Portal:Current events/2014 April 1

• American internet cartoon series Homestar Runner makes its first update to its webpage after three years on hiatus. (Time)

• An 8.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Pacific Ocean near Chile causing landslides and killing at least five people. A tsunami warning is issued. (USGS) (AP via The Australian) (Fox News)

• 2014 Guinea Ebola outbreak:
  • The death toll in Guinea rises to 80 with two people dead in neighbouring Liberia. (Sky News Australia)

• 2014 Crimean crisis:
  • NATO suspends "all practical civilian and military cooperation" with Russia as a result of the annexation of Crimea, and no sign that Russian troops have withdrawn from the Ukrainian border. (CNN)

• 2014 Garda phone recordings controversy:
  • Taoiseach Enda Kenny tells the Dáil the Prison Service recorded conversations between inmates and their solicitors. (RTÉ News)
  • Mr Justice Nial Fennelly will be appointed to chair the Commission of Investigation into the Garda controversy. (RTÉ News)
  • The Irish Government will establish a Cabinet committee to examine proposals for an independent police authority and other justice reforms, which will be chaired by the Taoiseach. (RTÉ News)
  • The Department of Justice releases a letter sent on 10 March from then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in which he warns them of the recording of phone calls at Garda stations. (RTÉ News)

• RIKEN concludes that research suggesting stem cells could be produced through STAP techniques was falsified. (The Japan Times)