Wikinews:2018/April

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April 3

• China's Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific

April 4

• US Republicans query Linux Foundation about open-source security

April 7

• Woolworths, Australia moves single-use plastic bags ban date to June 20

April 8

• Thirteen-year-old boy in Los Angeles, California thanks city personnel for rescue from sewage pipe

April 10

• Football: Spanish striker Fernando Torres to leave Atlético Madrid after season end
• Deadly fire below US President's Trump Tower residence

April 12

• Russian poet Alexander Byvshev convicted for 2015 poem about Ukraine

April 14

• United States Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announces retirement

April 21

• NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS

April 23

• 28-year-old Swedish electronic dance music artist Avicii dies in Oman
• English football: Arsène Wenger to leave Arsenal at season end
• India: Cabinet approves capital punishment for rape of girls under age twelve

April 25

• India: Jammu and Kashmir government orders private tuitions to shut down for 90 days
• Scottish man sentenced over 'grossly offensive' joke on YouTube