Portal:Current events/2008 January 29

January 29, 2008 (Tuesday)

20 civilians including 11 children die and 14 are wounded after a mine explodes targeting a school bus in Madhu, Sri Lanka. (Sunday Times)
Iran's judiciary sentences 54 Baháʼí religion followers for "anti-regime propaganda." (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Snow storms cut the Beijing-Guangzhou railway and paralyze China's Chunyun period. (AP via The Houston Chronicle)
The United States House of Representatives passes a $146 billion economic stimulus package. (AP via The New York Times)
Venezuelan gunmen hold 30 hostages in a bank in Guárico state before fleeing the scene in an ambulance with several hostages. The gunmen are subsequently captured. (The Guardian) (AP via Google News)
2008 United States presidential election:
- Voters in Florida go to the polls to determine presidential nominees.
- New York Senator Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic primary with no delegates awarded. (CNN)
- Arizona Senator John McCain wins the Republican primary. (CNN) (The New York Times)
Near-Earth asteroid 2007 TU₂₄ passes Earth at a distance of 334,000 miles (537,500 km), and observations reduce the estimate of its size from 2,000 feet (610 m) diameter to 800 feet (250 m). (News Limited)
A missile strike by the Pakistan Army in North Waziristan kills ten suspected militants. (Reuters)
A car bomb in Thenia, Algeria kills at least three people. (Canadian Press via Google News)^{[permanent dead link]}