Portal:Current events/2012 March 7

March 7, 2012 (Wednesday)

Armed conflict and attacks

Insurgency in the North Caucasus: Five policemen are killed in a female suicide bombing by the widow of a killed Islamic militant in Dagestan, Russia. (The Telegraph)
Six British Army soldiers are missing presumed killed in Afghanistan. (AP via Washington Post)
Valerie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, visits the Baba Amr district in the Syrian city of Homs. (BBC)

Disasters

The death toll from a series of avalanches in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province rises to 50. (AP via SFGate)
The Australian town of Yenda, New South Wales, is flooded as floodwaters move through the Murray–Darling Basin. (Daily Telegraph)

International relations

Swedish media report that the country has been helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of a weapons factory. (Al Jazeera)

Politics

China describes Tibetan monks that have self-immolated as "criminals" and accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting the acts. (The Hindu)
Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil says he will "defend national unity" after Cyrenaica, the eastern region of the country, declared it would become semi-autonomous. (Al Jazeera)
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his wife, Stockholm county council chair Filippa Reinfeldt, separate after two decades of marriage. (Washington Post) (CBS News) (The Local)

Science

The biggest solar flare in five years that occurred on March 6 nears Earth with the capacity to disrupt power grids, GPS systems and airline flights. (AP via USA Today)
Physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report data suggesting the elusive hypothesized Higgs boson ("God particle") may have been detected. (New York Times)

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