Wikinews:2011/March
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- Telecom Commission of Solomon Islands issues phone company US$1M fine
- Apple Inc. unveils iPad 2 tablet
- US Supreme Court upholds right to picket military funerals
- Egyptian prime minister steps down; armed forces appoint former transport minister to position
- US World War II veteran Leonard Lomell dies aged 91
- High school basketball star dies after making game-winning shot in overtime
- UK's most-read papers found to be in contempt of court
- US military brig officials order whistle-blowing suspect to sleep naked
- Libyan government accuses three Dutch helicopter crew of transporting spies
- Che Guevara's ''Motorcycle Diaries'' companion dies
- Three law enforcement officers shot, one dead along with suspect, in St. Louis, Missouri standoff
- Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim remains the world’s richest man
- Space Shuttle Discovery lands for final time
- NASCAR: Carl Edwards wins 2011 Kobalt Tools 400
- France first to recognise Libyan rebels as "legitimate representatives of the people"
- Earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant triggers evacuation
- Former adult film actress forced to leave teaching job again
- 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, causes tsunami
- Relative of Afghan president Hamid Karzai shot dead by NATO troops
- Philadelphia Archdiocese suspends 21 priests for alleged sexual abuse
- Arab League calls for Libyan no-fly zone
- Explosion at earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant
- British MP reveals Fred Goodwin superinjunction
- Special report on Japanese tsunami emergency in Pichilemu, Chile
- Honey bee decline spreading globally
- U.S. February budget deficit is largest on record
- English policeman Nicholas Stone cleared of rape, facing jail for misconduct
- Burger King CEO insults British women during speech to students
- Japanese tsunami impacts California coastal town
- Libyan government forces capture eastern town from rebels
- Domestic economic impacts likely after Japanese earthquake
- US State department official resigns after Wikileaks comments
- Researchers identify genetic link to peanut allergies
- Al Jazeera cameraman killed in eastern Libya
- Israel to build new settlements in West Bank
- Cuba releases leading dissident from prison
- Japan facing 'most severe crisis since World War II', says prime minister
- IPad 2 goes on sale in United States
- New York tour bus crash kills 14
- Death toll rises from Japan quake
- Four dead after Yemen police fire on protesters
- Cuba sentences USAID worker to fifteen-year prison term
- Third explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
- Japan earthquake shifts Earth's axis 10 centimetres
- Libyan rebels retake town of Brega
- Reggae singer Smiley Culture dies during police raid in Surrey, England
- Fukushima reactor suffers multiple fires, radiation leak confirmed
- British pathologist criticised by General Medical Council
- Dying Canadian infant moved to U.S. hospital for medical treatment
- Middle Eastern troops enter Bahrain after protests
- Japan earthquake death toll estimated at over 10,000
- Six killed and hundreds injured in Bahrain
- Japanese emperor makes live television appearance after earthquake
- King of Bahrain declares state of emergency
- English hard rock band The Darkness reunites
- Israel seizes ship claimed to be carrying weapons for Gaza
- Wildfire affects Lolol, Chile area; yellow alert lifted
- Florida prisons ban inmate smoking
- UN Security Council approves Libya no-fly zone
- Japan begins using helicopters to drop water on nuclear plant
- Owsley Stanley, icon of 1960s counterculture, dies at 76
- CIA contractor released from Pakistan
- Libyan rebels and Gaddafi troops in battle on two fronts
- UK unemployment increases to 17-year peak
- Expedition 26 crew returns to Earth safely
- US rapper Nate Dogg dies at age 41
- United Nations says Ivory Coast shelling may be 'war crime'
- South African serial killer guilty of nineteen rapes, sixteen murders
- Japan raises severity level of crisis; efforts to cool damaged nuclear power plant continue
- British electronica band Faithless to separate
- Power line to Japanese nuclear plant completed
- Japanese stocks continue to fall after earthquake
- Conflicting reports, mounting fear, over Japanese nuclear disaster
- Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 browser
- In pictures: Japan earthquake and tsunami
- New York Times to start charging for access to web news
- US and UK forces join Libyan attack
- Crucifixes can be displayed in state schools, European court rules
- Israel bombarding Gaza after Hamas mortar attack
- BBC DJ duo break radio record
- French aircraft on flights over Libya; US missiles launched at targets
- ICANN approves .xxx domain for pornography
- UN carries out first review of US human rights record
- 45 killed after Yemen protesters fired upon
- Part of California highway near Big Sur falls into the sea
- House fire in Bristol, England kills two
- Celebrity bear Knut dies suddenly at the Berlin Zoo
- Ex US Secretary of State Warren Christopher dead aged 85
- Boni Yayi confirmed as winner of 2011 Benin presidental election
- Existing US home sales fall 9.6% in February
- Haiti votes in presidential runoff
- Man charged with murder of British woman in Hong Kong
- NASCAR driver Kyle Busch wins 2011 Jeff Byrd 500
- AT&T to purchase T-Mobile for US$39 billion
- U.S. military denies reports helicopter opened fire on Libyan civilians during rescue mission
- Professional wrestling manager Oliver Humperdink dies aged 62
- Blues musician Pinetop Perkins dies at age 97
- U.S. fighter jet crashes in Libya
- Wikinews interviews 0 A.D. game development team
- Egyptian voters approve constitutional changes
- 'Worst song of all time' becomes YouTube sensation
- Gene mutation produces autism-like traits in mice
- Petition urges Apple to remove 'anti-gay' app
- English actress Elizabeth Taylor dies at age 79
- Detroit’s population drops by one-fourth in the last decade
- UK police find body of missing woman and search for another; suspect in custody
- Tamil Nadu Elections: DMK, AIADMK promise freebies
- Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes northeastern Myanmar
- More than a dozen reported dead after Syrian protests
- Libyan city of Misrata reported to be secure after Gaddafi forces retreat
- New Zealand enters semi-finals as South Africa fails again in Cricket World Cup
- BBC cancel television comedy series 'My Family'
- Situation at damaged nuclear power plant remains 'very grave', says Japanese Prime Minister
- Japanese earthquake death toll surpasses ten thousand
- China plans to ban smoking in indoor public places
- NATO to take control of Libyan no-fly zone
- Millions to turn off lights for Earth Hour tonight
- Mayor of London Boris Johnson announces bidders for additional Tramlink vehicles
- Bomb on Jerusalem bus kills one, over 30 injured
- Qatar becomes first Arab country to fly fighter jets over Libya
- MySpace loses over ten million users in one month
- Guatemalan president and first lady apply for divorce
- Sheffield tram-train project back on the rails
- Battle for Trafalgar Square, London as violence breaks out between demonstrators and riot police
- British police charge taxi driver with murder
- Thousands gather in London to protest against government cuts
- Nottingham Express Transit extensions get Government approval
- George Clooney to be defence witness in Berlusconi sex case
- British music royalties suffer first ever decrease
- New York City disputes 2010 Census
- Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may work for Facebook
- Explosion at Yemen weapons factory kills dozens
- Cardenal Caro Province governor: Pichilemu Municipality to leave 107 families homeless
- First images received from orbit around Mercury
- BP lose laptop containing sensitive claimant data
- Gaddafi loyalists go on offensive, rebels pushed back
- Forces loyal to Ouattara plan to seal Ivory Coast border
- British haulage managing director Edward Stobart dies at age 56
- US woman sentenced to jail for faking son’s cancer
- Scotland's oldest detainee facing attempted murder charges
- Ed to wed: UK Labour leader Miliband announces engagement to Justine Thornton
- India's population increases by 181 million in ten years
- Japanese nuclear officials race to avoid disaster as radiation levels in sea rocket
- All change for Nottingham, England trams as new operator announced
- Libyan foreign minister defects to the UK
- US President Obama considering supplying arms to Libyan rebels