Portal:Current events/2010 March 24

Current events of March 24, 2010 (2010-03-24) (Wednesday)

• Scientists identify a previously unknown type of ancient human through DNA analysis from a finger found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. (Nature) (BBC) (The New York Times)
• More than 100 people with links to Al-Qaeda are arrested in Saudi Arabia for allegedly planning attacks on oil and security installations in the country. (Al Jazeera) (The Times) (Press TV)
• Go Daddy, the largest domain name registration company in the world, announces it will cease registering websites in China after the Chinese governement required customers to provide photographs and other identifying information before registering. (CNET) (Washington Post) (AP)
• Indonesia bans a conference of Asian gay activists, saying it could prompt violent protests by conservative Muslim groups. (The New York Times)
• The United States requests clarifications on new Jewish housing in East Jerusalem after the Israeli Prime Minister meets the US President at the White House in Washington, D.C. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Daily Telegraph)
• Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop of Cloyne John Magee. (RTÉ) (The Daily Telegraph)
• American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel Prize for advancing "one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of modern mathematics" (The Hindu) (AP)
• A landslide kills at least three, injures 11 in Indonesia's West Sumatra in Saok Laweh village. (The Hindu)
• Students at the University of Ottawa protest and shut down right-wing pundit Ann Coulter's second stop on her trans-Canada tour. (CBC)
• Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears under the ocean, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory, but the Calcutta Institute raids fears over more islands going under next, this seems like clear evidence of sea level rise, thus global warming. (BBC)
• The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia goes offline, with users encountering navigation error messages. (CNN) (The Daily Telegraph) (PC Magazine)