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Image:Flag of Costa Rica state.svg A virtual tie between Óscar Arias and Ottón Solís prompts a manual recount in the Costa Rican presidential election. Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is jailed by a UK court for seven years after being found guilty of inciting murder and race hate. Stephen Harper is sworn in as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada. Several of his cabinet selections prompt controversy. In American football, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 21-10 in Super Bowl XL. Riots start in Egypt over the sinking of the al-Salam Boccaccio 98 with over 1,000 people on board. Crowds ransack the office of the ship's owner. Wikinews – Recent deaths – More current events... (edit)

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February 7, 2006

• Muslim cleric Abu Hamza was found guilty in the United Kingdom of 11 counts of incitement to murder and incitement to racial hatred. He was also found guilty of possessing a terrorist manual, illegal under the Terrorism Act 2000. (BBC)(ITN News)(FOX)(CNN)
  • Posted.--Pharos 21:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

February 6, 2006

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• As Stephen Harper is sworn in as Canada's 25th Prime Minister, David Emerson crosses the floor from the Liberal Party to Join Harper's Conservative Party, and is appointed as Minister of International Trade.
• Isabelle Dinoire, the first person to under go a face transplant, gives her first press conference since the operation. Her face contained tissue from a brain-dead persons nose.

--Hamedog^Talk|@ 12:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• Voting has just closed in the first round of the Costa Rica presidential elections and the race is turning out to be quite close.[1] youngamerican (talk) Image:West Virginia state flag.png Image:Flag of Wales 2.svg
  • Posted.--Pharos 20:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

February 5, 2006

• The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Seattle Seahawks by a score of 21-10 in Super Bowl XL. joturner 03:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
  • The rare sports item for In the News? joturner 03:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
    • I would agree that this should be on Itn, but I would let it bump down quicker than more-important stories such as the cartoon-based rioting. That being said, I am more of a sports-inclusionist than most, especially for the various forms of football in the world. youngamerican (talk) Image:West Virginia state flag.png Image:Flag of Wales 2.svg 03:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
• Well it is not the Danish embassy in Lebanon but the Consulate General, not sure if this is the right place to post this -- Snailwalker | talk 12:45, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
• In renewed violence by protestors against the Muhammad cartoons, the Danish embassy in Beirut is set ablaze, and two Jordanian newspaper editors are arrested after reproducing the drawings. BBC, BBC – Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 11:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

February 4, 2006

• Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, and generally credited for sparking the modern feminist movement, dies of congestive heart failure at age 85.
• Coretta Scott King lays in state at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, becoming the first woman and first African American to receive the honor from that state. --Kitch 21:22, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Hm.. maybe if we had an article on her funeral, a la the Pope and Reagan. --Golbez 21:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
• We are now ready for a news update in Current Events on the escalation of Muslim worldwide protests regarding the Muhammad cartoons, first printed in Jyllands-Posten but since reprinted in newspapers around Europe and in various places on the internet, especially since Kofi Annan's intervention. This is an important event, and I found it dficult to find the various news articles like te one at [[2]] BBC Bruce, aka Agendum 11:50, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Danish embassy in Damascus burns. [3] --24.26.178.224 16:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

• 27 out of 35 countries voted to report the Iranian nuclear program to the UN security council, following that nation's refusal to desist with its enrichment of nuclear materials, and to admit IAEA inspectors to observe the process. (BBC) Ck lostsword|^queta! 11:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
  • No article has been updated with this. -Splash^talk 16:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Ok, I did it myself and added it to the template. -Splash^talk 16:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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• A stampede breaks out at ULTRA stadium, Pasig City in the Philippines when organizers of the first anniversary celebration of Wowowee begin handing out tickets, trampling at least 73 people to death, with more than 300 injured. --199.71.174.100 06:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC),
  • seconded by --Vsion (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

• The Danish embassy is torched in Syria in response to the drawings of Muhammad -- It is a serious thing to burn down an embassy and the whole contreversial is still very relevant. --Snailwalker | talk 16:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

February 3, 2006

• (I know the article is not up to much yet, I just created it, but when we know a bit more): The Egyptian ferry Salam 98 disappears from radar, presumed sunk, in bad weather in the Red Sea. A rescue mission is underway. Batmanand 11:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• United States Congress extends the sunset provisions in Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act by another month to March 10, 2006. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:15, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

February 2, 2006

• It is announced that The Smashing Pumpkins, an american rock band from Chicago, Illinois, signed a management deal with Front Line Management on February 2, 2006 and will reunite this year.[4]

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• I object to your picture showing petrol prices. I can't think of ANY point in the last year (or for a long time)

when they were so `low' (and they certainly aren't at the moment; in fact they seem to be increasing yet again). Please find a suitable image to show how exorbitant they are. Naturally I am assuming that the picture was taken in the U.K. and shows price in pence per litre. Please note that I couldn't find out how to append my comments to the offending image, otherwise I would have done.

• • Indeed. Please head over to your nearest Shell petrol station, and take a pic and upload it and make a note here. If the story is still current, we can update the image, else we can update the image in the article. -Splash^talk 01:22, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Stopped for gas tonight and snapped a picture (see right). Feel free to use it. I added it to the article, where it mentions the record profits for Shell. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 04:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
• An unprecedented mobile phone tapping case was made public in Greece (Athens News Agency) --Diomidis Spinellis 16:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• This Athens News Agency article has very little information. I wonder if there is a media source that include these assertion somewhere out there? [5]

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• Re: Shell - I suggest cropping the photo (see right). -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 17:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
  • On my screen, the Shell image is spilling over into the Did you know... feature, because of the image proportions. I think the four features on the main page would look better, more balanced if the Shell image was cropped. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 21:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Done. -Splash^talk 22:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• The story needs more time to develop, but the oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska just now might develop into something ITN-able. Admins, keep an eye on it. Cheers. Youngamerican 18:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
  • I noticed that. At present, it seems there is no particular story — there's no leak or such like. Yet. -Splash^talk 20:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)