Portal:Current events/2006 March 10
March 10, 2006 (Friday)
- Further evidence accrues to show that the polar ice caps are shrinking. (BBC)
- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters orbit around Mars. (BBC)
- More than 250 medical experts sign a letter in The Lancet urging the United States to stop force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees and close down the prison. (BBC)
- The World Health Organization announces that the number of people killed by measles declined by 48% between 1999 and 2004, from 871,000 to 454,000. The greatest decline, 60%, was in sub-Saharan Africa. The improvement is attributed to increased vaccination. (BBC)
- John Profumo, the man at the centre of Britain's most famous political scandal of the 20th century, has died at the age of 91. (Channel four News)
- Italian prosecutors ask for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills to be indicted in the on-going alleged bribery case. (BBC)
- Twenty-six people are killed in Dera Bugti, southwest Pakistan, when their vehicle hits a landmine. The victims were primarily women and children. Both tribal rebels and security forces planted landmines in the area. (BBC)
- Terminal D at LaGuardia Airport in New York City was closed due to a security breach. (CNN)
- Gale Norton has announced her resignation as United States Secretary of the Interior, effective March 31, 2006. (CNN)