Portal:Current events/2013 March 6
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- Ar-Raqqah, the first major city to be under rebel control in the Syrian civil war. (AP via Fox News)
- British
- The Syrian National Coalition the seat within its organisation formerly occupied by the Syrian Republic. (AP via Fox News)
- 20 United Nations peacekeepers are detained by around 30 armed fighters in the Golan Heights on the border between Syria and Israel. (Reuters)
- War in Somalia:
- The Islamists. (Reuters)
- The
Business and economy
- The
- The UK's Office of Fair Trading gives the country's top 50 payday loans companies 12 weeks to change their practices after identifying "widespread irresponsible lending". (BBC)
Disaster and accidents
- All nine people, including two pilots and seven passengers, on board a
International relations
- The South Korean military states that it is prepared to respond if North Korea launches an attack as it threatened yesterday. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Ben Zygier who died in Israeli custody in December 2010 and was believed to be a Mossad agent. (AAP via The Australian)
- The vanity search. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- government was pushed close to collapse. (The Australian)
Religion
- Cardinal Odilo Scherer. (Rorate Caeli)
Science and technology
- A newly discovered Y-chromosome haplogroup is thought to push back the time of Y-chromosomal Adam to 338,000 years ago. (New Scientist)
Sport
- Juventus and France's Paris Saint-Germain reach 2012–13 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals defeating Celtic and Valencia respectively. (CNN) (CBC) (Reuters)
- Fallout of Manchester United v. Real Madrid:
- Real Madrid in the second leg of their 2012–13 UEFA Champions League last 16 tie at Old Trafford. (The Guardian) (The Independent)
- Manchester United assistant manager Mike Phelan says Sir Alex Ferguson is "distraught"; the Scottish manager has not appeared in public since the incident. (Irish Independent)
- Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand may face a disciplinary procedure after his sarcastic hand-clapping gesture before Cüneyt Çakır at the end of the game. (The Guardian) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Former
- 1968, blasts Roy Keane over his position on Nani's controversial red card, describing Keane as being "in a minority of one. Not one person said it was a red card except Roy". (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph)