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February 19–April 2 – The 2011 Cricket World Cup is held in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka with India defeating Sri Lanka in the final. February 22 – March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring, [ 20 ] causing the 2011 energy crisis.
The death toll from the 2011 Van earthquake in Turkey reaches 523, with rain and snow making conditions worse for people left homeless by the earthquake. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb. (Big pond News)
Disasters At least 106 people disappear after a boat capsizes on the Kasai River in Kasai-Occidental. (CBC News) (BBC) (AFP via Google News) (Reuters Canada) A massive search operation continues amid severe weather conditions for the helicopter of Arunachal Pradesh's chief minister Dorjee Khandu which disappeared while carrying him and four other people. (BBC) The United States Army Corps of ...
Business and economy Ivory Coast resumes exports of cocoa after a political crisis and brief civil war. (AFP via Google News) Wayne Swan, the Treasurer of Australia, will deliver his fourth budget. (The Australian) Google launches Google Music, an application that will enable users to upload their music libraries to company servers. (CNet) Microsoft announces that it is purchasing Internet ...
Disasters Asiana Airlines Flight 991 crashes in the Pacific Ocean, near Jeju Island, South Korea, killing 2 onboard. (France24) At least 57 people are dead and 12 are confirmed missing in the Seoul and Siheung region of South Korea due to landslides caused by heavy rain. (CTV News) (News Limited) (The Weather Network) At least 17 people are killed and 30 injured after a truck collides with a ...
International relations US Envoy George J. Mitchell, representing United States interests in the Middle East, is to resign. (BBC) Law and crime Vietnam unveils a five year plan to tackle widespread prostitution in the country. (AFP via Google News) 8 decapitated corpses, including that of a deputy prison governor, are located by police in Durango, Northwest Mexico. (BBC) A 62-year-old British ...
Business and economy The newly released figures show China had 6.31 million new college graduates, and about 90.7 percent of them found employment by the end of 2010, which represented a 3 percent year-on-year increase. (CRI) The 41st World Economic Forum opens in Davos, Switzerland. (Xinhua) Incumbent Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo orders the seizure of all local branches of the Central Bank ...
Disasters and accidents 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami A 9.1 magnitude earthquake hits offshore of Japan's Miyagi prefecture, producing tsunamis as high as 10 meters near the epicenter and reaching land throughout the Pacific ocean. (Japan Times) (Canadian Press via Google News), (AP via ABC News America) At least 1000 people have died in the earthquake and tsunami. (LA Times) The Sendai ...