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Current topics
- Barack Obama (pictured) is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.
- Israel and Hamas declare a ceasefire in their armed conflict in Gaza.
- Seven French soldiers are killed and one is reported missing following a helicopter crash off the Gabonese coast.
- Computer worm Conficker infects nearly 9 million Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.
- US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, makes an emergency water landing in the Hudson River shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
- China surpasses Germany to become the world's third-largest economy, based on revised 2007 GDP figures.
- The ferry MV Teratai Prima capsizes and sinks off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing more than 200 people.