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The New York Philharmonic plays a concert in North Korea, becoming the first Western orchestra to do so.
The 80th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with No Country for Old Men winning four Oscars including Best Picture.
The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously selects Raúl Castro (pictured) to succeed his brother Fidel as President of Cuba.
Dimitris Christofias of the Progressive Party of Working People is elected President of Cyprus.
Turkey launches a ground incursion against the Kurdistan Workers Party in northern Iraq.
American spy satellite USA 193 is destroyed by a missile launched by the U.S. Navy.
Forty-six people are killed in the crash of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 in Venezuela.

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February 26, 2008 (Tuesday)

Researchers announce they have sequenced the genome of corn. (Reuters)
A bomb in Khost, Afghanistan kills five police officers on their way to work. (AFP)
Four school girls are killed near Rome, Italy after a car crashes into a bus stop they were waiting at. (Sky News)

February 25, 2008 (Monday)

The New York Philharmonic becomes the first American music group to perform in North Korea. (Time)
A suicide bomber in Rawalpindi, Pakistan kills 8 people including Pakistan's Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmad Baig. (Washington Post)
Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission Kevin Martin says he is "ready, willing and able," to prevent broadband Internet service providers from irrationally interfering with their subscribers' Internet access. (Reuters)
Hungary agrees to join the South Stream gas pipeline project. (Reuters)
Lee Myung Bak is sworn in as President of South Korea. (Bloomberg)

February 24, 2008 (Sunday)

80th Academy Awards:
- Marion Cotillard wins the Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, while Daniel Day-Lewis takes home the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in There Will Be Blood.(News Limited)
- No Country For Old Men wins the Academy Award for Best Picture while the Coen Brothers win the Academy Award for Directing. (ABC News)
A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 becomes the first commercial aircraft to make a flight powered by biofuel flying between Heathrow and Amsterdam. (CNN)
The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously selects Raúl Castro to succeed his brother Fidel as President of Cuba. (BBC News)
Ralph Nader enters the 2008 United States presidential election as an independent candidate. (CNN)
The Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army sign a permanent ceasefire. (BBC News)
Cypriot presidential election, 2008: Demetris Christofias is elected President of Cyprus, defeating Ioannis Kasoulides. (AFP)
Pakistani censors cause the most of the world's internet users to lose access to the internet site YouTube.com for up to two hours. (AP)

February 23, 2008 (Saturday)

Japan launches a new, experimental Internet satellite aboard an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Centre. (Wired News)
At least 18 people are injured by a blast on a bus in the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. (BBC News)

February 22, 2008 (Friday)

Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the recognition of Kosovo's unilaterally declared independence by several major world powers as "a terrible precedent," ... that "breaks up the entire system of international relations," ... which has taken "centuries to evolve." "And undoubtedly, it may entail a whole chain of unpredictable consequences to other regions in the world" and that will come back to hit the West "in the face." (Interfax) (AFP)
The White House announces that U.S. Army National Guard Master Sergeant Woodrow W. Keeble will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for his service in the Korean War, becoming the first Sioux to receive the award. (U.S. Army)
The Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, names the professor of literature Anders Olsson as one of its members to succeed poet and writer Lars Forssell, who died in July 2007. (Dagens Nyheter)
Turkey sends between three thousand and ten thousand troops into northern Iraq. (Reuters)
The Northern Rock bank is formally nationalized by the British government. (BBC News)
The United States warns the Serbian government that it has a responsibility to protect its assets after about 1,000 protesters set fire to the U.S. embassy in anger at Kosovo's declaration of independence. (BBC News)
A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashes at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam. The two pilots ejected, with one hospitalized. It is the first B-2 to crash. (BBC News)

February 21, 2008 (Thursday)

A Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 is reported missing in Venezuela with 46 people on board. (AFP via Google News)
The European Broadcasting Union considers relocating the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled to be held in Belgrade, due to security concerns. In the meantime, the Serbian National Final for the Eurovision Song Contest is postponed. (Expressen)
2008 protests in Serbia:
- 150,000 Serbs rally in Belgrade to protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence over the weekend. (BBC News)
- A group of protesters breaks into the United States embassy in Belgrade and sets fire to part of the consular office. (Reuters)
- A charred body of a protester is found in the United States embassy. (The Age)
- The British, German, Croatian, Belgian and Turkish embassies were also attacked. (BBC News)
The United States Navy shoots down USA 193, a spy satellite in a decaying orbit, over the Pacific Ocean. (AP via Breitbart.com) Officials believe the targeted hydrazine fuel tank was destroyed, and no longer poses a threat. (FoxNews.com) (U.S. DoD video)
A special prosecutor clears South Korean president-elect Lee Myung-bak of fraud allegations. (AP via Newsday)
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Indonesian province of Aceh. (Indonesia Tsunami Bulletin)
Singapore is elected by the International Olympic Committee as the first city to host the Youth Olympic Games in 2010. (IOC)
An earthquake of 6.3 Magnitude hits 11.1 miles east/southeast of Wells, Nevada. It is 2.2 miles deep, and is felt as far away as Twin Falls, Idaho, about 125 miles away, and Salt Lake City, Utah, about 180 miles away. (USGS)
Gazprom, Total and StatoilHydro incorporate the Shtokman Development Company, a joint operating company to develop the giant Shtokman gas field. (Reuters)

February 20, 2008 (Wednesday)

Two United States Air Force F-15 Eagle fighter planes crash in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico near Florida. (AFP via News Limited)
The United States Federal Reserve forecasts lower economic growth for the rest of the year with rising unemployment rates. (CNN)
The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following the conclusion of the STS-122 assembly mission to the International Space Station. (NASA)
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan is elected as President in a contest hailed as largely democratic by OSCE and international monitors. (BBC News)
The United States Geological Survey reports the occurrence of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. (USGS)
The United States military imposes a curfew on all personnel on the Japanese island Okinawa following the arrest of a member of the United States Marine Corps on suspicion of rape. (AP via the International Herald Tribune)
The government of Morocco arrests 23 alleged terrorists, including Mustapha Moatassim, the Secretary General of Alternative Civilization, a political party recognized by the state. (Middle East Online)
Seven South Korean servicemen die in a military helicopter crash. (Reuters)

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