Uprising (January)

January 1, 2011, Series Premiere of House of Anubis



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January 1, 2011, Dilma Rousseff is sworn in as Brazil's first female President.
January 1, 2011, Over a thousand dead blackbirds and other fowl fall out of the sky in Arkansas after a violent tornado outbreak and hailstorm. (The Associated Press)
January 1, 2011, A deep earthquake measuring magnitude 7.0 hits near Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina. Only weak shaking is felt and no damage is reported. (The Associated Press)

January 2, 2011, US President Barack Obama signs the 9/11 health bill into law to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others sickened by toxic fumes and dust after the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. (The New York Times)



January 2, 2011, River levels in Queensland, Australia continue to rise, affecting about 200,000 people and killing at least one person. (CTV)
January 2, 2011, Officials in Afghanistan said that the price of opium has doubled due to a blight. There are fears the higher prices will draw more farmers into that business. (Reuters)
January 2, 2011, A 7.1-magnitude earthquake streaks southern Chile, having its epicenter 96 km northwest of Temuco, not far from the location of the 2010 Chile earthquake. (CNN)
January 2, 2011, A 2009 Wikileaks document from the US embassy in Tel Aviv says that Israel is preparing for large scale war against Hamas or Hezbollah, and quotes the Israeli chief of staff as saying that the Israel Defense Forces must be prepared to stop the firing of rockets on Tel Aviv. (France 24)
January 2, 2011, Hundreds of Coptic Christians protest in Alexandria and Cairo and shout slogans against Hosni Mubarak's rule following the church bombing, where some people held mass. Egyptian media warns of civil war and increasing sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims, and Pope Benedict XVI publicly condems the bombing. (Agence Presse-France)

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January 3, 2011, Floods in Australia:

-The Australian government announces that it will make relief payments of hundreds of millions of dollars for flood victims.(The Australian)
-The death toll from the flood in Queensland rises to 10. (Adelaide Now)

January 3, 2011, According to a new Wikileaks document, U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, asked Washington to penalize nations, including France, who do not support genetically modified crops.(The Guardian)
January 3, 2011, Scientists are investigating the sudden dieoff of over 5,000 Red-winged Blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas, United States, on New Year's Eve. (CNN.com)

-In another event not far way from the bird dieoff, scientists are investigating a fish kill of nearly 100,000 drum in the Arkansas River. (USA Today)

January 4, 2011, Release of A Shadow's Tales video game



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January 4, 2011, More evacuations take place in Queensland, Australia, as flood waters continued to rise and the Australian prime minister says damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. (CNN)
January 4, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests: Reports continue to leak out of the country regarding civil unrest with claims that protests have spread to the city of Thala, where the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally's offices have been attacked. (Al Jazeera English)
January 4, 2011, 10-year-old Canadian Kathryn Gray becomes the youngest person ever to discover a supernova. (BBC)

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January 5, 2011, Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Kate Middleton will be married by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sky News
January 5, 2011, The 112th United States Congress is convened. Republican Representative John Boehner of Ohio is elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, succeeding Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California. (Reuters)
January 5, 2011, A Tunisian protester who set himself alight in unrest that sparked further protests across the country dies of his injuries. (Al Jazeera)

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January 6, 2011, Egyptian police increases security around Coptic churches on the eve of Coptic Christmas, following a bombing in Alexandria on New Year's Day that killed 23 people and sparked protests and riots across the country. (BBC)
January 6, 2011, The U.S. plans to send another 1,400 marines to Afghanistan, where approximately 100,000 U.S. troops are already engaged in the War in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
January 6, 2011, South Korea dismisses an offer of unconditional talks by North Korea, saying the offer was part of a propaganda campaign. (Reuters)

January 7, 2011, Release of Season of the Witch



As two knights return from the Crusades they find their homeland ruined by the Black Death. Two church elders accuse a girl (Claire Foy) of being a witch and being responsible for the destruction and command the knights to transport the girl to a monastery so the monks there can lift her curse from the land.



January 7, 2011, Release of Country Strong



A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter who sparks with a fallen star . Together, they mount his ascent and her comeback, which leads to romantic complications involving her husband/manager and a beauty queen-turned-singer.



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January 8, 2011, A shooting rampage takes place at a supermarket in Tucson in the U.S. state of Arizona. Twenty are shot, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Six others are confirmed dead, including District Court judge John Roll. (CNN)

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-American politician Sarah Palin is criticised for targeting the shot Gabrielle Giffords electoral district with crosshairs on her website along with 19 other rivals before the attack. (The Guardian)





January 12, 2011, The President of the United States Barack Obama addresses the nation about the 2011 Tucson shooting following a visit to Representative Gabrielle Giffords in hospital. (Associated Press)








Aftermath of the 2011 Tucson shooting:

-A judge denies bail to gunman Jared Loughner, who is accused of killing six and injuring 14 including a federal judge and U.S. Congresswoman. (CBC)
-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is able to respond correctly to simple commands. (AP)








January 14, 2011, 2011 Tucson shooting: American politician Sarah Palin uses the term "blood libel" to describe those who criticized her for the use of inflammatory rhetoric, leading to an uproar. (The Independent)






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January 8, 2011, United States govt. attempts to access private information:

-It is revealed that the United States has subpoenaed Twitter for personal information regarding people connected to Wikileaks, including founder Julian Assange, suspected source of leaks Bradley Manning, and supporter Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of Iceland's Althing. (BBC)

-Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir describes attempts by America to access her private information as "completely unacceptable", demands to see the ambassador and begins legal action against the United States. (The Guardian)

-The WikiLeaks website requests that Google and Facebook make public any subpoenas they are given by the American government. (The Guardian)

January 9, 2011, Series Premiere of The Cape

The series, set in fictional Palm City, CA, follows Vince Faraday, a honest detective who decides to leave the police force after he witnesses the murder of a new police chief by a mysterious individual known as "Chess". Faraday accepts an offer to work for a private security firm named ARK, owned and operated by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Fleming. ARK is petitioning Palm City to privatize the police and public safety operations.

An e-mail from an investigative blogger known only as "Orwell" leads Faraday and his partner, Marty Voyt, to a cargo train owned by Fleming's firm. They discover the train is smuggling implosive WMDs inside children toys.






Unfortunately, Voyt set up Faraday and delivers him to "Chess", who is Fleming the CEO of ARK. Fleming frames Faraday for the police chief's murder and sends his security team after Faraday (televised by News channels) ending with a tanker explosion.






The entire city (including Faraday's family) now believes Faraday is "Chess" and has perished in the explosion. Faraday is abducted, but then becomes accepted, by "The Carnival of Crime", a traveling circus turned bank robbery ring.







Their ring leader, Max Malini, trains Faraday to use a special black cape for defense against his intended foes. Faraday convinces himself to not reveal his survival as this would endanger his wife and son. He then decides to fight Palm City's corruption and clear his name by adopting the visage of his son's favorite comic book hero, The Cape.

January 9, 2011, The Cape Season 1 Ep 2: The Tarot

The Cape must battle Chess' latest accomplice: a serial murderer named Cain who specializes in poisons, and who is a member of the secret Assassin Order called the Tarot. Chess tries to take down the one man who keeps him from controlling the prisons, but the job proves difficult when The Cape, Orwell, and the circus gang help him save the target.













January 9, 2011, Series Premiere of Bob's Burgers



The show, according to Fox's publicity website, is about "a man, his family and their floundering burger joint. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and occasionally shoddy service, Bob and his lovable and quirky family are convinced their burgers are their ticket to success".



January 9, 2011, A Border Collie is reported to have learned 1022 words, and acts consequently to human citation of those words. (Physorg.com)
January 9, 2011, Iran Air Flight 277 crashes with 100 people on board near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country; at least 50 survive. (BBC)
January 9, 2011, Israeli demolition of the historic Shepherd Hotel:

-Israeli bulldozers begin demolishing a 1930s East Jerusalem hotel to build 20 new settler homes, "destroying all the US efforts and ending any possibility of a return to negotiations" according to a spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP via Fox News)

-Hillary Rodham Clinton calls Israel's demolition of the hotel a "disturbing development" which undermines peace efforts. (Xinhua)
January 9, 2011, The U.S. ambassador to Iceland is summoned in relation to secret United States attempts to access private details concerning Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir. The matter is described as "very serious". (AP via Google News)
January 9, 2011, An investigation by The Guardian newspaper reveals details of how Metropolitan police officer Mark Kennedy infiltrated dozens of protest groups in 22 countries using the pseudonym Mark Stone. (The Guardian)

January 10, 2011, The Auburn Tigers defeat the Oregon Ducks to win the 2011 BCS National Championship Game. (ESPN)





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January 10, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI urges Pakistan to repeal its blasphemy law, which carry the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. (BBC)
January 10, 2011, EU envoys in the Middle East are urging Brussels to treat East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state. (BBC)
January 10, 2011, Former Republican United States House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay is sentenced to three years in prison for money laundering. (New York Post)

January 11, 2011, V S2 Ep2:







January 11, 2011, Release of Cake Album Showroom of Compassion



January 11, 2011, Release of Kingdom Hearts Coded video game



January 11, 2011, Release of DC Universe Online



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January 11, 2011, Lawyers for Julian Assange warn that he could be killed if he is extradited to the U.S. from Britain; Assange draws parallels between the rhetoric of the 2011 Tucson shooting and the language used against him by commentators such as Joe Biden, U.S. Vice President. (AFP)
January 11, 2011, 2010–2011 Queensland floods:

-The floods in the Australian state of Queensland continue to worsen, with ten people confirmed dead as search and rescue efforts continue to locate dozens of missing people. (SBS)

-The Brisbane River breaks its banks in the state capital Brisbane, prompting flood warnings for its central business district as well as several suburbs. (ABC News Australia), (Reuters)

-Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh declares that three-quarters of the state is a disaster zone. (The Melbourne Age)

January 11, 2011, China successfully tests the Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle, one of its fifth generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft programs. (Shanghai Daily)
January 11, 2011, The Arctic Sun rises over Ilulissat, Greenland two days earlier than expected. A possible explanation is alterations in atmospheric refraction or inversion from ice crystals that may or may not be the result of global warming. (Daily Mail)

January 12, 2011, Series Premiere Off the Map



January 12, 2011, Australian floods

-The floods in Queensland, Australia, worsen further with 20,000 properties in the capital Brisbane expected to be flooded and 4,000 homes flooded in the nearby city of Ipswich. (ABC News Australia)
-The death toll from the floods reaches at least 12 with at least 67 people missing. (News Limited)








January 12, 2011, NASA GISS data shows that global temperatures in 2010 were tied with 2005 for the warmest year on record. (GISS Research News)



January 12, 2011, At least 18 people are killed and one million are made homeless following flooding in Sri Lanka. (Sify India)
January 12, 2011, Floods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, kill more than 250 people. (BBC)
January 12, 2011, Haitians commemorate the first anniversary of the 2010 earthquake. (AP via Yahoo! News)
January 12, 2011, The South Korean Ministry for Reunification advises that it has reopened Red Cross communications with North Korea over the Panmunjom Border Area. (CNN)

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January 13, 2011, Protests in Tunisia:

- President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali gives a televised address during which he attempts to appease protesters by vowing not to seek re-election in 2014. He also promises an end to live firing of "real bullets": three more people are killed in the Tunis suburb of Aouina less than an hour later. (Al Jazeera)

January 13, 2011, United States banks foreclose on a record one million mortgages in 2010. (ABC News Australia)
January 13, 2011, Floods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

-The death toll continues to rise, with over 500 confirmed casualties.(AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
-President Dilma Rousseff announces a R$ 780 million ($466.2 million) emergency relief budget for the areas affected. (The Telegraph)

January 13, 2011, Floods in Queensland, Australia:

-Flood waters peak in Brisbane, Australia, missing historic levels but still threatening thousands of homes. (Dow Jones via Wall Street Journal)
-The death toll reaches at least 15 and is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue. (The Australian)
January 13, 2011, More than one million people are affected by flooding in Sri Lanka, with 21 dead and 270,000 made homeless. (The Hindu)
January 13, 2011, The WikiLeaks website honours a pledge made in July by offering financial aid to the legal team of Bradley Manning, a soldier accused by the United States of providing secret U.S. embassy cables for international public consumption. (The Guardian)

January 14, 2011, Release of The Dilemma



Ronny and Nick are best friends and partners in an auto design firm. They are pursuing a project to make their firm famous. Ronny sees Nick's wife Geneva kissing another man. Ronny seeks out answers and has to figure out how to tell Nick about what he saw while working with him to complete their critical presentation.



January 14, 2011, Release of The Green Hornet



Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.



January 14, 2011, Release of Barney's Version



The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky



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January 14, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests:

-Thousands of people protest across the country demanding the resignation of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. (BBC)
-President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fires his government and imposes a state of emergency on the country. (Al Jazeera)
-Prime Minister of Tunisia Mohamed Ghannouchi becomes interim President of Tunisia as Zine El Abidine Ben Ali leaves the country. (Voice of America)
-Lawyers suggest Mohammed Ghannouchi's taking on of presidential powers goes against the Constitution of Tunisia. (Al Jazeera)
-International media commentators hail events as the "end of an era" and "truly remarkable". (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
-A perceived lack of television coverage of the Tunisian protests by western media is criticized. (OpEd News)








January 14, 2011, 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides:

-The disaster is declared Brazil's worst ever as the death toll exceeds 500, with additional people missing and more fatalities expected. (Vancouver Sun)
-Rescue work is carried out to attempt to locate survivors in remote areas of south-eastern Brazil. (BBC)
-The death toll reaches 537. (Al Jazeera)

January 14, 2011, Australian floods:

-Brisbane cleans its mud and debris which was left behind during recent flooding there. (BBC)
-Several rivers flood in the southern state of Victoria, including in the capital Melbourne. (NineMSN)

January 14, 2011, New Caledonia and its Loyalty Islands are simultaneously struck by a 7.0 earthquake and Tropical Cyclone Vania. (eTN)
January 14, 2011, The Obama administration in the United States eases travel and other restrictions on Cuba. (ABC News)
January 14, 2011, The United States Treasury Department says "no" to calls by enraged American politicians to have Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks website added to its economic blacklist or sanctions list like so-called "terrorist groups". The Treasury Department cites a lack of "evidence at this time". (CBS News)
January 14, 2011, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is summoned to a prostitution investigation to deal with allegations of "improperly assisting" 17-year-old nightclub dancer he had at one of his private parties. (Al Jazeera)
January 14, 2011, Reince Priebus of Wisconsin is elected as the chairman of the United States Republican National Committee. (MSNBC)



January 15, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests:

-Former President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees with his family to Saudi Arabia, after being rejected by France. (BBC)
-Saudi Arabia confirms it is welcoming ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family into the kingdom due to "exceptional circumstances" in Tunisia; people in Saudi Arabia and people elsewhere criticise the decision to offer sanctuary to "the dictator" on the Internet. (Al Jazeera)
-At least 42 people are killed during one fire in the city of Monastir in the central east of the country, the current deadliest single incident of the month-long protests. (Ennahar)
-Imed Trabelsi, a wealthy nephew-in-law of ousted President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who was "elected" mayor of La Goulette, is slain. (ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs)
-Tunisia gets another new Acting President, its second in two days, as 78-year-old speaker of parliament Fouad Mebazaa is sworn in. He claims all Tunisians "without exception" are now to be allowed participate in national politics. (Oneindia)
-A night curfew is back in force in Tunisia. (ABC News)
-International response to events in Tunisia:

-Jordanians echo events in Tunisia by staging their own protests against soaring food prices. (The Guardian)
-Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi describes himself as "very pained" by events in the neighbouring country. (Reuters Africa)
-Tunisian communities across Canada rally in support of the uprising that ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali yesterday. (Toronto Star)

January 15, 2011, The online encyclopedia Wikipedia celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding. (CBC)
January 15, 2011, Advocates of free speech march through the streets of Sydney in support of WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange, who is in England battling attempts by Sweden to have him extradited. Greens MP David Shoebridge addresses the crowd and calls for support from the Australian government. (Herald Sun)
January 15, 2011, In Westminster Cathedral, three Anglican bishops are ordained as Catholic priests. (The Guardian)
January 15, 2011, Brazilian soldiers arrive in Teresópolis as the death toll from floods and mudslides during Brazil's deadliest disaster passes 600. (BBC)
January 15, 2011, The United Nations seeks emergency aid for Sri Lanka: as many as 390,000 people are made homeless and thousands of houses are destroyed in the disaster there. (The Guardian)
January 15, 2011, 20,000 properties in rural Victoria in Australia are flooded. (ABC News Australia)

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January 16, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests:

-Ali Seriati, the former head of presidential security, is arrested and accused of threatening state security by fomenting violence. (BBC)
-Gunfire is heard in the capital Tunis as political leaders attempt to form a new government. (Al Jazeera)

January 16, 2011, The online edition of The New York Times reports that U.S. and Israeli intelligence services collaborated in the development of the destructive computer worm Stuxnet to record Iranian operations and send them spinning out of control ahead of a sabotage attack against Iran. Testing is reported to have occurred at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert in Israel. (The New York Times)
January 16, 2011, The Social Network wins Best Motion Picture – Drama, while Colin Firth and Natalie Portman win Best Actor and Best Actress- Drama at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. (Moviefone)
January 16, 2011, Further landslides and more rain are feared in Brazil which is dealing with the worst disaster in its history. (Al Jazeera)
January 16, 2011, Mark Kennedy, the undercover British police officer who posed as an activist, flees to the United States after his cover is blown. (Scottish Daily Record)
January 16, 2011, Iran has continued covert attempts to purchase technology for its nuclear program through more than 350 companies, despite UN sanctions on Iran, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported, citing US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. (Reuters)
January 16, 2011, Former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier returns to the country. (Reuters)

January 17, 2011, Series Premiere of Piers Morgan Tonight



January 17, 2011, Release of The Decemberists Album The King is Dead



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January 17, 2011, Walmart's bid for South African retail store Massmart is approved by shareholders, with organized labour groups such as the Congress of South African Trade Unions threatening boycotts against the store.(Reuters)
January 17, 2011, GlaxoSmithKline pays out $3.4 billion last quarter in legal settlings over their drug Avandia. (Reuters)
January 17, 2011, Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker of Julius Baer passes files detailing tax evasion attempts by hundreds of politicians, celebrities and business leaders to Wikileaks. (Al Jazeera)
January 17, 2011, A man sets himself on fire outside the parliament building in Cairo, Egypt. Copycat burnings also take place in Algeria and Mauritania. (Reuters)
January 17, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian protests: Anti-government demonstrations continue to take place as a new cabinet is named. (BBC)

January 18, 2011, Release of Mass Effect 2



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January 18, 2011, Haitian authorities arrest former president Jean-Claude Duvalier. (Reuters via Alertnet)



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January 18, 2011, A 25-year-old unemployed male dies after setting himself on fire in Alexandria. Another man, aged 40, sets himself on fire in Cairo in protests against rising prices. (BBC)
January 18, 2011, The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Justice Department approves a $28 billion merger of Comcast and NBC Universal with critics complaining of even greater media consolidation in the U.S. and how this merger removes competitive forces and hurts consumers. (NPR)
January 18, 2011, Apple records record profits of $6 billion as consumers consumed more of its products than was thought. (BBC)
January 18, 2011, Brazil's military increases rescue and supply operations following the worst disaster in the country's history. (BBC)
January 18, 2011, The British government suggests the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), a private company run by police chiefs, ought to have its power to run undercover spies removed after recent relevations about Mark Kennedy, policeman and undercover spy on international activists, as it acknowledges for the first time that "something had gone very wrong". (The Guardian)
January 18, 2011, Situation in Tunisia:

-Tunisia's interim President Fouad Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resign from the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party amid a row over the make-up of the new government.(AFP via Google News)
-Four ministers resign. (Al Jazeera)
-France defends itself, alleging that it "had not seen these events coming any more than anyone else." (BBC)

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January 19, 2011, China and the United States sign a $45 billion export deal, including 200 Boeing airplanes. (BBC)
January 19, 2011, The death toll from the Brazilian floods and mudslides reaches at least 765. (CNN)
January 19, 2011, President Hu Jintao of China is welcomed at an official ceremony at the White House by U.S. President Barack Obama. (CNN)
January 19, 2011, Former Swiss bank employee Rudolf Elmer, who passed details of rich tax evaders to the WikiLeaks website, is found guilty of breaching Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws. (BBC)
January 19, 2011, Duvalier is sued for torture and other crimes against humanity by former United Nations spokeswoman Michèle Montas and three Haitians jailed during Duvalier's rule. (BBC)
January 19, 2011, A United States Federal grand jury indicts Jared Lee Loughner for attempted murder of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides with further charges pending. (Reuters)

January 20, 2011, South Korea accepts North Korea's proposal of high-level military talks to discuss "pending issues". (Al Jazeera)
January 20, 2011, Chinese president Hu Jintao receives a hostile reception from the United States Congress; the country is accused of bullying its neighbours and its rulers are described as "Nazis". (The Guardian)
January 20, 2011, The largest rocket ever launched from the west coast of the U.S. is launched carrying a secret payload; speculated to be a spy satellite.(Reuters)
January 20, 2011, New trials are reported to be starting soon at Guantánamo Bay after the United States Congress blocks President of the United States Barack Obama's attempts to close the prison; The Pentagon refuses to comment. (The Guardian)
January 20, 2011, One of the largest hauls of illegal chimpanzee and gorilla parts is seized by officials in Gabon. (BBC)
Agents of the United States charge 127 alleged mafia members in the northeast of the country. (BBC)
Situation in Tunisia:

-Tunisia's army fires warning shots as citizens protest the current government and wave baguettes in a call for an end to food shortages. (AP via The Guardian)
-Tunisia's new interim government holds its first cabinet meeting. (BBC)
-More ministers resign from the Constitutional Democratic Rally party that had governed the country. (UPI)

January 21, 2011, Release of No Strings Attached



January 21, 2011, Release of The Way Back



January 21, 2011, Release of Company Men



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January 21, 2011, Three people are shot dead and dozens are injured by riot police clashing with at least 20,000 protesters gathered outside the prime minister's office in Tirana, Albania. Deputy prime minister Ilir Meta has resigned after becoming embroiled in a fraud scandal and protesters have called for the rest of the government to resign. (AP via France24)
January 21, 2011, A Nigerian general says armies in West Africa are ready to oust Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo by force. (Al Jazeera)
January 21, 2011, MSNBC terminates a contract with their highest rated cable news host, Keith Olbermann. (The Guardian)
January 21, 2011, Bank of America reports a loss of $1.2 billion. (BBC)
January 21, 2011, Paul Volcker steps down as the head of U.S. President Barack Obama's advisory panel, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was the guiding force behind recent legislation pressing investment banks to spin off their proprietary trading and branded hedge funds. (Reuters)
January 21, 2011, Four banks, with total assets of $2.7billion are ordered closed in the U.S.; 157 American banks failed last year.(Reuters)
January 21, 2011, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticises Israel's refusal to cease illegal settlement building on Palestinian land, telling a UN General Assembly gathering that he is "very concerned at the lack of progress towards peace" and that the recent demolition of East Jerusalem's historic Shepherd Hotel and evictions of Palestinian families had "heightened tensions." He later meets survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. (AFP via Google News)
January 21, 2011, Six world powers and Iran meet in Istanbul to talk about Iran's nuclear programme; Iran denies allegations it is developing nuclear weapons. (Al Jazeera)
January 21, 2011, A private note, due to remain secret despite calls for it to be published by the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, shows former British prime minister Tony Blair privately assured former American president George W. Bush "you can count on us" before they jointly invaded Iraq prior to the Iraq War. (BBC)
January 21, 2011, Thousands of people in Tunisia take part in a demonstration calling on the interim government to step down. (Al Jazeera)
January 21, 2011, United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords leaves hospital in Tucson, Arizona for rehabilitation in Houston, Texas less than two weeks after the 2011 Tucson shooting. (Washington Post)

January 22, 2011, Tunisia's prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi promises in a TV interview to leave politics "in the shortest possible timeframe" after elections to be held following President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's recent fall. (BBC)
January 23, 2011, The death toll in Brazil's worst flood disaster tops 800 people. (BBC)
January 23, 2011, WikiLeaks revelations:

-A "spy" computer is found in an office next to Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir who has been the target in the United States Department of Justice/Twitter case concerning the WikiLeaks website. (Iceland Review)
-Nearly two months after the WikiLeaks website launched the release of U.S. diplomatic cables, the total amount released stands at just over 1 per cent of its trove. (The Washington Post)
-Speaking in Der Sonntag, WikiLeaks spokesperson Julian Assange criticises the arrest of a Swiss bank employee who passed on details of tax evasion to the website and suggests that the Swiss authorities ought to instead investigate the tax evasion that has been uncovered. Rudolf Elmer has been detained for the weekend. (Reuters)

January 23, 2011, The Palestine Papers:

The largest ever release of confidential files in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, are released. (The Jerusalem Post)
The Palestinian Authority condemns Al- Jazeera for releasing the documents and denies that the Palestinian Authority had agreed to make far-reaching concessions on Jerusalem as the documents purportedly reveal.(The Jerusalem Post)

January 23, 2011, Around 27,000 anti-government red shirt protestors march in Bangkok, Thailand, calling for the release of imprisoned leaders. (BBC)
January 23, 2011, 2010-11 NFL playoffs





-The Green Bay Packers win the National Football Conference Championship Game defeating the Chicago Bears 21-14. (New York Times)
-The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the New York Jets 24-19 to win the American Football Conference Championship Game. (New York Times)

January 24, 2011, At least 35 people are killed and 130 injured after a suicide bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital Moscow. (Russia Today)








January 24, 2011, NBC News reports that United States investigators have been unable to link Bradley Manning to Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. (NBC News)
January 24, 2011, Jared L. Loughner pleads not guilty to orchestrating the 2011 Tucson shooting and the attempted murder of United States Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. (New York Times)
January 24, 2011, Tunisian officials negotiate the formation of a supervisory council to oversee the country's interim government, in an effort to appease protesters angry at the continued presence in the cabinet of holdovers linked to deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’sregime. (VOA)

January 25, 2011, Release of Talib Kweli Album Gutter Rainbows



January 25, 2011, Release of Two Worlds video game



January 25, 2011, Release of Dead Space 2



January 25, 2011, Release of Lord Arcana video game



January 25, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:




-Tens of thousands of people protest against the government in Egypt on a "day of revolt".(Al Jazeera)
-Three people are killed, two in Suez and one in Cairo. One of the dead is killed after inhaling tear gas. (Al Jazeera)

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January 25, 2011, The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards are announced, with The King's Speech receiving twelve nominations. (San Francisco Chronicle)



January 25, 2011, Thousands of protesters defy curfew and march in Tunis, camping outside the government's main office complex and demanding that the Prime Minister and the old guard that served under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, step down. (IBN)

January 26, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address calling on the United States Congress to improve the nation's "crumbling" infrastructure, saying it will create jobs and help the nation compete in the global economy. (CNN)







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January 26, 2011, Egyptian Protests:




-Three Egyptian protesters in Suez and one police officer in Cairo are killed in protests against president Hosni Mubarak. (Xinhua)
-Egyptian authorities ban protests and block access to some websites after continuing street demonstrations in the country. (BBC)
-olice in Cairo beat and arrest a Guardian news reporter, who secretly records the events that occur in the police van. (The Guardian)

January 26, 2011, Canadian singer Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy becomes the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles, which she studied at Liverpool Hope University. (BBC)
January 26, 2011, The 41st World Economic Forum opens in Davos, Switzerland. (Xinhua)
January 26, 2011, At least 30 miners are trapped after an explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Colombia. (Colombia Reports)
January 26, 2011, Switzerland adopts European Union sanctions against Iran’s energy, nuclear and weapons sectors, but an 18-22 billion euro Swiss EGL gas contract with the National Iranian Gas Export Company has not been canceled. (The Jerusalem Post)
January 26, 2011, Tunisia issues an international arrest warrant for former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and members of his family who fled the country earlier this month following demonstrations that toppled his regime. (AFP)

January 27, 2011,



January 27, 2011,



January 27, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:






-Unrest in Egypt enters its third day. (Al Jazeera)
-More than 1,000 people are arrested. (Xinhua)

January 27, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising:

-Thousands continue protesting in Tunisia calling on remaining figures of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime to leave the interim government. (Press TV)

January 27, 2011, 2011 Yemeni protests:

-Tens of thousands of people protest in the Yemeni capital Sana'a calling for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. (Al Jazeera)

January 27, 2011, Giant media conglomerate News Corp. says it will launch a digital newspaper as content of Apple's iPad, on 2 February. This is a later launch date than many had expected. (Reuters)
January 27, 2011, The Supreme Court in the U.S. state of Illinois rules that Rahm Emanuel, former Chief of Staff to President of the United States Barack Obama, is eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago. (The New York Times)




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January 28, 2011,



January 28, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:







-After the Egyptian government censorship of social media websites (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google), internet access and SMS networks are cut off in response to anti-government protests. The Guardian (about censoring) The Guardian (about cutting off internet)
-Fresh protests take place across the country. (The Daily Telegraph)
-Police target protesters in Cairo with tear gas and water cannon, while tear gas is used on protesters in Alexandria. (The Guardian)
-A protester is killed in Suez, while dozens of protesters are injured in Cairo. One protester happens to video-tape a man being shot by police(AP)
-The Egyptian government announces a curfew for cities nationwide starting at 6 pm local time and running through to 7 am on Saturday. (Bikya Masr)
-Mubarak orders the army into the streets as buildings and police vehicles burn. (The Daily Telegraph)
-Reuters reports at least 870 injuries in Cairo alone during the day, according to medical sources. (Al-Masry Al-Youm)
-At least eight deaths are reported. (DAWN)
-EgyptAir suspends its departures from Cairo for 12 hours, beginning at 9 pm, as a government-imposed curfew on the people of Egypt comes into effect. (AP via Google News)
-NDP headquarters are set on fire in Cairo, with Al Jazeera footage showing the building ablaze. (Irish Examiner)
-same fire threatens the nearby world-famous Egyptian Museum, with concerns expressed for the safety of its contents. A powerful explosion is heard in the area. There are reports that protesters are trying to protect the museum. (RIA Novosti)
-President Mubarak calls on the government to resign, but gives no indication that he will stand down. (CNN)

January 28, 2011, Thousands of people take to the streets of Jordan for the third consecutive Friday of protests over inflation, unemployment and rising prices, amid demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai. (Al Jazeera)
January 28, 2011, Key ministers from the heavily criticised ousted government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are replaced but interim Tunisian prime minister Mohammed Ghannouchi refuses to back down in the face of public anger. (Al Jazeera)
January 28, 2011, A 450 year-old Madonna and Child work sells for $16.9 million at Sotheby's in New York, a new auction record for Titian. (BBC)
January 28, 2011, Hundreds of people attend an event at Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida to mark the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. (BBC)



January 28, 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son Kim Jong-nam says his father opposed the hereditary transfer of power, but did so to ensure stability. (Yonhap)

January 29, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:






-The protests continue as Egyptian Army tanks surround Cairo's Tahrir Square. (CNN)
-Thousands of demonstrators converge on Egypt's Interior Ministry, one of the most visible signs of state authority in Egypt. Police shoot the demonstrators. Medical aid is given at the doors of mosques. (CNN)
-Omar Suleiman is sworn in as Vice President of Egypt, the first person to hold the office under President Hosni Mubarak, who has reigned for 30 years. (Haaretz)



-At least 100 people are killed and 1,000 injured in clashes so far. (Reuters)
-Mubarak selects Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force commander and aviation minister, as his new prime minister, preserving the top three political jobs for men with military links. (Reuters)
-The parliament speaker says Egypt has no plans for early elections despite the mass popular demonstrations against the government. (Reuters)
-Wealthy Egyptian businessman Ahmed Ezz, a close confidante of Mubarak's son, resigns from the ruling NDP party. At least one of his steel company's offices has been targeted by protesters. (Reuters)
-A curfew is extended from 16:00 until 8:00 Egyptian time according to state television. (The Times of India)
-Suzanne Mubarak, the wife of President Hosni Mubarak and First Lady of Egypt, is reported to have fled to London. (Ynetnews)
-19 private jets carrying families of wealthy businessmen leave Cairo for Dubai. (The Guardian)
-Egyptian Museum during the riots:

Two mummies housed at the Egyptian Museum are destroyed and statues are broken into pieces, though ordinary citizens unite to prevent further destruction. The vandals are reported to have been convicts who escaped amid the protests. (Al-Masry Al-Youm)
Young people in Egypt form a human chain to protect the Egyptian Museum from further attacks. (Herald Sun)

January 29, 2011, Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs triples the base salary of its chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2 million, up from $600,000, after the bank's profit falls by 38 per cent. (BBC)
January 29, 2011, Close to 8,000 protesters rally in Hamilton, Ontario to support workers locked out from Stelco after disagreeing against pension changes made by U.S. Steel. Analysts predict that similar protests may spread across the country. (Niagara Falls Review)
January 30, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:




-Demonstrations against the government, in which more than 150 people have been killed and over 4,000 injured, continue. (RIA Novosti)
-Egypt's information minister cancels licenses and accreditation of staff working for the Al Jazeera international news network. The network's Cairo bureau office is to be shut down by the Egyptian government. An Al Jazeera spokesman describes the move as "an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists". (AFP via Google News)
-Al Jazeera English is unavailable by cable television across most of the United States. (The Huffington Post)
-Thousands of anti-government protesters in Cairo defy a curfew and intimidation from the Egyptian military as fighter jets swoop low over the crowds gathered in Tahrir Square. (Sky News)

January 30, 2011, 2010–2011 Tunisian uprising: Rachid Ghannounchi, leader of the once banned Ennahda party, flies back to the country from London after 22 years in exile following the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. (Al Jazeera)
January 30, 2011, Thousands of people march in Derry, Northern Ireland, in memory of those killed by British troops in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of civil rights protesters and local bystanders. It is intended to be the final such march after the British government admitted last year that its troops had been responsible for carrying out the Bogside massacre. (CNN)
January 30, 2011, The cast of The King's Speech wins the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards. (Entertainment Weekly)
January 30, 2011, Alpha Natural Resources buys out Massey Energy for $7.1billion, making Alpha the second largest U.S. coal mining company by market value.(Reuters)
January 30, 2011, Tropical Cyclone Anthony makes landfall at Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing the declaration of a disaster zone in affected areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods. (The Australian)
January 30, 2011, Exotic birds are found to have been driven into Britain's back gardens by the extreme cold, as more than half a million people participate in the largest wildlife survey in the world. (The Observer)

January 31, 2011, 2011 Egyptian protests:







-The overnight atmosphere among the crowds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square is tense with gunfire reported. (Al Jazeera)
-President Hosni Mubarak orders his new prime minister Ahmed Shafiq to preserve subsidies, control inflation and provide more jobs as he battles an intense popular revolt against his 30-year rule. The announcement is read out on state television but has little effect as protesters vow to continue demonstrating until the Mubarak regime falls. (Al Jazeera)






January 31, 2011, A new biography of Julian Assange reveals details of how the WikiLeaks spokesperson evaded U.S. officers from the Central Intelligence Agency Assange believed were following him, including his use of disguises. (AFP via The Sydney Morning Herald)
January 31, 2011, Roger Vinson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida rules that the Health insurance mandate of President Barack Obama's health care reforms are unconstitutional. (Time)