Portal:Current events/2014 January 25

Current events of January 25, 2014 (2014-01-25) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks Civil conflict in the Philippines The Philippines and the Bangsamoro agree to a peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict. (Fox News) Post-civil war violence in Libya: Five Egyptian embassy staff are kidnapped in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. (The Guardian) Post-coup unrest in Egypt: 64 people are killed in anti-government marches. (Al-Ahram), (Reuters), (BBC) Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) 17 people are killed in car-bomb and mortar attacks on a Shi'ite Muslim village in Iraq. (Reuters) Law and crime A vial containing drops of late Pope John Paul II's blood is stolen from the Church of San Pietro della Ienca in Abruzzo, Italy. (The Guardian) A shooting at the Columbia Mall in the U.S. state of Maryland results in 3 people being killed. (BBC) Sports 2014 Australian Open: China's Li Na defeats Slovakia's Dominika Cibulková 7-63, 6-0 to win the women's final. (Sydney Morning Herald) The United SportsCar Championship debuts as the International Motor Sports Association's new premier series in the United States with the 52nd running of the 24 Hours of Daytona. (Fox Sports) Science and technology Yutu, China's lunar rover, suffers an unspecified "mechanical control abnormality" shortly before going dormant for the two-week-long lunar night. The solar-powered vehicle has been on the Moon since 15 December and had survived one lunar night. (Xinhua), (abc.net.au) Average peak concentrations of PM2.5 (fine particulate air pollution) are more than twice as great in Delhi as in Beijing during the first three weeks of the year. (New York Times)