Wikinews:2015/January

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January 1

• United Nations analyzes oil spill in Sundarbans, Bangladesh

January 5

• French campaigning film director René Vautier dies

January 6

• Wikinews interviews Christopher Hill, U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate

January 7

• FBI investigating explosion near NAACP office in Colorado Springs
• Twelve dead in shooting at offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

January 8

• John Boehner re-elected as US House Speaker despite conservative challenge

January 10

• Researchers say light signal from space suggests merging black holes

January 11

• SpaceX launches fifth resupply rocket to International Space Station

January 12

• Millions march in France and around the world in support of Charlie Hebdo
• Sri Lanka to investigate alleged coup attempt by outgoing president

January 13

• Scottish gamekeeper jailed for bird crime in national first

January 14

• US soldier who died after serving in Liberia tests negative for Ebola

January 21

• Ukrainians rally in memory of Donbass dead
• Priests beaten in Forecariah, Guinea over Ebola fears
• Tom Wolf inaugurated as Pennsylvania Governor

January 22

• Japanese Olympic judoka Hitoshi Saito dies aged 54
• Perry out, Abbott in: Texas gets new governor

January 24

• UN Security Council heads to Haiti amid political instability

January 27

• Greek singer Demis Roussos dies aged 68

January 30

• Scientists find ancient solar system in Milky Way galaxy

January 31

• South African apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock granted parole
• Rare megamouth shark found dead in Pio Duran, Philippines
• Gas explosion flattens Mexico City maternity hospital
• Conductor Israel Yinon dies after collapsing on stage