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  • 1 March 1
  • 2 March 2
  • 3 March 3
  • 4 March 4
  • 5 March 5
  • 6 March 6
  • 7 March 7
  • 8 March 8
  • 9 March 9
  • 10 March 10
  • 11 March 11
  • 12 March 12
  • 13 March 13
  • 14 March 14
  • 15 March 15
  • 16 March 16
  • 17 March 17
  • 18 March 18
  • 19 March 19
  • 20 March 20
  • 21 March 21
  • 22 March 22
  • 23 March 23
  • 24 March 24
  • 25 March 25
  • 26 March 26
  • 27 March 27
  • 28 March 28
  • 29 March 29
  • 30 March 30
  • 31 March 31

March 1

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March 2

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  • Local government officials confiscate London ice cream made from human breast milk for health reasons


March 3

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  • Telecom Commission of Solomon Islands issues phone company US$1M fine
  • Apple Inc. unveils iPad 2 tablet


March 4

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  • Egyptian prime minister steps down; armed forces appoint former transport minister to position
  • US Supreme Court upholds right to picket military funerals


March 5

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March 6

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  • US World War II veteran Leonard Lomell dies aged 91
  • UK's most-read papers found to be in contempt of court
  • High school basketball star dies after making game-winning shot in overtime


March 7

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  • Libyan government accuses three Dutch helicopter crew of transporting spies
  • US military brig officials order whistle-blowing suspect to sleep naked


March 8

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  • Microsoft waits for death of Internet Explorer 6


March 9

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  • Che Guevara's ''Motorcycle Diaries'' companion dies
  • Three law enforcement officers shot, one dead along with suspect, in St. Louis, Missouri standoff


March 10

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  • NASCAR: Carl Edwards wins 2011 Kobalt Tools 400
  • Space Shuttle Discovery lands for final time
  • Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim remains the world’s richest man


March 11

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  • Former adult film actress forced to leave teaching job again
  • Philadelphia Archdiocese suspends 21 priests for alleged sexual abuse
  • Relative of Afghan president Hamid Karzai shot dead by NATO troops
  • France first to recognise Libyan rebels as "legitimate representatives of the people"
  • 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, causes tsunami
  • Earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant triggers evacuation


March 12

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  • British MP reveals Fred Goodwin superinjunction
  • U.S. February budget deficit is largest on record
  • English policeman Nicholas Stone cleared of rape, facing jail for misconduct
  • Honey bee decline spreading globally
  • Explosion at earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant
  • Special report on Japanese tsunami emergency in Pichilemu, Chile
  • Arab League calls for Libyan no-fly zone


March 13

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  • Burger King CEO insults British women during speech to students
  • Libyan government forces capture eastern town from rebels
  • IPad 2 goes on sale in United States
  • Death toll rises from Japan quake
  • Cuba sentences USAID worker to fifteen-year prison term
  • Four dead after Yemen police fire on protesters
  • Cuba releases leading dissident from prison
  • New York tour bus crash kills 14
  • Japan facing 'most severe crisis since World War II', says prime minister
  • Israel to build new settlements in West Bank
  • Researchers identify genetic link to peanut allergies
  • Al Jazeera cameraman killed in eastern Libya
  • US State department official resigns after Wikileaks comments
  • Japanese tsunami impacts California coastal town
  • Domestic economic impacts likely after Japanese earthquake


March 14

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  • Japan earthquake shifts Earth's axis 10 centimetres
  • Libyan rebels retake town of Brega
  • Third explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant


March 15

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  • British pathologist criticised by General Medical Council
  • Japan earthquake death toll estimated at over 10,000
  • Middle Eastern troops enter Bahrain after protests
  • Dying Canadian infant moved to U.S. hospital for medical treatment
  • Fukushima reactor suffers multiple fires, radiation leak confirmed
  • Reggae singer Smiley Culture dies during police raid in Surrey, England


March 16

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  • English hard rock band The Darkness reunites
  • Florida prisons ban inmate smoking
  • King of Bahrain declares state of emergency
  • Wildfire affects Lolol, Chile area; yellow alert lifted
  • Israel seizes ship claimed to be carrying weapons for Gaza
  • Six killed and hundreds injured in Bahrain
  • Japanese emperor makes live television appearance after earthquake


March 17

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  • US rapper Nate Dogg dies at age 41
  • Owsley Stanley, icon of 1960s counterculture, dies at 76
  • CIA contractor released from Pakistan
  • UK unemployment increases to 17-year peak
  • Expedition 26 crew returns to Earth safely
  • Libyan rebels and Gaddafi troops in battle on two fronts
  • Japan begins using helicopters to drop water on nuclear plant
  • UN Security Council approves Libya no-fly zone


March 18

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  • Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 browser
  • In pictures: Japan earthquake and tsunami
  • Conflicting reports, mounting fear, over Japanese nuclear disaster
  • New York Times to start charging for access to web news
  • South African serial killer guilty of nineteen rapes, sixteen murders
  • Power line to Japanese nuclear plant completed
  • Japanese stocks continue to fall after earthquake
  • British electronica band Faithless to separate
  • Japan raises severity level of crisis; efforts to cool damaged nuclear power plant continue
  • United Nations says Ivory Coast shelling may be 'war crime'


March 19

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  • Part of California highway near Big Sur falls into the sea
  • 45 killed after Yemen protesters fired upon
  • BBC DJ duo break radio record
  • UN carries out first review of US human rights record
  • ICANN approves .xxx domain for pornography
  • French aircraft on flights over Libya; US missiles launched at targets
  • Crucifixes can be displayed in state schools, European court rules
  • Israel bombarding Gaza after Hamas mortar attack
  • US and UK forces join Libyan attack


March 20

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  • Ex US Secretary of State Warren Christopher dead aged 85
  • Celebrity bear Knut dies suddenly at the Berlin Zoo
  • House fire in Bristol, England kills two


March 21

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  • Haiti votes in presidential runoff
  • NASCAR driver Kyle Busch wins 2011 Jeff Byrd 500
  • AT&T to purchase T-Mobile for US$39 billion
  • Man charged with murder of British woman in Hong Kong
  • Existing US home sales fall 9.6% in February
  • Boni Yayi confirmed as winner of 2011 Benin presidental election


March 22

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  • Professional wrestling manager Oliver Humperdink dies aged 62
  • Egyptian voters approve constitutional changes
  • Blues musician Pinetop Perkins dies at age 97
  • Wikinews interviews 0 A.D. game development team
  • U.S. fighter jet crashes in Libya
  • U.S. military denies reports helicopter opened fire on Libyan civilians during rescue mission


March 23

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  • 'Worst song of all time' becomes YouTube sensation
  • Gene mutation produces autism-like traits in mice
  • Petition urges Apple to remove 'anti-gay' app


March 24

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  • Detroit’s population drops by one-fourth in the last decade
  • More than a dozen reported dead after Syrian protests
  • Libyan city of Misrata reported to be secure after Gaddafi forces retreat
  • English actress Elizabeth Taylor dies at age 79
  • Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes northeastern Myanmar
  • Tamil Nadu Elections: DMK, AIADMK promise freebies
  • UK police find body of missing woman and search for another; suspect in custody


March 25

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  • China plans to ban smoking in indoor public places
  • NATO to take control of Libyan no-fly zone
  • Japanese earthquake death toll surpasses ten thousand
  • Situation at damaged nuclear power plant remains 'very grave', says Japanese Prime Minister
  • New Zealand enters semi-finals as South Africa fails again in Cricket World Cup
  • BBC cancel television comedy series 'My Family'


March 26

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  • Bomb on Jerusalem bus kills one, over 30 injured
  • Qatar becomes first Arab country to fly fighter jets over Libya
  • Millions to turn off lights for Earth Hour tonight
  • Mayor of London Boris Johnson announces bidders for additional Tramlink vehicles


March 27

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  • Guatemalan president and first lady apply for divorce
  • MySpace loses over ten million users in one month


March 28

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  • Thousands gather in London to protest against government cuts
  • British police charge taxi driver with murder
  • Battle for Trafalgar Square, London as violence breaks out between demonstrators and riot police
  • Nottingham Express Transit extensions get Government approval
  • Sheffield tram-train project back on the rails


March 29

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  • Cardenal Caro Province governor: Pichilemu Municipality to leave 107 families homeless
  • British music royalties suffer first ever decrease
  • New York City disputes 2010 Census
  • Explosion at Yemen weapons factory kills dozens
  • Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may work for Facebook
  • George Clooney to be defence witness in Berlusconi sex case


March 30

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  • Forces loyal to Ouattara plan to seal Ivory Coast border
  • Gaddafi loyalists go on offensive, rebels pushed back
  • BP lose laptop containing sensitive claimant data
  • First images received from orbit around Mercury


March 31

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  • US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels
  • Ed to wed: UK Labour leader Miliband announces engagement to Justine Thornton
  • All change for Nottingham, England trams as new operator announced
  • Japanese nuclear officials race to avoid disaster as radiation levels in sea rocket
  • Libyan foreign minister defects to the UK
  • India's population increases by 181 million in ten years
  • Scotland's oldest detainee facing attempted murder charges
  • US woman sentenced to jail for faking son’s cancer
  • British haulage managing director Edward Stobart dies at age 56
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