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Algeria Hostage Crisis
CNN: At Least 37 Hostages KilledThe In Amenas hostage crisis began on 16 January 2013, when al-Qaeda-linked terrorists affiliated with a brigade led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar took over 800 people hostage at the Tigantourine gas facility near In Amenas, Algeria.
At least 23 hostages and 32 "terrorists" were killed around the sprawling facility in eastern Algeria's desert, the Algerian interior ministry said Saturday. Some 685 Algerian workers and 107 foreigners have been freed, it said. -
North Korea conducts nuclear test
Reuters: North Korean nuclear test draws anger, including from China North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, angering the United States and Japan and prompting its only major ally, China, to call for calm. -
Meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk
Meteor Explodes A meteor streaking through the sky exploded over Russia's Ural mountains, injuring nearly 1,000 people and damaging homes and businesses in the Chelyabinsk region -
Pope Benedict XVI resigns
ABC News: Pope Resigns Pope Benedict's decision to step down as leader of the Catholic Church made him the first pope to relinquish the office since Pope Gregory XII in 1415. -
Boston Marathon Bombing
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Bangladeshi Building Collapse
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Tornado strikes Moore, OK
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Snowden discloses mass surveillance program and flees
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Supreme Court Strikes down Marriage Law
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President Mohamed Morsi is deposed
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Zimmerman aquitted
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Reports of Sarin Gas Attack in Damascus emerge
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al-Shabaab Islamic Militants Attack Shopping mall
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Federal Govt shuts down
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Typhoon Haiyan
