Portal:Current events/2015 February 25

February 25, 2015 (Wednesday)

Arts and culture

2015 Brit Awards
- American entertainer
  Madonna falls off stage while performing "Living for Love" at the 2015 Brit Awards. (PA via WA Today)
- Mark Ronson wins Best British single for "Uptown Funk" featuring American singer Bruno Mars. (The Guardian)
- Ed Sheeran wins Best British album for x. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

At least
187 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan (BBC News)

The
Clostridium difficile ("C. diff.") bacterium after going to the doctor's or dentist's office. (CNN) (CDC) (NEJM)

An arrest warrant is issued for Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, after she fails to show up to face graft charges. (BD News)
Film director Roman Polanski testifies at a closed to the media court hearing in Kraków, Poland, regarding a US request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex crime conviction. The hearing is later postponed until April. (The Guardian) (CNN)
Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $2.6 billion to settle with the United States Department of Justice over its sale of residential mortgage backed securities. (Bloomberg)
The Austrian Parliament passes a bill, partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, that gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams. (BBC)
A
sovereign bonds. (Reuters)

The
Argentine National Congress approves installation of a Chinese satellite tracking station in Patagonia. (AP)