Wikinews:2011/January
- Spanish smoking ban takes effect in bars and restaurants
- 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Araucanía, Chile; no tsunami warning
- Fifteen killed by US drone strikes in Northern Waziristan
- Obama signs healthcare bill for 9/11 emergency workers
- 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
- Former CIA agent indicted after leaking classified information
- US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot at Arizona supermarket
- Seventeen dead in Afghan bathhouse bombing
- BBC receives 8,400 complaints over 'EastEnders' cot death story
- 'Brakes failed': fourteen killed in Guatemala bus crash
- Moon water possibly originated from comets, data shows
- 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
- Persons from Punta Arenas, Chile on strike after government announcement to increase gas prices
- Fifteen flu sufferers die in Wales in one week
- State of emergency declared in Tunisia
- US Marine killed after vehicle capsizes, sinks in Oceanside Harbor, California
- NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, crew member of upcoming mission, sustains injury
- Two students shot at Los Angeles school, suspect in custody
- 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
- Over 400 attend Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty's funeral
- Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett, resigns
- 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
- 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
- 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