Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/November

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• Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is elected Brazil's first female President.
• At least 32 people are injured in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey.
• In baseball, the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series.
• Authorities investigate a plot to bomb planes with cargo packages intercepted in England and Dubai, en route from Yemen to the United States.
• Islamic militants attack a Catholic church in Baghdad, killing 58 people and injuring dozens of others.
• In the United States midterm elections, the Democratic Party retains a majority in the Senate, while the Republican Party wins a majority of seats in the House of Representatives.
• Viktor Chernomyrdin, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia and the founder of Gazprom company, dies at age 72.
• Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 on board.
• Hurricane Tomas strikes several Caribbean nations, killing at least 24 people and causing damage estimated at US$544 million.
• Flights are disrupted by repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia.
• Over 400 people are killed by an outbreak of cholera in the Saint-Marc region of Haiti.
• Pope Benedict XVI consecrates the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and declares it a basilica, 128 years after its construction started.
• Gebre Gebremariam and Edna Kiplagat win the 2010 New York City Marathon, as world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement after abandoning the race through injury.
• Michel Houellebecq wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel La Carte et le Territoire.
• Cyclone Jal and associated flooding kill at least 117 people in India, Thailand and Malaysia.
• Opposition parties concede defeat to the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party in Burma's first elections for 20 years, after the National League for Democracy boycotts the elections.
• The video game Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks the 24-hour sales record, selling 5.6 million copies.
• A truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in Karachi, destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.
• Polish composer Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.
• The sixteenth Asian Games commence in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
• Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
• In boxing, Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to become the sport's first octuple champion.
• Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest-ever Formula One world champion, winning the 2010 Formula One season, while Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.
• Russia defeats Brazil to win the women's volleyball world championship.
• A fire destroys a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China, killing 42 people and injuring over 100.
• Alpha Condé wins the Guinean presidential election, the first held since the 2008 coup d'état.
• Prince William, second in line to the thrones of the 16 Commonwealth realms, and Kate Middleton announce their engagement to be married next year.
• Researchers at CERN announce that they have trapped antihydrogen atoms for the first time.
• A series of flash floods kills 136 people and disrupts more than 1.2 million others across Colombia.
• At a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, the heads of government of the NATO member states adopt a new Strategic Concept and agree to develop a mutual missile defense system.
• Voters in Madagascar approve a new constitution in a referendum which also sees Andry Rajoelina remain as interim president.
• Eurozone countries agree to a bailout of the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the global financial crisis.
• A stampede during festival celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills at least 345 people.
• North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea.
• 29 miners are confirmed dead after a second explosion in the Pike River Mine, New Zealand's worst mining disaster in 96 years.
• The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins an absolute majority in the Tongan general election.
• The Russian State Duma passes a bill officially condemning the 1940 Katyn massacre.
• Tom DeLay, former Republican Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
• WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables.
• Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen dies at the age of 84.