January
is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars,
and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. The first
day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the
coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere and the
warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere.
January is named after Janus (Ianuarius), the god of the doorway; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door (ianua) - January is the door to the year.
January is named after Janus (Ianuarius), the god of the doorway; the name has its beginnings in Roman mythology, coming from the Latin word for door (ianua) - January is the door to the year.
January 1, 2010, New Years
January 1, 2010, Researchers
announce that the likely origin of devil facial tumour disease, a
transmissible cancer which has caused the population of Tasmanian devils
to collapse by 60% in the past decade, is Schwann cells. (BBC)
January 1, 2010, North Korea calls for the end of hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free Korean Peninsula, to restart talks; in its annual New Year editorial.(CNN)
January 1, 2010, Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden. (BBC News)
January 1, 2010, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area. (New York Times)
January 2, 2010, 19-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is confirmed as the youngest-ever world number one in the official January 2010 FIDE rating list. (Reuters)
January 2, 2010, An Antarctic expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller Vickers plane of explorer Douglas Mawson. (Reuters)
January 2, 2010, Atheist Ireland purposefully publishes the words of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, Mark Twain and Pope Benedict XVI on its website despite a new law banning them on grounds of blasphemy. (BBC)
January 2, 2010, Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe. (BBC)
January 3, 2010, A 5.1 magnitude earthquake leaves 20,000 homeless and causes US$1.5 million in damage in eastern Tajikistan. (CNN)
January 3, 2010, The United States and United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen, citing threats from Al-Qaeda. (CNN)
January 3, 2010, Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline Japan Airlines to Y200bn (US$2.2bn). (Financial Times)
January 3, 2010, The Colombian volcano Galeras erupts, forcing the evacuation of 8,000 people. (Colombia Reports)
January 3, 2010, Mount Nyamuragira in the Democratic Republic of the Congo erupts, threatening rare wildlife in the Virunga National Park. (France 24)
January 3, 2010, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that full body scanners will be introduced at UK airports following the failed attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, The Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure ever built, opens to the public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Al Jazeera)
January 4, 2010, NASA's Kepler telescope detects its first five exoplanets. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, Egyptian archaeologists discover the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis. (Discovery News)
January 4, 2010, 52 unmarried couples in Malaysia face charges of sexual misconduct and possible imprisonment after being caught alone in hotel rooms by the country's Islamic morality police. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, The suicide bomber from Jordan, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan, is reported to be an al-Qaeda triple agent. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, At least 500 homes are damaged after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands. (AFP)
-As many as 1,000 people in the Solomon Islands are reportedly homeless following the two major earthquakes and tsunami which struck the country earlier this week. (Time Magazine)
January 4, 2010, The Government of Serbia sues Croatia for genocide before the International Court of Justice with historical account of the Holocaust. (B92)
January 4, 2010, Large parts of northern China and South Korea are affected by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years, causing widespread disruption. (People's Daily)
January 4, 2010, Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963. (RTÉ)
January 4, 2010, A representation of President of the United States Barack Obama is found hanging by a noose with the epitaph "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President". (BBC)
January 4, 2010, A gunman opens fire in the lobby of the Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, containing the offices of Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign. A court security officer was killed and a U.S. Marshal injured before the assailant was shot dead. (NY Daily News)
January 5, 2010, Release of Google Nexus Phone
January 5, 2010, Iran bans its citizens from contact with 60 international organisations and media outlets over claims they conspired against the country. (Press TV)
January 5, 2010, The World Food Programme suspends its operations in southern Somalia due to rising instability in the region. (Bloomberg)
January 5, 2010, The US State Department announces that they are revamping how foreign delegations are handled, in response to a Secret Service report that a third man had crashed the state dinner for the Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)
January 5, 2010, The United States reopens its embassy in Yemen after strikes on al-Qaeda. (CNN)
January 5, 2010, The United Kingdom is once again deluged by heavy snowfall as the country endures its worst cold snap for at least 20 years. (BBC)
January 6, 2010, The U.S. government lowers the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked. (CNN)
January 6, 2010, China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing Germany from first place. (The Wall Street Journal)
January 6, 2010, Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard claims he has computed π to almost 2.7 trillion digits. (BBC)
January 7, 2010, Season 3 premiere of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
January 7, 2010, First Official Portrait of Prince William and Harry revealed
January 7, 2010, Alabama Crimson Tide defeats the Texas Longhorns 37 - 21 in the Rose Bowl for the BCS National Championship.
January 7, 2010, An ABB employee commits suicide after shooting eight people, three fatally, at the ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. (CNN)
January 7, 2010, The United States approves arms sales to Taiwan, amid opposition from China. (Radio Taiwan International)
January 8, 2010, Release of Youth in Revolt
January 8, 2010, Release of Leap Year
January 8, 2010, Release of Daybreakers
January 8, 2010, A large statue of the Pharaoh Taharqa is discovered deep in Sudan. (The Independent)
January 8, 2010, The Portuguese parliament approves a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. (CBC)
January 8, 2010, The Ugandan death penalty for homosexuality may be declared "not necessary". (BBC)
January 8, 2010, China becomes the number one automobile market in the world. (Reuters)
January 8, 2010, A Georgian flight lands in Moscow, Russia, the first since the 2008 war. (RIA Novosti)
January 9, 2010, A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes offshore near Eureka, California, with reports of damage and local power outages. (CNN)
January 9, 2010, A bomb explodes outside the Greek Parliament in Athens with no casualties. (CNN)
January 9, 2010, The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program. (The Hindu)
January 9, 2010, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez announces that the national currency, the bolívar, will be devalued for the first time since 2005, by between 17% and 50%. (BBC)
January 10, 2010, Release of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
January 10, 2010, Season 3 premiere of Chuck.
January 10, 2010, Season 4 premiere of Big Love
January 10, 2010, Beginning of 2010 Africa World Cup
January 10, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlines seven priorities for 2010 and urges a renewed focus on sustainable development, ending poverty, disease and hunger. (UN News Centre)
January 11, 2010, The People's Republic of China conducts a land-based high-altitude anti-ballistic missile test. (SINA News)
January 11, 2010, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a challenge to California Proposition 8 and likely a landmark case regarding same-sex marriage rights in the United States, begins in San Francisco. (The Associated Press)
January 11, 2010, Wolfgang Wodarg, the Council of Europe's head of health affairs, claims that the 2009 flu pandemic was a "false pandemic" orchestrated by the pharmaceutical industry to sell vaccines. (The Sun)
January 11, 2010, North Korea proposes a peace treaty, replacing the Korean War armistice. (Yonhap)
January 11, 2010, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will be without spouses by the end of the decade, citing an uneven birth rate. (Global Times)
January 11, 2010, Tombs discovered near Egypt's great pyramids reinforce the theory they were built by free workers rather than slaves. (BBC News)
January 11, 2010, People in 16 countries in 44 cities from Adelaide to Zürich cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places" by removing their trousers in public, with 3,000 people doing it in New York alone. (BBC)
January 11, 2010, The New York City Health Department seeks national reduction of salt in food. (CNN)
January 11, 2010, The United Nations seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Michel Sidibé visited Sauri in western Kenya, which is a village of the Millennium Villages Project. (UN News Centre)
January 12, 2009, Series Premiere Blue Mountain State
January 12, 2010,
January 12, 2010, Obama speech writer Ben Rhodes is penning new script for global stage. (Washpost)
January 12, 2010,
January 1, 2010, North Korea calls for the end of hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free Korean Peninsula, to restart talks; in its annual New Year editorial.(CNN)
January 1, 2010, Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden. (BBC News)
January 1, 2010, China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area. (New York Times)
January 2, 2010, 19-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is confirmed as the youngest-ever world number one in the official January 2010 FIDE rating list. (Reuters)
January 2, 2010, An Antarctic expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller Vickers plane of explorer Douglas Mawson. (Reuters)
January 2, 2010, Atheist Ireland purposefully publishes the words of Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Salman Rushdie, Mark Twain and Pope Benedict XVI on its website despite a new law banning them on grounds of blasphemy. (BBC)
January 2, 2010, Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe. (BBC)
January 3, 2010, A 5.1 magnitude earthquake leaves 20,000 homeless and causes US$1.5 million in damage in eastern Tajikistan. (CNN)
January 3, 2010, The United States and United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen, citing threats from Al-Qaeda. (CNN)
January 3, 2010, Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline Japan Airlines to Y200bn (US$2.2bn). (Financial Times)
January 3, 2010, The Colombian volcano Galeras erupts, forcing the evacuation of 8,000 people. (Colombia Reports)
January 3, 2010, Mount Nyamuragira in the Democratic Republic of the Congo erupts, threatening rare wildlife in the Virunga National Park. (France 24)
January 3, 2010, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that full body scanners will be introduced at UK airports following the failed attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, The Burj Khalifa, the tallest structure ever built, opens to the public in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Al Jazeera)
January 4, 2010, NASA's Kepler telescope detects its first five exoplanets. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, Egyptian archaeologists discover the largest tomb yet discovered in the ancient Saqqara necropolis. (Discovery News)
January 4, 2010, 52 unmarried couples in Malaysia face charges of sexual misconduct and possible imprisonment after being caught alone in hotel rooms by the country's Islamic morality police. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, The suicide bomber from Jordan, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan, is reported to be an al-Qaeda triple agent. (BBC)
January 4, 2010, At least 500 homes are damaged after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands. (AFP)
-As many as 1,000 people in the Solomon Islands are reportedly homeless following the two major earthquakes and tsunami which struck the country earlier this week. (Time Magazine)
January 4, 2010, The Government of Serbia sues Croatia for genocide before the International Court of Justice with historical account of the Holocaust. (B92)
January 4, 2010, Large parts of northern China and South Korea are affected by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years, causing widespread disruption. (People's Daily)
January 4, 2010, Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963. (RTÉ)
January 4, 2010, A representation of President of the United States Barack Obama is found hanging by a noose with the epitaph "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President". (BBC)
January 4, 2010, A gunman opens fire in the lobby of the Lloyd D. George Federal District Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, containing the offices of Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign. A court security officer was killed and a U.S. Marshal injured before the assailant was shot dead. (NY Daily News)
January 5, 2010, Release of Google Nexus Phone
January 5, 2010, Iran bans its citizens from contact with 60 international organisations and media outlets over claims they conspired against the country. (Press TV)
January 5, 2010, The World Food Programme suspends its operations in southern Somalia due to rising instability in the region. (Bloomberg)
January 5, 2010, The US State Department announces that they are revamping how foreign delegations are handled, in response to a Secret Service report that a third man had crashed the state dinner for the Prime Minister of India. (Reuters)
January 5, 2010, The United States reopens its embassy in Yemen after strikes on al-Qaeda. (CNN)
January 5, 2010, The United Kingdom is once again deluged by heavy snowfall as the country endures its worst cold snap for at least 20 years. (BBC)
January 6, 2010, The U.S. government lowers the threshold for information deemed important enough to put suspicious individuals on a watch list or no-fly list, or have their visa revoked. (CNN)
January 6, 2010, China becomes the largest exporting country, pushing Germany from first place. (The Wall Street Journal)
January 6, 2010, Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard claims he has computed π to almost 2.7 trillion digits. (BBC)
January 7, 2010, Season 3 premiere of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
January 7, 2010, First Official Portrait of Prince William and Harry revealed
January 7, 2010, Alabama Crimson Tide defeats the Texas Longhorns 37 - 21 in the Rose Bowl for the BCS National Championship.
January 7, 2010, An ABB employee commits suicide after shooting eight people, three fatally, at the ABB Power building in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. (CNN)
January 7, 2010, The United States approves arms sales to Taiwan, amid opposition from China. (Radio Taiwan International)
January 8, 2010, Release of Youth in Revolt
January 8, 2010, Release of Leap Year
January 8, 2010, Release of Daybreakers
January 8, 2010, A large statue of the Pharaoh Taharqa is discovered deep in Sudan. (The Independent)
January 8, 2010, The Portuguese parliament approves a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. (CBC)
January 8, 2010, The Ugandan death penalty for homosexuality may be declared "not necessary". (BBC)
January 8, 2010, China becomes the number one automobile market in the world. (Reuters)
January 8, 2010, A Georgian flight lands in Moscow, Russia, the first since the 2008 war. (RIA Novosti)
January 9, 2010, A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes offshore near Eureka, California, with reports of damage and local power outages. (CNN)
January 9, 2010, A bomb explodes outside the Greek Parliament in Athens with no casualties. (CNN)
January 9, 2010, The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program. (The Hindu)
January 9, 2010, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez announces that the national currency, the bolívar, will be devalued for the first time since 2005, by between 17% and 50%. (BBC)
January 10, 2010, Release of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
January 10, 2010, Season 3 premiere of Chuck.
January 10, 2010, Season 4 premiere of Big Love
January 10, 2010, Beginning of 2010 Africa World Cup
January 10, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010,
January 11, 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlines seven priorities for 2010 and urges a renewed focus on sustainable development, ending poverty, disease and hunger. (UN News Centre)
January 11, 2010, The People's Republic of China conducts a land-based high-altitude anti-ballistic missile test. (SINA News)
January 11, 2010, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a challenge to California Proposition 8 and likely a landmark case regarding same-sex marriage rights in the United States, begins in San Francisco. (The Associated Press)
January 11, 2010, Wolfgang Wodarg, the Council of Europe's head of health affairs, claims that the 2009 flu pandemic was a "false pandemic" orchestrated by the pharmaceutical industry to sell vaccines. (The Sun)
January 11, 2010, North Korea proposes a peace treaty, replacing the Korean War armistice. (Yonhap)
January 11, 2010, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that more than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will be without spouses by the end of the decade, citing an uneven birth rate. (Global Times)
January 11, 2010, Tombs discovered near Egypt's great pyramids reinforce the theory they were built by free workers rather than slaves. (BBC News)
January 11, 2010, People in 16 countries in 44 cities from Adelaide to Zürich cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places" by removing their trousers in public, with 3,000 people doing it in New York alone. (BBC)
January 11, 2010, The New York City Health Department seeks national reduction of salt in food. (CNN)
January 11, 2010, The United Nations seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Michel Sidibé visited Sauri in western Kenya, which is a village of the Millennium Villages Project. (UN News Centre)
January 12, 2009, Series Premiere Blue Mountain State
January 12, 2010,
January 12, 2010, Obama speech writer Ben Rhodes is penning new script for global stage. (Washpost)
January 12, 2010,
January 12, 2010,
January 12, 2010, World saw decline in freedom in 2009 Think tank finds. (CNN)
January 12, 2010, The European Court of Human Rights rules that powers contained in the UK Terrorism Act 2000 violate the European Convention on Human Rights. (The Guardian)
January 12, 2010, Google says it may end its operations in China as it is no longer willing to continue censoring its search results. (Reuters)
January 12, 2010, U.S. talk show host Conan O'Brien announces his intention to quit The Tonight Show if NBC goes forward with their plan to move the show from its long standing 11:35pm timeslot to 12:05am in favor of The Jay Leno Show. (AP)
January 12, 2010, Australia experiences its hottest night since 1902, as a heatwave grips the country. (BBC)
January 12, 2010, The "bizarre behaviour" of a nocturnal raspy cricket pollinating a flower is caught on camera on the island of Réunion, contradicting the image of crickets destroying flowers. (BBC)
January 12, 2010, Four men feature in the first Crown Court criminal trial to be held without a jury in England and Wales for more than 350 years. (The Daily Telegraph)
January 12, 2010, Police in Kent, UK, admit the unlawful searching of two 11-year-old children who were left "crying and shaking" after being targeted at a demonstration near Hoo. (BBC)
January 12, 2010, The first map in Chinese to show the Americas, created by Matteo Ricci at the request of the Wanli Emperor, goes on public display. (ABC News)
January 12, 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is ‘encouraged’ by recent developments in Guinean politics, and states the UN will continue working with the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other partners. (UN News Centre)
January 12, 2010, Chile becomes the first South American country to be admitted to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (Santiago Times)
January 12, 2010, The Confederation of African Football officially "disqualifies" and plans to punish the Togo national football team for failing to take part in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, despite the fatal machine gun attack on their team bus. (The Times)
January 13, 2010, Computer modelling shows that the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier, once described as a major "tipping point" for the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the embayment of the Amundsen Sea, has reached their own tipping points for eventual collapse, likely to lead to a sea level rise of up to 52 cm. (New Scientist)
January 13, 2010, Venezuela announces an electricity rationing programme in which the entire country will be affected by four-hour blackouts every week. (El Universal)
January 13, 2010, The United States trade deficit rose 9.7% to 36.4 billion US dollars in November. (Xinhua)
January 13, 2010, The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is held in Detroit, Michigan, US. Green vehicles are seen as a response to the late 2000s recession. Automotive News World Congress is held at the Renaissance Center. (Xinhua)
January 13, 2010, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urges the government to reconsider the anti-homosexuality bill being debated due to "foreign policy issues". (The Guardian)
January 13, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI meets and forgives the woman who attacked him at Christmas Eve Mass in 2009. (The Times)
January 14, 2010, Series Premiere of Archer
January 14, 2010, Death of Soul Singer "Teddy" Pendergrass. (Fox)
January 14, 2010, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez partially reverses a decision to ration electricity in the country a day after it was announced, saying it was having "undesirable effects" on the population. Thus, Caracas residents won't have power cuts anymore. (El Universal)
January 14, 2010, Taoiseach Brian Cowen meets Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London for talks on the devolution process in Northern Ireland. (The Irish Times)
January 15, 2010, Release of the Book of Eli
January 15, 2010, Release of the Spy Next Door
January 15, 2010, Series Premiere of Human Target
January 15, 2010,
January 15, 2010,
January 15, 2010, Johnson & Johnson recalls more than 53 million bottles of over-the-counter products, including Tylenol, Motrin and Rolaids, from the Americas, the United Arab Emirates and Fiji. (Reuters)
January 15, 2010, Mr Gay China, said to be the first gay Chinese pageant, is shut down by police an hour before opening. (BBC)
January 15, 2010, Russia ratifies key European Court of Human Rights reform. Russia was the last of the 47 Council of Europe member-states to ratify Protocol 14. (Al Jazeera)
January 16, 2010, Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- The United Nations says the earthquake is the worst disaster it has ever had to deal with in its history. (The Daily Telegraph)
- A 4.5 magnitude aftershock strikes Haiti within days of the recent devastating earthquake. (Sky News)
January 16, 2010, Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares says the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) use of his photo in its "shameless" digital manipulation of Osama Bin Laden for a wanted poster, has left him insecure and worried about travelling to the United States in future. (BBC)
January 16, 2010, The German government asks its citizens to stop using Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer to protect their own security. (BBC)
January 16, 2010, The first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond indicate that it behaves similarly to water in that the solid floats on the liquid. (Discovery News)
January 16, 2010, India's National Security Advisor M K Narayanan steps down as part of an overhaul of security in the country. (The Times)
January 16, 2010, China announces an increase of 28% in the number of internet users in the country, now at 384 million. (Times of India)
January 16, 2010, Another church is attacked in Malaysia and a mosque also targeted for the first time in a row over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims. (Times of India)
January 17, 2010, Season 8 premiere of TV series 24
January 17, 2010,
January 17, 2010, Aftermath of 2010 Haiti earthquake: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade offers "voluntary repatriation" to each of his Haitian "sons and daughters of Africa". (BBC)
January 17, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI makes a controversial visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome. (BBC)
January 17, 2010, Prince William of Wales arrives in New Zealand for a three-day tour, including the opening of its new Supreme Court, his first official overseas trip representing Queen Elizabeth II. (BBC)
January 18, 2010, Martin Luther King Day
January 18, 2010,
January 18, 2010, Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, the one-time hero of the Orange Revolution, has been eliminated from the country's presidential election. (BBC)
January 18, 2010, Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in May 1981, is released from a Turkish prison after almost 30 years behind bars. (Hong Kong Standard)
January 18, 2010, North Korea says sanctions against the country should be lifted before it returns to the six-party talks over its nuclear program. (BBC)
January 19, 2010, 2010 Haiti earthquake: The United Nations Security Council increases the size of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti by 3,500. (UN News Centre)
-Scores of United States Navy troops land near the Haitian presidential palace, bringing food, water, and equipment. (BBC)
January 19, 2010, British confectionery maker Cadbury is to be purchased by American company Kraft Foods for £11.5 billion (850 pence per share). (BBC)
January 19, 2010, Massachusetts voters elect Republican Scott Brown to fill the vacant United States Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy. (BBC)
January 19, 2010, A United Nations survey reveals Afghans have paid about US$2.5 (or £1.5) billion in bribes in the last year. (BBC)
January 19, 2010, Japanese air carrier Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection. (BBC)
January 19, 2010, The Number Resource Organisation warns the Internet is running out of IP addresses, with less than 10% of current-generation IPv4 addresses still available. (Daily Telegraph)
January 20, 2010,
January 20, 2010,
January 20, 2010, Christopher Speight, an American man who shot and killed eight people in Appomattox, Virginia, surrenders to police. (BBC)
January 20, 2010, U.S. investment bank JPMorgan Chase is in talks to buy natural gas firm RBS Sempra for about US$4 billion. (CNBC)
January 20, 2010, A 6.1 magnitude aftershock rocks Haiti a week after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. (BBC)
January 21, 2010, Series Premiere of The Deep End
January 21, 2010, U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs reports a sharp increase in profits for 2009, beating analysts' expectations. (BBC)
January 21, 2010, Chinese economy grows 8.7% in 2009. (BBC)
January 21, 2010, United States Supreme Court overturns campaign spending limits by corporations and unions. (BBC)
January 22, 2010, Release of the Tooth Fairy
January 22, 2010, Release of Legion.
January 22, 2010, Release of Extraordinary Measures
January 22, 2010, Series Premiere of Caprica
January 22, 2010, Series Premiere of Spartacus
January 22, 2010,
January 22, 2010, Ten rhinoceros horns seized in recent weeks at Shannon Airport in Ireland are said to be "rare" and "of international significance". (RTÉ)
January 22, 2010, Operation Aurora: A White House spokesman says U.S. President Barack Obama is "troubled" by the cyber attacks and wants "some answers". (BBC)
January 22, 2010, U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson announces the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has raised the terrorist threat level from "substantial" to "severe". (BBC)
January 22, 2010, European banking stocks drop sharply following U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to restrict activities of the biggest American banks. (BBC)
January 22, 2010, Alexey Dymovskiy, the Russian policeman who became famous for denouncing police corruption on YouTube, is arrested on charges of fraud and corruption. (BBC)
January 22, 2010, The internationally renowned Waterford Crystal tourist centre in Kilbarry, Ireland, ceases to function. (RTÉ)
January 23, 2010, Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- The Haitian government declares earthquake rescue operations over. (BBC)
- The government announces a first precise death toll of 111,481. To date, it is the second-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century (after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake). (CNN)
January 24, 2010, Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- Haiti is rocked by another earthquake. (CBC News)
- The Haitian government announces the death toll from the recent earthquake has reached 150,000 in the capital Port-au-Prince alone. (BBC)
- A minute's silence is held before games in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. (CNN)
January 24, 2010, In the National Football League, the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints win playoff games to advance to Super Bowl XLIV. (AP)
January 24, 2010, The Chinese government denies state involvement in the cyber attacks on Google, while the state-run China Daily newspaper accuses the United States of hypocrisy. (BBC)
January 24, 2010, Osama Bin Laden claims responsibility for the failed Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit, USA, last year. (BBC)
January 24, 2010, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds wins the top prize at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, with Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock winning best actors. (BBC)
January 24, 2010, A spokesman for U.S. President Barack Obama expresses the administration's support for a second term for the incumbent Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and says lawmakers would send a bad message by "playing politics in any way" with Bernanke's confirmation. (ABC News)
January 25, 2010,
January 25, 2010, Live Nation and Ticketmaster complete their merger, following an agreement with the United States Department of Justice to divest some interests. (Reuters)
January 25, 2010, Environment ministers from the G4 bloc meet in New Delhi, India, to agree a common position ahead of future climate change talks, such as the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP-16") at Cancún, Mexico, to be held from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010. (The Daily Star)
January 25, 2010, Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", is executed. (BBC News)
January 25, 2010, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, with 85 passengers on board, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea after taking off from Beirut Airport, Lebanon. (BBC)
January 25, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the opening of an exhibition of Auschwitz concentration camp blueprints in Yad Vashem. (The Washington Post)
January 26, 2010, The United States approves an arms sale to Taiwan, amid opposition from China. (Al Jazeera)
January 26, 2010, Petelo Vikena, King of the Kingdom of Alo in Wallis and Futuna, abdicates after reports of vandalism and arson against royal property. (RNZI)
January 26, 2010, James Cameron's Avatar becomes the highest-grossing film of all time (not accounting inflation), surpassing his 1997 Titanic. (Wall Street Journal)
January 27, 2010, 2010 State of the Union
January 27, 2010, The Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S., Timothy Geithner, appears before a committee of the House of Representatives to discuss his actions in 2008, when he was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in the rescue of troubled insurance industry giant AIG. (New York Times)
January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs unveils the Apple iPad, a tablet PC at a press conference in San Francisco.(Engadget)
January 28, 2010, The U.S. Senate votes to give Ben Bernanke a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve. (AP)
January 28, 2010, J. D. Salinger, author of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, dies at the age of 91. (BBC)
January 28, 2010, Aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake: The International Monetary Fund loans US$114 million to Haiti following the recent earthquake devastation, with the full amount due to be transferred by the end of the week. (The Straits Times)
January 29, 2010, Release of the Edge of Darkness
January 29, 2010, Release of When in Rome
January 29, 2010, Release of Wonderful World
January 29, 2010, The United States approves a US$6 billion arms sales package to Taiwan. (The New York Times)
January 29, 2010, First flight of the Russian stealth fighter Sukhoi T-50. (The Times)
January 31, 2010, 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony
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January 31, 2010, Gunmen opens fire on a student party in Ciudad Juárez, killing at least 13. (BBC)
January 31, 2010, His Royal Hologram Prince Charles Addresses the World Future Energy Summit. (Link)
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