Portal:Current events/2010 November 12
Armed conflicts and attacks
- A convoy carrying
Arts and culture
- Major Italian cultural attractions are closed as the government plans to cut its culture budget as part of austerity measures. (BBC)
- Dublin Zoo upsets some people with red hair by offering free entry to young redheads in honour of Orangutan Awareness Week. (The Irish Times) (BBC) (Irish Independent)
- The 23rd consecutive season of American cartoon The Simpsons is announced. (BBC) (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Business and economy
- G20 summit
- Leaders from
- The leaders agree to avoid "competitive devaluation" and to develop "indicative guidelines" to tackle trade imbalances. (BBC)
- Eurozone economic growth slows in third quarter. (Hurriyet Daily)[permanent dead link]
- Pontin's goes into administration. (Financial Times)
- U.S. President Barack Obama's administration announces plans to nominate Joseph Smith to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Smith has been the banks commissioner in North Carolina since 2002. (Reuters)
- Bing Search for Android now available in market. (Mobileburn)
Disasters
- 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak:
- The Haiti's outbreak of cholera as hospitals overflow and space and time run out. (BBC)
- Haitians demonstrate, saying their government, the United Nations and aid workers have all failed to protect them. (Al Jazeera)
- The
- Ten elderly people die and seventeen are injured following a fire in a nursing home in Pohang, South Korea. (AFP via The Ottawa Citizen) (Yonhap)
- Mount Bulusan, a volcano in the Philippines, erupts again. (The Inquirer)
- An intense European windstorm in the British Isles kills an elderly woman and brings gusts exceeding 160 km/h. (BBC) (UPI.com)
International relations
- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has arrived in Sofia for talks with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borisov. (ITAR) (Novinite)
- Nigeria is to question an Iranian citizen over a shipment of arms seized in Lagos, warning that it could report Iran to the United Nations Security Council if sanctions had been breached. (BBC) (IBTimes Hong Kong)
- The leaders of Russia and Japan are to meet to discuss the disputed Kuril Islands. (Al Jazeera)
- The European Union agrees to meet with Iran to discuss its nuclear program. (BBC)
Law and crime
- The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to rescind the country's ban on openly gay soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
- The trial of eight police officers charged with the murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (BBC) (AllAfrica.com)
- Hassan Bamoum is arrested in Yemen prompting thousands of people to march through cities in the south. (Al Jazeera)
- Omar Bakri Muhammad is sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court in Lebanon. (BBC)
- Transparency International names Poddala Jayantha, Sergei Magnitsky and Gregory Ngbwa Minsta as joint winners of a global award for integrity. (BBC)
- A student who guessed the answers to former hacking and sentenced to one year in state custody. (BBC)
- One day after the failure of his appeal, Twitterers combine to support Paul Chambers, a Briton convicted and fined for a threatening Twitter message. (BBC)
- The corpse of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker is found in Caldwell County in the U.S. state of North Carolina; her father and stepmother, Adam and Elisa Baker, are the main suspects in her disappearance and homicide. (Fox News)
Politics and elections
- Burma
- Two ethnic Karen rebel armies in eastern Burma join forces in advance of a possible crackdown by the military government. (Al Jazeera)
- Crowds gather at the headquarters of the
- José Alencar, Vice-President and current Acting President of Brazil in the absence of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is taken to the Sirio Libanes hospital in São Paulo following a heart attack. (BBC)
- Former Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon is taken home from hospital still in a comatose state. (Reuters Alertnet) (Al Jazeera)
- Irish Health Minister Mary Harney is targeted with eggs and cheese by protestors shouting "Bloody Mary" in response to her healthcare funding cuts. It follows a similar incident involving red paint last week. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (Irish Examiner)
- The parliament will approve his choices. (Reuters Alertnet)
Sport
- The Pakistan spot fixing controversy. (AFP via ABC News Australia)