Template:In the news
- Indian national Sarabjit Singh, imprisoned in Pakistan on charges of espionage, dies after being attacked by fellow inmates on death row.
- The European Union passes a two-year ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, which are suspected to be the primary cause of colony collapse disorder.
- Following the planned abdication of his mother Beatrix, Willem-Alexander (pictured) becomes King of the Netherlands.
- The Herschel Space Observatory, a far-infrared space telescope, ends its mission after running out of liquid helium coolant.
- NBA player Jason Collins becomes the first active player of the four major men's professional sports leagues in North America to publicly come out as gay.
- The Independence Party and the Progressive Party win the most seats in the Icelandic parliamentary election.
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