of 'Verizon iPhone' set for early February
• Mayor declares weather emergency in New York City
• Burma introduces military draft
• US President Barack Obama speaks at memorial for Arizona shooting victims
• At least 443 dead after flooding in Brazil

January 14

• Persons from Punta Arenas, Chile on strike after government announcement to increase gas prices
• Fifteen flu sufferers die in Wales in one week

January 15

• State of emergency declared in Tunisia
• US Marine killed after vehicle capsizes, sinks in Oceanside Harbor, California

January 17

• Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs on medical leave

January 18

• Two children die after contracting H1N1 virus in Northern Ireland

January 19

• NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, crew member of upcoming mission, sustains injury
• Two students shot at Los Angeles school, suspect in custody

January 20

• US politician and activist Sargent Shriver dies aged 95

January 21

• Injured NASA astronaut replaced on crew of upcoming mission

January 22

• Chinese president Hu Jintao visits United States
• UK Jobcentre call centre staff on 48-hour strike
• Romanian father, son convicted of sex trafficking, forced prostitution in UK
• Tanker crash kills two in Brevard County, Florida
• Police officer charged over double-death crash in Luton, UK

January 23

• Over 400 attend Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty's funeral
• Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett, resigns

January 24

• 'Bang bang': UK mercenary charged with murdering colleagues gives evidence in Iraq

January 25

• Final US manufacturer ceases production of lethal injection drug; executions delayed

January 26

• Toyota recalls 1.7m cars after new concerns

January 27

• Indonesians charged with people-smuggling following Christmas Island wreck
• Ivory Coast trade embargo backed by US
• BBC World Service to drop five languages
• Boy arrested for murder after seventeen-year-old run over by bus
• Massive anti-government protests in Egypt continue into second day, several killed
• Car bomb kills at least three in Dagestan, Russia
• Australia announces levy bill to offset cost of Queensland floods

January 28

• Nelson Mandela suffers collapsed lung
• US government to replace color-coded terror alert system
• Taliban bombing in Kabul supermarket leaves eight dead
• Egypt anti-government protests continue, Internet shut down

January 29

• Four killed, fourteen others injured at bus blast in Philippines
• Wikinews interviews Jim Hedges, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate
• Ipswich, England serial murders to be adapted into 'musical'
• Los Angeles City Council to sue police officer accused of filing a false report
• Bomb threat on UK–Egypt plane; diverted to Greece
• Russian police say Moscow airport bomber identified