Portal:Current events/2007 January 26
January 26, 2007 (Friday)
- War in Somalia: Attackers fire four mortar shells at an Ethiopian military camp close to Mogadishu. (Aljazeera)
- Palestinian factional violence: More than 13 people are killed in clashes between rival factions Hamas and Fatah. (BBC)
- Scientists find connection between tobacco smoking addiction and the insula, a region of the brain's cerebral cortex linked to emotion. (Washington Times)
- UK retail giant Tesco opens its first own-brand supermarket branch in China, in the capital, Beijing. (BBC)
- An argument has erupted between Adam Air and the Indonesian government over who bears the cost of recovering the black box of the crashed plane Adam Air Flight 574. (Monstersandcritics.com)