World This Week: 12 March-18 March 2012

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12 March
•    A British court ruled that the case of a severely disabled man who wants to end his intolerable life should be allowed to proceed
•    German Chancellor visited Afghanistan
•    Pakistan Peoples Party bagged to top posts in the senate, strengthening its position in the upper house
•    F Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning scientist died. He was awarded with the Nobel prize in 1995

13 March
•    Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and a close aide of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Rebekah is facing a police investigation for illegal hacking of phones by journalists.
•    At least 35 people killed and over 150 missing as a ferry packed with 300 passengers capsized in Meghna river in Bangladesh
•    The Taliban insurgents attacked two brothers of Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai
•    Syrian President Bassar Assad announced parliamentary election date 7 May 2012

14 March
•    Encyclopaedia Britannica announced to stop publishing the print edition for the first time in its 244 years and shift to digital versions only
•    A tourist bus crashed into a wall in a swiss tunnel, near Sierre, killing 22 Belgian.
•    Judges at a war crimes tribunal convicted Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers
•    India born journalist Bobby Ghosh named Editor-at-large at Time magazine.

15 March
•    The Taliban broke off confidence-building talks with the US and the Afghan President ordered US troops out of villages, demanding a transition of security from NATO control in 2013
•    Chinese Communist Party replaced its Chongqing chief, Politburo member Bo Xilai
•    The Colombo high court acquitted former Army chief, Sarath Fonseka, in the Hicorp case

16 March
•    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams announced that he would quit in December
•    Hollywood star George Clooney arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington
•    US warns North Korea for its plan to launch a rocket- mounted satellite

17 March
•    27 people were killed in a twin car-bombing targeting two government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus
•    British Council announced 60 new Jublee Scholarships for Indian students for year 2012
•    US President Barak Obama announced to take concrete measures for the withdrawal of US army from Afghanistan

18 March
•    Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in self-immolation protests
•    Pope Shenouda III, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who led Egypt's Christian minority for more than 30 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims died
•    Nepalese Prime Minister said the extremist maoist faction is derailing the peace process in the Country

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