Template:In the news

For a talk-page template to indicate that a Wikipedia page has been mentioned by a media organisation, see Template:Press.

"In the news" mentions and links to entries of timely interest – encyclopedia articles that have been updated to reflect an important current event – rather than conventional news items. To prevent vandalism on the Main Page, it is a permanently protected template. See Wikipedia:In the news for more details.

See an error? Please note it on Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors for administrator assistance.

The template accepts one parameter: adding |nocurrenteventslink=1 removes the link to Portal:Current events. This is used on the current events page to hide the link there.

Admins: After updating please purge the cache of the Main Page so that the updated version appears.

In terms of Main Page balance, right now we're configured for widescreen monitors, which it appears most editors use. Non-widescreen users, please do not change the balance even if it looks off on your monitor.

Click here to purge the template's cache manually, if it does not appear to be updating on the Main Page after you edit it.

Current topics

2008 Greek riots

• The Channel Island of Sark, a British crown dependency, holds its first democratic elections under a plan to abolish feudalism.

• Anti-police riots (pictured) continue in Athens and several cities across Greece.

• Ireland issues an international recall of its pork products following the discovery of contaminated pig feed.

• Patriarch Alexy II, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, dies of heart failure in Peredelkino, Russia.

• A bombing kills 29 people and injures more than 100 in Peshawar, Pakistan.

• A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe spreads, with hundreds dead and over 12,000 people infected since August 2008.