Portal:Current events/2015 March 31
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March 31, 2015 (Tuesday)
Disasters and accidents
- Landslides in India's Jammu and Kashmir state kill at least six people and leave sixteen others missing. (BBC)
- Large parts of Turkey experience a power outage affecting public services and infrastructure including air traffic control, trams, and subways in Istanbul. As much as 65% of the country is without power. (CNN)
- Germanwings Flight 9525:
- Germanwings' owner Lufthansa officially acknowledges that it knew there were mental health issues with Andreas Lubitz before the crash. (The New York Times)
- German newspaper Bild and French news magazine Paris Match say they have a passenger's cell phone video showing the plane's last moments before the crash. (BBC)
Health
- The journal Nature Neuroscience publishes research from Columbia University Medical School that finds that wage income of parents correlates with brain complexity in their children. (The Washington Post via MSN) (Abstract of article)
Law and crime
- A Malaysian court finds a local man guilty of the murder of two British students in Borneo in 2014. (BBC)
- A prisoner accused of multiple bank robberies escapes from a hospital in Falls Church, Virginia after stealing a guard's gun. Washington, D.C. police capture him. (WJLA)
- In a courthouse in Istanbul, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front of Turkey takes hostage the prosecutor handling the case of a 15-year-old who died in a police gas attack. The situation ends with police killing the gunmen. The prosecutor later dies at a hospital. (BBC)
- An incident at a shooting range complex in Bucharest, Romania leaves two people dead. (Mediafax)
Politics and elections
- Nigerian general election, 2015
- Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria. (Bloomberg via Melbourne Age)
Sports
- The Australian Football League anti-doping tribunal clears 34 members of the Essendon Football Club team of doping during the 2012 AFL season. (The Daily Telegraph)